They need to balance the fact that if they make the product too cheap and too available then it would send some of the chase cards' prices crashing which is something they really want to avoid.
Does it really matter if the cards that are not on the Reserved List go down? Are people going to complain when Goyf is only $80 instead of $130?
MM2015 was much easier to get than MM2013 because they printed quite a bit more but it was more expensive for that reason (on top of the nice packaging etc...): it's a balancing act and they feel like they haven't found the right spot yet.
That just doesn't make sense when MM1 offered more for the player and for less. There was no reason for them to bump the price up $3 and offer less inside of MM2, especially because those cardboard boosters were so easy to tamper with.
Biggest thing is the rumour that they weren't too happy with how MM2015 did and part of that, if true, is most assuredly because the perceived value of a pack when the product was available wasn't that great (so much for people on here claiming they don't care if card prices drop). so they might feel they need to up the ante in terms of what's available to get people excited so they are going Eternal rather than Modern.
People weren't complaining because the prices of the cards dropped, but what you could get from packs. When you pay $10 and 75% of all the rares, including mythics, were already $1 or less so those cards losing value didn't do anything and only made it sting when you opened them up. This was also coupled with that all of the value was located in about 15 rares and 14 mythics, and if uncommon and common had some value in it buyers remorse wouldn't have set in as easily. Had the packs been $7 like the previous set, things wouldn't have been as bad, but fact is Wizards said there was more value in MM2 and that just wasn't true, so then why bump packs up $3?
The reason is because they felt they could get away with it, and from the success of the set it seems people allowed them to, me included.
My info is that there will be an "eternal-masters" set and that it will have a higher msrp than mm2. What do you think about that?
More expensive? It better be filled with amazing stuff and not be what MM2 was. I'm not sure how they can make it more expensive and what they could even price it at, $12? $15? I was on the fence with MM2, and should have been on the no side, with the benefit of hindsight, but at $15 I don't care what Legacy/Vintage stuff is in it if I have the chance of opening up something like Long-Forgotten Gohei or Precursor Golem (as much as I like it).
If Brainstorm Madness is a real card, I can only imagine it being banned like Graveyard Visions. There is a good chance this can make Lily V cheaper only because people don't want to have their opponent draw cards from using her +1, or it could help her price as being able to draw cards from using her +1.
I'm wondering if Innistrad can support or has "Incarnations"? Like for instance, Anger, Filth or even Wonder to power up madness like it did before. Or if not direct reprints, perhaps something new that works similar.
More incarnations I would love, although Filth would need replaced. Valor needs a reprint already like the other non-Filth ones, just to have it in a new border.
"Leaching" which is a word but doesn't mean what the context implies, it sounds more as though the writer meant "leeching".
I'm no grammar expert, but I do believe using "leaching" here is correct as leaching means "drain away from soil, ash, or similar material by the action of percolating liquid, especially rainwater." It is getting some sort of liquid, which seems to be correct, while "leeching" means "habitually exploit or rely on."
9 pages and not even one person suggested these are fakes? Not only they are all "coincidentally" commons and uncommons with bland, non-specific mechanics that could exist in any setting, the flavour text is awful and refers exclusively to things and names we already know. Oh and there's a spelling mistake in "Niblis of Dusk" (a name lifted from a group of creatures in the original Innistrad). Anyway, fake as hell.
I'm going to point out that Wit's End also has a spelling error that went to print. Not the first time something like that has happened.
This would also be incredible for someone to not only make such convincing fakes, both of new cards and old ones, but also to want to fake a bunch of commons and uncommons.
What if it wasn't Legacy/Vintage set and it was an Commander Masters? That had some juicy reprints that are played in Legacy/Vintage/EDH with some new cards that were specifically made for Commander? Idk it could be anything, doesn't necessarily have to be Eternal Masters?
I figure with something like a "Commander Masters" it would be in place of the Commander decks instead, like when they have run out of ideas for decks to make for the year, or just to so something else can be done with the product. I also believe they would put new cards in the set along with reprints. Also hopefully not making it for limited.
I don't care for any character in any story being labelled as untouchable. It removes any degree of tension from scenarios involving that character.
Jace is hardly untouchable.
Untouchable? No, he can definitely be hurt, but I think what he meant by that is "he isn't going to die, ever." I'm sure he won't die from old age either, probably from some magic life potion and suddenly Sorin is dying from old age.
Having a body count is not the only way to create narrative tension.
You are right, you don't need a body count, but you have to at least see the characters in dire situations where they could/can die. Now they have all been put in that situation, but all but Elspeth and Venser have come out of every situation no worse for wear. They could at least scar them up on occasion and show that they are not so impregnable, or damn near invincible. Now sure Garruk is a little crazy at the moment, but we know he'll come around eventually. Daretti and Freyalise at least show us that they are not invincible, but then again they are not the Lorwyn/Origins 5.
I don't care for any character in any story being labelled as untouchable. It removes any degree of tension from scenarios involving that character.
Jace is hardly untouchable.
Untouchable? No, he can definitely be hurt, but I think what he meant by that is "he isn't going to die, ever." I'm sure he won't die from old age either, probably from some magic life potion and suddenly Sorin is dying from old age.
