Can I use fetch lands to grab shock lands? {Wooded Foothills} and {Stomping Ground}.
Yup.
Except for {Terramorphic Expanse} or {Evolving Wilds}
If the card just says Forest, you can grab green Shocks because they're Forests.
If it says basic Forests, you can't.
To better elaborate, fetchlands can grab any type of land that has the subtype referred to by the fetchland. For instance, {Windswept Heath} can grab any land that has the subtype Forest, or Plains, and it does not have to meet both criteria. All shocklands (I.E. {Blood Crypt}, {Watery Grave} etc.) have 2 land subtypes. If you look at what is labeled after the word Land in the card type bar, there will be 2 instances of subtypes. In the case of {Steam Vents}, the two land subtypes are Island and Mountain. Fetchlands can also grab original duals such as {Taiga} and {Scrubland}, because although older lands do not show their subtypes after the supertype Land, they are still considered to be both ({Savannah} is a Forest and a Plains). You can also grab special lands like {Mistveil Plains} and {Sapseep Forest} with fetches. The key is to look at what the criteria the fetch is asking for, and to read the subtypes of the lands themselves.
Okay then. Can I fetch {Dryad Arbor}? It's subtype is Forest Dryad.
Yes sir, it is still a Forest.
Quote from: Avodroc13 on July 07, 2015, 05:28:39 PM
Okay then. Can I fetch {Dryad Arbor}? It's subtype is Forest Dryad.
As a creature it has summoning sickness tho.
{Farseek} Can also be use to get shock lands.
Quote from: Avodroc13 on July 07, 2015, 05:28:39 PM
Okay then. Can I fetch {Dryad Arbor}? It's subtype is Forest Dryad.
Yes. A lot of decks that rely on a single dude to get big will keep an uncracked fetch to defend against an edict effect.
{Gem of becoming} allows you to grab shocks too
If only I had an original dual :p
Quote from: Noblellama on July 16, 2015, 12:45:09 PM
Quote from: mgrenier25 on July 16, 2015, 12:34:54 PM
{Gem of becoming} allows you to grab shocks too
Can you imagine gemming into 3 original duals?
I could imagine me being at 6 and in a lose-next-turn position with a gem, cracking it for three shock lands and killing myself. Mana burn suicide new style!
EDIT: just realized you pay the life, so you can't die at 5..
Quote from: Noblellama on July 16, 2015, 01:48:07 PM
Quote from: Kaylesh on July 16, 2015, 01:19:35 PM
Quote from: Noblellama on July 16, 2015, 12:45:09 PM
Quote from: mgrenier25 on July 16, 2015, 12:34:54 PM
{Gem of becoming} allows you to grab shocks too
Can you imagine gemming into 3 original duals?
I could imagine me being at 6 and in a lose-next-turn position with a gem, cracking it for three shock lands and killing myself. Mana burn suicide new style!
EDIT: just realized you pay the life, so you can't die at 5..
they go to hand...
ARGH! Really should read, think, read again, doublecheck hypothesis, then think of the cool ways to go...