Isn't the sheoldred standard deck still back breaking?
Not really. Sheoldred's a good card, but mono black as a deck hardly sees any play. A good number of Standard decks with black in them aren't even playing Sheoldred anymore.
Isn't it just Golgari and Dimir on Sheoldred at this point?
Does banning violent outburst even do anything since people are dropping fully buffed scion of draco turn 2 with the new leyline?
It'll harm Living End's match-up with blue decks since it can't pull off Violent Outburst at opposing EOT into regular Cascade spell next turn, but Crashing Footfalls never leaned on that tactic as much. Cascade decks combined I can see as being dominant...just nowhere near as much of a problem at this ban time as BR Evoke was just prior to Fury getting banned.
...So Living End takes the bigger plunge. If we're lucky, RUG Crashing Footfalls turns into Bant. If we're not, Wizards just killed a deck sub-archetype because only Domain variants of Crashing Footfalls live. Brilliant.
I think the idea is to kill the 3c Rhino decks, then lean on the 5c variant's glass cannon tendencies to keep it out of the format. Some people are already trying Bant, but so far it feels like removing red is to their detriment.
Someday, people will master the rare skill of taking pictures without glare.
At this point it's a tradition.
I miss the days of clear leaks, where glare or a painful lack of pixels was never a problem. Then again, those got people in scary, jail-or-Pinkertons trouble, so I get why. Still, nice to have easily-readable stuff.
And here's the extended-art version. Yes, he is a 1/3 on your turn if you don't trigger the last ability by targeting an opponent's permanents/hand/graveyard/deck.
Hi! Vault-Tec contacted me earlier to inform you all that we have two more cards to add: the last of both the borderless Vault Boy promos and the Pip-Boy frame reskins are Farewell and Gemrazer as Toxic Sheepsquatch.
And just as the panel wrapped up, we have the rest of the deck. Our Science! decklist is finally complete. From the Card Image Gallery, here's the rest of the new cards of the fourth and final precon. Decklist is here.
And finally, the actual next set, Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction is a set dedicated to the villains, as set in a frontier fantasy world. Let's start with some lands.
So of course we need a villain. I found this one, says he makes deer. He also has the borderless and Wanted Poster frame treatment.
A crime is committed when a spell or ability targets an opponent or anything they control, or their hand, deck, and graveyard... like say with this thing.
Who else is Oko working with? With the Omenpaths, it could be anyone, like this guy.
Okay, no more pithy text. This set has two bonus sheets. The first is made up of cards you can use to commit crimes with. They're called the Breaking News bonus sheet, and they also come in borderless textured foil versions.
The second is called The Big Score, named after what they thought Aftermath boosters would be until they salvaged these cards out. Oko and his crew go on a heist, and this is what they find. All 30 of them are mythic rare, and all Standard-legal. Their showcase frame is called The Vault, and can also come in raised foil.
For more details, including important dates and more art (including the rest of Oko's posse), see here.
Until then, maybe you can figure out what plot is before Fblthp does.
EDIT: Updated to include everything from the First Look article.
Next up, Modern Horizons 3, now with double-faced cards.
To that end, we'll be getting some Origins-style legends-to-planeswalker DFCs. So far we only have Ajani and Tamiyo confirmed. However, no one's reading this because the first cards shown off are the dual land cycle of the set: the ally-color fetches. And yes, they come in borderless and retro frame art too.
Okay, better? Good. Here's Ajani.
Modern Horizons allows its designers to use designs deemed to strong for Standard. For example, Energy apparently.
Have a full-art basic land cycle. Looks a bit off though...
There's also colorless mana-matters.
Yes, I can hear asking for a titan. So can she. Emrakul returns, with borderless concept art and foil etched frame treatments on top of everything else. The other two will also have the concept art frame and serialized versions of said frame.
As with all Modern Horizons sets, we have references and the odd free spell cycle. Also featured here is the frame break borderless frame treatment from Commander Masters.
And finally, the usual new-to-Modern reprints. Laelia also gets to show off the borderless profile frame.
For more details, such as important dates, see here.
EDIT: Updated to include information from the First Look article.
The second set from the MagicCon Chicago preview panel is Universes Beyond: Assassin's Creed.
This set premiers the 8-card Beyond Booster. Let's dive into the Animus. As with these smaller sets, we have both extended-art and foil etched frames for each card at rare and mythic.
The iconic Hidden Blade is also the Buy-a-Box promo
Our cast of characters begins with the first two Assassins we can play as. They're also showcasing the new Memory Corridor frame.
This set isn't all new cards. There will be a handful of reprints too, some with a borderless frame treatment.
As a game series based on historical fiction, we're getting some historical characters. They have their own borderless frame, which appears in the character's language in serialized versions.
