Confirmed: Eternal Masters - June 10, 2016

[jrsthethird]

I completely agree, it's ridiculous for Counterspell. It'll be a sweet looking foil though.
They dropped the ball if they failed to include flavor text...

They're going for the simplicity of a three word text box. It's sweet and succinct. And judging by the stupid art, I'm glad we don't have another Jace quote there instead.

"Counter target spell."
"Destroy all creatures."
"Destroy target creature."
"End the turn."

(Well, the last one requires a novel of reminder text, but you get the point.)

Rorix confirmed

@jrsthethird > Good call, Sir! :)

Thanks. Number crunch still leaves plenty of room for the rest of the cycle, too. ;)

Glad to see shardless agent, was hoping for that one, but lame it is a rare slot. I can accept it for Baleful Strix, but why is Shardless a rare when BBE is an uncommon?

Why is Shardless a tier 1 staple and BBE is fringe playable? That extra mana on BBE is a killer, man.

I must admit that my thinking that the first spoilers were the best was wrong, this set is completely stacked. This is a big time money grab, they are hitting a lot of the available high end playable printable cards with this set. I wonder what the impact of this will be if they print a lot of this set. I can see the good and the bad. In any case, this set is going to have a ton of value, when taken in context of the market value of the cards before the set came out.

They're restricting the printing for a reason. The Chronicles problem is huge and they cannot afford to recreate that. None of these reprints will cause more than just a small dip, except for maybe some low-print C/U. The MMA and EMA sets are an experiment, like almost every new product they release. MMA was a huge success. MM2 was a little more lackluster, so I think that they learned what NOT to do in Masters sets and we're seeing it here. This is much closer to MMA in quality and we'll see it again next year in an MM3 set that's much better than MM2 was.

The real question is what happens when they release EM2? I don't think it will be as "good" as the first one, but it won't be nearly as big of a drop-off that MM2 was. I'm already predicting Show and Tell and Eye of Ugin to be reprinted in 2017.

Perhaps if the first couple EM sets are successful and generally non-impactful, they will have enough evidence to confidently remove duals from the RL. I don't think we'll see the entire RL negated, but seeing as how vital they are to Eternal formats, they may make an exception if these experiments really work out well.