Random Generator gave me Mountain and Swamp. Oh no! I knew this would happen eventually, but have no idea what to do when it does. I tried making a Swamp that feels redder and/or a Mountain that feels blacker, and the end result feels like it comes from a block that rediscovers Fallen Empires. I'm cool with that, but the card still lacks the epic feeling that this mashup should be getting...

Huh. Does the random generator do one per card design, not per card name then? Otherwise getting as many basic lands as we have seems unlikely.

I quite like this design. It's useful, generates mana immediately, while not being strictly better than a basic land. Generating two mana on turn 1 may be too scary, I'm not sure.

Of course, the most straightforward (and epic) solution would be to reprint the original dual land, but I agree you shouldn't! :)

Yes, the random card selector has about 100 records for each basic land. The four Ravnica plains are all in there individually, and separate from the four 10th Edition plains, even those which have the same art.

This is slightly worse than the Ancient Spring cycle in Invasion. And that wasn't a very good cycle.

Doesn't come into play tapped, Alex. It's much better than Ancient Spring. But, I don't think it is broken, like Jack is leaning to, since unlike City of Traitors, it doesn't stick around, continuously adding , and unlike Dark Ritual, it doesn't provide enough fast mana in multiples in the early game and wastes your land drop.

The amount of Basic land cards in Gatherer is rather high. It also includes Full frame lands from Zendikar, and Basic lands from specialty products, like the Beatdown box set. So, yeah, I kind of expected this to happen eventually.

Oh! You're right of course. I completely neglected the absence of ETBT :)