Mana base

The Mana base of a deck are usually all cards which produce mana to cast spells. The mana base is, as the name suggests, the most essential part of a deck as a deck that is unable to achieve the requirements to cast its spells is rendered effectively useless.
==Description==
The most basic form of a mana basis is Land and more specifically basic lands. However, decks often use non-basic lands which have additional effects. However, these lands usually feature a drawback as a non-basic land may otherwise be strictly better than a basic land. The most common form of such lands are lands that produce more than one color, e.g. taplands, to fix the requirements of decks and make multicolored decks possible.
There are also artifacts that can produce mana but since these are rarely come without a cost on themselves they already require other mana sources in play and often only serve as mana acceleration. The most notable of these are Moxen which are immensely powerful.
Furthermore, there are certain spells or cards with abilities to produce mana but these have the same problem as artifacts discussed above. The most common form of these are green creatures which can be tapped for mana such as <c>Birds of Paradise</c> and <c>Llanowar Elves</c> which are still being reprinted regularly as well as new variants being published in a regular basis (e.g. <c>Arbor Elf</c>). These are known as mana dorks.
==Available mana base==
This table shows what color combinations have which lands available to support them in different formats. Only draftable sets are listed, most of which are premier sets, but include some number of supplemental sets with new cards in them only new lands are listed for those supplemental sets. Basic lands from the sets are not counted, nor are nonbasic lands printed outside the set numbering. All Standard-legal lands are of course Modern-legal, and everything in Modern can be played in Eternal formats. The asterisk (*) marks when a new Land Cycle Type was introduced.
Set	Legality	Mono 	Allied	Enemy	Shard	Wedge
3ED	Eternal 	 	5 	5 	 	
LEG	Eternal 	5/5 	 	 	 	
DRK	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
FEM	Eternal 	5/5 	 	 	 	
4ED	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
ICE	Eternal 	 	5/5* 	 	 	
CHR	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
HML	Eternal 	 	 	 	5 	
ALL	Eternal 	5 	 	 	 	
MIR	Eternal 	 	5 	 	 	
VIS	Eternal 	5 	 	 	 	
5ED	Eternal 	5/5/5 	 	 	 	
WTH	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
TMP	Eternal 	5 	5* 	 	 	
STH	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
EXO	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
USG	Eternal 	5 	 	 	 	
ULG	Eternal 	5 	 	 	 	
6ED	Eternal 	5/5 	 	 	 	
UDS	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
MMQ	Eternal 	5/5 	 	 	 	
NEM	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
PCY	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
