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Land — Plains Island
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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Why is this card good?
Prairie Stream is premium fixing for any Azorius (or Azorius-containing) deck, and one of the most-played UW lands in Commander for good reason. The basic land subtypes are the key: it counts as both a Plains and an Island, so it fetches with Flood Plain, Tundra-style duals, Farseek, Scapeshift, and triggers cards that care about basic types or fetchlands. That synergy makes it strictly better than most "enters tapped" duals in fetch-heavy manabases.
The "two or more basic lands" condition is trivial to satisfy in most decks, especially early, so it usually comes in untapped after the first turn or two. Three- and four-color decks running this for the dual subtypes love it.
Play it in essentially any deck with white and blue that runs a real manabase. The only decks that skip it are aggressively low-land or all-untapped cEDH builds that can't afford even an occasional tapped land — there, you'd lean on duals and the actual Tundra instead.
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