"A new legendary creature card that combines two characters that previously each had their own legendary creature card"
Must be Hal and Alena, right? That would be a good set for a couple of hunters...
Mike not having Venture is a missed opportunity, because it would have been a perfect occasion to get a Venture commander able to incorporate G to the already established Esper build. I love Sefris, but sometimes I'd really like to be able to play Ellywick Tumblestrum or Varis, Silverymoon Ranger...
It seems like that the 2 fix legends in each booster doesn't share the same slot as the rare. That means you could get 3 rares from one booster. 1 rare in the rare slot + 2 rare legends. That's cool.
I don't think so, in the same way War of the Spark didn't have two rares with a given PW and Zendikar Rising couldn't have two rares with a MDFC. If you get two Commanders and a rare, it means that you got two uncommon commanders imho...
and man by the tweet and the fact it’s to be immediately removed from current leagues first time in years we might see a ban as fast as memory jar potentially
In standard, you mean.
Banning Lutri in Commander the day it is spoiled will forever be the fastest ban that any card has or will ever receive.
With the product sold out on Amazon, they can't change the original price anymore. What they can actually do though is announce that they will print to demand, just like Modern Horizons. They haven't stated anything different right now, do they? That should make the price go a little down, at least around UMA levels. Still too high for my taste but a little less outrageous.
I'd really like to know how the Venn diagram of people buying this kind of stuff and those partying and blatantly ignoring social distancing during a dangerous pandemic crisis is... I'd really like to know it.
Seriously, I can understand other drops with good and heavily played cards (the robot ones is fine as far as this parameter is concerned), but I cannot believe people can spend 30$ to buy 3 mostly unplayable cards and one rotating from Standard one month or so after they'll have them on their table... I can understand the appeal of a certain image style, but come on... well, I suppose everyone is allowed to use their money as they want.
Sets with 6.99$ MTGO boosters have normally been around 180€ in Europe. Even with double rares and foils, it shouldn't be completely unrealistic for prices to drop to a similar level if the top cards are Commander-oriented like these first previews.
But I'm not an optimistic person. I still expect cards like Dark Confidant to be in, causing a wider range of people beeing interested (which is obviously good) and what's more important, there will be fanboys with wallets full of money even with a worldwide economic crisis ongoing that will speculate on the product. Prices will go up and LGSs won't benefit from it as they deserve, as they desperately need in every country. This was the perfect occasion to sell the product at 4$ a booster, leaving apart every economical aspect, forgetting every analysis of the market they keep hidden in their vampire clothes behind the scenes. It was the best moment to shoot high, to make something astonishing to keep paper Magic alive, but WotC thinks only about its profit. Moreover, it isn't brave enough to explicitly admit that it takes secondary market into account (see MaRo's tweet to The Professor last night). Well, that's the American way... isn't it?
Since the booster packs for this product are only going to contain 1 basic land each, why not just go the Duel Masters / Kaijudo route and allow mono colored cards to be treated as basic lands but played upside down? If you have multi colored cards why not treat them like ABU duals without the drawback from Shocklands?
It is not 1 basic land. It is one new/cool basic land. MaRo has stated that each pack has enough land in it to make the deck viable. So likely half of each pack are just going to be lands.
Yeah most likely 8/9 lands in each, and I expect one of them to be something like Evolving Wilds or a Guildgate if the booster is two-colored... It's likely that there's only one rare (+1 in 30% of them) in them, though.
The product seems very interesting and I will definitely try it if boosters come around 5€ each and the content is interesting and fun, but Wizards has failed so many opportunities in the last couple of years that I wouldn't be surprised if either the product ends up beeing "Draft-chaff meets Keyforge" or the prices skyrocket without any sense...
I hope the blue one isn’t just a strictly worse Blue Sun’s Zenith but does something impactful and unique like this one
Probably gonna be Draw X and Tap twice X nonland permanents.
It's be interesting if it was something like counter Target spell unless they pay twice X mana. At X = 1 it's be Quench. At 2 it'd be Convolute. At >= 3 it'd basically be Cancel.
I doubt it'll have a draw effect. XU is more efficient that most X draw spells even without the extra mode thrown in.
Agreed: tap X target creatures or double X creatures gain flying until eot is my guess for the blue Intervention.
This one seems good to me, I'd like to pick up a couple of these and try them in decks in need for removal and lifegain...
They printed Robber of the Rich recently, at mythic rare. And this powerful lord is legendary. To me, it's 2 hints that there's gonna be playable satyrs to support the lord. It's great if one of those is a (mythic) rare 3-drop ala Steel Leaf Champion or Gruul Spellbreaker. It would make the curve pretty competitive.
I wouldn't hold my breath on it: Satyr seems like a pretty "slim" creature type, so a 3 CMC creature with stats above the traditional line shouldn't be its typical space, and now we should get Minotaurs in Gruul colors, too, so if a big creature is coming it's quite unlikely that it will be a Satyr. Gallia should be the indicator for a whack aggro archetype though...
Additionally, WotC has mentioned that they would be more aggressive to correct metagames with bannings. I'm totally on board with this. In fact, the truth is that in the past, they should have been more proactive to address bad metagames.
I wasn't aware of this. Are there any cards they regret not banning from past standard environments?
CoCo and Rally easily come to mind, maybe Thoughtseize in the RTR-THS era too...
Must be Hal and Alena, right? That would be a good set for a couple of hunters...
EDIT: re-read Gavin, hope that he's right
Seriously, I can understand other drops with good and heavily played cards (the robot ones is fine as far as this parameter is concerned), but I cannot believe people can spend 30$ to buy 3 mostly unplayable cards and one rotating from Standard one month or so after they'll have them on their table... I can understand the appeal of a certain image style, but come on... well, I suppose everyone is allowed to use their money as they want.
But I'm not an optimistic person. I still expect cards like Dark Confidant to be in, causing a wider range of people beeing interested (which is obviously good) and what's more important, there will be fanboys with wallets full of money even with a worldwide economic crisis ongoing that will speculate on the product. Prices will go up and LGSs won't benefit from it as they deserve, as they desperately need in every country. This was the perfect occasion to sell the product at 4$ a booster, leaving apart every economical aspect, forgetting every analysis of the market they keep hidden in their vampire clothes behind the scenes. It was the best moment to shoot high, to make something astonishing to keep paper Magic alive, but WotC thinks only about its profit. Moreover, it isn't brave enough to explicitly admit that it takes secondary market into account (see MaRo's tweet to The Professor last night). Well, that's the American way... isn't it?
The product seems very interesting and I will definitely try it if boosters come around 5€ each and the content is interesting and fun, but Wizards has failed so many opportunities in the last couple of years that I wouldn't be surprised if either the product ends up beeing "Draft-chaff meets Keyforge" or the prices skyrocket without any sense...
This one seems good to me, I'd like to pick up a couple of these and try them in decks in need for removal and lifegain...