Red sleeves are the best imho. I've tried Silver and Purple, but I get the best topdecks with Red. I'm pretty sure the red keeps the land away because land is very rarely red in real life, while it is often white (sand), blue (water), green (grass), or black (mud or anything at night).
If you are playing control and you want to draw more land than you could consider non-red sleeves, probably whichever color(s) you are playing to attract the right lands. I have a friend who plays half blue and half white sleeves in his control deck and it seems to work, even with only 22 land in the deck.
If advanced stores get 20 FtV and they are getting 5 CAs, then it's 4x less available. Originally it was leaked as 4 per store, so that's where 5x came from.
Maybe the promo has a spector type of ability with discarding. Either way it should be a decent card. Sounds epic to me . Maybe a four drop 2/2 intimidate, deals combat damage opponent discards a card or something along the likes of that. Not too overpowered, but pretty powerful nontheless.
Spectors often fly, so it would probably have flying as well.
Except... not. Even without Retainers, this has ~$200 worth of cards in it, assuming that the foils will be worth closer to the existing nonfoils rather than existing foils. It also has a fifth of the supply that Realms had.
Where did you get the info that realms was 5x more printed than arsenal?
Before we knew anything other than Mimeo + Sylvan (with a strong hint at Command Tower), these were preselling for $250+ on eBay. Looking on eBay now, you can still preorder for $250~. Not exactly what I call a skyrocketing price.
The price was always going to be high on this based on the very limited supply and the automatic demand from having so many first-time foils, first-time blackborders, and exclusive arts.
Just look at Realms: it is not above $100 and stores still have them in stock. This could have been arsenal if Retainers wasn't in it.
I think that the mistake on Wotc's part was including Loyal Retainers. With the inclusion of this card, the price has skyrocketed. What ever, we already knew that it would be a FtV: Commander.
is there a reason that you are not running Contamination and Bitterblossom? These two create a powerful lock, and I would suggest taking out Telepathy and something else for them.
I love your logic
This is the first time in foil, and you know how some people like their foiled EDH decks
This looks as if it is geared towards newer players, and I see them sitting in shelves after the holidays are over.
Oh, got it.
Spectors often fly, so it would probably have flying as well.
Where did you get the info that realms was 5x more printed than arsenal?
This gets rid of Gravecrawler, Messenger, Strangleroot Geist, and a lot of other huge standard threats. Not to mention it also hits Delver.
Just look at Realms: it is not above $100 and stores still have them in stock. This could have been arsenal if Retainers wasn't in it.