Thanks for posting this. I've had this, uh, 'discussion' with a number of shops that had proposed to launch Pauper nights and I try to ask them "MTGO rules or actual-paper printed rarity", they go "Whatever, if it was ever a common it's good unless it's on the banlist, if it was bad it'd be on the banned list", I explain "Hymn and Sinkhole aren't on the MTGO banned list because they're not MTGO commons..." "Whatever, man. We'll see how it plays out." Yeah, I already know how this plays out.
I don't want to bring a deck with Hymns and get in arguments with the faction that thinks they're illegal in paper pauper (not on the MTGO pauper valids list). I don't want to bring a deck with Chainer's Edicts and get in arguments with the faction that thinks they're illegal in paper pauper (never printed as paper commons). I don't want to bring a deck that resists using either flavor of corner case and then face decks all evening that didn't hold themselves to the same deckbuilding restrictions. I want a show-runner who gives a damn enough to make it clear to all players what the cardpool is; ideally, I want the organization that handles all the other formats (including the online version of Pauper) to actually give a damn enough to codify a ruleset for paper pauper. But for some reason they never do.
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Nobody's 'noticed' him playing modernframe ABUR duals?
I think I can find a home for this in Modern turbofog as well.
Evergreen means that it *can* be printed in every set, not that it must. "Regenerate" is an evergreen mechanic, but no card in Fate Reforged used it.
I believe I was the first to mention Warrior's Lesson in this thread, and even I've abandoned it since then.
1-(0.82)^9 is 83%. That's still a pretty good chance.
Shocks were originally in the original Rav block. Their own rules didn't prevent them from reprinting things that were originally printed in Rav-block but have been reprinted in more-recent standard sets. See Overwhelm. If Overwhelm fit their MM2015 set limitations (RAV then M15 then MM2015), Shocks did too.
It may have been silly to expect shocks for various reasons, but set limitation wasn't a valid one.
Ponder and Preordain got banned on the exact same day. There was no time period where people started using Preordain because Ponder was banned.
A nonfoil playset of Tronlands can be had for ~$6.00
A 4000% premium to have foil ... is a pretty big premium, a larger % than the vast majority of other cards' foil versions.
Which makes me glad I'm not addicted to foil and am content with my $6 playset (actually, I'm still one mine short of the full set, but I can fill that out when I need to for under a buck).
This is exactly why I thought Path would be be likely in MM2015. Usually an FNM promo is an uncommon they printed in a set in the preceding six months.
Academy Ruinscould be back. We really haven't pinned down the number of the last artifact / first land.
Geth's Verdict? Cruel Edict? Gatekeeper of Malakir? Warren Wierding (though I don't expoect MM2015 to go back to the Tribal Goblin well like MM1 did)? Smallpox?
Yes, this fits ideally in ye olde Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck with Notion Thief.