So, now when three-colored lands are confirmed in KTK, are the chances of getting fetches reprinted somewhat higher? I mean, there have to be some rare land cycle, right? And tri-lands are uncommons, so...
Fetches are all but confirmed NOT in Kahns.
How so? Because of the three-color taplands? That's an uncommon cycle... Zendikar had an uncommon cycle of duals and the rare cycle of fetches in the same set. Why couldn't Tarkir?
It has nothing to do with the tri-lands. I believe Aaron Forsythe made some comments indicating we shouldn't expect to see fetch lands reprinted this year. Also, Sam Stoddard wrote an article that indicated the rare land cycle in Khans was new.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not so much wrong as you are assuming an interpretation that careful examination of the relevant sources will show is not made explicit. Aaron Forsythe explained that sets are designed years in advance... but he didn't specify when they had made the decision to reprint fetchlands (nor does he, for that matter, explicitly say that they made such a decision. But he does say they're planning on "dealing with it") (as an additional aside, Kelly Digges made a comment in Multiverse that they are "likely to reprint" lands with a life payment several months before Aaron gave the interview in question. The assumption is they had made the decision, or were strongly considering it, at least by August 2013). Sam Stoddard "described" the Khans lands in the vaguest possible terms, nothing he said definitively rules anything in or out.
So, now when three-colored lands are confirmed in KTK, are the chances of getting fetches reprinted somewhat higher? I mean, there have to be some rare land cycle, right? And tri-lands are uncommons, so...
Fetches are all but confirmed NOT in Kahns.
How so? Because of the three-color taplands? That's an uncommon cycle... Zendikar had an uncommon cycle of duals and the rare cycle of fetches in the same set. Why couldn't Tarkir?
It has nothing to do with the tri-lands. I believe Aaron Forsythe made some comments indicating we shouldn't expect to see fetch lands reprinted this year. Also, Sam Stoddard wrote an article that indicated the rare land cycle in Khans was new.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not so much wrong as you are assuming an interpretation that careful examination of the relevant sources will show is not made explicit. Aaron Forsythe explained that sets are designed years in advance... but he didn't specify when they had made the decision to reprint fetchlands (nor does he, for that matter, explicitly say that they made such a decision. But he does say they're planning on "dealing with it") (as an additional aside, Kelly Digges made a comment in Multiverse that they are "likely to reprint" lands with a life payment several months before Aaron gave the interview in question. The assumption is they had made the decision, or were strongly considering it, at least by August 2013). Sam Stoddard "described" the Khans lands in the vaguest possible terms, nothing he said definitively rules anything in or out.
Well, it does rule out that they have basic land types and enter the battlefield untapped because otherwise the checklands could have been in instead of the painlands.
The problem is that people took Aarons statement of 'We didn't expect the price to spike like it did.' as 'We don't bother to reprint cards till they get too expensive.' which is faulty. They reprint with standard and limited in mind first and foremost. They also stated in the article announcing Modern as a format that fetches and shocks would likely be an important mana base in the format, which of course they were correct on. It ridiculous to think that they would just decide to wait on reprinting the fetches till they got to expensive. Especially considering that the article was from 2011, when they knew RtR block was coming with shock reprints. Since they didn't want fetches and shocks in the same standard it was fine for the block of 2013/2014 not to have them, but if people really think they didn't even look at the possibility of reprinting them in 2014/2015 block then they're foolish. While they may end up in the 2015 large fall set, we have absolutely zero data on anything from it since its a year away. Right now we know Tarkir will be a wedge set and fetches wouldn't be too strong it and would help smooth mana out for three color decks. Does that mean we are getting fetches? No. It just show that fetches wouldn't be harmful enough for standard that they couldn't be included.
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I agree with you regarding A. Foresythe's comments, but we have from Sam Stoddard that the KTK dual lands play poorly with the checklands..
No he didn't.You took to unconnected point in the article and combined them.
First off Sam stated at the end of the article he cant tell us anything about the KhT duals except that they will have an impact on standard. So he never said they play poorly with checkslands, because he would have to say what they do.
And the point with the INN checklands earlier in the article was about how they initially where going to be in M15 but then to many lands would have '~ enters the battlefield tapped.' that they needed an option for aggressive deck to get mana first turn. Hence how the enemy APOC painlands ended up in their place. We know as of right now that 15 lands that EBT, the 10 scry temples and 5 wedge tri lands come October. So it's not unbelievable that the enemy painlands and fetches end up supporting aggro come next standard. Though they'd waste a wedge set not doing wedge panoramas, so fetches might not be in because of that.
