What you aren't excited for MDFC spam in Strixhaven to represent all the "alternate" timeline versions of characters?
I can't believe Jace is gonna undyke Nissa and Chandra in alternate timeline.
Spiderman was a bit of an outlier. Mechanically-speaking (to say nothing of if you're a fan of the franchises in question) both Final Fantasy and Avatar were very solid sets in Draft, Standard, and EDH. Top three sets of 2025 in no particular order were Tarkir: Dragonstorm, Final Fantasy, and Avatar: the Last Airbender and I don't think anyone could argue otherwise. In fact, I think for a lot of people Dragonstorm would be an easy third place. Wizards either can't or isn't willing to put the same effort into Universes Within.
If anything, it is a proof that they could make good non-UB sets and that the lack of quality is an actual choice on their part.
The draft format got solved in a week, and henceforth at higher levels was Boros VS 5c goodstuff. There have been a lot of formats in the last few years where there aren't a ton of viable color combinations, but this took the cake for most on-rails. It also had a few bombs that were Avatar-level of unbeatable, like the temur dragon that was nigh-impossible to actually remove.
This starts to convince me the "hypertumor" theory of large animals might be true...
To say nothing of the addition of Cori-Steel Cutter to constructed formats, where I'm still awaiting a ban in Pioneer.
I skipped DFT for obvious reasons. EOE is one of the worst draft formats I've ever seen. I would've skipped SPM but I literally got paid to draft it and it was also one of the worst draft formats I've ever seen.
The nuTarkir art direction is sickening, anything that looks cool is almost a fluke. Don't forget them neutering Rakshasa. It's sad too because when I show newer players the older art they unanimously prefer the slightly classic, slightly edgier vibes.
What is up with the artists doing art that looks Jackson Pollock threw up.
It's probably why companies play it so safe by rehashing existing IPs over and over, everything new they try always ends up being complete shit as they get infiltrated by grifters and ideologies once they reach a certain size.
External IP holders probably tell them to give a shit as part of the contract
Or unlike the actual lore they give a shit about the IPs
LMAO
Either that or they'll do planar deportations and it'll be a bad thing.
I think we get a full year of UB sets after reality break because the lore is such a failure and they obviously give no shits about it.
Much more reasonable to do an in all ways worse version of the effect on a 3 mana creature that dies to shock, stone cold unplayable version outside of non C EDH and limited (probably pretty good there, should have been an uncommon)
WOTC never actually fucking learns.
Don't care if it is less powerful we just had to ban this style of effect out of a bunch of formats and they know people can understand a more complex version of how this is supposed to work because we have expend.
