Seeing that for 3 of the 5 triomes this is a turn 1 counter, there's no way they print this as is. Maybe in a Modern Masters but, even then... It's possible, after turn 0, that his is better than Force of Will.
I mean I think it's printable in standard. You'd have to pull the triome turn 1 and it's a soft counter. In extended formats though... I dunno. Needing island swamp is easily doable, but for a soft counter and 4 life instead of one?
Assuming you actually miss the turn one triome, you're still probably most likely going to be active turn 2. You are now in control of the tempo of the game at no significant drawback. You can go wide/ aggressive etc while still holding up a counter that will more than likely 1 for 1. This card makes force of negation look like child's play and that's how expensive again? Hell even in blue black commander decks it makes fierce guardianship look bad. Even ignoring the fact that it uses an art that isn't a mtg art (with nudity mind you), this card is way too pushed to be a common.
And sure, if it was evasive in the least bit, then I think I'd agree.
But since it can be countered, and discarded, and exiled—there's plenty of means to say there's a fair defense against it.
This logic is very flawed. Just because a card can be answered doesn't make it not broken. For one mana, the effect you present is at the very least very powerful and at its very worst broken.
To contextulize you basically make a 10/10 for one mana with no drawbacks. Easily abusable but can be answered in its own right. But your argument is basically saying "well it doesn't have trample, hexproof, indestructible, haste, first strike, and deathtouch." So it's not that broken.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for toss-up and actually have some arc where they start having consequences for planeswalkers but I have a strange feeling that they're going to just purify the popular planeswalkers by the end of this.
Still though, 8 don't get the complaints of phyrexianing PWs. Makes the whole gatewatch thing fun and maybe a few of them get corrupted themselves.
It's pretty wild that people think they SLs were created by Hasbro to kill the LGS during the pandemic when Secret Lairs were created before it? Not saying they aren't tapping into that market, but they definitely didn't do it to kill them during the pandemic. Lol
Just because you hate SLs doesn't mean that there's some grand conspiracy going on.
Is it any surprise that Magic: The Gathering isn't trending as much on ICv2's Hot Properties list with Pokémon leading in terms of sales? Yu-Gi-Oh! is also trending more than Magic: The Gathering but not by a whole lot I'm afraid. As far as Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games go nowadays, Pokémon TCG, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Flesh and Blood TCG are ALL outperforming Magic: The Gathering by a WIDE margin. MetaZoo is also doing well despite being a blatant rip-off of the Base Set / Jungle / Fossil era of when Wizards of the Coast once owned the rights to the Pokémon TCG. Bottom line is that based on what I'm seeing on ICv2 it's a clear indication that Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro's business practices as of late have actually been hurting Magic: The Gathering long term. The problem is that Magic: The Gathering is successful enough as a card game to the point where Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro feels comfortable diluting the value of cards to make them more affordable for players when it's actually alienating them instead.
Pokemon's leading because it released the much-awaited Gen 4 remakes last Friday. Flesh and Blood is still within the 5-year range, and its First Edition cards are causing Secret Lair-esque price spikes, so it's not a big deal yet.
There's so much wrong with this. Pokemon has been consistently out of stock at most stores since vivid voltage which was about a year ago release. Hype has been a thing since the whole Lohan Paul thing. That on top of 25 anniversary hype is definitely driving those sales. Not saying that it'll be sustained but let's not pretend that Pokemon has all of a sudden been outselling Magic.
Good riddance. Hullbreacher was just one of those cards that just made the entire game unfun. On top of that, it was just so efficiently costed for the effect. The fact that WoTC pushed this card through just tells me they wanted to push pack sales of this commander product and now they ban it because of how pushed it was.
Doing a Mothers day secret lair nearly on Father's Day with no Father's Day Secret Lair is extremely disgusting, disrespectful and likely done on purpose.
Or maybe they weren't able to get it done last month, but they'd commissioned 4 arts, so they figured they'd release it anyway.
Considering Mother's/Father's Day comes around the same time every year I'm gonna say it was pretty easy for a billion dollar company to look at a calendar to line them up where last super drop had the mother's day and this had father's day.
It doesn't bother me that a father's day one doesn't exist, but to say "it couldn't be done on time" is a lame excuse when it comes to a company pumping out 400 products a year to coincide with a specific day.
I believe it's more likely, given the trend, that this was deliberate. They made a SL to coincide with Valentine's Day. And Women's Day. It's one thing to shame fathers that walk, but part of cultivating a good society is celebrating the good fathers, too. It's concerning for walking the line between making a genuine difference, and subtle political hostility.
This seems like a bit of a stretch? Don't you think?
