Gemstone Mine: usually good in fast decks that only need it for a few uses anyway.
Reflecting Pool: doesn't give you any colors you didn't already have.
Undiscovered Paradise: tempo loss.
Maybe one of the three could go in, but not all of them or the manabase would lose some stability...
Granted. Spiderman drafts Dwarven Pony. He equips it with Umezawa's Jitte and eliminates you in the first round of the tournament.
I wish for a copy of Umezawa's Jitte signed by BigBlue.
Yes, but this was not necessarily true 100 years ago, which is what I think KJ is talking about. It's not too late to kick the Irish out (okay, so we might have to change a few pesky laws, but that's no problem). :p
That isn't what Spiderman is saying.
No. Mexico had an economic crisis over a decade ago, but its economy has been improving ever since. They do trade with the U.S., but they do not "feed off" us.
That's even less likely than raising the standard of living in other countries. We live in a...
Okay, for the manabase, I suggest Scrubland, Plateau, Badlands, Bloodstained Mire, Sulfurous Springs, Caves of Koilos, Battlefield Forge, Godless Shrine, Sacred Foundry, Blood Crypt, City of Brass, and some other stuff.