I'd rather that land in the pack was always a non-basic (like in DGM), with no consideration for rarity. It would lower the prices for rare non-basics (if only slightly), with the possibility of getting two, without the obvious value increase of two-rare packs. And I don't think it'd affect limited too much (it didnt with DGM, seriously).
If you need basic lands, you'd buy intro packs, or toolkits. Not packs.
I like this idea, but I think adding 8 additional pieces of mana fixing per draft affected DGR quite a bit (in a good way).
Where do you see the value of this landing? As I was going through the article my heart sank a bit, seeing nothing but <$5 jank outside of what we already knew, but upon reflecting a bit more I'm not disappointed.
I made this spreadsheet, using SCG prices (yes, I know...), but hopefully it'll at least give people an idea of how much foils are/will be worth. I won't delude myself into thinking that FTV foils will be worth nearly as much as the foil versions of other cards (e.g. Venser, Tangle Wire, Thran Dynamo), but they'll definitely be worth at the very least, the price of the originals.
Fetches in M15 makes sense on so many levels. Remember many of these busted multi-color cards are leaving. And fetches are barely better than check lands with shocks. So from a standard format perspective a few months of fetches and shocks makes perfect sense with a block like Theros where we are supposedly getting worse lands than checks. Then sealed M15 right before Modern which is being priced out thanks to ~$30-$50+ fetches, um, yeah, ok, hello fetches!
I'm not being a pessimist, I swear. But that being said...
- I think Wizards still has that ridiculous "Core sets are for new players, so we have to minimize complexity" viewpoint. M13 gave us Bolas and the legendary cycle, but M14 showed us that was a one-time exception. Maro's often said that new players don't understand why fetches are good and don't like paying life for cards. (but somehow new players are supposed to understand how Planeswalkers work? Especially weird since a large chunk of them are coming from Duels, which doesn't feature Planeswalker cards at all)
- I think the precedent of not having dual lands in the core set is sticking, but that's only speculation.
- Since M15 is released in mid-July 2014, not only does it miss the March 15-June 1 Sealed Deck season, but it's available for less than half of the Modern PTQ season anyway.
Yeah, they were always going to do 111 and 123 as the Sealed formats. It was how they always did it before, and there's no good alternative.
I suspect the reason Modern might have gotten flipped to summer is actually because the summer is when people start trying to get rid of Standard cards. The Block/Standard PTQ season had historically kept competitive players from doing that. This seems like a "good for players...not so good for dealers" change.
I agree with the sentiment that having Modern in the summer is a bad idea. Everyone has a bunch of shiny MM cards they want to try out now, why should they wait a year to do so?
The only possible explanation I can think of, echoed from my post on Reddit, is a reprinting of fetches (and/or other Modern staples MM missed) in the next year. Doing so would maximize interest in Modern and allow for the most people to attend Modern PTQs, since it's clear that the bottleneck to Modern entry right now is the price/availability of fetches. Bobs and Goyfs, and Cliques are great to have in your deck, but many decks don't even play with them. The same can't be said about fetches, where the only decks that don't use them are maybe Mono-U Tron or Mono-Red (and the latter is very questionably competitive).
...But since I don't see fetches and Shocks being in the same Standard, nor do I see MM2 being released in Summer '14, I'm not holding my breath.
I thought we were supposed to get a B&R update today? The September 20th, 2012 announcement says updates will be posted the Monday after each set's prerelease, but did this mean it only applied to expert-level sets? If so, does this mean we go from four announcements per year to three?
- "Chandra, Pyromaster"?
- Oh God I want a set of those black-on-black walkers
- Expecting them to be absurdly expensive if they're only going to be given out/sold at SDCC, maybe upwards of $500/set.
- About Garruk himself: Seems a little weaker since his +1 can't protect himself, but I guess -3'ing right away will give you a nice blocker. Are there and big green fatties to cheat out? We have Worldspine Wurm, Bobo, and Craterhoof so far. His ultimate (like most others) is nuts, but a little impractical since if you're +1'ing him, you should already have a bunch of creatures to cast.
