Is it sad that the reprint that I got most excited about is a black bordered Ambition's Cost?
I think WotC missed a big opportunity to reprint Nin, the Pain Artist and Skullbriar, the Walking Grave as the "reprint" generals in their respective decks. Both of them are reasonably expensive in the secondary market, and both have obvious synergy with some of the new cards, namely Illusory Abusher and Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. Two of their Commander 2012 counterparts have already seen reprint in Conspiracy to boot.
Anybody who has played commander for any reasonable length of time will already have most, if not all, of these reprints. I usually don't like to get down on WotC for their products and I prefer to cultivate a glass-half-full mentality, but I think this year's offering is a tremendous miss. I think they need to up their game to encourage entrenched commander players to purchase this product, not solely market to new players as they so clearly have done here. I'm sad to say that I will probably only be picking up singles as well. At least I won't have to worry about struggling to find these at my local big box stores if I change my mind and decide to pick one up down the road.
"Never forget" is an unhealthy attitude to terrorism and I strongly disagree with the existence of threads like this that perpetuate that attitude. Refuse to be terrorized. Keep calm and carry on. Unfortunately, the US populace and politicians decided to play right into the terrorism, creating a fervor that resulted in little more than security theater rather than actual security and a military response that did several orders of magnitude more damage than the initial attacks. To put into another perspective, 10x more people in the US die each year from auto crashes than people did from the attacks. 9/11 was one of the most effective acts of terror in history, but only because of the disastrously awful response to it.
Who are you to say what may or may not be a healthy attitude for people who were in some capacity affected by an act of terrorism? If you disagree with the existence of this thread, why post? Refusing to be terrorized and "never forget" are not mutually exclusive terms, in fact, they are almost entirely unrelated concepts. "Never forget" does not suggest cowardice or apprehension, rather, it is a statement of remembrance to honor the memory of those lost as a result of an act of terror and implies vigilance, if anything. Furthermore, what relevance do auto-related accidental deaths have in this regard? Without sounding like I'm discounting the lives lost in auto accidents, those numbers are based on thousands of isolated incidents, a tremendous majority of which involve no malicious intent. Clearly, the same cannot be said for 9/11. Beyond that, "9/11 was one of the most effective acts of terror" "only because of our disastrously awful response to it"? Really? So now it's the fault of American law enforcement, emergency response, political, and military personnel? I guess that's why we've seen so many subsequent instances of terrorism with heavy civilian casualties on American soil.
As far as where I was, I remember waking up that morning, getting ready for school and hearing the news on the t.v. in my parent's room. My mom and I sat on the bed and watched in shock. I recall being a few minutes late to school that morning, as I'm sure many people were. I had AP English first period and in lieu of our studies that day, our teacher thought it best for us to be informed. She ignored the direct order of administration to continue instruction, and we had a moment of silence and watched the news for the remainder of class. I cannot say that I was personally directly impacted by events of 9/11, but I pray for those who were.
I just picked up my Kraj deck again after a long hiatus (the reason I put it down in the first place was the prevalence of board wipes in my meta). I am currently using these cards that can stop and/or recover from boardwipes:
At the end of the day, no matter how many cards you run to alleviate it, boardwipes will always pose a problem for this deck as the general Kraj strategy is inherently flawed in that it functions at its best when overextended.
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I think WotC missed a big opportunity to reprint Nin, the Pain Artist and Skullbriar, the Walking Grave as the "reprint" generals in their respective decks. Both of them are reasonably expensive in the secondary market, and both have obvious synergy with some of the new cards, namely Illusory Abusher and Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. Two of their Commander 2012 counterparts have already seen reprint in Conspiracy to boot.
Anybody who has played commander for any reasonable length of time will already have most, if not all, of these reprints. I usually don't like to get down on WotC for their products and I prefer to cultivate a glass-half-full mentality, but I think this year's offering is a tremendous miss. I think they need to up their game to encourage entrenched commander players to purchase this product, not solely market to new players as they so clearly have done here. I'm sad to say that I will probably only be picking up singles as well. At least I won't have to worry about struggling to find these at my local big box stores if I change my mind and decide to pick one up down the road.
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Who are you to say what may or may not be a healthy attitude for people who were in some capacity affected by an act of terrorism? If you disagree with the existence of this thread, why post? Refusing to be terrorized and "never forget" are not mutually exclusive terms, in fact, they are almost entirely unrelated concepts. "Never forget" does not suggest cowardice or apprehension, rather, it is a statement of remembrance to honor the memory of those lost as a result of an act of terror and implies vigilance, if anything. Furthermore, what relevance do auto-related accidental deaths have in this regard? Without sounding like I'm discounting the lives lost in auto accidents, those numbers are based on thousands of isolated incidents, a tremendous majority of which involve no malicious intent. Clearly, the same cannot be said for 9/11. Beyond that, "9/11 was one of the most effective acts of terror" "only because of our disastrously awful response to it"? Really? So now it's the fault of American law enforcement, emergency response, political, and military personnel? I guess that's why we've seen so many subsequent instances of terrorism with heavy civilian casualties on American soil.
As far as where I was, I remember waking up that morning, getting ready for school and hearing the news on the t.v. in my parent's room. My mom and I sat on the bed and watched in shock. I recall being a few minutes late to school that morning, as I'm sure many people were. I had AP English first period and in lieu of our studies that day, our teacher thought it best for us to be informed. She ignored the direct order of administration to continue instruction, and we had a moment of silence and watched the news for the remainder of class. I cannot say that I was personally directly impacted by events of 9/11, but I pray for those who were.
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At the end of the day, no matter how many cards you run to alleviate it, boardwipes will always pose a problem for this deck as the general Kraj strategy is inherently flawed in that it functions at its best when overextended.