Topic title says it all. If it were possible, what cards would you have wanted from Explorers of Ixalan in the upcoming rivals set? My own votes go towards bloodbond Vampire, Necropolis Reagent, and Zealous Persecution. Bloodbond Vampire is probably more of a pet card at this point, but it feels like it is one card that should be in standard right now with all the life gain available from the vampires.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Necropolis Regent is too powerful to exist in limited at rare, so it would have to keep its mythic rarity. If the vampire mythic were a reprint on top of all of the others, there would have been a massive backlash. Bloodbond Vampire would have been nice, though the set's few lifegain matters cards are actually pretty solid already. Incidentally, all of the multicolored design space in Rivals went to permanents.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Fixed Blood Sun - 2R
Enchantment
When Fixed Blood Sun enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Nonbasic lands lose all abilities.
Nonbasic lands that would produce more than one mana, produce C instead.
Fixed Blood Sun - 2R
Enchantment
When Fixed Blood Sun enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Nonbasic lands lose all abilities.
Nonbasic lands that would produce more than one mana, produce C instead.
Given how abysmal deck building is in standard right now that isn't going to make things better. Albeit I'm not surprised someone would want a better "blood sun". Plus this was more about cards that already exist and not made up cards. Right now the problem is the mana fixing isn't good enough outside of energy and no other deck can compete reliably because of it. There is a reason that mono-white vampires, ramunap red, and energy of all stripes are the decks in standard: They are the only decks that have reliable enough mana to do anything. Throwing in strong anti-fixing hate is just going to drive the entire format to one or two decks. Heck, esper approach and the like only survive because they can eat the tempo loss from running tapped lands.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Enchantment
When Fixed Blood Sun enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Nonbasic lands lose all abilities.
Nonbasic lands that would produce more than one mana, produce C instead.
UR ....... WUBR ........... WB ............. RGW ........ UBR ....... WUB .... BGU
Spells / Blink & Combo / Token Grind / Dino Tribal / Draw Cards / Zombies / Reanimate
Given how abysmal deck building is in standard right now that isn't going to make things better. Albeit I'm not surprised someone would want a better "blood sun". Plus this was more about cards that already exist and not made up cards. Right now the problem is the mana fixing isn't good enough outside of energy and no other deck can compete reliably because of it. There is a reason that mono-white vampires, ramunap red, and energy of all stripes are the decks in standard: They are the only decks that have reliable enough mana to do anything. Throwing in strong anti-fixing hate is just going to drive the entire format to one or two decks. Heck, esper approach and the like only survive because they can eat the tempo loss from running tapped lands.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!