I heard that the prerelease promos will be a promo version of a random rare or mythic. Does anybody know if the entire set of rare/mythics will be available in prerelease promo form or just a select number?
I know it's not a very popular format. But if you had to choose, which block would be the most fun for block constructed? Which block do you think would be the most balanced and have the most number of viable decks?
Wait, I thought the holiday box sets weren't getting the full art basics either... did that change?
oh wow I have no idea! I'm not claiming that they do, but if they do then it's a pretty uneconomical way to go about getting them. But most likely you're correct.
Holiday gift boxes for those who cant access the link. not as good as deal as the fat packs, but they can help supplement the desire to buy full art lands.
I think the Holiday Gift Box is $20 each, and comes with 20 lands. So at $1.00 per land, I'm sure there are better routes. If you're just after the land, you can buy just the sealed land packs from the fat pack on ebay (sans fat pack).
Hey I just wanted to chime in. There are no full art lands in the intro decks and wotc never claimed that there would be. I have two intro decks (because I'm into that sort of thing) and there are no full arts in them.
Wotc uses the same graphic for lands regardless of which set the decklist came from. They simply use the latest lands. Check out the M14 Intro Pack Deck Lists. They are just using the image file for full art lands, but those don't come with full art lands.
Remember you have 2 years to get these before they stop printing them for standard I'm sure everyone who wants a bunch of the new full-art lands are going to get them. Remember we also have the 2nd set in the block which will likely have more full arts. Don't fall for the hype and scalpers false scarcity.
I also wanted to make sure that any misinformation like the above is cleared up on the forums Sets aren't continuously printed for 2 years. I'm not sure where HunterEste got this idea. I'm not going to claim that I know how many printings they do, but it's a finite number and I think that number is usually 1. Since there are always new sets coming out, WotC learned a long time ago that scarcity is a better business model than having excess product languish on the shelves for years.
I'm trying to get my head around how to play ingest/processor decks. What's the minimum number of ingest creatures and processor creatures you would want before you are comfortable that it is an ingest/processor deck? Would you want more of one or the other?
So I think I figured out a big reason that I'm kinda mediocre at limited. I don't really go out of my way to make sure that I have "ways to win".
I build pretty straight forward decks with the right creature/spell/land mix, and with a good mana curve. I don't include too many double costed cards, esp not in both colors (because I'm usually playing a 2-color deck). A lot of times I go for synergy, like an artifact subtheme or a +1/+1 counters theme back in KTK. Given all that, I barely with over 50% of the time.
I was reading through advice that some people had written about a deck that someone had built from a sealed pool. One of the most common critiques was "besides ____, you don't really have many ways to win." I realized that I never really think about this. I never think that if I cast this card, I'm definitely going to win the game.
Can somebody give me advice about how to identify wincons? I know it's more than just a big beefy creature, but is it mostly just a big beefy creature? In order to make sure that you have wincons in draft, do you look through the entire set beforehand and identify the cards you want to draft as wincons?
What do you look for when you make sure that wincons are in your deck?
btw, I don't know what the rule is on x-posts, but I also posted this question here.
I heard that RoE only had 100 commons because they did something special with the frequency of certain cards. I think that they wanted some of the eldrazi to show up more frequently. Does anybody have any information about this and exactly what they did? What was the rare sheet like?
oh wow I have no idea! I'm not claiming that they do, but if they do then it's a pretty uneconomical way to go about getting them. But most likely you're correct.
I think the Holiday Gift Box is $20 each, and comes with 20 lands. So at $1.00 per land, I'm sure there are better routes. If you're just after the land, you can buy just the sealed land packs from the fat pack on ebay (sans fat pack).
Hey I just wanted to chime in. There are no full art lands in the intro decks and wotc never claimed that there would be. I have two intro decks (because I'm into that sort of thing) and there are no full arts in them.
Wotc uses the same graphic for lands regardless of which set the decklist came from. They simply use the latest lands.
Check out the M14 Intro Pack Deck Lists. They are just using the image file for full art lands, but those don't come with full art lands.
I also wanted to make sure that any misinformation like the above is cleared up on the forums
I build pretty straight forward decks with the right creature/spell/land mix, and with a good mana curve. I don't include too many double costed cards, esp not in both colors (because I'm usually playing a 2-color deck). A lot of times I go for synergy, like an artifact subtheme or a +1/+1 counters theme back in KTK. Given all that, I barely with over 50% of the time.
I was reading through advice that some people had written about a deck that someone had built from a sealed pool. One of the most common critiques was "besides ____, you don't really have many ways to win." I realized that I never really think about this. I never think that if I cast this card, I'm definitely going to win the game.
Can somebody give me advice about how to identify wincons? I know it's more than just a big beefy creature, but is it mostly just a big beefy creature? In order to make sure that you have wincons in draft, do you look through the entire set beforehand and identify the cards you want to draft as wincons?
What do you look for when you make sure that wincons are in your deck?
btw, I don't know what the rule is on x-posts, but I also posted this question here.
On a related but tangential note, how does full block RAV (original not RTR) stack up against 3xRoE and 3xINN?