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Ash Barrens · Mythicwyrm

Ash Barrens

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Ash Barrens

Land

LegalEDHREC #191

KeywordsLandcycling Basic landcycling Typecycling Cycling

Why is this card good?

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Basic landcycling {1} ( {1} , Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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 {C} 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.

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