Still looking forward to the new Chandra more, she'll be the one that makes or breaks the set for me. =p
so this thing is apprently a big deal.
Rumor is that they will have some m14/commander/ftv 20/theros news at this thing?
Any truth to this?
It doesn't look like anything came of this, which is disappointing. A GP of this scale would have been a great opportunity to draw attention to a FTV20 preview card or the new Commander products.
Is this the official quibling session for English teachers and majors?
Here is my spine breaking complaint: the use of acronyms for everything. I understand the military use for them, but quite often I am at a loss for what the meanings are when used in this forum. No one says the card name Giest of Saint Traft (GoST) with my acronym in (XYZ). What the Hell (WTH)?
The other twitch I get is from certain people using the word "like" and "dawg" (I am not a god damn dog!) a million times in a brief conversation. I don't give a **** that it might be a cultural thing cause it's just filler and makes the writer look stupid.
Anyone else notice that many postes receive improper responses cause the writer can not create a complete sentence. Futhermore, the sentences are not structured properly to folow a line of thought, thus mass confusion. The writer will get mad cause they ae miss-understood and are to stupid to get their point across without run-on sentences and bad sentence structure.
The opposite also happens with idgets who can't read and comprehend. It's not the words we mess up; other simple communication skills are just laughable or create serious fights from stupidity.
This post is gold.
On-topic: I agree with many of the above, but especially they're/there/their, you're/your, and "could care less".
Also, I don't know if it's just me, but I see "definately" (and even the occasional "defiantly") a lot. Gets me every time.
Unfortunately, it would not. Goblin Electromancer only reduces the cost of casting a spell, whereas Splice is an activated ability-- the Spliced card isn't actually being cast.
Ajani, Caller of the Pride
Jace, Architect of Thought
Liliana of the Dark Realms
Garruk 4.0
Chandra 4.0
This makes the most sense to me. Ajani and Lili have only been in Standard for a year, so they're probably due for another. Memory Adept has been in for two years so a third isn't likely, but throwing Architect of Thought in makes sense (more than Beleren, at least). The WUB walkers aren't getting new cards, so they're getting new creatures in the Rare cycle.
Chandra 4.0 is already confirmed so she doesn't need a new rare creature (hence Phoenix returning), but with Garruk's Horde being confirmed in, it's not unlikely he'll see Garruk 4.0 here as well.
Yes, I'm falling into the trap of expecting pattern-completion and WotC doesn't print Walkers just to complete patterns, but for some reason this all just makes sense to me. The thing I'm least positive about is AoT since he's already in a set currently in print, but it would be convenient that they rotate out at the same time.
Maybe we'll get a surprise multicolour PW in there too, but with less of a focus on Nicol Bolas this set I don't know who it could be.
I like this idea, but I think adding 8 additional pieces of mana fixing per draft affected DGR quite a bit (in a good way).
Where do you see the value of this landing? As I was going through the article my heart sank a bit, seeing nothing but <$5 jank outside of what we already knew, but upon reflecting a bit more I'm not disappointed.
I made this spreadsheet, using SCG prices (yes, I know...), but hopefully it'll at least give people an idea of how much foils are/will be worth. I won't delude myself into thinking that FTV foils will be worth nearly as much as the foil versions of other cards (e.g. Venser, Tangle Wire, Thran Dynamo), but they'll definitely be worth at the very least, the price of the originals.
Skies Edit: Full list:
Dark Ritual
Swords to Plowshares
Hymn to Tourach
Fyndhorn Elves
Impulse
Wall of Blossoms
Thran Dynamo
Tangle Wire
Fact or Fiction
Chainer's Edict
Akroma's Vengeance
Gilded Lotus
Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
Char
Venser, Shaper Savant
Chameleon Colossus
Cruel Ultimatum
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Green Sun's Zenith
Kessig Wolf Run
I'm not being a pessimist, I swear. But that being said...
