the new 'your lands tap for any color' one is obviously going to be a chase card.
You think? Maybe standard players will use this for desert synergy, but do any commander decks really need this?
All I see is a worse dryad of the ilysian grove, which (perhaps surprisingly) still doesn't even make the cut for most of my 3+ color decks. Perhaps I just have too many better color-fixing cards and "tap for any color" lands already.
Does this only add multiple mana if you have multiple mono-colored permanents which are different colors, or will this also add multiple mana of one color if you have multiple mono-colored permanents of the same color?
Players gain priority to interrupt the stack after each spell (or ability) resolves if they want to add to the stack. The active player (the player whose turn it is) gains priority first. Once they pass, the remaining players gain priority in turn order. Note that a player whose turn it is may respond to their own spell or ability immediately by stating "hold priority" so that others don't respond prematurely by assuming they're passing priority. Also note that if a spell on the stack has Split Second, players can't cast spells or activate abilities, but triggered abilities and copies of spells may still be added to the stack. For more info, see Rule 117
I can tell it says Wall of Omens, but every so often it reads like Wall of Otters to me.
Wall of Otters would be an amazing uncard that I would almost certainly buy a playset of.
More realistically, there should already be a wall called Beaver Dam which seems like a careless oversight considering how many less common and silly walls we've seen over the years (ie: wall of kelp).
Overall I'm very disappointed with this superdrop
Then only thing necessary, or rather noteworthy is that rain of filth finally got a reprint and first foiling which was highly unexpected.
Sorry, but I have to express my utter disappointment...
This honestly has to be the most underwhelming reprint set in...forever.
Aside from shocklands and cyclonic rift (which doesn't even have nice arts in my opinion), there's literally nothing worth opening.
Bruvac is alright, but very niche and will likiely tank since very few players gravitate towards mill decks.
T3feri is already selling below $10, and who doesn't already have a dark confidant playset or Lilianas?
Karn just got the ban-hammer, and as much as I love seeing Deathrite Shaman with retro border, it's also banned anywhere I'd want to play it.
Cloudstone Curio got bumped up to mythic? Why?
I'm not sure what I expected from this set, but given the card pool, packs and boxes should be half the price they're currently marked up at.
Maybe the draft format will be fun for those who can afford and enjoy the gamble, but this seems like a much worse set than all the other "remastered" and "masters" sets in recent years.
Those snow-covered lands look great. Too bad you don't get a stack of each so you can actually use them.
20 for $30 would be a good deal, I think, either picking 20 of one basic or 4 of each. At least then you could blink out an EDH deck with one rather easily, unless you run strictly 37 basics.
I don't understand who buys the basic SLs, they are the worst deal and have been since SL's inception.
I suspect most people who order them must really love those particular arts, and/or simply have more money than they know what to do with.
Alas, the same could probably be said for the people who bling out their commander decks with Beta basics and Arabian Nights mountains purely for bragging rights.
It's unlikely we'll see drops with twenty basics (at an affordable price) anytime soon, but there have been a couple instances where you could get ten at once (Featuring: the Mountain Goats, and Happy Little Gathering).
Personally, I order approximately two thirds of all SLs (usually foil bundles for the discount), but I keep most drops sealed as eventual trade fodder.
The nicest basic land SLs in my opinion are:
Meditations on Nature
The Dracula Lands
The Godzilla Lands
I'm also quite fond of the Seb McKinnon swamps (He's also an incredibly nice guy in addition to being a very talented artist), and the Sidharth Chaturvedi islands (which I got a dozen of individually on the secondary market for very cheap when they were on sale at my lgs)
Arguably, the worst by far were the Full-Text Lands. Why anyone would want this gimmicky nonsense in any deck is beyond my comprehension, but each to their own.
As for this current Superdrop, I'm still on the fence and uncertain as to whether I'll get a bundle, just a few drops individually, or particular singles once they hit the secondary market. After all, money is tight these days and everything is so expensive now that essentials must take priority.
Nice. Some characters I'm looking forward to:
Master Mold, Mister Sinister, Apocalypse, Gladiator, Legion, Shadow King, Nightcrawler, Venom, Multiple Man, Human Torch...
Hopefully, we also get Beast tokens, Angel (or Archangel) tokens, Phoenix tokens, (Green) Goblin Tokens, Sentinel (construct) tokens, Cyclops tokens...
Cosmic beings (Galactus, In-Betweener, and Living Tribunal) as planeswalkers would also be cool if they could be designed and balanced properly somehow.
They are using a timeline with the mending as a focus point and its measured in real life time measurements in order to keep things "simple". They want thing to be easily goked for people so if they say a year has passed they are talking about how we on earth will measure a year and character have aged in what we consider a year.
It is also worth noting that not every culture uses the sun(s) to measure the passage of time even here on Earth.
