This has been a lot of fun each year that I have participated. I'd like to re-emphasize a point: please make sure you chose a nice, playable card. As silly as Vizzerdrix is, this over-costed vanilla blue dude is not playable, no matter how much you dress him up as Santa. I am not naming names, but I have gotten some really meh cards in the past that are still collecting cob webs in my binder. The card(s) do not necessarily need to be valuable, but at the least playable. You know how stokes I would be if I got a Sign in Blood that is pimped out.
Also (luckily I haven't seen this), please do not decorate HP or damaged cards. All the gorgeous artwork isn't going to make up for a crease from being bent in half or cover up the hole marks when your dog bit your Lightning Bolt.
Please do not cover up the text box w/ art or anything else. We will have seasoned players as well as the novice players (possibly) participating. Most of us know how Counterspell or Swords to Plowshares works, but some newer players who might be starting off w/ Standard may not know these cards, no matter how classic they are.
And lastly, this is important too, please takes photos of your cards before sending out because not everyone will post scans of what they got. I made this mistake last year and the lucky geek who got my alters still hasn't posted them (if you are reading this, it's never too late, lol).
Look forward to a lot (I hope) of participants. Let's make this the best Holiday Card Exchange the best one yet!!!
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Except the Phyrexians
yellowblue submarine, a blur submarine...My question is, are the vehicles coming over from Kaldesh?
...now, let's brainstorm some other cards that hit your own creature and an opponent's creature (just not the 1 damage for me, 1 damage for you burn spells... still seams weak).
Some cards I will be exploring in addition to Reckless Rage:
There are a good amount of other ones, but they have already been mentioned.
Vehicles and Energy were first introduced in Kaladesh block, so it is expected that there will be falls and stumbles when going out into the dark. Those cards were tested in a bubble, yet somehow they broke standard. 5 out of the 7 cards you linked somehow snuck by the censors. But let's look at those cards outside of standard, outside of that bubble. Attune with Aether isn't as same a powerful card as let's say... Cultivate.
Now look at the 80-cents+ ratio of commons & uncommons from before RTR and after RTR. Even five years after RTR, the list of value from commons and uncommons... outside of Gatecrash, the amount of value in the uncommons is pitiful. Now look at the value of the commons, no really, look hard; try a microscope to look hard., Guess what you see... nada, zip and zero. Compare that to the commons & uncommons in the OG Ravnica block. Sure, Dredge was a mistake and there is a lot of deck searching w/ the Transmute cards, but the ratio is way off. Look at other examples: Time Spiral, Shadowmoor, New Phyrexia. OK, so the sets between Mirrodin and Innistrad might have been Magic's golden years of design, but the EV of some of the newer additions to Modern should, in theory, have higher dollar+ commons and uncommons (btw, using those 2 rarities because the card designs are much less complex).
I think the main culprit (as mentioned right above) is reprinting the hell out of the cards (I remember Future Sight used to be a $3 card... now's it is around 80 cents). The other culprit is mass production.