Many players copy decks without thinking about the manabase much, and primarily focus on if they should change any spells or sideboard cards. It's easy for manabases to be overlooked. But mana is how you cast your spells, and if you aren't tweaking the lands you use, you're dooming your deck to be sub-optimal.
If you like building or tuning decks, here are some tips for developing your manabase.
Certain formats are going to give you a wider selection of options than others. In some ways you would think that having more lands to choose from would make building your manabase more difficult, but this often isn't the case. For instance, once you get to Legacy or Vintage dual lands get thrown into the mix, which are basically just straight upgrades to other lands that produce two colors of mana, like the Ravnica shock lands.
In Standard there are not that many nonbasic lands to choose from. This means it's harder to build a deck with lots of colors, because splashing isn't as easy. In formats that have fetch lands, like Modern, it becomes easier to build successful three-color manabases. While three-color manabases still exist in Standard they aren't going to operate as smoothly, and you'll have to play more lands that come into play tapped.
In Standard you often have to play any on-color lands that produce two colors of mana in your colors, even if those lands are far from perfect. Take a look at the Dimir Rogues deck I took to the Top 8 of the 2020 Season Grand Finals.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Dimir Rogues (Lurrus) by Seth Manfield
'Dimir Rogues (Lurrus)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Seth Manfield
Event: 2020 Season Grand Finals
Rank: 5th-8th
Standard
Market Price: $145.58
Vantress Gargoyle
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.43
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Flying
Vantress Gargoyle can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Vantress Gargoyle can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand.
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Drown in the Loch
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $3.64
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Choose one — • Counter target spell with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
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Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $6.66
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Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.)
Lifelink
During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/lurrus-of-the-dream-den
Thieves' Guild Enforcer
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.99
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Flash Whenever Thieves' Guild Enforcer or another Rogue enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills two cards. As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, Thieves' Guild Enforcer gets +2/+1 and has deathtouch.
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Castle Locthwain
Color Identity:B
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Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
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Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.58
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/mystical-dispute
Temple of Deceit
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $2.67
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Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
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Eliminate
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.42
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Destroy target creature or planeswalker with converted mana cost 3 or less.
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Soaring Thought-Thief
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $0.22
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Flash Flying As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, Rogues you control get +1/+0. Whenever one or more Rogues you control attack, each opponent mills two cards.
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Negate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.06
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Bloodchief's Thirst
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.55
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Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker with converted mana cost 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/bloodchiefs-thirst
Lullmage's Domination
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
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This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature whose controller has eight or more cards in their graveyard.
Gain control of target creature with converted mana cost X.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/lullmages-domination
Silundi Vision
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.32
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Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Clearwater Pathway
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $3.66
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Cling to Dust
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.65
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Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
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Agonizing Remorse
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.23
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Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it or a card from their graveyard. Exile that card. You lose 1 life.
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Heartless Act
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.45
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Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.
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Zagoth Triome
Color Identity:B,G,U
Market Price: $8.76
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({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
Zagoth Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
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Into the Story
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.42
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This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/into-the-story
Frantic Inventory
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.15
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Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Frantic Inventory in your graveyard.
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Lofty Denial
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.16
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you control a creature with flying, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/lofty-denial
Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
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Agadeem's Awakening
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $13.62
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Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different converted mana cost X or less.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.98
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Skyclave Shade
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.22
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Kicker {2}{B}
Skyclave Shade can't block.
If Skyclave Shade was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
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Rogues lists have certainly changed since this tournament, but I'm focusing on the manabase. There aren't many options for blue-black dual lands. I could have played Fabled Passage of course, but in a deck like this that often needs double black and double blue early in the game, you want a land that can produce one of each color. The options are scarce.
Temple of Deceit and Clearwater Pathway both have issues. One comes into play tapped, and while the other does provide flexibility, it still can be a problem to play it early on and choose the wrong side to play it as.
In some ways the best of the options is actually Zagoth Triome. It may be surprising to see a three-color Triome in a two-color deck, but it produces both of the deck's colors, while being able to cycle later in the game.
Most importantly, it's a Swamp.
Castle Locthwain is an incredibly powerful land, but you have to do some work in order to play it untapped.
Whether or not to play a utility land like Castle Locthwain is an interesting decision. You can always get screwed one way or the other. There will be players who have to play the Castle tapped on a key turn and cut it from their deck without a second thought. However, once you start drawing a bunch of cards off it, you realize the power behind having utility lands that don't just produce mana. It's a very delicate balancing act.
I am known for playing fewer land than other players, but it's a risk I like to take because spells are so important. The game is called "Magic," after all. Adding just one additional spell to your deck can make a major difference.
