Basic land cards are all rarity "Basic Land" even when they're promos

[taw]

I fixed them manually for mtg.wtf.

Affected sets - all basic lands in these:

• arena / pARL
• guru / pGRU
• jr / pJGP
• euro / pELP
• apac / pALP
• ptc / pPRE

These are clearly promo cards and not of "basic land" rarity in any meaningful sense.

[silasary]

Note that the rarity of basic lands for earlier sets are also not "Basic Land". (Including but not limited to the Island on the Alpha rare sheet)

[taw]

Here's what wiki says about print sheets. No idea how reliable this is.

Cases like troll rare Island we probably could just ignore.

[fenhl]

Rarity as currently defined on Gatherer should be considered separately from actual sheet rarity, since the former is what determines legality in formats such as Pauper. A separate field for sheet rarity has been proposed in the past, but would have to be maintained manually.

[lincolnthree]

I'm in favor of leaving this as-is. There are other, more reliable, ways to identify promos, such as setcode. And this data, as mentioned, is extremely important for calculating Pauper legality.

[taw]

None of these promo sets are on Gatherer, or relevant for Pauper.

[ZeldaZach]

Basics have always had the basic land rarity, and even if promo'd, i see no reason to change it...

[taw]

What do you mean by that?

Some of them rare symbol printed on them

And in terms of print sheets, there's been a ton of exceptions - many sets had basics printed on common sheets, and some sets (DGM, FRF, ME4) had non-basics printed on what's normally a basic land sheet.

Gatherer weirdly does this too for just one set.

[ZeldaZach]

Hmm... Maybe we can look into addressing this then