Daaaaaaamn
I need those Shackles.
Seems like every single one is a staple in either a tier 1 or tier 2 deck in Modern, Legacy, or Vintage. IDK about EDH, but even the ones that aren't constructed staples are cards that you see in nearly every cube.
Extraplanar Lens is the only one that I wouldn't be thrilled to pull, all the other choices are phenomenal IMO.
Cards 43 and 45 are missing? Maybe that's the Christmas surprise. Would be hilarious if they were the Wurmcoil tokens, but they're probably Aether Revolt cards.
As an EDH-only player was hoping for a few more mana rocks, but not even one. No Caged Sun?
There is Extraplanar Lens, which does wonders for some mana bases. But otherwise, I think we got our fill in the first batch as is.
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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.
Is it just me, or are we missing two? Maybe they just aren't loading on the page for me, but I'm only seeing 22 cards, not 24.
Edit: I'm not seeing 43 or 45.
Unless my browser is doing weird cache things, I don't see 48 or 50 either - I see a second Meekstone where 48 should be, and a second Grindstone where 50 should be.
Edit: fixed after forced reload. Now I see the right 48 and 50.
Almost certainly never going to get my hands on one of these, so not a whole lot of point in critiquing the choices. As far as possible annoyance over getting a duplicate of a cheap card I already have a playset of, I'd feel more robbed if I pulled a Black Vise than if I pulled an Ornithopter - the Thopter can go in basically any artifact deck, so it's not like it'll be lacking for use. Only so many kinds of decks want a Vise. (If I luck into acquiring a super-mythic, I'd rather keep it than sell it, but I'd also rather use it than let it set in a box.)
Surprised to see Arcbound Ravager and Wurmcoil Engine, but they're very good artifacts and I guess they're not quite plane-specific enough to disqualify on that basis. Also like that Modular and Sunburst don't have their reminder text on Masterpieces with them: if mythics will leave off mechanic reminder text for space, super-mythics certainly should. And in the case of Ravager, it lets them fit in flavor text, which is a plus.
There are only four artifacts between the latter two, and one of those is on the reserved list (Planar Gate). The others are Plague Boiler, Plague Myr, and...Planar Portal. Would they include spoilers in the Masterpieces?
(Meanwhile, there's a pretty decent number of solid artifacts that could slot in at #43, including Panoptic Mirror and Pentad Prism...but it's also the slot where any artifact whose name starts with "Phyrexian" would go. So that's a thing.)
Edit: The main reason I doubt that the missing spaces are for AER cards is because the Gearhulks had their own space at the beginning of the Inventions list in KLD, separated from the alphabetical ordering of the rest. I'd expect any new cards in the AER Inventions to follow the same pattern, not be smack-dab in the middle.
Edit #2: Welp, that's been proven wrong. Forgot about the color aspect of the Gearhulks. *shrug* Oh well.
It seems pretty likely that the missing cards are indeed Aether Revolt cards. This is a list of artifacts that aren't reserved and could go between Pithing Needle and Platinum Angel:
Given that Rashmi's work does revolve around a portal between planes but it hasn't truly been created yet, we can assume that it ISN'T one of the inventions. Plague Myr and Plague Boiler, meanwhile, have no business being inventions.
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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.
(On Lantern Control)"A guy who literally just sits there and mills cards he doesn't like from your library while he slowly, slowly kills you this way."
"If a person's profile includes anime or My Little Pony, feel free to ignore everything they say."
The gearhulks had their space in the beginning because they are colored while every other artifact in the list was colorless. I think it's very likely that the missing cards are from AER.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
I need those Shackles.
Seems like every single one is a staple in either a tier 1 or tier 2 deck in Modern, Legacy, or Vintage. IDK about EDH, but even the ones that aren't constructed staples are cards that you see in nearly every cube.
Extraplanar Lens is the only one that I wouldn't be thrilled to pull, all the other choices are phenomenal IMO.
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Eh, it will still be $25 to apply towards one you want.
I want four. I haven't even looked at the link to see what they look like, and I still want four.
Edit: I'm not seeing 43 or 45.
Only art that had no chance of being better than the original is Wurmcoil Engine. But that was never going to be a fair fight.
Very happy with this round of inventions.
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Hm...
Maybe unannounced Aether Revolt cards?
The same way Kaladesh has invention gearhulks.
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Gilded Lotus and Sensei's Divining Top were on my wish list.
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There is Extraplanar Lens, which does wonders for some mana bases. But otherwise, I think we got our fill in the first batch as is.
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.
Unless my browser is doing weird cache things, I don't see 48 or 50 either - I see a second Meekstone where 48 should be, and a second Grindstone where 50 should be.
Edit: fixed after forced reload. Now I see the right 48 and 50.
Surprised to see Arcbound Ravager and Wurmcoil Engine, but they're very good artifacts and I guess they're not quite plane-specific enough to disqualify on that basis. Also like that Modular and Sunburst don't have their reminder text on Masterpieces with them: if mythics will leave off mechanic reminder text for space, super-mythics certainly should. And in the case of Ravager, it lets them fit in flavor text, which is a plus.
Alphabetically, #43 and #45 fall between, respectively, Ornithopter and Pithing Needle, and Pithing Needle and Platinum Angel.
There are only four artifacts between the latter two, and one of those is on the reserved list (Planar Gate). The others are Plague Boiler, Plague Myr, and...Planar Portal. Would they include spoilers in the Masterpieces?
(Meanwhile, there's a pretty decent number of solid artifacts that could slot in at #43, including Panoptic Mirror and Pentad Prism...but it's also the slot where any artifact whose name starts with "Phyrexian" would go. So that's a thing.)
Edit: The main reason I doubt that the missing spaces are for AER cards is because the Gearhulks had their own space at the beginning of the Inventions list in KLD, separated from the alphabetical ordering of the rest. I'd expect any new cards in the AER Inventions to follow the same pattern, not be smack-dab in the middle.Edit #2: Welp, that's been proven wrong. Forgot about the color aspect of the Gearhulks. *shrug* Oh well.
Plague Boiler, Plague Myr, and Planar Portal
Given that Rashmi's work does revolve around a portal between planes but it hasn't truly been created yet, we can assume that it ISN'T one of the inventions. Plague Myr and Plague Boiler, meanwhile, have no business being inventions.
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.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Many thanks to DNC at Heroes of the Plane Studios