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Nov 20, 2017BlazingRagnarok posted a message on Jaya Ballard ReturnsMairsil's reappearance in card form absolutely can be a coincidence because Commander products are a dumping ground for neglected legendary figures, the vast majority of whom are irrelevant to contemporary sets.Posted in: Articles
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Apr 4, 2016BlazingRagnarok posted a message on The Magic Market Index: Set Review of Shadows Over InnistradWhile its value probably won't spike, I disagree with your assessment of Bygone Bishop. It has applications outside of clue-based decks; for example, it makes every creature that Collected Company decks hardcast replace themselves. If any sort of white weenie crops up (human or spirit tribal?), Bishop would give the deck crucial staying power in the mid and late games.Posted in: Articles
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First of all, black does have ways to deal with those cards, if you take a minute to stop and think instead of complaining. Damnation obviously ignored the protection effects you're complaining about. If Legacy's your game, you have access to the excellent Toxic Deluge. Heck, True-Name Nemesis and Mother of Runes both die to freaking Shrivel. Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek both can take out threats before they become a problem.
The information in the link you provided is correct. I don't know why you still added Khans cards, maybe the site updated late or you mistook the symbol.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx will take you to the official Wizards database, in which you can find Standard under the "format" dropbox.
I don't know whether you intend to use this in Standard, but Feat of Resistance and Defiant Strike rotated out with the rest of KTK. Center Soul can replace Feat, but White doesn't get have any other card draw combat tricks in Standard. Blue gets you Slip Through Space and a few others as long as you don't mind tapping your own creatures down.
I know. I love responding to facetious people.
Funny thing about golf is that, some years back, a group of scientists did an experiment that proved golf performance did indeed improve with athleticism. Of course, e-sports are a thing, so people have long since stopped pretending there is a link between the word and athletics.
I wasn't even pretending to predict Season's Past's pro tour performance, I was just saying how obvious it is that the card isn't the unplayable pile of crap this forum painted it to be.
This is less of a case of predicting success and more of knowing that cards that produce massive card advantage are inherently really good. The card also doesn't have many red flags other than a high mana cost, which is attainable given Standard's pacing, unlike, say, Greenwarden of Murasa, which produces less CA and has an exiling dies trigger. You make it sound like a non-exiling multi-Regrowth needs a specific environment to be good, but format pacing is really the only thing that matters.
You have a point there. If Wizards was trying to kill Modern, they'd be more explicit about it, like what happened to extended and block constructed. Wizards has a vested interest in moving players towards standard and other profitable formats, but there's no point in proactively killing an undesired format slowly. I mean, Wizards absolutely should support formats other than standard in some way, but a dearth of reprints isn't the same as executives wishing a given format would cease existing. They have to be aware that many players play eternal formats precisely because they don't want to keep up with standard.
While I agree that constructed is very rare-oriented (and has been for quite a while), I think you're missing the point on how limited influences set design. For practical purposes, the only differences between commons and uncommons are complexity and limited frequency (if Wizards doesn't test for Modern, they sure as heck don't care about pauper). You implied that Wild Slash should be a common, but the reason for why it's uncommon isn't "OMG Shock too stronk!" Khans block limited was notable for the presence of morphs/manifested cards, and testing must have revealed that a 1 mana common that fried face-down cards warped limited. Changing their limited mindset wouldn't change anything in this scenario because they had no intention of excising morph just to accommodate a common shock. Not every irregular rarity can be explained so neatly, but context has to be taken into consideration.
Of course, you could just join the players who argue that limited has a net-negative impact on the game, but Wizards is unlikely to drop the attention given to their most profitable format.