There are Dimir vampires on Ravnica, and I believe there is a Grixis vampire or two, but on innistrad the vampires are Rakdos.
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge is a grixis vampire from innistrad
The whole point NZB2323 is making that individual characters (like planeswalkers or in Jeleva's case a legendary creature - basically anyone legendary) can differ in colors from the tribe as a whole, so that's actually entirely in line with the grander point made.
Legendaries (whether planeswalkers or creatures) are special. That's why they can be characters who define themselves outside or beyond the color scope of their home tribe.
Liliana’s people are white and she’s not white. Sorin’s people are Rakdos and he’s not Rakdos. Bolas’s and Ugin’s people are 5 colored and they’re not 5 colored. Sarkhan’s people are Mardu and he’s not Mardu.
That's also why Sylve's post is in favor of NZB2323's point:
I don't think that Sorin's people are Mardu. Edgar Markov was Mardu. The whole vampire tribe was manly black/red before Ixalan. There are some exceptions like Tithe Drinker, Blood Baron of Vizkopa (Ravnica), Cliffhaven Vampire, Drana's Emissary (Zendikar) but nothing from Innistrad.
Vampires are Blue when they are Wizards but the main point is RB is the Traditional Core of Vampires.
This, btw, is also questionable. The "traditional core" of Vampires is black. Period. In Ravnica they dabble into blue (in RTR block in white as well, but not origianl Ravnica IIRC), in Innistrad they spread to red. That's about as traditional as Innistrad's decision to make Zombies blue and red-green Werewolves. There is a whole article explaining that these tribes are traditionally black and the decision to spread them into other colors is a deliberate departure from tradition (similar to mono-white Zombies in Amonkhet; mono-white and mono-black Treefolk & mono-black Elves in Lorwyn etc. - in each of those cases we get articles explaining that this is a departure from tradition specific to that plane and in service of a greater vision etc.)
Count the red Vampires that aren't from Innistrad. All of them are justified (or at least explained). Most of them are legendaries (with one exception from the post-Innistrad Commander product that wanted three red-white-black Vampire commanders, so there colors were in service of that deck and follow the above rule of legendaries being beyond their tribe's core - especially in a post-EDH success world) and the oldest of them, Vampiric Dragon, felt like justifying its secondary color by also being from a core-red tribe.
The one other exception to being legendary and being from Innistrad is Blood Tyrant - from Alara, where traditionally monocolored tribes get three-colored cards to fit the arc-colors of the shards.
Special mention goes to Garza Zol, Plague Queen, who despite being legendary actually deserves being mentioned because the set as a whole didn't justify the color choice for Vampires at all - the card just happens to be a member of a three-color rare cycle with that Fairie in the traditional Fairie colors gree-white-blue.
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It's hard to predict what wizards will do with these decks. They have a tendency to intentionally nerf ideas to keep financial values in check, which is why they have always made cuts on the mana base. I think they need to reprint popular conspiracy 2 cards and historically under printed cards, which is going to limit the max value they can use.
That being said, something has changed after the hell last year so we may see far more desirable cards in the decks than the 2017 batch, which I thought were quite weak compared to 2016.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Well, at least all of the three-color decks will be shard combinations, for which more budget dual land options exist. The mana bases will be not as challenging this year, at least compared to last year's 5-color dragon deck.
I'd really like to see Mishra in the UR deck as a legendary creature. Time Spiral Mishra has a basically useless ability for Commander, time for a new one.
It's hard to predict what wizards will do with these decks. They have a tendency to intentionally nerf ideas to keep financial values in check, which is why they have always made cuts on the mana base. I think they need to reprint popular conspiracy 2 cards and historically under printed cards, which is going to limit the max value they can use.
That being said, something has changed after the hell last year so we may see far more desirable cards in the decks than the 2017 batch, which I thought were quite weak compared to 2016.
There are some decent budget lands options out there for these decks. All these cycles/lands are fairly cheap...
I hope they do something similar to last year were we focus on a deck each day (with some other new card and a few reprints thrown in) ending with the full decks lists on Friday.
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It's hard to predict what wizards will do with these decks. They have a tendency to intentionally nerf ideas to keep financial values in check, which is why they have always made cuts on the mana base. I think they need to reprint popular conspiracy 2 cards and historically under printed cards, which is going to limit the max value they can use.
That being said, something has changed after the hell last year so we may see far more desirable cards in the decks than the 2017 batch, which I thought were quite weak compared to 2016.
