rather than each player bringing a deck of planes, we just used a full set of planes (we played proxy back then), and had one big plane deck which was “neutral” to any player
Last time I played Commander in a full group with my friends, we did this. I downloaded the “Planechase - MTG Companion” app so we had all the planes available. It was fun, I’d do it again.
Since they’ll be in draft packs they should bring the price down a good amount. Ragavan dropped like $30 after getting reprinted in MUL. I mean he’s still pretty expensive, but it’s something.
Plus, Doubling Season is also getting the CMM reprint, so that should help too. I’m gonna say it’ll drop to, hmm, about $45. Hopefully less but that’s my conservative estimate.
I’m super glad there’s a good MTG community on Lemmy. I’ve been really liking it here.
I’m having a tremendously hard time picking my favorite art and artist in MTG. There’s just so many fantastic arts. Currently the art on [[Unbound Flourishing]] is really speaking to me.
I’m seeing a lot of pretty great reprints. There are a bunch of cards I’ve been wanting to pick up but have been waiting for a price drop, so I’m happy about that.
I think people would have a more positive outlook on it if the price of the sealed product wasn’t so crazy high. This is really a buy singles situation… well, every set is a buy singles situation, but even more so now.
I look forward to talking about my first few weeks on Lemmy in years to come: “Back then I had to use an app that was in alpha and wait ten minutes to load a page full of bean memes! And then we got hacked!”
I figure the collectors will go for the fancier prints or split the demand so I can grab the cheaper prints. As long as the card isn’t harder to find overall I think it’s fine. Though sometimes there’s an awesome art that I’d love to get that ends up too expensive.
In terms of alt art treatments I think my favorite is the Zendikar showcase. I particularly like Roil Elemental, Admonition Angel, Avenger of Zendikar, and Canopy Baloth, but really almost all of them look fantastic.
The Strixhaven Mystical Archives arts are also really nice.
Edit: Oh I need to add to my answer. The Secret Lair art of Azami, Lady of Scrolls is fantastic. The other arts from that lair were decent but I really like this one.
Ohh, those are great! I did a Google search for cards that make creatures into Slivers, but Hivestone didn’t come up. Artificial Evolution is also a cool way to do it. Thanks!
I like my big cool creatures, so I love my Dinosaur, Dragon, Sea Monster, Sliver, and Angel decks. I’ve actually made two Dinosaur and Dragon decks each, one in paper for Commander and one on Arena.
[[Gishath, Sun’s Avatar]] is a super cool commander. Some of my favorite cards in the deck are the new dinos from March of the Machine: [[Ghalta and Mavren]] and [[Etali, Primal Conqueror]]. Ghalta and Mavren is a really fun card for the flavor, and Etali is ridiculously strong.
Some of my favorite Dragons are [[Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient]] who generates a ton of mana to cast more Dragons with, and [[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]] who gives you twice the Dragon per Dragon. Copying [[Niv-Mizzet, Parun]] creates a really strong effect that opponents always have a tough time figuring out how to handle, and copying [[Wrathful Red Dragon]] means that anyone swinging into your board is likely to just die from the retribution damage. I also opened a copy of [[Terror of the Peaks]] in a random sample pack from a draft that’s still one of my best-ever pulls, and that thing puts in tons of work.
Oh yeah, that is also infinite itself too! Thanks for pointing that out, I was too focused on making it work in Blue. Probably would wanna run Green anyway for creature tutors.
I made sure to tell them where I got the link!
Huh, I didn’t realize it was that significant of a factor.
I suppose the “right” way to play is BO3 which I assume fixes the problem, but still, it makes me think if more should be done in BO1 situations to even it out more. Player 2 gets a free mulligan maybe? Free t0 scry? I’m sure these ideas have been suggested before.
So it was just some guy who opened it? That’s kinda nice actually. Better than someone who’s already wealthy and cracking a million packs.
Ah whoops, I just read the title lol. Anyone have a better link?
It’s an interesting read to see what they think people thought of the sets, and it’s good to see that some of the issues I had with sets and opinions I shared are getting to them. But there’s not a ton here that we don’t already know, especially if you’re active in MTG communities already. Like when he says
I dunno, why did you? Seems like that’s a question that could have been discussed, but it wasn’t really.