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I'm sorry, let me add some context to my rant. Bant colors got some really good playable cards. The set has really good cards, unfortunatley, the playable cards reinforce existing tier one decks in standard. The color red got some nice removal spells and a creature that will see play in modern, possibly. Most of my complaints are centered around black and the poor removal and creatures. Yes, the set is good for standard, the set will diversify existing tier one decks and give those decks more tools to play with. But, the black cards are trash the blue cards are suspect.
Much better. I'd still say "wait and see until playing with the cards", but I can respect a more detailed analysis that accounts for both strengths and failures.
Cool. And if it turns out we're right and the cards suck, will Wizards be offering us refunds on that? Because if not, then your suggestion to "buy before you try" is completely bass-ackwards. Why should anyone have to spend money on this set just to win an internet argument about whether it's balanced? We are capable of reading what the cards do on the spoilers just fine and it's not particularly hard to see that GW/Bant decks are going to continue dominating the format.
That's ridiculous. No one is telling you to spend money to win Internet arguments. You spend money to play a game and have fun. If you think the set is unbalanced, play GW as that is assured to be powerful. If you have philosophical or moral qualms about playing GW, and are positive that you are so incredibly insightful that your first impressions trump empirical testing, then don't buy. It's your money and it's just a game so you are in your right to do as you will. However, you may be missing out. Knee-jerk opinions and reactions after a set is first released are wrong or at least exaggerated more often than not. Again, it's your prerogative.
My advice works if you believe that the people that have been working at this game for up to decades are at all competent and capable of delivering a fun product. If you don't, then keep your money and your belief of being right (without risking obtaining any pesky "evidence" to tell you otherwise), but know that your opinions will matter nothing next to the ones of the people who actually gave it a go.
Your opinion boils down to "If you didn't spend money on these cards, you cannot disprove my argument that they're good." It's a great tactic to ensure that anything you say is infallible because any response a person gives to you can be countered by "You just need to buy more cards and keep playing".
Except I haven't said that "the cards are good". What's "good" anyway? For some people, it means constructed playable, for others exclusively eternal constructed playable, for others, flavourful and interesting, for others, part of a fun limited gameplay, funny combos, tribal unity, commander-worthy, pauper-worthy, etc, etc, etc. I'm sorry that the "goodness" that you expect from cards is not there in your un-empirical opinion. I argue that it may be there but you cannot know for sure until you try it. Yes, there's a financial risk to it, but this is not endemic of this set. Every set is like that. Every entertainment investment, in fact, is like that. Movies, videogames, concerts, etc. Anything can end being a disappointment from an initial positive impression, or a pleasant surprise from a negative one, and again, it is up to you to assess the risk.
Or just do what you were perhaps planning to do from the beginning: wait until the first reports of people actually playing the cards start trickling into the open, quickly buy the singles, and when eventually you are "pwning n00bs" with those cards, claim that you knew from the beginning that they were awesome and anybody who believed otherwise was an idiot.
Before I stopped moderating that's why I never volunteered to mod it. Granted, we are getting terribly close to people getting personal. So it's probably best to drop the topic.
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It gives more options and therefore is a perfect fit for control. Netdeckers will surely crap all over the mechanic since they need to be told what to play and when to play it. Everybody else will see it for what it is: a good reward to those who plan ahead and can adapt to a fluid game where momentum shifts contiuously.
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The art for Hallowed Fountain has thopters in it. It's him or Tezzeret but Azorius is definitely evil.
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How about printing a "Netdeck Masters" instead? I mean people who refuse to draft tend to be very bad players, let's not cater to them.
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Glad to not be the target audience for these cause that Elspeth looks sexy as hell.
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Better, dunno about broken.
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This card is nice though, but it's just one card, not one per attacking creature.
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And also said that Mana Crypt going from 150 to 60 was not significant.
Hahahahahaha.
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This is a total homerun.
Probably too slow for Standard but I love this card to bits. My dream general for casual EDH: white black control!
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Mono-white getting trample is a huge stretch no matter how you spin it or look at older cards. Could have had trample? Maybe but this is a ridiculous game-swinging card already, it definitely doesn't need to be more powerful.
If it had trample or double strike it would essentially be game over in limited and casual play if the opponent doesn't have a removal spell there and then. Since this won't be seeing competitive play at that CMC no need to make it oppressive in the environments where it will see play.
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All sets need chase cards.
This has always been the case.
I am curious as to why YOU are expected to be allowed to be greedy (I want the cards I want to be cheaper) but not WotC (wanting to sell as much product as they can)
Snapcaster is a bit cheaper than he used to be, likely due to the reprint. But you want more.
Format staples crashing in price due to reprints is bad for the game.
Interesting that no one is talking about Blood Moon drop^ping about 40 dollars since MM2017.... I wonder why?
Is it because there will always be expensive cards and people like you NEED to complain about prices and accuse of WotC of "unethical behaviour" to feel better about themselves loving a VERY expensive HOBBY maybe?
Ane enough with the whole "I don't want them to be cheaper for me, I have my playset. Those who are happy about their investment not crashing are lesser humans because they put their investment over accessibility" nonsense. Crad prices being high, up to a certain degree, means the game is doing WELL. They are PLENTY of affordable formats, hell the best format in all of MtG is Limited (the reason it is so unpopular here is because you can't netdeck). Not all formats are equal, instead of accusing WotC of "greed" maybe look at playing other formats? Why does WotC have to bend to YOUR whim exactly? What about people who dropped thousands of dollars to GET into Legacy/Modern and would rather not think "awww man, I should have waited. Now instead of buying into a format, I'll just wait for Chronicles 3.0".