Standard players have been starved for untapped mana fixing. Even playing two colors strains your manabase, forcing many players to play tap lands, pain lands, and an abundance of basic lands. Depending on how fast you’re trying to go, neither of these options is ideal.
With the reveal of Valgavoth’s Lair, players began to speculate that a rare land cycle was not in the cards. Today’s Daily MTG event revealed that this was not the case. Not only do we have a rare land cycle in Duskmourn, but the cycle looks to be very powerful.
Rare MTG Duskmourn Verge Lands
- Mana Value: —
- Rarity: Rare
- Card Type: Land
- MTG Sets: Duskmourn
- Card Text: (tap): add (blue). (tap): Add (black). Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.
Five new allied-colored lands are appearing in MTG Duskmourn. These will definitely see Standard and Commander play, but have the potential to see play past those formats. These look absolutely incredible.
All of these lands add one color of mana and unlock the second color of mana once you have a relevant basic land type in play. Said basic land type needs to share a color with one of the colors that the land wants to produce. Gloomlake Verge, for example, can create blue and black mana once you control an Island or a Swamp, but can only create red mana without either of these colors.
As long as you have enough lands with basic land types, these lands seem like automatic inclusions for your deck, especially if the deck is two-colored. With enough basic land types, there’s no reason not to play a Blazemire Verge over a Swamp.
Will the Rest of the Cycle Appear?
Notably, this land cycle is not complete in Duskmourn. A full cycle of dual cards includes ten different options, just like the ten guilds of Ravnica. Only the allied colors can be found in the Duskmourn lands. The enemy lands do not currently exist.
When discussing this on the Daily MTG show, it was not confirmed that the enemy lands when or if the enemy lands would appear, but there is a very strong chance that we will see these in a future Standard-legal set. It would not be surprising at all if the next set has the other half of this cycle.
We, and many MTG players, are incredibly excited about the new Duskmourn rare cycle. Unfortunately, it does not appear that these lands will be available in the Play Booster land slot like the Surveil Lands were. Despite this, it’s great to see a new land cycle for a fixing-starved Standard format regardless.
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