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No he didn't.You took to unconnected point in the article and combined them.
First off Sam stated at the end of the article he cant tell us anything about the KhT duals except that they will have an impact on standard. So he never said they play poorly with checkslands, because he would have to say what they do.
And the point with the INN checklands earlier in the article was about how they initially where going to be in M15 but then to many lands would have '~ enters the battlefield tapped.' that they needed an option for aggressive deck to get mana first turn. Hence how the enemy APOC painlands ended up in their place. We know as of right now that 15 lands that EBT, the 10 scry temples and 5 wedge tri lands come October. So it's not unbelievable that the enemy painlands and fetches end up supporting aggro come next standard. Though they'd waste a wedge set not doing wedge panoramas, so fetches might not be in because of that.
The most likely scenario is that the allied fetches are in Khans, and the 3rd set has the enemy fetches. This explains both the need for the painlands and Aaron's comments could be meant to indicate we won't see the fetches already in modern reprinted until next year. And saying that they will see play could be interpreted either as saying the lands will appear weak at first, as many have interpreted it, or it could be hinting that they're powerful.
We know as of right now that 15 lands that EBT, the 10 scry temples and 5 wedge tri lands come October. So it's not unbelievable that the enemy painlands and fetches end up supporting aggro come next standard. Though they'd waste a wedge set not doing wedge panoramas, so fetches might not be in because of that.
Shards of Alara had both Panoramas and 3-color taplands. Whose to say Khans will be any different?
Shards of Alara had both Panoramas and 3-color taplands. Whose to say Khans will be any different?
That wasn't about Wedge Taplands + Wedge Panoramas being together, that was about Wedge Panoramas + Fetchlands being together, which is slightly more dubious (but not to any deconfirming level).
We know as of right now that 15 lands that EBT, the 10 scry temples and 5 wedge tri lands come October. So it's not unbelievable that the enemy painlands and fetches end up supporting aggro come next standard. Though they'd waste a wedge set not doing wedge panoramas, so fetches might not be in because of that.
Shards of Alara had both Panoramas and 3-color taplands. Whose to say Khans will be any different?
If I recall well, MaRo stated that mana fixing in shards were sub-par, on both quantity and quality levels, and that that problem would be adressed. I don't have the link to the info but it probably can be found fairly easily by some reddit expert
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am i the only one who doesnt even like fetchlands so much, and would be more happy with some fun to play lands like the ones from theros? mb a little bit stronger?
i mean, its not like i would be disappointed if they would print fetchlands, but i really would appreciate something completly new more
I agree with Wrathberry, fetchlands in Standard will bring a gazillion of goodstuff decks, ignoring synergies and colors. I don't like this type of decks, but thats just me. I would prefer fetchlands reprinted in other products, like Modern Masters and such... that will help bringing down the price (if the print run is large enough).
Actually, Wizards do think a little more about Modern when it comes to designing sets today. Because they're too scared come new cards might break Modern, therefore we see almost no cantrip, no enchantment lands, etc...
The impact of Modern is subtle but the pressure is there. Hence we see THS and Magic 2015 to be relatively underpowered as compared to the previous counterparts.
Fetches TBH, don't really help much in a tricolor set any more than a Panorama. A triland is certainly much better in this regard. However, I wanna see fetches as soon as possible, so screw logic.
We know as of right now that 15 lands that EBT, the 10 scry temples and 5 wedge tri lands come October. So it's not unbelievable that the enemy painlands and fetches end up supporting aggro come next standard. Though they'd waste a wedge set not doing wedge panoramas, so fetches might not be in because of that.
Shards of Alara had both Panoramas and 3-color taplands. Whose to say Khans will be any different?
While im not in the group of people who take the statement of 'We use shuffle effects but try not to have to many in standard together' as "We hate shuffling.'
Having all 10 fetches plus 5 wedge panoramas plus Evolving Wilds would be 16 land search effects in standard. Which im pretty sure is excessive.
My point is if we get wedge panoramas where not getting fetches. Khans is different than we'd though it be by the wedges being one ally and one enemy. So I wouldn't expect everything to be the same. Wizards of the habit of delivering expectations and suprising us.
i don't believe they will reprint fetches in KTK. If they do that people will keep their shock lands from ravnica and have the most expensive part of a modern deck. WoTC likes to see people play standard so I don't believe they will do that.
