StP: It may be heresy to many here, but I like the new Terese Nielsen art so much I had a border extension alter commissioned of it. Also, the foil is pretty reasonably priced on this art. You can get an EMA or FTV foil with this art for around $5.
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I'd go ask in the EDH forum. They love gaudy crap like that.
I wish to hell they'd print a new art of Terramorphic Expanse, but as I just ordered the last of the Zendikar fetchlands for my cube, I also threw in the Dark Ascension Evolving Wilds, which is just so much better than any other regular art.
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I wish to hell they'd print a new art of Terramorphic Expanse, but as I just ordered the last of the Zendikar fetchlands for my cube, I also threw in the Dark Ascension Evolving Wilds, which is just so much better than any other regular art.
Always old border. Less for the border than for the sweet cardname font.
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Hi Everyone, looking for suggestions on a few more cards: Lightning Greaves
Kind of leaning towards the FNM version. I generally don't like FNM foils, but I like the flavor text and lack of reminder text.
Sol Ring/Mana Crypt
I'm kind of torn here. I want them to match...do I get Masterpiece versions or Judge Promo versions?
Counterspell
Do I go for EMA, Masques, or 7th edition here?
Hi Everyone, looking for suggestions on a few more cards: Lightning Greaves
Kind of leaning towards the FNM version. I generally don't like FNM foils, but I like the flavor text and lack of reminder text.
Sol Ring/Mana Crypt
I'm kind of torn here. I want them to match...do I get Masterpiece versions or Judge Promo versions?
Counterspell
Do I go for EMA, Masques, or 7th edition here?
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
Masterpiece Greaves -- I like having one or two Masterpieces to represent that part of MTG "history", and Greaves is something where you don't miss out on much from the old options.
What are the editions of your other swords? If your Sword of Fire and Ice and Sword of Light and Shadow are judge promos, I'd get the matching old-border Judge promo. If your swords are MMAs, then I'd get the matching artwork/border for the pack foil. If they're DS, then I'd probably get the pack foil because having only one old border Sword would bother me.
What are the editions of your other swords? If your Sword of Fire and Ice and Sword of Light and Shadow are judge promos, I'd get the matching old-border Judge promo. If your swords are MMAs, then I'd get the matching artwork/border for the pack foil. If they're DS, then I'd probably get the pack foil because having only one old border Sword would bother me.
They're all nonfoil original prints, so DS SoFaI, SoLaS and MBS SoFaF; I don't run the others. I suppose I should have specified for the cycle, haha.
The only reason I ask is while I really like the judge promos, I somewhat dislike how Fire and Ice has a slightly older judge version of the card (DCI watermark/set symbol) while the others have the newer style.
I have not seen any foils from the lands, but the foils of some of the other cards I think look really good. They didn't jack them up like they did in the last modern masters.
I picked up my lingering souls in foil form it and I really like how it looks.
They're so awful looking, it's comical. Somehow worse than Expeditions and Inventions, which I didn't think was possible. I'll represent the frame with one card in my cube (because I represent every frame, even the terrible ones, with at least 1) but I'll cringe and laugh when I draw it. Good god they're awful.
That being said, the Sphinx is the one I hate the least of the 12 that I've seen so far ...and it at least has a pseudo-egyptian "feel" so the frame isn't as out-of-place as on most of the other ones. It might be the one I snag for the cube.
Art on Daze and Mind Twist are pretty good, but these are garbage. Unreadable and ugly is a bad combination.
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Blergh, they look like they're from a completely different game, and on some of these it's really hard to read the card names and type lines. It's a shame they did such a bad job designing these frames, because I do really like the art on quite a few of these, especially Mind Twist, Consecrated Sphinx, and Wrath of God.
We actually have a house rule that you have to announce all pimp as you play it, but we've amended that rule to not allow these to be announced.
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I wish it were more clean AND NOT IN ALL CAPS. The mana symbols not being colored really bothers me too. That being said, the art on some of them are amazing, especially Wrath of God, Daze, and Mindtwist.
