Quote from Cainsson »She looks rather frumpy. Not at all the glamorous elf of Dragon's Maze.
Because similar to Radha before her SJW’s/feminists are afraid of fictional characters that look better than they do. So while not as bad as Radha, the SJW/Feminist in WotC couldn’t have Emmara look like the sultry elf she did before. Else the would feel bad about how they can’t compete with the looks of a nonexistent character.
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That's undercosted. That would see ban in Standard for sure. I don't think we'll see Jump-start on a counterspell, it's too huge a card advantage swing basically killing 2 cards for the price of one (well, discarding an extra land but that's something Control has no trouble doing)
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Usually you are scrying away dead lands or are scrying away things in game 1 that do you no good in the matchup (creature removal vs control) Sure there are cases where you are scrying away extra copies of planeswalker or other high cost cards early - but early always you are bottomming things that are just in your way. Surveil is better in most cases since it thins your deck.
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Uhm - if you think this isn't marked up you are mistaken. If this were going to LGSs 250 would be the MSRP and the base value would be somethibg like 150.
On other words - the middleman markup is still there and Hasbro is collecting it.
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I don't think it was temporary - I think it was permanent (Don't be fooled by the title of this thread - these are NOT masterpieces they are a separate line of sold product)
The reason is that the value of all the cards in the box will on average be equal to the MSRP of the box (in the long run - post release there will be gouging until the market equalizes). Having some 'super rare' cards that are highly sought after will mean that more cards will be bought to flood the market. When there are a handful of chanse masterpeices then those hold the entirety of the value of the box - which basically means it is playing the lottery.
Now you may think "Cheaper cards is good for magic!" but the reality of it is that when card packs are like playing the lottery - then that hits FNM attendance, because then the prizes are not worth playing for. The singles market is of better value and no one wants to play FNM for pack prizes - which hurts the stores (and thus pack sales)
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I have to disagree. Surveil is strictly better even if you are not running graveyard matters. The stuff scry puts on the bottom are things you pretty much never want to see come up again. If your library gets shuffled for any reason those cards are still there clogging you up. Surveil takes them out of your deck completely (barring an effect that shuffles your yard into your library)
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I always use a die for all random effects, so... yeah. While it doesn't appear on the cards, dice rolling is still part of the Standard environment - that's the same rationale as MaRo uses when he prints white cards that 'counter target spell targetting a permanent you control' - had a whole article where he was justifying it in a mock-courtroom setting. The same argument applies to dice rolling - we still do it in Standard, so why not allow them on the cards?
Die rolling is also the prefered method of determining who goes first in a match (although players at my LGS likes to use 'poker dice' where we roll 5 dice and evaluate it like a poker hand - usually looking for pairs)
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The same people complaining about EDH focused cards in Standard sets are ALSO complaining about the dumpster fire that Standard has been. It's part of the same problem (but not the only part of it)
I actually don't think Kumena is too bad for Standard - so it is a 'good' card that is designed for both EDH and Standard. My commment was directing at Ulrich being a bad card that only existed because they 'had to' cater to the EDH players regardless of 'fit' in the set.
But for the most part - 'fixing' Standard needs to be their top priority - everything else needs to take a back seat until then. There's a whole separate print release that they can use to offer stuff for Commander players.
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No, I want to neuter them because I hate how they warped the game.
I don't have a problem with mytich rarity per se - but I strongly dislike how planeswalkers have changed the game. They are often hard to answer in many situations (most of the choice ones protect themselves making them already inherently the yomi layer 2 answer to the best way to remove them)
I have heard people complain a lot about Energy, and it seems to me that the complaints I hear from them about that are very similar to how I feel about planrswalkers.
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I'm actually totally OK with that. When I first learned about planeswalkers I thought they were flavourful but gimmicky. I honestly thought they were cards targetting the Johnny/Vorthos players and wouldn't see competitive play. But then they got pushed and now most decks need planeswalkers to be competitive and I hated that. (It's one of the reasons I quit playing for a few years - I got back in because SOI interested me)
So, yeah - I'd be totally fine if planeswalkers stop being the linchpin in decks and take a back-seat to the rest of the synergy in the deck itself.
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It took me a bit to think that though ... but yes, there is a reasonable case for that to be better functionality.