Your statement makes no sense. Shocks and fetches wont be in standard together. You do realize they do want people to play modern as well right? They purposely seed standard with modern playables so that people will pay both. Sure they want standard to be played more but they have modern as run off for when people don't want to play standard. Im pretty sure im a niche in the payer base who doesn't buy singles from a set he/she didn't buy, its my OCD. But the majority of players will buy singles for decks regardless from where they started collecting from. And the only way to do that is for pack to be opened. So if they did print fetches in KTK people would buy it just for the chance to get for $4 instead of $60+. People where happy as hell to have shocks in standard since they could immediately switch them into a modern deck. Fetches would be no different
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i don't believe they will reprint fetches in KTK. If they do that people will keep their shock lands from ravnica and have the most expensive part of a modern deck. WoTC likes to see people play standard so I don't believe they will do that.
I alwaysoften wonder how and to what extent Wizards weigh "supporting Modern" vs. "Making sure most people prefer Standard", and whether they to any extent at all prefer high card prices in eternal formats to keep standard desirable.
Well, it does rule out that they have basic land types and enter the battlefield untapped because otherwise the checklands could have been in instead of the painlands.
Not necessarily true. Currently there are two types of duel lands (shocks and temples) in standard. Which means 50% of lands come into play tapped guaranteed. If check lands were reprinted instead of pain-lands, that means 66% of all lands would enter the battlefield tapped turn 1 (even if Khans featured something like fetches).
In a wedge set, 50%+ of lands entering the battlefield tapped turn 1 would be a deathnell for aggro. Especially in a block that most likely won't support mono-colored decks as much as Theos.
Not necessarily true. Currently there are two types of duel lands (shocks and temples) in standard. Which means 50% of lands come into play tapped guaranteed. If check lands were reprinted instead of pain-lands, that means 66% of all lands would enter the battlefield tapped turn 1 (even if Khans featured something like fetches).
In a wedge set, 50%+ of lands entering the battlefield tapped turn 1 would be a deathnell for aggro. Especially in a block that most likely won't support mono-colored decks as much as Theos.
66% of the lands came into the battlefield tapped (Gates and Temples), then we got the Painlands bringing it to 57~% (instead of up to 71~% with checklands T1). If you really are maxing out your colorfixing in a two color pair.
The current aggro deck in Standard is, somehow, Mono-U. So it wouldn't mean anything in our current standard. Next Standard however Aggro will be looking for a new place to hang its hat when Mono-U Devotion loses a lot of tools. Which is where pains over checks makes it seem like we won't see anything with a basic landtype on it.
Sam Stoddard "described" the Khans lands in the vaguest possible terms, nothing he said definitively rules anything in or out.
Look at this quote:
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Between the scry lands and the Innistrad lands, we found that when we rotated Return to Ravnica, too many lands were entering the battlefield tapped, and it was again having a negative impact on the aggressive decks. Making sure that allied and enemy decks both work in Standard doesn't always mean that the lands have to be the same, just that they are about comparable for decks. So with one cycle of lands that could be guaranteed to produce colored mana on turn one leaving (the shock lands), we needed to replace them with another cycle that could produce that mana on turn one. The Innistrad check lands just didn't do that, even if the mana worked perfectly with the Ravnica duals. The pain lands, however, did.
He's talking about after RTR rotates, which is when Kahns would be part of the environment. He says they needed to replace shock lands with lands that produce colored mana on turn one. Again, since this is after Kahns is in Standard, he has two sets of duals to consider: M15 and Kahns itself. If the duals in Kahns could produce colored mana on turn 1, it doesn't seem like Sam would have said what he did about needing to find a shock land replacement. The Khans duals would be the replacement. Since this isn't the case, I am led to believe that the Kahns duals can't produce colored mana on turn 1. Hence, no fetches.
am i the only one who doesnt even like fetchlands so much, and would be more happy with some fun to play lands like the ones from theros? mb a little bit stronger?
i mean, its not like i would be disappointed if they would print fetchlands, but i really would appreciate something completly new more
I am not a fan of fetch land design or how they affect Standard, but their power level is undeniable. I sympathize with those who still want them for Modern, Legacy, EDH, etc. They will be reprinted soon, but I honestly don't think it will be in Kahns. I do think we will see them in 2015.
