If you can afford the mana cost you can fetch any Plains while putting a scrappy first striker on board. There’s room for both, but the knight is the clear winner. The recent addition of Loyal Warhound to the format pales in comparison to its inspiration: Knight of the White Orchid. You can let your opponents do the heavy lifting of getting extra lands into play while you piggyback off their work, and you sometimes walk away with a small army of soldiers too. Keeper of the Accord was hyped up on its release but is now criminally underrated. You’re still gated by the number of lands under your opponents’ control, but you aren’t limited by land type. Weathered Wayfarer is a classic creature that can repeatably fetch up lands. But it’s a “leaves the battlefield” effect, so it might be a bit more difficult to trigger than something like Cartographer's Hawk or Aerial Surveyor. Boreas Chargerīoreas Charger stands out among white ramp spells for its ability to put you ahead on mana. It gets bonus points for being able to fetch any Plains, not just basics. Oreskos Explorer does a great job of ensuring you hit your land drops and stay at parity with other players. They’re often tied to how many lands your opponents have. White has a theme of playing “catch-up” type ramp spells.

Creatures with land search effects are easier to recur than instants and sorceries so they can often benefit you more than a stronger one-time effect. Some tutors are limited to only searching for land, and some can search for different card types. Lots of these types of ramp effects only get you one land, but some more expensive ones get you more. Land search cards, or land tutors or ramp effects, are cards that let you search your library for lands and either put them into your hand or onto the battlefield. Scapeshift | Illustration by Daniel Ljunggren Nissa, Vastwood Seer / Nissa, Sage Animist

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