Call me a grumpy old man, but I'm not a fan of this constant silly humour like "haha the ginger woman is now a knight and she's out for blood isn't that funny?". No.
I wouldn't call it constant. I would call it showing up on like 2 cards a set on average, and just coming off of a few sets of nonstop horror
Seriously though, a Redwall plane would be so dope. I loved those books.
I just read the 3 books about Martin many years ago. They were enjoyable and well written. I suppose I should read the others. I love tribal cards and this set would probably have less overall tribes but more tribal support for say beasts, cats, birds, etc. I wish they would just come out and make the announcements, the waiting gets old.
What waiting? The most recent spoilers ended like 3 days ago and apparently we have a lot more in the next 10 days, probably this week. There's no waiting, there's very rarely even a pause anymore. We get stuff about the next product before players are even able to buy the previous one
Oh shiiiit Slivers on Amonkhet!?
"The colourless deck isn't just Eldrazi"................. damnit
As cool as that would have been, with only 10 new cards, it would have been really hard to do.
If anything, it's true the exact contrary. More are the cards more is difficult making all them eldrazi themed.
my thought was having more slots would mean more at the lower CMC. right now it's very hard to make a pure Eldrazi deck because there are so few things to include for less than 6 mana
what are you talking about that area is pretty much the mana rocks/dudes and smaller brood eldrazi’s
Plus if it’s Morophon eldrazi that’s like 3/4 the eldrazi
okay, but we were talking about 'just' Eldrazi. most of the lower cost stuff has colors, so they can't go in this precon. Morophon is not flavorfully an Eldrazi, it's a fine card to use in that role, but on flavor it's not with the theme. I know a lot of my friends would love to see even one new Eldrazi themed mana rock, just for flavor reasons
Oh shiiiit Slivers on Amonkhet!?
"The colourless deck isn't just Eldrazi"................. damnit
As cool as that would have been, with only 10 new cards, it would have been really hard to do.
If anything, it's true the exact contrary. More are the cards more is difficult making all them eldrazi themed.
my thought was having more slots would mean more at the lower CMC. right now it's very hard to make a pure Eldrazi deck because there are so few things to include for less than 6 mana
Why not? Under what government's law is that a problem?
People say stuff like this all the time and I've never seen someone actually explain it and I'm pretty sure that's because it's just not true. This seems especially evident every time someone goes "Aren't they acknowledging the secondary market by doing X?" and they usually are, but no one seems to care besides those people.
It's gambling laws. Companies that sell randomized products are walking a very fine line where they have to be legally ignorant of the fact monetary value differential in their product. So a game creator/marketing material may talk about how you can open a lot of "exciting" cards, but better not say "expensive". It's stupid/silly, but so many fine legal distinctions are.
You can find articles/videos analyzing the issues and how it applies to loot boxes, randomized collectible games (physical and digital), gacha etc. As so often, it is not only stupid, but also fascinating.
Exactly. You will see Maro lean heavily on 'desired', 'high demand', 'powerful' and such, those words do a lot of heavy lifting for him, but he and the others will never say 'expensive', they will never recognize publicly that those cards cost a different number of dollars at the LGS, because the moment they do, it becomes gambling under US law. It is gambling, we all know it's gambling, but their lawyers will deny it. It's the same basic reason they got rid of ante.
huh? If you told me to pick one card from the YEAR Ixalan came out to leave at mythic, it would be the 9 mana, 3 color behemoth. that is the definition of mythic for limited
Yes, but much more important they keep Loyal Retainers at mythic to preserve its secondary market value. The thing Wizards definitely doesn't keep track of!
Has anyone at Wizards actually claimed they don't? It would certainly be unwise for them to make claims about resale value, but as far as I know, just looking at sale prices would not be a problem at all.
They are not allowed to acknowledge the secondary market in any way, be at that point, they could not sell packs to minors
haha, yay! this is the one i specifically said was the reprint I wanted to make up for just reprinting my trade binder just page by page. this makes me feel better
huh? If you told me to pick one card from the YEAR Ixalan came out to leave at mythic, it would be the 9 mana, 3 color behemoth. that is the definition of mythic for limited
I'm glad to see this one. The big hits so far had felt like Wizards going through my trade binder and the stuff I just recently got and picking only those. I'm glad to see a hit I actually want to pick up.
Please note, I am all about reprints, and I don't mind my stuff getting reprinted, it's just nice to also see stuff I don't own. if they give me Balefire Dragon at this point, I'll be pretty happy
Maro clarified that the other 6 are going to be during Gencon this coming weekend
I wouldn't call it constant. I would call it showing up on like 2 cards a set on average, and just coming off of a few sets of nonstop horror
What waiting? The most recent spoilers ended like 3 days ago and apparently we have a lot more in the next 10 days, probably this week. There's no waiting, there's very rarely even a pause anymore. We get stuff about the next product before players are even able to buy the previous one
lol, that is the only version of Squee that will ever hold value, and it can't be touched
not sure what happened to the other 3
okay, but we were talking about 'just' Eldrazi. most of the lower cost stuff has colors, so they can't go in this precon. Morophon is not flavorfully an Eldrazi, it's a fine card to use in that role, but on flavor it's not with the theme. I know a lot of my friends would love to see even one new Eldrazi themed mana rock, just for flavor reasons
my thought was having more slots would mean more at the lower CMC. right now it's very hard to make a pure Eldrazi deck because there are so few things to include for less than 6 mana
As cool as that would have been, with only 10 new cards, it would have been really hard to do.
Exactly. You will see Maro lean heavily on 'desired', 'high demand', 'powerful' and such, those words do a lot of heavy lifting for him, but he and the others will never say 'expensive', they will never recognize publicly that those cards cost a different number of dollars at the LGS, because the moment they do, it becomes gambling under US law. It is gambling, we all know it's gambling, but their lawyers will deny it. It's the same basic reason they got rid of ante.
They are not allowed to acknowledge the secondary market in any way, be at that point, they could not sell packs to minors
over an hour into that game, just to make friends
Please note, I am all about reprints, and I don't mind my stuff getting reprinted, it's just nice to also see stuff I don't own. if they give me Balefire Dragon at this point, I'll be pretty happy
If obnoxious prices make something not count, I would definitely say that packs of this set do not count.