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LegalEDHREC #137
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Why is this card good?
Llanowar Wastes is a premium dual land for Golgari decks, and its #137 ranking reflects how reliably it earns a slot.
The key advantage over taplands and most painlands' competition is that it always enters untapped and fixes both your colors immediately. The colorless option matters more than people think — early in the game, or when you only need generic mana, you tap it for and take zero damage. In Commander you'll usually have life to spare, so the painless escape valve and untapped speed make it strictly smoother than a Golgari Guildgate or temple.
Play it in essentially any two-color BG deck — Meren, Korvold, The Gitrog Monster, aristocrats, +1/+1 counters, graveyard value piles. It's a no-brainer inclusion.
When to skip it: mono-color decks (obviously), three-plus color decks where you'd rather run lands fixing more of your wedge, and ultra-aggressive life-payment shells (fetch/shock/Necropotence) where the cumulative pings add up. Otherwise, just run it.
and take zero damage. In Commander you'll usually have life to spare, so the painless escape valve and untapped speed make it strictly smoother than a Golgari Guildgate or temple.
Play it in essentially any two-color BG deck — Meren, Korvold, The Gitrog Monster, aristocrats, +1/+1 counters, graveyard value piles. It's a no-brainer inclusion.
When to skip it: mono-color decks (obviously), three-plus color decks where you'd rather run lands fixing more of your wedge, and ultra-aggressive life-payment shells (fetch/shock/Necropotence) where the cumulative pings add up. Otherwise, just run it.Related cards
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Sunken Hollow
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Printings (22)
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Played by these commanders
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity100% of 2
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer100% of 1
Winter, Cynical Opportunist100% of 1
Dina, Essence Brewer100% of 1
Otrimi, the Ever-Playful100% of 1
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor100% of 1
Morophon, the Boundless100% of 1
Hearthhull, the Worldseed100% of 1
Teval, the Balanced Scale100% of 1
Hazel of the Rootbloom100% of 1
Rulings (2)
- 2015-06-22
The damage dealt to you is part of the second mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
- 2015-06-22
Like most lands, each land in this cycle is colorless. The damage dealt to you is dealt by a colorless source.