All of these cards (except Herald) are auto-includes in a land matters deck... How could they drop the ball so hard on reprints?
The Jund deck's theme is not Lands Matter. That's the problem. Their stated deck themes do not really match up with what the decks are doing or the cards they included.
I really feel like WotC should not have revealed the deck themes in that video. I think a lot of people latched on to that idea and let their imaginations get the best of them. They should have just revealed some art and left it at that. Then, the next week, start the previews.
No. They should have amde better decks.
It can be both. But since the decks were done and printed, they should have controlled their message better.
I really feel like WotC should not have revealed the deck themes in that video. I think a lot of people latched on to that idea and let their imaginations get the best of them. They should have just revealed some art and left it at that. Then, the next week, start the previews.
I think it's laughable that the rules committee had a say in these decks, had input on what went in them, and this is what we got. They're supposed to be the "be all end all" when it comes to Commander and the rules and they should know what we want and what should be reprinted in these, and they obviously didn't fight too hard to try and get a better product.
Pretty sure that whole concept was there to paper over the fact that Eminence was probably too good of an ability.
If stores want to survive, they cannot just be a place where people happen to play. They have to make it a destination location, a place where people WANT to go and a place where people WANT to play. Stores are competing with the ease of online retail and online play. People are inherently lazy. If you do not give them an excuse to get dressed, get in their car and head down to your store for multiple hours each week, then you are simply not going to survive. You also cannot rely solely on one revenue stream to survive. Any game's local community can collapse. You have to be nimble enough to avoid the ebb and flow of your popular games/products. If you just sell Magic, then you need to cultivate communities of players who play other games, be those other card games or - better yet - other genre of games (like 40k, X-Wing, Heroclix, etc.). Something beyond "just Magic". Sell other nerdy stuff, like pops or comics - you always need other games and products to find success.
MaRo is like one of those beer purists that runs around the bar with his shirt tucked in jawing your ear off about how your favorite beer is the worst and you should be drinking his choice of piss water. At least when it comes to the color pie. And his color pie articles are unreadably cringy. WotC makes the cards, makes the colors, they can make them do whatever they want.
100% agree. I cringe every time he refers to himself as the "Keeper of the Pie." More like the Pie Nazi. I'm just happy he reports to Aaron Forsythe. I kinda doubt we'd have tri-color Elder Dragon Legends in a core set right now had he not inserted himself into the design process.
We wouldn't have Elder Dragons in a set whose story focuses on Bolas' past... Yeah. Ok. Uhuh.
Collectors want the Reserve List to stay and Players want the reserve list gone.
Players got what they wanted in Modern--the whole idea that magic is for playing, not collecting.
Wizards basically started reprinting modern cards into oblivion.
You should not expect anything in Modern to ever go up again long term. If something goes up, it will be for a short-term.
Short term profits are pure speculation. You not only have to be correct about the direction of the price, you have to be correct within a given time frame.
Don't invest in modern. If you need the cards to play, buy them.
Yes they will be cheaper after the reprint. Yes its possible that standard will increase demand for the shocklands.
No that won't last for the duration of standard. If you can afford to wait, then wait.
When you have a format that still has cards that cost more than 80 bucks a piece, the format has not been reprinted into oblivion.
I was just thinking about this, but people are always complaining about modern not getting cards reprinted in standard because the cards are too good for standard, so why is it nobody is just tossing their arms up and doing a format that's all modern frame sets? It's basically legacy light, avoids the reserved list, and ultimately it's probably going to get all the non-RL cards eventually since wizards doesn't have an issue with reprinting those cards via commander, conspiracy, Battlebond, etc. Is it just because they are afraid the format will make the game too expensive? It's not like a ban list can't exist for it and such.
Umm Modern IS the new card frame format.... Also welcome to the world of legacy and vintage we have been complaining about "too strong for standard so we can't reprint great format staple X" for a long long time. Again Modern is that format, their are no reserve list cards legal in modern, Good modern cards are repritned in sets like the ones mentioned now and again. This format exsists.
Guess I'm thinking more of a no reserved list legacy format that takes advantage of reprints and new cards from supplementary sets. The only difference is the card has to have a modern frame version.
If you have the same card but one is an older frame and one is a newer frame, the rules do not allow you to discriminate against the older card frame.
Basing the creation of a new format off of a redesigned card frame has always been silly. Picking 8th edition was just WotC's way of arbitraily deliniating the first 10-ish years of magic from the (then) latest 10-ish years.
When Modern released it has 8 years worth of sets under its belt. The M15 card frame era was released in 2014. That means it will be at least 2022 before we see a new eternal format released (if indeed it starts at M15). I have serious doubts as to this, since that format would include Fetch Lands, which are basically a non-starter for WotC at this point. That means you likely have to start at Magic Origins.
What they said with this update is "Don't play Legacy if you don't already have RL cards".
Pretty much every budget deck depended on Gitaxian Probe. Now it's Burn or don't play because you're a peasant and dind't invest in Magic 20 years ago when you may not have even been born.
They better reprint Wasteland, Karakas, Cavern of Souls and Rishadan Port at least once more next year to make up for killing pretty much every sub-$1K deck to mildly inconvenience Tendrills.
Quite honestly, yes. Legacy is for people who either have lots of money or have been playing the game for 25 years. Legacy is just too expensive because demand is high and supply is low. Just play Modern, Commander or Canadian Highlander like the rest of us.
The Jund deck's theme is not Lands Matter. That's the problem. Their stated deck themes do not really match up with what the decks are doing or the cards they included.
It can be both. But since the decks were done and printed, they should have controlled their message better.
Pretty sure that whole concept was there to paper over the fact that Eminence was probably too good of an ability.
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Just to clarify, Commander Tax would be included in the "amount of mana used to cast him", right?
We wouldn't have Elder Dragons in a set whose story focuses on Bolas' past... Yeah. Ok. Uhuh.
When you have a format that still has cards that cost more than 80 bucks a piece, the format has not been reprinted into oblivion.
If you have the same card but one is an older frame and one is a newer frame, the rules do not allow you to discriminate against the older card frame.
When Modern released it has 8 years worth of sets under its belt. The M15 card frame era was released in 2014. That means it will be at least 2022 before we see a new eternal format released (if indeed it starts at M15). I have serious doubts as to this, since that format would include Fetch Lands, which are basically a non-starter for WotC at this point. That means you likely have to start at Magic Origins.
Quite honestly, yes. Legacy is for people who either have lots of money or have been playing the game for 25 years. Legacy is just too expensive because demand is high and supply is low. Just play Modern, Commander or Canadian Highlander like the rest of us.
Perhaps Blue needs something more like a modified Bloodthirst or Raid.
Evocation N (If you cast an Instant or a Sorcery this turn, this permanent enters the battlefield with N +1/+1 counters on it.)
Transmutation When this card enters the battlefield, if you cast an Instant or Sorcery this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this card.