Vaclav
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Once or twice there's been a preview image that has been slightly off in final because of a late change right before printing. Not holding my breath - but it's possible.
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drtyrm
Lord Nagafen Raider
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I'll trade taking flip cards in and out of sleeves for the eternity of annoyance that is the 12 fetchland manabase in Standard. Fuck, I switched to Hoogland's BW control deck weeks ago and actually enjoyed playing MtG again. Probably even got higher win % because I can't fuck up my fetching and color-screw myself.
Caal
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Kuro
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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271 Drownyard Temple R
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273 Forsaken Sanctuary U
274
275 Foul Orchard U
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277 Highland Lake U
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279 Stone Quarry U
280 Warped Landscape C
281 Westvale Abbey Ormendahl, Profane PrinceR
282 Woodland Stream U
There's room left for a rare land cycle. Although it's up in the air whether it'll be an actual set of 5 cards, or another partial-cycle.
A check-land reprint would be fun for Battle Lands, while an Allied-Color Pain Land update with new generic names would be interesting for <> Decks.
In my heart, I pine for Enemy-Colored Fastlands, but it's likely going to be allied color if anything, since we're on Allied Color tribes this set.
271 Drownyard Temple R
272
273 Forsaken Sanctuary U
274
275 Foul Orchard U
276
277 Highland Lake U
278
279 Stone Quarry U
280 Warped Landscape C
281 Westvale Abbey Ormendahl, Profane PrinceR
282 Woodland Stream U
There's room left for a rare land cycle. Although it's up in the air whether it'll be an actual set of 5 cards, or another partial-cycle.
A check-land reprint would be fun for Battle Lands, while an Allied-Color Pain Land update with new generic names would be interesting for <> Decks.
In my heart, I pine for Enemy-Colored Fastlands, but it's likely going to be allied color if anything, since we're on Allied Color tribes this set.
Heylel
Trakanon Raider
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Previous Innistrad was also enemy color lands despite allied tribes. I think what's more likely to stop it now is the presence of both enemy manlands and enemy painlands in the current standard, neither of which is rotating terribly soon. It's really too bad. I want enemy fastlands as well, but I feel like it might be a while since the previous ones were so closely tied to Mirrodin.
I was also hoping for at least the allied filters, but they no longer fit the available number crunch. I don't think any land cycle currently in existence matches it.
Xalara
Golden Squire
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Yeah, my gut feeling is that this set will not have a cycle of dual lands. Fixing in standard is already pretty good, especially when you take the tribal lands (ally, eldrazi, and dragon) into account. With the new block structure, I don't think every block can accomodate a set of rare mana fixing lands. We're also coming off of a few year glut of mana fixing so it would not surprise me if WotC wants to tone things down drastically.
Chickenpants
N00b
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Heylel
Trakanon Raider
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I meant rare lands, not just the uncommon fixing for limited. We'll get somethin.
Chickenpants
N00b
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Alara Block didn't have any rare duals. Nor did Kamiagawa or Mirrodin block. Each block only had a one off 5 color rare land. But your specific comment was "block + core set" so if you want to bookend these by saying there were some lands in M10, 10th edition, 8th and 9th editions, then sure. But that would be the same as bookending Innistrad block with Return to Zendikar block and whatever comes afterwards.
I'm not saying that there won't be a dual land cycle. I just think the playerbase has been spoiled recently. I remember how excited we were to have stuff like Caldera Lake in Tempest or Urborg Volcano in Invasion.
Maybe it's time to go back to a taxing manabase that makes it a struggle to just throw in every good card in standard in a 4 or 5 color deck and call it a deck.
Heylel
Trakanon Raider
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I totally agree, but standard losing fetchlands will do that all by itself. The BFZ duals are dogshit without fetches to find them. In almost every circumstance they're worse than checklands. Innistrad has 2 color tribes, so they're going to want to give some support for them, but we're going to see a lot fewer colors in April. I'm completely fine with it.
Depending on next week's spoilers, I might actually try to start playing standard again. Last time Innistrad rolled around it was a lot of fun.
Depending on next week's spoilers, I might actually try to start playing standard again. Last time Innistrad rolled around it was a lot of fun.