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[TDM] Dragon eye full art basic lands (mtgzone.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just saw these yesterday, what do you all think? Seems like a fun take on basic lands, but it also sort of makes me question what a basic land even is at this point 😝

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The art is undeniably cool, but if you're a purist, these are arguably even less land-like than the THB full-arts.

One of my dream projects that I will never find time for is to make an "Am I Hot Or Not" for Magic lands except you're voting on whether the art actually depicts the thing in the card name. Islands are the worst offenders -- rivers or fountains or pretty much anything with water seems to qualify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

These just don’t look like lands to me at all 😞

The green and black ones honestly don’t even look like eyeballs either. If you didn’t tell me they were dragon eyes I would think they were like briar patches.