Personal opinion...yeah. There's Tolaria West, Umezawa's Jitte and Dark Depths...and then a lot of nothing until you get to Momir Vig. FTV's always have a mix of chaff and amazing cards, but I can't recall any single one having this little actually good/interesting cards in them.
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Holy smokes that's a ton of chaff. I usually ignore From the Vaults but my goodness this one is spectacularly underwhelming. I wouldn't be too surprised to actually see these at MSRP.
FTV Jitte and depths with some filler. Cabal ritual and mind's desire don't make sense, if they wanted some actual good cards from those storylines they could have picked mirari's wake and cabal therapy as basically no one will want the desire or cabal ritual as the other foils of those cards are far more desirable. Like the old art on cabal ritual too and that old frame.
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I'm pretty happy to be honest. Yeah, Helvault and NDE are meh, but I want almost everything else in here. I'll play Glissa, Jitte, Momir and Dark Depths in decks, Processor is a fun casual card, Cabal Ritual foil is always nice to have. Honestly am not super disappointed and want to get one, as do a few of my friends.
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Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
Only saving grace of this crap is that if tons of people buy up product for the Dark Depths and Jitte reprints, maybe I can get a foil Momir Vig for EDH at a better price. Ugh.
*checks date* Huh... yup definitely not April 1st. That is a lot of chaff. It is basically "Get a crappy foiling of Jitte with Dark Depths and some other chaff."
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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.
At least they tried to not miss the mark. Some of the cards are bad/weak choices. There are a few good reprints for value. The main selling point of this is the Dark Depths and Marit Lage token. It is not a failure like some in the past, but it is solidly middle of the ground.The reprints will affect a lot of teh prices of some, especially the token and Cabal Ritual.
My views on the cards
Meh: Beseech the Queen: The queen was already printed which is why this was chosen. Personally, Rhys the Redeemed would have been better in my opinion, but this is decent value and flavor.
NO: Cabal Ritual: Fine reprint but does not fit the lore aspect of the FTV. It feels like they jammed this in here to help sell it.
Yes: Conflux: It is a weak reprint, but spot on for flavor.
Yes: Dark Depths: This is one of the weaker flavor, but it is there. It is the money reprint.
Yes: Glissa, the Traitor: This is what lore should be.
Yes: Helvault: This is what lore should be.
Yes: Memnarch: This is what lore should be.
Meh: Mind's Desire: this gets a pass simply because they did not reprint Mirari for the fifth time.
Yes: Momir Vig, Simic Visionary: Critical charter in one of the best stories although there were a lot better choices.
Yes: Near-Death Experience: This is a really flavorful moment, a neat effect, and a massive story moment. It is not a great value card, but it was a nice pck.
No: Obliterate: It was a great moment, but this is not the card that feels like that moment.
No: Phyrexian Processer: This is not what I think of when I think of the Phyrexians. Flavor and value fail.
Meh: Tolaria West: I get it a reference Tolirian Academy, but I rather have the Ruins instead. It is a fine reprint for value and flavor.
No: Umezawa's Jitte: This is a great card, but for lore of Kamigawa, it is like saying Captain America's shield represents the Avengers franchise.
No: Unmask: A nice reprint for Drege but not what I would call a defining moment of the Wheaterlight saga.
Yes: Marit Lage: Nice to see the token pack.
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"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Dark Depths, the token, and the Jitte are probably the only things that keep this from being a repeat of Annihilation.
I do like Marit Lage's callback flavor text. Though that line they added to it is kinda dumb. Like, I'm pretty sure she's already awake considering the token is in play...
Hey look! A FTV that's even more dissapointing than Annihilation! I don't care about the value, it's just a selection of random cards that got a "Let's call it Lore because they all have art on them or something lol" as an afterthough. And while the new art isn't bad, it's too few and too random. I would have loved some new art for Dark Depths, Memnarch or Unmask.
Not great, but I can't really be mad. The cards that don't fit are at least expensive in foil, and the ones that are cheap are storyline-important. The only one I really take issue with is Beseech the Queen. (Though I suppose I'd be mad about Phyrexian Processor if I didn't need it for a deck.)
