I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I'm in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, and not a single 'wallet fatigue' complaint.
Well, Ikoria didn't kill the franchise so I guess they feel free to try out pretty much anything at this point. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say Werewolves and Vampires are two smaller sets with an even smaller shared pool of cards that can be drafted interchangeably. Kind of like a mini block being released simultaneously?
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Thats my thought, likely enough cards to make a large block and a small block when they did those.
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I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I'm in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, and not a single 'wallet fatigue' complaint.
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No movie theater patronage, concerts, sporting events, vacationing that uses flights, might be the explanation no one is using wallet fatigue for these reveals.
not to mention Ajani's Pridemate and Lorescale Coatl. I'm not one to cry "dumbing down the game," but they have started doing functional errata for reasons.
I’m actually very excited about Strixhaven. It’s a faction set about competing schools of magic, which is the exact premise I used for my custom enemy colored set. I wonder if that’s the same angle they’ll take here. A UR school of artifice is low-hanging fruit, so I’d say the chances are good.
Alternatively, they could go in another direction and give us shards again, the same way Ikoria gave us wedges. That would make sense, as it would balance out this year and next year for tricolor archetypes and give them a place to print the other five tricycle lands. Also, it makes sense with the other tricolor worlds we’ve seen. Strixhaven could be to Alara what Ikoria was to Tarkir.
I would be happy either way. But we Strixhaven could just as easily go away from multicolor factions, which I wouldn’t be as happy about. But we’ll see I guess.
Lots of Slivers in Time Spiral/Planar Chaos/Future Sight could use paper reprints with updated wording technology so I’m so stoked there as well!!!!
They won't change the Slivers to "Slivers you control..." if that's what you mean. That would functionally change how the cards work, and they don't do functional errata to existing cards, even when reprinting.
That's not a functional change as much as it is making the card work as originally written (in its very very tiny letters). Slivers going from affecting everyone to just effecting your slivers actually changes how they interact with the board.
Is nobody else amused that Strixhaven is hot on the heels of Scholomance, less than a year after Ikoria uh, borrowedGenn Greymane and Baku the Mooneater?
Really not a big fan of D&D and Magic intermingling like this.
Also not a fan of the Core Set being apparently missing. We already went through the "phase out the Core Set" thing didn't we, and realized it was a mistake?
I'll be curious to see how color balance works in either of the Innistrad sets. Like in Werewolves, RG is the werewolves, white can be slayers...what do the other two colors do? White and blue get left out in both these cases.
Oddly enough, I'm most excited for Strixhaven. It'll be fun for a deep dive at what a magical college might look like, other than the passing references we get from Tolaria. If they don't lean too heavily on Harry Potter, this could be cool.
Cue Tiro of Meletis post: "Pretty disappointing that this isn't Theros and/or Kamigawa, which have objectively superior flavor."
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Wizard school sounds alright. I wonder if Strixhaven is the name of the plane or the school (please don't be both). Two innistrad sets focusing on werewolves and vampires feels like it's 12 years too late to capitalize on the Twilight hype craze of the late 2000s. DND set is...holy *****. Never thought I'd see the dya, but I suppose it was inevitable. I hope it does well for more sets like it.
And I hope we get a Zendikar book in DND this year too.
Nothing here is blowing up my skirt based on concept alone, these settings aren't my cup of tea. That said, I wasn't very interested in Ikoria, and I thought that set turned out to be quite interesting in execution so I'm looking forward to what they do with these concepts. They do seem to be ripe with potential avenues of mechanical directions.
I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I'm in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, and not a single 'wallet fatigue' complaint.
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Because voluntary participation with decent selection is a good thing I hear. Hopefully there aren't any obtuse *Masters sets like Double Masters. I think that was the biggest complaint in 2020 (so far).
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Because voluntary participation with decent selection is a good thing I hear.
Sure, but what constitutes 'decent selection' is entirely subjective, and participation has always been voluntary. Isn't it still a good thing to be able to save money, especially when things don't live up to your individual standards?
Strixhaven is such a blunt reference to Harry potter that I feel an immediate sneer crawl up face whenever I think about it. The set symbol is a bloody owl for Pete's sake!
The D&D set will be interesting but only with the caveat that the creatives behind these two franchise never be crossed. The narrative of D&D just doesn't jive with MtG lore.
I'm cool with spending another two sets on Innistrad but I wish the franchise had merely announced the setting and the length of our stay there than give placeholder titles. Even if they just described the sets and gave the symbols without titling them "werewolves" and "vampires" would feel less comical in my opinion. It's too on the nose. Too prepackaged, "this is what you want, so here!" for my taste. It disrupts the suspension of disbelief and turns what should be sophisticated, well-planned product into...well, caricatures.
I'm probably being too harsh, but that's honestly what I'm feeling right now. I'll obviously reserve full judgement for later. Kaldheim sounds interesting though and like many here, I hope to see Ramaz. It's weird we caught no hint of him during the main "Handlebar" arc.
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I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I'm in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, and not a single 'wallet fatigue' complaint.
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why would there be?
this is all the major sets for the upcoming year. as in 365 days. that's a long time.
its also only the major sets. its not all the little bull***** releases jammed in between, or the supplemental products. it would be a far different narrative if they also listed every secret lair and every other product jammed between or paired with those releases. 5 sets over a year long period isn't so bad, but by end of next year when its an avalanche of products like this year was it'll tell a completely different story.
