MTG thread

Kuro · Jun 14, 2019

I'm tanking the low value boxes, should be safe to buy

Wantonsoup95 · Jun 15, 2019

Opened a box with a few friends. Haven't done that since tempest, a few goodies we pulled.

Harshaw · Jun 17, 2019

Core Set 2020 Visual Spoiler

I thought Core Sets were usually under powered compared to blocks? This set seems pretty strong so far.

Sterling · Jun 17, 2019

Harshaw said:
Core Set 2020 Visual Spoiler

I thought Core Sets were usually under powered compared to blocks? This set seems pretty strong so far.

That hasn't been true in a long time. Or ever really.

Harshaw · Jun 18, 2019

Sterling said:
That hasn't been true in a long time. Or ever really.

Ahh I had heard that on a couple of youtube vids. I hadn't touched MTG since Ice Age before I started Arena. This is the first Core Set i've really looked at.

Sterling · Jun 18, 2019

Well the core sets back then were absurdly powerful. But in general, they were getting used as ways of controlling standard/extended by reprinting whatever they didnt necessarily want in the blocks. In 2009 they started adding new cards to core sets with M10 and that's been how it's gone since with a small gap where they stopped having core sets at all.

fanaskin · Jun 18, 2019

I think it's really more that there's alot of cards in a core set so there's more chaff

Rime · Jun 18, 2019

Sterling · Jun 18, 2019

fanaskin said:
I think it's really more that there's alot of cards in a core set so there's more chaff

Core sets are the same size as large expansions. There's plenty of limited cards and trash in every set. What you don't get in core sets nearly as much is linear mechanics like blocks get.

Mahes · Jun 18, 2019

That new Ajani would go well in my Green/White deck for the latest Arena event.

Kuro · Jun 18, 2019

So, a colorless valakut-stand-in makes for some interesting potential build divergences for Scapeshift in Modern (Not to Mention Scapeshift is still in standard for 3 more months)