The conventional wisdom is that a 60-card deck should play around 24 lands. Of course, many successful decks play as few as 20, or as many as 30, and there are even decks that go beyond these extremes. Here are the factors to consider when you're deciding whether to stray from 24.
The cheaper your cards are, the fewer lands you want to play. Decks with lots of inexpensive cards are almost always aggressive decks or quick combo strategies, with very little to do with extra mana if the game goes long.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Burn by Lord_Beerus
'Burn' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Lord_Beerus
Event: MTGO Modern Challenge
Rank: 5th-8th
Modern
Market Price: $467.47
Monastery Swiftspear
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $3.05
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Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
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Lightning Bolt
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $1.95
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Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
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Sunbaked Canyon
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $8.86
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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R} or {W}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Sunbaked Canyon: Draw a card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-horizons/sunbaked-canyon
Kor Firewalker
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.29
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Protection from red Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
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Fiery Islet
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $9.14
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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Fiery Islet: Draw a card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-horizons/fiery-islet
Goblin Guide
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $3.74
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Haste Whenever Goblin Guide attacks, defending player reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, that player puts it into their hand.
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Lava Spike
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $2.31
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Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
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Skullcrack
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.87
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Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
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Flame Slash
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.34
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Flame Slash deals 4 damage to target creature.
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Arid Mesa
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-masters-2017/arid-mesa
Skewer the Critics
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.34
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Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Skewer the Critics deals 3 damage to any target.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ravnica-allegiance/skewer-the-critics
Eidolon of the Great Revel
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $4.83
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Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost 3 or less, Eidolon of the Great Revel deals 2 damage to that player.
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Inspiring Vantage
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $2.56
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Inspiring Vantage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
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Smash to Smithereens
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.14
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Destroy target artifact. Smash to Smithereens deals 3 damage to that artifact's controller.
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Rift Bolt
Color Identity:R
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Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Suspend 1—{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {R} and exile it with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/iconic-masters/rift-bolt
Lightning Helix
Color Identity:R,W
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Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
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Scalding Tarn
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-masters-2017/scalding-tarn
Rest in Peace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $3.22
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When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Boros Charm
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $1.58
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Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
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Sacred Foundry
Color Identity:R,W
Market Price: $11.89
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({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)
As Sacred Foundry enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/guilds-of-ravnica/sacred-foundry
Searing Blaze
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.88
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Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.
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Path to Exile
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.73
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Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.99
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Roiling Vortex
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.31
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At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Roiling Vortex deals 1 damage to them.
Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, Roiling Vortex deals 5 damage to that player.
{R}: Your opponents can't gain life this turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/roiling-vortex
If you play lots of spells that say "draw a card," that's another reason to play fewer lands. Every card whose primary purpose is to draw into another card essentially makes your deck thinner. If you could put 20 copies of Street Wraith in your 60-card deck, you'd essentially be playing a 40-card deck. That makes playing as few as 17 lands fairly reasonable.
Lots of cards act as cantrips. Ponder is a classic example, but so are cards that cycle. Even something like Light Up the Stage that digs you deeper into your deck is a cantrip.
Not everything that looks like a cantrip will help you hit your land drops. For example, Shark Typhoon is definitely different from Street Wraith or Mishra's Bauble. The latter are cards that you aggressively and immediately use to cycle and draw a card as early as turn one. You usually won't cycle Shark Typhoon until later in the game, so it isn't going to find you lands early in the game as easily, and therefore provides less value toward lowering your land count.
If I can reliably cast a cantrip early in the game, I count about every three or four cantrips as enough to cut a land. If it's a late-game cantrip, I might use it as a reason to cut one more land at the end of a deck building process, if I'm on the fence on the correct number of lands.
To a lesser extent, anything that draws you cards can be considered a way to hit land drops, and is a reason to play fewer lands to prevent late-game flooding. It depends what the cards in question are. A classic example is Divination—I feel like a deck with lots of Divination-like effects wants one fewer land most of the time.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Dimir Mill by blitzlion27
'Dimir Mill' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: blitzlion27
Event: MTGO Modern Challenge
Rank: 5th-8th
Modern
Market Price: $477.52
Hedron Crab
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $5.35
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Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills three cards.
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Extirpate
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $3.53
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Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles their library.
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Ruin Crab
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.54
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Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
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Bloodchief's Thirst
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.55
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Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker with converted mana cost 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/bloodchiefs-thirst
Dragon's Claw
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Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
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Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Color Identity:B,W
Market Price: $6.66
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Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.)
