I don't mind the current ban list for edh. But as someone who plays regular and competitive edh, I would like to see cedh given a bit of thought. Cards like Thassa's Oracle get printed and it wrecks the top end of the meta, but because it doesn't affect the rest nobody who manages the bans cares.
People are having near-conniptions over something they can 100% ignore. This is starting to approach comedic levels.
You both seem ill-equipped to handle the prospect of short-print cards.
You state its optional, but you fail to understand that by being short-print, these are cards that will gross over time. They will only continue to grow in price because the supply is low. You know what else does short-print runs in card games? Yugioh. Cards that have viability in tournaments and are meant to drive sales because of artificial scarcity. You know what else does artificial scarcity? Companies that sell diamonds.
Turning a blind eye to a problem like short-print runs is just the same as paying for one of those secret lairs.
Examples of what you're talking about include cards like Mana Crypt and Nexus of Fate, very low print run cards that are played. They never made it into packs.
The problem with your statement is that these follow more of the judge promo pattern rather than the limited one off print pattern. These are reprints and if someone wants to play the cards in their deck they can just buy the much cheaper original printing.
As someone who works a pretty successful store, these have done nothing to our bottom line so far. They haven't impacted our event attendance, singles sales, or anything else. It has been business as usual.
Manifest works. But humility and hushbringer don't. It reads "as it enters the battlefield", not "when it enters the battlefield". So when in doubt just ask whether or not the effect would stop a clone.
I don't understand why they went with the Warlock creature type "because witch is a name for members of a current real-world religion" (per blogatog) but continue to put "witch" in the card names.
I think the fact that Warlock is a D&D class probably helped push it that way too. Same company and all.
I think all the discussion about colors might be a waste of time
As we've seen in Modern Horizon and other past products. Reprinting mechanics gives opportunities to move them to other colors. Like Exalted in M13 or miracle in Commander 2018 both moving to black; or dredge moving to red in Modern Horizon.
If anything I feel like we will see these mechanics explore colors outside their traditional homes.
Commander's are part of the deck, but are not IN your starting deck. Which is what this cards wants.
Did you not notice the date?
Examples of what you're talking about include cards like Mana Crypt and Nexus of Fate, very low print run cards that are played. They never made it into packs.
The problem with your statement is that these follow more of the judge promo pattern rather than the limited one off print pattern. These are reprints and if someone wants to play the cards in their deck they can just buy the much cheaper original printing.
So yes, it's optional.
I think the hydra synergy makes this enough of a hydra spell.
I think the fact that Warlock is a D&D class probably helped push it that way too. Same company and all.
As we've seen in Modern Horizon and other past products. Reprinting mechanics gives opportunities to move them to other colors. Like Exalted in M13 or miracle in Commander 2018 both moving to black; or dredge moving to red in Modern Horizon.
If anything I feel like we will see these mechanics explore colors outside their traditional homes.
Madness will probably give a class of cards madness. Like having instant and sorcerers all have madness equal to CMC.
Morph could manifest straight from your hand and include flicker effects to round it out.
Flashback might have triggers for casting cards from the graveyard. Like the flashback archetype from Innistrad drafts.
Those are just a few ways I can see things working.
It's a dead card in many matchups, not worth main decking in constructed.