Is nobody else amused that Strixhaven is hot on the heels of Scholomance, less than a year after Ikoria uh, borrowedGenn Greymane and Baku the Mooneater?
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there is bound to be overlap, especially since hearthstone has people working on it that were formerly working on magic. as for any other wow connections... i mean... eh? really? i think its a stretch. wow hit peak popularity years ago and has been dying a slow horrid death. i think a lot of the time magic players confuse popular tropes, and similar mechanics, to other things that they enjoy or are familiar with where they shouldn't. kind of like the OMG ITS TWILIGHT rants when innistrad werewolves and vampires... years after twilight. its just trope, or an interesting mechanic, not everything is stolen from or inspired by whatever is popular (or perceived by some members of the community as popular)
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I'm in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, and not a single 'wallet fatigue' complaint.
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Thats my thought, likely enough cards to make a large block and a small block when they did those.
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No movie theater patronage, concerts, sporting events, vacationing that uses flights, might be the explanation no one is using wallet fatigue for these reveals.
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Alternatively, they could go in another direction and give us shards again, the same way Ikoria gave us wedges. That would make sense, as it would balance out this year and next year for tricolor archetypes and give them a place to print the other five tricycle lands. Also, it makes sense with the other tricolor worlds we’ve seen. Strixhaven could be to Alara what Ikoria was to Tarkir.
I would be happy either way. But we Strixhaven could just as easily go away from multicolor factions, which I wouldn’t be as happy about. But we’ll see I guess.
That's not a functional change as much as it is making the card work as originally written (in its very very tiny letters). Slivers going from affecting everyone to just effecting your slivers actually changes how they interact with the board.
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Also not a fan of the Core Set being apparently missing. We already went through the "phase out the Core Set" thing didn't we, and realized it was a mistake?
I'll be curious to see how color balance works in either of the Innistrad sets. Like in Werewolves, RG is the werewolves, white can be slayers...what do the other two colors do? White and blue get left out in both these cases.
Oddly enough, I'm most excited for Strixhaven. It'll be fun for a deep dive at what a magical college might look like, other than the passing references we get from Tolaria. If they don't lean too heavily on Harry Potter, this could be cool.
Cue Tiro of Meletis post: "Pretty disappointing that this isn't Theros and/or Kamigawa, which have objectively superior flavor."
On 7/14/10, broke 1900 mark! <3 ROE.
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Sounds like a perfect place for Kasmina.
and for strixhaven two predictions
1. It’s a Harry Potter/hogwarts inspired plane
2. It’s Kasmina‘s home plane plus they mentioned during war of the spark they have plans for her
And I hope we get a Zendikar book in DND this year too.
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Maybe Watcher of the Spheres is on strixhaven after all it’s from M21
and maybe it’s inalla and kykar’s home plane with kasmina
Oh man I hope so. She's by far my favourite PW to appear out of WotS so I hope we get more of her in some capacity.
Because voluntary participation with decent selection is a good thing I hear. Hopefully there aren't any obtuse *Masters sets like Double Masters. I think that was the biggest complaint in 2020 (so far).
You mean the old border. Old.
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Sure, but what constitutes 'decent selection' is entirely subjective, and participation has always been voluntary. Isn't it still a good thing to be able to save money, especially when things don't live up to your individual standards?
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Strixhaven is such a blunt reference to Harry potter that I feel an immediate sneer crawl up face whenever I think about it. The set symbol is a bloody owl for Pete's sake!
The D&D set will be interesting but only with the caveat that the creatives behind these two franchise never be crossed. The narrative of D&D just doesn't jive with MtG lore.
I'm cool with spending another two sets on Innistrad but I wish the franchise had merely announced the setting and the length of our stay there than give placeholder titles. Even if they just described the sets and gave the symbols without titling them "werewolves" and "vampires" would feel less comical in my opinion. It's too on the nose. Too prepackaged, "this is what you want, so here!" for my taste. It disrupts the suspension of disbelief and turns what should be sophisticated, well-planned product into...well, caricatures.
I'm probably being too harsh, but that's honestly what I'm feeling right now. I'll obviously reserve full judgement for later. Kaldheim sounds interesting though and like many here, I hope to see Ramaz. It's weird we caught no hint of him during the main "Handlebar" arc.
The Vorthos community will await the consequences of the Eldrazi Titans' deaths/sealing. We will keep the watch.
“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
why would there be?
this is all the major sets for the upcoming year. as in 365 days. that's a long time.
its also only the major sets. its not all the little bull***** releases jammed in between, or the supplemental products. it would be a far different narrative if they also listed every secret lair and every other product jammed between or paired with those releases. 5 sets over a year long period isn't so bad, but by end of next year when its an avalanche of products like this year was it'll tell a completely different story.
there is bound to be overlap, especially since hearthstone has people working on it that were formerly working on magic. as for any other wow connections... i mean... eh? really? i think its a stretch. wow hit peak popularity years ago and has been dying a slow horrid death. i think a lot of the time magic players confuse popular tropes, and similar mechanics, to other things that they enjoy or are familiar with where they shouldn't. kind of like the OMG ITS TWILIGHT rants when innistrad werewolves and vampires... years after twilight. its just trope, or an interesting mechanic, not everything is stolen from or inspired by whatever is popular (or perceived by some members of the community as popular)