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Magic: the Gathering |OT10| Aether Revolt - That shit that make your Soul Burn slow
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Angry Grimace
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I feel like unbanning Ancestral Vision and then not reprinting it would be a grievous oversight.
I'm expecting at least Craterhoof Behemoth at mythic.
Infinite Stars
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They Banned Twin despite reprinting it in the Modern Masters set before the banning, with the article saying they thought it was an issue for a while.
It's not impossible that they missed it, but oh Boy the salt if they did.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, there's plenty of cards they could throw in that aren't feel-bads but don't actually increase pack value, e.g. Living End (if Living End were in a pack of MM17, you would lose money opening the pack).
Of course, the rumor is that this set has an enormous print run. Whether that turns out to be true or not, I don't know.
Of course, the rumor is that this set has an enormous print run. Whether that turns out to be true or not, I don't know.
There are still plenty of blue rares to be spoilt. And two more days of targeted spoilers. And a Friday where they might have left it out of the first four days for the lulz
It should be noted that that's togeher with Marshall and LSV. So we'll get Luis and Paul together in the booth.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm going to be sad if they don't have one of Chalice of the Void or Engineered Explosives. Those cards are way too fucking expensive.
Yeah me too but Behemoth is like $20. I meant expensive like 50+. They can't have that many, even Cavern at rare would be huge EV
Spoil Aether Vial already.
Nice! This might be the first time I've watched a GP specifically for the coverage team.
Nice! This might be the first time I've watched a GP specifically for the coverage team.
Infinite Stars
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Yes please, give us Aether Vial. Card has no business being $30-$40 when it's used in 2.5 decks in Modern(D&T, Merfolk, and Slivers/Allies, but both are fringe) and 1 in Legacy.
They're probably aiming for a strong selling set with good "crack a pack" appeal, because no one wants to open Ant Queen again.
I mean, if they wanted to jam in random "not Likely to see a reprint elsewhere, not bad but not great", they could probably print 90% of the two drops from Hatebears. Arbiter/Qasali Pridemage/Thalia/Scavenging Ooze are effectively "neutral" cards to open (Not soul crushingly bad, but not lottery winning good like Goyf). They could also (maybe) justify reprinting Gaddock Teeg, who is like $30 right now and is constrained by Lorwyn's print run.
There's definitely a lot of "neutral" cards in Modern they could put in to pad out set value. Like Merfolk Lords, Elvish Archdruid, etc. None of these would be awful to open in just crack a pack.
I guess Wizards is learning from MM2015? The set sold out rapidly, but after that first wave I saw packs waiting to be sold for roughly a year.
They're probably aiming for a strong selling set with good "crack a pack" appeal, because no one wants to open Ant Queen again.
I mean, if they wanted to jam in random "not Likely to see a reprint elsewhere, not bad but not great", they could probably print 90% of the two drops from Hatebears. Arbiter/Qasali Pridemage/Thalia/Scavenging Ooze are effectively "neutral" cards to open (Not soul crushingly bad, but not lottery winning good like Goyf). They could also (maybe) justify reprinting Gaddock Teeg, who is like $30 right now and is constrained by Lorwyn's print run.
There's definitely a lot of "neutral" cards in Modern they could put in to pad out set value. Like Merfolk Lords, Elvish Archdruid, etc. None of these would be awful to open in just crack a pack.
RIP final MM set, you were the best of us
It looks sweet, and I might be able to build it alongside my other deck.
The only cards I'm missing are three Paradoxical Outcomes!
SigmasonicX
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IIRC, it's based on the belief that they want to kill off Modern. Which, you know, they don't.
charlequin
Banned
This is an extremely bad reason.
No you see because *degenerates into incoherent rambling and gesturing at a photos-and-string conspiracy board*
Gimme Extended Masters in 2018.
Joe Molotov
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Frontier Masters 2019
Monastery Swiftspear at Mythic
Monastery Swiftspear at Mythic
The one card they've said they designed with TL in mind is messed up (Leovold) so I can't even imagine if they did a full set for it lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Saffron Olive spent a thousand tix on scalding tarns when there were Zendikär flashback drafts.
Ho boy.
Ho boy.
Infinite Stars
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Leovold is the exact reason why you don't let Wizards design for anything purposefully that doesn't rotate. Like, with his textbox, I'm 90% certain you could shave off something in his stats and he'd still be playable.
