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Best Manabase for

Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist

· WUG

· #892 (2,576 decks)

{T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Discover X, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Budget

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No tap-lands Fetchable only Snow basics

34 lands · total $73.70 budget: $100

Composition 16 Basics 3 Check Lands 3 Other Nonbasic 3 Shock Lands 3 Surveil Lands 2 Battle Lands 2 Cycling Lands (Bicycle) 1 Tri-lands 1 Triomes

Top Lands · By Real-Deck Inclusion

$73.70 18

Basics

$1.02 16

Best Pricey Adds · Real-Deck Upgrades

Lands real expensive-variant Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists decks run that your current build doesn't include yet. Ranked by how often they appear in actual decks.

Tropical Island

86% of expensive decks

$566.78

Savannah

84% of expensive decks

$394.27

Tundra

84% of expensive decks

$599.47

Windswept Heath

76% of expensive decks

$11.40

Misty Rainforest

75% of expensive decks

$36.89

Flooded Strand

75% of expensive decks

$15.93

Boseiju, Who Endures

60% of expensive decks

$49.98

Bountiful Promenade

60% of expensive decks

$17.91

Sea of Clouds

59% of expensive decks

$18.04

Rejuvenating Springs

59% of expensive decks

$6.37

Otawara, Soaring City

46% of expensive decks

$30.83

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

37% of expensive decks

$15.89

About This Manabase

Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists is a WUG commander with a WUG color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier and ranks every pick by how often real EDHREC decks actually run it — so shocks and fetches show up where the budget allows, dropping to scry lands, gain lands, and tap-duals as the cap tightens.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier mirrors what budget-deck players actually run — mostly basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) shifts to the “default” EDHREC variant with shocks, fast lands, and a couple of fetches when the budget allows; Unlimited uses the expensive-variant data — originals, full fetch suites, and premium duals appear when in identity. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.