Borborygmos players: how many lands?
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Posted on Jan. 9, 2020, 11:24 p.m. by bushido_man96
For those who play with Borborygmos Enraged as a Commander, how many lands do you run? I'm currently running a budget build with 48 lands. Too many? Too few? Just right?
How many do y'all run, and how'd you come to settle on that number?
Thanks for the help!
bushido_man96 says... #3
Wow, 60 is a lot! I don't think I'd want to run that many, and I have to keep this pretty budget for the time being. Thanks for chiming in! Great to have some comparisons.
January 10, 2020 11:39 p.m.
So I just built one that is fairly a budget deck. Still needs play testing but I run 46ish lands. In playtesting it can kill 3 players turn by turn 12 but almost deck yourself. So bring in a shuffle affect if you can. Come check it out. I have a few sleeper cards (I think) in it.
January 11, 2020 5:05 p.m.
bushido_man96 says... #5
I love the Kamigawa theme, pokey. How consistent does your deck play?
Drakorya says... #2
My friend runs a Borborygmos Enraged deck, and he runs it with 60-70 lands (I can't remember the exact number, but its in that range). I think that is a pretty high land count compared to other variations of the deck, but it does work quite well.
He settled on that number because he wanted to be able to "combo" with Borborygmos and Keen Sense / Snake Umbra . With that high of a land count, just getting one of those auras on him is usually enough to kill 2-3 players.
It does mean that he has to run cards like Abundance , Courser of Kruphix , Oracle of Mul Daya , Tireless Tracker and Wheel of Fortune to try and draw into the non-land cards though. There are some games that the deck floods out, so I think it depends on how fast your meta usually is. If your games tend to go into the late turns (8-10), then you could probably accomodate a high land count and sacrifice some consistency. But if your meta tends to be faster, maybe having a land count in the 50-60 range would be better.
January 9, 2020 11:40 p.m.