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Who's excited for Lorwyn-Alara Standard?

Or, as I like to call it, "Reflecting Pool" Standard?

There's no doubt Reflecting Pool is the hottest commodity right now in Standard. With Shards of Alara bringing out only common and uncommon nonbasic lands (trip-color producing ones and basic fetches), Standard looks like it's going to be dominated by Vivid lands, filter lands, and Reflecting Pool.

Verdict - Buy Reflecting Pool now, especially at $12-13 a piece. I have a feeling it will rise up to at LEAST $25 by the time States hits.

Speaking of States, here's a list I'm currently building to play at States. It's a new rendition of Zoo.

Naya Zoo
Creatures - 24
3 Boggart Ram-Gang
2 Chameleon Colossus
4 Figure of Destiny
3 Gaddock Teeg
3 Quirion Dryad
3 Tattermunge Maniac
3 Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers
3 Woolly Thoctar

Spells - 9
3 Flame Javelin
3 Incinerate
2 Naya Charm
1 Unwilling Recruit

Enchantments - 3
1 Scourge of the Nobilis
2 Shield of the Oversoul

Land - 24
3 Fire-Lit Thicket
3 Jungle Shrine
4 Reflecting Pool
2 Rugged Prairie
4 Treetop Village
2 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Grove
2 Wooded Bastion
Total - 60


Sideboard - 15
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Naya Charm
2 Sarkhan Vol
2 Scourge of the Nobilis
1 Shield of the Oversoul
4 Stigma Lasher
Total - 15

Thoughts?