Cool cool cool you want to play the lottery. Have fun opening packs looking for specific cards.
Other then buying singles this is the best way to get high value singles to trade or sell and you pay a bargain price. I also get to draft with my friends in a no stakes environment.
The masterpieces you want are bad for the game. They devalue all the cards in the set they come from. Do you really want to go back to Kaladesh and have lottery tickets, oh. Also all the Rares are worth a dollar because the masterpieces eat up all the value equity?
Or they just mostly sucked. And are no longer legal in Standard and don't fit in Modern. Dominaria doesn't have masterpieces, and most of the rares there are worth a dollar or less. And when it rotates out, Mox Amber (which is a weird fluke based off of WAR) and the lands will likely drop as well.
And then there's all those scads of high-value rares in Core 2019... Good thing it didn't have masterpieces to tank all the value.
But with absolute certainty, many planeswalkers are DEAD in the aftermath of these events. Them being background characters doesn't diminish their deaths,
It absolutely does. They're background characters because WotC chose them to be. And considering how rare Planeswalkers are supposed to be, that's dozens or hundreds of characters we'll never know anything about, or will even get mentioned again. Ever. Because WotC seems absolutely uninterested in showcasing ANYTHING that isn't Gatewatch-related in a set, which includes visits to the past - something all those dead planeswalkers are now a part of.
It'd be just as simple to kill a named character as to kill a background character. So what if they still have dangling plotlines? It's hard to care when a bunch of faceless people are killed off in a story, there's no emotional attachment. Other than disappointment that we never got to know anything about them because of crappy story direction choices, I guess.
Just keep in mind that so long as superhero films are A Thing, the Gatewatch isn't likely to get shelved. Maybe it would get better reception if it were more like the Harpers network in Forgotten Realms? (Although you'd need a lot more members to reflect that.)
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if part of the problem is how WotC typically typecasts Jace, Chandra, etc. In turn, I think that's because they're possibly trying too hard to make everyone's psyche hew to their component colors. Which is...troublesome...for character development, especially when we're talking monocolor. Although given that Jace, Chandra, and Liliana are the most popular planeswalkers franchise-wide (I don't think Rosewater would have set them at 1 on the Venser Scale otherwise), WotC must be doing something right as far as popular appeal goes.
When your entire ongoing storyline focuses almost solely on those three, of course they're the most "popular". Nissa quit, and even before that she barely got any screentime, and it's almost like they almost forgot Gideon aside from a brief sideplot in Amonkhet and taking up the Blackblade in Dominaria. We've seen here that there's clearly other Planeswalkers they could focus on, but they don't. Gotta be all the Gatewatch all the time, who cares what Angrath is doing on his home plane? Or what Ashiok is up to?
As a result, the problem is that every plane WotC visits in a set, the focus will be how the Gatewatch impacts that plane. They'll never just visit a plane to show us a neat plane. And there will never be a plane that the Gatewatch just explores with no conflict. Viking World, as the next set is speculated? Nope - it'll be the Scooby Doo version of Viking World, where there's some sort of evil plot afoot and some mustache-twirler would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling Planeswalkers.
Ultimate power is self-defeating? Excuse me, what? How exactly?
Well, if you knew the answer to that, the card would be called 13055's Triumph instead of Jace's Triumph. Only Jace really understands why. Well, and the WotC story writers.
The flavor text does seem to indicate that Jace's Vraska plan doesn't actually work.
And speaking of missed opportunity... how do they do an "event set" and not bring back Sagas? Those would've fit perfectly. They don't have to only depict historical events.
So if anyone wants an update seems like the suggested retail price might be close to $163. That's $4.53 a pack. Potentially. The price is starting to come out but nothing is for sale yet. I was told by my magic shop that price can change. He can't even place an order for it yet. Indication is that this should be priced closer to a regular booster box than a masters set. Since a regular booster box is supposed to retail at $144 or $4 a pack. Seems like they removed MSRP to specifically make more money for themselves. Forcing card shops to either raise prices or work on a slimmer margin.
That's not the SRP, that's the price retailers are paying to get a box. Unless the set is loaded with value, this whole thing is going to bomb big time. Like...Homelands or Fallen Empires-style bombing.
