Farseek Question?
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Posted on March 20, 2013, 5:24 p.m. by KJun85
Does Farseek have the ability to pull duel lands?
SandyDufresne says... #4
Also, even if forest is one of the types, you can still search for Overgrown Tomb.
March 20, 2013 5:33 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #5
Yes, dual lands are so expensive basically for this very reason, cards can fetch them when they really aren't supposed to.
March 20, 2013 6:08 p.m.
SwiftDeath says... #6
@ Schuesseled Im sure that was exactly what was intended with that card considering the original shocks and farseek where printed in ravnica as well.
March 20, 2013 6:32 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #7
It's possible but i'll bet you millions of fake bucks, that there are dozens that weren't but do.
March 20, 2013 6:44 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #8
There was a cycle of dual lands in the very first printing of the game, so any card that can get them was always meant to work that way.
March 20, 2013 6:53 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #9
So everyone has a playset of each of those really rare, and bloody expensive dual lands? No
Wizards thinks we all do? no
Whats your point again?
I mean it doesn't rule out there use in that way, and they certainly could, but i don't think they were really designed to be used to find shocks.
March 20, 2013 6:56 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #10
@Schuesseled: I don't know what to tell you, then, because they were. There's a very specific reason cards like Farseek and Misty Rainforest don't read like Rampant Growth and Evolving Wilds. WotC knows the implications of the duals and shocks having basic land types.
March 20, 2013 6:58 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #11
And the number of players who have duals and shocks is irrelevant to the function of effects that can find those cards, by the way.
March 20, 2013 7 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #12
I understand why they would design Misty Rainforest with the implication of it being able to find and put into play shocks and duals. But that is a rare, farseek is a common, for a common to be designed to have such a phenomenal ability (if it came in untapped, this card even as a common would be like 15 quid) is simply dumb. It should be an uncommon.
March 20, 2013 7:05 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #13
It shouldn't be uncommon, though. It's just a ramp spell. It's limited in that it's only better than Rampant Growth if you're playing duals/shocks, and it doesn't do anything worthy of making it more than a common. The land still comes in tapped, and the spell can't find Forests (which are, presumably, what you'd need to cast it. Also, you still need to pay for the effect. Fetch lands are effectively uncounterable and bring in the lands untapped, plus they don't cost much to activate.
March 20, 2013 7:12 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #15
Farseek was originally printed in Ravnica: City of Guilds. If you can't see the connection there between it and the Shock Lands then I don't know what to tell you.
March 20, 2013 8:30 p.m.
blackdragonetm says... #16
Farseek is the snapcaster of fetch spells...they only printed it twice. Once in Ravnica and once in m13. Wizards knew m13 would cross with rtr and only see limited time in standard play, but they wanted to get it more commonly available to those people who play modern where people were still using the rav shock lands. Chances are we won't see Farseek again until around the next return to ravnica
March 20, 2013 8:41 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #17
I don't think Modern availability has anything to do with it. Farseek is a common. It won't be hard to find, and few Modern decks even bother with it.
SandyDufresne says... #2
Only if they have the land type such as mountain, plains, island and/or swamp
March 20, 2013 5:28 p.m.