MTG Salvation

it's a pretty big announcement. they didn't really show and mercy this time around, which is probably needed given states of most formats.

They essentially made Wilderness Reclamation , Growth Spiral and Teferi, Time Raveler rotate a few months early and pre banned cat before it became de facto best deck.

In Pioneer, they completely got rid of the best decks. People weren't playing the format because of them and numbers showed that. This will hopefully get people to play and brew the format again

Suspending rec and teferi in historic should open the format up and encourage brews

at first I wasn't too interested in it but now I like it as both a reprint set and a draft set. I like the quality of reprints as well as the fact that you can draft actual archetypes such as thopter sword and dark depths combo in the set

part of me thinks that an increased number of rares/mythics makes the theme slightly better as you can get 2 rares/mythics in the pack, so you can get more value in the pack

One of the two stores in my area is running in store events right now, so I can see them running some kind of pre-release for Zendikar Rising. I think that we'll probably get more information in regards to what will happen with these events over the next few weeks, as the events will probably be late September.

I myself will probably be playing paper Magic for the first time since the lockdown started next Friday, assuming everything goes acording to plan for myself and my buddy who will be driving. I'm pretty excited to meet the new owners for that store, as the store changed owners back in January, so this nonsense was probably brutal on them

kinda fitting for Matt Nass to get a few of these given his success with KCI a few years ago

this set is gonna make me spend more on alternate frame foils for my Sharuum edh, that ruins is so nice

I really like that extended art version of noble

I haven't really cared about too many extended frame cards except for my sharuum edh I'm trying to bling out but I might pick up a copy of teh sword, it's pretty cool

I'm really tempted to buy into tron now, pretty cool reprints

does anyone know if the sharuum will come in extended frame? is so I'll have a bunch of spending between that and a foil of sculpting steel

I believe WotC provides stores with almost 'beginner' decks that are mono colour that you should be able to get for free. I'm not usre if they do those anymore but I remember seeing them within the past year.

I've also seen some larger stores provide almost an "instant collection" with a lot of cards at each rarity

oath of nissa being unbanned seemed a bit odd to me as the only decision in regards to pioneer. The only thing I can see in regards to this is that they are trying to encourage more decks in attempts to increase diversity