As you know, the Jewish calendar is lunar, and as such, there is a leap-month.
Whether we consider it to be the year 2023 or 5784 is arbitrary since none of the calendars we use are entirely accurate, and science proves our species and planet have been around, rotating for much longer. In fact, even the speed at which our planet rotates on its own axis has changed slightly over time (sometimes caused by earthquakes) which has caused days to become shorter, and even the orbit and poles shift, moving slightly as the Earth wobbles and recalibrates, which obviously affects everything from weather patterns to average seasonal measurements (also influenced by the moon's gravity which affects the tides). But I digress. The point is, it is reasonable to assume that time measurements for days and years is equally unstable on other planets and planes in the Magic universe, and always subject to change.
That being said, time is always relative, never constant, and I hope you've been having a good new year and holiday season.
Shana Tova
EDIT: It is also theoretically plausible that there may be planets, galaxies, or planes which are affected by yet discovered temporal anomalies which cause the passage of time to occur faster or slower than what we're accustomed to. This phenomenon is known as "time dilation", an interesting concept which has been explored in science fiction such as the Season 6 Episode 12 episode of Star Trek: Voyager entitled 'Blink of an Eye'
I can certainly appreciate that some cards are printed in new sets to be legal in Limited play and older eternal non-rotating formats but not for Standard and Pioneer (ie: masterpieces, expeditions, etc), but what's the purpose or advantage of printing cards like youthful valkyrie with artificial scarcity? Here's an uncommon which is decent enough for a specific tribal Pioneer deck, but was printed at such scarcity that it's approximately 3-5x the price it should would be had it been included in draft boosters. Are cards like this excluded from draft boosters specifically because they're considered too strong for limited? Surely I can understand that argument if it was a "common" (in draft boosters), but at uncommon, it's unlikely anyone would've realistically gotten more than two or three in a draft (or sealed event). Strangely, to my surprise, this card wasn't even reprinted in the recent Secret Lair angels deck which would've been a perfect opportunity to improve its availability for those who want to play angels in Pioneer or Commander. Even allosaurus shepherd which was a Jumpstart exclusive card initially got reprinted in Double Masters 2022 for elf players, which is ironic because essentially that mythic with its additional printing may now be less rare than the aforementioned uncommon.
Perhaps I'm just too oldschool and miss the days where there were only three rarities and they were accurate in terms of their print runs (commons were common, uncommons were uncommon, and rares were rare). I can appreciate mythic rarity and the additional rarity of alternate arts and extended borderless variants (from box sets and "collector/vip" packs). However, I find it deceptive and confusing when cards have a pseudo-rarity where they masquerade as "uncommon" despite actually being considerably more rare based on print numbers and distribution.
That being said, I'm simply trying to better understand the logic or psychology behind the decisions to have Set and Jumpstart exclusive cards (which occasionally creep into Standard, Pioneer, and other formats because they're designed to be constructed-playable) with a "false rarity" (in this case, an "uncommon" which is arguably as rare as if not more rare than actual rares which are seemingly more readily available to players (at reasonable/lower secondary market price) because they also appear in Draft boosters.
Perhaps to encourage migration to the new domain, any user who had an account here should be given a "Legendary", "Legacy", or "Vintage" user account upon signing up for added prestige depending on how many years they were active or posts they had.
You think? Maybe standard players will use this for desert synergy, but do any commander decks really need this?
All I see is a worse dryad of the ilysian grove, which (perhaps surprisingly) still doesn't even make the cut for most of my 3+ color decks. Perhaps I just have too many better color-fixing cards and "tap for any color" lands already.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
-Sherlock Holmes
Glissa, the Traitor called and wants her design space back
Wall of Otters would be an amazing uncard that I would almost certainly buy a playset of.
More realistically, there should already be a wall called Beaver Dam which seems like a careless oversight considering how many less common and silly walls we've seen over the years (ie: wall of kelp).
Overall I'm very disappointed with this superdrop
Then only thing necessary, or rather noteworthy is that rain of filth finally got a reprint and first foiling which was highly unexpected.
How I wish I could order two in foil and keep one sealed.
This honestly has to be the most underwhelming reprint set in...forever.
Aside from shocklands and cyclonic rift (which doesn't even have nice arts in my opinion), there's literally nothing worth opening.
Bruvac is alright, but very niche and will likiely tank since very few players gravitate towards mill decks.
T3feri is already selling below $10, and who doesn't already have a dark confidant playset or Lilianas?
Karn just got the ban-hammer, and as much as I love seeing Deathrite Shaman with retro border, it's also banned anywhere I'd want to play it.
Cloudstone Curio got bumped up to mythic? Why?
I'm not sure what I expected from this set, but given the card pool, packs and boxes should be half the price they're currently marked up at.
Maybe the draft format will be fun for those who can afford and enjoy the gamble, but this seems like a much worse set than all the other "remastered" and "masters" sets in recent years.
