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While I didn't play it then, I do play the L5R LCG now. From that I have heard though, the "issues" with Old5R go beyond just not supporting small stores. The game itself was fundamentally flawed, it seems, in a number of ways, which were all exacerbated over time.
I'm pretty sure that Hasbro's dictum to Wizards is to grow the game, in toto. Straight cannibalizing Paper sales to Arena won't do that. Will there be some trade off though? Absolutely.
The sky isn't falling, we are just in transition. Will some LGS suffer? Yes. Will the game collapse? Likely not. Each LGS is going to have to make a cost-benefit analysis, like any business does, over time, in the face of shifting business and demographic factors. Some might not emerge having events make business sense. Others likely will. That doesn't preclude that the game is worse off, in general, though.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Ah, ok, I must have interpreted the "on launch" part as an implication that the possibility of it coming at some point was open. Which, perhaps it is, but certainly not definite. I think the issue there is that they do want to somehow get Modern onto Arena, in theory, but are unsure if it's a good idea in practice or how to do it practically speaaking.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
My wishlist that I think has a reasonable chance of seeing reprintings:
Unearth - they're very comfortable with rezzing 2cmc stuff from the GY to the battlefield in Standard, so I don't think going up to 3 cmc is a no-go.
Astral Slide/Lightning Rift - people have been asking for these forever, but they're never going to see print in Standard, this would be a great way to get them in.
Counterspell - if Force is the glue that holds Legacy together, this would be the glue for Modern, and honestly it's needed.
Containment Priest/Flusterstorm - combo/nonsense hate is pretty safe and well liked, these both could have been printed in Standard.
Some Legacy defining stuff that definitely WON'T be in new Modern:
Wasteland, Force, Brainstorm, Ancient Tomb, TNN, Leovold
Counterspell is a great bet, and even got mentioned by name in the video.
I think Carrion Feeder is a good bet too.
Yeah, have to say, Wasteland, Force and Brainstorm and Ancient Tomb are completely anenthema to modern design principles.
True name has literally been remarked on by Wizards as an outright mistake. Leovold? Well, I don't really know what they were thinking there, but even now minus Deathrite, it still is a rather stupid design.
That being said, Blue in Modern is vastly different than Blue in Legacy/Vintage, so something like Leovold's impact would likely be different entirely. That doesn't mean it would be good for the format, but I'm not sure I'd say it's definitely terrible for it either.
I think some things that are simple would be good ideas too. Like Pyrobast/Hydrobast and, of course, Counterspell. In Modern, is a real trade off in cost from so I doubt if Counterspell is a real issue. I think though, we are more likely to see things that were in Commander sets and the like, than we are to see things from pre-8th edition sets.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Whats the trigger timing for Cabal Therapist? Does the opp have to respond to the ability being announced? Or can the opp respond after the card is named?
I'm hoping for Goblin Lackey and Goblin Matron/Goblin Ringleader. That *might* get me to completely switch to Modern...
I don't know if you'd need it as much... And bullshit like R/B Wort would be playable.
Fire // Ice
That is my wild speculation.
How about Chant/Vindicate/Deed? Or some of the other Invasion greatest hits like Prophetic Bolt and Fact or Fiction?
I mean, just in general I would expect the majority of these "new to Modern" reprints to come from Invasion/Odyssey/Onslaught era. They'd basically figured out modern card design by that point, and for the most parts, those sets were very popular.
Would be cool to see Contested Cliffs make a comeback.
How is that a bad thing? If (and big if) they make Modern play like legacy (as you're suggesting) you end up with a significantly larger player-base playing the same format for 1/3 of the price.
I wouldn't be surprised if in 5 year the eternal formats are Vintage, Modern (with loads of the legacy cards being printed into the format), Arena Modern.
My three favorite Magic cards are Counterspell, Hymn to Tourach, and Pernicious Deed.
Hymn is right out. Counterspell I think can be right in. Deed on the other hand, is actually quite, for modern players, unintuitive. Because it can destroy lands, because it doesn't even consider Planewalkers, I just don't think they'll want to introduce it, but I'd sure be happy to be wrong on that. I mean, they have reprinted it several times already, so I think there is a reasonable chance.
Fact or Fiction would be interesting though. Like I've said, Blue in Modern really isn't anything close to dominant, even Jace didn't really change that much, so FoF is likely more than fine. I just don't know what Chant is even good at all, although Vindicate being able to hit lands probably takes it right out of the question.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
I think Vindicate being able to hit lands is actually a point in its favor right now. They have a HUGE problem with Tron in Modern, because it's just fundamentally a Turn Three deck in a Turn Four format, and they clearly don't want to ban Tron, so having more answers to it is probably a good thing in their books. I mean, Tron is the ONLY reason Trophy is able to hit lands, and considering that Tron can still go off before a three mana LD spell comes online.. I think it's got better than decent odds. Being able to hit planeswalkers is probably a bonus for it too, now that they've started to realize they need more viable 'walker removal.
I do agree that Hymn is right out though.
You are probably right. I honestly don't know much about the current state of Modern, as it is. Tron is always a pain in the ass though, in the only non-FNM Modern event I ever played, I had something like 7 Sideboard cards versus Tron, I only managed to find one, once, across both sideboard games and predictably lost. I'd have liked the London mulligan there, but that's for another thread, haha.
That's where the fact that Wasteland will never enter the format really creates second order problems that then need to be address by suboptimal solutions. But Wasteland would wreck the whole format, frankly. I really wonder if a Tectonic Edge without the number of lands clause would really be all that broken though. I don't know that we'll ever find out though.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
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