Basic Land Types

[Red_Wyrm]

Hello all!!!

I was reading the MTG Comprehensive Rules because I am procrastinating writing a lab report and I can across this ruling:

205.3i Lands have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called
land types.
The land  types are Desert, Forest,  Gate,  Island, Lair, Locus, Mine, Mountain, Plains, Power-Plant, Swamp, Tower, and Urza’s.
Of that list, Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, and Swamp are the basic land types.

This was all fine and dandy until I noticed the basic land type "waste" is not on there anywhere.

I am fairly certain that this is the most recent version of the rules. I googled mtg comprehensive rules and clicked the first link which took me to the official mtg website and I downloaded the pdf file.

Does anyone know what happened to this basic land type? I mean I never really saw its importance; any other colorless land that doesn't enter tapped is better than this, but of course depending on what was in standard at the time (I don't remember}, I can understand there not being an adequate selection of other colorless mana sources.

[ApothecaryGeist]

Wastes is not (and never has been) a land type.  It is merely the name of a land.  It is a basic land that has no subtype.

Happy Brewing