This mythic makes me want to cancel my pre-orders... I don't see how I can get MSRP in cards from this set anymore...
Good, that's not the intention of this set and I'm glad it's pushing people with your mindset away.
What is the intention of the set then? Was it not to get people cards to play modern that are expensive? If so then comet storm does nothing for this set. It is not in any modern deck. Its a EDH card at best...
My mindset is I want to play modern and if I buy a box and pull 3 comet storms then I can't play modern.
If this is the price we pay for keeping Cryptic Command at rare and not mythic, I will pay it
Surely you don't actually think this was ever a consideration. It seemed very, very unlikely that WotC would bump up the rarity of a card that was printed in the last set as a rare to Mythic in the new set... I know WotC has done some dumb things in the past, but doing something like that would just make no sense to me.
Agreed, but "making sense" isn't Wizards' forte recently...
Anyways, Comet Storm is a pretty lulzy choice. I suspect that they just chose it at random, because there had to be some dud packs. I know someone who opened an mm box and only got 3 mythic dragons out of it (not even kokusho), so at least it won't be as bad as that, I suppose. Still, I would probably rather had something like Kargan Dragonlord, or Dragonmaster Outcast (lol, this guy is $17?). Heck, I wouldn't have looked twice if they upjumped something like Akroma, Angel of Fury to mythic, or even Scourge of Kher Ridges - if Tarmogoyf can be a mythic, so can that dragon.
I know someone who got five mythics in MM box. Progenitus and four Kamigawa dragons (not even Kokusho) That someone was me.
And yes, I would prefer Outcast or Kargan over this as well.
Well, at least they didn't just upjump the whole Myojin cycle.
Pretty much. They probably learned the lesson from the dragon spirits. Fortunately.
I opened a box + another half box that I split with a friend, and only got two mythics, Sarkhan Vol and Yosei, the Morning Star. Both mythics came in the full box, my half-box had no mythics. My friend got a Dark Confidant and a Kokusho, the Evening Star from his half-box, which if you take the box in total, that's still pretty crappy as far as mythics go. Between the two of us we opened 2 full boxes and saw just 4 mythics.
But I got a ton of value out of the rares, despite getting screwed on mythics, so the 300 bucks or so that I invested in opening MMA was still worth it in the long run. A couple weeks ago I actually looked up the value every MMA card I opened excluding the commons, and it came out to about $550.
I get that this card is rolling earthquake on steroids in limited/the nutters. But really? Why did they put this in there. They could have picked so many other cards that would have been a cooler reprint in general than this card that are worth just as little cash wise but instead they pick this. The only time anyone will be happy to open this is in limited if they're in red or P1P1. Sigh.
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Point of clarification: Comet Storm is monetarily inexpensive, not 'bad'. It may not be a competitive staple, but your expectations are far too high if you are expecting every card to be one of those.
Mythics are rarer than rares - you get them less often. That's perfect for cards that you want to get less often - more narrow, big, 'splashy' effects. Staples are exactly what SHOULD NOT be mythic. Simple, high priced cards at mythic are the definition of a "money grab" (though this is more true for original printings). It's understandable that Wizards is re-printing high cost cards at mythic (they don't want to crash the market), but I'm guessing they want to eventually get to the point where they don't have to do that (at least for re-print sets like Modern Masters).
Totally disagree here. Constructed staples at mythic are very logic in such a set. The whole point is to reprint cards that are needed for constructed in a healthy limited environment. Lots, if not most of the constructed staples they reprint are not cards that are easy to design around or even to play in limited (I am speaking of you: Tarmogoyf!). Thus, most of these need to be printed at mythic. The point of such a set is making the cards more available,and as far as constructed is concerned: mythic reprints are enough.
Now the big issue with this card at mythic is that it is pointless: if it were a cool and healthy card in limited, it would have been downgraded to rare or something. It sees absolutely no play and is never going to see play in modern constructed. Some cards that are not worth much more are at least relevant in some tier 3 decks in modern (Koth of the hammer, Warren Instigator...) or some old rares like Through the Breach (the card is still likely, but does not seem to fit an archetype yet and I would prefer this at mythic and Blood Moon than the more likely no Blood Moon and Through the Breach rare)...
I was writing more in general terms than being specific to Modern Masters with that statement. With so many high-priced cards in the set (the most important markers for player spending), and with Wizards being cautious about overprinting higher-priced cards, it of course makes sense to print expensive staples at mythic rather than rare - it's a way to limit the print-run of specific expensive cards while maintaining a high print-run of everything else.
This reprinting policy, however, will keep expensive cards relatively expensive while dropping everything else. I presume Wizards is using it as a low risk method for gauging interest in Modern; if they find that interest has plateaued (mythic prices don't increase), they may change their reprinting policy for these kinds of sets. We'll see.
All else being equal, I'd rather see staples printed at rare rather than mythic, and this is exactly what Wizards said they'd do when introducing the mythic rarity. Maybe that doesn't apply to non-standard sets... we'll see if this trend continues soon enough.
What is the intention of the set then? Was it not to get people cards to play modern that are expensive? If so then comet storm does nothing for this set. It is not in any modern deck. Its a EDH card at best...
My mindset is I want to play modern and if I buy a box and pull 3 comet storms then I can't play modern.
It's still a good red mythic though. People calling it 'garbage' best step off this card is swag to the max.
Its not modern playable...
I opened a box + another half box that I split with a friend, and only got two mythics, Sarkhan Vol and Yosei, the Morning Star. Both mythics came in the full box, my half-box had no mythics. My friend got a Dark Confidant and a Kokusho, the Evening Star from his half-box, which if you take the box in total, that's still pretty crappy as far as mythics go. Between the two of us we opened 2 full boxes and saw just 4 mythics.
But I got a ton of value out of the rares, despite getting screwed on mythics, so the 300 bucks or so that I invested in opening MMA was still worth it in the long run. A couple weeks ago I actually looked up the value every MMA card I opened excluding the commons, and it came out to about $550.
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Mythics are rarer than rares - you get them less often. That's perfect for cards that you want to get less often - more narrow, big, 'splashy' effects. Staples are exactly what SHOULD NOT be mythic. Simple, high priced cards at mythic are the definition of a "money grab" (though this is more true for original printings). It's understandable that Wizards is re-printing high cost cards at mythic (they don't want to crash the market), but I'm guessing they want to eventually get to the point where they don't have to do that (at least for re-print sets like Modern Masters).
No way? :-D Let me make this the simplest possible: too strong for Limited at uncommon.
It probably should have been a rare, though, like Molten Disaster in MM1.
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This reprinting policy, however, will keep expensive cards relatively expensive while dropping everything else. I presume Wizards is using it as a low risk method for gauging interest in Modern; if they find that interest has plateaued (mythic prices don't increase), they may change their reprinting policy for these kinds of sets. We'll see.
All else being equal, I'd rather see staples printed at rare rather than mythic, and this is exactly what Wizards said they'd do when introducing the mythic rarity. Maybe that doesn't apply to non-standard sets... we'll see if this trend continues soon enough.