I can't say the flip lands excited me as I have their original broken counterparts anyways, but I'll give them the credit for re-balancing these utility lands and being more accessible to players who can only dream of getting their original versions these days thanks to their ever-dwindling supply...
Yeah, Ixlan wasn't my thing hence why I said I never cared for its setting. I can't even say a lot of Magic was my thing though until Core 2019. Now that's the 90s Magic I missed so dearly and wish it wasn't such a rare thing to occur these days. Again though, it's only my dumb opinion.
The pirates are the closest thing to something I liked about Ixlan because one of the most feared pirate captains was an elderly woman than can steal anything including PEOPLE.
Interesting although I suppose only Innistrad is immediately relevant since it takes usually 5-6 years to return. Although I think Theros and New Phyrexia are far more likely returns.
Is this still true under the new blockless system? If they go through planes faster, it stands to reason that returns will happen sooner if they want to keep the 50/50 ratio of new planes and returns. Unless, of course, we get more Ravnica-like visits and less one-shots.
Depends. Tribal sets, being more linear, probably want several sets. (This depends on which tribes. Like, Innistrad would be mostly fine except for werewolves. Same with Lorwyn with the exception of kithkin, though it would be debatable how much support treefolk, giants, and to a lesser extent elementals and faeries get; for classes, Lorwyn would face the issue with shamans, warriors, and rogues. Keep in mind that Lorwyn and Morningtide each did have unique tribes, just races in Lorwyn and just classes in Morningtide. So it might be possible?)
Where does this put Ixalan? Well, pirates and dinosaurs didn't really have tribal support before Ixalan; in fact, before Ixalan, no card had been printed with the creature type dinosaur since Old Fogey, and in silver border, you're going back to Ice Age (which is a bit of a flavor fail, since Cenozoic and Paleozoic ice ages are both better-known than Mesozoic ones; Paleozoic ice ages included at least one ELE).
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One of the things I like about Ixalan is how it reminds me of playing Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Banjo-Kazooie, and Banjo-Tooie back in the day. Fighting pirates, hunting for treasure, exploring ancient temples...ah, good times.
I think the tribes could have used a little more cross-tribal synergy, though Merfolk and Vampires would have been tricky since they are the only two tribes out of the four not to share any colors. Dinosaurs and Pirates were the easiest to cross-synergize; Dinosaurs could still attack and enable Raid, while Pirate cards like Makeshift Munitions can damage Dinosaurs with Enrage. Their overlaps with Merfolk and Vampires are less pronounced.
Personally, I think it a pity we didn't get a Mount mechanic for the Sun Empire. Imagine having Dinosaur Mounts that other creatures can ride? Then you could crew a pirate ship with a Vampire conquistador riding a Dinosaur.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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One of the things I like about Ixalan is how it reminds me of playing Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Banjo-Kazooie, and Banjo-Tooie back in the day. Fighting pirates, hunting for treasure, exploring ancient temples...ah, good times.
You get points for the DK Country reference.
To go with your point, to me it felt a bit wonky with the dinosaur aspect. If they wanted to go nuts with pirates it could've been more dark and mysterious along the lines of the original Alone in the Dark series, the second installment in particular. That was the definition of a deep and dark pirate-based lore. I understand they wanted to attain the Meso-American feel and all, but to me the dinosaur concept made it seem less...serious. I don't know if that's the best way to describe it.
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Monarch was also going to be a driving mechanic of the set until Conspiracy take the crown took it, so that a mechanics they could bring back and play up the idea of the factions fighting for lands/territory and less about adventuring.
Monarch was going to be in RIX?
Oh... that makes so much sense now.
Sad they didn't use it in both sets. Monarch is really amazing and need more support.
Meanwhile ascend was just bland, boring and unflavorful. Why a pirate should care about receiving the city's blessing? He/she just want the gold.
The mechanic that would become Monarch was going to be other main mechanic besides tribal in the Ixalan block. Explore and Ascend kinda take it place last minute flavor wise (getting/taking resources) and with Ascend mechanically.