Lifelink
During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/lurrus-of-the-dream-den
Watery Grave
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $9.39
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({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/guilds-of-ravnica/watery-grave
Visions of Beyond
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $3.52
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/180780_200w.jpg
Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.
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Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $59.74
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/12500_200w.jpg
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}: Return Oboro, Palace in the Clouds to its owner's hand.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/saviors-of-kamigawa/oboro-palace-in-the-clouds
Bontu's Last Reckoning
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.26
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/132232_200w.jpg
Destroy all creatures. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.98
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/230466_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {B}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/swamp
Set Adrift
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.11
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/93280_200w.jpg
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/khans-of-tarkir/set-adrift
Crypt Incursion
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.25
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/67970_200w.jpg
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.
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Surgical Extraction
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $14.56
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({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles their library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-masters-2015/surgical-extraction
Cling to Dust
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.65
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/206655_200w.jpg
Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/cling-to-dust
Field of Ruin
Market Price: $0.41
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/field-of-ruin
Mesmeric Orb
Market Price: $6.53
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Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/230465_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {U}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/island
Aether Gust
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.48
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192535_200w.jpg
Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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Polluted Delta
Market Price: $26.21
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/khans-of-tarkir/polluted-delta
Fatal Push
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $1.14
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/218830_200w.jpg
Destroy target creature if it has converted mana cost 2 or less. Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has converted mana cost 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
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Prismatic Vista
Market Price: $23.63
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-horizons/prismatic-vista
Soul-Guide Lantern
Market Price: $2.47
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When Soul-Guide Lantern enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Draw a card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/soul-guide-lantern
Maddening Cacophony
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.04
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/222115_200w.jpg
Kicker {3}{U}
Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/maddening-cacophony
Darkslick Shores
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $7.98
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Darkslick Shores enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/scars-of-mirrodin/darkslick-shores
Archive Trap
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $19.82
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If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target opponent mills thirteen cards.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar/archive-trap
Profane Memento
Market Price: $0.42
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Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.
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If you have things to do with your mana late in games, then it's generally okay to have a bit more mana in your deck.
Cycle lands are a great example of a way to cash in your lands when you don't need them. Other cards that make me okay with having more lands are discard effects. If I can discard excess lands I don't need later on that's one way to make use out of them, but there are plenty of other ways too.
In Four-Color Control, extra lands can trigger Omnath, Locus of Creation landfall, create a Zombie with Field of the Dead, or allow you to recast a spell if Wrenn and Six used their ultimate ability. For these reasons (and others), it's perfectly reasonable for the deck to play 29 lands.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Four-Color Control by katoriarch123
'Four-Color Control' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: katoriarch123
Event: MTGO Modern Challenge
Rank: 5th-8th
Modern
Market Price: $1278.98
Lightning Bolt
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $1.95
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Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
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Hallowed Fountain
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $6.39
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({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ravnica-allegiance/hallowed-fountain
Raugrin Triome
Color Identity:R,U,W
Market Price: $6.83
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/212695_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.)
Raugrin Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/raugrin-triome
Growth Spiral
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $0.28
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Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Celestial Purge
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.23
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Exile target black or red permanent.
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Dovin's Veto
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $1.45
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This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.
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Hour of Promise
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $1.69
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Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control three or more Deserts, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
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Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $43.38
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When Uro enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters the battlefield or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/uro-titan-of-natures-wrath
Aether Gust
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.48
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Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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Field of the Dead
Market Price: $22.19
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Field of the Dead enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever Field of the Dead or another land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2020/field-of-the-dead
Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.66
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/230465_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {U}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/island
Snow-Covered Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.50
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/230146_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {G}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/snow-covered-forest-284
Path to Exile
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.73
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Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library.
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Snow-Covered Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.44
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Veil of Summer
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $8.86
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Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $17.48
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ravnica-allegiance/breeding-pool
Timely Reinforcements
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.78
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If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
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Flooded Strand
Market Price: $20.18
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/khans-of-tarkir/flooded-strand
Teferi, Time Raveler
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $9.60
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Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery. +1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. −3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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Wrenn and Six
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $57.10
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+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand. −1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target. −7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
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Scalding Tarn
Market Price: $55.96
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-masters-2017/scalding-tarn
Supreme Verdict
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $5.46
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This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
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Field of Ruin
Market Price: $0.41
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/field-of-ruin
Force of Negation
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $49.37
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If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
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Steam Vents
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $9.23
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({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/guilds-of-ravnica/steam-vents
Misty Rainforest
Market Price: $62.41
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/modern-masters-2017/misty-rainforest
Condemn
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.08
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Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.