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My decks
Standard - RIP Cat
Modern - Death & Taxes
Commander - Mazirek, Trostani, Angry Omnath
I think I am more mad about the card selection when it comes to the lore rather than the power or price of the cards. Overall it is just something I will mostly skip but try my best to get a hold of the dice and the token. This isn't as bad as annihilation, in my book, but it isn't that much better.
So the reason we didn't get Cabal Ritual in EMA is because it showed up here....alright, I guess.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
At least NDE and Unmask are kind of story significant.
But Cabal Ritual??? Mind's Desire???? What the frak?
For Mirari, it could have been Breaking Point....
Stupid choices. One of my friends called this one "FTV: Whatever" when it was spoiled for the first time. And it fits.
Too bad that thanks to Jitte and Depths, the price will be again off limits...
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
On the other hand, Obliterate! Take that, naysayers!
And one more thing I have to say: I just love the little nod to The Call of Cthulhu on the Marit Lage token.
BUG The Baron (it doesn't work, but I try anyway)
modern:
RGShaman Aggro
legacy:
UHigh Tide
German highlander:
BUG aggro control
EDH:
a positively unhealthy amount of decks
Currently Playing:
Retired
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
Only saving grace of this crap is that if tons of people buy up product for the Dark Depths and Jitte reprints, maybe I can get a foil Momir Vig for EDH at a better price. Ugh.
Competitive: GW Hatebears - UG Infect - BGW Liege Rhino
Casual: GR Titan Ramp - BR Aggro
WIP: BUW Control Mill
But this product really does feel like they didn't put forth a lot of effort with it. Some pretty wtf cards with fairly weak story line blurbs.
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At least they tried to not miss the mark. Some of the cards are bad/weak choices. There are a few good reprints for value. The main selling point of this is the Dark Depths and Marit Lage token. It is not a failure like some in the past, but it is solidly middle of the ground.The reprints will affect a lot of teh prices of some, especially the token and Cabal Ritual.
My views on the cards
Meh: Beseech the Queen: The queen was already printed which is why this was chosen. Personally, Rhys the Redeemed would have been better in my opinion, but this is decent value and flavor.
NO: Cabal Ritual: Fine reprint but does not fit the lore aspect of the FTV. It feels like they jammed this in here to help sell it.
Yes: Conflux: It is a weak reprint, but spot on for flavor.
Yes: Dark Depths: This is one of the weaker flavor, but it is there. It is the money reprint.
Yes: Glissa, the Traitor: This is what lore should be.
Yes: Helvault: This is what lore should be.
Yes: Memnarch: This is what lore should be.
Meh: Mind's Desire: this gets a pass simply because they did not reprint Mirari for the fifth time.
Yes: Momir Vig, Simic Visionary: Critical charter in one of the best stories although there were a lot better choices.
Yes: Near-Death Experience: This is a really flavorful moment, a neat effect, and a massive story moment. It is not a great value card, but it was a nice pck.
No: Obliterate: It was a great moment, but this is not the card that feels like that moment.
No: Phyrexian Processer: This is not what I think of when I think of the Phyrexians. Flavor and value fail.
Meh: Tolaria West: I get it a reference Tolirian Academy, but I rather have the Ruins instead. It is a fine reprint for value and flavor.
No: Umezawa's Jitte: This is a great card, but for lore of Kamigawa, it is like saying Captain America's shield represents the Avengers franchise.
No: Unmask: A nice reprint for Drege but not what I would call a defining moment of the Wheaterlight saga.
Yes: Marit Lage: Nice to see the token pack.
Not sure why so many on here are surprised, it's almost always like this.
The new arts are mostly great though, new art for Mind's Desire is sweet.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I do like Marit Lage's callback flavor text. Though that line they added to it is kinda dumb. Like, I'm pretty sure she's already awake considering the token is in play...
Standard - RIP Cat
Modern - Death & Taxes
Commander - Mazirek, Trostani, Angry Omnath
So the reason we didn't get Cabal Ritual in EMA is because it showed up here....alright, I guess.
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