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Magic: The Gathering |OT3| Enchantment Under the Siege
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acheron_xl
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There's no reason this can't be a thing. It's perfectly justifiable flavor-wise.
MaRo has confirmed that it's not this
Slightly saner prediction
wish
I'd be fine with that. I played a friend yesterday in Sealed and both games I got mana fucked. I hate losing when I have to mull down to 5 and I STILL can't draw into lands.
Was a bad deck anyway. But I'd have liked to have played with the cards I picked.
Literally realized this could be it on waking up.
Oh cool, I read 8AM PST for some reason.
They're the same thing.
Whoops, I meant that I read 9AM PST earlier, not 8. Typo.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mm/metamorphosis
It's up. It's the Standard Rotation change but read it all, there's a lot of changes.
It's up. It's the Standard Rotation change but read it all, there's a lot of changes.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Core sets being eliminated, rotation changed, 2 blocks per year, each block is 2 sets.
Weird news. I'm not sure I'm super excited my cards are good in standard for even less time.
Weird news. I'm not sure I'm super excited my cards are good in standard for even less time.
Really surprised that they are killing the Core Set.
Two planes a year is actually pretty exciting. I like faster rotating standard in theory, especially considering how stale this Standard is, except that it means some of the cards have a shorter shelf life for constructed playability. Which makes buying them suck.
Two planes a year is actually pretty exciting. I like faster rotating standard in theory, especially considering how stale this Standard is, except that it means some of the cards have a shorter shelf life for constructed playability. Which makes buying them suck.
The Technomancer
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Holy shit I called it. I didn't say it because I thought it was too out there, but I totally thought this might be it
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
That's your head talking and not your crack addict heart.
Not sure I like the rotations being at 3 sets and not 4, but overall these are some great changes. The reactions on twitter seems very positive as well.
Why? Extra things like Modern Masters has never cared about the main set release schedule.
Why? Extra things like Modern Masters has never cared about the main set release schedule.
You got core sets being eliminated but blocks are only going to be two sets each for reasons I specified, so...?
The Technomancer
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I'm pretty much okay with this, other than wishing we were getting a few more cards per set to make up for only having two sets in a setting now. Other then that, I'm completely on board
manipulate
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18 months seems too short to justify buying in....
The Technomancer
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This might lower prices further. Is that a good thing?
I mean, did we need Dragon's Maze?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
They said they reserve the standard right to flexibility, I imagine future Return to Return to Ravnica would be basically RtR and Gatecrash
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The easiest way to solve this is just never going there again. There's of course the logistical option of just Lorwyn/Shadowmooring it.
"God's Beard!"
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Isn't that the opposite of "calling it"?
Cosmo Clock 21
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This doesn't explain the different release schedule for Khans, though? There's still going to be a (presumably) Magic 2016, and they're not ditching the core sets until the calendar year 2016.
Yup, MM2 is still happening.
darkside31337
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Yeah for limited this is the greatest thing ever.
The Technomancer
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I'll miss the mishmash "vanilla magic" aesthetics, but since I'm absolutely in love with Magic's worldbuilding more of it is also a great thing
The Khans block is rotating out when the Spring block comes out in 2016. By moving everything up, it makes sure that the 3rd set stuff for Khans is legal for at least a full year before it rotates out. Had they kept the old schedule, it's likely that the 3rd set of khans wouldn't be legal for a full year.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Khans "block" doesn't rotate the way the other ones do. Louie and M16 are treated as a block, when Khans and Dewey rotate out, Louie and M16 do not.
Should help regulate prices I would think.
Now the second sets will be subject to the "not many packs opened" thing that happens to small third sets now. If they do traditional draft order we'll draft triple first set for a few months followed by double first set single second set for a few months. So there will around 5 times as many first set packs as second set packs opened.
It used to be 6-2-1.
It used to be 6-2-1.
Cosmo Clock 21
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Only thing I don't like about this is that the core set was a really great way to make cards that weren't bound by setting (and was one of the justifications they used for Magic 2010). But since they're now unopposed to making new cards in supplemental products (what's the deal with the new player product MaRo namedropped and never went back to?) so I'm confident they'll figure something out. Having three thematically different sets in Standard might help deck diversity too.
The Technomancer
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Yeah now that they've really embraced stuff like Commander and Conspiracy I'm not too worried about that, but five years ago I would have been
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