I think they didn't do both because of how the scheduling for side sets and main sets having different needs and it might have been possible that Conspiracy take the crown would have been released close to Ixalan. Unstable was deployed since marketing thought it would fight with Kaladesh for since they are both "steam punk worlds".
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I'm going to guess the mechanic that became Monarch was originally Compass. It makes sense; whoever has the Compass has more knowledge of how to find Orazca, so they get to draw an additional card.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Triple Ixalan was a horrendous draft format. Rivals was better, but still pretty bad. Tribal just sucks for so many reasons: draft is on rails as soon as you find your tribe, and you are pressured to commit to one of them early since you have a hard time staying open for several archetypes like you can in a lot of other sets. This means that if you are lucky and happen to pick your first few cards in the tribe that ends up being open in your seat, you get a much better deck than those who aren´t as lucky.
Tribal also sucks for Standard, since tribal decks for the supported tribes feel like they´re pre-built for you, you just take the best cards from your chosen tribe and hope that it´s good enough. And then when new sets are released, tribal support isn´t followed up and your tribal deck falls behind.
That´s the gameplay. The setting is a matter of taste. I liked the treasure/exploration theme and the colorful setting, but Pirates and Dinos just felt so silly, so that was definitely an L for me.
I also just despise double faced cards. I wish they would never return. They are so cumbersome in paper, where you have to reveal them at the start of the draft and flag your color pairs to your neighbours. In two drafts I sat to the left of someone who opened Profane Procession, and horray, now I have three colors to choose from because I know that they will be white/black unless he gets stabbed by the person on their right. It´s not a fun tension at all. On top of that you have to play with proxy cards and dig in your deckbox for your real card when you play it, or you have to make sure you play with opaque sleeves, limiting your choices, and if you play a lot, the sleeves on DFCs stand out after a while because they wear quicker around the edge from taking it out and flipping it and putting it back in and taking it out and flipping it back, and if you change those sleeves, they still stand out because they are newer than those on the rest of your cards... ugh, we should not be forced to deal with all that. At least IXL block only had them at rare/mythic, where they belong.
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Monarch was also going to be a driving mechanic of the set until Conspiracy take the crown took it, so that a mechanics they could bring back and play up the idea of the factions fighting for lands/territory and less about adventuring.
Monarch was going to be in RIX?
Oh... that makes so much sense now.
Sad they didn't use it in both sets. Monarch is really amazing and need more support.
Meanwhile ascend was just bland, boring and unflavorful. Why a pirate should care about receiving the city's blessing? He/she just want the gold.
They wanted to make it more of a challenge, I guess. Plus, they didn't want to make it so you could lose the treasure of Orazca.
If you want flavor, just consider "the city's blessing" to be whatever you want from the city.
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A 3 is Will most likely do again, probably many times
He said they were so much fun
I think this is helped by the fact that some really prominent planes have Dinos - Dominaria, for one, but apparently they exist on Ravnica's polar regions as well.
I can't say the flip lands excited me as I have their original broken counterparts anyways, but I'll give them the credit for re-balancing these utility lands and being more accessible to players who can only dream of getting their original versions these days thanks to their ever-dwindling supply...
Yeah, Ixlan wasn't my thing hence why I said I never cared for its setting. I can't even say a lot of Magic was my thing though until Core 2019. Now that's the 90s Magic I missed so dearly and wish it wasn't such a rare thing to occur these days. Again though, it's only my dumb opinion.
The pirates are the closest thing to something I liked about Ixlan because one of the most feared pirate captains was an elderly woman than can steal anything including PEOPLE.
A 3 is Will most likely do again, probably many times
He said they were so much fun
I think this is helped by the fact that some really prominent planes have Dinos - Dominaria, for one, but apparently they exist on Ravnica's polar regions as well.
