Those premium products don’t require a larger staff to produce since they’re mostly reprints put in new packaging. We’re likely looking at the beginning of a more constant bombardment of MTG products. More supplemental products to support more formats, more tie-in products to appeal to broader audiences(like collectibles and toys), and more “synergy” between paper and Arena. The new Brawl decks, the sudden support for Pauper and current MTG devs talking about Oathbreaker is what makes me think more supplemental products are coming.
I think you nailed it there. I wouldn't be surprised if they put an additional Standard set in rotation, maybe at the same time or near a Core set. HASBRO is going to pour gasoline on the fire to accelerate whatever Creative R+D has in the pipeline (for better or for worse). I think it's safe to assume more premium product releases for Modern, Pauper precons or set?, and more Spellbook type products.
This may have been answered, but is MTGsalvation going to be doing spoiler season for ELD? People are still active here, yet all the articles on the main page say the site is taken over by another company. Is it business as usual for us? MTGnexus is essentially the same just not as active right now.
Tbh, even though I do concede it's more of a long shot with the art style previewed, I find it funny most folks seem to assume medieval courts and royalty rules out a Viking plane. Nordic history includes at least a millennium of monarchy, and I could easily see a Nordic plane incorporating both vikings and medieval courts, because they're both very strong aspects of Nordic history that would stay within the regional source while providing greater in-plane diversity of setting and social groups.
I agree. I think mixing nobility genres would lead to more creature types and let creative take the story anywhere. The problem with doing a straight Viking/Nordic set is that lots of people would have certain expectations of what should be included etc. As for Snow, it's possible they can insert that theme on any plane if an antagonist caused an endless winter (think Frozen).
With cycling clearly being themed in the set, I wonder if the Onslaught cycling lands (e.g. Lonely Sandbar), or Ash Barrens will be printed into Modern?
huh apparently this set ships in like five weeks? trying to imagine having enough money for this AND War of the Spark
casually it'd be fun to see the geothermal crevice cycle of lands reprinted plus I remember it being the basis for a weirdo balance deck, and people have been looking at restore balance again recently...
If they are doing lands among the reprints there are three cycles I would like to see.
The Mirage Fetchlands as an uncommon cycle (Bad River and friends).
The Tempest Painlands as an uncommon cycle (Pine Barrens and friends).
The Homelands tri-lands as a common cycle just to see peoples head explode (Castle Sengir and friends).
I could see the Invasion block lairs (Rith's Grove and friends) as a cycle of uncommon tri-lands, but I doubt it is going to happen.
I would rather see a functional reprint of Rith's Grove in standard instead of the typical tap lands. Even if they knock it down to just a dual land that requires a land bounce or sacrifice it. Either way, the Lair's would be nice in Modern and but really hope the Mirage lands make an appearance for pure budget reasons.
Today I was thinking how this set will age and what risks are present for future reprints in coming sets, because it's the first direct-to-Modern set. First, a set like this is likely to come once a year if it was received well (I have no doubt there are more in the pipeline). It is not priced like a Standard set from what we can tell, so any playable rare or mythic (new-to-Modern or new-to-game) should maintain a high value because the baseprice started high and was injected into a format it was not present in, so demand could bring all copies up in price. Second, the likelihood that a powerful direct-to-Modern card would then go back into a Standard set is low (except for Commons and Uncommons I guess) so EV of the set and playable cards would go up over time. Third, if there is a story to the set (to fill Lore gaps or tangents i.e. Raven Man) you can jump all around time and planes if you really wanted to reprint certain plane specific cards like fetchlands or pay homage to dead characters, oh hello Serra the Benevolent. The story element could be a huge success or flop, but it could temper people's expectations of reprints if say they were not on Zendikar.
Maybe they need some sort of digital line to wait in while the person(s) in front complete the purchase. I have done stuff like that for pre-season MLB tickets for a very big Northeast franchise. I would literally refresh every second until I could enter the line. Once there I'm in line and then allowed in once it was my turn to make my purchase.
They just made a Black Friday sale (big sales day for US companies to cash in on the beginning of Christmas sales right after US Thanksgiving) that more than 12k wanted and they trampled over eBay. They need to funnel the people into the store orderly to avoid overloading the server.
