Just how modeled after it is it? Seriously? Arena regularly matches up people that are 1-2, 2-2, 1-1 against people 5-2, 6-1, 6-0 and what not. Pay outs are a joke on Arena for prizes.... if anything Arena should think about remodeling their draft after paper magic, let people sign up and once it hits 8 people fire a pod, What Arena has now is not really drafting since all you do is pick cards and bots take random cards out after you so everyone you play saw completely different packs and thus could of had a much stronger pool to choose from or far worse....
So if it is right it has a one green mana dork (maybe they are no longer to strong for standard)
Also for those wondering about common legends Rosewater said on his blogatog that there is a legendary slot in each pack so does not mean common legends necessarily
So, how would a flex slot work? You'd have to decide on rarity and color before you even knew what the problem was and then you'd have to cram a really powerful card into the set without as much testing as normal. You'd also have to be able to get art for it and either make the card blue/white or risk the color not being able to answer the problem at all. The other option is to just bump a card out at the last minute which might wreck limited strategies/balance or axe a neat card that might not fit into any other sets.
Good question.
Uncommon... they've done it with Rakdos Charm, Volcanic Fallout, and Raking Canopy in the past
Maybe they just need to make the sets a little bigger so they can print more answers at common and uncommon. Amonkhet felt very light on enchantment removal, for instance. An extra 10 cards or so would go a long way in keeping things balanced.
That would be nice, but it often seems they will cry how its to complex to be common or uncommon because those are cards for limited! (aka yeah constructed playable cards must be rare or higher more often then not because that sells more packs, if 2 cases can get a play set of playable cards due to low rarity how will we keep sales up?) exactly. Remember what wizards truly cares about is selling more and more packs to keep Hasbro happy.
Glad I made the decision to stop collecting and sell off my collection. I can play my limited tournaments I enjoy, sell the valuable cards instantly, offsetting the cost, if I win more stuff to sell. Do not have to worry about keeping things for a collection, just to read banned, banned, banned and watch the prices go down, then prices of other cards do not rise as much because hey they seem to like banning things now... ah well. This decision will save me a couple grand a year likely.... Time to pursue other passions, magic had been allowed to take in to much of my expendable income for to long. I feel bad for some people holding on, the trends are worrisome, got lottery cards sucking up a huge chunk of a sets value, to the point where if you fail to get them you likely lose. like 4 or 5 cards in a new set over $10.... all mythics at that. yeah very nice ( I got lucky at pre-release promo liliana and a foil angel of sanctions so I made money over all playing there even with all the prize packs being 100% crap.
I hope wizards can get their act together and stop being 100% lets do anything we think will bring in another penny instantly no matter the long term effects, and start looking more to the future and how to keep the game strong. But lottery cards, master sets year after year, other random sets each year... just $$$$$$$$ to wizards and anything else be damned.
Simple, Random High dollar Mythics to sell the set, 3-5 decent rares, followed by crap in the name of a fun limited experience, or and 1 or 2 decent common/uncommon cards as well.
$10 a pack likely just means, 90% of all cards worth anything will be bumped up to mythic, a couple rare lands will make a showing 1-2 uncommon and common staples and the rest useless junk for the sake of making the draft experience "fun". I would not be shocked to see a bunch of people wasting money pre-ordering when the mythics get spoiled only to be cursing when they see how many bulk rares there are and cry when the pre order price ends up at or below MSRP. You know what happened with MM2015.
At least I can count on my LGS to preorder under MSRP as they have with everything MM and MM2015 included. of course that is only if I end up being interested which I see little chance of.
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Also for those wondering about common legends Rosewater said on his blogatog that there is a legendary slot in each pack so does not mean common legends necessarily
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That would be nice, but it often seems they will cry how its to complex to be common or uncommon because those are cards for limited! (aka yeah constructed playable cards must be rare or higher more often then not because that sells more packs, if 2 cases can get a play set of playable cards due to low rarity how will we keep sales up?) exactly. Remember what wizards truly cares about is selling more and more packs to keep Hasbro happy.
Glad I made the decision to stop collecting and sell off my collection. I can play my limited tournaments I enjoy, sell the valuable cards instantly, offsetting the cost, if I win more stuff to sell. Do not have to worry about keeping things for a collection, just to read banned, banned, banned and watch the prices go down, then prices of other cards do not rise as much because hey they seem to like banning things now... ah well. This decision will save me a couple grand a year likely.... Time to pursue other passions, magic had been allowed to take in to much of my expendable income for to long. I feel bad for some people holding on, the trends are worrisome, got lottery cards sucking up a huge chunk of a sets value, to the point where if you fail to get them you likely lose. like 4 or 5 cards in a new set over $10.... all mythics at that. yeah very nice ( I got lucky at pre-release promo liliana and a foil angel of sanctions so I made money over all playing there even with all the prize packs being 100% crap.
I hope wizards can get their act together and stop being 100% lets do anything we think will bring in another penny instantly no matter the long term effects, and start looking more to the future and how to keep the game strong. But lottery cards, master sets year after year, other random sets each year... just $$$$$$$$ to wizards and anything else be damned.
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All of Theros block, all of Khans block, all of BFZ block no jace pw cards, just saying.
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At least I can count on my LGS to preorder under MSRP as they have with everything MM and MM2015 included. of course that is only if I end up being interested which I see little chance of.