Originally Posted by
Little Red Riding Hood
Playing the second Basic Plains is motivated by quite a few matchups.
DTB Section (Karakas vs. 2nd Basic Plains)
Ichorid: Karakas is slightly better, sometimes. But often, it doesn't matter.
Goblins: I guess you can bounce Wort and get your Karakas wasted?
Merfolk: Wanna bounce the Vendilion Clique? Maybe Sygg (both of them) gets played. Wasteland gets played for sure.
Aggro Loam: Wasteland and stuff.
Survival: Bounce Iona. Was quite good in testing.
Zoo: Makes their PoP more efficient. And their Path to Exile.
CounterTop: No difference.
Tempo Thresh: Basic Plains Nr.2 is much better.
ANT/NLS: No difference.
Established Decks Karakas looks useful against:
UB Reanimator: See Post #739/740.
Death & Taxes: Seems fine.
Doran Rock: Bounce the namesake. And that's it. And you could run into Wasteland.
Zur: :laugh:
Suicide with Hexmage/Depths: Sometimes being 20/20 flying indestructible isn't enough. But still; Wasteland.
Established Decks where you rather have the 2nd Plains:
Everything with Wasteland, Dust Bowl, Magus/Blood Moon, Back to Basics, Path to Exile, Price of Progress (Trisomie 21, Pox in general, Lands, Stax, Mirror, Team America, Suicide, Dragon Stompy, Faerie Stompy, MUC, Dreadstill, Sligh, etc.)
Established Decks where it doesn't matter:
Combo, Quinn, stuff
Sometimes against decks with Wasteland and stuff you just need one Basic Plains, but more often than not you want a third basic land in play or open a hand with Karakas as your only land/white source.
I guess Karakas is an option if your meta is full of Survival and you might suprise some Reanimatordecks.