Quote Originally Posted by Jamaican Zombie Legend View Post
What kinda surprised me is that RR -- Destroy target nonbasic land -- never saw print. I understand Wizard's reticence in printing cheap, unconditional LD, but I never really understood why nonbasic destruction was scarcely pushed beyond Molten Rain and Uncontrolled Infestation. It only punishes tourney-tuned manabases full of (competitive) nonbasics while leaving basics untouched.

It seems like in every format, save Limited, basics take a complete backseat to nonbasics, and more powerful nonbasic hate could really do something to counteract that.

Of course, Wizards probably wants nonbasics to be better so they can sell packs with cycles of duals.
They reeeeeallllly don't like LD. ;)

I do like the idea of making Basics more important or at least make building a manabase more interesting than "insert X duals". And it would give a small boost to monocolor decks which is nice because there really isn't any reason to stay single colored. You are rarely punished for splashing and you lose almost no consistency.

I'd settle for a colorshifted Sinkhole that only hits non-Basics.