Indeed if there is one thing WOTC should always keep cheap its the godforsaken mana base. Convincing newer players that mana base are important and need to be shelled out for is hard
Useless ability? WHAT? Mishra is a very good grixis commander. He has many combos.
How? Is you don't get that many copies of a single card in commander.
I can't remember how they do it, but Mishra actually works in Commander. There's a weird ruling about the timing or whatever.
It uses Nether Void type cards to stack the trigger where you counter what you cast 1st then use Mishras ability to get it from the graveyard into play. Thus breaking the symmetry. Works very with Possibility Storm.
Useless ability? WHAT? Mishra is a very good grixis commander. He has many combos.
How? Is you don't get that many copies of a single card in commander.
I can't remember how they do it, but Mishra actually works in Commander. There's a weird ruling about the timing or whatever.
It uses Nether Void type cards to stack the trigger where you counter what you cast 1st then use Mishras ability to get it from the graveyard into play. Thus breaking the symmetry. Works very with Possibility Storm.
I wasn't aware of it, but outside of a dedicated deck Mishra's ability is nonetheless wasted as you can't benefit of those stack shenanigans. A legendary artificer creature that cares about artifacts in a different way and bears that name would be far more appreciated by the community, I think, and this is a good chance to do it.
They would more likely do a Drider planeswalker than a nonhumanoid Spider planeswalker. That way you have the obvious Spider theme while also having some humanoid traits convenient for storytelling purposes.
Boy, I wish they'd do this, but I doubt they will.
I'm just surprised that "Drider" works as a reference on a public forum,
but I guess I'm not the only one here who read Homeland.
Homeland was the best of the bunch. They just kept going downhill from there...
That written, I'd actually love a Drider planeswalker.
i think the woman with the masks is the queen of vesuva. look at the helm of the hosts art.
Not a bad guess. The eye color in Helm of the Host matches, and she could very well be standing on the flowstone mentioned in the flavor text.
I’m guessing she is either a shapeshifter who cares what the top card of the deck is to copy or a planes walker who can create a token copy of the top or bottom card of the deck. Vesuva is all about their shape shifting powers.
It's hard to predict what wizards will do with these decks. They have a tendency to intentionally nerf ideas to keep financial values in check, which is why they have always made cuts on the mana base. I think they need to reprint popular conspiracy 2 cards and historically under printed cards, which is going to limit the max value they can use.
That being said, something has changed after the hell last year so we may see far more desirable cards in the decks than the 2017 batch, which I thought were quite weak compared to 2016.
There are some decent budget lands options out there for these decks. All these cycles/lands are fairly cheap...
I think some of these could be worked into the decklists.
I'm sure internally they have lands ranked on a chart as far as how powerful they are based on the amount of play they see. My own chart kind of goes like the following:
S -> Zen fetches, Ancient Tomb, Wasteland, etc.
A -> Shock lands, Onslaught Fetches, Fast Lands.
B -> Battle lands, pain lands, Check Lands, filter lands.
C -> SOI Buddy lands, Temples, Bicycle lands.
D -> Panoramas, the majority of color fixing Come into Play Tapped lands.
F -> Evolving Wilds, Painted bluffs, etc.
Wizards will basically print anything in the C -> F categories in preconstructed products. Anything in the B to S grade are rarely reprinted for the casual audience. S grade usually only see reprints in specialty sets due to them being just insanely powerful lands that gambling speculators spend hundreds of dollars acquiring. Competitive players will rip open bank accounts and buy on credit to get these lands, which is actually the most toxic aspect of Magic the Gathering vs other card games. The painful part is the S, A, and B grade lands are the ones desperately in need of price relief and wizards is obsessed with using the lands as a way to keep the market alive.
Case in point, my expectation is that the mana base is going to be crap like usual and the most we will get are a bunch of "staple EDH lands" that have low secondary market values. We are in desperate need of a Mirrodin Fastland reprint (those are in panicking red line territory on supply vs demand, even if people don't think so on the speculator market), Zendikar fetches are red line because of being over-valued, which has been the case for ages yet people still buy them. I was doing fist pumps into the air when we got the full Checkland cycle, as that is going to seriously temper the price post rotation on those cards, but they also introduced a new multiplayer only type of land that is a C category and only got one supplementary printing in battlebond.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
It's hard to predict what wizards will do with these decks. They have a tendency to intentionally nerf ideas to keep financial values in check, which is why they have always made cuts on the mana base. I think they need to reprint popular conspiracy 2 cards and historically under printed cards, which is going to limit the max value they can use.
