Yeah. Poron, I’m with you. The card is crapola. O ring is just not “strictly” better. We tend to overuse that label, and this appears to be some of us curtailing it’s application.
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Technically, strictly better doesn't happen that often - Wilder Nacatl may be strictly better than Wild Nacatl but even for stuff like Red Elemental Blast compared to Pyroblast you can say that having a split is better than two pyroblasts because of stuff like Meddling Mage. More power is better except when Meekstone is in play, and so on.
ok, not strictly. I just would never cut myself out of the chance of removing Blood Moon or Thran Dynamo for scry1
Okay, so apparently Bolas got wrecked a bit:
Originally Posted by Lemnear
Power level is very high in this set, as most have realized. It's pretty exciting to see cards possibly slot into the eternal formats. None of the cards pertain to decks I personally play (so far) but it will be exciting figuring out the landscape after this set settles. Modern Horizons is only a few months away from potentially shaking up eternal formats yet again, so it's going to be a roller-coaster year I think for Modern and Legacy. Wotc is historically poor at reading the tea leaves for eternal formats, but it seems like they are getting closer to the mark with War and possibly Horizons.
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It hits some of the transform ones like Primal Wellspring or Vault of Catlacan too.
With the current direction they're going, Horizon looks promising. Power level has increased quite a bit ever since DOM (aka the first set the playtesting team got their hands on), and since the playtest team could fully influence the third Ravnica, it definitely shows results. It feels like they actually understand what the game needs and how to balance things, unlike the previous R&D. We even get halfway decent nonbasic hate again.
I was thinking the same, that Dominaria was a real turning point. Your insight helps me understand why. There seems to be a strong shift towards getting the 'old guard' back into the excitement of spoiler season. The rising quality of cards gives me hope that more cards will come off the banlist (Earthcraft, Mind Twist for legacy, Stoneforge Mystic for Modern) but I recognize that to be a pipe dream at this point.
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They don't care about the "old guard", as you call it. WotC needs sales to balance out Hasbro's fuck-ups. Good sets sale, bad ones don't.
The main problem with R&D was that they had their heads to deep in their own asses due to echo chamber they've created. E.g. that tweet of Maro where he thought that having more than 4 copies of duals would break Legacy (when most lists don't run a full playset of a particular dual).
What I really like about the set is that alot of cards feel interesting/powerful without going fully broken.
I certainly forgot about her active ability and actually, that in itself is pretty good. You are right. However, the ability I was excited about was her static ability. There is more than enough grave hate easily accessible in this game, but there is not much effective fetch land hate that has alternative uses.
I think they have a pretty good idea of what they need to do to shake up eternal formats. The problem is that they just dont care enough to do it as often as we would like. They print cards like abrupt decay which was intended for eternal formats. Id say that the card changed things and became a staple. It was also intentional on their part. I remember reading an article about them wanting to provide something to combat counterbalance decks. This was of course before SDT ban.
I dont think this is too expensive. It's definitely on the high end but the issue I see is that it deals significant damage to you. So at the point it could be good enough to cast, you'd just die to it.
I would combo Deepglow Skate with some powerful planeswalkers. I'm sure there is probably 2-3 that can win with their ults when they etb. These will work though.
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with so many planeswalkers around Doubling season can be great. Let’s all read Sarkhan Vol’s ultimate about dragon with doubling season and think
with doubling season, having 4 copies of Jace, Architect of Thought lets you play 4 cards from the opponent's deck for free, and then get another planeswalker, which can be either Narset Transcendent, which pretty much renders most decks useless with its ultimate (even moreso after cycling through the jaces), or Tamiyo, Field Researcher which allows you to draw 3 and get an unkillable omniscience. Sarkhan seems kinda lame compared to these guys imo.
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