Yep
Dominaria
Fiora (Conspiracy sets)
Ixalan (ofcoarse)
Mirridon (tyrannax and Pterons)
Muraganda (a plane inherited by Dino’s just as much as ixalan)
Talkir (the deathmist raptors)
And probably ravnica since ripscale predator is a dinosaur
All known planes to have them
And we may get more new planes with them as well
And mark even confirmed we can get blue and black dinosaurs if the plane and mechanics is right (black is a lot harder according to him)
Black would logically get poisonous and/or scary Dinosaurs, not to mention some flying. Dinosaurs can work with virtually every keyword and virtually any p/t, so it shouldn't be hard to represent them as a WUBRG tribe in the right set. I've even come up with my own Dinosaur-focused world where the Dinosaurs are separated into GWU and BRG camps, the GWU being more domestic and tame, employed as mounts and beasts of burden, the BRG being more savage and predatory, associated with Devour or Bloodthirst. You'd probably also get some scavengers in BGU. Although, a faction world akin to Dragons of Tarkir with five ally-colored Dinosaur tribes would also be cool. WU would focus the most on taming Dinosaurs as Mounts, UB would probably use their remains as currency and tools, BR would hunt them for fun and profit and use them as fighting beasts, RG would hunt them for survival when necessary and otherwise fight for their wild freedom, and GW would treat them like livestock, protecting them and deriving food and other products from them.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
I think there were a lot of good ideas in Ixalan, but the dinosaurs+pirates+vampires always felt to me like a bit of a stretch. I didn't like the Spanish-flavored white-aligned vampires to be honest, but I admit they were a clever twist, it's just that being South American of Spanish descent myself vampires are something I would never associate with our common culture, instead I would have made the conquistadors something more similar to the greedy and sanctimonious Orzhov and given them BW Angels and spirits with a nasty disposition, for me Spanish vampires feel as silly as Vikings with katanas.
In any case, what I do hope we never see again is a creature called "Chupacabra", whoever advised WOTC on this was clueless, the chupacabras, which actually means "goat sucker" by the way, is in no an established mythological creature in Mesoamerican or Latino culture at large. It's a stupid urban legend that started in Puerto Rico in the 90's and gained traction with Telemundo's (that bastion of serious journalism) reports on it and is treated as a total joke by most people except hillbillies and the tinfoil crowd who believe in alien cattle mutilation, they literally put an UFO conspiracy theory "cryptid" in Magic, little green men with laser guns would be just about as jarring as that.
And since we're in the subject of neglected planes, I'm one of those who root for a return to Kamigawa, just forget about so much kami stuff and focus on what people love about Japanese culture and mythology...no, not THOSE cartoons you pervs, Ninjas, Samurais,feudal warfare and maybe vengeful ghosts like Samara. Kamigawa has a lot of potential, it's just that they messed it up the first time.
I think there were a lot of good ideas in Ixalan, but the dinosaurs+pirates+vampires always felt to me like a bit of a stretch. I didn't like the Spanish-flavored white-aligned vampires to be honest, but I admit they were a clever twist, it's just that being South American of Spanish descent myself vampires are something I would never associate with our common culture, instead I would have made the conquistadors something more similar to the greedy and sanctimonious Orzhov and given them BW Angels and spirits with a nasty disposition, for me Spanish vampires feel as silly as Vikings with katanas.
The thing Ixalan isn't just Mesoamerican world, its "Age of Discovery" world (hence the pirates), with the Vampires and Pirates homeland having elements of Spain/France/Italy. In fact the invaders to the Mesoamerican area part of the world not being nothing based in Mesoamerican myth makes sense. Although they do blend somewhat nicely since Ixalan vampires have bat features and there is supposedly a bat god of darkness that draws on a few Mesoamerican myths, who made Elenda into a vampire.
In any case, what I do hope we never see again is a creature called "Chupacabra", whoever advised WOTC on this was clueless, the chupacabras, which actually means "goat sucker" by the way, is in no an established mythological creature in Mesoamerican or Latino culture at large. It's a stupid urban legend that started in Puerto Rico in the 90's and gained traction with Telemundo's (that bastion of serious journalism) reports on it and is treated as a total joke by most people except hillbillies and the tinfoil crowd who believe in alien cattle mutilation, they literally put an UFO conspiracy theory "cryptid" in Magic, little green men with laser guns would be just about as jarring as that.