That being said, something has changed after the hell last year so we may see far more desirable cards in the decks than the 2017 batch, which I thought were quite weak compared to 2016.
There are some decent budget lands options out there for these decks. All these cycles/lands are fairly cheap...
I think some of these could be worked into the decklists.
I'm sure internally they have lands ranked on a chart as far as how powerful they are based on the amount of play they see. My own chart kind of goes like the following:
S -> Zen fetches, Ancient Tomb, Wasteland, etc.
A -> Shock lands, Onslaught Fetches, Fast Lands.
B -> Battle lands, pain lands, Check Lands, filter lands.
C -> SOI Buddy lands, Temples, Bicycle lands.
D -> Panoramas, the majority of color fixing Come into Play Tapped lands.
F -> Evolving Wilds, Painted bluffs, etc.
Wizards will basically print anything in the C -> F categories in preconstructed products. Anything in the B to S grade are rarely reprinted for the casual audience. S grade usually only see reprints in specialty sets due to them being just insanely powerful lands that gambling speculators spend hundreds of dollars acquiring. Competitive players will rip open bank accounts and buy on credit to get these lands, which is actually the most toxic aspect of Magic the Gathering vs other card games. The painful part is the S, A, and B grade lands are the ones desperately in need of price relief and wizards is obsessed with using the lands as a way to keep the market alive.
Case in point, my expectation is that the mana base is going to be crap like usual and the most we will get are a bunch of "staple EDH lands" that have low secondary market values. We are in desperate need of a Mirrodin Fastland reprint (those are in panicking red line territory on supply vs demand, even if people don't think so on the speculator market), Zendikar fetches are red line because of being over-valued, which has been the case for ages yet people still buy them. I was doing fist pumps into the air when we got the full Checkland cycle, as that is going to seriously temper the price post rotation on those cards, but they also introduced a new multiplayer only type of land that is a C category and only got one supplementary printing in battlebond.
Representatives from WotC have stated time and again that they rarely care about the perceived value of a card before reprinting it. However, Battlebond showed that when they do care, they have no issue what so ever in reprint said expensive cards. The only thing they respect when selecting reprints is the reserved list.
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It's about time for the reserved list to die, for the sake of Vintage and Legacy (And Commander).
The reason the reps probably said that and can say it with a strait face is that they aren't looking at it from a card = X dollars perspective. They look at the price as a result of the number of copies that exist in circulation and how heavily the card is seeing use. With enough data available, the company can track how many of a given card has been printed, how many copies of that card remain sealed in boxes after the print run stops, how many more copies will get introduced with time from box opening, and how many will leave circulation via collectors, environmental damage, etc.
Essentially, the company isn't interested in reprinting cards that got expensive from a fad or speculation. The company wants to reprint cards based upon use, number of copies hypothetically available on the market, and if the card still fits with the current direction of Magic the Gathering. Fetchlands are a great example of a card that probably has plenty of copies out there, but no one is buying because speculators forced up the price ages ago and competitive players still trickle buy the cards at the extreme prices. Wizards does not want to print these in a lower cost set because the speculators will target the set to buy it out and flush the copies onto the market at inflated rates while dumping "bulk" into the singles market. They tried combating this back with Commander 2013 by doing a second run with more copies of True Name Nemesis, but by doing so they introduced too many of the other decks and it took years for the supply vs demand to reach equilibrium. The same thing is happening now with Iconic Masters and Masters 25, but those are even worse because they tried to sell a product at way too high an asking price.
The value of Commander 2018 is going to be held by the new cards printed in the set because they don't want to have cards that are known to be what the consumer perceives as "70+ dollar good" or "30+ dollar good" right at the launch. Not unless they put one of those cards in each of the decks and then print it to Commander 2014 levels.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I mean... there is fault on the playerbase too. Put fetchlands into these decks and Commander players will never see the one product designed for us. It's a catch 22.
If you havent done research on the deck, its not my problem. The deck has a lot of utility inbuilt, besides one day wizards might print an artifact with ''you can have any number of _____ in your deck''. Possibility Storm lets you chain artifacts and blood funnel reduce your mana cost, the deck usually runs this and Null profusion easentially storming off.
I mean... there is fault on the playerbase too. Put fetchlands into these decks and Commander players will never see the one product designed for us. It's a catch 22.
