Since we now have at least a few cards from the new Modern Masters, it seems a good time for a reaction thread. What reprints do we as the community celebrate, and which ones do we condemn? Which rarity-shifts are acceptable, and which ones are criminal? Gripe as you please.
Griselbrand seems like a logical and welcome choice, but Domri seems... like not even the best red/green planeswalker. Thoughts on these and other spoilers as they come?
Domri is a very odd choice, while it saw play in standard, as far as I can see it doesn't see play in modern (I don't play modern, just look at youtube videos and some decklists). As far as Commander it is an ok card for creature heavy RG decks, but that is about it, not a high choice for a highly competetive deck. Feels like a waste of a mythic slot (I highly doubt they will make any PW a rare)
The angel also seems off and is hopefully only a rare, I don't think I even knew it existed until now... so yea. And this is from a commander player that likes to scour gatherer for weird cards to put in my decks for fun interactions.
Inb4 Snappy, Lilli, and Damnation. (And subsequent fury at rarity shifts)
Lili and Snappy are in MM17, but Damnation is a Masterpiece in Hour of Devastation.
while a masterpiece Damnation will be MUCH appreciated by many, going the masterpiece route for adding reprints is a very bad decision (much like the expedition fetchlands did nothing to the original printings). Damnation needs to get reprinted in a regular form (possibly MM17).
I absolutely love the masterpiece series, but it can't come at the expanse of much-needed regular prints.
Supreme Verdict is much more likely in this set than Damnation
Yeah. I was just making a joke. Since those are the big three everyone wants. Besides I don't see too much trouble with having damnation at mythic and verdict at rare.
Inb4 Snappy, Lilli, and Damnation. (And subsequent fury at rarity shifts)
Lili and Snappy are in MM17, but Damnation is a Masterpiece in Hour of Devastation.
while a masterpiece Damnation will be MUCH appreciated by many, going the masterpiece route for adding reprints is a very bad decision (much like the expedition fetchlands did nothing to the original printings). Damnation needs to get reprinted in a regular form (possibly MM17).
I absolutely love the masterpiece series, but it can't come at the expanse of much-needed regular prints.
I feel you, man, but MaRo said they don't want to reprint Damnation in a standard block and something tells me they don't want to put it in specialty sets either. Sure, MaRo could be feeding us false statements from time to time, but seems to me they introduced Masterpieces to somehow reprint all those problematic cards that they don't really want to mass reprint.
Ok I stand corrected about Damnation, but including the enemy fetches in MM17 is a crap move since the prices won't go down as they should with a block reprint.
No chance, with the success of the GP's and recent SCG events, waving goodbye to Modern would be waving goodbye to any recently playing Standard customer. You do not dismiss existing client base, as its easier to retain, than it is to rebuild.
Modern has simply gotten so successful, that Wizards no longer needs to promote it, it does its own promotion.
Ok I stand corrected about Damnation, but including the enemy fetches in MM17 is a crap move since the prices won't go down as they should with a block reprint.
TCGPlayer says otherwise. It hasn't been 8 hours and ZEN fetches are the cheapest they've been in 2+ years. Prices aren't done falling by a long shot.
Ok I stand corrected about Damnation, but including the enemy fetches in MM17 is a crap move since the prices won't go down as they should with a block reprint.
TCGPlayer says otherwise. It hasn't been 8 hours and ZEN fetches are the cheapest they've been in 2+ years. Prices aren't done falling by a long shot.
There isn't even any new supply yet, this is just people hoping to pick them up later for less.
If only they knew how ridiculous the price of Mishra's Bauble would become...they could have added it in, too.
Oh well, the set is already amazing beyond all expectations.
By Death's Shadow being in this set, it means they did know about bauble in time. Bauble only saw play because of DS zoo. So if it does not make the set, it would be because they want it to stay a unique card etc.
If only they knew how ridiculous the price of Mishra's Bauble would become...they could have added it in, too.
Oh well, the set is already amazing beyond all expectations.
By Death's Shadow being in this set, it means they did know about bauble in time. Bauble only saw play because of DS zoo. So if it does not make the set, it would be because they want it to stay a unique card etc.
It really doesn't mean that, look at when Ds got big, they probably would have been printing by then, the time to add new cards was long gone. It was intended to be a basic $5 rare and then by happy accident it became a chase card. Bauble may be in it, but it would not be because of decks that didn't make a big splash before 2017
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As of this post, we have Domri Rade, Griselbrand, and Stoic Angel spoiled by pack art.
Griselbrand seems like a logical and welcome choice, but Domri seems... like not even the best red/green planeswalker. Thoughts on these and other spoilers as they come?
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The angel also seems off and is hopefully only a rare, I don't think I even knew it existed until now... so yea. And this is from a commander player that likes to scour gatherer for weird cards to put in my decks for fun interactions.
Griselbrand is kinda expected.
I think everyone would be very disappointed if Domri took the place that Liliana of the Veil should of had (as a plainswalker in the set).
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Lili and Snappy are in MM17, but Damnation is a Masterpiece in Hour of Devastation.
I absolutely love the masterpiece series, but it can't come at the expanse of much-needed regular prints.
Supreme Verdict is much more likely in this set than Damnation
Yeah. I was just making a joke. Since those are the big three everyone wants. Besides I don't see too much trouble with having damnation at mythic and verdict at rare.
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I feel you, man, but MaRo said they don't want to reprint Damnation in a standard block and something tells me they don't want to put it in specialty sets either. Sure, MaRo could be feeding us false statements from time to time, but seems to me they introduced Masterpieces to somehow reprint all those problematic cards that they don't really want to mass reprint.
Not at 3 cmc. all the other PWs are 4 cmc: Arlinn Kord (too soon of a reprint), Sarkhan Vol (already reprinted in original MM) , Xenagos, the Reveler (kinda too soon).
I don't think modern master 2017 is going to be crap
Also we got the zendikar fetch lands.
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I feel the prints in this set is so all the most exspensive cards due to modern get reduced a lot.
And also to say goodbye to modern.
Modern has simply gotten so successful, that Wizards no longer needs to promote it, it does its own promotion.
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TCGPlayer says otherwise. It hasn't been 8 hours and ZEN fetches are the cheapest they've been in 2+ years. Prices aren't done falling by a long shot.
There isn't even any new supply yet, this is just people hoping to pick them up later for less.
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Oh well, the set is already amazing beyond all expectations.
By Death's Shadow being in this set, it means they did know about bauble in time. Bauble only saw play because of DS zoo. So if it does not make the set, it would be because they want it to stay a unique card etc.
Jeez this set is bonkers. So many good reprints (though I wish cavern was rare instead of mythic)
I hope they include Wurmcoil and Koth also!
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It really doesn't mean that, look at when Ds got big, they probably would have been printing by then, the time to add new cards was long gone. It was intended to be a basic $5 rare and then by happy accident it became a chase card. Bauble may be in it, but it would not be because of decks that didn't make a big splash before 2017