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Logistical Nightmare said:
This might be powerleveling but I tried to buy out the supply of that card during peak covid. If you look at the MTGstocks page, there are two spikes, and one of them is me. I own like 500-600 copies in vastly different condition. Best money I’ve ever spent.
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Hmm.

Its tough because the portal version also looks good. Not in the same way of course...
 
Stains Davidson said:
I think this is going to be a boring format with 2 decks again.
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They only put in the effort for Universes Beyond sets these days.

Depending on how The Hobbit goes, Lorwyn might be the most disappointing set this year. I haven't met many people who seem to be happy with it.
 
Maratus volans said:
Depending on how The Hobbit goes, Lorwyn might be the most disappointing set this year. I haven't met many people who seem to be happy with it.
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This set's sealed environment felt like classic old school stuff, very grindy, big reliance on sticking your bombs. I think this set will end up much better than TMNT or Startrek, so it might not be the best set of the year but it won't be the worst.

I could just be biased cause I went 3-0 with a bant aggro deck tonight tho.
 
Maratus volans said:
Lorwyn might be the most disappointing set this year. I haven't met many people who seem to be happy with it.
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For the first time in years, the prereleases are full at my local stores. Being back in Lorwyn seems to attract way more people than expected.
I'm pretty happy with what I've seen of the set. The art feels very “Magic The Gathering”-y. I haven’t been this hyped for a new set since Bloomburrow.
 
Logistical Nightmare said:
This set's sealed environment felt like classic old school stuff, very grindy, big reliance on sticking your bombs. I think this set will end up much better than TMNT or Startrek, so it might not be the best set of the year but it won't be the worst.

I could just be biased cause I went 3-0 with a bant aggro deck tonight tho.
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I do think the limited environment look promising, prerelease was fun. 2-1 with GW with a splash of black with a decent Treefolk package, Doran as my promo and 2x Bark. Lost rounf three to a nasty Kithkin deck after beat a dude round 2 with a nuts Merfolk deck that I am fairly certain cheated by adding cards to his pool.

This card was a beating, probably the best card in my deck.
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Edit: No one at my LGS opened any TMNT cards but several people did open packs with cards that were straight up damaged.
 
Yamaha YM2612 said:
Yeesh does anyone play anything other than commander? Blekkkk
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Not outside of the Arena. I enjoy playing MtG, win or lose. What I don't enjoy are bitchy, passive agressive gnomes. Don't want to get store-banned, cause I live in a shithole and there are only 2 around.

Aaanyway, how's the prerelease going? Is the new set fun? I couldn't go unfortunately. Wonder if it's ok for sealed and draft.
 
Stains Davidson said:
I think this is going to be a boring format with 2 decks again.
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It looks like the 5 "off-color" archetypes are so poorly supported that you have to get lucky in a draft to nab them, hybrid costs weren't done well here compared to Avatar, and certain strategies - like convoke - have so much more support than others, like the "cmc-4-or-more."

Even though I hate the aesthetic I'm tempted to check it out just to see, mostly because I figure shocks are a consolation prize and I want the stupid beast whisperer 2.0.
I'mma real anime gurl said:
TMNT rares and mythics are in some Lorynn Eclipsed prerelease kits.
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This isn't necessarily quality control issues (though it well could be). They've done this before - Conspiracy was originally advertised because Magister of Worth was in some peoples' prerelease kits. I think Spider-shit being such a massive failure half a year ago might have meant that when assembling the kits, they snuck these in to try to stimulate hype.
 
I'mma real anime gurl said:
TMNT rares and mythics are in some Lorynn Eclipsed prerelease kits.
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The official account suggests stores to crack open other product to replace faulty kits, which has about the response you’d expect.
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Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
This isn't necessarily quality control issues (though it well could be). They've done this before - Conspiracy was originally advertised because Magister of Worth was in some peoples' prerelease kits. I think Spider-shit being such a massive failure half a year ago might have meant that when assembling the kits, they snuck these in to try to stimulate hype.
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I imagine that for a lot of the people who are passionate about Lorwyn and in universe sets, getting a TMNT card instead of what they paid for is not going to foster much goodwill or hype.
 
PyrrhicRustle said:
I imagine that for a lot of the people who are passionate about Lorwyn and in universe sets, getting a TMNT card instead of what they paid for is not going to foster much goodwill or hype.
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To you or I, this is obvious. To the people who thought that purchasing the Marvel license would pay for itself ten-times over, this is not.

The claim from the company there, that it's unintentional, could be them trying to save face about a hype-generating stunt which has not gone to plan. If it really is unintentional, that's a wonderful harbinger of the year to come.
 
Went 3-1, not amazed with the environment thus far. It wasn't bad or anything, but I wasn't super impressed with the games. Format feels very bomb-heavy. Had a guy stick two full sent Catharsis...es and what can you do at that point? If you don't open any bombs just go all-in on removal; BREAD type shit. Saw a lot of people playing elves but I'm not sure the format necessarily favors them. It felt like a lot of players were new to Sealed (and probably 60-card in general) but were excited for the set, and they just retreated to something familiar like elves.

For my part I did use elves as my deck's backbone, but I also splashed white for some generically good kithkin and even had a few of the Rakdos hybrid boggarts. Set feels very splashable despite not being a dedicated tricolor set. Didn't see any TMNT promos, thank God.

Notes on individual cards:
  • Bogslither's Embrace. Disgustingly good removal. In the right deck the Blight cost isn't even a downside.
  • Bre of Clan Stoutarm. Terrifying. Kill on sight.
  • Chaos Spewer. Big fuckin goblin. Gets along well with Mudbutton Cursetosser.
  • Firdoch Core. Mana rock that closes out the late game and has all relevant tribes.
  • Mudbutton Cursetosser. Good body and very nasty death trigger. With the aforementioned Bogslither's Embrace it's practically a mini-boardwipe. Even better if you can then recur it with something like Graveshifter or Unbury.
  • Prideful Feastling. Strong, unassuming common. Carried a surprising number of games for me.
  • Requiting Hex. Dangerous Shove.
  • Squawkroaster. With the amount of hybrids available this thing will quickly grow into a doublestriker with 3+ power.
  • Trystan, Callous Cultivator. Very weird card. Solid body and text box, but flipping him more than twice feels like a trap. You might be able to close a game with his ability, but I never did and no one else I saw running him did either.
 
Jesus it looks like a ton of foil cards got stuck in the printer or something
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Stolen from “misprints FB group” but this is a common middle jiggle theme amongst them all
 
Sealed for this set is absolutely atrocious. Half of the color pairs absolutely rely on you playing the tribal variation, while the other ones require such a specific combination of key cards that you can't reasonably get them. When people open enough for the tribal strategies, their decks just bowl over everything else. Otherwise, your hope is to open a bomb and draw into it as much as possible. I have a feeling the draft format will be "fine" online, but atrocious in-person, because there's not enough depth to support two people at a pod going in on the same color-pair. So many cards only work with their tribe, and are total dogshit outside of it. Would you like a 2/1 for 3? How about a 1/3 vanilla for 2?

Also, Dawnhand Dissident. Absolute fucking house of a card. This is a bomb you're going to get surprisingly late in the draft, I feel, until people clue into just how fucking ridiculous this card is.
 
So they actually bothered with the promotion for a non-UB set for once, but then got sloppy with the actual cardboard?
 
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