I was going to assume that this set wouldn't have any dual lands, but it looks like there will be enough multicolored cards that mana-fixing lands will be sorely missed. I'm talking cards like Nicol Bolas, Dragon God and Deathsprout. We know of one fixing land in Interplanar Beacon, but that's specifically for planeswalkers. It seems unlikely that the set can function well without a cycle of duals.
I think it's likely we'll probably get a cycle of common or uncommon taplands, like in the core set. That said, it would be cool to do what Dragon's Maze did and bring back Shocklands specifically for the basic land slot.
Well, we know that the set has basics, and that they are a part of the card count.
I doubt we'll get the gates, as they don't fit the flavor of the set. I am thinking we'll get a common 5C land similar to Unknown Shores or Holdout Settlement, a couple of common manafixing artifacts, and maybe a cycle of uncommon manafixers. We've already gotten two mana dorks confirmed so far, and we'll probably see more. We've also gotten some land fetching.
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I think it's likely we'll see an uncommon tapland cycle in either allied or enemy pairs and nothing else. There's not room for two complete cycles.
Do note that despite having slightly higher multicolored cards than "usual" (with most sets having just a single cycle of ten uncommons), the multicolored counts are not terribly high. We've yet to see a single common multicolored card, the most uncommons of a single color pair spoiled so far is 2. There are also only 27 unfilled slots in the crunch, 14 of those will go towards rounding out two uncommons for each color pair and the remainder are likely rares and mythics.
And note that the Hybrid walkers may technically be multicolored, but they're significantly easier to cast than most multicolored cards.
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I thought for sure we'd see fetchlands in this set for mana-fixing. I said I'd admit I was wrong when the set list is revealed, and it looks like enough has been shown to rule them out completely. So I was wrong.
That said, I wonder if this set will have a Cavern Of Souls/Boseiju card for Planeswalkers. This would be the set to include it.
Well, considering Bolas' lasttwo appearances were both accompanied by some manner of Grixistriland, I would guess the same applies here. I could see Unclaimed Territory for planeswalkers, a Cavern of Souls equivalent would push Superfriends over the top.
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Is there a possibility that they could do the same thing they did for Dragon's Maze and include the shocklands from GRN and RNA in the boosters? For DGM they had the RTR or Gatecrash expansions symbols so they weren't considered part of the set proper.
I know WAR doesn't have quite the multicolor demand as a regular Ravnica set, but I'm actually going to be a bit disappointed if the shocks ( or some kind of duals) aren't included.
Is there a possibility that they could do the same thing they did for Dragon's Maze and include the shocklands from GRN and RNA in the boosters? For DGM they had the RTR or Gatecrash expansions symbols so they weren't considered part of the set proper.
I know WAR doesn't have quite the multicolor demand as a regular Ravnica set, but I'm actually going to be a bit disappointed if the shocks ( or some kind of duals) aren't included.
In Dragon's Maze they included the shock lands and gates in place of the basics. This is not going to be the case here. There is still one common land that has yet to be spoiled however.
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I think it's likely we'll probably get a cycle of common or uncommon taplands, like in the core set. That said, it would be cool to do what Dragon's Maze did and bring back Shocklands specifically for the basic land slot.
What do you guys think?
I doubt we'll get the gates, as they don't fit the flavor of the set. I am thinking we'll get a common 5C land similar to Unknown Shores or Holdout Settlement, a couple of common manafixing artifacts, and maybe a cycle of uncommon manafixers. We've already gotten two mana dorks confirmed so far, and we'll probably see more. We've also gotten some land fetching.
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There are minimum 3 and maximum 8 land slots remaining looking at the name and number crunch.
I think it's likely we'll see an uncommon tapland cycle in either allied or enemy pairs and nothing else. There's not room for two complete cycles.
Do note that despite having slightly higher multicolored cards than "usual" (with most sets having just a single cycle of ten uncommons), the multicolored counts are not terribly high. We've yet to see a single common multicolored card, the most uncommons of a single color pair spoiled so far is 2. There are also only 27 unfilled slots in the crunch, 14 of those will go towards rounding out two uncommons for each color pair and the remainder are likely rares and mythics.
And note that the Hybrid walkers may technically be multicolored, but they're significantly easier to cast than most multicolored cards.
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That said, I wonder if this set will have a Cavern Of Souls/Boseiju card for Planeswalkers. This would be the set to include it.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
I know WAR doesn't have quite the multicolor demand as a regular Ravnica set, but I'm actually going to be a bit disappointed if the shocks ( or some kind of duals) aren't included.
In Dragon's Maze they included the shock lands and gates in place of the basics. This is not going to be the case here. There is still one common land that has yet to be spoiled however.
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