Since the set of artists remained the same through all three set, it does get a little... repetitive. I really like Noah Bradley's work but his mountains all sort of look the same. I do think Titus Lunter absolutely KILLED that mountain though. Why, the lava practically yells out red mana!
Double Ojutai (not visually clear to me if that is tundra or a rocky outcropping in the ocean) and a sweet sweet Silumgar ruins perched on the waterfall. I do like the small style changes, as the formerly-Jeskai monasteries now have dragon perches and the like.
Good god, Mr. Lunter brings some more high heat! I think that's actually his finest forest yet. Do I have to choose between the more taiga-esque or the sweet savannah with the volcano in the background?
CHAMPIONS OF, uh, TARKIR
So to recap what I'm trying to do here, I'm building a curated "land box" for draft night. 8 drafters means 16 color pairs. On average, each color will be used just over 3 times but at least one color will be used four times at the table. So I need five different kinds of each land; maybe six to be safe. Ideally, I want it to be fun (insofar as people think selecting land is "fun") to choose among the land, so they should be as different as possible. Thus, as much as I love the Titus Lunter forests, I really should only pick one. So those that will make it to the next round:
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