For now, my wishful thinking is going to be for morph duals. They would probably ETB tapped and morph for either of their colors of mana. If pushed, they would morph for 0.
Not necessarily true. Currently there are two types of duel lands (shocks and temples) in standard. Which means 50% of lands come into play tapped guaranteed. If check lands were reprinted instead of pain-lands, that means 66% of all lands would enter the battlefield tapped turn 1 (even if Khans featured something like fetches).
In a wedge set, 50%+ of lands entering the battlefield tapped turn 1 would be a deathnell for aggro. Especially in a block that most likely won't support mono-colored decks as much as Theos.
66% of the lands came into the battlefield tapped (Gates and Temples), then we got the Painlands bringing it to 57~% (instead of up to 71~% with checklands T1). If you really are maxing out your colorfixing in a two color pair.
The current aggro deck in Standard is, somehow, Mono-U. So it wouldn't mean anything in our current standard. Next Standard however Aggro will be looking for a new place to hang its hat when Mono-U Devotion loses a lot of tools. Which is where pains over checks makes it seem like we won't see anything with a basic landtype on it.
Oh I agree with the basic land-type not being seen on the new lands. What I was referring to was the "comes into play taped" bit.
Sam Stoddard "described" the Khans lands in the vaguest possible terms, nothing he said definitively rules anything in or out.
Look at this quote:
Quote from Sam Stoddard »
Between the scry lands and the Innistrad lands, we found that when we rotated Return to Ravnica, too many lands were entering the battlefield tapped, and it was again having a negative impact on the aggressive decks. Making sure that allied and enemy decks both work in Standard doesn't always mean that the lands have to be the same, just that they are about comparable for decks. So with one cycle of lands that could be guaranteed to produce colored mana on turn one leaving (the shock lands), we needed to replace them with another cycle that could produce that mana on turn one. The Innistrad check lands just didn't do that, even if the mana worked perfectly with the Ravnica duals. The pain lands, however, did.
He's talking about after RTR rotates, which is when Kahns would be part of the environment. He says they needed to replace shock lands with lands that produce colored mana on turn one. Again, since this is after Kahns is in Standard, he has two sets of duals to consider: M15 and Kahns itself. If the duals in Kahns could produce colored mana on turn 1, it doesn't seem like Sam would have said what he did about needing to find a shock land replacement. The Khans duals would be the replacement. Since this isn't the case, I am led to believe that the Kahns duals can't produce colored mana on turn 1. Hence, no fetches.
Oh it's compelling, sure, but I still maintain it's not definitive. Especially that we now know of the trilands, the environment that's becoming apparent may well be one where "too many lands [are] entering the battlefield tapped" just on the weight of three-colour decks wanting trilands. If Khans has the allied fetchlands but not the enemy ones, that would fit perfectly with "Making sure that allied and enemy decks both work in Standard doesn't always mean that the lands have to be the same, just that they are about comparable for decks".
Again, I'm not saying this is the most likely scenario, just that everyone needs to stop assuming that the impression they got from that article is what Sam literally said. Whenever a WotC spokesperson talks about an unreleased set, they say ambiguous and potentially misleading things. You have to be incredibly careful before you declare one thing or another confirmed or denied based on that stuff.
I am not a fan of fetch land design or how they affect Standard, but their power level is undeniable. I sympathize with those who still want them for Modern, Legacy, EDH, etc. They will be reprinted soon, but I honestly don't think it will be in Kahns. I do think we will see them in 2015.
For now, my wishful thinking is going to be for morph duals. They would probably ETB tapped and morph for either of their colors of mana. If pushed, they would morph for 0.
Two things: They are trying to simplify standard, Morphlands would confuse new players (not to mention be awkward to cost). As for "no fetchlands in 2015," I hightly doubt it. Fall 2015 is most likely going to be a "return" set and "Return to Zendikar" would sell so many boxes they wouldn't even need to print a second and third set. If that doesn't happen Modern Masters 2 could some around to eat everyone's bank account.
Two things: They are trying to simplify standard, Morphlands would confuse new players (not to mention be awkward to cost).
I don't think that applies to rare cards so much. Besides, Zoetic Cavern seems simple enough to me. Adding colored mana doesn't make it that much more complex.
