I personally think this Standard metagame will be amazing. With so many new decks that will be viable, the deck you play looks like it will matter less, and your skill will matter more. With just 1/3 of SHA spoiled, we can already see G/W Aggro, MonoWhite, SuiBlack, Sligh, and many other decks looking like they have great potential. Even U/W Control and MBC is looking better. I think this will be the most dynamic and exciting Standard in a while. Anyone else agree?
Yes, I most totally agree. the huge selection of cards that will be in standard after Eventide before Alara will allow for so many different deck choices, unlike how in the past either you played deck A or deck B if you wanted to compete.
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Eight sets will definitely make this a wide open set of cards for designers to push the limits.
The notion that Faeries is a roadblock is narrow minded IMO. People said Affinity was format defining, and it was to an extent, but if you took some time to look around you could have some fun with some very original decks.
I totally agree. It's going to be really interesting to see which decks improve and which new decks pop up. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more red deck wins because of tattermunge maniac, flame javelin, ashenmoor gouger, and fulminator mage. Also, we now have a card that hoses reveillark decks-Puppetteer Clique.
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I absolutely love Shadowmoor. Not only for the amazing art but the amazing cards in it. Personally I'll probably be running Sligh, Suicide Black, or maybe BRG aggro.
Yes, I most totally agree. the huge selection of cards that will be in standard after Eventide before Alara will allow for so many different deck choices, unlike how in the past either you played deck A or deck B if you wanted to compete.
Not to be ultra picky or anything but the size difference between Ravnica-Coldsnap-Time Spiral-Xth edition Standard and Coldsnap-Time Spiral-Xth Edition-Lorwyn/Shadowmoor Standard is negligible. Basically, take the TS Timeshifted Sheet, slap it onto a traditional third set and you have Shadowmoor; take a random 4th set (like Coldsnap) and you have Eventide.
When shadowmoor is legal for standard there will be about 2012 different cards in the format. Rav/TS/CS standard had about 1911. Accounting for the extra basic lands, that is roughly 80 extra cards. When you add the 180 cards in Eventide, I don't think that you can call the difference negligible.
I think you're missing that this standard has 2 "random 4th sets", essentially.
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When shadowmoor is legal for standard there will be about 2012 different cards in the format. Rav/TS/CS standard had about 1911. Accounting for the extra basic lands, that is roughly 80 extra cards. When you add the 180 cards in Eventide, I don't think that you can call the difference negligible.
I think you're missing that this standard has 2 "random 4th sets", essentially.
Ah, you're right. I did all that math when estimating the size post Time Spiral rotation. I'll save the lecture for when Shards is out
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The notion that Faeries is a roadblock is narrow minded IMO. People said Affinity was format defining, and it was to an extent, but if you took some time to look around you could have some fun with some very original decks.
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Not to be ultra picky or anything but the size difference between Ravnica-Coldsnap-Time Spiral-Xth edition Standard and Coldsnap-Time Spiral-Xth Edition-Lorwyn/Shadowmoor Standard is negligible. Basically, take the TS Timeshifted Sheet, slap it onto a traditional third set and you have Shadowmoor; take a random 4th set (like Coldsnap) and you have Eventide.
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I think you're missing that this standard has 2 "random 4th sets", essentially.
Ah, you're right. I did all that math when estimating the size post Time Spiral rotation. I'll save the lecture for when Shards is out
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