If you can get one trigger, you're way ahead on RUG Delver. They use zero basic lands (they won't benefit for their own LT triggers) and their mana-denial plan is going to fail because of the fresh three basics.
3 basic lands for W is a really big threat for today's metagame (unless you're playing Tribal).
Let your Dredge 6 be: Narco, Narco, Narco, Bridge, Bridge, Dread Return
Unless they just Stifle Land Tax.
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If the guy playing Land Tax chooses to not play a land to try to get the Tax trigger, and the Delver opponent Stifles the trigger, that's a backbreaking play. Does the dude with Tax play a land and give up on Land Tax? Or does he choose to not make another land drop, putting him incredibly behind?
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I think the best way to abuse Land Tax (along with Scroll Rack) is with Armageddon.
You resolve Armageddon, your opponent drops a land on his/her turn, on your turn, Land Tax triggers.
Sol land and Mox Diamond helps you get to the higher casting cost spells (such as Armageddon). The best Sol land you can use is Crystal Vein since it has that self sacrifice that you can control.
The rest of the deck can be built around cheap/free spells. Miracle cards are awesome here (and they work well with Scroll Rack).
I'm not saying its a broken card. It's like Dream Halls or Metalworker that you have to build around it. I just have that unconditional love for Land Tax.
Every turn your not dropping land is a turn they are ahead since they just operate off of 2 mana and you cant make a land drop because you are trying to get it trigger.
The card is narrow but is definitely a way to fight back against the proliferation of wasteland so it will be a good thing. I very much doubt that its going to bust the format or the current meta.
The reality is its about time we found out if we can break it with land tax.
I predict we see it in Enchantress, Death and Taxes, And mono white stax if that is still a thing.
By far the best of use of Land Tax is to improve an E. Tutor UW Thopter/CounterTop deck that runs bullets like Back to Basics. Unfortunately it doesn't improve that deck enough to make it relevant against the main things that prey on it, like speed from RUG/Delve or anything with Griselbrand. Maybe if you went three colors, and dropped top and balance for Mirri's Guile/Sylvan Library and ran 4x Suppression Field you'd have a start, but I doubt it would be good enough.
Land Tax's best use is as a sideboard card for E. Tutor wishboards in LD heavy meta's IMO. Otherwise it's best use is trading to noobs as of today.
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Doesn't seem that good in a format of mana dorks from Maverick, RUG threshold decks and unreal fatties being cheated in.
Possible positive interactions with Undiscovered Paradise since it leaves the field during your untap phase
I am curious for the post of the guy who has "never discuss the unbanning of land tax" as legacy rule number 1 in his signature...:)...love to see it unwanted but don't think parfait will become a tier deck...
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This should go straight into some version of UW deck. It's pretty bonkers with Jace and Brainstorm, true cheap draw engine.
Most likely we'll see decks evolving into some kind of Humility + Thopters hybrids fueled with land tax draw.
Btw, speculation is rampant. $50 legends land tax?
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