Fall 2015 is most likely going to be a "return" set and "Return to Zendikar" would sell so many boxes they wouldn't even need to print a second and third set. If that doesn't happen Modern Masters 2 could some around to eat everyone's bank account.
I sure am hoping that Zendikar is the the case and that we come back to it. I would throw paychecks at it like a crazy banshee forever and ever. With, or WITHOUT fetchlands...
As for "no fetchlands in 2015," I hightly doubt it. Fall 2015 is most likely going to be a "return" set and "Return to Zendikar" would sell so many boxes they wouldn't even need to print a second and third set. If that doesn't happen Modern Masters 2 could some around to eat everyone's bank account.
I thought it was a comment from something like an year ago. This guy, don't be this guy.
You're in a site that have spoilers. Why don't you check then? I mean, you don't need to listen to MaRo's entire speech at Comic Con, nor you do need to enter the spoiler page. You just need to read the name of the set spoiled.
As for "no fetchlands in 2015," I hightly doubt it. Fall 2015 is most likely going to be a "return" set and "Return to Zendikar" would sell so many boxes they wouldn't even need to print a second and third set. If that doesn't happen Modern Masters 2 could some around to eat everyone's bank account.
I thought it was a comment from something like an year ago. This guy, don't be this guy.
You're in a site that have spoilers. Why don't you check then? I mean, you don't need to listen to MaRo's entire speech at Comic Con, nor you do need to enter the spoiler page. You just need to read the name of the set spoiled.
That kind of sarcasm can backfire really easily. In this example, you deride a perceived inability to read the name of the set whilst demonstrating your own inability to read the release date of that set. Khans of Tarkir is the Fall 2014 set, Agrus is talking about the Fall 2015 set.
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We will find out shortly what lands we will be getting, probably at the Pax party this year.
You're not so much wrong as you are assuming an interpretation that careful examination of the relevant sources will show is not made explicit. Aaron Forsythe explained that sets are designed years in advance... but he didn't specify when they had made the decision to reprint fetchlands (nor does he, for that matter, explicitly say that they made such a decision. But he does say they're planning on "dealing with it") (as an additional aside, Kelly Digges made a comment in Multiverse that they are "likely to reprint" lands with a life payment several months before Aaron gave the interview in question. The assumption is they had made the decision, or were strongly considering it, at least by August 2013). Sam Stoddard "described" the Khans lands in the vaguest possible terms, nothing he said definitively rules anything in or out.
Well, it does rule out that they have basic land types and enter the battlefield untapped because otherwise the checklands could have been in instead of the painlands.
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No he didn't.You took to unconnected point in the article and combined them.
First off Sam stated at the end of the article he cant tell us anything about the KhT duals except that they will have an impact on standard. So he never said they play poorly with checkslands, because he would have to say what they do.
And the point with the INN checklands earlier in the article was about how they initially where going to be in M15 but then to many lands would have '~ enters the battlefield tapped.' that they needed an option for aggressive deck to get mana first turn. Hence how the enemy APOC painlands ended up in their place. We know as of right now that 15 lands that EBT, the 10 scry temples and 5 wedge tri lands come October. So it's not unbelievable that the enemy painlands and fetches end up supporting aggro come next standard. Though they'd waste a wedge set not doing wedge panoramas, so fetches might not be in because of that.
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The most likely scenario is that the allied fetches are in Khans, and the 3rd set has the enemy fetches. This explains both the need for the painlands and Aaron's comments could be meant to indicate we won't see the fetches already in modern reprinted until next year. And saying that they will see play could be interpreted either as saying the lands will appear weak at first, as many have interpreted it, or it could be hinting that they're powerful.
If I recall well, MaRo stated that mana fixing in shards were sub-par, on both quantity and quality levels, and that that problem would be adressed. I don't have the link to the info but it probably can be found fairly easily by some reddit expert
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i mean, its not like i would be disappointed if they would print fetchlands, but i really would appreciate something completly new more
The impact of Modern is subtle but the pressure is there. Hence we see THS and Magic 2015 to be relatively underpowered as compared to the previous counterparts.
Fetches TBH, don't really help much in a tricolor set any more than a Panorama. A triland is certainly much better in this regard. However, I wanna see fetches as soon as possible, so screw logic.
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While im not in the group of people who take the statement of 'We use shuffle effects but try not to have to many in standard together' as "We hate shuffling.'
