What would make you so angry? Force of Will is the only card that costs much IRL. The rest can be picked up pretty cheap. Except for Juzam and Moat, which have no competative application in the formats they are legal in.
And if they printed Force of Will in a future set, you can bet it'd still cost you an arm and a leg.
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As exciting as it is to see the influx of cards, the list overall is disappointing. I don't care how many of these sets they plan to make; the fact of the matter is that Animate Wall did not need to be in any of them. The set banks heavily on the fact that nostalgia issues a set of rose-colored glasses to older players, and was engineered too much for drafting with X Edition to be considered to be a great set of cards.
I wasn't asking for P9 cards, just something to get excited about. This isn't just another set that's always going to have chaff because they need to stretch out what few ideas they have left in the tank. This is a special set hand-picked from the oldest sets in the game. I am unconvinced they could not have done a significantly better job. They even put in Mirror Universe and forgot Lich.
As exciting as it is to see the influx of cards, the list overall is disappointing. I don't care how many of these sets they plan to make; the fact of the matter is that Animate Wall did not need to be in any of them. The set banks heavily on the fact that nostalgia issues a set of rose-colored glasses to older players, and was engineered too much for drafting with X Edition to be considered to be a great set of cards.
I agree. There are some cards on the list that I wish weren't there. But what are you going to do? They can only print so many in this set. And not everything they print has to be a winner. Like all sets it has to have its bad cards.
And what is wrong with it being made to compliment Xth draft?
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i'll be the first to admit.. i was excited about this set.. way excited.. i love old cards.. since thats what i learned playing on.. if i learned playing during Ravnica block, i'd probably hold special feelings for fairly bad cards from that block (like Brightflame)
I started playing cards when i was 12.. i obviously didn't have the disposible income I had today, but a lot of these cards I really wanted but were by and far way out of "our" (me and my dad's ) price range.. (Moats were always expensive, so were stuff like Mirror Universe and Chains of..that long M word)
I'm not saying all the cards I played with were winners, but I did have an Animate Wall deck when I first started playing.. (using the first strike wall of swords and wall of spears) so yeah, to me it'll bring a smile to my face.. will i use it now.. probably not, but still they had to save some "big guns" for an eventual sequel.. (which just by looking at this set I can nearly rebuild a lot of my vintage casual decks minus duals/power mana/tutors)
I thought cards like Demonic Tutor, Sol Ring, Black Vise or Mana Vault could have been included in a set like this.. hopefully these are prospects for "MED2"
I read somewhere on here wanted Fire Covenent, its in there.. i would say around 90-100 of the cards in the set i personally want or really wanted for this set..
i'm still excited
its going to be lots of fun..
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I just want people who redraft to admit this:
"I can't draft objectively unless I am able to guarantee that I receive at least 3 rares. I am also better than most average/new players so I want to make sure that I get the best rares and they end up with worse ones. I care more about the monetary value of cards than actually playing the game for decent prizes."
All at their cheapest according to MOTL....
Eventhough Mirror universe/Eureka have not found applications, diamond valley has its use in life.dec and berserk is widely played in stompy.
Definitely some old cards here that made me smile, but yeah. Its clear this isn't even an attempt to bring legacy online. Some have made lack of duals out to be *the* problem there, but its just the tip of the iceberg. Classic meta is probably going to be more influenced by a B&R list than anything in MED (well, FoW is a big deal and hymn is pretty nice, and some more tier 2 decks will be enabled, but thats about it.)
3(?) weeks of previews and aside from the ants I was stoked to look forward to collecting a boat load of new cards for singleton. I saw the spoiler and I feel like Ive been slapped across the face. God I thought it would be fun to draft to draft packs with all good cards. I wasn't expecting moxes and stuff, but like popular cards. OMFG, way too many turds. Ive been playing since 1994 so I have memories of tossing things in the air with stone giant and always wanting thunder spirits but they where 25-30 bones. However I really don't need to see them again when other better things exist. At this rate it will take them 20 master sets to reprint every "greatest card from Magic's past"
I was pissed at death ward.
I said F it at Roots.
I havent played mtgo for 2 years. I got playsets of every extended legal good card, so it isnt lack of cards. Based on the previews, I felt "they dragged me back in." I can easily pass on this one.
Ive never been one to complain about a set, but the way the promoted this really rubs me the wrong way.
Very dissapointing So much hype for so many garbage cards... Whatever, I'm going to forget this was ever even an idea/hope, just as easily as I've blocked out Mirage. If only they'd put as much if not more effort into server stability as they do into promoting money leeching garbage sets.
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I don't see any easy way to export rarities from MODO, but if you're wondering about the rarity of a specific card, I can look it up.
As of the current build, all cards still have current Oracle wordings, creature types.
