MTG Salvation

So I finished my one only draft for the set. The cards themselves are fine and nothing unbalanced or unfun. But sadly the set is a major fail for draft. Three major issues I found:
1. A high possibility of being rematched with same players from previous game. By now they should have software that prevents this, should never happen.
2. Games are way way too long. Even with 30 minute clocks and lots of monarch games take over an hour each. That's just not acceptable for limited. Either cut life to 30 or clocks to 20. Ending the game with more than one person alive is acceptable.
3. Points system is awful. I play limited to play with new cards and hopefully win some packs. I'm not a diplomat nor do I want to become one to get votes. I want to win and build as good a deck as possible. They should at least give a couple of packs for every full match win.

Anyone know if they will do duel events with commander draft decks for mtgo?
I'm hoping the events will only be 4 player because otherwise monarch is dumb but you never know with wiz.

He's so boring I fell asleep halfway reading all that useless text. I can't see why any deck would ever run this trash, even budget decks.

That is a huge stretch to associate that with a mythological creature and I think it's silly you even mentioned it. A rakshasa is just another name for demon in a different culture and nothing more or less.

I adore pretty much every rakshasa ever. To me, they are the badass creatures that killed allanon in sword of shannara series, and therefore will always be amazing to me. Not that I disliked allanon, I just thought that fight was amazing.

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So, in addition to the best creatures, land support, artifact/creature removal, mana ramp, and card draw,
Green now has the best Cascade as well?

gotcha

Dont forget super efficient removal spells that rival black in standard. Not even kidding.

Such a waste of a neat chimera! Why does that shard only care about spells? Super boring. They could have based x on number of mountains islands plains instead.

Jeska seems awful... Three mana for a one loyalty planeswalker? That's like tibalt level bad. Poor red again...
Her will is also mediocre
Why does wiz hate Jeska? Stay dead if you are going to come back as garbage please

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Can someone please explain what the stone actually does?

It let's you charge up mana. For example, at the end of the turn before your own, you could tap all of your lands and such for all of the mana you could make, and instead of that mana just going away, it would become colorless, but still available to spend. If you didn't spend it as phases ended, it would stay around to be spent later.

Similar to how Omnath, Locus of Mana and Kruphix, God of Horizons work

wow this blows my mind. I never actually read the text of kruphix before. No where on the bloody card does it mention that the mana 'floats' between phases!
Omnath makes perfect sense because they spell it out, but kruphix is baffling. Anyone care to explain it better why this works in rules?

Can someone please explain what the stone actually does?

Yes exactly, the art of transfusion is rediculous and nothing to do with phyrexians. Compare with phyrexian scuta, rager, witch engine, gargantua.

Since when did phyrexians become the borg?
Is this yet another crossover or something?

Tatyova is a super pushed mistake card in colours that did not need it. So, let's print a much better version.
Super disappointed. Why do they ruin edh with all this op ug crap?

Wow Rebbec is mindblowing. She was just a brief mention in the Invasion series novels of a past love of Yawgmoth.
I had no idea they would actually make a card for her... strange that she is the one who was obsessed with artifacts and Yawg was a doctor, yet Yawg became uber artifact lord later and Rebbec became Gaia.
Interesting stuff

Cobra itself has always been strong in standard. Now in a format with 8 fetches and a downshift in rarety, I'm wondering if it wasn't a horrible mistake.
Its the most powerful thing you can do at two mana and if it's not answered immediately then the tempo advantage can be insurmountable. It's the real engine imho.