Really I think its on WOTC for not keeping mana base cost down
The reason the reps probably said that and can say it with a strait face is that they aren't looking at it from a card = X dollars perspective. They look at the price as a result of the number of copies that exist in circulation and how heavily the card is seeing use. With enough data available, the company can track how many of a given card has been printed, how many copies of that card remain sealed in boxes after the print run stops, how many more copies will get introduced with time from box opening, and how many will leave circulation via collectors, environmental damage, etc.
Essentially, the company isn't interested in reprinting cards that got expensive from a fad or speculation. The company wants to reprint cards based upon use, number of copies hypothetically available on the market, and if the card still fits with the current direction of Magic the Gathering. Fetchlands are a great example of a card that probably has plenty of copies out there, but no one is buying because speculators forced up the price ages ago and competitive players still trickle buy the cards at the extreme prices. Wizards does not want to print these in a lower cost set because the speculators will target the set to buy it out and flush the copies onto the market at inflated rates while dumping "bulk" into the singles market. They tried combating this back with Commander 2013 by doing a second run with more copies of True Name Nemesis, but by doing so they introduced too many of the other decks and it took years for the supply vs demand to reach equilibrium. The same thing is happening now with Iconic Masters and Masters 25, but those are even worse because they tried to sell a product at way too high an asking price.
The value of Commander 2018 is going to be held by the new cards printed in the set because they don't want to have cards that are known to be what the consumer perceives as "70+ dollar good" or "30+ dollar good" right at the launch. Not unless they put one of those cards in each of the decks and then print it to Commander 2014 levels.
Seems like a reasonable way to look at it. What they said is still true, but they limit highly sought after card reprints to booster products (although it took them a while to get it right. Hopefully they took the lessons they learned from Battlebond to heart for the next Masters product). While cheaper, but still asked for reprints end up in preconstructed products.
Of course, one needs to be aware that some prices get high not because of speculation, but because the cards are just used that widely.
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The whole point NZB2323 is making that individual characters (like planeswalkers or in Jeleva's case a legendary creature - basically anyone legendary) can differ in colors from the tribe as a whole, so that's actually entirely in line with the grander point made.
Legendaries (whether planeswalkers or creatures) are special. That's why they can be characters who define themselves outside or beyond the color scope of their home tribe.
See:
That's also why Sylve's post is in favor of NZB2323's point:
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This, btw, is also questionable. The "traditional core" of Vampires is black. Period. In Ravnica they dabble into blue (in RTR block in white as well, but not origianl Ravnica IIRC), in Innistrad they spread to red. That's about as traditional as Innistrad's decision to make Zombies blue and red-green Werewolves. There is a whole article explaining that these tribes are traditionally black and the decision to spread them into other colors is a deliberate departure from tradition (similar to mono-white Zombies in Amonkhet; mono-white and mono-black Treefolk & mono-black Elves in Lorwyn etc. - in each of those cases we get articles explaining that this is a departure from tradition specific to that plane and in service of a greater vision etc.)
Count the red Vampires that aren't from Innistrad. All of them are justified (or at least explained). Most of them are legendaries (with one exception from the post-Innistrad Commander product that wanted three red-white-black Vampire commanders, so there colors were in service of that deck and follow the above rule of legendaries being beyond their tribe's core - especially in a post-EDH success world) and the oldest of them, Vampiric Dragon, felt like justifying its secondary color by also being from a core-red tribe.
The one other exception to being legendary and being from Innistrad is Blood Tyrant - from Alara, where traditionally monocolored tribes get three-colored cards to fit the arc-colors of the shards.
Special mention goes to Garza Zol, Plague Queen, who despite being legendary actually deserves being mentioned because the set as a whole didn't justify the color choice for Vampires at all - the card just happens to be a member of a three-color rare cycle with that Fairie in the traditional Fairie colors gree-white-blue.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Unlikely given that he canonically all five colors. Feroz is a safer bet, as is Saheeli.
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That being said, something has changed after the hell last year so we may see far more desirable cards in the decks than the 2017 batch, which I thought were quite weak compared to 2016.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
There are some decent budget lands options out there for these decks. All these cycles/lands are fairly cheap...
I think some of these could be worked into the decklists.
Dunes of Zairo
SHANDALAR
Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
A Community Set
Commander: Allies & Adversaries
How? Is you don't get that many copies of a single card in commander.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Remnants: Valheim
Legendary Journey: Heroes & Planeswalkers
Saga: Shards of Rabiah
Legends: The Elder Dragons
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|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
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Indeed if there is one thing WOTC should always keep cheap its the godforsaken mana base. Convincing newer players that mana base are important and need to be shelled out for is hard
It uses Nether Void type cards to stack the trigger where you counter what you cast 1st then use Mishras ability to get it from the graveyard into play. Thus breaking the symmetry. Works very with Possibility Storm.
