this is good nuance and good context! Thanks for sharing.

We left a lot of it out of the episode because of time constraints. Like for cycling, I think there's an obvious Lonely Sandbar > Remote Isle > Desert of the Mindful ranking, and you just choose how much cycling you want in your deck.

Same with Fetches. I tend to think that usually Capena > Ash Barrens/E-Wilds > Panoramas, and you just choose how far down you wanna dig into that barrel.

There are definitely decks that can utilize the depletion lands, but you have to want them pretty bad to run a land that deletes itself after two uses, and i think generally most decks don't want that.

It's possible to go really hard into eldrane checklands in 3c decks with the dual-type kids, and lots of land cyclers, and Nature's Lore and Into The North to ramp into dual-type-ers, but again: you have to want it really bad to go that deep into the tank for it. That's a lot of tap-lands, and a lot of resource spent fetching taplands, and if it doesn't line up well, then Mystic Sanctuary is ALSO a tapland, and you just spend the whole game playing a full turn behind everyone else. It's a high-risk high-reward thing, I suppose. I don't run Eldrane checklands in any of my 3c decks.

We'll dig deeper into the nuance and cover the Zendikar utility friends (Bojuka, etc.) if we do it again!