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Mist
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My dreams of 5 color Omnath turned out pretty disappointing. Was hoping for some sort of elemental synergy so I could finally do a 5color Omnath elemental commander deck. Oh well. The buy a box art is fucking dope, though.
I do wonder if lore-wise they’re blowing their load a little early here. They’re invading at least 10 planes just from card flavor text, but supposedly this conflict, whether good or bad, is getting wrapped up in a single set? Hope that’s not the case.
Love the Ixalan showcase frame but wish it didn’t have that coin/fossil style art.
I do wonder if lore-wise they’re blowing their load a little early here. They’re invading at least 10 planes just from card flavor text, but supposedly this conflict, whether good or bad, is getting wrapped up in a single set? Hope that’s not the case.
Love the Ixalan showcase frame but wish it didn’t have that coin/fossil style art.
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Angerz
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All those early sets were shit for limited. It wasn't until Mirage where they really put any effort into making sets with limited in mind at all. Like most of those early sets were like 35-40 percent creatures, most of which were shit and had stuff like common X spells.
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Sterling
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Yeah, common X spells were around too long for sure. Urza's Saga also had common Pestilence, there's a lot of rarity issues for a good long while before they really got a handle on balancing sets for limited.
Mist
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They might put that in there just for the memes.
I really hope a whole bunch of the most popular planes end up conquered by the Phyrexians and the March of the Machine is merely stopped, rather than defeated. Then they would have to explore new planes and return to some of these 'backwater' planes for a while.
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pharmakos
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"Remastering" Rath or Urza cycle for limited would still be a goldmine tho. Relatively minor tweaks needed to make it work in a modern Arena format. And damn would it bring in the old boys.
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it is such a beautiful timmy trap though.
Jez, I watch way too much MarkMcKz hearthstone content. First thought at seeing Yargle and Mult was to wonder how many 0TKs it'll get built into.
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Mist
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Yes, you could do a remastered draft set of just the best limited cards from those blocks, I'm sure they will do that eventually. I would rather they do that than print more alchemy garbage.
Urza's Saga Block would be really interesting if you cut all the chaff in Urza but left all the good stuff from the two small sets.
Dominaria United was pretty much a re-imagining of Invasion Block limited mechanics.
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pharmakos
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Rath cycle in particular has a lot of depth for old Timmys. Lots of mechanics that were interesting but not super powerful, all with cool fitting in-world lore behind them. I know that's, sorta, what they've strived for with every set since, but as far as the story having original lore that's baked into every single card without it being a rehashing / retelling of all the usual tropes they've been milling on forever, I feel like Rath cycle is still maybe the coolest block they've done. And there's a significant amount of mechanics from the set that are not evergreen, will make for a lot of easy wins as the Timmys take time to figure out the early days of the draft.
