Do you mean Shandalar? That has been the main plane for the core sets for quite awhile now actually. But yes, Maro did say that Huey block will be on a new plane that is not already known.
Shandalar is not a new plane and likely not the fall set. Shandalar has already been mentioned numerous times in the paper game (primarily the core sets; Thune, Kalonia, Xathrid and Evos Isle are all locations on Shandalar. The old magic PC game also takes place there and it's been featured in older Duels of the Planeswalkers games as well.
Still, Shandalar has been rumored for a while, and cards from it showed up in M14 for the first time in years. It will get an expert set someday, so it could easily be this fall.
Still, Shandalar has been rumored for a while, and cards from it showed up in M14 for the first time in years. It will get an expert set someday, so it could easily be this fall.
MaRo has stated on his blog more than once that the next block will take place on an entirely new plane.
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Still, Shandalar has been rumored for a while, and cards from it showed up in M14 for the first time in years. It will get an expert set someday, so it could easily be this fall.
MaRo has stated on his blog more than once that the next block will take place on an entirely new plane.
True, but that doesn't prevent it from being an old plane renamed. Not that I expect it to be.
My point wasn't really about this fall, anyway. Only that Shandalar will come around eventually.
Still, Shandalar has been rumored for a while, and cards from it showed up in M14 for the first time in years. It will get an expert set someday, so it could easily be this fall.
Still, Shandalar has been rumored for a while, and cards from it showed up in M14 for the first time in years. It will get an expert set someday, so it could easily be this fall.
MaRo has stated on his blog more than once that the next block will take place on an entirely new plane.
True, but that doesn't prevent it from being an old plane renamed.
...what?
Seriously, it's posts like this that make Salv' look like a bunch of tinfoil hatters. "New plane" means "new plane".
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I'm officially proposing we retire the word "insane" from the MtG vocabulary.
"The best way to be different is to be better" - Gene Muir
Still, Shandalar has been rumored for a while, and cards from it showed up in M14 for the first time in years. It will get an expert set someday, so it could easily be this fall.
MaRo has stated on his blog more than once that the next block will take place on an entirely new plane.
True, but that doesn't prevent it from being an old plane renamed.
...what?
Seriously, it's posts like this that make Salv' look like a bunch of tinfoil hatters. "New plane" means "new plane".
It really depends on what your definition of 'is' is, if you think about it.
Cards from Core sets come from a variety of different planes. M13 had some Shandalar cards (e.g., the Ring of Xxx cycle), and I'm pretty sure Shandalar-native stuff has showed up in other Core Sets too. M13 also had the cycle of legendary creatures from a variety of different planes (e.g., Krenko from Ravnica, Odric from Innistrad).
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Does anyone else kind of think that magic would be better if they chose reprints in core sets by taking every modern legal card of specific rarities and picked X number of them from a hat?
Does anyone else kind of think that magic would be better if they chose reprints in core sets by taking every modern legal card of specific rarities and picked X number of them from a hat?
Nope. Then we'd be getting random synergy-based cards that have no synergy with anything in Standard. I don't want there to be a single Rebel in Standard along with Bitterblossom and Disciple of the Vault. Or, we could get Resoration Angel and Thragtusk both reprinted. And how would that work for cycles with reprints (mainly planeswalkers) or complete reprint cycles (dual land cycles)?
It's not that the core sets are on a certain plane, it's that cards designed for a core set unless explicitly tied to some other place (like odric and krenko were to the previous and next set in rotations) tend to be flavored shandalar. Shandalar is their go-to for "we (or as it looks like from these design credit things, people who know people in r&d) designed a great card that doesn't really fit in with anything we're doing in the future. Lets put it in the core set."
Does anyone else kind of think that magic would be better if they chose reprints in core sets by taking every modern legal card of specific rarities and picked X number of them from a hat?
I suggested an annual Modern Masters, but apparently Wizards thinks otherwise.
I don't think wizards is against annual Modern Masters in theory. They didn't know how the first one would go so they weren't going to do a second one right away since that takes a year of pre-planning or so. However, the problem now is there's no place to fit it on the yearly schedule; if they put it out every summer that means either they can't do a multiplayer product or they are competing with a multiplayer product. This is especially conflicting if that multiplayer product is draftable, like this year's Conspiracy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4lGXC2_5Xo
At the 2:14 mark.
BAfter the lights go out on you, after your worthless life is through. I will remember how you scream...B
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MaRo has stated on his blog more than once that the next block will take place on an entirely new plane.
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LGS: Dream Wizards in Rockville, MD
True, but that doesn't prevent it from being an old plane renamed. Not that I expect it to be.
My point wasn't really about this fall, anyway. Only that Shandalar will come around eventually.
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LGS: Dream Wizards in Rockville, MD
Shandalar has been the plane for Core Sets for a while now. We even have a thread on this from last year.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-general/493827-shandalar-and-core-sets
...what?
Seriously, it's posts like this that make Salv' look like a bunch of tinfoil hatters. "New plane" means "new plane".
I'm officially proposing we retire the word "insane" from the MtG vocabulary.
"The best way to be different is to be better" - Gene Muir
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It really depends on what your definition of 'is' is, if you think about it.
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Currently playing:
Standard: Superfriends!
Legacy: Nic Fit / Pod
Pauper: Delvar; Tron; Flicker Stuff
Commander: Riku ("Some weird doubple spell thing happened"); Keranos ("I did a Gatherer search for 'random' and 'flip a coin.'"); Superfriends!
Nope. Then we'd be getting random synergy-based cards that have no synergy with anything in Standard. I don't want there to be a single Rebel in Standard along with Bitterblossom and Disciple of the Vault. Or, we could get Resoration Angel and Thragtusk both reprinted. And how would that work for cycles with reprints (mainly planeswalkers) or complete reprint cycles (dual land cycles)?
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I suggested an annual Modern Masters, but apparently Wizards thinks otherwise.