MTG Salvation

Both arts are super cool. Might get a Gitrog for edh though

I'm really looking forward to this set, I feel it's a set people have wanted for a very long time. They've got some cool flavour to it

Stores in a lot of Canada haven't been able to have people play in their stores for close to a month now due to lockdowns in various provinces and the in store play suspension. I know a few stores that didn't even allow in store play even when they were allowed to by local/provincial guidelines. At first I thought the second wave of lockdowns wouldn't be as bad/long as the first but I'm getting doubtful of when we will see the return of in store play again. It might be a few months still for even small, local level events. I can't see Magic Fests happening again until next year and I'm really starting to miss large events now

I feel that the fact that we have a vaccine is enough to give us hope for this being resolved soon. I myself just wanna be able to grind paper events with friends again, although that might still be a bit. I'm really missing the travel/grind aspect of Magic that playing online doesn't have

It seems at least some part of Canada is breaking a record of daily cases every day so part of me thinks it could still be a bit before we can actually play paper. Especially with lockdowns and curfews being stricter now

sorry for my ignorance, but in the US, are a lot of card stores allowed to have customers inside the store right now or are they forced t be closed? a lot of Canadian provinces are in a second wave of lockdowns so non-essential businesses aren't allowed to have customers inside the store. I've been relying on curbside pickups for a few weeks now

I really like how it creates the tokes to crew itself

the Prismatic Bridge is cool, I really like it in commander

Another powerful simic card. at least this won't spiral games at 3 cmc. Maybe I'm overrating but this seems like a bomb

Rise of the Dread Marn is gonna be absurd in multi player commander games since it counts every creature that dies, not just yours

interesting payoff for foretell. I'm still not too sold on the mechanic but this is cool.

I feel that being disappointed with pioneer is a common theme I've noticed lately. Partially because the format was so stale for a while with inverter and breach being left to run the format for a while. another thing is that there hasn't been many real pioneer tournaments with any kinds of stakes for a while, so there's no real incentive to play the format

take what I'm saying with a grain of salt though, as I'm what you'd call a spike so I tend to care more about competitive formats so I tend to pay ore attention to people with similar opinions as me

I might actually replace my promo one in my sharuum edh with this one. That old border is super nice

Even before Covid, paper standard was struggling in my area. Part of that was because modern has traditionally been the preferred format. This is mostly due to the format being seen as more diverse, especially 4-5 years ago. The other reason is some people just don't like the concept of rotation, which is also why standard is basically nonexistent right now. Nobody wants to pay for paper cards they might not even be able to use in paper before they rotate. I've heard some people say that it might be a good time to get cards that will be around after rotation, such as Zendikar Rising cards and Kaldheim cards