-Shrug- as someone also latino I had no issues with the Chupacabras, what are urban legends but todays myths and fairy tales?
And talked about a little bit in custom cards set for a superhero set, vedalken could be seen as magics takes on aliens.
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I can't say the flip lands excited me as I have their original broken counterparts anyways, but I'll give them the credit for re-balancing these utility lands and being more accessible to players who can only dream of getting their original versions these days thanks to their ever-dwindling supply...
Yeah, Ixlan wasn't my thing hence why I said I never cared for its setting. I can't even say a lot of Magic was my thing though until Core 2019. Now that's the 90s Magic I missed so dearly and wish it wasn't such a rare thing to occur these days. Again though, it's only my dumb opinion.
The pirates are the closest thing to something I liked about Ixlan because one of the most feared pirate captains was an elderly woman than can steal anything including PEOPLE.
Depends. Tribal sets, being more linear, probably want several sets. (This depends on which tribes. Like, Innistrad would be mostly fine except for werewolves. Same with Lorwyn with the exception of kithkin, though it would be debatable how much support treefolk, giants, and to a lesser extent elementals and faeries get; for classes, Lorwyn would face the issue with shamans, warriors, and rogues. Keep in mind that Lorwyn and Morningtide each did have unique tribes, just races in Lorwyn and just classes in Morningtide. So it might be possible?)
Where does this put Ixalan? Well, pirates and dinosaurs didn't really have tribal support before Ixalan; in fact, before Ixalan, no card had been printed with the creature type dinosaur since Old Fogey, and in silver border, you're going back to Ice Age (which is a bit of a flavor fail, since Cenozoic and Paleozoic ice ages are both better-known than Mesozoic ones; Paleozoic ice ages included at least one ELE).
On phasing:
I think the tribes could have used a little more cross-tribal synergy, though Merfolk and Vampires would have been tricky since they are the only two tribes out of the four not to share any colors. Dinosaurs and Pirates were the easiest to cross-synergize; Dinosaurs could still attack and enable Raid, while Pirate cards like Makeshift Munitions can damage Dinosaurs with Enrage. Their overlaps with Merfolk and Vampires are less pronounced.
Personally, I think it a pity we didn't get a Mount mechanic for the Sun Empire. Imagine having Dinosaur Mounts that other creatures can ride? Then you could crew a pirate ship with a Vampire conquistador riding a Dinosaur.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
You get points for the DK Country reference.
To go with your point, to me it felt a bit wonky with the dinosaur aspect. If they wanted to go nuts with pirates it could've been more dark and mysterious along the lines of the original Alone in the Dark series, the second installment in particular. That was the definition of a deep and dark pirate-based lore. I understand they wanted to attain the Meso-American feel and all, but to me the dinosaur concept made it seem less...serious. I don't know if that's the best way to describe it.
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The end of the story (Empire win), however, was disappointing and somehow felt shoehorned.
The mechanic that would become Monarch was going to be other main mechanic besides tribal in the Ixalan block. Explore and Ascend kinda take it place last minute flavor wise (getting/taking resources) and with Ascend mechanically.
I think they didn't do both because of how the scheduling for side sets and main sets having different needs and it might have been possible that Conspiracy take the crown would have been released close to Ixalan. Unstable was deployed since marketing thought it would fight with Kaladesh for since they are both "steam punk worlds".
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Triple Ixalan was a horrendous draft format. Rivals was better, but still pretty bad. Tribal just sucks for so many reasons: draft is on rails as soon as you find your tribe, and you are pressured to commit to one of them early since you have a hard time staying open for several archetypes like you can in a lot of other sets. This means that if you are lucky and happen to pick your first few cards in the tribe that ends up being open in your seat, you get a much better deck than those who aren´t as lucky.
