I'm pretty excited for this. Conspiracy was a ton of fun and had plenty of good value cards in the set! I'm pumped to see what cards come out of this one.
- Brago Returned? 2.0? Reprint?
- More legendaries?
- EDH reprints and new good staples?
Hooray for more commander and cube cards, I guess? I'm gonna sound like a broken record by now, but... please, PLEASE let there be an UR artifact commander this time.
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
I'm a little disappointed they didn't do the puzzle-hunt before hand this time. But I guess if they did, everyone would just have figured if it was CN2 by the first one.
PW Brago could have a different set of abilities though. Especially since from the title, it looks like he went full Hitler like Azorius?
Brago is friggin ghost. Dead cannot ascend.
Or, to put it in another way, if he were to ascend, it would have happened when he became a ghost (just like Sorin ascended when his grandfather turned him into a vampire). And we had an Uncharted Realms tale showing how he became a ghost, he didn't became a planeswalker then.
I'd be VERY happy to see a more 'general purpose' PW for WU though.
I'd argue Venser's actually fairly general purpose. True, he's best with blinkable creatures, but even without them he still can give pseudo-vigilance to a creature or untap one of your lands/mana rocks for use during your opponents' turns. This, in addition to mass unblockable, and an unstoppable repeatable removal ult gives him a pretty wide range of stuff to do.
The main issue with Venser is really that he's deadder than disco. Being a two-color planeswalker is apparently a hazardous job.
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Standard - RIP Cat
Modern - Death & Taxes
Commander - Mazirek, Trostani, Angry Omnath
I'm pretty excited for this. Conspiracy was a ton of fun and had plenty of good value cards in the set! I'm pumped to see what cards come out of this one.
- Brago Returned? 2.0? Reprint?
- More legendaries?
- EDH reprints and new good staples?
It seems like all of these are pretty much givens Here's to hoping for more awesome legendaries.
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I'm pretty excited for this. Conspiracy was a ton of fun and had plenty of good value cards in the set! I'm pumped to see what cards come out of this one.
- Brago Returned? 2.0? Reprint?
- More legendaries?
- EDH reprints and new good staples?
Can they print anything as utterly broken as Canal Dredger? That card has proven to be one of the strongest cards in 8 person, 5 pack drafts.
I'm looking forward to this. The last one was fun to draft, had some great reprintes and offered nice new cards for both EDH and Cube. Having said that, I fully expect Damnation to be neither reprinted here nor in Eternal Masters
Please give us secret commanders! "You may cast ~ from outside the game. If you do, it becomes your commander for the rest of the game." Stick it in your SB and start conspiring!
I'm looking forward to stretching out the value of my Eternal Masters box with Conspiracy packs. C C E might be a fun draft. Can't wait to find out. Now for the way out there conspiracy theory. Emrakul will show up in Conspiracy 2.
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RIP Batman guy. I hope somebody picks up the slack now that you are gone. Sick children need their Batman.
This is great. The Masters sets are cool, but I always felt they left the more casual player out for the summer product. I'm very happy they are doing both. I really loved the first Conspiracy. I'll try to do an Eternal draft or at least a pack wars, but it will be good to have more available and affordable multiplayer this summer.
Hooray for more commander and cube cards, I guess? I'm gonna sound like a broken record by now, but... please, PLEASE let there be an UR artifact commander this time.
The descriptor basically confirms that Dethrone, Parley, and Will of the Council are returning.
I don't know if they would bother bringing back Dethrone, it was a combat mechanic that encourages switching around the target from turn to turn. I imagine they might want to try a different combat mechanic in the same vein instead of just printing more cards with that ability on it (they printed nine in Conspiracy).
However, I think we'll get more Parley (five in Conspiracy) and Will of the Council (nine in Conspiracy). There is a lot more they could do with those mechanics in a multiplayer game.
But dont you think it would be quite boring to have the same mechanics reused again?
I am incredibly excited about this. I have very fond memories of drafting Conspiracy with 15 friends at my LGS for a whole Saturday. It was an absolute blast. This also lets me add new cards to my Conspiracy Cube!
So. Pumped.
RIP my wallet. Between this and EMA...
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Yeah, Brago is a ghost, aka dead. He can't have a spark lol.
Also, unless Wizards pulled some kind of super weird rush job to get this out, MaRo directly lied to us. I specifically remember when he was doing "if" versus "when" questions on his blog, he said that a second conspiracy set was an "if", meaning they hadn't already had one planned. Not that I'm complaining though, Conspiracy is sweet with great mechanics and awesome EDH generals.
When he's talking about possible future products, nothing he says should be taken for fact. He didn't lie to us because he never said "There isn't a Conspiracy planned for the next seven years." He literally was just saying that Conspiracy is one of the less likely things to return.
Which is surprising, given how incredibly positive the reception was. People were either lukewarm or completly stoked for original Conspiracy, I haven't seen many negative opinions.
Right on, I don't even like draft and I bought a whole box because there were so many neat cards. I cracked them all open by myself and loved every minute of it.
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- Brago Returned? 2.0? Reprint?
- More legendaries?
- EDH reprints and new good staples?
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Or, to put it in another way, if he were to ascend, it would have happened when he became a ghost (just like Sorin ascended when his grandfather turned him into a vampire). And we had an Uncharted Realms tale showing how he became a ghost, he didn't became a planeswalker then.
I smell a conspiracy here...
I am beginning to worry a bit...especially for my wallet. This is just too much,there has never been two large additional sets.
At which point will it become too much for players?
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I'd argue Venser's actually fairly general purpose. True, he's best with blinkable creatures, but even without them he still can give pseudo-vigilance to a creature or untap one of your lands/mana rocks for use during your opponents' turns. This, in addition to mass unblockable, and an unstoppable repeatable removal ult gives him a pretty wide range of stuff to do.
The main issue with Venser is really that he's deadder than disco. Being a two-color planeswalker is apparently a hazardous job.
Standard - RIP Cat
Modern - Death & Taxes
Commander - Mazirek, Trostani, Angry Omnath
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One is a set of reprints, one is a set of new cards (mostly). Seems like win-win for me! Let the greed roll in; my body is ready.
Wot about Zombie Elspeth?
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RIP Batman guy. I hope somebody picks up the slack now that you are gone. Sick children need their Batman.
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Not a problem for limited players, which if you are buying packs, you should be playing limited with them, imo.
I think we'll get a new Daretti PW in this one.
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This, this, a million times this.
But dont you think it would be quite boring to have the same mechanics reused again?
So. Pumped.
RIP my wallet. Between this and EMA...
(450 unpowered, MMA-style archetypes in each color pair)
Commander:
Far too many to count...
Right on, I don't even like draft and I bought a whole box because there were so many neat cards. I cracked them all open by myself and loved every minute of it.