The question that remains is: Will they become historic legal? because having stuff like Demonic Tutor and Swords to Plowshares and likely Brainstorm, Lightning Bolt, Counterspell and other stuff at this level would VASTLY change the format.
Considering that the invocation/masterpiece "legacy reprint" cards were never made legal in the modern and standard formats I seriously doubt they would make these reprints historic legal.
'Converted mana cost' is just way too many letters for my tastes, so I'm totally OK with the changing the term, but I think they could have done better than 'mana value'. In my custom sets I've adopted the term 'mana sum', which is even shorter and IMO clearer. Maybe 'value' casuses fewer translations issues or something.
The shuffle change I really don't see the point of. As with the 'any target' template it seems like sacrificing clarity for the sake of brevity, which I don't feel can ever be worth it.
hmmmm
I think you should count again.... haha
you say that "converted mana cost" is too many characters and "mana value" is a valid change but don't see the point with taking out "your library" after the "shuffle".
well...
shuffle your library has 18 characters + 2 spaces, so 20 total... plain simple shuffle has just 7.
converted mana cost has 17 charactrs + 2 spaces, so 19 total... "mana value" has 9 characters + 1 space, so 10 total.
by this "too many characters" metric, then the "shuffle" change is even better than the CMC one.
and the words "your library" are completely useless because what else would the player shuffle? haha
hell, it gets even worse when it's "target player shuffles his or her library" haha
now it would be simply "target player shuffles". it's fine.
in portuguese (my mother language) both phrases take even more characters as the phrases today are "Custo de mana convertido" and "Embaralhe seu grimório"
that being said, I'm still not sure that textbox space is a commodity in such scarcity that made this change a real necessity, but I'm not bothered by it.
so.... I'm really curious on how will the masterpieces work with Arena....
I mean, they will be a very integral part of Strixhaven limited, so they have to be in somehow.
the question that remains is: Will they become historic legal? because having stuff like Demonic Tutor and Swords to Plowshares and likely Brainstorm, Lightning Bolt, Counterspell and other stuff at this level would VASTLY change the format.
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well.... so most of them will be cards that already exist in historic?
maybe we get some "new" ones that become legal as well.
it's actually a partial answer hahah because they have confirmed that "Opt" will be legal, but, hell, Opt is already legal.
hmmmm
I think you should count again.... haha
you say that "converted mana cost" is too many characters and "mana value" is a valid change but don't see the point with taking out "your library" after the "shuffle".
well...
shuffle your library has 18 characters + 2 spaces, so 20 total... plain simple shuffle has just 7.
converted mana cost has 17 charactrs + 2 spaces, so 19 total... "mana value" has 9 characters + 1 space, so 10 total.
by this "too many characters" metric, then the "shuffle" change is even better than the CMC one.
and the words "your library" are completely useless because what else would the player shuffle? haha
hell, it gets even worse when it's "target player shuffles his or her library" haha
now it would be simply "target player shuffles". it's fine.
in portuguese (my mother language) both phrases take even more characters as the phrases today are "Custo de mana convertido" and "Embaralhe seu grimório"
that being said, I'm still not sure that textbox space is a commodity in such scarcity that made this change a real necessity, but I'm not bothered by it.
I mean, they will be a very integral part of Strixhaven limited, so they have to be in somehow.
the question that remains is: Will they become historic legal? because having stuff like Demonic Tutor and Swords to Plowshares and likely Brainstorm, Lightning Bolt, Counterspell and other stuff at this level would VASTLY change the format.