i'm bored by these. it was expected, and not creative. they don't need to be reprinted. making them worthless doesn't inspire me to go crack more packs. yeah yeah everyone wants shocks. i heard the same thing about painlands at one point too.
This is going to blow your mind: Maybe they are there because they are fun to play with in Standard.... No way!!!
I'm also pretty surprised by that wording, is this a new thing that they type such abrupt explanations? 'Add a lore counter' shouldn't it be 'Add a lore counter on it or CARDNAME'? Sacrifice After III. III what, effect, trigger, counter? I get how the card works, but this seems pretty drastic compared to previous wordings. In all fairness, though, this layout is clean, unique and readable, so they got that part right.
Can't be any worse than Blessing was. That printing was the fist time I saw that card. You can imagine the confusion around it.
The Unstable cards actually make sense now. I'm not sure how I really feel about Sagas but I'll take a wait and see attitude for now.
The wording is perfect. As a professional writer, I love it.
There is zero ambiguity, and it is easy to read with no wasted space. Finally they got an editor with a brain, or at least one who doesn't act like they get paid by the word.
We get used to most things given enough time, but this one is a stretch. (badam, boom, ding!)
As other have noted, why not reuse the PW layout? Why not use the upkeep like the game intended? I'm not a fan of the vertical art. To me, this design is closer to the Kamigawa flip cards. That is: ugly and cramped.
Edit: "As this enters"??? Are they revising templating to shorten them?
Maybe they just want to make MTG language less polished ( and that was a bonus, a good thing that make mtg, in my opinion, better than most games ) ( and that is really sad, i hope that in other languages it is not like that, maybe i pick a spanish version )
I would like to see Sagas in Theros, a viking set, and maybe Kamigawa as a card telling the story of a character.
I think their new use of the pronoun is awesome! It's now much more polished, I think.
I write for a living, and I always try to make things both clear and concise. MTG's unwillingness to say things like "this card" or "this" has always bugged me. Skipping the stilted [CARDNAME] language and going for shorter, clearer English is a huge step forward in my book.
I also like the design. Will look good on the battlefield.
Wait wait wait wait. WAIT! Could the mere existence of this card signal an imminent ban of Blood Moon?! I don't normally proffer pseudo conspiracy theories like this, but...it seems possible. Of course, it's probably just a safety valve against the possibility of these transform lands from taking over standard. I need to calm down.
That would be really bad, take away one of the best cards against Tron in favor of a card Tron will probably run? Wizards will never, ever ban Blood Moon
Blood Moon ia actuallynot that great against Tron. They can get there anyway, and Oblivion Stone usually removes the Moon. It's more of a speedbump for them than anything else.
(Blood Moon plus a decent clock is effective, but as a control player who tried Blood Moon against Tron, I can confirm it doesn't really work as expected. :eek:)
New Huatli seems amazingly, aggressively bad in both Modern and Standard. At 3CMC it would have been a merely decent card, I think.
It requires an existing board presence to act at all, the plus ability is contingent upon having more than one creature to be anything but incredibly bad, and the minus ability totally folds to your opponent having any kind of interaction whatsoever, including just a chump blocker.
Do we know what "city's blessing" does yet? I assume it's like "Monarch," but....
It's not outlined yet but from the look of this card, if you've achieved the condition for Ascend, which gives you the blessing you get an extra or greater effect from certain spells.
It's likely that you and your opponent can have the blessing as it's an ability resulting from likely many cards with Ascend.
More swingy, non-interactive mechanics??
Thanks R&D for vindicating my decision to leave Standard behind forever!!
I'm not sure I like this. I really didn't like it when they pulled this kind of shenanigans with SOI. It's Tamyo's Journal all over.
Mostly because the different Journals weren't recognized by stores, most databases, and many players. I always felt this is WotC giving actual collectors an unnecessarily harder time.
c'est la vie I guess. Collectors are in the minority now.
I honestly cannot comprehend what you wrote. If a collector doesn't want to collect all the versions of an Un-card...maybe...don't?
Is WOTC forcing some unbearable hardship on people who choose to collect all the different versions of something? Should they refrain from making the game more fun for everyone else because collecting all the different versions will be more difficult for people whose chosen hobby is...collecting all the different versions? You'd figure it'd be just one more fun aspect of that hobby. Just does not compute.
This is going to blow your mind: Maybe they are there because they are fun to play with in Standard.... No way!!!
"The giant watches both directions of the road, and never fails to collect a fee for passage." ... or something very similar.
The wording is perfect. As a professional writer, I love it.
There is zero ambiguity, and it is easy to read with no wasted space. Finally they got an editor with a brain, or at least one who doesn't act like they get paid by the word.
I think their new use of the pronoun is awesome! It's now much more polished, I think.
I write for a living, and I always try to make things both clear and concise. MTG's unwillingness to say things like "this card" or "this" has always bugged me. Skipping the stilted [CARDNAME] language and going for shorter, clearer English is a huge step forward in my book.
I also like the design. Will look good on the battlefield.
Blood Moon ia actuallynot that great against Tron. They can get there anyway, and Oblivion Stone usually removes the Moon. It's more of a speedbump for them than anything else.
(Blood Moon plus a decent clock is effective, but as a control player who tried Blood Moon against Tron, I can confirm it doesn't really work as expected. :eek:)
It's actually an elegant solution...
Am professional Japanese translator. Definitely need to fight your own creature.
It requires an existing board presence to act at all, the plus ability is contingent upon having more than one creature to be anything but incredibly bad, and the minus ability totally folds to your opponent having any kind of interaction whatsoever, including just a chump blocker.
It's supposed to make 9-year-old boys, or people with the soul of 9-year-old boys, go "Aweeeeesommmme!"
More swingy, non-interactive mechanics??
Thanks R&D for vindicating my decision to leave Standard behind forever!!
I honestly cannot comprehend what you wrote. If a collector doesn't want to collect all the versions of an Un-card...maybe...don't?
Is WOTC forcing some unbearable hardship on people who choose to collect all the different versions of something? Should they refrain from making the game more fun for everyone else because collecting all the different versions will be more difficult for people whose chosen hobby is...collecting all the different versions? You'd figure it'd be just one more fun aspect of that hobby. Just does not compute.