Both of those cards are old, though. The color pie has since shifted away from these kinds of things.Originally Posted by Finn
Recruiter today would almost certainly be white, and would likely track CMC rather than power. I could see them doing Ranger of Eos Jr. or something along those lines.
IIRC they said the RUG wedge was going to be midrange/"big creature" themed, so it's unlikely it'll have much impact on tempo decks in Legacy. BUG was supposed to be about "resource manipulation," whatever that means, but I think it bodes better for Legacy-quality cards given that mana costs in this format are historically quite low.
My guess is that the wedges are as follows:
RUG: Midrange with a Big Spells focus, likely feeling like a cross between an Animar and a Maelstrom Wanderer EDH deck.
BUG: Zone changes. These colors specialize in graveyard interactions, self-mill, and hand size manipulation. I could see some serious card advantage spells residing here.
WUR: Possible focus on chaos/trickery, using something like Ruhan of the Fomari as a precedent.
BWG: This one is supposed to get a long-game mechanic, and life gain appears prominently in all three colors. This is likely our grind-'em-out wedge.
WBR: If this isn't an obvious weenie aggro wedge, I don't know what is.
Also, bear in mind that Khans the set is wedge-themed, but they said the block as a whole isn't. This likely ties in with the way the block will be drafted (the small middle set will be drafted with both large sets in a LRG-LRG-SML arrangement and will probably act as a bridge between themes). My guess is that the large fall set is wedge-themed, the small middle set focuses on two-color pairs, and the spring large set encourages mono-colored play.
Mentor of the Meek says otherwise. White does care about low power.
Isn't the block structure a bit like Zendikar? First land-themed, then ramp/monocolor?
I think it's very unlikely that Imperial Recruiter gets a reprint in a normal set. Wizards cares about secondary market prices (there was no reason for Tarmogoyf to be mythic in Modern Masters, the card could have been rare and the limited format would not have been noticeably affected). The judge foil-reprint of Recruiter was appropriate. I don't see it being reprinted again for a long time.
What is the desire for Recruiter anyway? It's only really played in one deck.
On the topic of a reprint, I highly doubt that they will print a tutor like that. Throw it into modern... Yea. Not likely.
It is better to ask and look stupid then keep your mouth shut and remain so.
I hope your afterlife is filled with eternal torment.
Fuck. Which one of my quotes do I drop for this?
There is no other card that does what it does. It is aggressively costed. It is out of color. It has the oldest style of limitation (power), which means it can be manipulated better.
What is not to like?
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I'm kind of stoked to be seeing a bunch of Orcs though. Sometimes I look at a block and I'm like "hunh, look at all these fucken Humans. wheeee." I kinda like it when there's some of those classic fantasy creature types running around. Orcses!
Morph was in Onslaught
Fetches were in Onslaught
Half Life 3: CONFIRMED
They could easily troll us and give us Wedge fetches that only fetch basic lands instead of duals.
I'm also interested to see if the get another mana dork, Noble Hierarch-style.
Let's just not hope that it's another Commander block with lots of overcosted crap.
Yeah there are a bunch of one-offs that could come out of such a set. Shards of Alara had 3-color taplands and those goofy fetches that ask for mana to get basics.
Then again, I know a cycle of Murmuring Bosks is a common request re: fetch-compatible mana fixing. That's a bit of a high-hope I think, but personally I'd flip my shit if they did such a thing (with or without the tribal angle)
It's not even RL, perhaps they should diversify their assets or invest more intelligently. Nobody said Magic was a good long term investment strategy. While I may have a deal of expensive cards, my liquid assets and other invesetments are not cardboard.
As a side note, I'm not even saying it will get a reprint, because the secondary market essentially controls Wizards at this point.
Card store owners everywhere would like a word...
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You obviously didn't read the second part of my post. Good job.
Morph, eh?
I totally want this card:
Dude Man - 2W
Morph {0}
2/2
Greyest Ogre
First: Jund and Naya ok - Esper, Bant, Grixis I don't like (as names)
I guess the new wedge names are too exotic to stick.
WBG: graveyard matters - There were some cards that cared about the number of creatures in the graveyard in Theros Block and M15. Not really new, it's the same as in Innistrad so far. A good and innovative graveyard mechanic would be cool though.
WBR: aggressive combat stuff - maybe a dark Boros
URG: artifact matters (again!) - maybe some twisted Esper (There was this strong artifact subtheme in M15.)
WUR: ??? EDIT:auras?? (M15 Brood Keeper and synergy with Theros stuff)
UBG: ??? EDIT:tokens??
EDIT:URG and WUR could also be switched!?
They will probably do a lot of the stuff they did in Shards of Alara for the shards: charms, taplands, panoramas, ... At least everyone will expect that.
Because of the wedge theme there will probably be a lot of commander stuff in this block.
I also guess that there might be a lot of legends like in Kamigawa and Three Kingdoms.
That orcs are back could be interesting for red depending on how their new design will be.
And still hoping for Onslaught fetchies.
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I kinda want the UBG ability to be called "Swamp-Ass". Doesn't matter what it does. UBG suggests an 'actual' bayou setting pretty hard. The whole wedge should be Creole as fuck.
Crawdaddy
Creature - Crayfish 1/1
Sacrifice Crawdaddy: Target creature gains "R: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn" until end of turn.
Nice plains miracle guy. Nice Disenchant also.
It's all hype, the Orcs will be fucking terrible just like Theros promised Minotaurs and we got a giant crusty bucket of cat shit. Zero playable eternal horned bull men. It's like they actually read my posts and do the opposite.
Really hoping for some sweet Doran (BWG) colored stuff.
Maybe a Doran Elf? G - 0/1 - Elf Druid - TAP: Add B/W/G to your mana pool. Perhaps some Wedge mechanic tie-in, a la Noble Hierarch.
I really like Modern Junk, but it feels like its missing something now. After I upgraded Birds to Deathrite, its very hard to go back to Birds even though Deathrite is banned.
Also hoping for a quality 2-3 drop creature that could potentially see Legacy play. Goyf, Bob, Stoneforge, Knight, Doran, Smiter... they get old after a while, it'd be nice to get a new toy.
Would it be too much to ask for Pernicious Deed in Modern?
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