10 Strip Mine (Tower) Uncommon - $34.32 Strip Mine is a pretty straightforward land, one designed to counter a specific land that ended up being a bit too powerful in Magic
Effects may put cards from other zones onto the battlefield under an opponent's control
Plus, you get an easy route through The Undercity if you drop a White Plume Adventurer and bring the initiative into the game
This 3/3 merfolk scout will let each merfolk you control explore at the beginning of combat, causing many of them to gain +1/+1 counters
But post-board, GW shifts gears entirely into a midrange planeswalker deck
Magic 2013 made some new flavorful lords with cards like My pick for 2012 is Avacyn Restored had an Angel typal theme and was trying to add a handful of new monster typal cards, so the Design team decided to make a neutral typal-friendly card, similar to what we had done with Just My Typal That's as far as we'll get through today