MH1 - Ayula's Influence
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| War of the Spark - Enter the Bo-Las (36 Planeswalkers)
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There has to be some insider trading bullshit with the secondary market around Modern Horizons. Even innocuous shit like Everflowing Chalice started spiking around March and just happens to be great with Urza.
MH1 - Zhalfirin Decoy
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Zhalfirin Decoy
Creature - Human Soldier
T: Tap target creature. Activate this ability only if a creature entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
Interesting design, though Limited only. Also, zebra unicorn.
EDIT: Reference to this card
MH1 - Glacial Revelation; Altar of Dementia
Glacial Revelation
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Sorcery
Reveal the top six cards of your library. You may put any number of snow permanent cards from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
More limited fodder.
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Altar of Dementia (reprint)
Green Seismic Assault
Ayula is probably a legendary bear.
I like this. I really hope it's RG though and not mono G.
The best thing about this set is the art that throws back to old school Magic.
Insider trading on an unregulated market known for massive leaks? Nah. Inconceivable.
Insider trading on an unregulated market known for massive leaks? Nah. Inconceivable.
I'm not going to say there's zero insider trading/speculating stuff going on, but MaRo said they wanted to put slivers in Dominaria but there wasn't enough room. Sliver Queen is the OG sliver legend, on the Reserved List, and people are getting their tax returns, which always prompts people to buy stuff.
Maybe... but looking at all three 5-color legends and their trajectory shows a smaller pre-spoilers spike on each at about the same time (late March this year, Queen and Legion only one day apart in fact) abnormal from their previous pattern. Overlord's price increase is much less drastic but even its slight climb lines up with the other two (the comparatively small amount of growth is less probably due to the fact that it had a second printing). SOMETHING caused them each to jump at the same time.
MH1 - Splicer's Skill; Ayula, Queen Among Bears; Generous Gift; Umezawa's Charm; Ravenous Giant; Changeling Outcast
Hope you all have been enjoying the spoilers for EDH Horizons. Now we're getting to the good stuff:
Splice into instant or sorcery. No arcane required. Awesome.
Bear legend.
White elephant gift. Flavor fail that it makes a green token though. Also amazing EDH card.
Jitte without a stick.
Limited card.
Edit: Missed this bag of garbage.
Splice into instant or sorcery. No arcane required. Awesome.
Bear legend.
White elephant gift. Flavor fail that it makes a green token though. Also amazing EDH card.
Jitte without a stick.
Limited card.
Edit: Missed this bag of garbage.
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Maybe... but looking at all three 5-color legends and their trajectory shows a smaller pre-spoilers spike on each at about the same time (late March this year, Queen and Legion only one day apart in fact) abnormal from their previous pattern. Overlord's price increase is much less drastic but even its slight climb lines up with the other two (the comparatively small amount of growth is less probably due to the fact that it had a second printing). SOMETHING caused them each to jump at the same time.
Yeah, all the sliver cards crept up. With more information it does appear pretty damning.
The art is also a throwback. Juzam is shown holding a little dude in his hand like he's about to eat him
Morophon for scarecrow tribal. No idea why anyone is pushing that. Probably pure idiot speculators.
MH1 - Mother Bear; Pyrophobia
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Callback to Bear Cub.
Besides the Juzam Djinn callback, there are a ton of other explanations for cards listed in this article, along with stories of the set's creation.
* Umezawa's Charm = one activation of Umezawa's Jitte, of course
* Splicer's Skill is the Splicer cards from New Phyrexia combined with the splice mechanic.
* Generous Gift is a color shifted Beast Within.
* Changeling Outcast is Tormented Soul.
The article also specifically says they're avoiding design space that upcoming Standard sets would use, so we shouldn't expect snow anytime soon.
Also, they gave Ravenous Giant to Martin Juza.
Oh, one more came in
Callback to Boldwyr Intimidator and anti-changeling card. Plus maybe we'll get a new Norin the Wary with the Coward type.
MH1 - Bazaar Trademage
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3/4 flying for 3, with card filtering, but also card disadvantage. Interesting design, and I like the flavor text.
with the downside replaced with
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3/4 flying for 3, with card filtering, but also card disadvantage. Interesting design, and I like the flavor text.
with the downside replaced with
This is basically Disney's Aladdin: The Card, right? The colors of his clothing and hair match exactly. You even have Iago right there in the foreground. Come on
i believe we've had 6 so far. Normal sets have 15 these days i think?
I'm way too excited to see who this last planeswalker is. I'm trying to keep my expectations down.
Or potentially the other four Verses.
Agreed that this set is awesome.
