Either way you look at it it sounds like a nice product, and I'm looking forward to picking one up this summer. (If I haven't blown my whole card budget on Conspiracy before then.)
Well normally I would spend my money on the nice fun sealed products for summer like planechase and its ilk cause those are really great multiplayer wise and I despise the rampant unadulterated use of boosters that is now accompanying said summer products like expensive MM or Conspiracy.
So ill be keen and if the promo cards are good I might end up splashing for 4. Its a nice way to fill the gap between march and September duel decks.
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As long as the alt art promos are just more reusing of the Introdeck/prerelease foils. That has been a huge disappointment for me lately. This might be a step in the the right direction. The more foil alt art promos per year, the better.
Love the idea of alt arts, but don't like the price here. Essentially, I think the best way to enter the game for a new player is to grab a Deckbuilder's toolkit, and this is a little more expensive. Of course, it changes things if the cards are really good, but I'll reserve my support.
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Absolutely going to buy; but I'm also wondering what the cards will be in the decks. It's clearly blue vs Green, and if you can combine the decks to make one event deck, or something along those lines, I am assuming they are mono colored decks separately. Very interesting. I am excited for M15. I also want to see those alternate arts!
This looks like it could be an intriguing product, however, at this point I am really hoping the alt art cards suck as I hate foils. Hopefully there will be some other good rares and reprints in the set/clash pack.
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I like this idea..i mean i was not to happy with the m14 but hey beggars cant be choosers..im really interested in this..see how it pans out when you combine them. nice touch
I don't want to sound silly, but isn't this basically the same thing as Duel Decks with all Standard cards and 6 promos?
kinda but when you're done playing with the two decks, they give you instructions on how to make it into one deck that should be good enough to take to FNM (like all event decks are supposedly good enough to take to FNM)
Nowhere in the Arcana announcement says that both decks will be standard legal, or am I missing something? I am assuming the "event deck" will be, but that's not stated either.
I hope it's not just standard legal cards, as I love those sexy new frame reprints (like Regrowth, Swords to Plowshares and Memory Lapse) that usually show up in Duel Decks. Also, it's a nice opportunity to get premium versions of cards which never got any foil printing.
Aaoron Forsythe was asked on twitter "Will the decks be standard legal?" and he replied with "Yes." The person used the plural "decks" and I assume Aaron noticed, so it sounds like all the cards will be standard legal.
He was also asked if this was replacing Duel Decks and he said no, there will still be two DD sets every year.
Someone asked if alternating clash packs with event decks was a long-term plan or just to test the waters of their new product. Aaron replied, "Even if they turn out to be the best thing ever, they're too hard to construct to do every set."
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Someone asked if alternating clash packs with event decks was a long-term plan or just to test the waters of their new product. Aaron replied, "Even if they turn out to be the best thing ever, they're too hard to construct to do every set."
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Because you're making an Event Deck AND a standard-only Duel Deck that share most of their cards. Taking a two-color Event Deck and splitting it into two workable other decks is probably tricky, especially to make the decks play differently than each other.
Your face when these are just two intro packs smashed together minus the packs:
It really depends on how much these are worth value wise. Considering they are $5 more than duel decks and Duel decks already offer $40 worth of cards for only $20. It will be interesting to see the contents.
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I have actually had a lot of experience dealing with new players that buy the duel decks and then think all the cards in them are standard.
I like the idea, new players love the duel decks but then once they start opening other packs they decide they want to play standard only to find their favourite cards in the duel deck can't be played.
part of the reason the duel decks are so bad are they have the mythics in them and then most of the rest of the deck sucks. although to be fair those reprints tend to be great value.
Currently, Clash Packs are supposed to be released with the core set, and with the second, or middle set of a 3 set block. Would you like it if the middle set had the event deck rather than the Clash Pack, or do you like the way WOTC did the Clash Pack release schedule for clash packs?
It depends on how well Clash Packs work as replacements for event decks. If they're not as good, then I think the substitute makes sense for core sets, but I'd rather have an event deck for the middle set. I even liked it when there were two event decks per set, because if I wanted to buy an event deck to bring to, say, FNM, I'd like more than one or two options. This time next year, there will be one standard legal event deck. If I don't like it, that means I'm not going.
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As a duel deck aficionado, I am intrigued and suspicious.
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Well normally I would spend my money on the nice fun sealed products for summer like planechase and its ilk cause those are really great multiplayer wise and I despise the rampant unadulterated use of boosters that is now accompanying said summer products like expensive MM or Conspiracy.
So ill be keen and if the promo cards are good I might end up splashing for 4. Its a nice way to fill the gap between march and September duel decks.
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WGRAjani vs BolasRUB, WUVenser vs KothR, RUIzzet vs GolgariGB.
WBSorin vs TibaltBR, WRHeros vs Monsters RG
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You had me at "six foils with alternate art"!
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kinda but when you're done playing with the two decks, they give you instructions on how to make it into one deck that should be good enough to take to FNM (like all event decks are supposedly good enough to take to FNM)
Aaoron Forsythe was asked on twitter "Will the decks be standard legal?" and he replied with "Yes." The person used the plural "decks" and I assume Aaron noticed, so it sounds like all the cards will be standard legal.
He was also asked if this was replacing Duel Decks and he said no, there will still be two DD sets every year.
Someone asked if alternating clash packs with event decks was a long-term plan or just to test the waters of their new product. Aaron replied, "Even if they turn out to be the best thing ever, they're too hard to construct to do every set."
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Why would this be the case?
We are getting 6 alt art foil rares hmmmm but I am guessing the cards are going to be on the level of a intro deck.
Decks used- GGarruk vs LilianaB, WElsepth vs TezzeretU, WGKnights vs DragonsR
WGRAjani vs BolasRUB, WUVenser vs KothR, RUIzzet vs GolgariGB.
WBSorin vs TibaltBR, WRHeros vs Monsters RG
Want to see other duel decks I made ? Check out my Blog ! Feel free to post advice or give topics for me to make duel decks out of. Check out the Theros Block Planeswalker Theme Duel Decks Elspeth, Xenagos, Ashok, Kiora, Ajani
I haven't seen anywhere where it specifies that it is rares or otherwise. However I would like a link for it if any has one.
Feel free to tell me yours!
It really depends on how much these are worth value wise. Considering they are $5 more than duel decks and Duel decks already offer $40 worth of cards for only $20. It will be interesting to see the contents.
Decks used- GGarruk vs LilianaB, WElsepth vs TezzeretU, WGKnights vs DragonsR
WGRAjani vs BolasRUB, WUVenser vs KothR, RUIzzet vs GolgariGB.
WBSorin vs TibaltBR, WRHeros vs Monsters RG
Want to see other duel decks I made ? Check out my Blog ! Feel free to post advice or give topics for me to make duel decks out of. Check out the Theros Block Planeswalker Theme Duel Decks Elspeth, Xenagos, Ashok, Kiora, Ajani
That'd be insane. There's no way they'd cram that much value in one product.
Damn i need to sell mines while they hold value
I like the idea, new players love the duel decks but then once they start opening other packs they decide they want to play standard only to find their favourite cards in the duel deck can't be played.
part of the reason the duel decks are so bad are they have the mythics in them and then most of the rest of the deck sucks. although to be fair those reprints tend to be great value.
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