I can't wait until the inevitable over costed jump start counterspell.
izzet counterspell 2UU
instant common
counter target spell
jump-start
That's undercosted. That would see ban in Standard for sure. I don't think we'll see Jump-start on a counterspell, it's too huge a card advantage swing basically killing 2 cards for the price of one (well, discarding an extra land but that's something Control has no trouble doing)
Well, Word of MaRo is that there isn't a canonical word to use between them, and that he uses 'and'. I still think 'or' works for this one, at least. It's too bad the pattern is 'first 3 letters the same', or we might have gotten a Dimir Sink // Swim card...
Here is a list of all of them (You'll need to copy the link - the square braces conflict with this forum's formatting code);
They ALL are commonly used phrases that use 'and' (except the aftermath ones which are 'to') never 'or'. Assault and battery, protect and serve, beck and call, etc.
I think to evaluate her playability for standard, we'd really have to wait until all the cards with convoke (and possibly new vehicles) are spoiled. Until then, there's a large part of her potential utility missing.
I'd like a break from vehicles. I hope it's deciduous - every three or four years so we can have a break from them in Standard. Ravnica didn't have vehicles before no reason to suddenly see them now.
Based on what we've seen of Vryn we will likely see them there if and when we go there.
Or any Crew 2 or less vehicle - Aether Harvester? You are allowed to activate crew after it's already a creature.
Most of the vehicles will leave when Guilds rotates into standard. We'll only have the few from Rivals which are garbage.
Given that Intruder Alarm is a key part of the combo - we clearly don't care about Standard rotation for the purpose of that discussion - but thanks for playing. None of the other cards in the part I quoted are Standard either. Context is important.
Call it a 'fixed' regen rather than a holdover. The way regen works with the rules seemed very confusing to a lot of players so this does basically the same thing. We might see it more in the future and it might even get a keyword if it is successful.
I look at radical idea as giving you the ability to cycle a card. When evaluated that way it's an obvious fit for blue base control that is aboit to lose all its cycle goodness.
It will likely be pitched to azcanta (because no need to draw and cast it) and then used to cycle something later.
In standard it works with all the convoke cards to come (the new O ring looks promising), but also Song of Freyalise. She could find slots in an elf deck. The issue is that I'm not sure making 1/1 soldiers is enough of a payoff to build around her.
Song of Freyalise is a reason why this might see play in standard. In fact now that you bring it up I think it almost certainly will. It changes the evaluation from 'simply convoke' where I think that on it's own is not enough.
Not wanting a specific card on a specific turn means you will never want that card? Why is it in your deck if you never want to play it?
Usually you are scrying away dead lands or are scrying away things in game 1 that do you no good in the matchup (creature removal vs control) Sure there are cases where you are scrying away extra copies of planeswalker or other high cost cards early - but early always you are bottomming things that are just in your way. Surveil is better in most cases since it thins your deck.
While there quite likely will be gate-interaction cards... I also think the prime reasoning for these has nothing to do with Standard. They're here primarily for limited. And while they're in Ravnica, there'd be little logic to reprinting Foul Orchard when Golgari Guildgate exists.
This was my thinking. The gates might even appear in the planeswalker decks where they usually put the common dual lands.
The 'S' stands for 'Suggested'. But if I were to take what you said as "The price is the price" then, yes, I understand what you mean and I think I agree. Although based on what Rudy seems to be saying the MSRP on this would probably have been $200 and it would have been jacked to $250 - so I actually think Hasbro might be pre-price jacking too.
Radacal Idea is enough to keep control competitive. 2 cards total and spending one is ideal and it even survives being discarded (which is one of the ways to heat control - discard their draw)
I kinda wish Jump-start required discarding a non-land card, but it is what it is.
That red jump start is too expensive - although it may see play with Guttersnipe.
Deadly visit is hard to evaluate. Murder and Contempt are cheaper and instant but surveil 2 might make it worthwhile.
While I don't like people like him that price-gouge - he isn't wrong on the effect this will have on stores. Your local game store is hurting because of decisions WotC is making and this is literally cutting them out of the pie. Oh look - one of those planeswalkers is the new Ral, so there goes some of the value out of packs.