Yeah, I fully understand the clock is slow for the two card "lock", hence this would be a low tier deck if it amount to anything. Only defense against early burn spells are counter spells or Leyline of Sanctity in opening hand. Bouncing a land on turn 2 could throw off some decks to get the lock in place. Blue discard would be Piracy Charm, and originally I imagined this deck being UB but felt for the few discard spells I reverted to mono-Blue.
Howling Mine was originally included but I favored putting a full set of Thing in the Ice for creature defense and a future bounce payoff on the transform. Would consider to back it down to 2 each. Gigadrowse could have potential to help stall and cheap spell to remove ice counter. I should put more 1CMC spells to respond when I'm most vulnerable.
I really digging the uncommon planeswalkers in WAR. I think a couple will see Modern use, especially when I saw Narset, Parter of Veils. Yes it's Modern Leovold, Emissary of Trest. I'm not saying it will be seeing tourney play but throwing out a deck build to lock out the opponent's hand/library. The key combo here is with Teferi's Puzzle Box coming down turn 4, burying the opponent's hand with no cards in hand the next turn.
The rundown is to play control for the first 2 turns while you set up Narset and Puzzle Box.
The Rack is a win-con and you can always beat them with Delver if you're able to bounce their creatures back to their hand to be buried. I put Thing in the Ice in here mainly for the transform ability Awoken Horror to bounce all non-horror creatures. This would likely be flipped later in the game once the Puzzle Box has been played.
T1: land, (Rack, Delver, Spell Pierce, or Serum Visions)
T2: land, (Thing in the Ice against creature heavy decks, or hold for counter)
T3: land, Narset
T4: land, Puzzle Box
Opponent's hand gets dumped into the library and can't draw any cards since they drew once already from their draw step. Only cards in play are the issue.
T5: land, bounce, draw, use cycling on Censor if needed. Basically clear way for creature damage or rack damage.
Does Maro have any credibility? I dont play very often anymore so I dont hear a lot of other opinions but every.single.thing he says is "Ooh, look, we did awesome". Nevermind the fact that what he says we like/dislike does not match anything I've heard, and nevermind that his ratings do not make any sense in context with the criteria he says adds up to them. example: Colored artifacts- these are good, there are no problems, theyre flexible, they can go anywhere and not dominate the meta: storm scale 2. Compared to: vehicles- these are problematic, if theyre good enough to use they dominate the meta. we had to ban some of these. they only work well part of the time, and story wise, theyre kinda pigeonholed. : storm scale 2. (wtf?)
TL:DR, does everyone else treat Maro like russian news tv? what he actually says is all BS but it gives hints as to the direction the government is moving whether we like it or not?
I was wondering the same. The video announcement did not mention that, only that they are all new to Modern expect for basics. Are people getting the 50 from what they did in Conspiracy and Battlebond?
When would spoilers start approximately for WAR? I see pre-release is April 27/28, so would it be 1st or 2nd week of April? PAX East is March 30th, so I assume a few cards will come out then.
I'm not expecting uncommon Planeswalkers to be very substantial other than being used thematically for the story and something unique in Limited. Just look at Dominaria's uncommon Legends, they were fine for Limited and outside of that they were consigned to the bulk bin. I expect the same will happen with the uncommon Planeswalkers.
Except then are are just basically creatures with modal ETB's. Where's the interesting new mechanic there? I really hope it's not just that.
The real novelty would be it's a Planeswalker turning back into a normal Joe, and not the other way which has been done. I just used a simple mechanic that still fits the story and would not be difficult for a brand new player to understand. You can still interact with them and Shock or ping poor Tibalt preventing him from flipping. Planeswalkers are losing spark and/or dying (however you want to interpret the trailer). Maybe there is another card in the set that will interact with Planeswalkers losing their spark (e.g. flipping). Like an Artifact that gains spark counters for every Planeswalker you flip for some ultimate? That sounds like a gimmick they would try.
Overall, the Planeswalkers are the marketing gimmick for the set and maybe there will be 1 or 2 constructed gem in the 36.
I think you nailed it there. I wouldn't be surprised if they put an additional Standard set in rotation, maybe at the same time or near a Core set. HASBRO is going to pour gasoline on the fire to accelerate whatever Creative R+D has in the pipeline (for better or for worse). I think it's safe to assume more premium product releases for Modern, Pauper precons or set?, and more Spellbook type products.
