I see that Wastes doesn't have a land type despite being Basic. This means that it can't be fetched with most fetch lands (since they search for e.g. a Swamp or Island), and nor do Wastes interact with stuff like Domain.
My guess as to their functionality: in addition to tapping for colorless mana, they also provide mana that can function as the colored mana required on colorless spells. So for example, a spell with Devoid that costs 2R could be cast by tapping a Wastes (for the R) and an Ancient Tomb (for the remaining 2 colorless mana).
This would be a method of making an Eldrazideck much more playable in Standard.
That seems ridiculously unnecessary - especially since they made colorless lands in this very block
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Edit: I like the poster above's comment. . . . maybe <> is "may only be paid by colorless sources AND if produced counts as any color for the purposed of casting colorless spells" BUT that seems super complicated.
That seems kind of silly to me. So what about about non-land effects that produce colorless mana would they be errated as well?
Point is, if all <> means is that it must be paid with colorless mana, there is no reason to have lands specifically produce <>.
I actually think it makes more sense to go the other way, that <> can be used as , but that can't be used as <>.
So it would work much like Snow.
Man I can't wait for this card:
(2/B)(P/B)(<>)(S)
Artifact Snow Creature - Eldrazi Horror (R)
Devoid, Infect
This card is not a "card," and you are not a "player."
6/6
Isn't that overly complicated and unintuitive?
Obviously all this is speculation so nobody is right or wrong yet...
I suspect <> in a mana cost means "must be paid in colorless mana" similar to how the snowflake symbol means "must be paid using snow-mana".
<> on the card Wastes is just a colorless mana, the significance of the card being that it will be classified as the 6th basic land type.
This will play well with Converge and Domain and cards like Draco.
It also gives colorless EDH pilots basic lands so they do not get blown out by Wave of Vitriol.
Wastes won't be relevant in Standard because of the pain lands.
It was made mostly to fix limited where all of the lands that tap for colorless are at Uncommon or Rare.
Ace - the waste was a basic land - but it didn't have a basic land type - so I think it does nothing for domain type cards.
Well yeah, you can't cast Ancestral recall with colorless mana.
I'm not suggesting that colorless snow would be better then color snow, but I am saying mechanically they would work the same way.
I agree with "must be paid with <> mana" I however don't think <> is actually just the same thing as
Good point.
This artwork pretty clearly shows a Mountain that was corrupted. I'm guessing we'll get 5 artworks for Wastes, each showing a different corrupted basic land type.
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