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Amnesia
Animate Dead
Ankh of Mishra
Argivian Archaeologist
Armageddon
Artifact Blast
Ball Lightning
Basal Thrull
Berserk
Black Knight
Blight
Breeding Pit
Chains of Mephistopheles
Crusade
Cursed Rack
Dakkon Blackblade
Diminishing Returns
Dust to Dust
Dwarven Catapult
Eureka
Exile
Fire Covenant
Fissure
Force of Will
Forcefield
Fyndhorn Elves
Ghazb路n Ogre
Goblin Grenade
Greater Realm of Preservation
Hand of Justice
Hecatomb
High Tide
Homarid Spawning Bed
Hydroblast
Hymn to Tourach
Ice Storm
Ifh-B脤ff Efreet
Illusions of Grandeur
Island of Wak-Wak
Ivory Tower
Jokulhaups
Juz路m Djinn
Keldon Warlord
Khab路l Ghoul
Lake of the Dead
Lightning Bolt
Lim-D?陋l's Vault
Lord of Tresserhorn
Mana Flare
Mindstab Thrull
Mishra's Factory
Moat
Nature's Lore
Nether Shadow
Nevinyrral's Disk
Order of the Ebon Hand
Pox
Primal Order
Psychic Purge
Pyroblast
Rabid Wombat
Ring of Ma'r?陋f
River Merfolk
Seasinger
Serendib Efreet
Serpent Generator
Shield Sphere
Singing Tree
Storm Seeker
Sunken City
Sylvan Library
Thawing Glaciers
Thorn Thallid
Thrull Champion
Thrull Retainer
Thunder Spirit
Time Elemental
Tivadar's Crusade
Tornado
Urza's Bauble
Vesuvan Doppelganger
Vodalian Knights
Winter Blast
Winter Orb
Word of Undoing
Zuran Orb
Great job on flavour for this set, so many cool memories and a fair list of cards with possible use
Glad there was no Power and no duals games with 2 turns or less are dull
Card of the set HECATOMB! Awesome:)
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Uh, because they can't? (reserved list)
You gotta give Marton Stromgald some love!
Oh you mean like when they ACTUALLY PRINTED THEM? They're doing this because Modo players never got these cards in the first place.
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And if they printed Force of Will in a future set, you can bet it'd still cost you an arm and a leg.
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They already did with Mirage http://magiccards.info/query/1255023.html
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I wasn't asking for P9 cards, just something to get excited about. This isn't just another set that's always going to have chaff because they need to stretch out what few ideas they have left in the tank. This is a special set hand-picked from the oldest sets in the game. I am unconvinced they could not have done a significantly better job. They even put in Mirror Universe and forgot Lich.
I'm glad we got pumpknights and dakkon blackblade. And Tornado. And Animate dead helps Dragon so much.
Oh yeah, Isn't Diamond Valley worth a ton IRL? No I don't have to use starlit sanctum in the life deck!
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I agree. There are some cards on the list that I wish weren't there. But what are you going to do? They can only print so many in this set. And not everything they print has to be a winner. Like all sets it has to have its bad cards.
And what is wrong with it being made to compliment Xth draft?
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I started playing cards when i was 12.. i obviously didn't have the disposible income I had today, but a lot of these cards I really wanted but were by and far way out of "our" (me and my dad's ) price range.. (Moats were always expensive, so were stuff like Mirror Universe and Chains of..that long M word)
I'm not saying all the cards I played with were winners, but I did have an Animate Wall deck when I first started playing.. (using the first strike wall of swords and wall of spears) so yeah, to me it'll bring a smile to my face.. will i use it now.. probably not, but still they had to save some "big guns" for an eventual sequel.. (which just by looking at this set I can nearly rebuild a lot of my vintage casual decks minus duals/power mana/tutors)
I thought cards like Demonic Tutor, Sol Ring, Black Vise or Mana Vault could have been included in a set like this.. hopefully these are prospects for "MED2"
I read somewhere on here wanted Fire Covenent, its in there.. i would say around 90-100 of the cards in the set i personally want or really wanted for this set..
i'm still excited
its going to be lots of fun..
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Berserk 45.61
Diamond Valley 40.07
Eureka 15.94
Mirror Universe 38.28
All at their cheapest according to MOTL....
Eventhough Mirror universe/Eureka have not found applications, diamond valley has its use in life.dec and berserk is widely played in stompy.
Never mind.
I was pissed at death ward.
I said F it at Roots.
I havent played mtgo for 2 years. I got playsets of every extended legal good card, so it isnt lack of cards. Based on the previews, I felt "they dragged me back in." I can easily pass on this one.
Ive never been one to complain about a set, but the way the promoted this really rubs me the wrong way.
"Dark Ritual, Hypnotic Specter, Hymn to Tourach. If there is an unholy trio in Magic, this is it. These three cards have been wreaking havoc and crushing dreams for over a decade. They're like the New York Yankees, except powered by black magic. Oh, wait... never mind."
Chris Millar
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