One of my favorite aspects of this card is that a "loaded" one can help feed an "unloaded" one. I've occasionally done this:
1. Have two expeditions out, one with 2 counters and another with none
2. Bring a Forest out from my hand, giving a counter to each
3. Sac one of them, bring out 2 more Forests and giving 2 counters to the remaining expedition
4. Sac the other and give myself another 2 Forests
Five Forests in one turn. That's Green, my friends.
Posted By:
Totema
(12/5/2011 9:56:52 AM)
Totema, I really think you hit on the true purpose of this card; it's not Kodama's Reach or Cultivate, it's a landfall machine - you use one to pop another, letting you mass-landfall in one turn.
Posted By:
Dr.Pingas
(1/27/2012 5:05:16 PM)
1. Forest / Birds of Paradise
2. Lotus Cobra / Forest / Lotus Cobra
3. Khalni Heart Expedition / Misty Rainforest / Primeval Titan / Forest
Forest / Sac Khalni / Forest / Forest / Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
Seems pretty legit.
Posted By:
Spartan_Lemon
(2/29/2012 7:45:15 PM)
5/5 becoz it's for poor ppl like Me TT^TT
and for Ajani_is_da_man
I think he meant his comment "horrible .5"
Posted By:
Infernaldarkness
(11/26/2012 1:14:20 PM)
Oops, I made an error in my last statement, but can't find an Edit button! I forgot Twilight Shepherd, autocarding it correctly, and what it actually does :P... MY BAD haha.
Posted By:
chiknstu
(11/27/2012 8:23:29 PM)
Do remember that you can get this activated on turn 3 with little trouble, then you can realize that you don't use this to get lands 6 and 7, but rather 4 and 5.
T1: Forest, Mana Dork
T2: Khalni, Fetchland
T3: Forest
now you can get lands 4 and 5.
Additionally, this helps you get your tempo back up with ravnica bounce lands. Replace the fetchland in the above for a bounceland and possibly explore. This helps with mana-fixing, mana-ramping, etc, but not in the same way (or quite as eaily) as with other cards that get lands.
It's card advantage you have to work for but if you have 7 mana fatties this helps you have a gap in your mana curve. Fill out your 1,2, and 3 drops. Then move straight to 7 drops.
Keep in mind it thins your deck by 2 as well.
Even with all of that, I'll say it's a 3 or 3.5
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(2/20/2013 2:53:13 PM)
@Azazyel
Turn 5: Draw land ;)
Posted By:
Gruffaloes
(6/30/2013 3:18:52 PM)
I absolutely love this card!
I use this in my 50 land Azusa EDH eldrazi deck. It is just about the most efficient mana ramp ever. Because it drops a turn before Azusa, I can play Azusa the next turn, play two more lands, pop the Expedition, and now on turn 3 I have seven lands. Absolutely insane! I am talking of course about a format where it actually pays off to have to have large amounts of mana available, so I am not speaking in the interest of 60 card constructed formats, where I am sure it would actually be fairly poor outside of casual builds. All in all though, the jump from 5 to 7 mana, or just the mass accumulation of lands, can be very critical in certain decks, and this card is great at getting you there. I much prefer it to Explosive Vegetation, since it has such a small initial commitment, costing only two mana. That is fantastic in EDH, which is not known for its wealth of critical two drops, which would otherwise be played that turn.
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Posted By:
Slyfox7777777
(4/19/2014 7:25:07 PM)