Cause in draft all the cards like Ancestral Vision have no CC, they count as zero so they didnt want you to get this and lucksac into one of the effects that could be VERY destructive if your pool had a few in them you took. Upshifting ment you cant just draft Hypergenesis the uncommon version of the land and beat down your opponent with predictable ease.
They should at the very best downshift cards, as they are reprints, never ever upshift a card in rarity.
What happens if they upshift a card is simply that people buy the cards in whatever set it was easy and cheap to get and the card becomes a total dud in the booster packs ... its a complete feel bad and terrible business approach.
If a card is downshifted, it becomes easier to get in the set, so more appealing to buy the set in the first place.
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Bloodbraid art is ugly as a sin, especially as we have the strictly superior promo art (the FNM one).
Total pooper, especially as they could have used that chance to reprint some of the OTHER cascade cards which see play (you know, all the 3 mana cascade ones).
Cause in draft all the cards like Ancestral Vision have no CC, they count as zero so they didnt want you to get this and lucksac into one of the effects that could be VERY destructive if your pool had a few in them you took. Upshifting ment you cant just draft Hypergenesis the uncommon version of the land and beat down your opponent with predictable ease.
What are you talking about ?
The suspend cards at mythic are borderline BAD (or heavily build around at best) in most limited decks (turn 1-2 Vision is great for card advantage, but thats about it).
Hypergenesis is especially terrible, as you wait a long time to do basically nothing and your opponent is benefiting from it as well, and you most likely wont have a deck of multiple expensive rares that do anything worthwhile to begin with.
Tutoring for this turn 3 and then suspending the card is a TERRIBLE game plan in limited, as you can just play all the cards regularly and actually do something before you are dead.
i'm not sure tolaria west needed to be upshifted to rare
its also disappointing they went with the terrible bloodbraid art
I respectively disagree.
This land is a tutor that doesn't have to be cast, making it essentially the predicessor to spells with lands on the back, except is much more difficult to counter (stifle, disallow, voidslime work but not much else), and never should have been printed at uncommon to begin with, but there were no mythic rares back then. Interestingly, it's already been reprinted as a mythic rare (in FTV) lest we forget, which may be giving it more credit than it deserves. Wizards includes such cards in these types of box sets because on some level, it's their way of shining the spotlight on them and saying: "These cards are so good and/or unique, their (original) rarity doesn't matter"
As for BBE, I agree and much prefer the Argyle interpretation (even got a few signed), but this art was obviously chosen for that nostalgic look since it was getting old border treatment, which probably would've looked awkward on the alternative.
Blahblah draft blahblah limited environment blahblah every set needs to be draftable.
Limited/Draft/Sealed is unironically the worst thing about MTG as Hey. Ever noticed that in the almost 14 years since Future Sight, we never got something else akin to Muraganda Petroglyphs and a draft environment like Future Sight that supported vanillas even as a subtheme? The closest to it is actually Eldraine, but that is because of the Adventure mechanic, not because the creature is itself a vanilla.
Hey if a wizard employee is reading this, here is some money free advice: print a single card per set that cares about vanillas for draft that isn't just Muraganda Petroglyphs or some new card reprinted over and over. I guarantee you can turn draft chaff into money if you give people reason to want to go after vanillas.
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Vince talks about his history with Bloodbraid Elf . . . and why Tolaria West got upshifted.
Nice Bloodbraid. Original art too.
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its also disappointing they went with the terrible bloodbraid art
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They should at the very best downshift cards, as they are reprints, never ever upshift a card in rarity.
What happens if they upshift a card is simply that people buy the cards in whatever set it was easy and cheap to get and the card becomes a total dud in the booster packs ... its a complete feel bad and terrible business approach.
If a card is downshifted, it becomes easier to get in the set, so more appealing to buy the set in the first place.
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Bloodbraid art is ugly as a sin, especially as we have the strictly superior promo art (the FNM one).
Total pooper, especially as they could have used that chance to reprint some of the OTHER cascade cards which see play (you know, all the 3 mana cascade ones).
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What are you talking about ?
The suspend cards at mythic are borderline BAD (or heavily build around at best) in most limited decks (turn 1-2 Vision is great for card advantage, but thats about it).
Hypergenesis is especially terrible, as you wait a long time to do basically nothing and your opponent is benefiting from it as well, and you most likely wont have a deck of multiple expensive rares that do anything worthwhile to begin with.
Tutoring for this turn 3 and then suspending the card is a TERRIBLE game plan in limited, as you can just play all the cards regularly and actually do something before you are dead.
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I respectively disagree.
This land is a tutor that doesn't have to be cast, making it essentially the predicessor to spells with lands on the back, except is much more difficult to counter (stifle, disallow, voidslime work but not much else), and never should have been printed at uncommon to begin with, but there were no mythic rares back then. Interestingly, it's already been reprinted as a mythic rare (in FTV) lest we forget, which may be giving it more credit than it deserves. Wizards includes such cards in these types of box sets because on some level, it's their way of shining the spotlight on them and saying: "These cards are so good and/or unique, their (original) rarity doesn't matter"
As for BBE, I agree and much prefer the Argyle interpretation (even got a few signed), but this art was obviously chosen for that nostalgic look since it was getting old border treatment, which probably would've looked awkward on the alternative.
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Limited/Draft/Sealed is unironically the worst thing about MTG as Hey. Ever noticed that in the almost 14 years since Future Sight, we never got something else akin to Muraganda Petroglyphs and a draft environment like Future Sight that supported vanillas even as a subtheme? The closest to it is actually Eldraine, but that is because of the Adventure mechanic, not because the creature is itself a vanilla.
But before you point out that we are getting another draft environment like that with TSR, you may want to open up your eyes. While Yes there is Muraganda Petroglyphs and Blade of the Sixth Pride and Mass of Ghouls, we also miss out on Fomori Nomad, Nessian Courser, and Blind Phantasm which are all crunched out.
Hey if a wizard employee is reading this, here is some money free advice: print a single card per set that cares about vanillas for draft that isn't just Muraganda Petroglyphs or some new card reprinted over and over. I guarantee you can turn draft chaff into money if you give people reason to want to go after vanillas.