I just knew ornithopter would be the downfall of the masterpiece sets. They snuck in a widely played common to see if we would berate them for it, and now it's commons and uncommon's everywhere.
I'm going to regret saying this but; how much higher can our events get anyway? GP Sydney is $360 AUD per team this year, which is $90 US per person, for the basic registration. That's 12 packs, promo and playmat.
At least with one global operator, we have one company to complain to about GP prices. If we don't like the prices we can just boycott CFB products until they change them. "Sure I'll pay $100 for your GP, but every other cent I spend on magic is going to your competitors."
Correction: I like the set. People who draft are seemingly Luke warm on it due to pack price.
Unless you are very good at it, drafting is burning money every time. Drafting expensive packs is burning more money. That said people that play limited often know this and you need to include the value of the experience into the cost comparison. In addition drafting this set should yield more take-home value:cost than the average standard set will so anyone genuine about drafting should be pretty happy.
Within the context of the set, bloom tender would be excellent as a rare and utterly stupid at uncommon. The set has clearly got 3 colour gold as a feature and dropping bloom tender into a gold card is way too good for limited. I'd be absolutely stoked for it to be a rare though, that card is way too expensive.
I think you are underestimating the power of double entomb. Letting your opponent choose which card doesn't go to the yard is significant. If gifts forced you to pick 3 or 4 cards it would not be played.
The sample space is rather small for the rare to mythic bump. I agree it seems unlikely but to suggest that it hasn't happened before so it won't happen now because precedent, is a long bow to draw.
Goyf, Bob, bitterblossom and the others I listed before don't actually fit the mythic theme, goblin guide might not get bumped up to mythic, but I will be very (happily) surprised if snapcaster doesn't get a mythic bump in this set.
This is not how mythics work. The idea is that the card feels mythical to the lore / story / game itself. Its not at all directly correlated with power or use in any particular format. Having it at rare isn't going to warp the draft format either
You're adorable. This is a masters set, mythic is whatever the hell WOTC thinks will sell best.
V-Clique, Dark Confidant, Tarmogoyf, Vampiric Tutor, Bitterblossom, Berserk, Force of Will (which used to be an uncommon by the way). Are these grand mythical characters or story events? No, they are expensive card with high demand and importance in their respective formats.
The idea of Mythic being a grand and spectacular thing is mostly applicable for standard sets, but it is just not applicable in reprint sets.
There was a lot of negativity around the 4 colour good stuff standard that occurred when they mixed battle lands and fetches. Hopefully, with the rotation of battle lands, we will be able to have enemy fetch lands in standard since they're not that powerful without proper dual lands. The other problem was the loading screens, a lot of games spending a lot of time shuffling, especially on coverage.
If I am right though, that means we won't be seeing any fetch lands until fall at the earliest.
My mistake, you are right. But those PTQs are only accessible to people who are already going to GPs. So it's a case of the rich getting richer. The only large, official WOTC tournament within 1000KM of where I live was the WMCQ which we now lost (I can guarantee "nationals" isn't going to be anywhere near here).
I imagine people that live in areas that are well-supported by WOTC have no idea how crappy things have gotten in these past few years for the rest of us. Three years ago we had three local PTQs a year (150-250 players) plus the WMCQ. Now we get nothing from WOTC. Even PPTQs suck because the nearest RPTQ is always over 1000KM away. And quite frankly, compared to most of the world we don't even have it that bad.
I know Canada is big, but 1000km is literally the size of the country. I come from Australia and even we have a GP on the east coast once a year. On the GP schedule there is a GP at either end of Canada within the first 6 months of this year. It's no secret the US has 90% of the access to premier play, always has and always will.
WOTC still supports modern, they support it directly through supplemental products and indirectly through GPs. They are not supporting it at the premier level (being PTs and the World Cup) but that does not mean it is unsupported.
Is this any better than pyromancers acension for storm though? You're going to have to build around it pretty heavily and the main point is to cheat on mana which is what pyro does.
Since two people replied to. It's only worth $7 normally right now. If I were a judge I'd want something worth more. That's the main reason I don't like the card. They will also most likely reprint this often.
You cant just ignore the foil multiplier on a card like this. when it comes to cards for highlander, commander and cube, the foils will hold value 3 times higher than the regular quite easily. This is a $30 card and will be for a long time unless they print it into the ground.
This is not a situation that a definitive answer can be given as in a sanctioned tournament it is something a judge needs to investigate before continuing.
There is absolutely a definitive answer, the judge is going to ask a simple question, did player B pay for the spell? In the situation described, Force of Will has not been successfully cast. To cast a spell you have to announce it, select targets/modes and pay costs.
Player B has said, I'll cast Force on Lord of Atlantis, revealed the force... and then decides to take it back. They will be able to do so because it is not clear that player B is capable of casting the spell, they could say they don't have a blue card to pitch for example. This is also not a GPE - Game rule violation, because the player fixed the error before the affected the game.
Overall, the spell is not cast until all steps have been completed, so until player B has completely finished casting the spell, they have the ability to change their mind.
Next up, masterpiece grizzly bears.
At least with one global operator, we have one company to complain to about GP prices. If we don't like the prices we can just boycott CFB products until they change them. "Sure I'll pay $100 for your GP, but every other cent I spend on magic is going to your competitors."
Unless you are very good at it, drafting is burning money every time. Drafting expensive packs is burning more money. That said people that play limited often know this and you need to include the value of the experience into the cost comparison. In addition drafting this set should yield more take-home value:cost than the average standard set will so anyone genuine about drafting should be pretty happy.
At least I can update my older worded versions so I don't have to argue about searching for less than 4 cards.
Goyf, Bob, bitterblossom and the others I listed before don't actually fit the mythic theme, goblin guide might not get bumped up to mythic, but I will be very (happily) surprised if snapcaster doesn't get a mythic bump in this set.
You're adorable. This is a masters set, mythic is whatever the hell WOTC thinks will sell best.
V-Clique, Dark Confidant, Tarmogoyf, Vampiric Tutor, Bitterblossom, Berserk, Force of Will (which used to be an uncommon by the way). Are these grand mythical characters or story events? No, they are expensive card with high demand and importance in their respective formats.
The idea of Mythic being a grand and spectacular thing is mostly applicable for standard sets, but it is just not applicable in reprint sets.
If I am right though, that means we won't be seeing any fetch lands until fall at the earliest.
I know Canada is big, but 1000km is literally the size of the country. I come from Australia and even we have a GP on the east coast once a year. On the GP schedule there is a GP at either end of Canada within the first 6 months of this year. It's no secret the US has 90% of the access to premier play, always has and always will.
They are adding PTQs to all GPs
There is absolutely a definitive answer, the judge is going to ask a simple question, did player B pay for the spell? In the situation described, Force of Will has not been successfully cast. To cast a spell you have to announce it, select targets/modes and pay costs.
Player B has said, I'll cast Force on Lord of Atlantis, revealed the force... and then decides to take it back. They will be able to do so because it is not clear that player B is capable of casting the spell, they could say they don't have a blue card to pitch for example. This is also not a GPE - Game rule violation, because the player fixed the error before the affected the game.
Overall, the spell is not cast until all steps have been completed, so until player B has completely finished casting the spell, they have the ability to change their mind.