Magic The Gathering

[Maratus volans]

Can I just say I am so ready for Tarkir even despite the disney-ification of it after goddamn tron, stranger things, and cowboys? I need some fantasy dragons and shit in my fantasy dragons children's game. At least they finally killed off Alesha. Really hoping they don't fuck up Lorwyn when we finally get there since that's my favorite set of all time, but who are we kidding they probably will.

Lorwyn was a brighter and more cheerful plane*, so it would probably fit well with their current Disney aesthetic. I think the big issue is that they've bought into the whole modern feminist nonsense that we can't have real villains who make villainous choices, so they will 100% make the elves very, very sorry for that whole "racial superiority and hunting down the uglies" bit, and we'll probably get some flavor texts and a story where the elves pay reparations to the kithkin or some other cringeworthy Magical Racial Justice shit.

Another glaring problem that's become especially obvious in the past year is that they're out of ideas. The mechanics from recent sets have all been finnicky garbage or "Mechanic X, but better:" 2024 had two different versions of 'Manifest, But Better' in Cloak and Manifest Dread; it had 'Morph, but Better' in Disguise; now we have Harmonize, which is 'Flashback, But Better'. It's obvious they'll bring back Evoke - the only mechanic anyone remembers from that block - but it's not obvious what else they'll do, especially so soon after Bloomburrow.

*At least before it morphed into Shadowmoor, but I don't think WotC will want to reference that in a Return to Lorwyn set.

 

[Redoniblueoni]

Didn't he say he didn't base it off the KKK and didn't intend it to be taken as such?

Yes and I don't think the artist assigns their universeID on gatherer, it's probably gatherer itself. I heard something about the art being based off the Spanish inquisition but not a direct quote

 

[Retink Retunk]

Yes and I don't think the artist assigns their universeID on gatherer, it's probably gatherer itself. I heard something about the art being based off the Spanish inquisition but not a direct quote

Wouldn't really surprise me if it was based off of Spanish religious practices, for those that don't know, Easter in Spain looks like this in a variety of colors

 

[Flexo]

Yes and I don't think the artist assigns their universeID on gatherer, it's probably gatherer itself. I heard something about the art being based off the Spanish inquisition but not a direct quote

Well I didn't expect [it to be based on] the spanish inquisition!

 

[Oddjob OTP]

I don't know it it's quite modern playable (though it slots right into a pre-existing deck so idk) but it feels like it's probably going to be very solid in standard/pioneer

 

[Polock]

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

*At least before it morphed into Shadowmoor, but I don't think WotC will want to reference that in a Return to Lorwyn set.

That would unironically be the best thing. If Shadowmoor stopped being a thing after Oona lost control of the Day/Night and we can just blame it on that and not have to question the details of just how that works.

 

[Logistical Nightmare]

That would unironically be the best thing. If Shadowmoor stopped being a thing after Oona lost control of the Day/Night and we can just blame it on that and not have to question the details of just how that works.

You saying this has made me wonder if WOTC intends to bring back the day night mechanic for the return to Lorwyn/Shadowmoor, but I’m really hoping not.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I doubt it because people hate tracking it.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I doubt it because people hate tracking it.

We're talking about WOTC here. It's coming back.

 

[Endless Torment]

They didn't bring back day/night for Innistrad remastered so I doubt it will be back for a main set.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

They didn't bring back day/night for Innistrad remastered so I doubt it will be back for a main set.

It helps that there are only 3 good day/night cards* outside of werewolfs in commander and as a result basically nothing is worth reprinting.

*Celestus as an above average 3 mana mana rock. Graveyard Trespasser and Brutal Cathar in bx midrange and humans and/or coco decks in pioneer respectively but I think they both have fallen out of favor

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Yeah, it helps that the peak of Day/Night is a Good Graveyard Hate Sideboard Card for Aggro Decks.

You can just kind of ignore the mechanic and honestly I bet in a decade..they reprint the day/night cards with the old werewolf text just so they can just delete the Day/Night tracking entirely.

 

[Flexo]

That would unironically be the best thing. If Shadowmoor stopped being a thing after Oona lost control of the Day/Night and we can just blame it on that and not have to question the details of just how that works.

If they REALLY wanted to throw us off, they would reveal Shadowmoor was the natural state of the plane and it was Lorwyn that was the aberration made by Oona.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Flashsisters, we are so FUCKING back

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Love me some Snapcaster. I'm just retarded enough to try to make an 8snap deck in historic purely to cast this fucking thing.

Kind of mad it's a bard and not a wizard though.

First pass at the idea, mentally replace the Hope Ender Coatl with Songcrafter. Also mana base is quick and dirty haven't gotten a chance to review it or think much about the sideboard yet

I was going to rework a flash deck but I think the wizard package is the only thing flash decks want to do in red. 8 non-flash creatures is sub optimal but wizard trial spells are good so maybe worth

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

If they REALLY wanted to throw us off, they would reveal Shadowmoor was the natural state of the plane and it was Lorwyn that was the aberration made by Oona.

that would be fine to be honest.

 

[Allied-Mastercomputer]

Yeah temur is kind of a weird ask in standard

All I’m asking for is for more temur cards to put in my Yasova Birthing Pod deck but those latest temur cards are straight dookie. There’s only one worth a damn and that was Temur Battlecrier.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

All I’m asking for is for more temur cards to put in my Yasova Birthing Pod deck but those latest temur cards are straight dookie. There’s only one worth a damn and that was Temur Battlecrier.

I'd take a look at Temur Tawnyback, it's gonna comedown for 3 mana but because of all the colored/double colorless hybrid cost it's a 6 drop so you can pod it to get to 7 which is usually where the fun starts.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Breach gets Yeeted out of Modern, which means Mox Opal is safe for the moment (Hint: They will have to ban it eventually anyways)

Standard still gets to be a slog of Beans, Bounce and Rage.

Edit : And Mycospawn proves once again that "Search for A non Basic land and put it onto the field" should never be on a card again.

 

[Serbian Deadbeat]

Standard ain't that bad. It sure is sloggy, but not as bad as it used to be.

Too bad I can only play it online and not in paper because my LGS is run by a NEET