This set marks the inclusion of cards from the MID Commander set (but NOT in the precons) into Set Boosters, as explained here. Aside from the four new legends (two per precon), these cards will now also be found in Set Boosters.
Too bad that Avacyn Memorial is just a weaker version of the real Avacyn for the same cost
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
Yeah they could have fix the mana cost at least. Or just give it the 'Other permanents you control have indestructible.' without the self-indestructible.
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For an archangel who was way many leagues more powerful than Selenia and Akroma, her monument is a rather disgusting lack-lustre tribute to her. Budget cutbacks at the Thraben council level I guess.
Visions of...whatever are pretty cool. A lot of colourshifting effects here: Visions of Dread is a black Evangelize. Visions of Glory feels like a Saproling Symbiosis or something green like that w/o the kicker and creature type resemblance.
The reduced Flashback costs make them worthwhile I guess.
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i think avacyn is easier to remove than her memorial, so i would argue on the point that it is weaker (yes an 8/8 body is awesome, i know... just sayn its not trash)
but i dont like this move from wizards at all
preordered draft displays weeks ago and now they come up with such an info ?
and even if the info came earlier... for what reason are they doing this ? to push booster that r cheaper to make but cost more ?
yea do you want to squeeze your customers so hard... there will be a tipping point when just to many people refuse to buy
Avacyn's Memorial is cool in Legendary Tribal, creature exile/tuck is way more common than artifact exile/tuck so Avacyn might not survive cards commonly played in Commander like Swords to Plowshares, Terminus or Reality Shift while her Memorial will, while being an Artifact makes it easyto cheat itinto play.
Other than Legendary Tribal, however... it's pretty bad. Should at least put a flying and viligance in there to make it in line with Akroma's Memorial.
The Visions cycle is an interesting design, kind of like the opposite of the Commander Storm cycle that incentivizes low CMC Commanders. The Red one seems to be by far the best one, the Black one second simply by virtue of being a Black card with a decent effect that works from the graveyard, the White and Green can be good but are very narrow and the Blue one seems pretty bad.
i think avacyn is easier to remove than her memorial, so i would argue on the point that it is weaker (yes an 8/8 body is awesome, i know... just sayn its not trash)
Avacyn gives indestructible to everything this just to legendaries
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
The cool thing about the Memorial is the gimmick to build a deck with truly only legendary permanents, lands included (planeswalkers are indestructible, but thats hardly useful for them).
Not good at all, but you can make it happen as a gimmick.
Should absolutely be cheaper for that reason, just triple white, would suffice, at 3 mana it would do something early enough to matter ... the real issue is the amount of exile removal that just gets around it anyway.
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The "visions" look overall quite bad, but if you can use it reliable with flashback (Commander at 5+ mana should do the trick), maybe some fringe use of some of them.
Is somebody able to explain to me why Avacyn's Memorial can't simply have the same wording of Darksteel Forge? I don't think players when see Darksteel Forge wonders if it's indestructible itself.
Does anyone still keep track in their head which cards you can find in which products? Because I kind of gave up at this point.
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
Visions of Dominance is perhaps the greatest art on a card in modern times.
Do you think it's young Gitrog looking at its future, or it's just a random toad and inspirational Gitrog is like "you can be like me too!"
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
I really dont understand why they make set boosters at all.
People either buy them because the value is better or they dont.
If people just draft with cards, having a bunch of them not appear at all in the same set is just AWFUL.
Their "reasoning" is clear as they make cards that dont fit the set to draft, but still, having cards that you cannot get in a booster pack of that set is just deeply terrible.
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Not like i would buy any of these anyway ... theres literally no point in not buying singles at this point, as the number of products make it simply impossible to get all the cards on your own anyway ...
Long gone are the days where you could draft 1 time a week and get almost all cards of the set from drafting and price packs ...
Lol at them memorializing her in her evil form. Innistrad ppl dummies.
Huh, you're kinda right.
I mean, her pose is heavily based on her original art in Innistrad, but the spear is assymetric, like in her corrupted form. How does this even happen art-wise. They would have needed to show the artist both arts for reference? But why.
Lol at them memorializing her in her evil form. Innistrad ppl dummies.