No, all cards from the Time Spiral block show up in normal, modern borders. No time-shifted Time Spiral cards are reprinted. I strongly assume all cards now given the old-border treatment are modern legal cards that so far only existed in the new frame?
Modern legal, no. Modern frames though is probably a fair assumption.
Just to clarify: the problem is not that this is playable everywhere. It's not. It's that people THINK it is. This turns into a even more useless Darksteel Relic in the late game, when your commander has finally stuck in play and is there doing its thing. Lots of people will learn that the hard way. Watch EDHRec for the next six months (Or six months after the pandemic, whichever metric you want to use); this will drop in use as even the Omnath, Locus of Mana player drops this in favor of mana rocks that do something else later on. Frankly, I would preferred this as a 4-mana commander-only (casting and abilities) Gilded Lotus to maybe help Voltron decks, but we're way past that point.
I remember opening an Electrodominance during the RNA Prerelease, and getting offered twice what I paid for for said PR for the card. I kept it because my Jaya Ballard, Task Mage deck needed it, and saw the price drop after 6 weeks. Is it a bad marketing practice for Wizards? Yes. Will this send shockwaves through cEDH? Maybe. Will this kill casual Commander? Of course not.
I'm pretty sure Omnath still likes this no matter what. You just crack it and add 3 that just stays there. It's not busted in every deck, but this card makes getting out more pricey commanders even easier at no cost. People are over exaggerating it being universally broken but I also think that people are gratefully underestimating how good this can be in one/ two color commander decks.
This leak is getting massive. I'm concerned with WotC's security.
Product is getting out to distributors who in turn are going to get ready to send it out to stores. I highly doubt these leaks are coming internally at this point.
Not sure why the previews were pushed back... this feels like a possible passive aggressive rebuttal to the public outcry on the Walking Dead Secret Lair. Maybe it's a far-flung conspiracy, but why else would they have to move them? Some people enjoy the slower spoiler season, which I can see why, but this is the one product I was looking forward to seeing what they put in it. Due to this secret lair Walking Dead affecting Commander drastically, it feels like they wanted to just throw the previews back as backlash for our negative reviews.
And lose valuable revenue because of it? This post is pretty silly at best. They will never ever hold bad a product that will sell because another product has bad press because that hurts their bottom line more than it would ever hurt the playerbase
Personally, I think it sets a pretty bad precedence with making a limited product have exclusive cards. On the other hand i feel this may have been a comic con promo earlier in the making and with the whole COVID situation repurposed into a secret lair. I'm hoping for the latter and not the former.
Assuming you actually miss the turn one triome, you're still probably most likely going to be active turn 2. You are now in control of the tempo of the game at no significant drawback. You can go wide/ aggressive etc while still holding up a counter that will more than likely 1 for 1. This card makes force of negation look like child's play and that's how expensive again? Hell even in blue black commander decks it makes fierce guardianship look bad. Even ignoring the fact that it uses an art that isn't a mtg art (with nudity mind you), this card is way too pushed to be a common.
This logic is very flawed. Just because a card can be answered doesn't make it not broken. For one mana, the effect you present is at the very least very powerful and at its very worst broken.
To contextulize you basically make a 10/10 for one mana with no drawbacks. Easily abusable but can be answered in its own right. But your argument is basically saying "well it doesn't have trample, hexproof, indestructible, haste, first strike, and deathtouch." So it's not that broken.
Still though, 8 don't get the complaints of phyrexianing PWs. Makes the whole gatewatch thing fun and maybe a few of them get corrupted themselves.
Just because you hate SLs doesn't mean that there's some grand conspiracy going on.
There's so much wrong with this. Pokemon has been consistently out of stock at most stores since vivid voltage which was about a year ago release. Hype has been a thing since the whole Lohan Paul thing. That on top of 25 anniversary hype is definitely driving those sales. Not saying that it'll be sustained but let's not pretend that Pokemon has all of a sudden been outselling Magic.
This seems like a bit of a stretch? Don't you think?
Modern legal, no. Modern frames though is probably a fair assumption.
I'm pretty sure Omnath still likes this no matter what. You just crack it and add 3 that just stays there. It's not busted in every deck, but this card makes getting out more pricey commanders even easier at no cost. People are over exaggerating it being universally broken but I also think that people are gratefully underestimating how good this can be in one/ two color commander decks.
Product is getting out to distributors who in turn are going to get ready to send it out to stores. I highly doubt these leaks are coming internally at this point.
And lose valuable revenue because of it? This post is pretty silly at best. They will never ever hold bad a product that will sell because another product has bad press because that hurts their bottom line more than it would ever hurt the playerbase