Anyways, there goes my unsolicited, loosely held opinion on the matter.
WOTC has stated that they want FNM to be less competitive, not more. They're dialing back the rewards, in the hopes of getting more casual players out of the woodwork. Standard Showdown (which rewards rares, foils, and promo basic lands) is where they want the real competition to be, and they don't want the competitive players showing up to crush FNMs just for a playset of Fatal Push. Whether or not that's a good thing is certainly debatable, but that's WOTC's stance on it and the rationale for this decision.
In other (more new-promo-related) news, I've updated the OP with the latest Judge foils - Spellskite and Pendelhaven!
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We've had a lot of new promos revealed for Ixalan, as well as many new ways of getting promos. The OP has been updated to reflect all this information.
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I just saw on MTGO i received the sterling grove as a promo. Is this MTGO only? Because I definitely want this IRL.
Sources have not revealed that as a paper promo. Not saying that it won't happen, but as it would've made a perfect FNM promo (and those are now discontinued), its venues are limited. If we get it on paper, it's much more likely to be as an alt-art card in a Commander set.
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So... FNM promos are tokens now (from October onward)?
No more playable goodies?
You got it. Check out the OP - I reworked it last night to account for all these changes.
This is a pretty huge change, and while I hope it works out for us I gotta say that killing the FNM promos seems like a step in the wrong direction. If they'd decided to do so in March, after a loooooong string of failures, people might've been more receptive but FNM foils literally just got good again.
Foil tokens are cool, but they've gotta be actually useful tokens and not just Standard flash-in-the-pan. Zombie was great. Servo not so much.
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Where can I find a log of all the League tokens? I've never heard of them before. Wizards is not good at promoting this sort of thing at all.
Here is a list of all past League tokens. It was a nonfoil single-sided (with an ADVERT, of all things! on the reverse) token from M13-Fate Reforged. Then they took a bit of a hiatus, and then Kaladesh and Aether Revolt rolled out double-sided foil tokens.
Amonkhet league wrapped up last night, and no tokens were given out (at least, not in my LGS). So WOTC may be changing things up AGAIN.
Double-posting to let people know that I've updated the OP with the newly-announced July/August/September FNM promos, and the Aether Revolt League tokens. If anyone sees any promos in the wild, or hears any announcements, this is the place to let us know!
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I mean, they may not hit the market at all. Good luck that they get released someday.
Also, $140 per seems pretty high, IMO.
WOTC has stated that they want FNM to be less competitive, not more. They're dialing back the rewards, in the hopes of getting more casual players out of the woodwork. Standard Showdown (which rewards rares, foils, and promo basic lands) is where they want the real competition to be, and they don't want the competitive players showing up to crush FNMs just for a playset of Fatal Push. Whether or not that's a good thing is certainly debatable, but that's WOTC's stance on it and the rationale for this decision.
In other (more new-promo-related) news, I've updated the OP with the latest Judge foils - Spellskite and Pendelhaven!
You got it. Check out the OP - I reworked it last night to account for all these changes.
This is a pretty huge change, and while I hope it works out for us I gotta say that killing the FNM promos seems like a step in the wrong direction. If they'd decided to do so in March, after a loooooong string of failures, people might've been more receptive but FNM foils literally just got good again.
Foil tokens are cool, but they've gotta be actually useful tokens and not just Standard flash-in-the-pan. Zombie was great. Servo not so much.
Here is a list of all past League tokens. It was a nonfoil single-sided (with an ADVERT, of all things! on the reverse) token from M13-Fate Reforged. Then they took a bit of a hiatus, and then Kaladesh and Aether Revolt rolled out double-sided foil tokens.
Amonkhet league wrapped up last night, and no tokens were given out (at least, not in my LGS). So WOTC may be changing things up AGAIN.
Yes, we're all quite excited. September is a five-Friday month, which is probably why they made the switch.