"Basic Land types" question
The Crazy One
David Delaney, netrep Guru
WU
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When David Delaney enters play, draw a card for every different basic
land type among the basic lands you control.
So if I have 2 Islands and one Plains, I would draw 2 cards?
Would having a Tundra or other Dual-Land in play let me draw 2 or more
cards?
Are the Dual lands affected by these cards?
creech
Island
Swamp
MOuntain
Forest
Plain
Dual lands are not basic land
The Crazy One wrote in message <39C7C081...@iosphere.net>...
David DeLaney
>Say I have this creature
>David Delaney, netrep Guru >WU >2/2
>Protection from Inane Questions
>When David Delaney enters play, draw a card for every different basic
>land type among the basic lands you control.
>So if I have 2 Islands and one Plains, I would draw 2 cards?
Yep. Your lands have two basic land types among them: plains, and island.
>Would having a Tundra or other Dual-Land in play let me draw 2 or more
>cards?
Each of the oldstyle dual lands counts as two basic land types, so yes.
>Are the Dual lands affected by these cards?
Each oldstyle dual land has two basic land types, so can contribute two
out of the five. (The Invasion dual lands don't have a basic land type
at all, so don't help with "domain" effects at all.)
Dave
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>Each oldstyle dual land has two basic land types, so can contribute two
>out of the five. (The Invasion dual lands don't have a basic land type
>at all, so don't help with "domain" effects at all.)
>
>Dave
So what does this mean...does this mean that a dual land is a basic land?
Can I get a dual land with a card that says "Search your library for a basic
land card..."?
I understood that the old duals "were a Plains and an Island" for example,
but that that didn't make them basic lands. I would say that what you
(dave) stated above is not necessarlily true. The old duals have two land
types (not basic land types - only a "pure" Forest is a basic land, right?),
and is itself a nonbasic land...isn't it. I'm sure I'm wrong, but could you
please explain in more detail.
Steve Lord
> >>Are the Dual lands affected by these cards?
> >
> >Each oldstyle dual land has two basic land types, so can contribute two
> >out of the five. (The Invasion dual lands don't have a basic land type
> >at all, so don't help with "domain" effects at all.)
> >
> >Dave
>
> So what does this mean...does this mean that a dual land is a basic land?
No. It _counts_ as different basic land types, but something that said
"Destroy target non-basic land" could destroy a dual land, for instance.
> Can I get a dual land with a card that says "Search your library for a basic
> land card..."?
No. There are exactly 10 basic land cards; cards named "Swamp", "Island",
"Forest", "Mountain", and "Plains" and their Snow-Covered equivalents.
That's it.
> I understood that the old duals "were a Plains and an Island" for example,
> but that that didn't make them basic lands. I would say that what you
> (dave) stated above is not necessarlily true. The old duals have two land
> types (not basic land types - only a "pure" Forest is a basic land, right?),
Either 1 or three, I'm not quite sure which, but I would say 1.
Land Type
A land's type is its card title. For example, a Forest is type "forest"
and an Adarkar Wastes is type "Adarkar Wastes." Note that "basic" and
"nonbasic" aren't land types.
> and is itself a nonbasic land...isn't it. I'm sure I'm wrong, but could you
> please explain in more detail.
Nonbasic Land
Any land other than a basic land (plains, island, swamp, mountain, forest)
is nonbasic. A nonbasic land that "counts as" a basic land has that land's
mana ability and is subject to any spells or abilities that act on that
land type, but it isn't a basic land.
Steve L
David DeLaney
>>>Are the Dual lands affected by these cards?
>>
>>Each oldstyle dual land has two basic land types, so can contribute two
>>out of the five. (The Invasion dual lands don't have a basic land type
>>at all, so don't help with "domain" effects at all.)
>
Nope. It's a nonbasic land. One that says "Tundra is a plains and an
island", so that it has =three= land types: its own ("Tundra") and
two basic land types ("plains", "island"). From the two basic land types,
it gets two mana abilities - "Tap: Add W to your mana pool" and "Tap: Add
U to your mana pool".
>Can I get a dual land with a card that says "Search your library for a basic
>land card..."?
Nope. They're not basic lands. The only ones you can get are the five
basic lands, or the five snow-covered versions of basic lands from Ice Age.
>I understood that the old duals "were a Plains and an Island" for example,
>but that that didn't make them basic lands. I would say that what you
>(dave) stated above is not necessarlily true.
Look closer. The question was "What about things that count how many
basic land types you have among lands you control?"... _NOT_ "What about
things that count how many -basic lands- you control?".
> The old duals have two land
>types (not basic land types - only a "pure" Forest is a basic land, right?),
>and is itself a nonbasic land...isn't it.
Yep. But if something is counting how many basic land -types- you control?
They each have two basic land types. (If something's counting how many
swamps you control, for example, your Bayous count; if something's counting
how many -basic- swamps you control, they don't. If something's counting
how many basic land types your lands have, your Bayous contribute "swamp"
and "forest"; if something counted how many land types your lands had, your
Bayous would contribute "swamp", "forest", and "Bayou".)