Tribal also sucks for Standard, since tribal decks for the supported tribes feel like they´re pre-built for you, you just take the best cards from your chosen tribe and hope that it´s good enough. And then when new sets are released, tribal support isn´t followed up and your tribal deck falls behind.
That´s the gameplay. The setting is a matter of taste. I liked the treasure/exploration theme and the colorful setting, but Pirates and Dinos just felt so silly, so that was definitely an L for me.
I also just despise double faced cards. I wish they would never return. They are so cumbersome in paper, where you have to reveal them at the start of the draft and flag your color pairs to your neighbours. In two drafts I sat to the left of someone who opened Profane Procession, and horray, now I have three colors to choose from because I know that they will be white/black unless he gets stabbed by the person on their right. It´s not a fun tension at all. On top of that you have to play with proxy cards and dig in your deckbox for your real card when you play it, or you have to make sure you play with opaque sleeves, limiting your choices, and if you play a lot, the sleeves on DFCs stand out after a while because they wear quicker around the edge from taking it out and flipping it and putting it back in and taking it out and flipping it back, and if you change those sleeves, they still stand out because they are newer than those on the rest of your cards... ugh, we should not be forced to deal with all that. At least IXL block only had them at rare/mythic, where they belong.
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They wanted to make it more of a challenge, I guess. Plus, they didn't want to make it so you could lose the treasure of Orazca.
If you want flavor, just consider "the city's blessing" to be whatever you want from the city.
On phasing:
No need to worry
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/180610292213/dinos-on-the-beeble-scale
Mark gave the dinosaurs a 3 on the beeble scale
A 3 is Will most likely do again, probably many times
He said they were so much fun
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We kinda did in Unclaimed Territory, though it doesn't do a helluva lot compared to Cavern of Souls. I tried.
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Yep
Dominaria
Fiora (Conspiracy sets)
Ixalan (ofcoarse)
Mirridon (tyrannax and Pterons)
Muraganda (a plane inherited by Dino’s just as much as ixalan)
Talkir (the deathmist raptors)
And probably ravnica since ripscale predator is a dinosaur
All known planes to have them
And we may get more new planes with them as well
And mark even confirmed we can get blue and black dinosaurs if the plane and mechanics is right (black is a lot harder according to him)
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
In any case, what I do hope we never see again is a creature called "Chupacabra", whoever advised WOTC on this was clueless, the chupacabras, which actually means "goat sucker" by the way, is in no an established mythological creature in Mesoamerican or Latino culture at large. It's a stupid urban legend that started in Puerto Rico in the 90's and gained traction with Telemundo's (that bastion of serious journalism) reports on it and is treated as a total joke by most people except hillbillies and the tinfoil crowd who believe in alien cattle mutilation, they literally put an UFO conspiracy theory "cryptid" in Magic, little green men with laser guns would be just about as jarring as that.
And since we're in the subject of neglected planes, I'm one of those who root for a return to Kamigawa, just forget about so much kami stuff and focus on what people love about Japanese culture and mythology...no, not THOSE cartoons you pervs, Ninjas, Samurais,feudal warfare and maybe vengeful ghosts like Samara. Kamigawa has a lot of potential, it's just that they messed it up the first time.
The thing Ixalan isn't just Mesoamerican world, its "Age of Discovery" world (hence the pirates), with the Vampires and Pirates homeland having elements of Spain/France/Italy. In fact the invaders to the Mesoamerican area part of the world not being nothing based in Mesoamerican myth makes sense. Although they do blend somewhat nicely since Ixalan vampires have bat features and there is supposedly a bat god of darkness that draws on a few Mesoamerican myths, who made Elenda into a vampire.
-Shrug- as someone also latino I had no issues with the Chupacabras, what are urban legends but todays myths and fairy tales?
And talked about a little bit in custom cards set for a superhero set, vedalken could be seen as magics takes on aliens.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I would definitely be interested in a revisit to Ixalan with more of a focus on the bat god and Ixalan's demons.