Like, from Conspiracy 2 there's been what, 3+ new Legacy staples? Recruiter of the Guard/Sanctum Prelate for D&T, Leovold for Sultai, and other cards I'm probably missing.
Angry Grimace
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Because of the Modern Killing Illuminati
Infinite Stars
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This is the THIRD Modern Masters Set, released in 2017. Triangles have 3 sides, and 20/17 can refer to a person who has perfect Vision in one eye. Triangle+Perfect Vision Eyeball==Illuminati confirmed. You know what the Illuminati Symbolism is attached to? Pyramids, which we know exist in Amonkhet. Nicol Bolas, the ruler of Amonkhet, wants to regain his power, but we've been thinking too small. He's not going to destroy Amonkhet to get "UNLIMITED POWAH", he's going to Destroy Modern and Legacy in one fell swoop.
The end of Hour of Devastation will have Nicol Bolas Destroy Modern and Legacy, replacing them with Eternal(Reserved List is banned and Legacy/Modern are merged together) and Post-Modern(Starts with Origins), both of which will be defined by the new 8 Drop Bolas that has the +4 Ability "Target Player Loses the game", -8 "You Draw 10 Cards and get an emblem with "You have no maximum handsize", and Ultimate that reads "Each Opponent is forced to watch as you tear up their deck one at a time. An opponent may concede at any point during this abilities resolution" for -16. He starts at 20.
This is 90% Shitpostery, 10% serious
I know. Its awesome. Please print more DnT cards.
Angry Grimace
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http://www.pantheonmagic.com/huey-and-andrew-talk-about-standard/
Huey and Cuneo talk about standard and explain why Vehicles are a stupid design and why it sucks that there are too many 2 drops that make you instantly lose if you don't have Fatal Push
Huey and Cuneo talk about standard and explain why Vehicles are a stupid design and why it sucks that there are too many 2 drops that make you instantly lose if you don't have Fatal Push
God I hope this feedback from us and them is getting to people who matter.
Angry Grimace
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Linvala was a Mythic in ROE. It's a great reprint, really.
Angry Grimace
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They're also talking about Sigrist's article where he said all the same stuff. Basically Winding Constrictor and Heart of Kiran are way too much value for 2 mana and a lot of this is Saheeli combo's fault because you can't really play anything else because its too hard to interact with the combo and those decks are the ones that have enough answers to beat the combo.
It's because in RoE, she's completely oppressive in limited because she shut down literally everything other than Giant Eldrazi.
Her ability is Mythic enough to warrant maintaining the spot, along with the limited concerns, since she still has massive impact even in less fiddly formats.
well, clearly they aren't, but it IS the first time they did to mythic when a card was printed in a set that had mythic rares, so the surprise is warranted IMO.
Tarmogoyf is a far more plain card and it received the upgrade. While I understand that this the first time this specific situation has happened, a straight up beatstick getting upgraded to mythic and a targeted, niche utility spell getting moved from uncommon to rare strike me as more offensive.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Huey and Cuneo basically said the best way to fix the format is to ban Winding Constrictor, Heart of Kiran and Felidar Guardian, but they don't think they'd do it.
it has "the potential for awesomeness", unless a 7/8 for 1G isn't awesome (it is to me), and "excitement" ($$$) in spades. I might be alone in this but I honestly don't mind Goyf as mythic.
charlequin
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Not saying that I couldn't be convinced by evidence, but I'm definitely not convinced yet that dumping the 2-drops is necessary upfront. They 100% need to toss the cat tho.
That's fair. I think jumping through hoops to get a high pt vanilla creature on the cheap is rare worthy, but I can see how some might value it at mythic. While Goyf is obviously a lot more effective at the job, I put them both in the same mental category as Sylvan Advocate and Scute Mob. Would you put Death's Shadow at mythic or rare?
Biding my time in standard till I can look forward to marveling out whatever the new, sweet incarnation of Bolas is. Enough of aggro walkers; it's time for some real deal control walkers. (Oath Chandra was pretty nice though)
Edit: Whoa, bauble is up to $30? Jesus, I thought this was like $19 a week ago or so?
Biding my time in standard till I can look forward to marveling out whatever the new, sweet incarnation of Bolas is. Enough of aggro walkers; it's time for some real deal control walkers. (Oath Chandra was pretty nice though)
Edit: Whoa, bauble is up to $30? Jesus, I thought this was like $19 a week ago or so?
The value train keeps going.
oh ghod I need you for my EDH deck
Joe Molotov
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Sweet, been meaning to pick up a Linvala for a while.
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