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Temple Garden
Color Identity:G,W
Market Price: $9.60
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({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/guilds-of-ravnica/temple-garden
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $44.89
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+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. −1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.
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Snow-Covered Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.73
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({T}: Add {U}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/snow-covered-island-278
Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.99
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/230468_200w.jpg
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Omnath, Locus of Creation
Color Identity:G,R,U,W
Market Price: $5.71
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When Omnath, Locus of Creation enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/zendikar-rising/omnath-locus-of-creation
Cleansing Wildfire
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.27
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Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle their library. Draw a card.
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Stomping Ground
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $7.74
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({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ravnica-allegiance/stomping-ground
Ketria Triome
Color Identity:G,R,U
Market Price: $8.16
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/212697_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.)
Ketria Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/ketria-triome
Mana Leak
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.26
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/iconic-masters/mana-leak
Mystic Sanctuary
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.01
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({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/mystic-sanctuary
Ashiok, Dream Render
Color Identity:B,U
Market Price: $1.42
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Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library. −1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.
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Firespout
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $0.74
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Firespout deals 3 damage to each creature without flying if {R} was spent to cast this spell and 3 damage to each creature with flying if {G} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {R}{G} was spent.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/commander/firespout
Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Color Identity:U,W
Market Price: $23.33
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+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands. −3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."
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Cryptic Command
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $18.09
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Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.
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If you count the new cycle of spells that can also be played as lands as strictly lands, then you can afford to have more lands in your deck. These make it less likely you'll get mana screwed, since they can be either more lands or more spells depending on what your draw requires. I often consider these lands about 3/4 of a "real land" when deciding how many lands to put in my deck.
These are cards that make me want to play fewer actual lands in my deck. You are relying on naturally drawing two or three lands to cast these, but then you want to be able to find extra lands with these, to bridge the gap into the later turns of the game.
I like to cut about one land for every two copies of The Birth of Meletis or Cultivate I put in my deck. However, you want to keep a minimal amount of lands to be able to cast these cards, so I would never go below 22 total lands in ramp-style decks, and really want to be in that 23-25 range for most 60 card decks that are midrange/ramp.
While I don't weigh this effect very heavily, the more fetch lands you put in your deck, the more deck thinning you are able to do. This is a great way of preventing drawing lands later in the game.
Ahh, if only it were as easy as making sure your manabase had an equal number of sources of every color in your deck. Unfortunately, this is rarely enough. Often you will want to play more sources of one color, and less of another.
Two key factors go into this decision.
In Pioneer, we often see decks prioritize casting Elvish Mystic or Llanowar Elves on turn one. Here you are looking for lands that can be put into play untapped on turn one.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Devotion by eltranco
'Mono-Green Devotion' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: eltranco
Event: MTGO Pioneer Challenge
Rank: 3rd-4th
Pioneer
Market Price: $307.59
Hashep Oasis
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.13
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/135086_200w.jpg
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.
{1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/hour-of-devastation/hashep-oasis
Pithing Needle
Market Price: $2.32
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As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
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Tormod's Crypt
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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/tormods-crypt
Darksteel Citadel
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Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/double-masters/darksteel-citadel
Aligned Hedron Network
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When Aligned Hedron Network enters the battlefield, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)
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The Great Henge
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $51.67
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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/the-great-henge
Llanowar Elves
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.79
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{T}: Add {G}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2019/llanowar-elves
God-Pharaoh's Statue
Market Price: $0.31
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Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/war-of-the-spark/god-pharaohs-statue
Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
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Flying Whenever Skysovereign, Consul Flagship enters the battlefield or attacks, it deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
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Burning-Tree Emissary
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $0.49
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When Burning-Tree Emissary enters the battlefield, add {R}{G}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/duel-decks-mind-vs-might/burning-tree-emissary
Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $3.37
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+1: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. They gain trample until end of turn. −3: Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker. −5: You may reveal a creature card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.
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Voracious Hydra
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $3.00
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Trample Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield, choose one — • Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Voracious Hydra. • Voracious Hydra fights target creature you don't control.
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Grafdigger's Cage
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Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
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Orbs of Warding
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You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) If a creature would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.
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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros/nykthos-shrine-to-nyx
Nissa, Who Shakes the World
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $4.27
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Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/war-of-the-spark/nissa-who-shakes-the-world
Llanowar Visionary
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.20
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When Llanowar Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Elder Gargaroth
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $11.89
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Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever Elder Gargaroth attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.
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Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
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When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.
