Ally-Colored Filter Lands Reprinted In Double Masters

Courtesy of Wizards of the Coast (WotC) and Maria Bartholdi, the ally-colored filter lands are back in Double Masters!

The original cycle of ally-colored filter lands first appeared in Shadowmoor (though Graven Cairns previewed them in Future Sight). A fixture for fixing mana bases, the only reprint up to this point for the cycle was the Battle for Zendikar expeditions.

The filter lands (from both Shadowmoor and Eventide) were crucial in Standard in their time, allowing wild mana bases in conjunction with the Vivid lands and Reflecting Pool. A range of decks with names that mean nothing now utilized them like Boat Brew and Quick n’ Toast as well as traditionally-named decks like Orzhov Tokens and Boros Kithkin.

Quick n' Toast

Manuel Bucher

Test deck on 06-15-2008

Standard

Creatures (16)

• 4 Wall of Roots
• 3 Cloudthresher
• 4 Mulldrifter
• 4 Kitchen Finks
• 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae

Lands (24)

• 4 Reflecting Pool
• 4 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Dreadship Reef
• 2 Fungal Reaches
• 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
• 4 Vivid Creek
• 4 Vivid Grove
• 2 Mystic Gate
• 2 Sunken Ruins

Spells (20)

• 4 Rune Snag
• 4 Careful Consideration
• 2 Slaughter Pact
• 4 Cryptic Command
• 3 Makeshift Mannequin
• 3 Firespout

Sideboard

• 3 Teferi's Moat
• 1 Detritivore
• 1 Cloudthresher
• 2 Primal Command
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 3 Wispmare
• 3 Mind Shatter
• 1 Murderous Redcap

Boat Brew

Jan Ruess

7th Place at Pro Tour on 02-28-2009

Standard

Creatures (23)

• 4 Mogg Fanatic
• 3 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
• 3 Reveillark
• 4 Figure of Destiny
• 4 Knight of the White Orchid
• 4 Ranger of Eos

Planeswalkers (4)

• 4 Ajani Vengeant

Lands (15)

• 3 Reflecting Pool
• 4 Battlefield Forge
• 4 Windbrisk Heights
• 4 Rugged Prairie

Spells (18)

• 5 Plains
• 4 Mountain
• 4 Spectral Procession
• 3 Path to Exile
• 2 Banefire

Sideboard

• 3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
• 1 Reveillark
• 4 Stillmoon Cavalier
• 4 Lapse of Certainty
• 1 Banefire
• 2 Ignite Disorder