I'm at least excited for the actual Magic products though them rotating Modern again is unlikely to go down smooth. The only Magic set I'm not looking forward to is the space one, it just seems odd to me. Maybe I'll be surprised like I was with Kamigawa 2.
Seeing so much UB makes my eyes win gold in the rolling Olympics.
I mean, the focus on Commander from WotC is them following people's interest. They are encouraging it along the way, but there is genuine popular support for it.
Don't get me wrong, Commander is popular and there are reasons for it, but them forcing every set to be Commander with obvious format plants in every single product is partly why formats aren't doing well, either due to power creep forcing it to be more expensive (thanks to those cards coming from premium sets), WotC constantly pointing them towards Commander, rather than Standard or other sets, or the lack of support for those sets (from the focus on Commander.)
Maybe that's me not enjoying there being 30+ legendaries in every set.
WotC changed standard because of their business interests in trying to get people to buy packs. They are trying to address their reluctance some people have to buy cards for standard because they will be spending all that money only for things to rotate. I think this is especially on their mind given the success of Commander, which I think has been in part driven by it being an eternal format where people feel safe investing a bunch into a deck.
EDIT: Goes hand in hand with ban announcements being less frequent too. They want players to feel safer buying cards knowing they will get good use out of them.
It also goes along with the lack of tournament support for Standard. They kept taking away from it and it's no wonder people don't want to play it when there's nothing to strive for with it or even decent rewards from FNM. I don't know why they're surprised people are going to Commander, they're making every set about Commander now and if that's what they will focus on then so will the players, among a myriad of other reasons.
Finally, some sets of Magic I get to look forward to. It's felt like an eternity with CMM's price being awful and UB being never good. The art for Ixalan, especially that butterfly/hydra god, has me excited to return to it and I can only hope that there's a gummy worm creature, thanks to that art of that Sugar Hunter.
Are they really mixing UB with the really bad set specific Jumpstart? I feel bad for LotR fans if that's the case.
Why? LotR products are by definition UB, so they wouldn't get an additional Jumpstart product unless UB gets mixed with Jumpstart.
Because set specific Jumpstarts (like Brother's War,All Will Be One, and many more) have been abysmal. None of them have been worth getting and have been a stain on Jumpstart's brand name and general quality. UB already feels bad and now WotC wants to make it worse for some reason.
2nd pic looks like someone spying on Ravnica, specifically Selesnya.
That 4th pic while it feels like Ixalan, due to the skull grave in the back, I can't help but feel that it's from 40k, there's just something about it.
Oh boy....more UB. I wonder what card(s) they push this time that warps formats. I've never understood the fervor around Dr. Who, seen some episodes and it seemed...fine, nothing more than that. WotC sure is bunting hard for me this past year, so many products I get to skip over.
resounding ehhhhhh
nobody should buy these decks at msrp
If I can find these for ~$60 I'd consider buying them, but for $80+ these are just bad. This might be the first Commander precon, that isn't UB, that I skip on purpose due to the astoundingly bad choices WotC made with these.
So the PW deck so far is the only one with a decent mana base. This deck is.....fine, for $40, good even for that amount, but for $80+? Haha, no. There are a couple decent reprints in here, but for the most part many of the cards are $3-$4.
I do have to wonder what's with WotC and their Saga obsession right now.
The Biologist is the most interesting card to me, it may end up being the niche tribal commander over something like Morophon.
The mana base is atrocious for $80, or $40. The exclusion of Sliver Hive is baffling. I don't care about "reprint equity" when that land won't see print unless it's a Secret Lair or a set with 20+ slivers in it, and I doubt the later is coming any time soon. For $80 a shockland or triome doesn't seem like it's stretching the budget of the deck either. Not even City of Brass or Mana Confluence.
For the prices the packs are going for none of these are making me want to buy a pack, then again neither is any of the $50+ cards 'cause I know I ain't opening any of them.
Let's see what will happen to sealed product prices now that it's been found. I was really hoping it would have been misprinted or caught in the packaging, at the very least I hope it was super curled right out of the pack.
Funny how Tolarian Community College bought tons of LOTR Collector Boosters to help sponsor for Whatnot and immediately got hosed the moment the serialized version of The One Ring was pulled. Even though the LOTR Collectors Boosters went down in value due to the serialized version of The One Ring finally being pulled the alternate art reprints within the product should help stabilize it's value.
I wouldn't be surprised if the product continues to go down a bit more though once it hits a certain price point it might rise a bit before going farther down as normal folks will find it within a price range they find acceptable. Even if I was buying anything of this set I was still not going to be paying $150+ or $80 for Gift Bundles and Bundles.
Let's see what will happen to sealed product prices now that it's been found. I was really hoping it would have been misprinted or caught in the packaging, at the very least I hope it was super curled right out of the pack.
Seeing so much UB makes my eyes win gold in the rolling Olympics.
The deck seems fine, nothing spectacular for the price you're paying. Why is this $50 more than the coin flip deck?
If I had to pick one from Arena I'd say Inspiring Commander would be an easy digital to paper.
Don't get me wrong, Commander is popular and there are reasons for it, but them forcing every set to be Commander with obvious format plants in every single product is partly why formats aren't doing well, either due to power creep forcing it to be more expensive (thanks to those cards coming from premium sets), WotC constantly pointing them towards Commander, rather than Standard or other sets, or the lack of support for those sets (from the focus on Commander.)
Maybe that's me not enjoying there being 30+ legendaries in every set.
It also goes along with the lack of tournament support for Standard. They kept taking away from it and it's no wonder people don't want to play it when there's nothing to strive for with it or even decent rewards from FNM. I don't know why they're surprised people are going to Commander, they're making every set about Commander now and if that's what they will focus on then so will the players, among a myriad of other reasons.
Because set specific Jumpstarts (like Brother's War,All Will Be One, and many more) have been abysmal. None of them have been worth getting and have been a stain on Jumpstart's brand name and general quality. UB already feels bad and now WotC wants to make it worse for some reason.
Are they really mixing UB with the really bad set specific Jumpstart? I feel bad for LotR fans if that's the case.
That 4th pic while it feels like Ixalan, due to the skull grave in the back, I can't help but feel that it's from 40k, there's just something about it.
The LotR art is likely for a Secret Lair.
Hygoose? Hydroose? Hygroose? Goosdra?
If I can find these for ~$60 I'd consider buying them, but for $80+ these are just bad. This might be the first Commander precon, that isn't UB, that I skip on purpose due to the astoundingly bad choices WotC made with these.
I do have to wonder what's with WotC and their Saga obsession right now.
The mana base is atrocious for $80, or $40. The exclusion of Sliver Hive is baffling. I don't care about "reprint equity" when that land won't see print unless it's a Secret Lair or a set with 20+ slivers in it, and I doubt the later is coming any time soon. For $80 a shockland or triome doesn't seem like it's stretching the budget of the deck either. Not even City of Brass or Mana Confluence.
I wouldn't be surprised if the product continues to go down a bit more though once it hits a certain price point it might rise a bit before going farther down as normal folks will find it within a price range they find acceptable. Even if I was buying anything of this set I was still not going to be paying $150+ or $80 for Gift Bundles and Bundles.