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Elvish Mystic
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.59
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{T}: Add {G}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/duel-decks-elves-vs-inventors/elvish-mystic
Oath of Nissa
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $2.01
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When Oath of Nissa enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature, land, or planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast planeswalker spells.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.99
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Stonecoil Serpent
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Reach, trample, protection from multicolored Stonecoil Serpent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
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Verdurous Gearhulk
Color Identity:G
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Trample When Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.
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Karn, the Great Creator
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Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. −2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.
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Heart of Kiran
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Flying, vigilance Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) You may remove a loyalty counter from a planeswalker you control rather than pay Heart of Kiran's crew cost.
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Wolfwillow Haven
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.12
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Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.
{4}{G}, Sacrifice Wolfwillow Haven: Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Activate this ability only during your turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/wolfwillow-haven
Damping Sphere
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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/dominaria/damping-sphere
For this purpose, it becomes important to further narrow the lands you look at beyond just what color they may produce. I want a minimum of 15 untapped green lands for turn one in these decks, but would push toward 18 untapped green sources if at all possible.
If a color isn't needed until the later turns, you don't need as many sources. In addition, if the deck has some card filtering you need even fewer sources. A good example is a blue-based control deck that splashes for Blood Moon, with cantrips like Opt.
Opt lets you dig deeper into your deck. In this case, it's safe to lean harder into blue so you can cast Opt on turn one. With the extra digging, you're still likely to find a single red source in time for Blood Moon, even if you have far more blue sources than red sources.
Cards that cost two (or more) mana of a single color require that you play more lands of that color. This is especially true if you intend to cast the card early.
In order for Anger of the Gods to work as a red board wipe, you want to cast it as early as possible—usually turn three. That means you need two red sources in the first three turns of the game. I often look for 18 or more mana sources of a color if I'm playing early game spells that require two mana of that color.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Temur Reclamation by Nammersquats
'Temur Reclamation' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Nammersquats
Event: MTGO Pioneer Challenge
Rank: 5th-8th
Pioneer
Market Price: $436.69
Expansion // Explosion
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $2.21
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Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.99
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({T}: Add {G}.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/kaldheim/forest
Anger of the Gods
Color Identity:R
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Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
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Rootbound Crag
Color Identity:G,R
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Rootbound Crag enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
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Fabled Passage
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/core-set-2021/fabled-passage
Mystical Dispute
Color Identity:U
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This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/throne-of-eldraine/mystical-dispute
Elder Gargaroth
Color Identity:G
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Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever Elder Gargaroth attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.
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Hinterland Harbor
Color Identity:G,U
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Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
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Niv-Mizzet, Parun
Color Identity:R,U
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This spell can't be countered. Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, Parun deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.
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Negate
Color Identity:U
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Counter target noncreature spell.
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Steam Vents
Color Identity:R,U
Market Price: $9.23
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({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/guilds-of-ravnica/steam-vents
Growth Spiral
Color Identity:G,U
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Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Blast Zone
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Blast Zone enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/war-of-the-spark/blast-zone
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Color Identity:G,U
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When Uro enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters the battlefield or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/theros-beyond-death/uro-titan-of-natures-wrath
Shark Typhoon
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $11.46
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ikoria-lair-of-behemoths/shark-typhoon
Mountain
Color Identity:R
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Cyclonic Rift
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $21.08
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Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/double-masters/cyclonic-rift
Sulfur Falls
Color Identity:R,U
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Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
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Fry
Color Identity:R
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This spell can't be countered. Fry deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker that's white or blue.
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Ketria Triome
Color Identity:G,R,U
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({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.)
Ketria Triome enters the battlefield tapped.
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Stomping Ground
Color Identity:G,R
Market Price: $7.74
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({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ravnica-allegiance/stomping-ground
Censor
Color Identity:U
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
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Narset, Parter of Veils
Color Identity:U
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Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Wilderness Reclamation
Color Identity:G
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At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $17.48
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.Buy This Card! https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/ravnica-allegiance/breeding-pool
Island
Color Identity:U
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Scorching Dragonfire
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.10
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Scorching Dragonfire deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.
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Aether Gust
Color Identity:U
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Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.64
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
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Colored mana sources aren't always obvious. In a format like Modern, it becomes important to look at how many fetch lands you are playing. You might only have one Sacred Foundry to produce red mana, but if you have eight fetch lands capable of finding it, that's nine white sources. Or take a look at a card like Birds of Paradise. If I'm playing a deck with Birds of Paradise I can count it as about half a land toward producing a mana to cast nongreen spells.
There's always more to learn about building manabases, but you now have a framework for how to evaluate your deck's mana and start making adjustments. Good luck!