PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
yeah, to be clear, I don't think paper legacy is dead by any stretch of the imagination
but it is dying slowly, and there is absolutely nothing that will prevent that
dual lands(predominately) are a chokepoint to entry into the format and they are slowly being removed from the market either via loss/destruction of the card from various means or by parasitic speculators
I don't know I feel like he is ignoring the impact that televised legacy tournaments have on the format. I've never considered working towards a vintage deck even in MTGO and I had a full elf deck at one point in legacy and I'd put that different to Legacy still getting airplay. This feels like a hit that will hurt legacy's viability in the greater world and not just the area SCG works in.
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The Escape Goatincorrigible ruminantthey/themRegistered Userregular
It's a shame MTGA looked at paper draft and Eternal draft and decided to just be bad instead.
Im really glad i picked up some vraskas when they were like $3, because they spiked real hard.
The ban announcement cant really come soon enough after this joke of a tournament. I hope oko and krasis eat shit. Nissa is fine without either of them.
MonwynApathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime.A little bit of everything, all of the time.Registered Userregular
Banning veil is dumb
Blue decks get to turn off all opposing instant-speed interaction and give all their sorceries flash on T3, but green having a single conditional counter is the real problem
The decks in question could just... play around it, which is what every control player in the history of the world has snarked when someone who likes a different archetype sighs that playing against control is miserable
Veil always just seems like a green counterspell, which is bad design.
I can't put my finger on exactly why Veil bothers me, but this isn't it. Giving something hexproof at instant speed is a fine green trick, and rebuffing a counterspell is also fine since green has "fuck you blue" written into its DNA.
I think it does two things it shouldn't: 1) replaces itself (green isn't supposed to get card draw not tied to creatures), and 2) protects EVERYTHING for a single mana. If it was just a green variant on Gods Willing I don't think anyone would care.
Harmonize is from Planar Chaos and hasn't been reprinted in a Standard-legal set since*. You might as well say Mana Tithe or Temporal Extortion exists.
like, veil of summer is pretty busted is legacy and vintage, and very very strong in modern
but man, that is a weird ban out of all the potential problems pioneer is/could face
As much as anything, I think that Pioneer is probably intended to help vendors offload a bunch of cooling inventory. Look at how fast SCG hopped on board.
Nissa, Voice of Zendikar is a great example. She just spent two years as binder fodder and then almost tripled in price last week.
From this perspective Veil makes sense as a ban because it has been in extreme high demand for some time and - if legal, will stay that way in other formats.
Veil of Summer was a 1 mana Cryptic Command against Thoughtseize or black removal or blue tempo plays or countermagic. The card is very good. And when it doesn't counter something, it's still a 1 mana draw a card, which while never amazing, is certainly not unplayable.
i don't know that i would have banned it but also the nature of a weekly ban list is that they're going to be on the experimental side, so it's no big deal. they can just undo it later if they determine it's wrong.
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ChaosHatHop, hop, hop, HA!Trick of the lightRegistered Userregular
like, veil of summer is pretty busted is legacy and vintage, and very very strong in modern
but man, that is a weird ban out of all the potential problems pioneer is/could face
As much as anything, I think that Pioneer is probably intended to help vendors offload a bunch of cooling inventory. Look at how fast SCG hopped on board.
Nissa, Voice of Zendikar is a great example. She just spent two years as binder fodder and then almost tripled in price last week.
From this perspective Veil makes sense as a ban because it has been in extreme high demand for some time and - if legal, will stay that way in other formats.
Do you think given what we're currently going through in standard that Wizards is capable enough to understand how a much more complex format with four times the cards would shake out in order to help vendors?
It seems much more likely that the help to vendors is just that the sets are more recently printed and have a lower barrier to entry which will entice people to pay cash money for new decks.
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but it is dying slowly, and there is absolutely nothing that will prevent that
dual lands(predominately) are a chokepoint to entry into the format and they are slowly being removed from the market either via loss/destruction of the card from various means or by parasitic speculators
it's a draft set
There's also some chase cards in there (Mana Crypt is 200$!), but there's also literally 1,000-2,000 cards so don't count on it.
I saw a bunch of people saying "man what a bad deal with this much randomness the EV is garbage"
and I'm like y'all! It's a conspiracy set! Draft it and have fun!
The ban announcement cant really come soon enough after this joke of a tournament. I hope oko and krasis eat shit. Nissa is fine without either of them.
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"win 5 very slow coin tosses"
The only reason I bothered at all is the Murderous Rider art for 5 wins is rad as fuck
why would you not scoop, opponent
Apparently the WPN set has a foil sheet of cards that aren't in the "normal" set, with some "choice" reprints. List TBA closer to March.
For a moment I got excited that I might want to play Standard this week...
One more week of Oko. I'm glad I'm already qualified for the next Arena Qualifier as I have no desire to play arena right now.
but man, that is a weird ban out of all the potential problems pioneer is/could face
Blue decks get to turn off all opposing instant-speed interaction and give all their sorceries flash on T3, but green having a single conditional counter is the real problem
The decks in question could just... play around it, which is what every control player in the history of the world has snarked when someone who likes a different archetype sighs that playing against control is miserable
I can't put my finger on exactly why Veil bothers me, but this isn't it. Giving something hexproof at instant speed is a fine green trick, and rebuffing a counterspell is also fine since green has "fuck you blue" written into its DNA.
I think it does two things it shouldn't: 1) replaces itself (green isn't supposed to get card draw not tied to creatures), and 2) protects EVERYTHING for a single mana. If it was just a green variant on Gods Willing I don't think anyone would care.
Harmonize is from Planar Chaos and hasn't been reprinted in a Standard-legal set since*. You might as well say Mana Tithe or Temporal Extortion exists.
*EDIT: Thus making it not legal in Pioneer.
Maybe but harmonize ain’t it. Nothing in planar chaos is precedent for anything. WotC has been very explicate about that.
Except maybe the few cases where the "alternate reality" cards were correcting past mistakes, like Prodigal Pyromancer.
As much as anything, I think that Pioneer is probably intended to help vendors offload a bunch of cooling inventory. Look at how fast SCG hopped on board.
Nissa, Voice of Zendikar is a great example. She just spent two years as binder fodder and then almost tripled in price last week.
From this perspective Veil makes sense as a ban because it has been in extreme high demand for some time and - if legal, will stay that way in other formats.
I suppose they decided to scrap the feature?
Do you think given what we're currently going through in standard that Wizards is capable enough to understand how a much more complex format with four times the cards would shake out in order to help vendors?
It seems much more likely that the help to vendors is just that the sets are more recently printed and have a lower barrier to entry which will entice people to pay cash money for new decks.