GregLombardi
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Thundermaw hellkite in iconic
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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
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It's the replacement for it, yes.
Lord of the Pit 100% needed to be in this set (He's on the shortlist of Sengir Vampire and Juzam Djinn as most Iconic black creature of Magics first 10 years), but god if you are paying $10 a pack you will hate opening him.
This set probably should have been 3.99 and not had cards like Horizon Canopy in it if that's what it took
This set probably should have been 3.99 and not had cards like Horizon Canopy in it if that's what it took
Yes, but it's non-rotating. It's all normal expansions and Core sets starting from 8th Edition
jakonovski
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Reasonably sized version:
Sweet, Vraska of Promise deck incoming.
Extended no longer exists. Modern is everything from 8th Edition on.
Edit: Beaten like a Sunmare deck.
Damn that thing is a 3/2 essentially
DerangedHermit
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o.o ... that seems a lot of cards.
GregLombardi
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Kokusho keiga and yoseinin iconic, all the dragons, all 5 btw
I think that Conspiracy: Take the Crown showed that even regularly-priced sets can still support expensive reprints as long as they're not in vast quantity. Horizon Canopy could have been this set's Show and Tell.
*spits out water*
You mean to tell me it's either a 2 power Elvish Visionary if it explores a land, or it's a 3 power two drop that might get crap off the top of my library? Hell yeah!
Fuck all the Kamigawa dragons? Yesssss
Lol. Misread the card.
GregLombardi
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Conference over more spoilers later when i...wait....mana drain reprint!!!
Finally! Please don't be the Judge art.
It's really hard to see that happening. The deck is filled with UU lords and takes advantage of Devotion with Master of Waves.
That Green merfolk seems way worse than Silvergil Adept in a Modern deck, for example.
Plus, Merfolk is one of the few Modern decks that starts the game at a virtual 20 life, not a virtual 15-17 life like every other deck that relies on fetching and shocklands
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 any of them are worth splashing green for unless you were already doing it for CoCo.
Joe Molotov
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lawl, are they just dumping all the leftover dragons that got cut from the Dragons Commander deck?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I think those dragons are cool, shrug
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They weren't cool when they were Mythics in the original Modern Masters haha
Man, the clear philosophy changes in Ixilan, Mana Drain getting reprinted... I guess R and D actually got run over by a bus?
http://www.wizards.com/magic/expert/legends/legends.asp
http://www.wizards.com/magic/expert/legends/legends.asp
Joe Molotov
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None of them are playable outside of Commander and then just released an ALL-DRAGONS, ALL THE TIME Commander product. It seems weird. I guess they're hoping people are wanting to pimp their dragon deck.
I think Vraska is really strong.
+ Huge loyalty
+ Creature creation on a plus ability
+ Destroy anything that isn't a Planeswalker for a reasonable cost while ALSO banking mana
+ Achievable, game-ending ult
Yeah, she's 6 mana, but she's about as strong as you can reasonably expect a 6 mana Planeswalker to be. If there's a GB deck than can afford her then I absolutely expect her to be impactful.
+ Huge loyalty
+ Creature creation on a plus ability
+ Destroy anything that isn't a Planeswalker for a reasonable cost while ALSO banking mana
+ Achievable, game-ending ult
Yeah, she's 6 mana, but she's about as strong as you can reasonably expect a 6 mana Planeswalker to be. If there's a GB deck than can afford her then I absolutely expect her to be impactful.
The originals are way cooler though since they're painted by Japanese artists.
I collect dragons and even I don't want them.
There's some serious ramp in this standard too. Plus the colors she's in are strong.
SigmasonicX
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What? No, with low numbers of cards, they allow you to choose the order. It's been like that for a while.
Anyway, surprised that they previewed Iconic Masters cards after all.
lol did they go back in and add the "start your engines" part?
Keiga, Kokusho and Yuesi all saw standard play, with Kokusho seeing a TON of standard play, and was one of the 2 chase cards in Champions of Kamigawa.
The cycle is perfectly qualified to be in this set, as long as they aren't Mythics (which they arent
I like the Mana Drain art better than the Judge art, but really wish they would get the original artist to do the art again on the Iconic cards like they did with FoW. Hopefully they try to do that in Masters 25 with all the Mythics. And maybe give Hyalopterous Lemure another shot.
Simply Sarah
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Why would anyone want a copy of Hyalopterous Lemure without the original art? That's the only thing that makes the card interesting.
Kokusho was really busted with the old legend rule haha. It was the finisher of choice of Rock decks in extended for a while since you could drop the second Kokusho to drain 10 and end the game.