Hasbro seems to be doing something unexpected here - I wonder if they are trying to pad the value of WotC in order to sell it.
It does affect LGS of course and I am not anti-LGS. But I do like it when we the consumer can purchase a product directly from the manufacturer without the markups of all the middle men involved. I don't see a once a year super low volume collectors set going to ruin LGS or online sellers. His attitude in that video is nothing more than an entitled spoiled middleman angry he can't soak the end customer. Again, I like him for the most part and appreciate some of the things he brings to light.
A lot of the other youtubers that have stores/sell are doing the same thing as well. They don't like it when we the consumer doesn't have to go directly through them so they can jack up the price and take their cut. Again, I'm not anti-LGS but the complete bellyaching over one product they can't gouge us on is ridiculous.
As for Hasbro prepping WotC for sale, I wouldn't put it past them for sure.
Uhm - if you think this isn't marked up you are mistaken. If this were going to LGSs 250 would be the MSRP and the base value would be somethibg like 150.
On other words - the middleman markup is still there and Hasbro is collecting it.
I really hope we get some basilica courtyard and "red-light" district Swamps this time. Every Ravnica Swamp released so far feels like it fits Golgari and Dimir but not one to fit Orzhov and Rakdos.
Well, in previous sets they released on set of lands for the entire block. Here they are treating each set as standalone. So it is very likely that the lands in Alliances will be themed towards the guilds in that set.
That's undercosted. That would see ban in Standard for sure. I don't think we'll see Jump-start on a counterspell, it's too huge a card advantage swing basically killing 2 cards for the price of one (well, discarding an extra land but that's something Control has no trouble doing)
Here is a list of all of them (You'll need to copy the link - the square braces conflict with this forum's formatting code);
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name= [//]
They ALL are commonly used phrases that use 'and' (except the aftermath ones which are 'to') never 'or'. Assault and battery, protect and serve, beck and call, etc.
I'd like a break from vehicles. I hope it's deciduous - every three or four years so we can have a break from them in Standard. Ravnica didn't have vehicles before no reason to suddenly see them now.
Based on what we've seen of Vryn we will likely see them there if and when we go there.
Given that Intruder Alarm is a key part of the combo - we clearly don't care about Standard rotation for the purpose of that discussion - but thanks for playing. None of the other cards in the part I quoted are Standard either. Context is important.
The art for Tamiyo Jace and Liliana reminds me of Innistrad, but I can't be sure. I feel like I've seen that art for Ajani before.
It will likely be pitched to azcanta (because no need to draw and cast it) and then used to cycle something later.
Or any Crew 2 or less vehicle - Aether Harvester? You are allowed to activate crew after it's already a creature.
Song of Freyalise is a reason why this might see play in standard. In fact now that you bring it up I think it almost certainly will. It changes the evaluation from 'simply convoke' where I think that on it's own is not enough.
Usually you are scrying away dead lands or are scrying away things in game 1 that do you no good in the matchup (creature removal vs control) Sure there are cases where you are scrying away extra copies of planeswalker or other high cost cards early - but early always you are bottomming things that are just in your way. Surveil is better in most cases since it thins your deck.
This was my thinking. The gates might even appear in the planeswalker decks where they usually put the common dual lands.
The 'S' stands for 'Suggested'. But if I were to take what you said as "The price is the price" then, yes, I understand what you mean and I think I agree. Although based on what Rudy seems to be saying the MSRP on this would probably have been $200 and it would have been jacked to $250 - so I actually think Hasbro might be pre-price jacking too.
I kinda wish Jump-start required discarding a non-land card, but it is what it is.
That red jump start is too expensive - although it may see play with Guttersnipe.
Deadly visit is hard to evaluate. Murder and Contempt are cheaper and instant but surveil 2 might make it worthwhile.
Uhm - if you think this isn't marked up you are mistaken. If this were going to LGSs 250 would be the MSRP and the base value would be somethibg like 150.
On other words - the middleman markup is still there and Hasbro is collecting it.
Well, in previous sets they released on set of lands for the entire block. Here they are treating each set as standalone. So it is very likely that the lands in Alliances will be themed towards the guilds in that set.
Here's hoping.