- I think Wizards still has that ridiculous "Core sets are for new players, so we have to minimize complexity" viewpoint. M13 gave us Bolas and the legendary cycle, but M14 showed us that was a one-time exception. Maro's often said that new players don't understand why fetches are good and don't like paying life for cards. (but somehow new players are supposed to understand how Planeswalkers work? Especially weird since a large chunk of them are coming from Duels, which doesn't feature Planeswalker cards at all)
- I think the precedent of not having dual lands in the core set is sticking, but that's only speculation.
- Since M15 is released in mid-July 2014, not only does it miss the March 15-June 1 Sealed Deck season, but it's available for less than half of the Modern PTQ season anyway.
I agree with the sentiment that having Modern in the summer is a bad idea. Everyone has a bunch of shiny MM cards they want to try out now, why should they wait a year to do so?
The only possible explanation I can think of, echoed from my post on Reddit, is a reprinting of fetches (and/or other Modern staples MM missed) in the next year. Doing so would maximize interest in Modern and allow for the most people to attend Modern PTQs, since it's clear that the bottleneck to Modern entry right now is the price/availability of fetches. Bobs and Goyfs, and Cliques are great to have in your deck, but many decks don't even play with them. The same can't be said about fetches, where the only decks that don't use them are maybe Mono-U Tron or Mono-Red (and the latter is very questionably competitive).
...But since I don't see fetches and Shocks being in the same Standard, nor do I see MM2 being released in Summer '14, I'm not holding my breath.
Thank you, I appreciate the notice. I guess I just missed the announcement in the hype of the M14 full spoiler that morning. =p
http://www.reddit.com/r/mtgfinance/comments/1i3y8j/when_to_sell_comic_con_promo_planeswalkers/
Can anyone verify their information?
Megantic Sliver is the Prerelease, and Colossal Whale the Release promo according to this.
- Oh God I want a set of those black-on-black walkers
- Expecting them to be absurdly expensive if they're only going to be given out/sold at SDCC, maybe upwards of $500/set.
- About Garruk himself: Seems a little weaker since his +1 can't protect himself, but I guess -3'ing right away will give you a nice blocker. Are there and big green fatties to cheat out? We have Worldspine Wurm, Bobo, and Craterhoof so far. His ultimate (like most others) is nuts, but a little impractical since if you're +1'ing him, you should already have a bunch of creatures to cast.
Still looking forward to the new Chandra more, she'll be the one that makes or breaks the set for me. =p
This post is gold.
On-topic: I agree with many of the above, but especially they're/there/their, you're/your, and "could care less".
Also, I don't know if it's just me, but I see "definately" (and even the occasional "defiantly") a lot. Gets me every time.
Ajani, Caller of the Pride
Jace, Architect of Thought
Liliana of the Dark Realms
Garruk 4.0
Chandra 4.0
This makes the most sense to me. Ajani and Lili have only been in Standard for a year, so they're probably due for another. Memory Adept has been in for two years so a third isn't likely, but throwing Architect of Thought in makes sense (more than Beleren, at least). The WUB walkers aren't getting new cards, so they're getting new creatures in the Rare cycle.
Chandra 4.0 is already confirmed so she doesn't need a new rare creature (hence Phoenix returning), but with Garruk's Horde being confirmed in, it's not unlikely he'll see Garruk 4.0 here as well.
Yes, I'm falling into the trap of expecting pattern-completion and WotC doesn't print Walkers just to complete patterns, but for some reason this all just makes sense to me. The thing I'm least positive about is AoT since he's already in a set currently in print, but it would be convenient that they rotate out at the same time.
Maybe we'll get a surprise multicolour PW in there too, but with less of a focus on Nicol Bolas this set I don't know who it could be.