WotC, please don't let this mean you've killed off Tamiyo so that posterboy Jace can shine.
UGH, don't throw that out to the Universe... it might come true.
Good Lord I cannot even fathom if the next set Jace will be prominently featured there too. My Blood Pressure can only handle so much. They did the blasphemous Mending (and no, do not even reply to me about Oldwalkers cannot be given walker cards coz they were succesful on making oldwalker Teferi and Freyalise) just to have a RYU-kind of a character to represent the Planeswalkers all along? BOLLOCKS!
It would definitely be nice for there to be a bit more variety in the (mono)blue walkers. We've only had Jace since RTR.
Invasive Surgery / Hould of the Farbogs - I like that Buried Alive can turn on Delirium (search for an Artifact Creature and an Enchantment Creature)
An artifact creature and enchantment creature is only 3 cards types, not 4.
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Invasive Surgery / Hould of the Farbogs - I like that Buried Alive can turn on Delirium (search for an Artifact Creature and an Enchantment Creature)
An artifact creature and enchantment creature is only 3 cards types, not 4.
i mean, lets say he were just 4 mana 4/5 flying, trample and the mill effect, i would compare it with the level of a siege rhino and would say its a good rare
but why add delirium, which is actually a downside on this card ? why make it mythic ? really dont get it.
it neither does feel mythic from the card flavor nor the power level ...
could have been a nice rare, but this way they waste a mythic slot. really dont get what wizards tried to achieve here.
It is possible this is a rare, but also a mythic for the DD. It isn't like we haven't had rares by mythics in these products before, like Knight of the Reliquary.
Does it really matter if the cards that are not on the Reserved List go down? Are people going to complain when Goyf is only $80 instead of $130?
That just doesn't make sense when MM1 offered more for the player and for less. There was no reason for them to bump the price up $3 and offer less inside of MM2, especially because those cardboard boosters were so easy to tamper with.
People weren't complaining because the prices of the cards dropped, but what you could get from packs. When you pay $10 and 75% of all the rares, including mythics, were already $1 or less so those cards losing value didn't do anything and only made it sting when you opened them up. This was also coupled with that all of the value was located in about 15 rares and 14 mythics, and if uncommon and common had some value in it buyers remorse wouldn't have set in as easily. Had the packs been $7 like the previous set, things wouldn't have been as bad, but fact is Wizards said there was more value in MM2 and that just wasn't true, so then why bump packs up $3?
The reason is because they felt they could get away with it, and from the success of the set it seems people allowed them to, me included.
More expensive? It better be filled with amazing stuff and not be what MM2 was. I'm not sure how they can make it more expensive and what they could even price it at, $12? $15? I was on the fence with MM2, and should have been on the no side, with the benefit of hindsight, but at $15 I don't care what Legacy/Vintage stuff is in it if I have the chance of opening up something like Long-Forgotten Gohei or Precursor Golem (as much as I like it).
More incarnations I would love, although Filth would need replaced. Valor needs a reprint already like the other non-Filth ones, just to have it in a new border.
I'm no grammar expert, but I do believe using "leaching" here is correct as leaching means "drain away from soil, ash, or similar material by the action of percolating liquid, especially rainwater." It is getting some sort of liquid, which seems to be correct, while "leeching" means "habitually exploit or rely on."
I'm going to point out that Wit's End also has a spelling error that went to print. Not the first time something like that has happened.
This would also be incredible for someone to not only make such convincing fakes, both of new cards and old ones, but also to want to fake a bunch of commons and uncommons.
I figure with something like a "Commander Masters" it would be in place of the Commander decks instead, like when they have run out of ideas for decks to make for the year, or just to so something else can be done with the product. I also believe they would put new cards in the set along with reprints. Also hopefully not making it for limited.
You are right, you don't need a body count, but you have to at least see the characters in dire situations where they could/can die. Now they have all been put in that situation, but all but Elspeth and Venser have come out of every situation no worse for wear. They could at least scar them up on occasion and show that they are not so impregnable, or damn near invincible. Now sure Garruk is a little crazy at the moment, but we know he'll come around eventually. Daretti and Freyalise at least show us that they are not invincible, but then again they are not the Lorwyn/Origins 5.
Untouchable? No, he can definitely be hurt, but I think what he meant by that is "he isn't going to die, ever." I'm sure he won't die from old age either, probably from some magic life potion and suddenly Sorin is dying from old age.
They usually come out a week before it releases, so either next Monday/Friday or the Monday right before its release.
We need more Lhurgoyf lore.
It would definitely be nice for there to be a bit more variety in the (mono)blue walkers. We've only had Jace since RTR.
Ah yes, idiot that I am. That hadn't occurred to me and forgot about Buried Alive.
An artifact creature and enchantment creature is only 3 cards types, not 4.
While Goyf would be nice, I think out of all of those I would like Circular Logic and Wild Mongrel, although I'm sure Obsessive Research is a bit more fair than Logic is.
It is possible this is a rare, but also a mythic for the DD. It isn't like we haven't had rares by mythics in these products before, like Knight of the Reliquary.