That's what I meant lol
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That's what I meant lol
Stony Silence with new art/flavour text.
Dude is just basking in the sun.
charlequin
Banned
Also I don't know why people don't believe Rosewater about fetches never being in Amonkhet, if they had been and he didn't want people to know he'd just not answer questions about it.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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We'll have a much better guess if we see an enemy coloured only cycle in amonkhet.
Simply Sarah
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Yeah. In the many years I've be reading/hearing things from him I can never recall MaRo outright lying about anything. Not answering? Being intentionally vague? Misdirecting? Confused? Sure. Straight up lying? No.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Dual lands are entirely dictated by Development.
Allied pairs are up next:
Battle Lands - Friendly
Creature Lands - Enemy
Fast Lands - Enemy
Uncommon Duals - Full Cycle
Right, but: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/deck-evolutions-death-s-shadow-modern
It's been in the deck for a while.
phazedplasma
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is there a big MM2 GP like vegas last year
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, he's kind of aggressively scrupulous, which makes sense for a person with as much long-term career investment in his public brand as he has.
While true, they also told us that with Khans the fetchlands were actually the very first things in the design file, so I would guess if they wanted to do enemy fetches in Standard for big-picture reasons again it'd be a similar situation.
No. GP Vegas is Amonkhet this time.
That article shows it's been fringest of fringe decks until June of last year when it started getting popular.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I thought you meant the Flayers not Baubles. Baubles were run before that, not sure how commonly. Enough that I'd be aware of them just starting out in modern at least.
If they had the enemy fetches in Amonkhet, they'd not replace it with an opposite cycle.
Yeah, my point is that there was never a plan for fetches in that set
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
At FNM level you sometimes see him in esper lists.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Fetchlands were fine in KTK Standard since the pushed colors only really dictated playing 4. So maybe they'd be okay in a shard set.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Technically it should be both since BFZ rotating should have meant both Allied and Enemy duals would rotate which would have just left Shadowlands and Enemy Fastlands.
I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled them and there's no duals at all.
Infinite Stars
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You're forgetting the reveal lands from SoI
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Bring back Shocks or Filters. Shocks are just such an easy design I'm a little surprised they don't use them more.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'd like to own shocks w/o the guild emblem.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I feel like Noble Hierarch is going to hit $80 if they don't reprint it here.
Thank fuck for the Ranger of Eos reprint. He is a 10-15 dollar card. Perfect for my tribal Commander deck.
yes please! Now reprint Field Marshal, Auriok Champion and Darien, King of Kjeldor.
Hey guys, we reprinted an Invitational card with new art! Hope this is the one you wanted!
yes please! Now reprint Field Marshal, Auriok Champion and Darien, King of Kjeldor.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Well, it has to be a set with Hybrid mana in it. We haven't had one in a while. Technically Fate Reforged, but that doesn't really count.
charlequin
Banned
There's no way.
Shocks are like full-art lands or some of these other plane-specific things where the equity is enough that they don't want to start spreading it out until they've burned through enough of it. Shocks were enough to sell packs of RTR/GTC on their own so they probably want to get one more big rush out of them before starting to use them more regularly. (Also they present issues with fetch lands, obviously.)
Filterlands they really should bring back again. I'm guessing they feel like the hybrid aspect is too weird on its own if the set doesn't otherwise use it? Or maybe they don't want to split up one of the cycles that was printed as 10 in one place. Either way, though, I think it's an error.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't think its terribly likely either, but having a third set of duals would be weird unless they're strictly taplands like Temples were and obviously the straight up taplands are basically evergreen at this point.
charlequin
Banned
They'll still need this set to be providing dual lands after the next rotation. I would probably bet on a Temple-esque always ETBT plus weird mechanic type design though.
Auriok Champion really does needs a reprint. Hopefully with better art this time around. It could probably wait for a Commander product though since it's really not seeing a ton of play and is only expensive because of the single, low supply print run.
Wulfric
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If you want to get into modern, it's more economical to buy singles. Luckily this reprint set will drop the prices on many expensive staple cards. Mono red burn is pretty cheap to begin with and is pretty good.
Also, I second OnPoint; get the Khans fetchlands and Ravnica shocklands in the colors you end up choosing. They're pretty much at their low point historically.
EDIT: aw yiss, Grafdigger's Cage reprint. Cheap sideboard cards for everyone!
I would actually like Temple reprints in Amonkhet. They're on-theme, fairly solid in Standard, and I'd love some Bolas-themed art to replace the Temples in my Bolas deck
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They should gendershift cards more often when they are reprinted. There's really no reason to have 3 different artworks of some dude doing magic stuff for an iconic card.
Out of curiosity, what are some examples of a gendershift? I just can't think of any off hand.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Can't think of one, would need to see a list of creatures reprinted with new art to find out if it ever happened. It should happen though, especially with iconic cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Auriok Champion has hilarious art, what are you saying
it's a cranky lady in a bikini for no apparent reason who has a random ponytail coming out of her chest.
I totally agree.
Oh, Force of Will is an easy one, and also one of the most iconic cards even if it's not a creature.
SigmasonicX
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I believe they prefer not to gendershift reprints now because many non-English translations define a gender in the name.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's a good one and twice even, if you include the magic online exclusive art.
Meddling Mage
Meddling Mage is the one that comes to mind. Went from Chris Pikula to a lady.
Edit: Beaten multiple times.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Meddling Mage was gendershifted, but it is problematic with other languages.
that's a poor reason and doesn't appear to apply all that firmly
that's the male form on the original printing even for instance.
SigmasonicX
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Meddling Mage was what made them take note of the translation issue, IIRC.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
TIL Bastion Enforcer is female
With the value bonanza they spoiled today and yesterday I'm expecting no more than two value cards, probably Lily and either Hierarch or Cavern of Souls (but not both). Since Hierarch was in MM2 I'd say Cavern is more likely. After that, bulk rares galore.
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