I can't help but feel like this is all bad news. The ring and the greaves comprise half the monetary value of the box. This does not bode well for the strength of the other cards in the set. I'm extremely concerned wotc had to put these in as filler to compensate for lack of new good stuff :/
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Hello, ladies, look at your deck, now back to mine, now back at your deck, now back to mine. Sadly, yours isn’t mine, but if you stopped using slow, weak mana myr and switched to Sol Ring, your mana production would be good as mine.
Look down, back up, where are you? You’re at your local EDH table with the deck your deck could play like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s a card with two boots to equip to that thing you love. Look again, the boots are now Mana Crypts. Anything is possible when your deck uses explosive mana staples and not that fizzly stuff.
On the one hand, I am happy that Wizards reprints such an old and expensive card in a preconstructed deck, therefore highly increasing its accessibility. And with cool art, too.
On the other hand... ban that damn thing already! Sol Ring and Mana Crypt are such stupid cards, please remove them from the format!
These spoilers have caused them to jump in price at least 30 dollars for the set of 5. I forsee these decks shooting up in the coming weeks due to more awesome spoilers.
Im so glad I preordered all 5, cuz cards like this might make them go up in price
Wizards has already states that this set will NOT be limited in any way and will be available for a looooong time to come... Any store dumb enough to raise their prices will lose business, as every walmart and target in the country will be getting these regularly... If you pay over MSRP for these things its because youre desperate and cant wait, but as for me--- if my local game store tries to jack up the price, Ill have no problem ceasing all support I give them, will instantly loose complete respect for them, and will just wait and pick up the 5 I plan on buying elsewhere.. Im a patient man, I have no issues with waiting for the market to saturate a bit if need be.
Sol Ring in each deck and Lightning Greaves too? I gotta say, that certainly has made me a happy camper.
If Sol Ring is in there seems to be a good chance at other fantastic staples, Bribery, Phyrexian Arena, etc. I hope the rest of the cards prove to be this awesome.
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Sol Ring in each deck and Lightning Greaves too? I gotta say, that certainly has made me a happy camper.
If Sol Ring is in there seems to be a good chance at other fantastic staples, Bribery, Phyrexian Arena, etc. I hope the rest of the cards prove to be this awesome.
I don't own any Sol Rings.... but I will. This is a great thing to put in these decks and I'm glad they put it as an Uncommon instead of taking up a rare slot. Sol Ring and Lightning Greaves give me high hopes for the rest of the cards.
Well usually when they reprint something in a new art and new frame the old ones don't change much unless it's completely unplayable in standard, like Meddling Mage or Nantuko Shade. But this is much different. Smaller print run as well.
This makes me think we're going to see Maze as well.
Nice touch. I think this is great for the preconstructed decks. At least it gives the precons a card everybody wants! I knew I bought all 5 for a reason. Sounds like some trade bait for me. Will be interesting to see how much, if any this causes the precons to go up. I seen them start as low as $21.00 dollars originally, then sell out the same day. Now I see them for $30.00 each, or on ebay for $140.00 for all 5. I wonder how many sets they printed, since they are supposed to be in limited supply......
Nice touch. I think this is great for the preconstructed decks. At least it gives the precons a card everybody wants! I knew I bought all 5 for a reason. Sounds like some trade bait for me. Will be interesting to see how much, if any this causes the precons to go up. I seen them start as low as $21.00 dollars originally, then sell out the same day. Now I see them for $30.00 each, or on ebay for $140.00 for all 5. I wonder how many sets they printed, since they are supposed to be in limited supply......
This is patently false. They are expressly NOT supposed to be in limited supply, to avoid price-jacking.
The MSRP is $29.99 some places offer discounted pre-orders. They should ever be very far above the base price, since places like Target and Wallmart will be covering them. These are like Archenemy and Planechase, not From the Vaults or Premium Decks.
Although this is not gonna be a foil one, I like it.
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This about sums up my reaction, minus the "almost".
On the other hand... ban that damn thing already! Sol Ring and Mana Crypt are such stupid cards, please remove them from the format!
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Wizards has already states that this set will NOT be limited in any way and will be available for a looooong time to come... Any store dumb enough to raise their prices will lose business, as every walmart and target in the country will be getting these regularly... If you pay over MSRP for these things its because youre desperate and cant wait, but as for me--- if my local game store tries to jack up the price, Ill have no problem ceasing all support I give them, will instantly loose complete respect for them, and will just wait and pick up the 5 I plan on buying elsewhere.. Im a patient man, I have no issues with waiting for the market to saturate a bit if need be.
If Sol Ring is in there seems to be a good chance at other fantastic staples, Bribery, Phyrexian Arena, etc. I hope the rest of the cards prove to be this awesome.
not to mention Top (which is an uncommon)
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Sol Ring reprints should never be worth 5 dollars...
this is so cool... I need to get my friends to buy some boxes...
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I hope the price of the old ones will be unchanged though.
This makes me think we're going to see Maze as well.
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This is patently false. They are expressly NOT supposed to be in limited supply, to avoid price-jacking.
The MSRP is $29.99 some places offer discounted pre-orders. They should ever be very far above the base price, since places like Target and Wallmart will be covering them. These are like Archenemy and Planechase, not From the Vaults or Premium Decks.
i knew i should have put my order in yesterday. fml