There is always tons of speculation that can be based on little scraps of information, and intuition. Remember when "Atlazan" was leaked, and all the merfolk cards spiked for a while? Remember every Winter when Stoneforge Mystic spikes because people thought it would be unbanned? Stuff like The Chain Veil spiking when War of the Spark was announced because people inferred it would be a Planeswalker set? This is something that always happens, and we usually see things retrace to their original price if the speculation was unfounded.
When this set was announced, I saw tons of speculation that Slivers were going to be in it- They have been a fringe modern deck for a while (you can find some of them top 8/16 SCG events from 2017), and the idea that old ones could be reprinted into modern- or that you could print juiced ones directly into modern and bypass Standard- was one of the more obvious things that could be in this set. Sliver Queen spiked the most- she's reserved list and the most "popular" Sliver card, and because of how big of a hit Slivers are with casual players, there are a ton that were probably lost to attrition (just shoved into a shoebox in the back of the closet, never to re-enter the secondary market)
Now, there are some that can be the results of leaks- Everflowing Chalice is a great example. The foils of that card started to spike around March 10th- which was about 3 weeks before we all found out that Proliferate was in the set (which is the reason the card spiked). This is a case where someone finds out something through a leak, and starts to think about how it could effect the rest of the market. Finding out that proliferate is in the set? Lets go to EDHrec and see.. oh, Atraxa is the most popular commander in the history of the format. Lets look at the Atraxa deck... oh, Everflowing Chalice, a card that was a Standard Powerhouse, is one of the 5 most played artifacts across all Atraxa decks? Time to buy out the foil copies! (and if you look, Chalice went from a $1 non foil to a $2 non-foil, while the foil went from a $3 card to a $12+ card)
I might have my timelines mixed up but wasn't the Stoneforge hype because they printed a foil for a GP kinda sorta close to the next B&R or the one after JTMS got let loose?
I agree. Lots of factors go into this type of stuff. Still makes you wonder.
I agree. Lots of factors go into this type of stuff. Still makes you wonder.
MH1 - Feaster of Fools
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lol at the card's flavor
Giving the preview to a Hearthstoner who doesn't know these mechanics
MH1 - Mox Tantalite
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Modern Horizons packs come with cards that just have the art, called the Art Series. There are 54 of these.
There are also double sided tokens.
There are also double sided tokens.
MH1 - Genesis
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Genesis reprint; I imagine we'll get the other incarnations. EDIT: Sounds like this is the only one.
Also, you can use Goblin Engineer to cheat out Mox Tantalite.
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Magic Twitch stream confirms no Counterspell. They chose between introducing Counterspell, or a bunch of different kinds of counters like Prohibit.
Modern Horizons packs come with cards that just have the art, called the Art Series. There are 54 of these.
There are also double sided tokens.
What... True Full Art cards? Where is this announcement. MY wallet... please no....
There is a Kotaku story right now about the esports "bubble", and it specifically cites the Mythic invitational
https://kotaku.com/as-esports-grows-experts-fear-its-a-bubble-ready-to-po-1834982843
https://kotaku.com/as-esports-grows-experts-fear-its-a-bubble-ready-to-po-1834982843
Someone mentioned this before, but this set really does feel like Time Spiral Pt II.
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Why suspend 3 on that mox... 2 would've made it sort of playable but at 3 it's worse than a Land. Bloom was playable at 3 because it gave 3 mana on ur combo turn, this is actually useless in combo in t4 because u don't run that many lands in those decks. So disappointing considering the incredible average power of the set
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To be clear, the full art cards aren't using Magic card stock, but the token card stock, so you won't be able to play them. Plus the backs are blank except for the artist and card name, leaving room for the artist to sign it if you see them at a con.
Also, draft archetypes
UW - Blink
UB - Ninjas
RB - Goblins
RG - Lands in GY matter
GW - Creaturefall
BW - Changelings
UR - Draw 2 Matters
BG - Graveyard stuff
RW - Slivers
UG - Snow
And Ryan Pancoast drawing Mox Tantalite.
Also, draft archetypes
UW - Blink
UB - Ninjas
RB - Goblins
RG - Lands in GY matter
GW - Creaturefall
BW - Changelings
UR - Draw 2 Matters
BG - Graveyard stuff
RW - Slivers
UG - Snow
And Ryan Pancoast drawing Mox Tantalite.
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There is a Kotaku story right now about the esports "bubble", and it specifically cites the Mythic invitational
https://kotaku.com/as-esports-grows-experts-fear-its-a-bubble-ready-to-po-1834982843
Anyone with a brain can see esports/twitch streaming is a bubble. Fuck, throw in Patreon/Kickstarter in with it as well.
Patreon will stick around for a while until the platform tries to squeeze more profit out. The idea of artists getting income from patrons is as old as time. All that will change is the platform by which they get that money.
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