http://magic.wizards.com/en/products/dominaria
Number of Cards: 269
Prerelease Weekend: April 21-22, 2018
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Official Three-Letter Code: DOM
Twitter Hashtag: #MTGDOM
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A key piece of information not yet contained on that page is that this set will be a return of Richard Garfield to design. The last set he worked on was Innistrad (the original) and before that Ravnica (the original).
I am cautiously optimistic. Then again, I liked Time Spiral.
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This has the potential to be good, hope they dont fuck up this time.
Hoping for a gamechanger for goblin and slivers, and some love for elves
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The only thing I liked about TS block was Future Sight. They played it way too save. I wanted more crazy mechanic combinations similiar to Blast from the Past, but we got barely any of that even in FUT. A shame, really, but appearently, the overload of mechanics wasn't liked by new players. Which was the cause of NWO and dumbing down the game to the state where it's today.
Given WotC's track record with Return sets so far, my only hope is Richard Garfield. He's pretty much the only one to have the design authority tell Maro and his bootlickers to fuck off right of the bat.
Time Spiral was great and you are rigth for liking it.
That said: fat chance. Part of what defined Time Spiral block was ALL THE KEYWORD ABILITIES ALL THE TIME. It was practically an UN-set with how creative they got. They've since said they regret having done that, so we won't get that kind of creative word soup again.
I'll consider it a success as long as it includes Riggers that assemble contraptions.
If it contains any mention of phyrexians, the weatherlight saga, urza, or kavu I will be ecstatic. If we get some legacy playables i will be beside myself.
I think I was making a joke about playable Kavu the other day haha
Note: I actually think a few they made were quite good; Horned kavu still tears up casual beats and it resets Skyshroud Ridgeback for even more blocks/beats.
That's *real* magic
Oh man that takes me back to my first set when I was a kid. I loved the fading beasts I had so much.
breakintolife asked: Is the Return to Dominaria going to focus on giving Dominaria a more cohesive identity?
MaRo: It is.
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post...ng-to-focus-on
"A more cohesive identity" will end up making it one-dimensional and stupid, like so many other planes they've destroyed: not via cosmic horrors or irredeemable villainy, but through inept and lazy world building. What makes Dominaria cool is its scope, allowing it to feel real in ways that these other planes cannot match.
My personal hope is that at some point they'll start killing off Jacestice League members. There's one George R. R. Martin bandwagon I'll be hootin' and hollerin' off the side of. Come on guys, even Superman ate it at one point.
I might even buy packs if they said "The Death of Jace" on them. Not the cards, just the packs.
That's only good if they don't leave backdoors open to bring him back, like Elspeth conviently dying on a plane where she can come back as Zombie Elspeth.
Jace getting brainfried by Bolas and then getting stranded on Ixalan as a castaway hobo is probably as far as we can get with MtG's posterboy.
The commentary I've seen from wizards is that they'll be showcasing how revitalized the plane is, and now Maro says it'll have a singular cohesive theme.
I think we're gonna see Return to Onslaught block, Baloths and all.
It's never too early to start studying for the FTK test.
With the new corporate direction I don't see how they won't gloss over the entire plane, even with Garfield on the team (he's not a lead, just 'on the team'). Isn't this when they'll get away from the block format and be in the one-shot 350 card story phase?
Either that, or it'll be some convoluted Return to TimeSpiral, so maybe his cohesive theme is "nostalgia that the new 15 year olds who started in Innistrad won't understand". They've really painted themselves into a corner.
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