You can draw 40 cards, stop, and then use your hand full of counterspells to protect your win
With cards like Castle Ardenvale and Restless Anchorage among plenty of places to sink extra mana, the high land count ensures the deck will usually play its impactful 4-drops on curve, and have plenty of uses for extra land drops in the late game
Note that Homelands was printed before Wizards decided to simplify creature counters into +1/+1 and -1/-1 varieties
This deck is built around the foretell and flicker mechanics, giving you the ability to manipulate the battlefield with precision
Land Color tag templates(None) Temple Garden ( : Add or .) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life
Looking the cards over, I'm pretty sure Ghitu Fire was the culprit that kept all of them from having two colored mana in their cost