Plains

Plains is one of the five basic land types and provides white mana, which is required to cast white spells. Plains are large areas of flat land with few trees.
==Description==
Every expansion features one or more <c>Plains</c>. Additionally, there is a snow variant, the <c>Snow-Covered Plains</c>. Plains also appears on some bicolored or tricolored lands (e.g. <c>Scrubland</c>, <c>Alpine Meadow</c>, <c>Raugrin Triome</c>).
When Richard Garfield named the basic land types, he considered farmland, countryside, pasture, prairie, and steppe for white. He finally settled on Plains. Plains are weird among the other land types because the noun is used in the plural. Garfield followed the dictionaries in this.
Though there is a clear mechanical difference, in flavor there is a significant overlap between deserts and plains, with sun-scorched, dune-y places like Tarkir's and Esper's deserts being typed as plains. For urbanized planes, plains are usually reimagined as some form of residential cityscape.
==Storyline==
===Plains of Alara===
====Esper====
*Cloudheath
*Glass Dunes
===Plains of Dominaria===
====Corondor====
*Darkling Plains
*Plains of Coloni
*Plains of Urlan
====The Domains====
*Avenant
*Benalia
**Kb'Briann Highlands
*Gurdurngs
*Sursi
====Otaria====
*Daru Plains
===Terisian Isles
*Balduvian Steppe (formerly Malpiri Plains)
===Plains of Kamigawa===
*Towabara which contains the Araba
===Plains of Kephalai===
*Foltessa
*Tornadic Steppes
===Plains of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia===
*Razor Fields
*Fair Basilica
===Plains of Shandalar===
*The Kingdom of Thune.
===Plains of Serra's Realm===
*Serra's Realm exclusively consists of Floating Plains
===Plains of Shadowmoor===
*<c>Mistveil Plains</c>
====Plains on Zhalfir====
*Daraja Plains
*Mtenda Plains
*Unyaro Plains
===Plains on unknown planes===
*<c title="Quarum Plains">Quarum Trench Gnomes</c>
==Rules==
==Trivia==
The Sixth Sphere of Old Phyrexia is described as essentially plain-like with a luminous sky and inhabitants, but it is unclear if it can be considered plains given Old Phyrexia only had access to black mana.
==References==
Category:Locations