I agree. I think mixing nobility genres would lead to more creature types and let creative take the story anywhere. The problem with doing a straight Viking/Nordic set is that lots of people would have certain expectations of what should be included etc. As for Snow, it's possible they can insert that theme on any plane if an antagonist caused an endless winter (think Frozen).
Yeah I noticed that with Prohibit
I would rather see a functional reprint of Rith's Grove in standard instead of the typical tap lands. Even if they knock it down to just a dual land that requires a land bounce or sacrifice it. Either way, the Lair's would be nice in Modern and but really hope the Mirage lands make an appearance for pure budget reasons.
Today I was thinking how this set will age and what risks are present for future reprints in coming sets, because it's the first direct-to-Modern set. First, a set like this is likely to come once a year if it was received well (I have no doubt there are more in the pipeline). It is not priced like a Standard set from what we can tell, so any playable rare or mythic (new-to-Modern or new-to-game) should maintain a high value because the baseprice started high and was injected into a format it was not present in, so demand could bring all copies up in price. Second, the likelihood that a powerful direct-to-Modern card would then go back into a Standard set is low (except for Commons and Uncommons I guess) so EV of the set and playable cards would go up over time. Third, if there is a story to the set (to fill Lore gaps or tangents i.e. Raven Man) you can jump all around time and planes if you really wanted to reprint certain plane specific cards like fetchlands or pay homage to dead characters, oh hello Serra the Benevolent. The story element could be a huge success or flop, but it could temper people's expectations of reprints if say they were not on Zendikar.
They just made a Black Friday sale (big sales day for US companies to cash in on the beginning of Christmas sales right after US Thanksgiving) that more than 12k wanted and they trampled over eBay. They need to funnel the people into the store orderly to avoid overloading the server.
Howling Mine was originally included but I favored putting a full set of Thing in the Ice for creature defense and a future bounce payoff on the transform. Would consider to back it down to 2 each.
Gigadrowse could have potential to help stall and cheap spell to remove ice counter. I should put more 1CMC spells to respond when I'm most vulnerable.
4 Teferi's Puzzle Box
3 The Rack
2 Howling Mine
4 Remand
4 Boomerang
2 Eye of Nowhere
2 Vapor Snag
4 Serum Visions
3 Spell Pierce
3 Censor
3 Thing in the Ice
4 Delver of Secrets
17 Island
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
The rundown is to play control for the first 2 turns while you set up Narset and Puzzle Box.
4 Teferi's Puzzle Box
4 The Rack
4 Remand
4 Boomerang
4 Eye of Nowhere
4 Serum Visions
3 Spell Pierce
3 Censor
4 Thing in the Ice
4 Delver of Secrets
17 Island
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
The Rack is a win-con and you can always beat them with Delver if you're able to bounce their creatures back to their hand to be buried. I put Thing in the Ice in here mainly for the transform ability Awoken Horror to bounce all non-horror creatures. This would likely be flipped later in the game once the Puzzle Box has been played.
T1: land, (Rack, Delver, Spell Pierce, or Serum Visions)
T2: land, (Thing in the Ice against creature heavy decks, or hold for counter)
T3: land, Narset
T4: land, Puzzle Box
Opponent's hand gets dumped into the library and can't draw any cards since they drew once already from their draw step. Only cards in play are the issue.
T5: land, bounce, draw, use cycling on Censor if needed. Basically clear way for creature damage or rack damage.
Maybe
The real novelty would be it's a Planeswalker turning back into a normal Joe, and not the other way which has been done. I just used a simple mechanic that still fits the story and would not be difficult for a brand new player to understand. You can still interact with them and Shock or ping poor Tibalt preventing him from flipping. Planeswalkers are losing spark and/or dying (however you want to interpret the trailer). Maybe there is another card in the set that will interact with Planeswalkers losing their spark (e.g. flipping). Like an Artifact that gains spark counters for every Planeswalker you flip for some ultimate? That sounds like a gimmick they would try.
Overall, the Planeswalkers are the marketing gimmick for the set and maybe there will be 1 or 2 constructed gem in the 36.