u/No_Comfort753

Land clones and EDH ethics
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Land clones and EDH ethics

I'm looking for some outside perspectives on a disagreement I had at my LGS about EDH ethics. I play a deck that uses a rules interaction with [[Princess Yue]] and [[Clone]] (and its variations) to make land versions of creatures, which can lead to a board of high-value lands. Another player argued that this takes advantage of the fact many casual players don't run much land interaction (especially mass land destruction).

My view is that this is just another underplayed axis for interaction, similar to enchantments or graveyards. Most colors have some commonly played cards that can remove lands and there are some colorless options like [[Field of Ruin]]. If a deck is light on this interaction, the strategy is still vulnerable to counter spells and creature removal. Plus the land clones can't block so player removal is always an option. The difficulty to interact gives the strategy a similar inevitability as graveyard decks or certain enchantress decks.

My opinion is obviously biased, so I'm curious how others see this.

Here's the deck for anyone interested. There's a primer describing the interaction that lets me make these land clones.

u/No_Comfort753 — 2 days ago