Time Spiral Block was amazing. Nostalgia nostalgia nostalgia + a gazillion different ideas and re-imagined cards/concepts that sucked first time around. Many of the color shifted cards are staples. Timeshifted cards. Split Second!! A level of design and idea density that is completely unmatched anywhere in Magic, imo.
New Phyrexia was amazing. Power level awesome. Phybrid mana awesome. Praetors awesome. Flavor awesome. I wish the Mirrodin block had been the Phyrexian block instead, basically.
Time Spiral (both for best set and best block), and it's not close when comparing blocks. Morphling hit the nail on the head in post #29 (aside from the NPH praise), esp. on the last sentence of paragraph one.
Dark Ascension for me. I don't know what it is about that set but it just has flavor that gets me. Also contains so many of my favorite standard cards.
I liked Shards of Alara best, mostly on account of Bant and Naya. Wasn't too impressed with Conflux or Alara Reborn though. I also liked Zendikar and Innistrad.
Rise of Eldrazi, I think, for me. Flavorful and interesting and fun to play with and against, generally.
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TSP Block, hands down in my opinion. I didn't like LOR/SHA very much and I dislike the changes they made since the end TSP block (such as planeswalkers and the departure from powerful spells in favor of powerful creatures).
Block? Time Spiral. There was a reason RAV/TSP was the best standard, and it wasn't just RAV. Toss in the fact that all the sets and cards in TSP were creatively designed and you have a winner.
Set? Pick one of the TSP block sets.
Block after TSP? Zendikar, I guess. All the other blocks sucked, ZEN was at least decent.
Set after TSP? New Phyrexia. The rest of the block sucked, but NPH was surprisingly well-designed.
Innistrad wins my vote. Set was so fun. We have a dominant deck and all (what standard doesn't?), but it's not nearly has hard to beat as previous standards' DTB. The metagame diversity is awesome atm IMO
I think if Lorwyn/Shadowmoor existed without Reflecting Pool it would have been by far my favorite set. The designs were very interesting, and many more decks would have been playable if the mana-fixing allowed a player to play Cryptic Command, Cloud Thresher, and Cruel Edict with no issues.
I think if Lorwyn/Shadowmoor existed without Reflecting Pool it would have been by far my favorite set. The designs were very interesting, and many more decks would have been playable if the mana-fixing allowed a player to play Cryptic Command, Cloud Thresher, and Cruel Edict with no issues.
I think a lot of sets/blocks could have that said about it.
What would Zendikar block and standard have been like without Jace and Mystic?
What would Shards block would have been minus Bloodbraid Elf?
What would Scars block be without the Swords?
What would Innistrad be like without Snapcaster?
Time Spiral Block was amazing. Nostalgia nostalgia nostalgia + a gazillion different ideas and re-imagined cards/concepts that sucked first time around. Many of the color shifted cards are staples. Timeshifted cards. Split Second!! A level of design and idea density that is completely unmatched anywhere in Magic, imo.
New Phyrexia was amazing. Power level awesome. Phybrid mana awesome. Praetors awesome. Flavor awesome. I wish the Mirrodin block had been the Phyrexian block instead, basically.
Yeah I Completely agree,New Phyrexia was the best part of scars...I'm sad to see it ago...
New Phyrexia was amazing. Power level awesome. Phybrid mana awesome. Praetors awesome. Flavor awesome. I wish the Mirrodin block had been the Phyrexian block instead, basically.
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Set? Pick one of the TSP block sets.
Block after TSP? Zendikar, I guess. All the other blocks sucked, ZEN was at least decent.
Set after TSP? New Phyrexia. The rest of the block sucked, but NPH was surprisingly well-designed.
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I think a lot of sets/blocks could have that said about it.
What would Zendikar block and standard have been like without Jace and Mystic?
What would Shards block would have been minus Bloodbraid Elf?
What would Scars block be without the Swords?
What would Innistrad be like without Snapcaster?
Yeah I Completely agree,New Phyrexia was the best part of scars...I'm sad to see it ago...
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