Value is good. But Dredgevine isn't supposed to be about value. It's supposed to be about V-8; 2000 pounds of nitro boosted war vegetables. The more velocity, the better.
Modern:
DredgeVine EDH:
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Anima Standard:
The deck that wants one probably wants the other, so reprinting them at the same time makes sense to me.
The rarity issue... no answer, you got me there. There are some rarity question marks in C15, for sure. I really thought Command Beacon deserved to be printed in all the decks, as it's incredibly useful, especially in the slower, more casual games favored by many commander players.
They didn't "make them" different rarities, they already are different rarities. When cards are reprinted in nonrandom sets like Commander, they use the rarity of their most recent printing (for the most part, there have been occasional errors and inconsistency as to whether for example Modern Masters counts). For this reason, rarity markers on reprints are essentially meaningless for this set, so I'm not sure what the issue is.
As to why they reprinted both, we can only speculate. It might have been specifically to enable decks in singleton formats (for example, Commander) that might want to use both. It might have been just that the designers of Daxos chose Ancient Craving and the designers of Meren chose Ambition's Cost (we know that the decks were divided amongst the design team, it could just have been a variation in personal preference). Whatever the reason, I think it works better to have both rather than two copies of one. It's not like they see play outside of Commander.
Daxos' deck also had both Underworld Connections and Phyrexian Arena, which I found surprising since in most cases Arena is the vastly superior card and honestly I had expected Wizards to give us Connections over Arena because...that's just what they do.
We got terramorphic and evolving too and they printed greaves and boots. Considering you can only run one copy, it doesnt often matter which one is generally better. I've actually run the red underworld connections before and it costs 5.
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Why would they make them different rarities, heck why would they even reprint both?
Modern:
DredgeVine
EDH:
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Anima
Standard:
The deck that wants one probably wants the other, so reprinting them at the same time makes sense to me.
The rarity issue... no answer, you got me there. There are some rarity question marks in C15, for sure. I really thought Command Beacon deserved to be printed in all the decks, as it's incredibly useful, especially in the slower, more casual games favored by many commander players.
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On rarity, Portal 2 had some real weak rares, which probably meant pushing up some cards that would be uncommons in other sets.
As to why they reprinted both, we can only speculate. It might have been specifically to enable decks in singleton formats (for example, Commander) that might want to use both. It might have been just that the designers of Daxos chose Ancient Craving and the designers of Meren chose Ambition's Cost (we know that the decks were divided amongst the design team, it could just have been a variation in personal preference). Whatever the reason, I think it works better to have both rather than two copies of one. It's not like they see play outside of Commander.
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