I must say that since the return of the core sets they have been spot on. Haven't been this interested in a core set since magic origins.
Good mix of interesting new cards and good reprints for eternal formats. Hope they keep this up
I don't disagree with your comments but I think it is funny to say that you haven't been this interested in a core set since Origins... Core 2019 being the only set since Origins.
Leyline + Cage could be reprinted now maybe because there is a lack of graveyard decks in the next year. Think of Crucible of Worlds and Scapeshift. They were not played in Standard at all. Leyline and Cage are very strong cards and I am guessing that if they had a graveyard theme they would not want to squash it with such powerful hate.
It also helps to sell packs of Core Sets.
I was thinking this too. No graveyard strategy with Standard's power level will survive this much hate, so they're doing this for reprints and reprints alone.
Wasn't the full spoiler supposed to be up on Monday (only one week of spoilers)? Did I miss something?
Anyway, nice card for Elemental tribal. The synergy with Vesperlark is sweet.
The article outlining who spoils what says we'll get the full spoiler in a few hours. Monday and the weekend got some extra spoilers to the "one week spoiler season."
I must apologize as I am typing this from my phone and this site has a difficult interface to use via Android. I'll attempt to respond the best that I can.
For your first point, The support with how 10-colored lands are utilized in sets/blocks is undermined when they keep only doing five of the duals, enemy or allied, at a time. I am not sure how you came to another conclusion other than cycles for dual lands not being completed in set/blocks, but I suppose we will have to agree to disagree there.
For the second point, I shared that link and made my statement in an attempt to show that not only is WOTC not listening to their fans and players, but change their minds frequently which causes confusion from previous stated promises and efforts made on their part.
For your third point, I had assumed we would be on the same page on parts of this, and the issue isn't what a lot of players want in regards to designs and such in the game, as that too is also a straw-man issue, but rather to appease the player base as they had not only promised, but were prepared to do in the past with 10-colored support. There is nothing that should have stopped them then, let alone now. R&D are still playtesting and removing kinks and trying to get it all figured out which doesn't take a genius. (That was not an insult at you, rather at the fact that many changes can still be made for the future for R&D where it seems many of their choices are idiotic)
It doesn't get around hexproof or shroud. This is a targeted spell. It says target.
..and that's what I get for reading these forums drunk.
That being said, it might be a clarity and lesser complexity thing, like Isareth the Awakener and corpse counters.
Wording is weird. It's as if they start the card by making you think it won't target, as "choose" is the word of... choice (pun!) when a card does not target. Why is it not simply "Two target players each search their library of card ... bla bla"? Shorter and clearer.
But hey, it's power with weird Seb McKinnon art, so it can do what it wants.
It gets around hexproof and protection, if that counts.
This could be impossible and ridiculous; not sure if timeline could match: Could Marit-Lage be the Leviathan that Bolas "defeated". Could he have made that story up too??
Impossible. The Talon Gates are literally part of its corpse. I get that Marit Lage is popular, but she doesn't deserved to be shoved into whatever random part of MTG lore that people think they can cram her, especially the stuff that's canonically impossible.
Bolas was a planeswalker long before the Ice Age, so it's definitely no possible. Bolas sparked long before Urza even existed.
Well I hope there are more with Ninjutsu, at least in black since the Shinobi is the only one I like. The Black vanilla one is just super dumb, the lifelinker and phantom warrior are eh, but not having ninjutsu just feels super bad, like they could've been just some random rogues, they don't feel ninja at all.
I agree on the lifelinker, insofar as I think the effect would still work if the Vampire was ninjutsu-d in. The Phantom Ninja kinda makes sense for me, as a Ninja enabling more Ninjas just adds more tribal synergy. I just wished it played to ninjas as infiltrators, and not do another assassin.
This feels like Ancestral Vision in that it's meant to be cheated in for Modern via stuff like Bloodbraid Elf and As Foretold. You're only supposed to suspend it if you're desperate. Probably how it also works in Cube and Eternal formats, but Modern seems the most likely place for this.
I was thinking this too. No graveyard strategy with Standard's power level will survive this much hate, so they're doing this for reprints and reprints alone.
The article outlining who spoils what says we'll get the full spoiler in a few hours. Monday and the weekend got some extra spoilers to the "one week spoiler season."
Not sure why no one has brought this up yet, but the actual reason we don't get full 10-card dual land cycles is that Wizards only wants 20 dual lands at most in Standard.
Or possible member of that Jeskai remnant faction mentioned in the Core 2019 story.
..and that's what I get for reading these forums drunk.
That being said, it might be a clarity and lesser complexity thing, like Isareth the Awakener and corpse counters.
It gets around hexproof and protection, if that counts.
Bolas was a planeswalker long before the Ice Age, so it's definitely no possible. Bolas sparked long before Urza even existed.
Here's the thread.
I agree on the lifelinker, insofar as I think the effect would still work if the Vampire was ninjutsu-d in. The Phantom Ninja kinda makes sense for me, as a Ninja enabling more Ninjas just adds more tribal synergy. I just wished it played to ninjas as infiltrators, and not do another assassin.
Straight out of Urza's Legacy, Rebuild.
Source: Ken Yukuhiro on Twitter
The preview article mentions anything running Life from the Loam, like Dredge, will find a use to the card.