I liked how a good number of the Kaladesh Inventions had flavor text to them, but I don't think it'd work out with THE ALL CAPS FORMAT.
Somehow worse than Expeditions and Inventions, which I didn't think was possible.
Gonna have to disagree on Inventions, those frames are beautiful and the color is a nice blend between the classic and modern artifact cardframes. I would've liked the Expeditions waaaayyy more if the card type box wasn't on the bottom.
I'm actually ok with these as stand-alones - they just look so jarringly different from everything else. I don't know which one I want to be the representative, though. Options I'm between:
These are the least Magic card looking Magic cards of all time!
The design is actually quite intersting and a cool fit for the world of Amonkhet, but it is just too extreme for my tastes. Then again, I am a purist and dislike pretty much all novelty frames. Just today, I finally replaced the last two novelty frame cards (Planar Chaos Damnation and Future Sight Tarmogoyf) with normal frame versions (both from MM17).
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I'd go ask in the EDH forum. They love gaudy crap like that.
I wish to hell they'd print a new art of Terramorphic Expanse, but as I just ordered the last of the Zendikar fetchlands for my cube, I also threw in the Dark Ascension Evolving Wilds, which is just so much better than any other regular art.
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My favorite Evolving Wilds is the Dragons of Tarkir version. Looks gorgeous in foil. Also looks most "evolving" for me.
Me too, and this way I can get cheap foils and I like it.
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Wanna trade?
That works for the older prerelease foils, but now they're actually slightly more than pack foils, because they're a bit rarer.
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Lightning Greaves
Kind of leaning towards the FNM version. I generally don't like FNM foils, but I like the flavor text and lack of reminder text.
Sol Ring/Mana Crypt
I'm kind of torn here. I want them to match...do I get Masterpiece versions or Judge Promo versions?
Counterspell
Do I go for EMA, Masques, or 7th edition here?
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
Beta Sol Ring, OG Crypt.
Beta or arena foil Counterspell.
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Thanks! I actually didn't think much about beta, I forgot how much I like the look of the old cards.
One more. What about Sword of Feast and Famine? Pack foil or Judge promo?
Masterpiece Greaves -- I like having one or two Masterpieces to represent that part of MTG "history", and Greaves is something where you don't miss out on much from the old options.
Beta (or CE) Sol Ring, Arena Mana Crypt.
Masques foil Counterspell is gorgeous
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They're all nonfoil original prints, so DS SoFaI, SoLaS and MBS SoFaF; I don't run the others. I suppose I should have specified for the cycle, haha.
The only reason I ask is while I really like the judge promos, I somewhat dislike how Fire and Ice has a slightly older judge version of the card (DCI watermark/set symbol) while the others have the newer style.
I picked up my lingering souls in foil form it and I really like how it looks.
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That being said, the Sphinx is the one I hate the least of the 12 that I've seen so far ...and it at least has a pseudo-egyptian "feel" so the frame isn't as out-of-place as on most of the other ones. It might be the one I snag for the cube.
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We actually have a house rule that you have to announce all pimp as you play it, but we've amended that rule to not allow these to be announced.
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I wish it were more clean AND NOT IN ALL CAPS. The mana symbols not being colored really bothers me too. That being said, the art on some of them are amazing, especially Wrath of God, Daze, and Mindtwist.
I liked how a good number of the Kaladesh Inventions had flavor text to them, but I don't think it'd work out with THE ALL CAPS FORMAT.
Gonna have to disagree on Inventions, those frames are beautiful and the color is a nice blend between the classic and modern artifact cardframes. I would've liked the Expeditions waaaayyy more if the card type box wasn't on the bottom.
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Consecrated Sphinx, Daze (Baze), Spell Pierce, Maelstrom Pulse, waiting to see what's in Hour of Devastation
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The design is actually quite intersting and a cool fit for the world of Amonkhet, but it is just too extreme for my tastes. Then again, I am a purist and dislike pretty much all novelty frames. Just today, I finally replaced the last two novelty frame cards (Planar Chaos Damnation and Future Sight Tarmogoyf) with normal frame versions (both from MM17).
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