A RARE printed in a standard set? Crucible of worlds was a $60 card and got reprinted at mythic yet was available for under $15 for several months. Sure leyline sees a lot of modern sideboard play but Crucible sees a ton of EDH play which balances out. This card is going to be sub $10, pure supply and demand will stop this staying at $30 because you can't have such high EV in the box as everyone will crack boxes to sell lowering the price etc etc.
Also for a lot of people they already bought leylines if they used them in modern because before the spikes dude to the original dredge build it was a $20 card in 2018. Crucible on the other hand had been over $50 since the end of 2015 and likely priced a lot of people out for several years until the reprints.
My point being demand is not as high as you'd think and price will tank a lot more than you think too. If you're in the market for leyline for whatever reason you'll easily get a playset sub $50 which is a still compared to the current $50 for 1 price tag.
Didn't expect to see this pop up. I think it's got to be unlikely we see leyline of the void, anticipation and sanctity all in the same set and at rare. That's a huge amount of EV wizards are giving up on 3 cards AND at just rare level. To be honest I had expected these to only ever appear in a masters style of set but I suppose they need something spicy to shift core sets.
It's a sweet card but I don't see it making the cut in modern. The reason dark depths is so good is you can cheat the cost and also make the token EoT then untap and attack for lethal. The combo can also not be broken up by any permanent removal beforehand.
On the other hand this requires you play an enchantment (and yes there's less removal for this than artifacts) but it can be countered, discarded etc. On top of that it only activates on your upkeep which means unless you have a haste enabler you pass the turn and allow karn to exile it, reflector mage to bounce it, thing in the ice to bounce it, UW control to exile/bounce it (you get the idea).
Even at the most magical christmas land you're doing something like getting 10 snow permanents by turn 4 which means you get the 20/20 on turn 5 which means attacking on turn 6. Just too slow sadly.
This card is really damn scary. Sure you need this in the Graveyard to get the best deal out of it, but it's not like Izzet decks have any problems getting stuff in the Graveyard.
Could Izzet Phoenix decks run or side a tech copy or two to refill their hand in long games? I know Phoenix wants their spells as cheap as they can get them, but running this seems like such a non-issue for them and the payoff is pretty damn good.
I don't think so. It doesn't work well with phoenix in the yard, faithless looting, snapcaster or ascension.
Oh my this is a hell of a card. This screams abuse me and you'll be rewarded!
Surely slots into storm in modern. 2 mana timetwister with 1 of the reduction dudes out... Even casting the regular version will only cost 4 or 5 which is totally doable in a grindy game.
Well if dredge somehow needed another finisher this works nicely. With a nice dredge hit can probably get this out on 2 turn and pretty consistently by turn 3. Seems like it must be worth at least having 1. A nice way to get around some GY hate like grafdiggers cage or tormod's crypt, relic etc (obviously casting from hand) but just the fact if your GY is locked anyway you can delve it all away for him. That being said I guess it still lines up poorly vs tron, UW control, humans and phoenix which are the 4 most played decks on mtgo at the moment...
Nothing fair will come from this. People are either putting this in with as foretold, finale of promise, electrodominance or cascading. 8 trampling power on 4/4 bodies is nothing to turn your nose up at on turn 2. Hell SSG and electrodominance gives you it on turn 1 lol. Hello force of negation
On the face of it 2 vs 3 cmc doesn't matter much in modern since most the Bx decks that would want to use this either can't (gurmag, bloodbraid) or already could (DS, snappy, thing in the ice, goyf etc). Does allow for clique as well I suppose. The big upgrade is that unless you were in red too claim/fame was only claim so the red aftermath was pretty irrelevant.
Where unearth is leagues better is of course cycling. This is so much better against all the graveyard hate since it can at least replace itself or if you're in need of lands or something early you can just cycle it.
Tbf, Masques isn't really memorable other than Rishadan Port, the best art for Dark Ritual, and Brainstorm. Granted, that Brainstorm has possibly the best misprinting ever.
That's a bit harsh. It had gush, coastal piracy, snuff out, bribery, squee, high market and a bunch of other playables (talking edh too obviously)
Sweet looking card, seems really strong in the right deck. I don't expect to see a red version though because this 'cycle' seems to consist of permanent recovery and I'm not sure what red could get. There's absolutely 0 chance red gets an instant/sorcery recovery because let's face it in the late game against any URx deck it means you'll be cryptic command locked lol. It feels like we've already got a lot of land support but if it's going on top of the deck rather than your hand perhaps a green land one would be ok.
So, does this make it into the humans deck? Card is really strong in the mirror and the life ability lets you cycle dead creatures for spells later on. Proliferate would be amazing with champion/lieutenant but deck is unable to make BB and I don't see how it ever could. So is the card strong enough without the last line of text? Maybe as a 1 of or in the sideboard for the mirror?
Probably doesn't see play tbh. Turn 4 you cast this and it does nothing, you're only getting value turn 5 and later. Sure it dodges bolt but still dies to push, path etc etc so a 4 mana do nothing will struggle. Doesn't help that at 4 mana in those colours it's having to compete with jace and cryptic (and now fof possibly too). Format is too hostile for this.
A RARE printed in a standard set? Crucible of worlds was a $60 card and got reprinted at mythic yet was available for under $15 for several months. Sure leyline sees a lot of modern sideboard play but Crucible sees a ton of EDH play which balances out. This card is going to be sub $10, pure supply and demand will stop this staying at $30 because you can't have such high EV in the box as everyone will crack boxes to sell lowering the price etc etc.
Also for a lot of people they already bought leylines if they used them in modern because before the spikes dude to the original dredge build it was a $20 card in 2018. Crucible on the other hand had been over $50 since the end of 2015 and likely priced a lot of people out for several years until the reprints.
My point being demand is not as high as you'd think and price will tank a lot more than you think too. If you're in the market for leyline for whatever reason you'll easily get a playset sub $50 which is a still compared to the current $50 for 1 price tag.
On the other hand this requires you play an enchantment (and yes there's less removal for this than artifacts) but it can be countered, discarded etc. On top of that it only activates on your upkeep which means unless you have a haste enabler you pass the turn and allow karn to exile it, reflector mage to bounce it, thing in the ice to bounce it, UW control to exile/bounce it (you get the idea).
Even at the most magical christmas land you're doing something like getting 10 snow permanents by turn 4 which means you get the 20/20 on turn 5 which means attacking on turn 6. Just too slow sadly.
I don't think so. It doesn't work well with phoenix in the yard, faithless looting, snapcaster or ascension.
Surely slots into storm in modern. 2 mana timetwister with 1 of the reduction dudes out... Even casting the regular version will only cost 4 or 5 which is totally doable in a grindy game.
Where unearth is leagues better is of course cycling. This is so much better against all the graveyard hate since it can at least replace itself or if you're in need of lands or something early you can just cycle it.
That's a bit harsh. It had gush, coastal piracy, snuff out, bribery, squee, high market and a bunch of other playables (talking edh too obviously)
Nah, it's still 3 mana no matter your life total and the deck only has 17 lands. Stubborn denial still far better.