INV	Eternal 	 	5 	 	5 	
PLS	Eternal 	 	 	 	5 	
7ED	Eternal 	 	5 	 	 	
APC	Eternal 	 	 	5 	 	
ODY	Eternal 	5/5 	5 	 	 	
TOR	Eternal 	 	2 	2 	 	
JUD	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
ONS	Eternal 	5 	5 	 	 	
LGN	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
SCG	Eternal 	 	 	 	 	
8ED	Modern 	 	5 	 	 	
MRD	Modern 	5 	 	 	 	
DST	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
5DN	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
CHK	Modern 	5 	5 	 	 	
BOK	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
SOK	Modern 	2 	 	 	 	
9ED	Modern 	 	5 	5 	 	
RAV	Modern 	 	2/2/2 	2/2/2	 	
GPT	Modern 	 	1/1/1 	2/2/2	 	
DIS	Modern 	 	2/2/2 	1/1/1	 	
CSP	Modern 	 	5 	 	 	
TSP	Modern 	3 	5 	 	 	
PLC	Modern 	1 	 	 	 	
FUT	Modern 	1/5 	5 	 	 	
10E	Modern 	5 	5 	5 	 	
LRW	Modern 	5/5 	3 	2 	 	
MOR	Modern 	1 	 	 	 	1
SHM	Modern 	5 	5* 	 	 	
EVE	Modern 	 	 	5 	 	
ALA	Modern 	 	 	 	5*/5*	
CFX	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
ARB	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
M10	Modern 	 	5* 	 	 	
ZEN	Modern 	5/5 	5* 	5 	 	
WWK	Modern 	5 	5* 	 	 	
ROE	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
M11	Modern 	 	5 	 	 	
SOM	Modern 	 	5* 	 	 	
MBS	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
NPH	Modern 	 	 	 	 	
M12	Modern 	 	5 	 	 	
ISD	Modern 	 	5* 	5 	 	
DKA	Modern 	 	 	1 	 	
AVR	Modern 	 	 	4 	 	
M13	Modern 	 	5 	 	 	
RTR	Pioneer 	 	3/3 	2/2 	 	
GTC	Pioneer 	 	2/2 	3/3 	 	
DGM	Pioneer 	 	5 	5 	 	
M14	Pioneer 	 	 	 	 	
THS	Pioneer 	 	 	5* 	 	
BNG	Pioneer 	 	3 	 	 	
JOU	Pioneer 	 	2 	 	 	
M15	Pioneer 	 	 	5 	 	
KTK	Pioneer 	 	5/5 	5 	 	5
FRF	Pioneer 	 	5 	5 	 	
DTK	Pioneer 	 	 	 	 	
ORI	Pioneer 	 	 	5 	 	
BFZ	Pioneer 	5/5 	5* 	2 	 	
OGW	Pioneer 	 	5 	3 	 	
SOI	Pioneer 	 	5* 	5 	 	
EMN	Pioneer 	 	 	 	 	
KLD	Pioneer 	 	 	5 	 	
AER	Pioneer 	 	 	 	 	
AKH	Pioneer 	 	5 	 	 	
HOU	Pioneer 	5/5 	 	 	1 	
XLN	Pioneer 	(5) 	5 	 	 	
RIX	Pioneer 	 	 	5 	 	
DOM	Pioneer 	5/1 	 	5 	 	
BBD	Eternal 	 	5* 	 	 	
M19	Pioneer 	 	5 	5 	 	
GRN	Pioneer 	 	2/2 	3/3 	 	
RNA	Pioneer 	 	3/3 	2/2 	 	
WAR	Pioneer 	 	 	 	 	
MH1	Modern 	 	 	5* 	 	
M20	Pioneer 	 	5 	5/5 	 	
ELD	Pioneer 	5/5 	 	 	 	1
THB	Pioneer 	 	5 	 	 	
IKO	Pioneer 	 	5 	5 	 	5
M21	Pioneer 	 	5 	5/5 	 	
JMP	Historic	5*/1 	 	 	 	
ZNR	Pioneer 	(6/6/6/6/6)	3* 	3* 	 	
CMR	Eternal 	 	 	5 	 	
KHM	Pioneer 	1 	5/5/2 	5/5/2	 	
STX	Pioneer 	 	 	5/5* 	 	
MH2	Modern 	1 	5 	5 	 	
AFR	Pioneer 	5 	 	 	 	
MID	Pioneer 	 	5* 	 	 	
VOW	Pioneer 	 	 	5 	 	
NEO	Pioneer 	5* 	5 	5 	 	
SNC	Pioneer 	 	5* 	 	5/5* 	
CLB	Eternal 	5* 	 	 	 	
HBG	Historic	5 	 	 	 	
DMU	Standard	 	3/5* 	3/5* 	 	
BRO	Standard	1 	2/1 	2 	 	
ONE	Standard	5* 	5 	 	 	
MOM	Standard	 	5 	5 	 	
LTR	Modern 	5* 	1 	 	 	
WOE	Standard	 	 	5* 	 	
LCI	Standard	5* 	5 	 	 	
MKM	Standard	 	5* 	5* 	 	
OTJ	Standard	 	5* 	5*/5 	 	
MH3	Modern 	5* 	5 	 	5* 	5*
BLB	Standard	5* 	 	 	 	
DSK	Standard	 	5*/5* 	5* 	 	
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