Long overdue. Solid if not spectacular. Price will probably dip below 10 bucks for all (except Graven Cairns which was already under that)
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Other than the Cairns which has been reprinted more often (as others noted), these are all currently above $15, in some cases WAY above, so that is nice.
The enemy color ones reprinted in M25 all took a much needed price hit, but are all back up to the $10ish range. That bodes well for these - price will become more accessible but will still have a decent value over time for people who pick them up at their floor and hold onto them. (Unless they get reprinted again in the next 12 months, which will probably permanently crater them to the $5 range - fine with that result too.)
Not the most exciting reprint cycle, but hard to be mad when 4 out of the 5 have a starting value above that of a pack. Plenty of the spoiled rares don't.
This was their opportunity to print the Zendikar art on non-premium border cards. I’ve always wanted the Flooded Grove and Adam Paquette Sunken Ruins in non foil without those borders
This was their opportunity to print the Zendikar art on non-premium border cards. I’ve always wanted the Flooded Grove and Adam Paquette Sunken Ruins in non foil without those borders
Nooo, give me that sweet art from Shadowmoor! So glas these were reprinted.
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Dang, I was kind of hoping for allied fastlands... We're a ways off from re-returning to Mirrodin, and the red ones are creeping up there. Eh, still a good reprint.
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This was their opportunity to print the Zendikar art on non-premium border cards. I’ve always wanted the Flooded Grove and Adam Paquette Sunken Ruins in non foil without those borders
Nooo, give me that sweet art from Shadowmoor! So glas these were reprinted.
I particularly love the Shadowmoor "get off my lawn" kithkin
I particularly love the Shadowmoor "get off my lawn" kithkin
Yeah, same here. I really miss the folky, ancient but almost domestic aspect of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, not to mention the colorful sort of Victorian celtic revival style world. It's my favorite plane and it's such a shame to me they will never return to it.
I think I've learned to treat Magic cards like baseball cards: keep 'em in a binder in numerical order, don't play with 'em, try to finish the set and just keep my head down.
I guess I don't really understand why these are that good? Early game, maybe, but late game this is basically the same as drawing a basic land if you built your deck reasonably well. Or am I missing something?
This is not a commentary on their inclusion in the set, I just don't think these are that great overall. Confused by the excitement for these, I guess.
I guess I don't really understand why these are that good? Early game, maybe, but late game this is basically the same as drawing a basic land if you built your deck reasonably well. Or am I missing something?
This is not a commentary on their inclusion in the set, I just don't think these are that great overall. Confused by the excitement for these, I guess.
The point is that they are very good early game and they are not taplands. It is just a very fair way of mana fixing.
Also they are played quite often in Commander, given that you somehow have to build your mana base with the highlander rule. I mean the tainted lands are heavily played in commander.
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They really help if you have clunky mana curves - think how nice it is to seamlessly go from casting a white knight to a lord of atlantis. I think the ur-dragon commander player in my group has about 5 or 6 of these because they open the potential to play a couple kamigawa dragons and random tarkan dragons that would have been so difficult to play
I use them in most edh decks and they are often amongst the best lands to drop.
As stated before they make awkward curves easier but the main thing for me is, like painlands, they function like 3 color lands in the builds that require true colorless mana.
Great reprints to me, for the price of Sunken Ruins especially has been to high.
Last time M25 gave us another chance with the enemy filter lands
Now double masters brings us the ally ones
It's good for commander players but not pack opening
Oh for bad news these lands crutches out Wasteland and strip mine (strip mine is really weird since it's referenced in the tron land panorama)
(ps reminder the rakdos one is much lower since it was printed in future sight and has the most printings of all the lands)
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The enemy color ones reprinted in M25 all took a much needed price hit, but are all back up to the $10ish range. That bodes well for these - price will become more accessible but will still have a decent value over time for people who pick them up at their floor and hold onto them. (Unless they get reprinted again in the next 12 months, which will probably permanently crater them to the $5 range - fine with that result too.)
Not the most exciting reprint cycle, but hard to be mad when 4 out of the 5 have a starting value above that of a pack. Plenty of the spoiled rares don't.
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Nooo, give me that sweet art from Shadowmoor! So glas these were reprinted.
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I particularly love the Shadowmoor "get off my lawn" kithkin
Yeah, same here. I really miss the folky, ancient but almost domestic aspect of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, not to mention the colorful sort of Victorian celtic revival style world. It's my favorite plane and it's such a shame to me they will never return to it.
This is not a commentary on their inclusion in the set, I just don't think these are that great overall. Confused by the excitement for these, I guess.
Also they are played quite often in Commander, given that you somehow have to build your mana base with the highlander rule. I mean the tainted lands are heavily played in commander.
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They can produce a colorless if need be.
They filter mana perfectly
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As stated before they make awkward curves easier but the main thing for me is, like painlands, they function like 3 color lands in the builds that require true colorless mana.
Great reprints to me, for the price of Sunken Ruins especially has been to high.
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