Having all 10 fetches plus 5 wedge panoramas plus Evolving Wilds would be 16 land search effects in standard. Which im pretty sure is excessive.
My point is if we get wedge panoramas where not getting fetches. Khans is different than we'd though it be by the wedges being one ally and one enemy. So I wouldn't expect everything to be the same. Wizards of the habit of delivering expectations and suprising us.
Your statement makes no sense. Shocks and fetches wont be in standard together. You do realize they do want people to play modern as well right? They purposely seed standard with modern playables so that people will pay both. Sure they want standard to be played more but they have modern as run off for when people don't want to play standard. Im pretty sure im a niche in the payer base who doesn't buy singles from a set he/she didn't buy, its my OCD. But the majority of players will buy singles for decks regardless from where they started collecting from. And the only way to do that is for pack to be opened. So if they did print fetches in KTK people would buy it just for the chance to get for $4 instead of $60+. People where happy as hell to have shocks in standard since they could immediately switch them into a modern deck. Fetches would be no different
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Not necessarily true. Currently there are two types of duel lands (shocks and temples) in standard. Which means 50% of lands come into play tapped guaranteed. If check lands were reprinted instead of pain-lands, that means 66% of all lands would enter the battlefield tapped turn 1 (even if Khans featured something like fetches).
In a wedge set, 50%+ of lands entering the battlefield tapped turn 1 would be a deathnell for aggro. Especially in a block that most likely won't support mono-colored decks as much as Theos.
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The current aggro deck in Standard is, somehow, Mono-U. So it wouldn't mean anything in our current standard. Next Standard however Aggro will be looking for a new place to hang its hat when Mono-U Devotion loses a lot of tools. Which is where pains over checks makes it seem like we won't see anything with a basic landtype on it.
Look at this quote:
He's talking about after RTR rotates, which is when Kahns would be part of the environment. He says they needed to replace shock lands with lands that produce colored mana on turn one. Again, since this is after Kahns is in Standard, he has two sets of duals to consider: M15 and Kahns itself. If the duals in Kahns could produce colored mana on turn 1, it doesn't seem like Sam would have said what he did about needing to find a shock land replacement. The Khans duals would be the replacement. Since this isn't the case, I am led to believe that the Kahns duals can't produce colored mana on turn 1. Hence, no fetches.
I am not a fan of fetch land design or how they affect Standard, but their power level is undeniable. I sympathize with those who still want them for Modern, Legacy, EDH, etc. They will be reprinted soon, but I honestly don't think it will be in Kahns. I do think we will see them in 2015.
For now, my wishful thinking is going to be for morph duals. They would probably ETB tapped and morph for either of their colors of mana. If pushed, they would morph for 0.
Oh I agree with the basic land-type not being seen on the new lands. What I was referring to was the "comes into play taped" bit.
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Oh it's compelling, sure, but I still maintain it's not definitive. Especially that we now know of the trilands, the environment that's becoming apparent may well be one where "too many lands [are] entering the battlefield tapped" just on the weight of three-colour decks wanting trilands. If Khans has the allied fetchlands but not the enemy ones, that would fit perfectly with "Making sure that allied and enemy decks both work in Standard doesn't always mean that the lands have to be the same, just that they are about comparable for decks".
Again, I'm not saying this is the most likely scenario, just that everyone needs to stop assuming that the impression they got from that article is what Sam literally said. Whenever a WotC spokesperson talks about an unreleased set, they say ambiguous and potentially misleading things. You have to be incredibly careful before you declare one thing or another confirmed or denied based on that stuff.
Fair enough.
I don't think that applies to rare cards so much. Besides, Zoetic Cavern seems simple enough to me. Adding colored mana doesn't make it that much more complex.
I sure am hoping that Zendikar is the the case and that we come back to it. I would throw paychecks at it like a crazy banshee forever and ever. With, or WITHOUT fetchlands...
But who am I kidding, bring me dim fetches!
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I thought it was a comment from something like an year ago. This guy, don't be this guy.
You're in a site that have spoilers. Why don't you check then? I mean, you don't need to listen to MaRo's entire speech at Comic Con, nor you do need to enter the spoiler page. You just need to read the name of the set spoiled.
That kind of sarcasm can backfire really easily. In this example, you deride a perceived inability to read the name of the set whilst demonstrating your own inability to read the release date of that set. Khans of Tarkir is the Fall 2014 set, Agrus is talking about the Fall 2015 set.