The prices of cards in this set are far less likely to hold their value than cards from other sets. The cards' value is high only because of the incredibly low supply of the cards in question. Of the rare and mythics worth more than the MSRP of a pack, how many have seen a reprint? Only 10%-20%, and all were only printed in sets before Magic's boom during the RTR period.
Furthermore, very, very few of the high value cards see competitive play, a marker of the ability of a card's value to withstand a reprint in the long term.
Does anyone honestly believe that filter lands see more play than shocks? The price of shocks is so much lower than filters because shocks were reprinted in massive numbers in RTR block, whereas the filters were only printed (outside of the Expeditions) in the original Shadowmoor block 10 years ago, when the player base was far smaller.
I'd be curious to see where prices are for this set in two months, because I'd be shocked if the EV of a booster box is anywhere close to where these calculations peg it before release.
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Now that you said this, I can't seem to find the story where Bolas was going off on a tirade about how he had the Eldrazi released to see how planeswalkers would react to it. I thought it was during Hour of Devastation, but I haven't been able to find it now. He was basically bragging about how everything that has happened did so by his design, and that the reemergence of Ugin was the only thing that he hadn't planned, but it didn't make a difference in the end or something.
Yeah, I guess this is their way of creating stakes in a flashback time period, but like you said, we already know it isn't going to work. It's likely that something happens in this storyline that makes Bolas think that Ugin really is dead for good, since Bolas mentions being surprised by the reemergence of Ugin during his little speech during the Hour of Devastation storyline.
But yeah, stakes are definitely low for this storyline because we already know that Ugin lives.
Now that you mention it, the card art definitely implies as much, doesn't it? That would seem very Bolas-y, too: planeswalking demon leviathan arrives in Bolas' backyard, Bolas challenges him, believing that he's the greatest there is. Of course, Bolas starts losing, and relies on his mind manipulation to defeat him. Bolas devours him and absorbs his powers, and somehow absorbs the leviathan's spark. In short, Bolas wants something he doesn't have, and he just steals it from someone else instead of creating it himself or just accepting that he doesn't get everything he wants.
Besides the duals, there are only a select number of other cards on the Reserved List that makes entry into either format prohibitive. With the new lands in print, the calls to abolish the Reserved List would go down substantially, giving the rest of us fewer headaches.
Make it happen, Wizards. Prove to us that you want to make a lot of money.
Graveyard hate isn't generally a strategy to win, though. There aren't decks devoted to graveyard hate. The decks that do run it do it incidentally or as a safety precaution because of how degenerate reanimator decks get.
I will definitely concede that these types of cards hurt decks that use the graveyard as a secondary effect, which kind of dampens their fun, but doesn't make the games unwinnable.
I love that Wizards is going back to the more tongue-in-cheek flavor text!
Right after they banned Deathrite Shaman in Legacy.
Seriously, though, graveyard shenanigans are quite overpowered without a way to interact with them. There needs to be
sufficientample hate around to deal with it.Seriously, this. How can we have a million and a half Propaganda variants, but never see a single card like this until now?
Don't get me wrong, this is a welcome card indeed, but that name, though. I thought it was a clumsy translation when I saw the thread title.
I think the lower right shoreline is Tranquil Cove from Tarkir?
I dunno, it has a certain charm to it still. It certainly looks a lot better than a lot of the other art from that period.
Also, how do effects like Humility affect this thing? If Humility is out when this thing ETBs, then it's just a 1/1 with no counters on it, right? But if this thing is already out when Humility ETBs, then nothing happens to Arixmethes because it's not a creature at that point?
Nath'd
Seriously, this was my first thought when I saw the card
Geez, didn't they just jack up the price to $35 a few years back? This rate of increase is kind of insane.