MTG Salvation

Can we call it Steppe Jinx and be happy with that?

There's a good chance that in the coming Standard this card will be relephant...

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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-announcements-september-22-2020

It’s happening tomorrow


and man by the tweet and the fact it’s to be immediately removed from current leagues first time in years we might see a ban as fast as memory jar potentially

In standard, you mean.

Banning Lutri in Commander the day it is spoiled will forever be the fastest ban that any card has or will ever receive.

Mind's Desire?

Sets with 6.99$ MTGO boosters have normally been around 180€ in Europe. Even with double rares and foils, it shouldn't be completely unrealistic for prices to drop to a similar level if the top cards are Commander-oriented like these first previews.

But I'm not an optimistic person. I still expect cards like Dark Confidant to be in, causing a wider range of people beeing interested (which is obviously good) and what's more important, there will be fanboys with wallets full of money even with a worldwide economic crisis ongoing that will speculate on the product. Prices will go up and LGSs won't benefit from it as they deserve, as they desperately need in every country. This was the perfect occasion to sell the product at 4$ a booster, leaving apart every economical aspect, forgetting every analysis of the market they keep hidden in their vampire clothes behind the scenes. It was the best moment to shoot high, to make something astonishing to keep paper Magic alive, but WotC thinks only about its profit. Moreover, it isn't brave enough to explicitly admit that it takes secondary market into account (see MaRo's tweet to The Professor last night). Well, that's the American way... isn't it?

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Additionally, WotC has mentioned that they would be more aggressive to correct metagames with bannings. I'm totally on board with this. In fact, the truth is that in the past, they should have been more proactive to address bad metagames.

I wasn't aware of this. Are there any cards they regret not banning from past standard environments?

CoCo and Rally easily come to mind, maybe Thoughtseize in the RTR-THS era too...

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According to a solicit I saw, the Mystery Boosters come 24 packs to a display. Release date is 3/13/2020. I haven't seen a price for displays/cases yet though.

It Wizard's madness it makes sense, because with 24 boosters it's a perfect draft product for a group of 8 people, a normal draft pod. They don't care at all about the value of the cards, so let them do what they think is right, they'll always find fanboys to buy anything they do regardless.

It's sad to say, but WotC is diving deeper and deeper into a very dangerous pool. Stating that they're incentivizing people to fall prey of ludopathy is maybe a stretch, but not a big one. Beeing a CCG doesn't mean you can do things like that without evaluating the consequences for the audience...

What bothers me more than anything is that this product will still sell out and they'll (rightfully, from an economic standpoint) think of it as a huge success, which we all know breeds repetition. Humans: how silly we are... and the homo ludens is sometimes the silliest of us all.

I want BR to be Sword of Fast and Furious so bad...

Jokes aside, this seems good but not overpowered: more in War and Peace camp than in Feast and Famine or Fire and Ice, but the demand will still be high simply for the color combination itself.

"Roaring assault"? How could you bear Wizards? If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have any claws for such an inclusion in the set...unbearable.

You remember time when Storm players used to cast Pieces of the Puzzle?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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Someone is going to jail when caught.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I think I am going to avoid anything Ixalan until the official spoiler season begins. If you care at all about M:TG, you'd do the same. A small handful of cards builds hype, but that many, this early is not fun, at all.

Still could be great commons, and uncommon. Cards like fatal push happen.

Or, you can both care about MTG but not drink the "hype" Kool-Aid, and think that the health of the game is dependent on the quality of the gameplay, not free marketing generated by spoiler season.

Claiming that O-Kagachi should be over-the-top big isn't Vorthos, it's being a fanboy for Kamigawa. Respecting lore that only exists in the flavor text of a single card, and putting O-Kagachi into an appropriate context -- that's Vorthos.

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Don't fool me wizards, I have to spend 6 mana to draw 4 cards, and I pitch one those to net +3 cards. At 4cmc, this is worse than Glimmer of Genius (which scry's 2 and digs me deeper into my deck). Ummm....almost fooled me, Glimmer is better.

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I think this is trash. The rate is only average, self targeting only, and forced discard. Blue might not get a better draw spell but this is still pretty sad. Instant is the only thing interesting here

Remember when people believed that Faithless Looting in a block with heavy graveyard themes was bad?

Seriously, the reason why they're finally printing graveyard hate is not to "catch up" with delirium and Scrapheap Scrounger. It's because heavy use of the graveyard in Amonkhet is very powerful.

Aftermath and Embalm cards would lead to broken environments if not costly properly and if there weren't enough hate cards to balance them out.

The discard provision isn't a drawback if you know how to build a deck in Amonkhet Standard.

I'm just astonished that there is still a "mythic rarity hurts my feelings" sub group of magic players.

Boros Guildgate is #231 and Crumbling Necropolis is #233 and they didn't spoil anything else that could be #232, I'm pretty sure I can guess which card is going to be in the set between those two.

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Black destroying Vehicles and forcing the sacrifice of artifact creatures is... weird. I don't like it.

I agree.
It's exactly the type of thing they'll cite as precedent
when they print true black artifact destruction.

That new green direct damage spell is BS, too.

What green direct damage spell? That one that's really just a splittable Rabid Bite? (Monstrous Onslaught)

Green getting damage-creatures-if-you-have-creatures-and-proportional-to-the-size-of-your-creature isn't anywhere near new.

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Strictly worse

I don't think you know what that means.

People really don't get the expedition thing. The expeditions are not ever going to be cards exclusive to that rarity. Complaining about the "new rarity" is silly because the cards themselves aren't more rare, just this iteration of them is. If you wanna use a card you don't have to shell out the expedition price or spin the booster roulette; just get a single of the normal version for cheaper. It's just a cool surprise that you'll very occasionally open and be happy about.

If that quote about printing $100 bills was true, it's today.

You guys that don't know the land history in MTG shouldn't speak on it.