
You’ll probably notice that Flooded Strand says “Land,” Hallowed Fountain reads “Lands – Plains Island,” and the Island says “Basic Land – Island.”īecause Flooded Strand allows you to search your library for a Plains or an Island and doesn’t specify basic or nonbasic, you could grab an Island or you could grab the Hallowed Fountain shockland, since it has Plains and Island as its subtypes. Take a look at these lands, specifically their type line between the illustration and text box: Bonus!īuy on Amazon What’s the Big Deal? Why Are Fetch Lands So Good?įetch lands are incredibly good because they fix your mana, can get basic or dual lands, provide a shuffle effect, and generate two landfall triggers. Oh, and the land you fetch comes into play untapped, too. They also each align with one of the allied color pairs and can only fetch you a land from its pair. Unlike Mirage‘s “slow fetch” lands, these come into play untapped and you need to pay one life to sacrifice them and fetch your land. The Onslaught set was released in 2002 and brought the first five fetch lands with it: Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Polluted Delta, Bloodstained Mire, and Wooded Foothills. Here’s the list of what are now known as “the fetch lands”:

You can also search for a nonbasic land, but more on that later.įetch lands were originally printed in Onslaught and Zendikar: Full List of Fetch Lands A fetch land is a nonbasic land that you can pay one life and sacrifice to search your library for a particular basic land type and put it into play.
