Category: Basic Lands
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed
The Magic: the Gathering Pro Tour wrapped up this weekend with an incredible victory from Christoffer Larsen. But what just as important as Larsen’s choice of deck was which basic land art he chose to ride to victory at PT Lorwyn Eclipsed.
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The Basic Lands That Won Magic World Championship 31
The 31st Magic: the Gathering World Championship concluded on Sunday with a victory for Sam Pardee, who will now be immortalized in the game in the enviable form of an invitational card of his own design. But what matters more? Which basic lands he sleeved up to win with.
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The Most Popular Plains of 2025
Using sales data from TCGPlayer, monthly captures of the “most popular” on Card Kingdom, and eBay sales data, we’ve compiled the most popular Plains of the year using the most purchases online as the proxy for popularity. These have been calculated on a relative basis, so EOE #262 has sold about half as many as…
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour: Edge of Eternities
Pro Tour Edge of Eternities concluded yesterday with a clean finish for American Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer, who piloted Tamehi Belcher and some impressive limited decks to his first PT Top 8 and first win! Modern as a format seems wide open: Frank Karsten’s analysis reveals more than a dozen decks had positive records in Swiss, a…
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The Best Basic Lands of 2024
What is the State of Basic Lands in 2024? What styles and specific art did players like best in the year? Find out all of that and more!
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction
What basic lands took down the Pro Tour this weekend in Seattle? The Cardboard by the Numbers team is here to fill you in on the PT’s most critical details.
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Karlov Manor
Is the rogue choice of deck the real story of the Pro Tour? Or is it the rogue choices for which basic lands each of the top player selected?
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The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship
Marco Del Pivo took home the trophy for the EMEA Regional Championship in Ghent, but based on Basic Land choice, who was the real winner?
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Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math (Kind of)
To start, we’re going to dig into the state of basic lands coming into 2024. Using that as a foundation, we’ll bring in various rankings and metrics for 2023’s 133 new pieces of art to start to piece together a formula. From that, you will know, definitively, proven by a bevy of quantitate measures, which…