Great reprint. Bad art. Bad upshift. Since it's player only it's not a great limited card so no reason to make uncommon.
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I like the art since it depicts an actual spike. The concept of only the top of the spike being pure lava and the bottom part having a crust of rock is pretty neat as well.
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Great reprint. Bad art. Bad upshift. Since it's player only it's not a great limited card so no reason to make uncommon.
That might be exactly why they'd upshift it. You don't want limited pools flooded with cards that are bad in limited.
It's always every excuse as to why they upshift. It's BS. Need to stop giving Wizards excuses. They upshifted Lightning Bolt. So you can't have it both ways.
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Great reprint. Bad art. Bad upshift. Since it's player only it's not a great limited card so no reason to make uncommon.
That might be exactly why they'd upshift it. You don't want limited pools flooded with cards that are bad in limited.
It's always every excuse as to why they upshift. It's BS. Need to stop giving Wizards excuses. They upshifted Lightning Bolt. So you can't have it both ways.
I think Lightning Bolt is probably too good at common for limited. Uncommons can be cards that are either too good or not good enough for limited, so I think I can have it both ways.
Flavor text nice, upshift is meh, will keep it around $2-$4, the art is...something.
I love burning people's faces though so in favor of this.
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$4 in a set full of value like this? I'd be surprised if the price doesn't get slashed in half at least.
Get your surpriser ready.
$3.50 at ChannelFireball and CardKingdom
$3.99 at SCG
$3.63 cheapest shipped on ebay
Just moved the needle back to April 2017 pricewise.
Maybe it will drop but I highly doubt it. At common it would have for sure.
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$4 in a set full of value like this? I'd be surprised if the price doesn't get slashed in half at least.
Get your surpriser ready.
$3.50 at ChannelFireball and CardKingdom
$3.99 at SCG
$3.63 cheapest shipped on ebay
Just moved the needle back to April 2017 pricewise.
Maybe it will drop but I highly doubt it. At common it would have for sure.
The set isn't even out yet.
Yep and I'm expecting this one to actually go up on release. Its used in a lot of decks in several formats. Copies will be kept and played or hoarded. At what maybe 2 copies a booster box? Should have left it at common to move the needle significantly.
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STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
$4 in a set full of value like this? I'd be surprised if the price doesn't get slashed in half at least.
Get your surpriser ready.
$3.50 at ChannelFireball and CardKingdom
$3.99 at SCG
$3.63 cheapest shipped on ebay
Just moved the needle back to April 2017 pricewise.
Maybe it will drop but I highly doubt it. At common it would have for sure.
The set isn't even out yet.
Yep and I'm expecting this one to actually go up on release. Its used in a lot of decks in several formats. Copies will be kept and played or hoarded. At what maybe 2 copies a booster box? Should have left it at common to move the needle significantly.
With 80 uncommons in the set, and 72 (nonfoil) uncommons in each booster box, the expected number per box of any specific uncommon isn't even quite 1.
Great reprint. Bad art. Bad upshift. Since it's player only it's not a great limited card so no reason to make uncommon.
Honestly, some removal should be common, while something like Pyroclasm or Doom Blade should be uncommon, and something like Wrath of God should be rare.
But of course, this isn't removal; this type of card is more just how (burn, goblins, any other red aggro deck) whittles away those last few life. Not bad per se, but not something you'll be playing outside of limited too much. (Especially this one which, in Modern or Legacy, has the "Bolt problem". It's not even a good Bolt 5~8 because it's a sorcery and doesn't double as removal.) This type of card, by the way, is usually a sorcery.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
With 80 uncommons in the set, and 72 (nonfoil) uncommons in each booster box, the expected number per box of any specific uncommon isn't even quite 1.
Thanks for the correction. Proves my point even more that the needle won't drop far on this card with so few copies out there. Price will jump right back to where it was a month or two after release.
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Rarity upshift makes me sad. New there had to be a catch
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WSoldier StompyW
BReanimatorB
EDH:
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BGeth, Lord of the VaultB
That might be exactly why they'd upshift it. You don't want limited pools flooded with cards that are bad in limited.
More copies are good but the price won't budge.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
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Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
$4 in a set full of value like this? I'd be surprised if the price doesn't get slashed in half at least.
It's always every excuse as to why they upshift. It's BS. Need to stop giving Wizards excuses. They upshifted Lightning Bolt. So you can't have it both ways.
Currently Playing:
Standard:
Nothing, the format Bores me!
Legacy:
RBurn (Made on the Cheap!)R
RGBelcherRG
WSoldier StompyW
BReanimatorB
EDH:
BUGRWSliver OverlordWRGUB
BGeth, Lord of the VaultB
I think Lightning Bolt is probably too good at common for limited. Uncommons can be cards that are either too good or not good enough for limited, so I think I can have it both ways.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
I love burning people's faces though so in favor of this.
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.
Get your surpriser ready.
$3.50 at ChannelFireball and CardKingdom
$3.99 at SCG
$3.63 cheapest shipped on ebay
Just moved the needle back to April 2017 pricewise.
Maybe it will drop but I highly doubt it. At common it would have for sure.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
The set isn't even out yet.
Yep and I'm expecting this one to actually go up on release. Its used in a lot of decks in several formats. Copies will be kept and played or hoarded. At what maybe 2 copies a booster box? Should have left it at common to move the needle significantly.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
With 80 uncommons in the set, and 72 (nonfoil) uncommons in each booster box, the expected number per box of any specific uncommon isn't even quite 1.
Honestly, some removal should be common, while something like Pyroclasm or Doom Blade should be uncommon, and something like Wrath of God should be rare.
But of course, this isn't removal; this type of card is more just how (burn, goblins, any other red aggro deck) whittles away those last few life. Not bad per se, but not something you'll be playing outside of limited too much. (Especially this one which, in Modern or Legacy, has the "Bolt problem". It's not even a good Bolt 5~8 because it's a sorcery and doesn't double as removal.) This type of card, by the way, is usually a sorcery.
On phasing:
Thanks for the correction. Proves my point even more that the needle won't drop far on this card with so few copies out there. Price will jump right back to where it was a month or two after release.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."