MTG Salvation

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I play them because theyre beautiful, not to express something. I ike to look at shiny stuff. My post was a comment that the og bolts still look better than their collector crap

"I like shiny things and art that I think looks nice" is still a form of self-expression, in the form of customization. The only way that wouldn't be self-expression is if it where the current Lightning Bolt art, because that one tends to be both the most widely available, and thus the cheapest.

That third art is definitely a reference to Thunderbolt. No idea what the rest are.

So that's where Walking Ballista went..

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edit: these look like left over art for something transformers related. that's lazy.

This doesn't even remotely look like Transformers. I see Warhammer 40,000 more than anything else.

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For the record, people can draft a set focused exclusively on reprints if they wanted. It would be a mess,
But they could.

We’re beyond this “boosters are for drafting” excuse now that Collector’s Boosters exist. Why is it fine for those packs of reprints to not be made for draft but a set that exists to get reprints into people’s hands must be hamstrung by being a draft set?

I've heard of people who way too much disposable income played Collector Booster draft. It's basically more like Sealed with way too many bombs, but people will still draft it. If people played Unglued draft, people will played anything draft.

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Very odd that Modern isn't seeing the same attention? Though maybe Companion usage will die down in the coming months. I think only Lurrus really strikes me as an absolutely busted turd for the format.

There are attempts with Yorion and Soulherder, but it's not doing so well there, if memory serves right.

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The fact that they come in normal Japanese boosters but not English (or other) is already bull, I cannot begin to tell you how much that pisses me off as a lifelong Godzilla fan.

They did the same bull*****tery with the "anime" style planeswalkers.

Japan gets all the goodies and the rest has to pay premium to get them.

At this point you could very well argue its intrinsic racism.

It's more an issue that Wizards has yet to solve the Japanese market. In most places they're holding out, but with all the Japanese card games floating around they need to do extra to make a dent in Japan. They're fighting a lot of homegrown games (Yugioh, Cardfight Vanguard) and even their own stuff (Kaijudo).

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Here's the showcase art. I don't know what I was expecting, but it sure isn't that.

It looks like Bill the Cat merged with a parrot, which is...kinda cool, I guess?
One rules question though: "...number of times it has mutated," can you mutate over and over? I thought once you mutated onto a critter it was over?

Nope, you can keep stacking over and over.

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The art is really messing with me.. the little cat in front is lit like it is being lit by the sun, which is behind the Big cat... but somehow it is.. in front of the big cat?

The way that small cat looks makes it look like it is in the distance, but its positioning is in front of the big cat... Its.. all sorts of not right. It almost feels like they drew the small cat then just pasted it on top of the image....

You mean the small cat to the immediate left of the sovereign cat? Based on the lighting on the back of the latter's wings, the source of light is perpendicular to the big wings, and thus can illuminate both its big wings, and the small cat.

Here's the showcase art. I don't know what I was expecting, but it sure isn't that.

Vulpikeet 3W
Creature- Fox Bird
Mutate 2W
Flying
Whenever this creature mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
2/3

Source: Alliestrasza

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Wait, are we not getting the counters? Like the flying, menace, lifelink etc. counters? sorry if I'm missing something obvious...

They're in the booster packs as punch-out tokens, as announced in the mechanics articles

So who'll run Basalt Monolith better: this or Zirda, the Dawnwaker?

Winota, Joiner of Forces 2RW
Legendary Creature- Human Warrior
Whenever a non-Human creature you control attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
4/4

If you can balance Humans and non-Humans, this will be backbreaking. Sure, it's another legend for Boros-Combat.dec, but it's a different approach to it.

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And Commander 2020:

Time to unload everything. First, Ikoria: