Quote from -spooky- »Commune With the Gods is pretty sweet tech. How does the deck play for you?
It's surprisingly good against slower midrange decks, I had a game where I was able to loop 2 eternal winesses against Jund to hold off a tarmgoyf until I drew into the white source for congregation. Commune is a solid dig spell to replace the sunstrike legionaries.
If you don't want to run Street Wraith, Conflagrate is an alternative to Laboratory Maniac. Get all your creatures into your hand, use Simian Spirit Guides to flash it back discarding the rest of your hand.
Ixalan was terrible, but Rivals of Ixalan was a good format and Hour of Devestation was a great one.
I doubt that's the intent here. It seems more likely they want people to use it with aftermath cards in standard.
Where exactly are you getting your numbers from? The only deck I can find over $2000 is Jund, and Jund's always been ridiculously expensive. UR Breach is an outlier at $1700, and Storm is an outlier in the opposite direction at $350, with the rest of the format spread pretty evenly between $1400 and $700.
Whether you want to be playing Traverse Shadow or GDS depends on what removal you're expecting to face (Now that Traverse Shadow players have adopted Stubborn Denial and sometimes Snapcaster Mage.) If you want to beat Fatal Push, play GDS for the Delve creatures. If you want to beat Path to Exile, play Traverse Shadow for the higher threat density.
4 Death's Shadow
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Street Wraith
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Liliana of the Veil
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Thoughtseize
4 Traverse the Ulvenwald
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Dismember
3 Fatal Push
3 Stubborn Denial
2 Temur Battle Rage
1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Breeding Pool
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Watery Grave
1 Fatal Push
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Collective Brutality
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Golgari Charm
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Kolaghan's Command
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Seal of Primordium
Traverse and Snapcaster lets you turn Traverse into a spell and Snapcaster into a creature.
You've completely missed my point. Clique is "the wrong card," but the list of "wrong cards" is going to keep growing the more cards are reprinted.
Right now there's a good backlog of old cards that have never been reprinted, but once they get a reprint they cease to be "exciting." Wasteland or Mana Drain or Imperial Recruiter coming back won't drum up the same excitement. Tarmogoyf has plummeted from where it was when the Masters sets began.
I suspect this is also the reason for upshifting Chalice of the Void and Ensnaring Bridge to mythic. It won't impact their price much, meaning they can be used in future Masters sets as chase cards. Sacrificing some sales now for the sake of selling more in the future.