i always pictured loran as darker skinned, how kayla is depicted
neat that they went with a much younger feeling tocasia, makes sense though. the book made her seem old and really pushed that (plus the art on the back), but my brain probably overcompensated. i like this look for her
liberator looks ******* dumb. even young urza doesn't strike me as so full of himself that he'd slap his face on a thopter unless it served a greater purpose and there was no other way.
GREAT card, but damn that new art is terrible. The original and the recent full art (extended border?) look so much better.
Glad to see Blast Zone again. It's such a good card. I'm happy every time I draw it. Cool new art too!
see i love the new art, depicting the destruction of the ivory towers, the birthplace of modern magic on dominaria, the third path divergent from the two brothers and their petty war, and the irony in how they thought themselves safe within those towers.
yes yes, most people know her for her altar, and you can't put 2 counters on one nonartifact creature in this case... but she does have a second version in this set
also thats a C not an E, so its Ashnod the UnCaring - named such for her brutality and willingness to experiment on the people's of terisiare.
The fact you think wizards would intentionally leak anything at all is preposterous. They cracked down on the dude who leaked the commander legends set, let alone other people who leaked a bunch of stuff.
I have my answer. I admit I may be wrong, you do not. We have nothing more to discuss.
I'm a plant as well, btw. Not even going to hide it. But they don't pay me well, so I'm starting a union.
also, does it matter if an employee leaked them or not? Like, in any way?
Maybe you are maybe you aren't. But it does matter who leaked it and more importantly WHY it was leaked. Intentional leaks to distract from something negative isn't a sign of a healthy company or its view of its core clientele.
lol what is going on with this place
Sycophants who think GotC can do nothing wrong.
i'd like some proof before i believe an employee leaked this.
they're not so major reveals that they really distract from anything. they honestly got lost in the shuffle of spoiler bombardment too. we were on to the next thing like a day later. mtg:s is fairly slow since the mass exodus. this leak was barely a blip in other communities. i suppose what you're insinuating is that they leaked it to deflect from magic 30 controversies. it was such an inconsequential leak though, it revealed almost nothing that anyone cared about.
i like the azami art and might finally build her for edh, and be hated by my playgroup...
i don't really like the concept of the post malone one at all. i think that's a very slippery slope. my opinion here will also probably be an unpopular one, but like 2 years ago when we were saying it was a slippery slope toward this end we were all being called irrational... yet here we are.
next up: secret lair the advertising - where they're just used as a marketing tool by the highest bidder. release a new movie? secret lair! roll out a new car? secret lair! make a new sports drink? secret lair! i'm sure the iphone tie-in secret lair will sell like hot cakes.
this is a product that should make you angry. it should make you very angry.
you're paying $1,000 for 4 randomized boosters that could be nothing more than 4 laces as your rares. they aren't even tournament legal. its a celebration of community that the community can't even afford to enjoy. it says hey proxies are okay if these are, and once that seed is planted you have to wonder why you're buying product at all.
don't accept this as normal and absolutely do not buy it. not even the singles.
Because I have enjoyed this game for nearly 30 years and it absolutely sickens me to see how WotC completely sold out and is making it a sad incoherent mockery of it's former self in the matter of only a couple of years. Some people actually care about staying true to the original nature and aesthetics of the game instead of sheepishly cheerleading everything.
First dozens of Secret Lairs that don't even resemble Magic anymore, then freaking stickers, Space Marines, now Transformers and Dr flippin' Who due next. It's the whole floodgate of patheticness that has been opened so far added up. They shouldn't force people to have to deal with this outside IP bs. It will not bring good things to playing tables and the divide that will happen is on Wizards.
Not that I should require to explain these quite obvious things to anyone, but that would be it.
A little louder, the cloud didn't quite here you, grandpa.
i too am a 30 year vet and your response here is pure trolling.
this isn't the game we fell in love with. this isn't magic any more. this is some amalgamation of garbage under the title of magic. for 30 years the game grew under its own IP without need of others. it had an identity. it was more than just cards with mechanics. we've seen that identity dwindle and erode over the past 2 years until we're at the greed driven point we are now. whats more is that now we cant' even voice discontent. they're baked right into boosters and many players have made discussion impossible as they respond the way you have. these are legitimate concerns for long time players/fans/collectors of this game. just because you don't agree doesn't make us wrong and doesn't mean we're insane.
with them baked in there isn't even a real way to opt out. don't buy product? yet this set is tailor made for old timers and is a love letter to those who played when the brothers war story was fresh, and ingrained into magic. buy product? now you're saying its okay to keep including these cards. we're stuck and responses like yours just move goal posts further down the field while alienating portions of the playerbase.
personally, i play magic for magic. its worlds. its story. its uniqueness. i don't play it because i want to experience another franchises uniqueness. i don't play magic purely for its mechanics. once those lines start blurring it stops being magic and isn't necessarily something i want to associate with any more. thats a real hard wake up call after 30 years of enjoying magic for being magic. not transformers.
i was super excited for this set, but having warhammer and unfinity sandwiched between this and dominaria made that hype and excitement take a major major major hit for me. i've still barely gotten to use dom cards physically, the conversation switched entirely to 40k, then to unfinity. this ride sucks.
i'm really hoping for a gix, ashnod, and better version of mishra. maybe rusko and his clocks. i'm hoping they don't at all downplay the ravaging of terisaire and argoth in the name of a petty war.
i was super hyped for dominaria, but then that got trampled by 40k spoilers - which despite playing both for decades deflated the dominaria excitement so hard for me that i have absolutely zero interest in the 40k precons - and before those have even shipped out now we have unfinity teasers basically trampling on any hype 40k has...
so as a result i don't care any more. i just don't care. i should love this product too. i loved the other unsets, but this one is just not doing anything for me now.
whatever we'll get brothers war teasers before the unfinity spoilers are even done.
one of my favorite cards in the set so far, mostly because when i jam it into prime speaker zegana there's going to be at least one game where i just need that last combo piece and get to make them choose between cloud of faeries, peregrine drake, great whale, and palinchron
Ill be sitting this one out in favor of singles if anything at all.
