Plains
Plains is one of the five basic land types and provides white mana, which is required to cast white spells. Plains are large areas of flat land with few trees.
Description
Every expansion features one or more Plains. Additionally, there is a snow variant, the Snow-Covered Plains. Plains also appears on some bicolored or tricolored lands (e.g. Scrubland, Alpine Meadow, Raugrin Triome).
When Richard Garfield named the basic land types, he considered farmland, countryside, pasture, prairie, and steppe for white. He finally settled on Plains. Plains are weird among the other land types because the noun is used in the plural. Garfield followed the dictionaries in this.
Though there is a clear mechanical difference, in flavor there is a significant overlap between deserts and plains, with sun-scorched, dune-y places like Tarkir's and Esper's deserts being typed as plains. For urbanized planes, plains are usually reimagined as some form of residential cityscape.
Storyline
Plains ofAlara
Esper
Plains ofDominaria
Corondor
The Domains
Otaria
Terisian Isles
- Balduvian Steppe (formerly Malpiri Plains)
Plains ofKamigawa
Plains ofKephalai
Plains ofMirrodin/New Phyrexia
Plains of Shandalar
- The Kingdom of Thune.
Plains of Serra's Realm
- Serra's Realm exclusively consists of Floating Plains
Plains ofShadowmoor
Plains onZhalfir
Plains on unknown planes
Rules
Trivia
The Sixth Sphere of Old Phyrexia is described as essentially plain-like with a luminous sky and inhabitants, but it is unclear if it can be considered plains given Old Phyrexia only had access to black mana.