MTG Salvation

Quote from KolbaneX

No. These lands are better than the Fastlands.

Fastlands are quite good, actually, and I play them all the time in GW D&T, and they were 3-4 of in Modern Jund when it was on top. I'll admit that fastlands are somewhat niche, but at least they serve a purpose. These ever so slightly change your luck on the topdeck once, and that is not a niche that will ever need filling in a format that has a choice. I realize that Standard does not have a choice, however, which is yet another reason why I don't like the format.

Quote from Vileo

Thanks. And I don't think they're terribad, they're just not what we're used to. We've been spoiled with the current standard, having insanely good mana bases. This is just a dose of a more bitter reality.

Really? Lets look back at the rare dual lands we have had:
Shocks
enemy checklands
fastlands
checklands
fetchlands
manlands
Tribal Lands
whatever Cascade Bluffs and friends are called
Future Sight lands, which were all great except River of Tears
Shocks
Kamigawa Slow Lands

So you are saying we have just been spoiled since Kamigawa with rare lands? Every other cycle has been MILES better than these scrylands are.

Quote from TempoTempo

Dual lands finally officially confirmed at http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ld/263 as scry lands.

Utter garbage. Opening these in packs will in rage inducing.

Quote from Kamahl, the Fallen

Wow these are historic cards... They will probably go down as the worst rare duals for some time.

Worst since Kamigawa.

Quote from Vileo

Yes. Yes they are.

What utter garbage. No one expected them to be nearly as good as shocks, but opening the cards you are claiming they are will be a serious disappointment. It is not like there is any lack of scry so far in the set, so having it when you play a land that comes into play tapped is not really that much of a boon. There is no reason they should be rare.

Quote from hard2break

Wrong... They couldn't use the old art, since faeries aren't a creature type in Theros...

Actually, it is much simpler than that...whenever a card is reprinted from one block to another it gets new art. That's all there is to it.

Quote from MinisterOfImpediments

Except that this wouldn't be fully aimed at modern, cuz Jace TMS is kind of, you know, banned, and all.

If you really wanted to aim it at Modern, it'd by Tarmogoyf vs. Vendilion Clique, splashing Thoughtseize.

ohhhh, Fae v Lhurgoyf, with both splashing black for LotV and TS respectively.

Quote from Barandis

I want you all to thank me, for I knew when I bought my playset a week and a half ago, that would be the last straw that would see Thoughtseize put into Theros.

It's a risk you take, and sometimes it doesn't pay off. No big deal.

Though now I'm relegated for hoping for new art. Faeries hovering over people's ears doesn't make much sense in a set about gods and heroes, right?

in all reality you will not be losing much at all depending on how good a deal you got. I would suspect that they stabilize around $30, but will be more like $40 for a few weeks after they are released and in the meantime just think of all the games you get to play with them. I also think that your copies will have some value greater than the reprint, especially if the art is strongly disliked.

Quote from NGW

Set, not block. A block contains 3 sets.

yes, thank you. I thought I had all my set/block statements straight but aparently one got away from me.

Quote from Ramenth

Guys, the 1CMC Journey to Nowhere with a downside and the StP Enchantment are the same card. W: When ~enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until ~ leaves the battlefield. It's controller gains life equal to it's power.

(Otherwise we're getting two W: Exile something cards. Which wont happen.)

You have some kind of confirmation of this wording?

Quote from Dlucks

I could see it in the third set. Makes sense when Theros is going to have 10 lands and at least Elspeth.

The thing is there is literally almost no chance of getting for sure spoilers about either of the two other sets in the block, so the only way of eliminating it from the second set is by way of it being in the first.

Quote from TK-421

Thoughtseize is NOT in Born of the Gods
But hey, as a consolation prize, Magma Jet is in, but it's not that Leonin pic.

Also Nylea isn't a snake.

So Seize is in Theros then, because that is the only way you could know it is not in Born of the Gods.

Wow, there is some serious lack of reading comprehension going on in this thread. All mention of the words "nimbus", "maze", or any combination of them should be met with strong harrumphs and disdain, not to mention eye-rolling, from here on out.

I really would have loved Soul Snare, but will have to see what we really get out of this 1 cmc Journey.