This deck was designed around a very modest budget (by Legacy standards), roughly half to a third of what a decently competitive Modern deck runs nowadays. As such, we forego the pricey lands in favor of plain old basic forests—17 to be precise. The count may seem slightly low, but we have a plethora of ways to squeeze every last drop of mana from our deck; so not to worry.
There is, of course, an obvious upgrade path for the mana base more than anything else. A playset of Taiga and a playset of Stomping Ground along with an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth will ensure you always have the appropriate color on hand, if you can afford the cover charge.
If you wanted to get even more creative, run Savannah and Temple Garden along with Pariah and Shielded by Faith for a Selesnya variation of this deck.
In addition to lands, ramp plays a key role in accelerating our gameplan. Fortunately these cards are comparatively far cheaper, and can open up some surprise plays.
•Utopia Sprawl will attach itself to any of our basic forests and will facilitate the other two thirds of our shard.
•Abundant Growth loses the two-for-one aspect that makes the previous card so helpful, but it adds an immediate replacement draw. Very, very handy in a fast deck that can turn a forest into a mountain, draw into a lightning bolt, then untap and cast it to zap a flashed in 3/3.
•Arbor Elf should come as no surprise in a deck loaded with forests and utopia sprawls. Generate oodles of mana, driving our strategy forward.
•Ignoble Hierarch is knee deep in Junditude. His Exalted keyword ability is wasted in a deck with intentions like ours, but we really only want him for guaranteed access to and .