That's dwarfed by every regular set being drafted constantly, every week for months, and being part of GPs, pro tour and SCG events... that a happy few will have a big bash one week-end will not make it a widely played format. Most people will play it once at the release and that will be it.
The article you quoted from contradicts your point a few paragraphs later
This isn't to say we couldn't ever print a card like Lightning Bolt or even Path to Exile again in Standard, but we are going to be careful about when we do it. This change in removal is an experiment, much like strong and cheap hexproof creatures. It may have the intended effect or it may not—although, I have personally enjoyed how it has shaped our FFL. I could see us printing Terminate in a gold set, for example, to give one color pair a strong and efficient removal spell and to shake Standard up a bit. It's just more of something we will do from time to time, as a way of pushing one strategy or color pair, rather than a ubiquitous part of all Standard environments.
Ah.. what do you know. I did not remember that bit, and didn't read the entire article this time around, I just went for the parts I remembered. But that's interesting, I guess, perhaps some day there will be super-efficient removal again.
But there is also the colour-pie issue. I can't find any recent quotes, although I am pretty sure it has been mentioned on Blogatog in the last few weeks. What I did find, was this, from December 2012.
I’m not sure where we stand on Path to Exile right now but it’s definitely on the aggressive side of what we’re willing to do for white.
Black is supposed to be the creature kill color. When that’s not true, we are failing at balancing the colors correctly.
I have a feeling that mr. Rosewater has hardened on his stance that white should not have things like Path since then, but of course there are other voices in R&D. Some of them may be more inclined to accept Swords to Plowshares as a precedent, and thus as a way of justifying path. Also worth nothing perhaps, is that mr. Rosewater was not a full member of the design team of Magic Origins, he was an "advicer" or some such. So perhaps the pro-path crowd were able to push it through.
That's dwarfed by every regular set being drafted constantly, every week for months, and being part of GPs, pro tour and SCG events... that a happy few will have a big bash one week-end will not make it a widely played format. Most people will play it once at the release and that will be it.
That's dwarfed by every regular set being drafted constantly, every week for months, and being part of GPs, pro tour and SCG events... that a happy few will have a big bash one week-end will not make it a widely played format. Most people will play it once at the release and that will be it.
You're doing the black and white thing. There's a pretty huge gradient between being drafted as much as a regular set and barely being drafted at all. This will be drafted a lot. As much as a regular set? No, yet still, a lot. Besides, drafters that pay $30-$50 to draft this set should get a good format.
If anything's a cash grab with this set, it's not the card selection, it's the $10 price tag. It's not stopping any markups either, packs are getting priced in the $13 range. My LGS (Europe) sells them at the equivalent of $17.
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Ah.. what do you know. I did not remember that bit, and didn't read the entire article this time around, I just went for the parts I remembered. But that's interesting, I guess, perhaps some day there will be super-efficient removal again.
But there is also the colour-pie issue. I can't find any recent quotes, although I am pretty sure it has been mentioned on Blogatog in the last few weeks. What I did find, was this, from December 2012.
I have a feeling that mr. Rosewater has hardened on his stance that white should not have things like Path since then, but of course there are other voices in R&D. Some of them may be more inclined to accept Swords to Plowshares as a precedent, and thus as a way of justifying path. Also worth nothing perhaps, is that mr. Rosewater was not a full member of the design team of Magic Origins, he was an "advicer" or some such. So perhaps the pro-path crowd were able to push it through.
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If anything's a cash grab with this set, it's not the card selection, it's the $10 price tag. It's not stopping any markups either, packs are getting priced in the $13 range. My LGS (Europe) sells them at the equivalent of $17.
Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
Doomsdayin'