Huh, you're kinda right.
I mean, her pose is heavily based on her original art in Innistrad, but the spear is assymetric, like in her corrupted form. How does this even happen art-wise. They would have needed to show the artist both arts for reference? But why.
oh this is easy
this is avacyn after she was mindtwisted by emrakul
Is somebody able to explain to me why Avacyn's Memorial can't simply have the same wording of Darksteel Forge? I don't think players when see Darksteel Forge wonders if it's indestructible itself.
Darksteel Forge is only indestructible on the battlefield. In the graveyard, library, and stack, its not indestructible. I don't think that matters at this particular moment for this particular card, but this is the standard template now so that cards like Mwonvuli Beast Tracker and Soulflayer work properly.
Please, mill me. Mill my important cards. Mill my lands. Mill it all. Because I will still deal 20 damage before you can mill 45 cards most every time.
Sorin should etch a eulogy on the base of that memorial
And obviously this had to be weaker than Avacyn herself!
She was an angel, and this is made of wood, straw, twine, and clay (and love)
Why would that surprise any of you?
Weaker is a gross understatement.... hahah
this card is really, really bad.
For an archangel who was way many leagues more powerful than Selenia and Akroma, her monument is a rather disgusting lack-lustre tribute to her. Budget cutbacks at the Thraben council level I guess.
Visions of...whatever are pretty cool. A lot of colourshifting effects here: Visions of Dread is a black Evangelize. Visions of Glory feels like a Saproling Symbiosis or something green like that w/o the kicker and creature type resemblance.
The reduced Flashback costs make them worthwhile I guess.
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but i dont like this move from wizards at all
preordered draft displays weeks ago and now they come up with such an info ?
and even if the info came earlier... for what reason are they doing this ? to push booster that r cheaper to make but cost more ?
yea do you want to squeeze your customers so hard... there will be a tipping point when just to many people refuse to buy
Other than Legendary Tribal, however... it's pretty bad. Should at least put a flying and viligance in there to make it in line with Akroma's Memorial.
The Visions cycle is an interesting design, kind of like the opposite of the Commander Storm cycle that incentivizes low CMC Commanders. The Red one seems to be by far the best one, the Black one second simply by virtue of being a Black card with a decent effect that works from the graveyard, the White and Green can be good but are very narrow and the Blue one seems pretty bad.
Avacyn gives indestructible to everything this just to legendaries
Not good at all, but you can make it happen as a gimmick.
Should absolutely be cheaper for that reason, just triple white, would suffice, at 3 mana it would do something early enough to matter ... the real issue is the amount of exile removal that just gets around it anyway.
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The "visions" look overall quite bad, but if you can use it reliable with flashback (Commander at 5+ mana should do the trick), maybe some fringe use of some of them.
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It would have been interesting if Avacyn Memorial can be turned into an artifact angel that something that can fight
Like this
or a Vehicle
It could had been an interesting story that someone is using the image of Avacyn to bring confidence to the survivor of the plague
So it's like the Puppet Princess OVA
and etc..
Do you think it's young Gitrog looking at its future, or it's just a random toad and inspirational Gitrog is like "you can be like me too!"
i guess i'm done with set boosters now.
People either buy them because the value is better or they dont.
If people just draft with cards, having a bunch of them not appear at all in the same set is just AWFUL.
Their "reasoning" is clear as they make cards that dont fit the set to draft, but still, having cards that you cannot get in a booster pack of that set is just deeply terrible.
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Not like i would buy any of these anyway ... theres literally no point in not buying singles at this point, as the number of products make it simply impossible to get all the cards on your own anyway ...
Long gone are the days where you could draft 1 time a week and get almost all cards of the set from drafting and price packs ...
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Huh, you're kinda right.
I mean, her pose is heavily based on her original art in Innistrad, but the spear is assymetric, like in her corrupted form. How does this even happen art-wise. They would have needed to show the artist both arts for reference? But why.
oh this is easy
this is avacyn after she was mindtwisted by emrakul
And obviously this had to be weaker than Avacyn herself!
She was an angel, and this is made of wood, straw, twine, and clay (and love)
Why would that surprise any of you?
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