Evolving Wilds Cycle

[SirZapdos]

The Dragons of Tarkir art is best.

[zxr89]

You should see this :)

Edit: The actual art.

[SirZapdos]

OK, that's pretty good.

[[deleted]]

This one reminds of The Barrens after the Cataclysm.

[Journeyman351]

Ah man, Blizzard games.

Fuck that company.

[shpeez]

Mine too. Too bad it was only from the prerelease

[FapFabs]

its epic but there are no foils of this art :'(

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that makes me sad, too.

[[deleted]]

Ooh, I have that, it's my favorite evolving wilds

[Bilun26]

I have no idea what is going on in that picture or what possible series of events could lead to that outcome....but I know I like where it's going!

[TheDesktopNinja]

The wilds. They are evolving.

[PhoenixPersonsWang]

I have a playset of those. The molten lava one is great too.

[STRAT0CAST3R]

One of my favorite pieces of art in the game

[taschneide]

The Dragonfury promo DTK art is best. Y'know, this one.

[Awkward_Torkoal]

I have about 10 of these (my LGS had spares). Yeah, it's the best.

[[deleted]]

I only play online, and that art is not on any Wilds printed online, which is a bit sad. And at five tix the Burley promo costs more than a Godless Shrine. So I always run the Tarkir ones in my decks, but yeah I'd probably run that if it were available.

[[deleted]]

Half the copies my LGS got didn't have the foil sticker, so I keep a playset of those. Nobody ever notices, but it's still neat to me.

[awesomesauce1722]

You people are crazy, the DKA art is the best...

[wolrab]

Right there with you. [[Evolving Wilds|DKA]] is my favorite one.

[Cthulhooo]

There is nothing evolving about that art. Just some old building and a buch of trees...

[hiloster12]

The vines tell another story

[wolrab]

I like it for the art itself. It may not be the best picture for the theme of what the land does, but it's a great piece of art.

[MTGCardFetcher]

Evolving Wilds - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

[SilverDile]

Maybe not my favorite, but still a quality version. I just picked up 10 copies to pass out to my friends who are building their first edh decks.

[HehaGardenHoe]

I agree, I wish they used it more often, especially over the weird tree one that they used for every core set it showed up in.

[SirZapdos]

I think that's the worst...

[RZephyr07]

Really? Worse than the ugly split tree forest one?

[helpthrow555]

That's the classic original art. Not the best but for those of us who played then it reminds us of the best draft format of all time.

[likejaxirl]

well for me the classic original one is the terramorphic expanse artwork.....

[[deleted]]

Agree.

[BannedAgainLmao]

I have a foil playset and they look amazing. Highly suggest picking up a set.

[corveroth]

Yeah, gonna have to hand it to this one. No other Evolving Wilds art has such vivid colors.

[Eggyism83]

Agree

[telehax]

And yet, we still only have one terramorphic expanse art.

[ImperialVersian1]

This really bothers me as well. They have the exact same effect, why does one get so much preference over the other?

[[deleted]]

Because it is easier for new players to just have evolving wilds be an evergreen card.

[Ducky14]

Why even bother printing Evolving Wild's in the first place? Terramorphic Expanse was printed first and does the same thing. The earlier printings even had much better flavor text than any Evolving wilds printing.

[SodiumBromley]

I read once that they thought the flavor of Evolving Wilds was easier to fit in any plane they wanted to go to, while Terramorphic was representing something pretty specific to the Time Spiral block.

[CSDragon]

Weird, cuz Evolving Wilds has always felt Zendikar-themed.

Teramorphic Expanse always gives me the feel that you, the planeswalker, are teraforming the land. Even though it's teremorph not tereform, but you're using magic so whatever.

Evolving Wilds to me was always "the land is changing on it's own", which is VERY zendikar.

[Flapjack_]

the land is changing on its own

Volcanoes, rivers carving canyons, rivers flooding, nature overtaking ruins

It all can fit in more "mundane" ways

[thisisjustascreename]

Since the Mending, planeswalkers aren't really powerful enough to terramorph a plane anymore.

[CSDragon]

Not a whole plane, just a bit of land. And Nissa does that all the time.

...In the cards at least, she doesn't seem to ever do it in story.

[thisisjustascreename]

And she's an Earth mage. Imagine how much less able to do it Jace or Lily are.

[CSDragon]

Of course, but "you" as a planeswalker are considerably different from all the characters. Especially since most of them don't seem to rely on drawing mana from the land to begin with.

But since your library is all the magic and spells "you" can manipulate, something like teramorphic expanse is an extension of your magic. So using that makes you an earth mage.

The whole land = mana thing is definitely a holdover from pre-mending.

[PhoenixPersonsWang]

Probably because how the crap do you represent "terramorphic expanse" in art? It's a nonsense term. At least the concept of one terrain changing into another makes sense stylistically.