There will be scene cards here like LTR.
There will also be a Starter Kit, featuring Ezio and Eivor.
For more details, such as important dates and Collector Boosters content, see here. Time to disappear.
EDIT: Added all the foil etched stuff from the First Look article.
The Preview Panel has just ended, which means we can show off everything that was revealed.
First off, the set that will release the latest: Bloomburrow. The set is based on animal-focused fantasy. Let's start with the hero of the story, Mabel. Here she shows off the showcase woodland frame and the Collector Booster-exclusive raised fil borderless anime frame.
Recently, the predatory calamity beasts of the world have gone on a rampage. Meet one of them, the bear Lumra. Here we have the card in two borderless variants: field notes and a series done by legendary artist Mistuhiro Arita.
The set's full-art basics come in fours, with one to represent each season.
We also have a Starter Kit related to this set. Here are the face cards for each deck.
For more details, including important dates, the Commander precons and the Courageous Critters promotion, see here. Note that Ral here is not part of the promotion and is actually an otter in this set.
EDIT: Added everything from the First Look article.
Source: Riley Knight
Outlaws of Thunder Junction is a set dedicated to the villains, as set in a frontier fantasy world. Let's start with some lands.
So of course we need a villain. I found this one, says he makes deer. He also has the borderless and Wanted Poster frame treatment.
A crime is committed when a spell or ability targets an opponent or anything they control, or their hand, deck, and graveyard... like say with this thing.
Who else is Oko working with? With the Omenpaths, it could be anyone, like this guy.
Okay, no more pithy text. This set has two bonus sheets. The first is made up of cards you can use to commit crimes with. They're called the Breaking News bonus sheet, and they also come in borderless textured foil versions.
The second is called The Big Score, named after what they thought Aftermath boosters would be until they salvaged these cards out. Oko and his crew go on a heist, and this is what they find. All 30 of them are mythic rare, and all Standard-legal. Their showcase frame is called The Vault, and can also come in raised foil.
For more details, including important dates and more art (including the rest of Oko's posse), see here.
Until then, maybe you can figure out what plot is before Fblthp does.
EDIT: Updated to include everything from the First Look article.
To that end, we'll be getting some Origins-style legends-to-planeswalker DFCs. So far we only have Ajani and Tamiyo confirmed. However, no one's reading this because the first cards shown off are the dual land cycle of the set: the ally-color fetches. And yes, they come in borderless and retro frame art too.
Okay, better? Good. Here's Ajani.
Modern Horizons allows its designers to use designs deemed to strong for Standard. For example, Energy apparently.
Have a full-art basic land cycle. Looks a bit off though...
There's also colorless mana-matters.
Yes, I can hear asking for a titan. So can she. Emrakul returns, with borderless concept art and foil etched frame treatments on top of everything else. The other two will also have the concept art frame and serialized versions of said frame.
As with all Modern Horizons sets, we have references and the odd free spell cycle. Also featured here is the frame break borderless frame treatment from Commander Masters.
And finally, the usual new-to-Modern reprints. Laelia also gets to show off the borderless profile frame.
For more details, such as important dates, see here.
EDIT: Updated to include information from the First Look article.
This set premiers the 8-card Beyond Booster. Let's dive into the Animus. As with these smaller sets, we have both extended-art and foil etched frames for each card at rare and mythic.
The iconic Hidden Blade is also the Buy-a-Box promo
Our cast of characters begins with the first two Assassins we can play as. They're also showcasing the new Memory Corridor frame.
This set isn't all new cards. There will be a handful of reprints too, some with a borderless frame treatment.
As a game series based on historical fiction, we're getting some historical characters. They have their own borderless frame, which appears in the character's language in serialized versions.
There will be scene cards here like LTR.
There will also be a Starter Kit, featuring Ezio and Eivor.
For more details, such as important dates and Collector Boosters content, see here. Time to disappear.
EDIT: Added all the foil etched stuff from the First Look article.
First off, the set that will release the latest: Bloomburrow. The set is based on animal-focused fantasy. Let's start with the hero of the story, Mabel. Here she shows off the showcase woodland frame and the Collector Booster-exclusive raised fil borderless anime frame.
Recently, the predatory calamity beasts of the world have gone on a rampage. Meet one of them, the bear Lumra. Here we have the card in two borderless variants: field notes and a series done by legendary artist Mistuhiro Arita.
The set's full-art basics come in fours, with one to represent each season.
We also have a Starter Kit related to this set. Here are the face cards for each deck.
For more details, including important dates, the Commander precons and the Courageous Critters promotion, see here. Note that Ral here is not part of the promotion and is actually an otter in this set.
EDIT: Added everything from the First Look article.