I suspect most people who order them must really love those particular arts, and/or simply have more money than they know what to do with.
Alas, the same could probably be said for the people who bling out their commander decks with Beta basics and Arabian Nights mountains purely for bragging rights.
It's unlikely we'll see drops with twenty basics (at an affordable price) anytime soon, but there have been a couple instances where you could get ten at once (Featuring: the Mountain Goats, and Happy Little Gathering).
Personally, I order approximately two thirds of all SLs (usually foil bundles for the discount), but I keep most drops sealed as eventual trade fodder.
The nicest basic land SLs in my opinion are:
Meditations on Nature
The Dracula Lands
The Godzilla Lands
I'm also quite fond of the Seb McKinnon swamps (He's also an incredibly nice guy in addition to being a very talented artist), and the Sidharth Chaturvedi islands (which I got a dozen of individually on the secondary market for very cheap when they were on sale at my lgs)
Arguably, the worst by far were the Full-Text Lands. Why anyone would want this gimmicky nonsense in any deck is beyond my comprehension, but each to their own.
As for this current Superdrop, I'm still on the fence and uncertain as to whether I'll get a bundle, just a few drops individually, or particular singles once they hit the secondary market. After all, money is tight these days and everything is so expensive now that essentials must take priority.
Order before the 27th and you'll get 10% off!
Master Mold, Mister Sinister, Apocalypse, Gladiator, Legion, Shadow King, Nightcrawler, Venom, Multiple Man, Human Torch...
Hopefully, we also get Beast tokens, Angel (or Archangel) tokens, Phoenix tokens, (Green) Goblin Tokens, Sentinel (construct) tokens, Cyclops tokens...
Cosmic beings (Galactus, In-Betweener, and Living Tribunal) as planeswalkers would also be cool if they could be designed and balanced properly somehow.
I wonder why that is.
Do they expect it to be the least popular or most deserving of having to be ordered independently?
It is also worth noting that not every culture uses the sun(s) to measure the passage of time even here on Earth.
As you know, the Jewish calendar is lunar, and as such, there is a leap-month.
Whether we consider it to be the year 2023 or 5784 is arbitrary since none of the calendars we use are entirely accurate, and science proves our species and planet have been around, rotating for much longer. In fact, even the speed at which our planet rotates on its own axis has changed slightly over time (sometimes caused by earthquakes) which has caused days to become shorter, and even the orbit and poles shift, moving slightly as the Earth wobbles and recalibrates, which obviously affects everything from weather patterns to average seasonal measurements (also influenced by the moon's gravity which affects the tides). But I digress. The point is, it is reasonable to assume that time measurements for days and years is equally unstable on other planets and planes in the Magic universe, and always subject to change.
That being said, time is always relative, never constant, and I hope you've been having a good new year and holiday season.
Shana Tova
EDIT: It is also theoretically plausible that there may be planets, galaxies, or planes which are affected by yet discovered temporal anomalies which cause the passage of time to occur faster or slower than what we're accustomed to. This phenomenon is known as "time dilation", an interesting concept which has been explored in science fiction such as the Season 6 Episode 12 episode of Star Trek: Voyager entitled 'Blink of an Eye'
Where's my wallet?!
shouldwould be had it been included in draft boosters. Are cards like this excluded from draft boosters specifically because they're considered too strong for limited? Surely I can understand that argument if it was a "common" (in draft boosters), but at uncommon, it's unlikely anyone would've realistically gotten more than two or three in a draft (or sealed event). Strangely, to my surprise, this card wasn't even reprinted in the recent Secret Lair angels deck which would've been a perfect opportunity to improve its availability for those who want to play angels in Pioneer or Commander. Even allosaurus shepherd which was a Jumpstart exclusive card initially got reprinted in Double Masters 2022 for elf players, which is ironic because essentially that mythic with its additional printing may now be less rare than the aforementioned uncommon.Perhaps I'm just too oldschool and miss the days where there were only three rarities and they were accurate in terms of their print runs (commons were common, uncommons were uncommon, and rares were rare). I can appreciate mythic rarity and the additional rarity of alternate arts and extended borderless variants (from box sets and "collector/vip" packs). However, I find it deceptive and confusing when cards have a pseudo-rarity where they masquerade as "uncommon" despite actually being considerably more rare based on print numbers and distribution.
That being said, I'm simply trying to better understand the logic or psychology behind the decisions to have Set and Jumpstart exclusive cards (which occasionally creep into Standard, Pioneer, and other formats because they're designed to be constructed-playable) with a "false rarity" (in this case, an "uncommon" which is arguably as rare as if not more rare than actual rares which are seemingly more readily available to players (at reasonable/lower secondary market price) because they also appear in Draft boosters.
Any opinions or insights would be appreciated.