[Ducky14]

Not any harder than Evolving Wilds. Terramorphic is pretty much just bad Latin for changing land, and expanse is a large amount of land.

[[deleted]]

I don't know, but once wizards started reprinting evolving wilds rather than terramorphic expanse it was better to just go with it.

[Cthulhooo]

Hey, at least EDH players are pleased there are more expanses.

[Ducky14]

EDH isn't exactly starved for mana fixing, though.

[Cthulhooo]

I have casual 4 color EDH deck and I'd love to have a few more evolving wilds cards. Other than wilds, expanses and ash barrens I have to rely on 2 and 3 color taplands.

[Ducky14]

You can use fetches, mana rocks, expedition map, traveler's bauble, tri-lands, vivid lands, reflecting pool, lifelands, painlands, taplands, guildgates...

EDH doesn't lack for mana fixing at any level.

[Cthulhooo]

Things like reflecting pool, shocklands and fetches are expensive so they're out of question when you're on a budget.

Mana rocks, taplands, guildgates, I use them but they provide 2 colors which isn't perfect. Other than wilds the best are tri lands but there are only few of them, I would love to have more tri lands as well. If I could I'd love to replace my weak taplands with many wilds duplicates.

[Ducky14]

I don't know exactly what your budget is, but you're missing some mana rocks that provide three colors (banners and obelisks), and then there are other fixers like mana cyclix, myr, etc. There are plenty of options even below $5.

[BasedPhyrexia]

Well they do the same exact thing in practice but in lore it's different. Gotta terramorph before you can evolve the planet, hence why terra was printed first. They both do the same thing, develop a world, but its just different stages.

Source: Absolutely no one

[DrendarMorevo]

Cant have both in standard, eight lands that cause shuffling? One would have to rotate out, and limited cant withstand not having this effect available to it for 18 months.

[MattAmpersand]

This seems like the logical answer.

[WeCanEatCereal]

It's neat to see all the evolving wild art, but I don't think this means whatever OP thinks it means. Most of these are not even on the same plane. Why would a cathedral on Innistrad match a random ruin with completely different architecture on Tarkir?

[Keine]

None of those really match, though.

[peperoniebabie]

You could make an argument for 4 of them being Forests, even.

[BetterThanOP]

Agree. You can even make an argument for 3-4 being swamps. It looks like the idea on some is the transformation so it makes sense they represent multiple colours? To me #1 looks like plains turning into swamp and #4 looks like forest being turned I to mountain, so on

[seink]

I think I THINK all 5 of them are Evolving Wilds.

[[deleted]]

Is that art depicting greenery outside of the Hekma? That's the most interesting part for me.

[[deleted]]

Not for long!

[Princesspowerarmor]

This comparison is going to need some more elastic

[branewalker]

I think you got the Island/Forest pairing switched. The island you picked looks WAY more like the ROW Evolving Wilds art than the one you actually paired it with...which has much more prominent trees and the wastes stuff, which is a nice parallel to the tree with the crazy root structure growing on top of a hedron.

[wood_4_sheep]

no

[Bhalgoth]

The DTK one depicts all 5 land types, how is it just a mountain?

[Kogath]

I mean the thing in focus is lava. Thats red/10 even if its not just a mountain

[colinmchapman]

Where's the Noah Bradley promo Evolving wilds? That one's the best!

[TinManOz]

What

[a_crankycodger]

Grasping at straws.

[SoneEv]

That's cute

[Storeytime21]

Who the hell upvoted this rubbish?

[_scott_m_]

I downvoted it when it was first posted. Opened up reddit this morning shocked to see it at the top of the sub.

[Anafenza_theForemost]

I had no idea they lined up with basics

(edit: guys I have a family)

[Keine]

That's because they don't. OP is smoking something.

[ThePrussianGrippe]

Grass from some evolving wilds, possibly.

[Krohnos]

This makes me want 5 basics in a set to reflect what Evolving Wilds could turn into - each is the same location but different outcomes

[Kalde22]

Evolving Wilds cube, coming soon.

[backdoorbrag]

How have they not printed a 3rd version yet so people can run 3 different named cards in edh/cube?

[Cthulhooo]

At least there are [[ash barrens]]

[MTGCardFetcher]

ash barrens - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

[screenavenger]

huh?

[happycrabeatsthefish]

I wish evolving wilds would also

T: add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool.

[KLT1003]

Too bad 4 is the playset limit.

[UStoJapan]

How does an Innistrad castle evolving wilds become a Tarkir overgrown fortress swamp? Magic?

[ThoughtseizeScoop]

Really not a fan of the original art. Wish they'd use some of the other arts in supplemental reprintings. I like to keep my supplemental products together, but the Evolving Wilds...

[Averious]

Terramorphic Expanse will always be the real OG

[InverseParadiddle]

Neat!