"My session with Maraff is done. Is Professor Tivash in?"
"Intercollegiate meeting," Lisette said. "Why he insists on attending those is beyond me."
Valentin twirled on his heel, returned to the crucible, and grunted after looking into it again. He glanced over to Dina but didn't address her. "Tivash likes the refreshments, Lisette. Lime cakes, elderberry pies."
"I'm sure Gyome can arrange to make anything he wants in the kitchen."
"Yes, but you see, Tivash adores being doted on," Valentin explained. "These treats are waiting there for him, as if by the grace of a benevolent universe. Small things quiet small minds."
If they're setting up a Raven Man reveal, this seems like a weird way to do it.
Why are people getting upset over a WotC sponsored event? I'm glad that content creators are able to get exposure for releasing their own set of spoilers. So you had to wait a little bit to see the deck? The decks are not even out for another two weeks. Learn to have some patience and stop being entitled. It's not like the product is going anywhere.
Yeah, I don't see why people are so upset. Wizards told them to reveal the cards today, which they did. If they were supposed to have revealed it earlier in the day, then Wizards should have said that.
They also used it to draw views to a stream they were doing, but isn't giving content creators publicity the entire reason for doing previews this way?
It's a difference of a few hours in knowing the contents of a product that won't release for another two weeks anyway.
It does add credible to the thoughts we won't have any planeswalkers in the set and why they might be why we got a "4th" planeswalker in Kaldheim and Strixhaven.
I highly doubt that to be the case, planeswalker are the face of magic now expect them in each and every set. Even Maro stated so in Blogatog a while ago. I also think the 4th planeswalker was a side effect of MDFC adding an additionnal sheet to printing.
That they are "the face of Magic," is likely part of why people think there might not be.
Here's everything else, including an extra White card and what I assume is the shared card of the decks.
Are they no longer doing the thing where cards in multiple, but not all decks are uncommon? Could be, since it looks like either that or that there aren't any such cards.
People taking this out of their 75 or 100 are going to make a joke about this being rejected out of the deck. It's way too easy.
This is sideboard material for sure, but I'm not sure if it's good enough sideboard material.
Best match I've found for that stadium so far is the Athens Olympic stadium.
There was a Hearthstone expansion released last year that had, variously, a star student card, a powerful necromancer posing as a school employee, cross-class (basically hybrid) cards, a "spells matter" theme, a secret cult, and a cycle of "studies" that get you a card from outside the game. Now, the release timeline makes it extremely unlikely that Wizards copied this, but it's just as easy to find "suspicious" parallels there as to Harry Potter. Common genre tropes plus a couple coincidences does look a lot like copying, but doesn't prove anything.
Arcavios seems to have quite a wide variety of humanoids. I wonder if there's a lore reason for that.
Based on what we've seen from the story so far, it seems that 1.) knowledge of the multiverse is at least somewhat understood at Strixhaven and 2.) it's entirely possible that races from other planes have been traveling to Strixhaven through magical means.
That would make sense. In universe it's been 60 some years since the Mending (so sayeth the Wiki, at least). Could mean Arcavios is somewhat recently recovered from whatever economic crisis resulted from all the planar portals suddenly not working anymore...
That's probably the best approach I could imagine him taking...just own it and don't make the situation worse with paragraphs of flowery apologies and excuses-that-aren't-really-excuses.
I agree. He acknowledged wrongdoing and appears to genuinely be trying to repair the situation as best he can. Doesn't make it OK, obviously, but it's the right thing to do now that it's happened.
So this will be in Standard with Fling and Footfall Crater. The former is obviously more reliable, but the latter is slightly cheaper and cycles if you draw extra. I feel like Kazuul's Fury is not gonna make the deck, but doubling as your red source in a pinch could be nice?
If they're setting up a Raven Man reveal, this seems like a weird way to do it.
Yeah, I don't see why people are so upset. Wizards told them to reveal the cards today, which they did. If they were supposed to have revealed it earlier in the day, then Wizards should have said that.
They also used it to draw views to a stream they were doing, but isn't giving content creators publicity the entire reason for doing previews this way?
It's a difference of a few hours in knowing the contents of a product that won't release for another two weeks anyway.
That they are "the face of Magic," is likely part of why people think there might not be.
Are they no longer doing the thing where cards in multiple, but not all decks are uncommon? Could be, since it looks like either that or that there aren't any such cards.
As someone who loved standard with Lightning Bolt and Path to Exile, I'm here for it.
I think it'd take a fairly specific meta to want this over Essence Scatter, Negate or Anticognition but I could see it happening.
There was a Hearthstone expansion released last year that had, variously, a star student card, a powerful necromancer posing as a school employee, cross-class (basically hybrid) cards, a "spells matter" theme, a secret cult, and a cycle of "studies" that get you a card from outside the game. Now, the release timeline makes it extremely unlikely that Wizards copied this, but it's just as easy to find "suspicious" parallels there as to Harry Potter. Common genre tropes plus a couple coincidences does look a lot like copying, but doesn't prove anything.
That would make sense. In universe it's been 60 some years since the Mending (so sayeth the Wiki, at least). Could mean Arcavios is somewhat recently recovered from whatever economic crisis resulted from all the planar portals suddenly not working anymore...
I agree. He acknowledged wrongdoing and appears to genuinely be trying to repair the situation as best he can. Doesn't make it OK, obviously, but it's the right thing to do now that it's happened.
https://twitter.com/Art_JasonFelix/status/1377356835234058243
Arcavios seems to have quite a wide variety of humanoids. I wonder if there's a lore reason for that.