Re: New to Mirrodin: Artifact Lands

robert spyke wrote:

> Surely there must be some redeeming feature of artifact lands that I
> must be missing that would make me pack Great Furnaces instead of
> mountains?

Atog eats them, as does the Krark-Clan Shaman.

Late-game Thirst for Knowledge lets you discard one and keep two or 
three good cards (three if you had one in your hand already when you drew).

In a more limited way, they provide defense against color-hosers aimed 
at classes of basic land (like Flashfire).

Wrench Mind defense.

Tinker, Goblin Welder, and the like.

There's almost no reason to pack them unless you have some card in your 
deck that keys off artifacts. But that's pretty easy to do right now in 
almost every color. In Affinity-based decks, artifact lands are almost 
like having 2 colorless mana per land.

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