Quote from Werewolf_Rawr »The Deck of Many Things is awesome for flavor. Absolute homerun.
I disagree, the normal Deck has negative aspects, and while yes this does you can't control it like the normal Deck of Many Things. If you've ever played with the Deck in a game of D&D the tension of each card pulled from gaining a magic item to losing all your stuff to a Wraith coming after you the possibilities are grand and terrifying. Someone can walk away smelling like daisies while you may get gems, get experience, a magic item, and then have your soul trapped somewhere.
To me this is definitely the general idea of the Deck rather than really showing what it's all about. Honestly, this likely would have been better as a Planechase esque thing you can buy and add to your games whenever you feel like. Could be me looking at a deck that makes you roll dice, it just doesn't mesh well to me.
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Sun Titan is a fine reprint, they are not expensive but almost always sold out in local stores.
Glad to see the decks are branching out in different directions, will give brewers a ton of fun.
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I'm obviously interested in the Rakdos deck, since it hits right notes in my Xantcha, but probably singles again this year.
I really feel that they should axe the Commander pre-cons for a period and just do a booster box of Commander staples. Tack on an unwieldy draft format if you must, but just drop a reprint box with staples (Solemn, Failing that, some other limited product that can insert them back, such as Battlebond or Conspiracy.
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The all-foil boosters are great, but I won't get them unless there are absolute bombs in the set.
Throne of Eldraine looks thematically awesome, but as I tweeted to Magic, this looks like another set without Zendikar fetches or other Modern/Eternal staples being re-printed.
I don't see anything here that would be a "Major Change". That would involve retiring an eternal format, formalizing a "staples" reprint policy or somesuch.
The 25th year was super cool for a bunch of reasons, but this year has been pretty hit and miss.
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Sisay looks great in this iteration too, damn.
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the card itself is pretty cool. That's a lot of value for 5 mana, going to be a limited bomb at the very least.