These easily gain you four or five life in the later turns of the game, which is plenty to swing a match in your favor and buy your Emrakul the time it needs to close a game. It adds up quickly in a deck dedicated to getting as many loci on the field as possible. The life gain tacked onto this land isn’t something to sneeze at. A hand with two Glimmerposts and a single Cloudpost still generates far more mana than a hand with only one locus. Access to another four locus lands gives locus decks the consistency they desperately need. This isn’t directly responsible for the insane mana production but is still essential to the deck. The second-best locus land has to be Glimmerpost. You can even use these lands in EDH with plenty of ways to tutor them, like Crop Rotation and Sylvan Scrying, alongside ways to copy them like Vesuva, Thespian's Stage, and Orvar, the All-Form.

It would often be paired with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, as you can see in this BreachPost list Jesse Hampton piloted to a top eight in Pro Tour Philadelphia, 2011, shortly before Cloudpost was banned in Modern. When paired with cards like Vesuva that essentially gave you 12 locus lands, the deck ramped in explosive bursts even Tron couldn’t keep up with. Like any mechanic that lets you cheat on mana, the locus lands proved incredibly powerful, especially at the inception of Modern in 2011. Glimmerpost’s only printing was in Scars, while Cloudpost got a few reprints in the Worlds Champ Decks 2004 and as an FNM promo in May 2010, a few months before Scars would release that October. It was the lone locus card in Magic for several years until Glimmerpost was printed in 2010 during the return to Mirrodin with Scars of Mirrodin.

The first locus land, Cloudpost, was printed in the original Mirrodin set in 2003. They’re a type of land that get stronger together, as the locus lands care about how many different locus lands you control. Locus lands are tied to the plane of Mirrodin. Two locus lands have been printed to date: Cloudpost and Glimmerpost. The locus lands are colorless lands with the “locus” subtype. Terastodon | Illustration by Lars Grant-West

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