Mistveil Plains

Fabled Passage Design

Is there a reason why "Fabled Passage" doesn't look for basic land types? It would have been more flavorful to be able to look for the specific locales like "Gingerbread Cabin" and "Dwarven Mine" or even "Mistveil Plains" in older sets. My guess is there may have been a concern for older formats gaining access to a painless fetchland, thus driving up the demand for a specific rare out of the gates.

Basic land is a play design decision to limit shenanigans.

Dwarven Mine Fabled Passage Flavor Gates Gates Gingerbread Cabin Lands Mistveil Plains Play Design Rares Shenanigans

Nonbasic Land Success

Were lands like Mistveil Plains not successful? Having non basic lands also be one of the basic types was really interesting.

I’m sure we’ll do more of that.

Lands Mistveil Plains

Future Non-Basic Lands

Will we be seeing non-basic lands with a single basic land type again anytime soon? (like Mistveil Plains, Moonring Island, etc)

Eventually.

Lands Mistveil Plains Moonring Island

Nonbasic Land Types

Cards like Mistveil Plains are bothersome to me because it seems arbitrary that they have the "plains" type when other nonbasic lands don't.

Does it bother you than done nonbasic lands do?

Lands Mistveil Plains

Non-Basic Lands Future

Hi Mark, is there a chance to see again some non-basic land cards with basic lands subtypes such as Mistveil Plains for instance, or was it rather a one time experiment?

It’s something we might do again.

Lands Mistveil Plains Subtype

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