Have to wait and see where this hype train goes. I think the $200 price range might crash after release. As long as this information was accurate. It's hard to judge a list price when you can't actually buy it and a dealer can raise the price if they feel like it.
Retailers could ALWAYS raise the price of anything if they felt like it. MSRP was never a cap on prices. If the $200 per box price turns out to be too high (which is quite frankly ridiculous - if anything it's too low) then I hope you like buying singles instead of sealed product because no store that likes paying their bills will carry something like this on such a stupidly low margin. Expectations and products like this are why game stores go out of business.
Am I the only one thinking it's a bit anti climactic that Gideon went through a bunch of crap, got the Blackblade with whatever that ensues to his soul and his triumph is just killing a few eternals? But Chandra takes care of one of the guys pulling the strings? hehe
I feel bad for Gideon hehe.
"But his character arc!" "But the full set isn't out yet!" "But the full story isn't out yet!" I know I know, I would just like to see him jam the sword into Bolas or something hehe.
I think it's implied between the flavor text of the card and his presence in the Liliana trailer that he saves Liliana from Bolas.
Or just including better cards.
Or they just mostly sucked. And are no longer legal in Standard and don't fit in Modern. Dominaria doesn't have masterpieces, and most of the rares there are worth a dollar or less. And when it rotates out, Mox Amber (which is a weird fluke based off of WAR) and the lands will likely drop as well.
And then there's all those scads of high-value rares in Core 2019... Good thing it didn't have masterpieces to tank all the value.
It absolutely does. They're background characters because WotC chose them to be. And considering how rare Planeswalkers are supposed to be, that's dozens or hundreds of characters we'll never know anything about, or will even get mentioned again. Ever. Because WotC seems absolutely uninterested in showcasing ANYTHING that isn't Gatewatch-related in a set, which includes visits to the past - something all those dead planeswalkers are now a part of.
It'd be just as simple to kill a named character as to kill a background character. So what if they still have dangling plotlines? It's hard to care when a bunch of faceless people are killed off in a story, there's no emotional attachment. Other than disappointment that we never got to know anything about them because of crappy story direction choices, I guess.
Not only that, but when he does return, it will be because he planned for the eventuality that he would be trapped like that.
When your entire ongoing storyline focuses almost solely on those three, of course they're the most "popular". Nissa quit, and even before that she barely got any screentime, and it's almost like they almost forgot Gideon aside from a brief sideplot in Amonkhet and taking up the Blackblade in Dominaria. We've seen here that there's clearly other Planeswalkers they could focus on, but they don't. Gotta be all the Gatewatch all the time, who cares what Angrath is doing on his home plane? Or what Ashiok is up to?
As a result, the problem is that every plane WotC visits in a set, the focus will be how the Gatewatch impacts that plane. They'll never just visit a plane to show us a neat plane. And there will never be a plane that the Gatewatch just explores with no conflict. Viking World, as the next set is speculated? Nope - it'll be the Scooby Doo version of Viking World, where there's some sort of evil plot afoot and some mustache-twirler would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling Planeswalkers.
My Aminatou deck will love this card.
That looks to be what the flavor text on this Triumph seems to indicate happens.
Well, if you knew the answer to that, the card would be called 13055's Triumph instead of Jace's Triumph. Only Jace really understands why. Well, and the WotC story writers.
The flavor text does seem to indicate that Jace's Vraska plan doesn't actually work.
That's not the SRP, that's the price retailers are paying to get a box. Unless the set is loaded with value, this whole thing is going to bomb big time. Like...Homelands or Fallen Empires-style bombing.
Retailers could ALWAYS raise the price of anything if they felt like it. MSRP was never a cap on prices. If the $200 per box price turns out to be too high (which is quite frankly ridiculous - if anything it's too low) then I hope you like buying singles instead of sealed product because no store that likes paying their bills will carry something like this on such a stupidly low margin. Expectations and products like this are why game stores go out of business.
I think it's implied between the flavor text of the card and his presence in the Liliana trailer that he saves Liliana from Bolas.
I dunno, it IS Domri after all.