I got it.
I finally got it.
WoTC wanted to encourage nostalgia with this set, and nothing feels more nostalgic than playing with your old friends on a kitchen table.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I usually like Terese Nielsen, but this to me is just an inferior art when compared to the one made by Chippy.
I don't mind mythics being cheap cards, honestly. I have an issue with rare cards being cheap. That said, I guess people will be disappointed in opening any of the akromas from their packs.
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I got it.
I finally got it.
WoTC wanted to encourage nostalgia with this set, and nothing feels more nostalgic than playing with your old friends on a kitchen table.
Nothing reminds me of my youth like only buying one or two packs of a set!
I know it's Terese Nielsen but I've always disliked this Akroma art. Her build is ... off. The wings are weird, the colors seem faded.
Ron Spears' was much more epic in my opinion
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I like this card for sure, but would have preferred Seedborn Muse from this set by a wide margin. Nice to see this art in a regular print though.
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For a set that's focused on nostalgia, I am confused as to why they chose the newer, weaker flavor text as opposed to the iconic original flavor text.
Post of the thread here. It was insane in hindsight to think Akroma, one of the most iconic, beloved, cosplayed legendary creatures of all time, would NOT be in the set. Giving mere mortals a shot at her FTV:Angels art is nice and all, but missing out on her super iconic and classic flavortext (so iconic that it is the flavortext on her memorial as well) is a bit of a miss.
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I mean honestly it doesn't make sense for her not to have that flavor text. It's like they forgot the set was celebrating 25 years of Magic and that people have been playing since the beginning.
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Employee who has actually played constructed Magic- let's print Baneslayer! it's incredibly iconic, it's powerful, a bomb in draft at a castable cost, it's worth money so people won't be upset pulling it.....
designer who only drafts- *laughter* oh silly employee, you forget the first rule of designing a Masters set, you MUST screw people over and very deliberately ignore what the players want. We'll print a Mythic Angel....and it will do every one of those things, but all much worse, because THAT is good set design!
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WOTC is being roasted alive on their twitter page over this.
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oookay? I guess including red akroma and saying **** you once just wasn't enough. Now it feels like the same as always, you can have a box with both akromas and doomsday in it or a box with jace, chalice and recruiter - let the lottery of hopes and dreams begin!
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
These arts are really good but if we're going for some good ol' nostalgia they shoulda used the old arts. This set looks fun to draft but that $10 is looking preeeetty sketchy about now..
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IT'S ALL MY FAULT.
Edit: Also, figures with the disappointment of the Mythics in this set that the last one spoiled would be a Rare upgraded to Mythic.
I finally got it.
WoTC wanted to encourage nostalgia with this set, and nothing feels more nostalgic than playing with your old friends on a kitchen table.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I don't mind mythics being cheap cards, honestly. I have an issue with rare cards being cheap. That said, I guess people will be disappointed in opening any of the akromas from their packs.
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Reaper King (a horror story), Kaalia of the Vast (an origin story), Sequels for Innistrad (Alternative sequels for Inn), Grey Areas (Odric's fanfic), Royal Succession (goblins),The Tracker's Message (eldrazi on Innistrad) and Ugin and his Eye (the end of OGW).
Nothing reminds me of my youth like only buying one or two packs of a set!
Ron Spears' was much more epic in my opinion
Modern : Solemnity Prison Martyr Proc Devotion to Green 8 Whacks Eldrazi Processor Bogles Landfall Aggro
Legacy : Goblins
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I mean, yeah I rather them use the mythic slot for jank than the rare slot...but they're using both slots for worthless junk.
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Post of the thread here. It was insane in hindsight to think Akroma, one of the most iconic, beloved, cosplayed legendary creatures of all time, would NOT be in the set. Giving mere mortals a shot at her FTV:Angels art is nice and all, but missing out on her super iconic and classic flavortext (so iconic that it is the flavortext on her memorial as well) is a bit of a miss.
RCRDaretti: Superfriends Forever RCR
WGBDoran: Ent-mootWBG
GGGMultani: Group Bear HugGGG
GB(B/G)The Gitrog Monster: Dredgefall DurdleGB(B/G)
RGWGahiji, the Honored Group Hug MonsterRGW
UB(U/B)Yuriko, Ninja Trinket AggroUB(U/B)
WUBRGAtogatog: Assembling a OHKOWUBRG
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Protection from Degeneracy
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designer who only drafts- *laughter* oh silly employee, you forget the first rule of designing a Masters set, you MUST screw people over and very deliberately ignore what the players want. We'll print a Mythic Angel....and it will do every one of those things, but all much worse, because THAT is good set design!
No rest. No mercy. No matter what.
EDH Decks
UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life
RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them
WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition)
WRKalemne's Angels
BRUG Yidris's Wild Party
UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys
UBR The Pretender
Wrath is no vice when inflicted upon the deserving.
EDH DECKS
Currently under construction
MAGECRAFT STORM
-Veyran, Voice of Duality-
Protection from Degeneracy
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
An enigma as vexing as life itself.