if you pay higher than msrp for these at an LGS instead of telling your LGS owner that you can simply walk into target/walmart and buy one for msrp.... you might just need your head checked...
keep your business local IMO, but not if they are this dumb
Duel decks, Planechase, Archenemy and the original Commander decks were all sold in those stores.
Duel decks, Planechase, Archenemy and the original Commander decks were all sold above msrp at LGS's, depending on the contents of the decks. (Elspeth, Knight Errant, Scavenging Ooze, 2 Baleful Strix)
Nothing is different with this release, nothing will change. Magic players will scoop up every commander deck they can find at a Target or Walmart, just as before.
Planechase wasn't limited either...
This set will likely be printed more than the last set of commander decks, as they not know what they are dealing with RE: Demand.
So far, for Theros, it feels like they stapled "enchantment" onto a bunch of cards in a run of the mill set and assumed it would make it feel enchantmenty. It doesn't. It's not organic.
I mean, that is the difference between having "noncreature card type" as the theme and "game zone" as the theme.
One can be done elequently, one is kind of awkward.
I mean, look at how Mirrodin and Scars treated artifacts. Mechanics that cared about how many artifacts you had, colored artifacts, artifacts with colored activations, artifacts that cared about mana colors you spent to cast them. Saying it isn't organic is kind of a flavor pun, but still.
How can you make a set about enchantments and have it not feel awkward?
WoTC certainly tried, but it still feels awkward.
Reward having a bunch of colored cards on the battlefield. (enchantments stick around, pile up)
Reward targeting a creature (instant value from auras)
Create auras that don't have 'feel bad' situations
And people complained there weren't any cards like Sphere of Safety in this set, when that is actually lazy design...(if done in large amounts)
The central mechanic of the Gods (devotion) requires you to build your deck around them.
I don't think it's too much to ask that, if I've literally devoted my whole deck towards maximizing my mythic bomb, that you can't blow it out with a generic and easily-obtained common that answers that entire class of God cards.
It really makes me question the judgment of the development team. Do you want your design team's mechanics to be successful or not? Seems like not.
I question your judgment of limited formats if you think every card choice is made in regards to making sure the mythics in the set are hard to deal with.
I'd even settle for Peek though or Peer through Depths, althought they won't reprint arcane when they brought in scry.
We have already had confirmation that we know all the blue reprints due to the Japanese magazine page.
Also, development added scry, and development wouldn't touch Preordain with a 10 foot pole. The card was too good for standard, and got banned in modern.
Have we had any enchantments yet? and by that I mean just straight forward ones, no creatures or artifacts. I have to think there's some sort of cycle or something with that coming, probably a rare and an uncommon set
There is a cycle of uncommon 'ordeals', it seems like.
Shouldn't we get a new block with Chandra/Ajani being featured?
Ajani appears to be somewhere in Theros, so that leaves
Chandra, being the face of a core set seems a bit weak. She should get more story for sure.
Just because Liliana is in a block, it doesn't mean it is "her story".
Her doing her thing doesn't have to be the entire point of the block's conflict, like it was in Innistrad.
Duel decks, Planechase, Archenemy and the original Commander decks were all sold in those stores.
Duel decks, Planechase, Archenemy and the original Commander decks were all sold above msrp at LGS's, depending on the contents of the decks. (Elspeth, Knight Errant, Scavenging Ooze, 2 Baleful Strix)
Nothing is different with this release, nothing will change. Magic players will scoop up every commander deck they can find at a Target or Walmart, just as before.
Planechase wasn't limited either...
This set will likely be printed more than the last set of commander decks, as they not know what they are dealing with RE: Demand.
From the barely biweekly joke news video on scg?
I mean, that is the difference between having "noncreature card type" as the theme and "game zone" as the theme.
One can be done elequently, one is kind of awkward.
I mean, look at how Mirrodin and Scars treated artifacts. Mechanics that cared about how many artifacts you had, colored artifacts, artifacts with colored activations, artifacts that cared about mana colors you spent to cast them. Saying it isn't organic is kind of a flavor pun, but still.
How can you make a set about enchantments and have it not feel awkward?
WoTC certainly tried, but it still feels awkward.
Reward having a bunch of colored cards on the battlefield. (enchantments stick around, pile up)
Reward targeting a creature (instant value from auras)
Create auras that don't have 'feel bad' situations
And people complained there weren't any cards like Sphere of Safety in this set, when that is actually lazy design...(if done in large amounts)
That isn't comparable...at all.
Those seem much more comparable.
Is this instant speed? No.
Does it cost more than people would expect? Yes.
Why was Deglamer a common in Morningtide?
I question your judgment of limited formats if you think every card choice is made in regards to making sure the mythics in the set are hard to deal with.
We have already had confirmation that we know all the blue reprints due to the Japanese magazine page.
Also, development added scry, and development wouldn't touch Preordain with a 10 foot pole. The card was too good for standard, and got banned in modern.
Interactions with bestow that will confuse people make it super unlikely.
If it is common, then an artifact uncommon cycle could exist.
They stopped that practice immediately after NPH.
Also, the makeup of the remaining gold cards suggests 1 rare black/white card (the fates) and uncommon cards for each of the remaining color pairs.
There is a cycle of uncommon 'ordeals', it seems like.
No.
They don't plan out planeswalker colors like that.
That said, rumor is that it is Kiora, which means she is either blue or blue/green.
Just because Liliana is in a block, it doesn't mean it is "her story".
Her doing her thing doesn't have to be the entire point of the block's conflict, like it was in Innistrad.