#land cycle

[kendrakmtg]

These are land cards that i wanted to do to try the new wording and also to try to do something with a monocolor mana fixing. My aim is not to do only competitive stuff, but to bring strange ideas and things like that. These could be usefull in a multicolor deck with lot of eavycolor cards. Imagine to play a Dimir deck and filter mana to be able to cast Phirexian Obliterator and also Cryptic Command.  #I DON’T OWN ANY OF THE ARTS OF THE CARDS THAT I POSTED.

[strixhaven-star]

Hmm, pretty cool lands coming in Modern Horizons 3. Hopefully they'll be reprinted in Standard at some point.

[twoplustwoequalsfour]

Income Inequality Due to “Rent”-Winning

Ed. Notes:  It amuses me that a contemporary economist can write an entire book about the challenge of progress and poverty and never once mention the classic in the field that goes by the name. The reason that technological progress benefits only some innovators, not all (usually the same idea has many progenitors and most do not benefit), and only some lucky investors, and most of the old money is because progress pushes up land value – witness Silicon Valley. More pricey land benefits banks – which the old guard own – and squeezes most people, who can not afford to spend so much on land.

When they must, they spend less on the goods and services they used to afford. This mis-spending not only widens the wealth but it also culminates in the boom/bust business cycle and worse yet, creates the permanent poor.

The way to reverse those unwanted consequences is to have society recover the socially-generated value of land – via its government levying a land tax or charging a land use fee or instituting land dues or whatever – and then disburse the revenue back to members of society as a “rent” dividend. The dividend will swell as land values do, and location values will swell as technology progresses. Problem solved, without the aid of mainstream economists.

The Progress Report: Income Inequality Due to “Rent”-Winning

(An unfortunate plea for State action. Noted for the economic analysis of land.)

[tastethecycle]

This is the Mega Mega land cycle. Maro mentioned it in one of his podcasts about Mirage. For quite a while they shied away from Legendary Lands, but having a Mega Mega cycle made it easier to spread out the legendary lands. 

[tastethecycle]

The artifact lands were an interesting idea, but when affinity for artifacts came out they were just too powerful. The though was most likely that they'd be easy to destroy since they were artifacts so it would all even out, but it did not. Ultimately they had to be banned in Mirrodin Block format. 

[twoplustwoequalsfour]

Fred Harrison: When Did World War 3 Begin?

[tastethecycle]

Final Invasion Dragon Cycle is the lairs. 

The Lairs pretty cool lands, they would be outstripped by the Shard tap lands a few years later, but the fact that the lairs come into play untapped counts for something. Bouncing a land back to your hand will slow you down though.