(Ha. Felidar Guardian still isn’t updated as banned in Gatherer as of yet. The mockery continues.)
The Good: So that MtG: Online account I made but never actually used both still works and was “updated” with the newest cards for free given I had never logged in before (given that I literally couldn’t on my old desktop). So it’s nice to know that I do not have to pay again.
The Bad: I am going to have erase a decent amount of things to be able to play it smoothly on here, though that’s not surprising given what little space I have, which is why I need to do that anyway. Also, in less than 2 minutes, SaffronOlive’s newest Budget deck over on MTGGoldfish is going to cause at least one or two new cards to spike. Whee.
The Ugly: Why the fuck are the dinky intro planeswalker deck-only cards so expensive online? I can’t even make a cheap janky Cat Tribal deck I wanted to make mostly for jokes because Ajani, Valiant Protector, of all things is $5.00 worth of ticket per copy. The fuck.
Two questions:
- Can you please define “good removal” then and why the other colors supposedly don’t have it in Standard right even they could admittedly be better (though so arguably could Black still)?
- Are you honestly surprised that Black has the best removal given that’s how things “should” be?
Also, maybe play some type of U/R Counterburn deck? I mean…you already have a majority of the cards that would be good in one given that mono-Blue deck you’ve posted twice, especially if you already have Torrential Gearhulks.
Shrug.
Vehicles make non-Instant speed removal bad and the instant speed removal misses key targets. So many relevant threats have 3 toughness which makes Shock no good and Harnessed Lightning can’t kill Heart of Kiran without additional energy. It’s just a format that STRONGLY favours aggro decks and I’m someone that likes to play Control. All-in aggressive strategies are the only relevant way to play Standard right now. You’re either playing a Ballista deck or you’re playing Mardu Aggro. These new cards wont drastically change that and now that Cat is banned all that will happen is there will be more stompy decks about.
Pertho
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Friend’s store is gonna let me do FG fnms at their store. Got so happy at the news that I bought five packs. Cracked:
Nissa, Archfiend of Ifnir, Commit//Memory, Canyon slough, Plague Belcher, Dusk//Dawn foil.
Looking through the cards though, I’m really happy not playing. Can’t explain it is like yeah, i’m not doing that and it feels kinda great.
Draft is fun. Standard is only fun if you’re willing to accept that aggro rules and Black is by far the strongest colour.
I did write a typical deck (by my standards) that I’ll play till rotation though.
4 Censor
4 Immolating Glare
3 Anticipate
4 Stasis Snare
2 Disallow
4 Void Shatter
4 Glimmer of Genius
3 Avacyn
2 Fumigate
4 Torrential Gearhulk
4 Port Town
4 Prairie Stream
4 Irrigated Farmland
7 Plains
7 Island
I could probably juice up the mana a little but it’s super consistent as is being two colour and loaded with Plains and Islands for Port/Stream
I think core sets would be good but they plan so many years ahead I don’t see them doing it.
Yeah R&D is like a good few years ahead of the actual release cycle with actual art coming in later on. Wizards work on the mechanics and effect first and tries to nail them down before going into the art side of things.
Saves time and money on development on cards that didn’t make the cut for release.
There was supposedly a private poll that WotC threw recently with potential names for a core set coming out in 2019. I wish I had the link, and I’m not sure how official it is, but we just might get core sets back soon.
It’s obvious Wizards want to save Standard. They don’t make money off the secondary market. They want to sell new boosters, they want limited, they want competitive Standard. Going to expeditions and the new Amonkhet promos is just their way of spicing up a market that’s dying but really it just needs good cards again. It’s just a case of too many cooks and one broth. You can’t keep everyone happy.
They don’t want to make it as intimidating and expensive as the Eternal formats. In doing so they’re alienating some older players. Pretty similar I guess.
Iduno
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The trouble is it doesn’t work though, it just means worse cards become expensive because they’re the best in standard even if they nothing special everywhere else.
I mean look at Saheeli before the felidar sovereign ban.
Yeah I know. Standard becomes worthless and people stop buying it or the cards are too expensive. They should go back to the way things were. I doubt they will but Standard was fun once.
Naeras
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To repeat what ukyo’s said a bunch of times: the problem really is that they’re making MTG into a game of cards, while their aim should be to make a game of decks. I started playing in RTR/Theros, and as much flak that format gets for becoming stale*, you had a huge bunch of viable decks, and you could build boros burn or sligh pretty cheaply. Getting into the game was easy that way since there were strong decks that used fringe-y / inexpensive cards. Now it feels like there are certain cards that are just mandatory if you want to play the format.
- I suspect part of this was that it followed Inn/RTR which some people has referred to as the last really good standard format.
I started playing during rtr/theros too. Theros/Khans was awesome - almost every week a different deck won, you could play almost anything. Then theros rotated out, Bfz dropped and standard went downhill and never recovered.
I’m gonna give this standard season a try - provided standard will still be played at my fnm - I want to try Gr Ramp, Gw tokens, rb zombies and ur emerge and see if anything sticks
I started way back around Onslaught though I played some original Alpha Magic as a child. One of my favourite Standard times was Scars/12/Inni. Inni/13/Ravnica was great though. Theros was when it really started going downhill for me as it was such a weak set. Tarkir was good but it’s been bad since.
They say Library of Alexandria is #10. Would Isochron Scepter be #11?
In a Vintage tournamnet I put Ancestral Recall on it, and my opponent quit.
Juzam Djinn is reserve list. Pretty sure Lord of the Pit would be too.
Some more crazy demons and horrors would be neat though. I actually really love a few of the new ones for flavour. Horror of the Broken land is cool.
Two a 2-week vacation in London and haven’t checked anything related to MtG, Hearthstone or fighting games in all that time. Hopefully nothing important happened while I was doing weeaboo shit.
Spoiler
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Come on man.Are we really supposed to feel pity for TWIN and MIRACLES players? Seriously? Let’s not pretend these players got blindsided by something they couldn’t possibly have predicted. If you played a single tournament with either of those decks you knew you were skating on thin ice.
I feel that it is very important to establish a consistent pattern of frequent bannings and rotations not only to shake up the meta but also to drive prices down. Right now the sky is the limit. The more a card gets played the higher the price rockets. Let’s put a ticking time-bomb on chase rares and mythics to keep them from going too crazy.
