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Land
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Basic landcycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Why is this card good?
Ash Barrens is a flexible utility land that solves a real problem: it can enter as a colorless source when you don't need fixing, or be cycled away early for the exact basic you need. That dual-mode usage is what makes it so widely played.
Where it shines:
- Two- and three-color decks that lean heavily on basics (and want to fetch them) for landcycling targets.
- Decks running Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, or other land-recursion engines — cycle it, then keep grabbing basics.
- Landfall and Valakut-style decks that care about basic land types specifically.
The catch: the colorless production is a real cost in greedy multicolor manabases. If you're three-plus colors and tight on fixing, an untapped basic-source land that only makes can clunk up your early turns when you actually need it tapped for spells.
Skip it in mono-color decks (a basic does the same job) and in builds running many nonbasic-only lands where the cycling has no good targets.
can clunk up your early turns when you actually need it tapped for spells.
Skip it in mono-color decks (a basic does the same job) and in builds running many nonbasic-only lands where the cycling has no good targets.Related cards
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