First, if you haven't read the previous thought (Thoughts on Numbering) please do so first. If you have, my first suggestion is to make the lands the first set of cards in the numbering scheme. If you make six different printings of each land, then there will be enough to give one of each land in a starter pack. This in mind, you could start every starter with the same thirty land cards, in numerical order. The story on these (the quotes) could lay the framework for the set. They would give background on the people and, most importantly, the places that will allow people to better fit all the rest of the cards into the story.
Second suggestion is to make basic land cards, or land cards in general, look significantly different from all other cards. My reasoning is that they really are a basically different card type from all the rest and deserve easy differentiating from the rest of the cards. Further more since a third of your deck is going to be these, it allows decks to feel like they have more variance going on. A possibility would be to make the whole card just a picture of the location, and then just have a floating text box. Anyway, this is an idea that would take some more thinking, but I wanted to get my opinion out there. I guess I was just blown away with the Unglued lands.
One more minor note: I would like to see lands with types. Currently you have done the step of creating a “Legend” land type, so this isn't too much of a stretch. The two more types I am suggesting are “Basic”, which would show up on all basic lands, and “Desert”, which is a new type on land I introduce.
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