I mean, he's pretty cool. I like all the value. But you still have to have a spell on top of your library that you want to cast as well as the mana to cast it.
I'm not talking about the decks. I'm talking about the set. For non-spring sets, the Commander decks are built with the set in mind. Spring sets are built with the Commander decks color identities in mind. Ikoria's triomes, the location not the cards, Strixhaven's Schools and Capenna's crime families.
WOTC can prove me wrong by having a set of allied colored Commander decks for the 2023 spring set and not have anything to do with allied colors, through both gameplay and story.
It's as if 2022's major Commander release is Shard colors, therefore the set must have some sort of a Shard theme.
Okay, but where are you getting that? I agree with DJK--seems to me the Spring Commander releases are based on the Spring set, not the other way around.
I don't agree with your data--we have only two 5 deck set releases based on the spring set (Ikoria and Strixhaven), and Ikoria doesn't have well-defined tribal elements in its decks. I don't see a difference between the Ikoria decks and the decks released for Neon Dynasty. They're always going to be based on a color combination because, uh, Magic, and every set has its own limited archetypes that can be expanded in a commander release. Kamigawa could have just as easily had RW Warriors/Samurai, UB Ninjas, or GW Enchantments as Commander decks.
TL;DR: Out of only two examples, only one actually does the thing you say it does, and that thing isn't unique to the Spring sets.
Assuming (and there's no reason not to) that there's a copy in every SL, they probably won't be terribly expensive. Hell, you can get a playset of everything for $160.00 if you just get four copies of the Lair.
Absolutely love everything about this so far. Really like the showcase frames, and loving getting unique full-arts in every set. It lets everyone be unique and choose their favorite lands. When the only full-arts were Zendikar you only had a couple options and they were expensive.
Honestly, and don't hate, but the high fantasy general setting of MtG is hands down my least favorite aspect of the game. I love that they're branching out into these other aesthetics.
I'm fine with them not doing "Triomes." The word has a specific connotation as a type of landscape (biomes being stuff like deserts, grassland, tundra, marshland, etc.), which wouldn't have made any sense in a city-themed set. Not being able to call them triomes doesn't seem like a legitimate reason to not include them here.
BTW, total aside, but I backed that children's book and just got it, and it is WONDERFUL. I don't agree with Seb here, but still find his art inspiring and will continue to support him.
In any event, I think some of the new artists have been absolutely impressive. The art in this set has been overall pretty stellar.
Yeah, but Conspiracy Theorist only needed the mana to draw/discard. This card doesn't have the self-enabling option. Upside to this is if you discard a bunch of cards at once, you can play as many as you can. Theorist says you can only cast one of them. Other upside is playing lands off of this guy. Pros and cons to each, but I do think this is arguably better.
Yeah, I kind of agree, although the floor of 4/3 flyer w/ Crew 1 is probably fine, even if you don't care what it's copying. For standard there's some competition at 3 but this maaaaybe gets there, and in other formats (Pioneer really, not sure vehicles decks are anywhere else), Aethersphere Harvester still seems like the better option?
It's not quite Banishing Light, but a Thopter Arrest with upside still seems quite playable to me. And I think they were smart not to allow it to flicker enchantments given what's going on in the set.
On another note, I'm loving the shield counters.
Okay, but where are you getting that? I agree with DJK--seems to me the Spring Commander releases are based on the Spring set, not the other way around.
TL;DR: Out of only two examples, only one actually does the thing you say it does, and that thing isn't unique to the Spring sets.
Honestly, and don't hate, but the high fantasy general setting of MtG is hands down my least favorite aspect of the game. I love that they're branching out into these other aesthetics.
I'm fine with them not doing "Triomes." The word has a specific connotation as a type of landscape (biomes being stuff like deserts, grassland, tundra, marshland, etc.), which wouldn't have made any sense in a city-themed set. Not being able to call them triomes doesn't seem like a legitimate reason to not include them here.
They're both around $30.
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Not to derail the thread, but doesn't seem to me like whether she's real or not should matter? Dunno. This is a weird, total-skip for me.
In any event, I think some of the new artists have been absolutely impressive. The art in this set has been overall pretty stellar.
Yeah, I kind of agree, although the floor of 4/3 flyer w/ Crew 1 is probably fine, even if you don't care what it's copying. For standard there's some competition at 3 but this maaaaybe gets there, and in other formats (Pioneer really, not sure vehicles decks are anywhere else), Aethersphere Harvester still seems like the better option?