Field of Ruin

Nonbasic Hate Discussion

You said a while back that it’s hard to make nonbasic hate that punishes greedy decks without also punishing fairer ones. Why? Blood moon or ruination seem like they are inherently fair. The degree they hurt people is directly proportional to how greedy their land base is. If ruination is too extreme for your taste, from the ashes is an even less punishing card, effectively just being a mass field of ruin. How are these cards too punishing to fair land bases?

I’m not sure everyone would agree that Blood Moon is “fair”.

Blood Blood Moon Field of Ruin From the Ashes Lands Ruination

Mana Base Control

There seems to be a staunch lack of mass nonbasic hate in standard & pioneer. Targeted land removal like demolition field, field of ruin, or Boseiju are good for dealing with individually powerful lands; but they don’t meaningfully punish greedy mana bases. Domain has been a tier 1 standard deck since DMU came out, and it’s only ever gotten more options. 4 color omnath dominated standard when it was legal, and multicolor decks in general have access to tons of fixing just with the land-base. Modern at least has blood moon, but standard and pioneer don’t have any mass nonbasic hate. Is this intentional? If so, why?

Hating on greedy mana bases, but not messing up non-greedy mana bases is a challenge.

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Failing to Find Booster

Re: Hive Mind + Booster Tutor: Can you fail to find a booster? The same way you can fail to find a land from something like a Field of Ruin?

You can fail to find a booster.

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Role of Powerful Lands

Why do field of ruin and ghost quarter not allow for *some* problematic lands to be printed?

We do make powerful lands from time to time. I was just saying we have to be careful.

Field of Ruin Ghost Quarter Lands

Land Destruction Spell Frequency

Hi, Mark! I've been wondering... Why are land destruction spells being printed at the rate (and cmc) they are? Land destruction isn't very good in limited, and it's fairly evident that it's not being supported as an archetype for Standard play. We even have things like Field of Ruin to deal with specific lands. What gives?

It’s at that rate because that’s the rate we want it to be in the game.

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