From the Con:
Premium Deck Series has been cancelled.
There will be a commander product every year, and this year's will be filled with good cards for commander (future products are likely to be decks).
Coming in November
This will feature new oversized cards, cards with new art, with cards never in premium before.
And sleeves.
Here's the skinny:
Commander was tremendously well-received. They're going to do it every single year from here on out. However, because their turnaround time is only so fast, they couldn't get one ready for this year, so instead what they're doing is Commander's Arsenal, which won't be a complete set of decks like we got with the original Commander product, but rather a pack of neat stuff for Commander. I'm guessing that it won't contain new cards, since they didn't say it would. It will however have some oversized cards, some cards with new art, and some cards appearing in foil for the first time.
It was more that they hit a point where they were putting too much value into a non-randomized pack and not getting enough out of it to be worth it. Note that WotC's money comes from boosters, so anything that undermines the integrity of their randomized product by containing a lot of value for the MSRP in a precon has to be a huge success (like, say, the Commander precons or a FTV set) to be worth it for them. The PDS series was profitable, but the company wasn't comfortable with what they had to put in them for their price point to move the product.
At least, that's what they said a couple months back when one of the company folk said as much on Twitter.
Oh thank god. I have three Commander decks in progress that need sleeves.
Any news on when this comes out?
November 2012. I'm currently watching the podcast for it and that's when they mentioned its release
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The Merciless Lord of Torture, Permanently Bound To: ">[THE PACK] 11/5/63 - 11/25/09 Goodbye mom, i'll always love you...
It was more that they hit a point where they were putting too much value into a non-randomized pack and not getting enough out of it to be worth it. Note that WotC's money comes from boosters, so anything that undermines the integrity of their randomized product by containing a lot of value for the MSRP in a precon has to be a huge success (like, say, the Commander precons or a FTV set) to be worth it for them. The PDS series was profitable, but the company wasn't comfortable with what they had to put in them for their price point to move the product.
At least, that's what they said a couple months back when one of the company folk said as much on Twitter.
Completely understandable. Many prefer they spend their time developing commander product and I prefer they spend their year on working on FTV:Planeswalkers because we now have fifteen different planeswalker types:rolleyes: Oh, wait, wizards didn't put up Tibalt on their planeswalkers list! If anyone's got an explanation on this I'll welcome it. Or did Tibalt bomb that badly that they don't want to recognize him?
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Completely understandable. Many prefer they spend their time developing commander product and I prefer they spend their year on working on FTV:Planeswalkers because we now have fifteen different planeswalker types:rolleyes: Oh, wait, wizards didn't put up Tibalt on their planeswalkers list! If anyone's got an explanation on this I'll welcome it. Or did Tibalt bomb that badly that they don't want to recognize him?
Wait what?
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Check out the thread for my cube if you have the time, and tell me how terrible it is.
Generals meant to be drafted first in a single pack of 6 cards.
And here is the actual cube, meant to be drafted in 4 regular sized packs. (60 card decks)
Perhaps this is where the Medallion cycle will show up. It seems strange they would commission 5 really nice artworks, then never use them outside of DoP.
I hope this isn't all foiled, I don't like foils, it skews the colors. I'm one of those guys that wants all his cards to look atomically consistent.
Premium Deck Series has been cancelled.
There will be a commander product every year, and this year's will be filled with good cards for commander (future products are likely to be decks).
Coming in November
This will feature new oversized cards, cards with new art, with cards never in premium before.
And sleeves.
Edit: Adding additional info -TK
Edit: Adding a list of cards. ~Boros_Archangel
Full list from DailyMTG
18 Regular Foils
10 Oversized Commander's
Advanced Stores are getting 4, Core Stores 2.
- Online -
X Cube Drafts X
GW Pauper Boggle GW
- Paper -
Standard:
RWB Mythic Midrange RWB
EDH Decks:
B Toshiro Umezawa B
W Mikaeus, the Lunarch W
G Azusa, Lost but Seeking G
UB Grimgrin, Corpse-Born BU
BGU The Mimeoplasm UGB
GUW Rubinia Soulsinger WUG
GRB Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper BRG
Trades
Pucatrade with me!
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Commander was tremendously well-received. They're going to do it every single year from here on out. However, because their turnaround time is only so fast, they couldn't get one ready for this year, so instead what they're doing is Commander's Arsenal, which won't be a complete set of decks like we got with the original Commander product, but rather a pack of neat stuff for Commander. I'm guessing that it won't contain new cards, since they didn't say it would. It will however have some oversized cards, some cards with new art, and some cards appearing in foil for the first time.
Yes November this year.
but who knows, i could be wrong and they might just reprint some goodies for us
It was more that they hit a point where they were putting too much value into a non-randomized pack and not getting enough out of it to be worth it. Note that WotC's money comes from boosters, so anything that undermines the integrity of their randomized product by containing a lot of value for the MSRP in a precon has to be a huge success (like, say, the Commander precons or a FTV set) to be worth it for them. The PDS series was profitable, but the company wasn't comfortable with what they had to put in them for their price point to move the product.
At least, that's what they said a couple months back when one of the company folk said as much on Twitter.
Oh thank god. I have three Commander decks in progress that need sleeves.
Any news on when this comes out?
Trades
Pucatrade with me!
(Signature courtesy of Argetlam of Hakai Studios
November 2012. I'm currently watching the podcast for it and that's when they mentioned its release
The Merciless Lord of Torture, Permanently Bound To: ">[THE PACK] 11/5/63 - 11/25/09 Goodbye mom, i'll always love you...
Tibalt & His Devils vs. Avacyn's Inquisitors
My EDH decklists
Decks:
WU[M]Hanna, Ship's NavigatorWU (MY CURRENT DECK)
I'm hoping it features things like a handful of Sol Rings, Command Towers, Signets, Talismans, Diamonds, bounce and painlands... general goodstuff.
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Juju Alters - Altered MTG Cards
if we got that i would be the happiest man alive :D:D
Completely understandable. Many prefer they spend their time developing commander product and I prefer they spend their year on working on FTV:Planeswalkers because we now have fifteen different planeswalker types:rolleyes: Oh, wait, wizards didn't put up Tibalt on their planeswalkers list! If anyone's got an explanation on this I'll welcome it. Or did Tibalt bomb that badly that they don't want to recognize him?
I would love that, even though some would hate it.
The possibilities here are ridiculous-
I'd best not set expectations too high.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Wait what?
Generals meant to be drafted first in a single pack of 6 cards.
And here is the actual cube, meant to be drafted in 4 regular sized packs. (60 card decks)
they said they would have a special premium foil type thing never been done before on these cards.
more Sol rings?... Avatar of Woe ?... oblivion stone?.. I need them still :S.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
I hope this isn't all foiled, I don't like foils, it skews the colors. I'm one of those guys that wants all his cards to look atomically consistent.
Its true go to magic's website click multiverse then planeswalkers and check the list. No Tibalt.:p