Im not a person who enjoys stickers, even vinyl or reusable ones. For me its a lot of anxiety about damaging and losing them, putting them on the wrong things, that sort of thing. I also dont like the level of record keeping that these will require.
Yes, i can just use pen and paper instead, but since i fundamentally do not like this mechanic or its implementation... i feel its not appropriate for me to support the product through purchasing.
neat that they went with a much younger feeling tocasia, makes sense though. the book made her seem old and really pushed that (plus the art on the back), but my brain probably overcompensated. i like this look for her
liberator looks ******* dumb. even young urza doesn't strike me as so full of himself that he'd slap his face on a thopter unless it served a greater purpose and there was no other way.
definitely a menace in limited
see i love the new art, depicting the destruction of the ivory towers, the birthplace of modern magic on dominaria, the third path divergent from the two brothers and their petty war, and the irony in how they thought themselves safe within those towers.
yes yes, most people know her for her altar, and you can't put 2 counters on one nonartifact creature in this case... but she does have a second version in this set
also thats a C not an E, so its Ashnod the UnCaring - named such for her brutality and willingness to experiment on the people's of terisiare.
i'd like some proof before i believe an employee leaked this.
they're not so major reveals that they really distract from anything. they honestly got lost in the shuffle of spoiler bombardment too. we were on to the next thing like a day later. mtg:s is fairly slow since the mass exodus. this leak was barely a blip in other communities. i suppose what you're insinuating is that they leaked it to deflect from magic 30 controversies. it was such an inconsequential leak though, it revealed almost nothing that anyone cared about.
i don't really like the concept of the post malone one at all. i think that's a very slippery slope. my opinion here will also probably be an unpopular one, but like 2 years ago when we were saying it was a slippery slope toward this end we were all being called irrational... yet here we are.
next up: secret lair the advertising - where they're just used as a marketing tool by the highest bidder. release a new movie? secret lair! roll out a new car? secret lair! make a new sports drink? secret lair! i'm sure the iphone tie-in secret lair will sell like hot cakes.
regardless, i much prefer reskins to uniqueness
still won't be buying them.
you're paying $1,000 for 4 randomized boosters that could be nothing more than 4 laces as your rares. they aren't even tournament legal. its a celebration of community that the community can't even afford to enjoy. it says hey proxies are okay if these are, and once that seed is planted you have to wonder why you're buying product at all.
don't accept this as normal and absolutely do not buy it. not even the singles.
i too am a 30 year vet and your response here is pure trolling.
this isn't the game we fell in love with. this isn't magic any more. this is some amalgamation of garbage under the title of magic. for 30 years the game grew under its own IP without need of others. it had an identity. it was more than just cards with mechanics. we've seen that identity dwindle and erode over the past 2 years until we're at the greed driven point we are now. whats more is that now we cant' even voice discontent. they're baked right into boosters and many players have made discussion impossible as they respond the way you have. these are legitimate concerns for long time players/fans/collectors of this game. just because you don't agree doesn't make us wrong and doesn't mean we're insane.
with them baked in there isn't even a real way to opt out. don't buy product? yet this set is tailor made for old timers and is a love letter to those who played when the brothers war story was fresh, and ingrained into magic. buy product? now you're saying its okay to keep including these cards. we're stuck and responses like yours just move goal posts further down the field while alienating portions of the playerbase.
personally, i play magic for magic. its worlds. its story. its uniqueness. i don't play it because i want to experience another franchises uniqueness. i don't play magic purely for its mechanics. once those lines start blurring it stops being magic and isn't necessarily something i want to associate with any more. thats a real hard wake up call after 30 years of enjoying magic for being magic. not transformers.
i was super excited for this set, but having warhammer and unfinity sandwiched between this and dominaria made that hype and excitement take a major major major hit for me. i've still barely gotten to use dom cards physically, the conversation switched entirely to 40k, then to unfinity. this ride sucks.
i'm really hoping for a gix, ashnod, and better version of mishra. maybe rusko and his clocks. i'm hoping they don't at all downplay the ravaging of terisaire and argoth in the name of a petty war.
i was super hyped for dominaria, but then that got trampled by 40k spoilers - which despite playing both for decades deflated the dominaria excitement so hard for me that i have absolutely zero interest in the 40k precons - and before those have even shipped out now we have unfinity teasers basically trampling on any hype 40k has...
so as a result i don't care any more. i just don't care. i should love this product too. i loved the other unsets, but this one is just not doing anything for me now.
whatever we'll get brothers war teasers before the unfinity spoilers are even done.
Im not a person who enjoys stickers, even vinyl or reusable ones. For me its a lot of anxiety about damaging and losing them, putting them on the wrong things, that sort of thing. I also dont like the level of record keeping that these will require.
Yes, i can just use pen and paper instead, but since i fundamentally do not like this mechanic or its implementation... i feel its not appropriate for me to support the product through purchasing.