Nonbasics

Fabled Passage vs Enemy Fetchlands

RE Fabled Passage vs enemy fetchlands: Fabled Passage can only get basic lands. Enemy fetches can grab anything with a basic land subtype, leading to other problems with nonbasics with basic land subtypes.

A fine point.

Fabled Passage Lands Nonbasics Subtype

Snow Basics Mistakes

Do you consider Snow Basics to have been a mistake? I enjoyed the Snow theme in Modern Horizons, but their existence is a bit frustrating in eternal formats, where it's usually correct to play them over the traditional basic lands, even if the edge they provide is absolutely tiny.

I’m not sure they needed to be basic lands. They could have been nonbasics with the land type.

Basics Eternal Lands Modern Horizons Nonbasics

Nonbasic Land Typing

In retrospect would you say that nonbasics like Valakut should've had a basic subtype like the uncommon cycle from Shadowmoor or Murmoring Bosk? It always feels a bit weird when a nonbasic has the flavour to be subtyped Mountain for example AND is depicted like one in the art but doesn't have it.

That would have caused developmental problems. Most likely - not a developer.

Art Flavor Nonbasics Not a developer Shadowmoor Subtype Uncommons

Standard Power Level View

"Development is trying to keep Standard at a certain power level. Part of accomplishing this is not reprinting cards that are known to be well above that power level." Isn't that really relative though. Like, TERRIBLE OVERBLOWN examples - Force of Will in a Standard season with bad draw spells, or Wasteland in a Standard season with no nonbasics. Isn't the power level of Standard less important than "the power level of cards in Standard, relative to each other"?

Fact or Fiction relies on your deck having five cards on top of your library. That’s a hard one for design and development to work around.

Card Printing Fact or Fiction Force of Will Nonbasics Power Level Reprints Spells Standard The Library

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