MTG Salvation

From tonight's Arcana






Deck Notes
Per @dailymtg:
- In the preview for the Intro Packs, the comment about the rares being different color was intended to mean the FOIL rares were different color.
- The oddity with Surrakar Spellblade for Levelers' Scorn (U/B) is being looked into. See below.

Update
- Indicated the foil rares of each.
- The foil rare of Levelers' Scorn is Sphinx of Magosi. Surrakar Spellblade is not in the deck.

Nice, Student of Warfare AND Awakening Zone in precons. Too bad they're in separate decks, but whatever.

I think the list for the blue/black precon is wrong. The list does not include Surrakar Spellblade.

They know about it. I'm scratching my head a little myself, but we'll see what they say after looking into the matter.

Someone had reported the rares for W/U being Echo Mage and Student, but that's not as official as the fact that Spellblade is absent completely from the list.

Do you know which ones are the foil rares?

The goblin piker in the Eldrazi Arisen deck must be crapping his pants. Seems out of place hehe.

Preconstructed / theme decks have gotten quite lame IMHO. The miscellaneous M10 cards really ruin the flavor and excitement of getting more cards from this set. When theme decks were 60 cards, contained only cards from the relevant block and were constructed well enough to to play, I used to buy them quite often.. but since this '40 card' theme deck + booster pack thing happened, I have had zero interest in buying these.

Thanks for the info and card lists! It's a pity that they really aren't playable / enjoyable decks anymore, and this mixing of cards from another set entirely is boring IMHO.

feels like these have way too many cards from m10 and not enough from roe. especially if half of them could end up not being reprinted in m11. still not impressed with precons.

I'm still gettin' the Drana Intro Pack.

Imma collect those suckers.

Some of these decks look pretty good. There are some others that are... eh. Subpar at best.

Quote from adlorin

Preconstructed / theme decks have gotten quite lame IMHO. The miscellaneous M10 cards really ruin the flavor and excitement of getting more cards from this set. When theme decks were 60 cards, contained only cards from the relevant block and were constructed well enough to to play, I used to buy them quite often.. but since this '40 card' theme deck + booster pack thing happened, I have had zero interest in buying these.

Thanks for the info and card lists! It's a pity that they really aren't playable / enjoyable decks anymore, and this mixing of cards from another set entirely is boring IMHO.

They're bringing them back to 60 with M11.

From this I guess we can take that Spore Spider and Some Kind of Distraction in the spoiler are actually named Sporecap Spider and Fleeting Distraction. Soul Follower is probably Soul's Attendant.

Halem Golem may be Enatu Golem.

Couldn't Drana come with a couple Gatekeepers at least.

Still a good buy just for her.

4 Umbra's in the Toem Armor deck? And no Aura Gnarlid? I find it odd. Could have been at least a fun deck.

If the decks were based on the Ulamog, Emrakul and Kozilek, it would have been cooler. I guess that's what they're aiming for.

I dont get the glory seeker when it could have been at least s venerated teacher. I give up on these decks.

Normally buying two copies of a precon would provide a good deck (even that it is not worth it), but these ones are just bad.. lots of 1 ofs and very suboptimal choices.

So why are there no Terramorphic Expanses in these decklists? At least, the newly named Expanse.

Otherwise, typical intro packs. Mediocre cards in all of them, with only 1-2 of them containing actual decent rares. If Student of Warfare is the foil, then lucky us, we get a slightly cheaper SoW.

gonna try to get a B/R pack simply for the foil Drana. the two bolts are icing on the cake (though, for the most part, i do agree that the inclusion of m10 cards in the intro packs is a little weak).

If the first card pictured represents the foil in the pack, I will be able to pick up a foil Student of Warefare for my cube cheeper than I had hoped!

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If the first card pictured represents the foil in the pack, I will be able to pick up a foil Student of Warefare for my cube cheeper than I had hoped!

That's usually the way it works.

I don't like these very much... haven't been buying intros anyway, and I can't wait for them to go back to the 60 card ones.

The Ravnica and Lorwyn intro packs were pretty nice.

These? Not so much.

Quote from Orayn

They're bringing them back to 60 with M11.

That would be good. It's one thing to change things around for the sake of not being stagnate.. but if something isn't broke, don't fix it!! The 60 card packs always had a sort of collector and replay value to me. I would often keep a sizable collection - up to 30 of 'em at one time - so that people could grab one to play for casual games. Good times between Ravnica, Kamigawa and Tempest precons.

Well I need the RG one and the RB one... the rares are useful, as are some of the common and uncommons.

Ok the rares from what i see are awakening zone and the manticore, kor spirit dancer and the giantomancer, magmaw and drana, echo mage and the sphinx, and student and ?

Im not buying any of these no rares i want aside from drana

Yea super crap, I used to buy these to get the nice 3-4 com/uncom staples or lands. They really should up the price and make more powerful functioning theme decks. All the core set stuff is so tacky when they have equivalent cards in the LARGE set. Its not even half worth it to get the Rare, just buy the foil single you want for less and spare yourself the packaging garbage.

Not too impressed with any of these decks, other than Awakening Zone is in one of them. Wish that could of been the foil rare. =/

And there's always this "core set cards" problem that is really starting to get on my nerves. Doesn't make any kind of sense, completely destroys the flavor. I hope these core set cards are removed from intro packs when they go back to 60 cards.

QFT

What the hell are those card doing in the Intro Packs of RoE?? They've nothing to do with the flavour of the set...