Oooh! Hopefully this is adopted as well by the french duel commander comite.
It never made sense that you couldn't skullclamp your own commander to draw cards, if I understand well this is gonna be a thing of the past? Neat
I find that Chandra incredibly boring.
But now I've always hated the fact planeswalkers have dozens of different cards just like pokemons. Legendary creatures rule.
At least Basri looks cool and different.
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Since this set wasn't released at box stores. My LGS hoarded them, asked for 8 to 9 dollars a pack, even for the free boxes they got. Reprints were good but they did not get into the hands of people like you and me, so that is a total fail in my opinion in that aspect.
That's a problem with your LGS, or on a wider scale the absence of MSRP, but the set itself at the price it was intended to be sold (let's call it "theoretical msrp") was great. My LGS at least didn't gouge us, and the box I'm getting soon is part of a new restock we're still being sold at normal price (120€).
Am I the only one who can not refrain from comparing new products to Mystery Boosters? This was a reprint set done right, with apparently a great limited environment, reasonable booster price, etc... couldn't try it out myself because of Covid, but I've got a box on the way, the first in a while. Plus there were already more than one rare in most boosters, so the gimmick of "everything is doubled" is kinda lame.
Double Masters doesn't excite me in any way yet. It is soooo expensive. The reprints we've seen already seem to be EDH oriented (again), which is a format I don't play a lot.
But I love spoiler seasons so in a way it's another one I can look forward to x)
Godzilla art is confusing and annoying too.
Its what fan-art alternate art looks like, they just charge money for it.
I already hate seeing these cards in play, as i want MAGIC cards, and not Godzilla or other franchise crap (as this will for sure not be the last time they pull that stunt).
And its not just the art, they also give the card a "flavor" name, which is just another level of confusing mess on the level of the Amonkhet pieces.
I share most of what you said except the counters stuff that doesn't seem to be such a big deal. In fact I've come around and I think mutate can be very interesting. From a mechanical point of view I'm lukewarm to excited.
That part about Godzilla is the biggest pill to swallow for me though. I hate it so much. I wish they went the same route as with King Kong being rebranded Kogla and smoothly integrated into the Mtg universe. All the arts from this serie look like bad fan-art (Dorat being the biggest offender, omg) and I already know I'll have to read the cards again when I'll be facing an opponent who plays one of these confusing skins.
I also happen to dislike some of the alternate art creatures, especially the legendary ones who go too much over the top to the point the cards are barely readable. Some of the alt-arts are fine though (Cloudpiercer, the Planeswalkers,...).
"Bling" is going too far to my taste this time, to the point I definitely won't consider them the "superior version".
As for the Great Henge, I feel the card is great. Gives you a draw engine the deck didn't have before. Transforms birds and elves into cantrips late game. I dig it
These days I don't have time to play modern, but I hope this leads to at least a few green devotion getting videos on Youtube. It's been a lot of time since there's been any activity around the archetype, sadly.
This could be interesting for my version of the deck. I'm creature heavy and my tutor spell is Summoner's Pact and it doesn't require mana ^^
I don't want it to ever come into play tapped though, so testing will be required.
About Konrad, it's because its first two abilities don't only concern your creatures but also your opponent's, when the last ability only looks at your graveyard.
I play a lot of French Duel Commander and I'm really excited to give a try to brawl in arena. It will bring some fresh air when Standard gets stale (often).
However I do really hope some kind of "Historic" Brawl does happen at some point because I much prefer eternal formats of all kinds.
I mean Sunbond plays around Hypnotic Sprite B)
It never made sense that you couldn't skullclamp your own commander to draw cards, if I understand well this is gonna be a thing of the past? Neat
Gideon and Elspeth immediately jump to mind, coming from a Greek-inspired plane. Greece and Egypt have influenced each other a lot.
But now I've always hated the fact planeswalkers have dozens of different cards just like pokemons. Legendary creatures rule.
At least Basri looks cool and different.
But we are getting off tracks.
That's a problem with your LGS, or on a wider scale the absence of MSRP, but the set itself at the price it was intended to be sold (let's call it "theoretical msrp") was great. My LGS at least didn't gouge us, and the box I'm getting soon is part of a new restock we're still being sold at normal price (120€).
Double Masters doesn't excite me in any way yet. It is soooo expensive. The reprints we've seen already seem to be EDH oriented (again), which is a format I don't play a lot.
But I love spoiler seasons so in a way it's another one I can look forward to x)
I share most of what you said except the counters stuff that doesn't seem to be such a big deal. In fact I've come around and I think mutate can be very interesting. From a mechanical point of view I'm lukewarm to excited.
That part about Godzilla is the biggest pill to swallow for me though. I hate it so much. I wish they went the same route as with King Kong being rebranded Kogla and smoothly integrated into the Mtg universe. All the arts from this serie look like bad fan-art (Dorat being the biggest offender, omg) and I already know I'll have to read the cards again when I'll be facing an opponent who plays one of these confusing skins.
I also happen to dislike some of the alternate art creatures, especially the legendary ones who go too much over the top to the point the cards are barely readable. Some of the alt-arts are fine though (Cloudpiercer, the Planeswalkers,...).
"Bling" is going too far to my taste this time, to the point I definitely won't consider them the "superior version".
As for the Great Henge, I feel the card is great. Gives you a draw engine the deck didn't have before. Transforms birds and elves into cantrips late game. I dig it
These days I don't have time to play modern, but I hope this leads to at least a few green devotion getting videos on Youtube. It's been a lot of time since there's been any activity around the archetype, sadly.
I don't want it to ever come into play tapped though, so testing will be required.
However I do really hope some kind of "Historic" Brawl does happen at some point because I much prefer eternal formats of all kinds.
Could be good but I'll let you test it ^^