Flavor wise they probably will fail pretty hard, like they did with Godzilla cards (them being super tiny in p/t for their colossal size).
The first created the Ikoria cards and then decided to slap on the Godzilla "skins". With these projects they will create cards matching their identity, like they did with TWD
Rational me: knows that in the long period this will hurt the game, making it too diluted/silly
Irrational me: wants to make a damn space marine deck and shout FOR THE EMPEROR
but something big and splashy like the enemy colored elder dragons should be released in the product for everyone, not the one aimed at one specific format.
So they will print them as 4 mana 3/3, otherwise they will be unplayable anywhere else beside commander?
Elder Dragons are perfect cards for the format that once was Elder Dragon Highlander. This way they will go full timmy instead of printing something small and sad like Aegar, the freezing flame
As far as tribes go, I would assume that there will be our common "Species" creature types, like humans, elves, vedalken, etc. I honestly expect a larger subtheme of the "magic using" class tribes such as Wizards, Warlocks, Shamans, Clerics, and Druids running around.
With Party around, i higly doubt we'll druids and shamans. There were 0 in Kaldheim.
So.... the 5 face commander will be the 5 founder elder dragons?
maybe. But the thing is they said the face commanders reveal secrets about strixhaven
plus it wouldn't shock me the elder dragons are in the standard set
After what Maro said and the fact they are recurring characters on multiple images, i think that the 5 guys on the booster are legendary and are the house directors or something like that.
My bet is still on the elder dragons founders for the commander decks
With the official info out, the Excavationist flavour is rather Lorehold-aligned but the card is UW instead of RW.
I don't even know if the flavor of this UW card is right. Lorehold are archeologist and summon spirits. They appear to not be assembling or reactivating machines/constructs. Their command put a spirit token, not a golem one.
Sadly there is no point making messages like this.
"competitive" player here will want to keep comboing and turn 2 and will hate your suggestion. Casual players will be labeled as hateful and not wanting to be inclusive.
You can see the answer from cranky here. Combo making sinergies unplayable is fine. Combo making every other playstyle irrelevant is fine. But trying to ban something to put stompy/battlecruiser decks back on is not.
Right now EDH is trying to do to many things and appease to many different kind of players. You won't ever be able to please anyone. The best solution is to make your own banlist and make your friends accept it.
Even so, it's not that easy. I'm a casual player myself and in your list i see some fine cards being banned, while some broken cards aren't.
I will call them fake. This guy tried to play safe: putting Jin-Gi and Kasmina, the top 2 speculations; spoilering only blue card in a set themed around a school, because he didn't know the flavor to give to other colors; a generic draw spell about scrolls... but when he went a little bit off generic, with a bicolor legend, he made a mistake.
Mythic rarity ruined this game
The first created the Ikoria cards and then decided to slap on the Godzilla "skins". With these projects they will create cards matching their identity, like they did with TWD
Irrational me: wants to make a damn space marine deck and shout FOR THE EMPEROR
So they will print them as 4 mana 3/3, otherwise they will be unplayable anywhere else beside commander?
Elder Dragons are perfect cards for the format that once was Elder Dragon Highlander. This way they will go full timmy instead of printing something small and sad like Aegar, the freezing flame
With Party around, i higly doubt we'll druids and shamans. There were 0 in Kaldheim.
After what Maro said and the fact they are recurring characters on multiple images, i think that the 5 guys on the booster are legendary and are the house directors or something like that.
My bet is still on the elder dragons founders for the commander decks
I don't even know if the flavor of this UW card is right. Lorehold are archeologist and summon spirits. They appear to not be assembling or reactivating machines/constructs. Their command put a spirit token, not a golem one.
"competitive" player here will want to keep comboing and turn 2 and will hate your suggestion. Casual players will be labeled as hateful and not wanting to be inclusive.
You can see the answer from cranky here. Combo making sinergies unplayable is fine. Combo making every other playstyle irrelevant is fine. But trying to ban something to put stompy/battlecruiser decks back on is not.
Right now EDH is trying to do to many things and appease to many different kind of players. You won't ever be able to please anyone. The best solution is to make your own banlist and make your friends accept it.
Even so, it's not that easy. I'm a casual player myself and in your list i see some fine cards being banned, while some broken cards aren't.