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Back to Basics
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Magic: The Gathering single: Back to Basics, from Urza's Saga. Our grade: Lightly Played or better. Pictured: this printing of the card. Every card ships triple-sleeved — a soft sleeve, a deck sleeve and a rigid top loader.
Item Description
Back to Basics is the card that punishes greed. For three mana, this blue enchantment declares that nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps, and against a deck built on dual lands, fetches, shocks and utility lands, that can leave an opponent staring at a hand full of spells and nothing to cast them with.
It came from Urza's Saga in 1998, the set behind the infamous Combo Winter, and it became a favorite of control players who build their mana around basics. A mono-blue or two-color deck heavy on Islands barely notices it, while a three-color pile might be left with one or two working lands for the rest of the game. In Commander it is a powerful, table-shaping pick for basic-heavy blue decks, and it rewards a little restraint in your own mana base.
Andrew Robinson's original art comes paired with Barrin's wry flavor text, which weighs a ruler's crown against an ordinary hat and asks "which would you rather have when it's raining?" This is the original Urza's Saga printing, collector number 62, illustrated by Andrew Robinson, in non-foil.
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