Just spent some time going through the old 5c Eternal Garden thread looking at the debates and decklists it had. One thing I noticed is that creature based plans pretty much folded to
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale+
Glacial Chasm. The other thing was that the deck used lots of colored mana and tried to beat combo/tempo by bringing in Chalices+3Spheres. Obviously, just mainboarding those and 2 mana lands with fewer colors is a better plan vs. the field.
So I think we want to look at around 25-27 lands given that Tabernacle and Chasm don't produce mana. It's also worth noting that Tomb does Damage, which Chasm stops.
Also, what are peoples thoughts on
Crystal Vein vs.
City of Traitors? City is more explosive early, but Vein doesn't hinder our development quite as much.
What do you guys think of something like this as a manabase:
4x Ancient Tomb
3x City of Traitors
3x Wasteland
1x Glacial Chasm
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Karakas
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Nomad Stadium
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Savannah
3x Forest
2x Snow-Covered Forest
4x G/x Fetchlands
1x Dryad Arbor
That's 27 lands, which after the base 11 artifacts (4 Mox/Chalice, 3 3sphere) leaves us 22 slots for tutors and duders. Say 12 tutors/draw spells (4 GSZ, 8 Library/Realms/Wish) and 10 dudes (5 combo, 2-3 tracker, couple targets)
This gives the deck a plan vs. swarm: Tabernacle, vs. combo/tempo: 3sphere/chalice, vs. burn: chasm/stadium That seems like a couple of pretty strong plans vs. the vast majority of the field. Thoughts? Stuff I'm overlooking?