It's been said before, many times, once already in this short thread of one-and-a-half pages that RARITY OF NEW CARDS PRINTED IN COMMANDER PRODUCTS IS BASED ON THE FREQUENCY THEY APPEAR IN THE DECKS. New mythics and rares appear in only one deck, new uncommons appear in all decks that contain that card's color and new commons appear in all five decks. Sorry if I sound like a dick, but how does someone with almost twenty EDH decks, who has been on MTGS for over five years and has made over 4,000 posts not know this? This has been the case for all four Commander products (I'm not counting Arsenal), so it's hardly news.
Price of getting the commander deck with this card: $40~.
Price of Time Stop: $2.50~.
Mana you need to have: 12 mana.
The look on your opponent's face when they hit you with their Primal Surge'ed Creature Army and cast Mirror Match--->Time Stop: Priceless
For everything else... there is Counterspell.
Well for the bargain price of 12 mana you can do this then immediately Time Stop and swing back with said army. Flashy as hell? You betcha. Viable? Probably not... but I like making big stupid plays.
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To the people that say that a card needs to be a higher rarity because of Limited... I hate you guys so much. I present to you with this.
Blue gets a one-sided card that effectively destroys someone's board, and fogs what it can't kill? MaRo says because it does it in a Blue way, it's fine, perfectly fine.
But the Green card that does things in a Green way to wipe a board? Violation! Red-card! FOUL!
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Cards are game pieces, and should be treated as such, easily replaceable.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
Blue gets a one-sided card that effectively destroys someone's board, and fogs what it can't kill? MaRo says because it does it in a Blue way, it's fine, perfectly fine.
But the Green card that does things in a Green way to wipe a board? Violation! Red-card! FOUL!
Which card are you talking about? Green got Wave of Vitriol, which is a brutal non-creature board wipe last time.
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"I hope to have such a death... lying in triumph atop the broken bodies of those who slew me..."
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
I think Wizards definitely has gotten the rarity wrong this time round. Wish they screwed up more often like this manner for normal sets...
It's surprising that people don't talk about this card because it's quite an insane blowout. Very very good card.
As others said - rarity in the commander sets has nothing to do with the power/complexity of the card.
All rare cards appear only in one commander deck, uncommons appear in multiples, but not in all of them and commons are in each of them (mythic is reserved for the commander(s)) - so rarity only means the number of decks the card appears in and nothing else.
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It's surprising that people don't talk about this card because it's quite an insane blowout. Very very good card.
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Price of Time Stop: $2.50~.
Mana you need to have: 12 mana.
The look on your opponent's face when they hit you with their Primal Surge'ed Creature Army and cast Mirror Match--->Time Stop:
Priceless
For everything else... there is Counterspell.
Well for the bargain price of 12 mana you can do this then immediately Time Stop and swing back with said army. Flashy as hell? You betcha. Viable? Probably not... but I like making big stupid plays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8h2vp5Xis
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But the Green card that does things in a Green way to wipe a board? Violation! Red-card! FOUL!
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
Which card are you talking about? Green got Wave of Vitriol, which is a brutal non-creature board wipe last time.
"I hope to have such a death... lying in triumph atop the broken bodies of those who slew me..."
As others said - rarity in the commander sets has nothing to do with the power/complexity of the card.
All rare cards appear only in one commander deck, uncommons appear in multiples, but not in all of them and commons are in each of them (mythic is reserved for the commander(s)) - so rarity only means the number of decks the card appears in and nothing else.