I wasn't aware of it, but outside of a dedicated deck Mishra's ability is nonetheless wasted as you can't benefit of those stack shenanigans. A legendary artificer creature that cares about artifacts in a different way and bears that name would be far more appreciated by the community, I think, and this is a good chance to do it.
Homeland was the best of the bunch. They just kept going downhill from there...
That written, I'd actually love a Drider planeswalker.
I hope that is true, because it would be friggin' awesome.
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Not a bad guess. The eye color in Helm of the Host matches, and she could very well be standing on the flowstone mentioned in the flavor text.
I’m guessing she is either a shapeshifter who cares what the top card of the deck is to copy or a planes walker who can create a token copy of the top or bottom card of the deck. Vesuva is all about their shape shifting powers.
I'm sure internally they have lands ranked on a chart as far as how powerful they are based on the amount of play they see. My own chart kind of goes like the following:
S -> Zen fetches, Ancient Tomb, Wasteland, etc.
A -> Shock lands, Onslaught Fetches, Fast Lands.
B -> Battle lands, pain lands, Check Lands, filter lands.
C -> SOI Buddy lands, Temples, Bicycle lands.
D -> Panoramas, the majority of color fixing Come into Play Tapped lands.
F -> Evolving Wilds, Painted bluffs, etc.
Wizards will basically print anything in the C -> F categories in preconstructed products. Anything in the B to S grade are rarely reprinted for the casual audience. S grade usually only see reprints in specialty sets due to them being just insanely powerful lands that gambling speculators spend hundreds of dollars acquiring. Competitive players will rip open bank accounts and buy on credit to get these lands, which is actually the most toxic aspect of Magic the Gathering vs other card games. The painful part is the S, A, and B grade lands are the ones desperately in need of price relief and wizards is obsessed with using the lands as a way to keep the market alive.
Case in point, my expectation is that the mana base is going to be crap like usual and the most we will get are a bunch of "staple EDH lands" that have low secondary market values. We are in desperate need of a Mirrodin Fastland reprint (those are in panicking red line territory on supply vs demand, even if people don't think so on the speculator market), Zendikar fetches are red line because of being over-valued, which has been the case for ages yet people still buy them. I was doing fist pumps into the air when we got the full Checkland cycle, as that is going to seriously temper the price post rotation on those cards, but they also introduced a new multiplayer only type of land that is a C category and only got one supplementary printing in battlebond.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Representatives from WotC have stated time and again that they rarely care about the perceived value of a card before reprinting it. However, Battlebond showed that when they do care, they have no issue what so ever in reprint said expensive cards. The only thing they respect when selecting reprints is the reserved list.
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Essentially, the company isn't interested in reprinting cards that got expensive from a fad or speculation. The company wants to reprint cards based upon use, number of copies hypothetically available on the market, and if the card still fits with the current direction of Magic the Gathering. Fetchlands are a great example of a card that probably has plenty of copies out there, but no one is buying because speculators forced up the price ages ago and competitive players still trickle buy the cards at the extreme prices. Wizards does not want to print these in a lower cost set because the speculators will target the set to buy it out and flush the copies onto the market at inflated rates while dumping "bulk" into the singles market. They tried combating this back with Commander 2013 by doing a second run with more copies of True Name Nemesis, but by doing so they introduced too many of the other decks and it took years for the supply vs demand to reach equilibrium. The same thing is happening now with Iconic Masters and Masters 25, but those are even worse because they tried to sell a product at way too high an asking price.
The value of Commander 2018 is going to be held by the new cards printed in the set because they don't want to have cards that are known to be what the consumer perceives as "70+ dollar good" or "30+ dollar good" right at the launch. Not unless they put one of those cards in each of the decks and then print it to Commander 2014 levels.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
Really I think its on WOTC for not keeping mana base cost down
Seems like a reasonable way to look at it. What they said is still true, but they limit highly sought after card reprints to booster products (although it took them a while to get it right. Hopefully they took the lessons they learned from Battlebond to heart for the next Masters product). While cheaper, but still asked for reprints end up in preconstructed products.
Of course, one needs to be aware that some prices get high not because of speculation, but because the cards are just used that widely.
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Numquam evolutioni obstes. Solum conculceris.
Pascite draconem, evolvite aut morimini.