If you have a deck that would normally play 17 lands, but one of your spells has land cycling, should you play 16 or 17
For Commander, Id love to say that Archive Trap could find a place in a deck sporting Bruvac, but I wholeheartedly believe that the impulse to use it early in the game off an early fetchland would outweigh waiting until Bruvac hit play a few turns later
Playing with the Fallout decks is fun, but its getting harder and harder to make truly new decks at this point without just power-creeping old ones
I find it more exciting in decks with a few bricks floating around since it creates tension and leads to hilarious moments where the first card revealed ends the chain immediately
But the simple fact is that The Abyss has crossed the line
If youre looking for the biggest guaranteed pile of ONE lands, the Compleat Bundle is the standout, since it comes with 20 of each Phyrexian basic land, plus you can still hit one in every Set Booster included in the box