alexgndl

Unplayable vanilla legend? Check. Power 9? Check. Frog that was released on Wednesday, my dudes? Check. Dies to bolt? Check. This is the greatest set to ever exist.

I caved and bought three packs...pulled an ensnaring bridge and twilight mire. Which is honestly pretty much the best case scenario, I'm not gonna push my luck any more.

So just when I thought that Wizards was going to turn it around with Dominaria, when we were on the upswing, they go and pull the dumbest fucking stunt I think I've ever seen them do. So this is a card that got leaked last week, to pretty decent reviews from the EDH crowd. Look! It's a Boros commander (typically the weakest color combination in EDH) that doesn't care about the combat step! And it's a rare! We can finally do something besides turn cards sideways in Boros! Except good luck getting one of these cards because it's the buy a box promo AND YOU CAN ONLY GET THIS CARD FROM BUYING A BOX. It's not going to be in any boosters, it's not going to be in intro packs or anything. No. The only way you can get this card is to drop roughly $100 on a box and pray that your LGS both has copies of this card left in stock (because it's going to be an insanely limited print run of these bad boys) and they haven't just kept all the promos so that they can sell them at marked up prices. Oh and if that weren't bad enough, you have to buy the box before the prerelease weekend to get one. Because printing a super limited card isn't enough, they have to go and timegate it too. I'm fucking pissed about this, this is such a bad precedent and I hope Wizards gets so many angry letters about this because frankly it's absolutely unacceptable.

As if m25 wasn't bad enough, now it turns out they didnt properly randomize the packs. Theres a video floating around that I would link if I wasn't at work that shows a guy opening 2 boxes of m25 that are exactly the same. Same rares, in the same spots in the box. It's absolutely insane.

I agree, it seems like it's going to be a fairly complex set and I'm thrilled about that. Time Spiral was a fantastic set, and I agree how it seems like since Tarkir everything's gotten a bit easier. Not sure if this is a return to the older style of complexity or if it's a onetime thing, but I'm cool with it either way.

It looks that way, there's a few others in the document that are old MTG expansions. Also, enemy checklands are the rare land. This combined with ally checklands in Ixalan means that Standard is about to get really good mana fixing.

The Dominaria release notes got leaked, take a look. Tons of cards got spoiled, along with the fact that every booster is going to have at least 1 legendary creature in it. I'm gonna post a few cards that I find fun. Guys this set looks so fucking good. It's made me even more pumped. EDIT: Bonus Squee EDIT EDIT: Here's a list of all the new legendary creatures that were spoiled, 36 in total. This is a real leak by the way, Wizards admitted it and then released the actual release sheet. EDIT EDIT EDIT: Ok I'm done after this one but I had to post this one because UR artifacts general:

I'm pretty sure original MM was supposed to be $6.99 here in America, I never saw it sold for that little though. I remember picking up packs for $9.50 each, which is the absolute lowest I've ever heard of them selling for. When I was living in England, about 6 months after the set released, I bought a few packs for £12 each. But I STILL got my money's worth from those packs, that set was crammed with value even if you were buying them for twice the MSRP. The only set that even comes close to the original Modern Masters is MM17, and even then it's nothing compared to the original.

I have a feeling that the financial guys are right-between this and Iconic Masters, Wizards is looking REALLY bad with supplemental sets at the moment. I'm not sure how great the last Commander series did either. They were alright last year, but nothing as batshit insane as previous years had been. I have a really bad feeling that Dominaria is going to be Wizards' last chance-this thing is gonna need to sell like no set has ever sold before. EDIT: Found a really good post on reddit that explains the current situation. TL;DR: Masters sets are coming way too often, with not enough value to justify the $10/pack purchase, especially when they're supposedly made for drafting. Combine this with regular block releases, Commander sets (which are going up in price this year, which compounds this issue even more) and other supplemental sets (Conspiracy, Un-sets, stuff like dual decks/planeswalker decks/etc) and that's a LOT of money you could theoretically be spending. The guy calls it "wallet fatigue" and I think he's got a huge point here. Wizards is spewing out so many different products these days and it's impossible or very expensive to keep up, so why bother at all?

Hey, at least we get a kickass Stangg Twin token! And Kobolds of Kher Keep get their own tokens for the first time ever! Why am I more excited for the tokens of this set than I am for the actual cards?!

Corvette, after seeing Tree of Redemption get spoiled as one of the final mythics, I'm inclined to agree with you. This set is pretty garbage. The watermarks are awesome though, and I hope they keep it up in the future.

Oh god Animar is getting a reprint in Masters 25. It's the first foil printing...i need it so bad, but it's going to be so expensive. Like foil Marchesa, the Black Rose expensive.

I think in the past year there've been 3 bans, for a total of nine cards. It's been pretty crazy.

Jeeeeeesus, WoTC went crazy with the Standard bans. Attune with Aether, Rogue Refiner, Ramunap Ruins and Rampaging Ferocidon all banned today. This was a particularly aggressive ban, in my opinion. Especially Ferocidon, nobody saw that coming at all.

Guys, it already exists: I can see this getting a reprint. I would've pegged a card like this at 5ish CMC anyways. EDIT: Actually no, I don't see Implode getting reprinted anymore. The most recent Stone Rain-like card is Volcanic Upheaval from BFZ, and it was 3R. I don't see them adding another 1 to the CMC to make it cantrip, especially not with their recent design philosophy of "if it ain't a creature, it ain't worth making good"

Go home wizards you're drunk Btw this doesn't hit tron lands

Oh cool it's Sphinx's Rev on a stick. A really, really big stick with a backbreaking other ability. Hot damn.

Oh hey Raz you like merfolk, right? Could see play once Polukranos rotates.

No Hexproof, utterly trash.

Happy new year, everyone!

Bah, and that's why you don't drink and subSPUF, folks. Still a great game.

If you or someone you know somehow doesn't have Portal, you can get both games for less than 3 bucks. Other personal favorites of mine are This is the End (the new Team Meat game, it's a very hard platformer with RedLetterMedia's Rich Evans as the main character) and Hollow Knight.

Just got back from seeing The Last Jedi. I liked it. It definitely has flaws, and I can see it being a super controversial movie-maybe the most divisive one. But there were some truly awe-inspiring moments in it. Some absolutely fantastic shots, like the that are definitely going to be remembered. Is it as good as Empire? Fuck no. Still not the low point of the series though. In my opinion. There are definitely people who think it is.

There is no plausible reason why Mario + Rabbids is as good as it is. What a fantastic game.

So I guess Wizards had a presentation today and they showed this pic...I swear if this is Jaya and she shows up in Dominaria I'm going to freak out.