I had an idea awhile back to make these more appealing. Instead of making them for new players and trying to achieve the same goal as the "Planeswalker" deck intro packs, make these appeal to "all" players by adding *New* cards to the set; similar to the Commander Deck Series, and make the decks more tailored to do battle instead of making them a bunch of 1-ofs that hardly work.
Adding new flavorful cards to the themes of the decks would not only support the sales for all players and not just new; while also keeping it exciting and could provide opportunity for new cards to be released for those casual and Commander like formats (and legacy I suppose).
While this would be intresting it would become soon a nightmare, immagine if a card similar to True-Name Nemesis would be released only this way and it would not be included in 4 copies.
Well those landa are pretty pricey considerning the price of a standard deck (50 euros for a budget one) and the entry fee for the events (let's say about 5 euros for one) those would cost me about 80 euros! That's too much!
Baral's Expertise this could be really good as even without mizzix discount this could be a good tempo swing, give us a couple of experience counters or if discounted could "cheat" into play a CC4 spell/creature/artifact
Disallow all hail the new "Nope!" card soon to be included in every blue-running EDH deck
Indomitable Creativity represent another way to Polymorph our artifact tokens, is it good? I don't know, but the ability to choose the size of this spell could be a strong point toward versatility
My favorite art from all the masterpieces so far are the ones with more brightness to them or the high contrast ones like Crucible of Worlds. The foiling just looks amazing on them and it's one of the main reasons I'll probably eventually break down and buy one or two of these things. Platinum Angel is going to look insane with that color pallette.
Isn't just the copper border foil? I have a Painter's servant and onlythe border is foil not the image/art.
Just a funny thing to point out:
Entropic uprising has Army of the damned. Doesn't come with 13 zombie tokens. Wizards FAILED hard on this one. I understand no being able to prepare for how many Elemental or Soldier tokens one might make, but c'mon. I played this deck out of the box last week as was thoroughly disappointed it didn't have the 13 tokens in it. Then I got over it and used dice for the last 3 :).
It would be a mess of a battlefield, ususally I use only 2 tokens with dices, 1 for the tokens that have entered the battlefield this turn (ence can't attack) and 1 for the others and it works fine.
Does anybody know how the sides of the tokens are combined, and how many of each appears in the decks?
There are 10 in each deck, I know only the contents of two of them:
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10 Saproling / Saproling (All identical with different arts on both sides)
I would like to say an important thing: The players who likes foils are the vast majority of the playerbase.
Finally we get foil commanders and some people won't stop complaining, I don't get it.
While this is an intresting article what seems missing is the fact that as boxes/boosters are opened, and singles are sold, the prices will drop.
Will an Imperial Recruiter keep his 70$ price tag after a week? And after a month?
Why can't they make magic great again?
Instant
permanents you control gain indestructible and hexproof until end of turn
Source: Lega Nerd (italian facebook page)
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10 Saproling / Saproling (All identical with different arts on both sides)
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2 Elf warrior / Zombie
3 Goblin (spimaster) / Zombie
5 Worm /zombie
Finally we get foil commanders and some people won't stop complaining, I don't get it.
Who wants can continue the game.
Cast Seething Song -> In response cast Reiterate with buyback -> Arjun, the Shifting Flame ability activates -> Arjun, the Shifting Flame ability resolves -> Reiterate resolves and return to your hand -> (repeat)