Do Snow lands count as basic?

Commander (EDH) forum

Posted on March 20, 2013, 8:48 p.m. by acbooster

For the sake of deckbuilding, cards like Snow-Covered Swamp count as basic lands, right? Because I want my mana base to be snow lands just because it's my favorite art for lands.

stargazer_10 says... #2

Yes

March 20, 2013 8:52 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #3

It says basic, so yes. A lot of mono-colored decks use snow basics with Extraplanar Lens to avoid helping their opponents.

March 20, 2013 9:08 p.m.

fireteam says... #4

Yes. They count as basic lands as denoted by the "Basic" supertype. This not only counts for deckbuilding, but also in real game. Anything affecting any basic lands or specifically non-basic lands are all affected also.

March 20, 2013 9:10 p.m.

acbooster says... #5

Ok cool. :D The teacher who supervises my magic club has a bunch of mint condition snow-lands that he bought when Coldsnap first came out, and he's trading me enough for my deck in exchange for some angel cards to make a good angel base.

March 20, 2013 9:11 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #6

If he has any foil BUG snow basics, I'd trade for those.

March 20, 2013 9:12 p.m.

acbooster says... #7

Nah I don't think he has any foils. If he does he didn't say anything about them.

March 20, 2013 9:13 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #8

Damn. It was worth a shot; they're hard to find sometimes.

March 20, 2013 9:16 p.m.

acbooster says... #9

Yeah. If I do find any I'll be sure to let you know.

March 20, 2013 9:18 p.m.

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