Mist
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Mist
REEEEeyore
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I wish I still was in the MTGO market when this announcement happened, I could have made an absolute killing buying staples.
This entire announcement seems like a huge bone thrown to MTGO players. All the cheap cards no one wanted, on a client no one cared about, are now suddenly relevant.
This entire announcement seems like a huge bone thrown to MTGO players. All the cheap cards no one wanted, on a client no one cared about, are now suddenly relevant.
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Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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It's a Frontier deck. Frontier is a similar format that was never really that popular. There's some merit to looking at decks from those events and seeing if anything can be exported.
Looking at Pioneer as a micro stakes investment scheme I'd think you could still do some damage by focusing on what is going to be good after Cruise/Dig/Emmy get the bus.
Kuro
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Updates for the Commander crowd:
-Precons are no longer a one-time Summer deal, they will now accompany the major expansion releases and have characters themed for that expansion, like the Throne of Eldraine Brawl decks did. Looking at 2-4 Precons per expansion.
-In Quarter 3 we'll basically be getting "Signature Spellbook: Green Commander Staples," 8 cards, an extra foil copy of one of the cards, new arts, aimed at reprinting staple green cards, no actual list yet (and probably none for the next 6-8 months).
-In Winter we're going to have a Christmas-time commander product again.
-Commander Draft product, 20 card packs, at least 1 legend per pack guaranteed, and at least one foil per pack guaranteed (so, a couple justifications for increasing price). 70 new commanders in one set, with most being "updated" versions of old Legendary Creatures that suck compared to new creatures. Art for new Baron Sengir and new Jeska-post-Karona (so probably a planeswalker card). This is probably Gavin's ploy to never be pestered about "when is X_Random_Dude getting a new version?!?!" again. It shall fail, because I will demand a card for Lyna. No announced price per pack, so clench yer buttholes.
Also, a decent chunk of Theros cards got spoiled today, including the new Elspeth, which is a bit of a bummer since the set's more than 2 months out and its "face card" is already spoiled.
The new basic lands look like pokemon energy but will be gorgeous in foil no doubt.
-Precons are no longer a one-time Summer deal, they will now accompany the major expansion releases and have characters themed for that expansion, like the Throne of Eldraine Brawl decks did. Looking at 2-4 Precons per expansion.
-In Quarter 3 we'll basically be getting "Signature Spellbook: Green Commander Staples," 8 cards, an extra foil copy of one of the cards, new arts, aimed at reprinting staple green cards, no actual list yet (and probably none for the next 6-8 months).
-In Winter we're going to have a Christmas-time commander product again.
-Commander Draft product, 20 card packs, at least 1 legend per pack guaranteed, and at least one foil per pack guaranteed (so, a couple justifications for increasing price). 70 new commanders in one set, with most being "updated" versions of old Legendary Creatures that suck compared to new creatures. Art for new Baron Sengir and new Jeska-post-Karona (so probably a planeswalker card). This is probably Gavin's ploy to never be pestered about "when is X_Random_Dude getting a new version?!?!" again. It shall fail, because I will demand a card for Lyna. No announced price per pack, so clench yer buttholes.
Also, a decent chunk of Theros cards got spoiled today, including the new Elspeth, which is a bit of a bummer since the set's more than 2 months out and its "face card" is already spoiled.
The new basic lands look like pokemon energy but will be gorgeous in foil no doubt.
Sterling
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pharmakos
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First Pioneer bans
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Leyline of Abundance strikes me as odd.
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Leyline of Abundance strikes me as odd.
Vinen
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Agreed. I use my Beta lands in my decks I play. Prefer black border and everything more recent is just... too colorful. The lands from the early sets are just so superior in look.
//I should get my pack fresh Arabian Nights Mountain graded for fun.
Vinen
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I was considering buying a bunch of foil ones for my foil wallet-flex-deck. Then I decided to just stick with foil lands I had already. Even I couldn't justify the cost of those full art foils.
Sterling
El Presidente
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Just rock Guru lands if you want to go silly. Or if you want to go super silly get Summer Magic basics.
Vinen
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Even I won't flex 300 USD basic lands.
That money is for my dual land collection I'm building up for legacy.
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First Pioneer bans
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Leyline of Abundance strikes me as odd.
You eject Leyline of Abundance due to sorta being interested in devotion decks being part of the format. There could be a blue or black one hiding in there and if you punt Nykthos that's all gone as well.
I'm sorta surprised they ejected Oath of Nissa before Once Upon a Time.
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Sterling
El Presidente
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Yeah that's what gets me about it, there are fair ways to play with Leyline of Abundance that don't involve Nykthos, but taking away Leyline from Nykthos only chips at it's strength a little bit. Green devotion is still going to be OP.