mtg elemental cards Water · Masters Edition IV (ME4) #70 · Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search Storm (When you cast this spell Elemental Eruption (extended art)

1 Savage Lands

Eminence lowers the cost of your dragons no matter where it sits, smoothing out your entire game plan

40 Life: Players start with a hearty 40 life, a significant jump from the 20 life in traditional one-on-one formats

On the other hand, Nightveil Specter can steal lands, which is a nice upside, but because it was printed nearly a decade ago, it doesn't fix our mana for the cards it steals (it's our only theft card that doesn't), so we either need to hope that our opponent is playing blue and black cards that we can cast with our mana base or hope that we can use Nightveil Specter to steal some lands of the proper color before moving on to casting nonland cards

Like all Backgrounds, its effects are only active when you control your commander