OMG, that is such a horrible fake. If you are going to fake a card you should probably spend more than 32 seconds doing it before submitting it to these forums.
I actually don't know what BNG/THS/THS means. I haven't played much draft or sealed, only the Theros prerelease. Would anyone mind explaining it to me? c:
I actually don't know what BNG/THS/THS means. I haven't played much draft or sealed, only the Theros prerelease. Would anyone mind explaining it to me? c:
It means the first pack you will open in a draft will be Born of the Gods (BNG) while the second and third packs will be Theros (THS).
How does that work for pre-releases, though? There are only 5 boosters in the box with a seeded booster. If draft is 1/3 BNG and 2/3 THS, wouldn't there be two boosters of BNG and four of THS? Would that mean there would be only one sealed BNG booster, the seeded BNG booster and four THS sealed boosters?
Sorry for all the questions, I pre-ordered several of the prerelease packs thinking they would be like the Theros packs, with all Born of the Gods boosters in them.
The small sets are designed to be used with the large sets in limited. My LGS did triple Dragon's Maze last year and it was awful. Be thankful that those Theros packs are in there!
The small sets are designed to be used with the large sets in limited. My LGS did triple Dragon's Maze last year and it was awful. Be thankful that those Theros packs are in there!
It makes sense with the Large set to be the base, and two smaller sets to be expansions to that set, rather than all 3 sets to have equal distribution of everything. I mean, hey, they've got us playing for 20 years now, I'm pretty sure they've got at least a few things figured out.
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So long as everyone gets the same booster packs to draft from, the sanctioned draft is fine, even if it's 2 BNG/1 THS, 3 BNG, or 4BNG. The difficulty comes from them not testing/balancing the smaller sets for drafting by themselves; you can get dramatically overpowered drafts by seeing/getting more copies of a card into a single draft than you'd normally see--imagine if a common with the power level of Grey Merchant of Asphodelwas seen twice as often, due to it being a smaller set. If you're drafting 2-3 packs of the smaller set, there's a greater chance of that skewing the draft, with a deck with 6+ copies (of whatever it is) running roughshod over everyone.
Also, smaller sets tend to not have, or not have as many, 'safety valves'--draft cards that can stop/slow a given strategy. They're in the main set, which will be drafted for packs 2 and 3--why have them in the smaller set, where space is at a premium?
I don't know yet but I plan on finding out. My LGS is planing on doing drafts like that (at least at first). We all just have so many Theros cards already.
I have yet to attend a pre-release, but I think I'm going to give this a pass. I like playing the occasional limited event, but the attraction for me at a pre-release would be the opportunity to play with the new cards.
I've ordered one of each color and plan on drafting with my friends after the prerelease as well. Will wait to see how BNG/THS/THS works to decide whether to change the order. Should be fun either way!
Let's look at it this way. Draft is BNG/THS/THS right? That's 30 cards of THS we are already familiar with what is good and what is bad in both limited and constructed, and only 15 of what we still need to playtest, but Prize support packs should be BNG. If you're worried about getting more BNG packs, then win some. From a personal standpoint, I Force Dimir. Nearly always. but I nearly cleaned house in THS League because I looked at my card pool and played Rakdos.(2 Tormented hero, 2 Coordinated Assault, 3 scourgemark, Erebos, Purphoros, Stormbreat, and assorted 3cost and under creatures was a no-drainer). Still set me up for prizes. Only hangup was a mana ramping Gruul deck with Anthousa, Polis Crusher, Arbor Colossus, etc. that was as fast and bigger. Point is, play to your card pool strengths, win, get your BNG. Case closed. If you're planning on walking out of your LGS with what only what you drafted, then you should reassign some goals.
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If the prerelease is 3 BNG and 3 Theros I better hope I either, get prize packs or not pull 2 celestial archons and another chained to the rocks or setessa. I already have a playset of all of them.
no, it wont. wrath of gods name is wrath of GOD theros, has GODS plural. wrath of GOD is singular, therefore making it unflavorful.
Damnation wouldn't be linked to a single god, would be flavorful, would fit with the gods' current problem with Nyxborn spilling into Theros. When was the last time we got a nonWhite sweeper, and this set is without a boardwipe. We're seeing Supreme Verdict and that's it. Terminus and even Devastation Tide(if you call that a sweeper) rolled out. No one is using Planar Cleansing. When RTR rolls out, we have no Wrath.
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Draft is BNG-THS-THS, you get the picture :/
It means the first pack you will open in a draft will be Born of the Gods (BNG) while the second and third packs will be Theros (THS).
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Sorry for all the questions, I pre-ordered several of the prerelease packs thinking they would be like the Theros packs, with all Born of the Gods boosters in them.
Would 2 BNG and 1 Theros be awful?
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So long as everyone gets the same booster packs to draft from, the sanctioned draft is fine, even if it's 2 BNG/1 THS, 3 BNG, or 4BNG. The difficulty comes from them not testing/balancing the smaller sets for drafting by themselves; you can get dramatically overpowered drafts by seeing/getting more copies of a card into a single draft than you'd normally see--imagine if a common with the power level of Grey Merchant of Asphodelwas seen twice as often, due to it being a smaller set. If you're drafting 2-3 packs of the smaller set, there's a greater chance of that skewing the draft, with a deck with 6+ copies (of whatever it is) running roughshod over everyone.
Also, smaller sets tend to not have, or not have as many, 'safety valves'--draft cards that can stop/slow a given strategy. They're in the main set, which will be drafted for packs 2 and 3--why have them in the smaller set, where space is at a premium?
I don't know yet but I plan on finding out. My LGS is planing on doing drafts like that (at least at first). We all just have so many Theros cards already.
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no, it wont. wrath of gods name is wrath of GOD theros, has GODS plural. wrath of GOD is singular, therefore making it unflavorful.
I know the cards are good in limited but I usually like to play with different cards sometimes. I did win packs though
Damnation wouldn't be linked to a single god, would be flavorful, would fit with the gods' current problem with Nyxborn spilling into Theros. When was the last time we got a nonWhite sweeper, and this set is without a boardwipe. We're seeing Supreme Verdict and that's it. Terminus and even Devastation Tide(if you call that a sweeper) rolled out. No one is using Planar Cleansing. When RTR rolls out, we have no Wrath.
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