Draft lands

I like to draft, and am just above average at it. I tend to get tunnel vision, and miss opportunities to switch out of certain colors. I also don't always know all the various color pairs and themes they carry. However, just jamming weird stuff together and hoping for the best is my usual theme of the day.

The one thing I started doing from my first draft days is to have pre-sleeved lands handy. I picked this advice up from various pre-release advice videos/podcasts. Save time by not scrambling to get land ready. I also save time because I just need to sleeve the cards only. I consider a set of draft lands to be 10 of each type, so 50 basic lands. My draft box has an extra 30 or so sleeves for the drafted cards. So I have about 80, plus some, sleeves ready to go. Very rarely, like twice in all my paper drafts, have I needed an extra land or two due to some wacky draft I tried. Otherwise I have been perfectly fine with the 10 of each type.

My first set of lands was full art from Battle for Zendikar. They seemed to be all the rage, full-art lands! Oh my! As I was just back in the game at this time, I didn't care to be honest. Its a bag of whatever. But they were handy.

My second set of basic lands to draft with was, I think, Revised. They are the most awful lands in my opinion. They reflect when I got into Magic initially. So much land taken from starters and boosters. Plus, the printing was the most pale, lack of depth, and just boring printing of the original lands.

My third set of draft lands were beta basics. I wanted bling. Thats why I got them. They are still way more than I paid for them. (other than 3, which, well, thats another discussion for another day) Many of my beta basics are actually populating other decks, but I could pull them together a super sized draft if I felt like it. It'd be a bit of a pain, but it can be done. I have gotten a few more beta and alpha basics since my initial set was acquired. But it is a personal preference.

My fourth set of draft lands were Unlimited. I really think basic unlimited lands are my favorite to use. Some people think they look pale, others think they are really interesting. I like them due to the history, and they are really easy to know what your opening hand is like with white boarder lands. It is just a visual queue thing.

My fifth set of draft lands are the full are lands from Theros Beyond Death. While the most recent, I like the essence of lands there. Its something new and interesting. It has something interesting to see when you play them. Nothing else there.
Fun note- I got all the lands I needed from drafting and some chaff people left at the local store. Woot to me.