If anything buy your Khans fetches and shocklands asap.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT10| Aether Revolt - That shit that make your Soul Burn slow
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If anything buy your Khans fetches and shocklands asap.
Buying boosters is not a good way, but if you know what deck you want to build prices will be lower for the next couple of months thanks to the new inlfux of cards. Still, you'll need 400-500 euros at least if you are building from zero.
charlequin
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I mean, sure, I guess, but someone really is sitting there doing math on reprint equity when they finalize one of these sets. Bumping this drops its EV contribution a bunch and maybe lets them squeeze something else people want into the set somewhere as well. I could believe maybe this particular case was the wrong call but it's not necessarily worse for the set as a whole the way the same kind of move is in a non-reprint set.
Unless she's in Amonkhat hahahaha
I'd never dream of buying boosters but I am willing to buy the fetches (both the Zendikar and the Khans) along with some other staples to start building a collection at least and then proceed by adding slowly what I need.
charlequin
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There is point-blank a 0% chance she is.
Simply Sarah
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I'm still hoping for Guay Path, yes. If only to maybe make it the common Path art in play.
With valuable reprints coming almost exclusively in Supplemental sets designed for draft, they don't have enough slots to reprint all the cards that go from relatively affordable to moderately or fairly expensive every year. If price becomes the largest factor for Mythics in these sets, unless supply is significantly larger than it has been (which we may not have a good idea about until some time late this year or early next year), the commensurate time it takes for these highly played Mythics to return to pre-reprint pricing could easily outpace the established reprint frequency and/or volume.
From a business perspective it makes sense for WOTC to be more flexible with the rarity of highly sought after cards. It's a conservative method of protecting future set equity, insulating vendors from price volatility introduced by these sets, and in the future if Magic growth slows even further, or worse yet Magic enters a period of negative growth, these shifts will protect the price of the cards to some degree. The thing is, the cards that see the most play and are the most desirable already perform all those functions to some degree from sheer demand. If Magic wants to continue to grow they need to address the problems of accessibility and for constructed formats one of the primary impediments is the price of entry. They're addressing these issues with Standard head-on. Hopefully, this set and other supplemental products begin actually addressing accessibility with a similar fervor.
I'll take the optimistic line and assume that the inclusion of Fetchlands at Rare means that the print run won't just be slightly larger than previous Masters sets but significantly larger. If that's the case, a few cards upshifted to preserve equity makes a considerable amount of sense for WOTC and the broader community. We'll just have to wait and see.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Y'all are crazy original Path to Exile is the best art for it. Guay's art is great as always but it doesn't even fit the card particularly.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm surprised how tame they were with mythics this time around. MM15 was Mythic lottery, either you opened a mythic and therefore had a useful card or you opened bulk rare with very little in between.
So far they spoiled a lot of great rares plus fetches, and great uncommons too.
So far they spoiled a lot of great rares plus fetches, and great uncommons too.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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no surprise there. Always wondered how griselbrand does stuff with blades for hands.
Joe Molotov
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Path and Inquisition at uncommon, holy shit
Simply Sarah
Member
I hope this is an indication that they've learned some lessons from that. I mean, who knows how much chaff will end up in the full list but right now the fears from Domri and Stoic Angel being on a packaging have certainly been largely eased.
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, this is basically where I'm at, but like you say we'll have to wait and see to a certain degree.
I mean, when you get down to it, an uncommon in a Masters set is about equivalent to a rare in a regular set.
I like that they're showcasing some desirable uncommons already, it definitely seems like they got the message about how badly they fumbled that aspect of MM 2015.
Oh my God. Seriously this is such a dumb theory I wish people would stop even talking about it.
EDIT: Zur the Enchanter.
Giant Panda
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To me it seems like Tower Gargoyle is now the odd one out power wise for the shard uncommons.
They gotta have one miss though, right?
charlequin
Banned
They missed Grove and Canopy!
Yeah, those are big ones. Kinda can't believe those aren't in.
TheBlackMarvel
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no surprise there. Always wondered how griselbrand does stuff with blades for hands.
He doesn't, the Skirsdag does everything for him.
Infinite Stars
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Wizards has done stranger things, you guys. Like, while she's 99%likely in, there's that 1% of Wizards goofing up.
There's always the chance they were all "oh, maybe we can put her in X set" and then didn't, like happened with Damnation, but that seems less likely given their stance of not reprinting super powerful stuff in Standard anymore.
Infinite Stars
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You know what? I'm fine with Snapcaster at Mythic now that Path/Inquisition are confirmed for uncommon. Last thing anyone wants is for Snap+either of those to be running rampant through a limited environment.
I am not fine with the lack of Canopy/Grove, though a reprint of Cavern will earn back all that illwill imo.
I am not fine with the lack of Canopy/Grove, though a reprint of Cavern will earn back all that illwill imo.
charlequin
Banned
This one really was probably a direct tradeoff with the ZEN fetches, they really couldn't squeeze in more expensive duals past those. I wouldn't be surprised to see these get blown up in something with a higher print run, honestly.
WotC has actually not ever done anything stranger than skipping LotV in this set would be.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Bauble has been seeing some play for a while
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yeah I knew about bauble already when I was experimenting with mentor lists and it already saw a spike with the release of Grim Flayer.
Did it see any play before the Death Shadow decks started popping up 6ish months ago?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Jund and Abzan lists including Grim Flayer. Most prominently the World Championship last Summer.
Last summer was already too late to change the set probably. Here's hoping though.
Infinite Stars
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I'd put "Putting Aetherworks Marvel into a standard with Emrakul, The Promised Mindslaver" up there. If we're talking reprintwise, see them missing Inquisition of Kozilek in the one standard set where it makes sense, only to jam it into two draft environments. It's not even like the devoid excuse works, because Ayli literally got a card in that set.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's why I said most prominently. It was a known quantity before the release of Grim Flayer already but has seen much more amounts of play since its release.
They've been popping up a little bit longer than that, no?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Eldritch Moon released in July.
charlequin
Banned
One of these is them missing a balance issue which is a completely different thing in every way, and the other one is them choosing not to reprint IoK for Standard balance reasons which tons and tons and tons of people noted as a possibility beforehand.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It wasn't a Devoid excuse. It was in the Design file. Development took it out because it's basically Thoughtseize.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's Stony Silence.
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