Magic: The Gathering Unfinity’s Full-Art Lands and How to Get Them

Magic: The Gathering’s fourth Unset, Unfinity, has just been announced and with it comes a hoard of new cards, mechanics, and collector’s pieces to analyze and get excited about. Even though the set doesn’t come out until April 1, 2022, Wizards of the Coast has already gotten players excited for the release with new teasers. Funny cards like Killer Cosplay, as well as playable cards like Saw in Half, will give decks a powerful boost and a more playful demeanor. However, it’s not the spells that are getting the most buzz from fans, it’s actually the lands.

Unsets, as Wizards of the Coast calls them, are sets that focus on parodying Magic: The Gathering, its lore, its development, and its gameplay. Unlike Innistrad: Crimson Vow’s serious vampire wedding setting and gameplay, Unsets often include dexterity-based cards and ones focused on being silly rather than functional. Thus, cards from these sets are usually not allowed to be played in tournaments and have only helped fill out personal collections. However, these sets do have one type of card that every player wants and those are full-art basic lands.

Each Magic: The Gathering Unset has had a set of all five basic lands with more art – the first and second sets in the series, Unhinged and Unglued, had full-art treatments with small borders. The third, named Unstable, used borderless full-art cards and it seems that Unfinity will follow suit with its own slate of borderless basic lands. Much like the rarest cards in Pokémon TCG‘s set Fusion Strike, these are special full-art treatments that can be played in tournaments and casual playgroups alike. On top of that, Wizards of the Coast has announced that one of the most popular and competitive cycles of dual lands, the shock lands, will be getting a full-art treatment in the new MTG set.

Magic: The Gathering Has New Space-Themed Basic Lands

There are two different styles of each color of basic land – one with a mana symbol at the bottom plus an atom in the background, and one with no symbol and lots of art. Each one has a stellar painting of a foreign planet that still fits in with the aesthetic of Magic: The Gathering and its previous basic lands. Foil versions will be available – a regular foil and a “galaxy foil” that has stars added.

Players looking to build their 100-card Commander decks in Magic and make them look better will find that having a complete set of full-art basic lands gives them a cohesive look and feel. While the cost of a booster pack hasn’t been confirmed just yet, in the past these basics have been worth the money spent on them. Opening boosters just to fill decks with basic lands is understandable if players want a large amount to use.

How to Get Magic’s New Full-Art Basics In Unfinity

Unlike Magic’s Bob Ross lands from 2020 and the Arcane-themed lands from the Secret Lair series, these full-art basics will appear in both collectors boosters and draft boosters. According to this article from Wizards of the Coast, the ones with mana symbols are called planetary basic lands, and those will appear in 7 out of 10 boosters. The others, called orbital basic lands, will appear in about 1 out of 4 booster packs. There won’t be a way to guarantee which style nor type of basic land appears, but there will be a land in most booster packs players open.

Magic: The Gathering is Reprinting Competitive Full-Art “Shock Lands” in Unfinity

In addition, there’s another exciting collectible coming with Unfinity – the shock lands. Even though there are many Magic sets on the release roster for 2022, this is the only one confirmed to have a reprint of a very playable set of important lands. These lands tap for two different types of mana and are essential in many competitive formats due to having basic land types, like Hallowed Fountain being both a Plains and an Island. For aggressive or fast strategies, having two separate types of mana on turn 1 for only 2 damage is an amazing rate and due to this, these lands have seen play back to Modern, Pioneer, and Commander.

These famous lands originated in Ravnica: City of Guilds and have been reprinted in every Ravnica block since. In Unfinity, these cards will be space and exploration themed, capturing the majesty of different planets and exploring them with eye-catching art. The cards were printed previously as full-art cards alongside Magic’s fetch lands in Zendikar Rising as a special promotion but haven’t seen too many collectible versions otherwise. Unfinity will not only give them another printing that Modern players will want to collect, but it will also mark the first time they’ll be printed with a borderless finish. The art being radically different and space-themed will also make them sought-after versions of these cards.

How to Get Magic’s Borderless Shock Lands

According to the announcement on Magic’s official website, the borderless shock lands will be distributed every 1 in 24 packs of Unfinity – approximately once per box, meaning that these arts, especially in foil, will be in low supply. Accounting for the fact that there are ten different lands, finding a specific one by opening booster packs may be hard. Just like when opening packs to build a 60 card Standard deck for Magic, draft boosters and collectors boosters will have the same pull rate but collectors boosters have the special “galaxy foil” treatments in addition to regular foils.

While this high demand means that these basic lands and shock lands will be pricey compared to their other printings, the originals will likely still be less expensive and available for those that want to purchase them. There are now seven different styles to choose from based on budget and aesthetic preference so finding at least one shouldn’t be hard. These space versions are just another addition for those who want to make their decks pop and more reprints of tournament staples are always welcome.

For a joke set with funny cards like Pokémon TCG’s, Unfinity has put more effort than most into different styles for cards – so much that it might be hard to keep track of them all. With cards not legal in any format sharing space with cards legal in Commander and Legacy, those aiming to find the best versions of the cards they want might be overwhelmed. Different arts will be available for many of the set’s spells and all of them will be available in both foil and nonfoil. However, lands will be available in every pack and play more of a role in deck building than the specific spells from Unfinity.

Like the Magic: The Gathering and Fortnite crossover, Unfinity is a strange set with more questions than answers at the moment. The last thing about Unfinity that’s exciting is the fact that Wizards has said 70 percent of the cards in the land slot will be planetary basics, 25 percent will be the orbital basics, and about 4.1 percent will be shock lands. While this might be speculation given the small margin of error, there might be another more rare card that hasn’t been announced yet. Whether this could be a masterpiece slot or another special art treatment is up for interpretation. Either way, the Magic: The Gathering cards already shown off are exciting and are definitely worth looking out for when they release in 2022.

Source: Wizards of the Coast

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