Forbidding Spirit; Regenesis
Guess what's on the Coming Soon page
Eh on the name. Would have preferred Planesiege like the trademark they filed last year.
I guess we're going to see some lower rarity planeswalker variants. Perhaps uncommons with static abilities only (so they're like enchantments you can attack) and rares with no ultimate.
I basically only started playing Magic when Arena came to the open beta but I quickly got the same impression. I was told that deck archetypes mostly stay the same through history (green ramps mana and gets big creatures, red gets burn spells, blue counters everything), and I guess that means you have a ton of similar card effects when you need to create 3 expansions per year.I feel like Magic reached it's design peak years ago. All these cards look the same to me. Very little appears new or innovative. Apart from flavor, I can't tell the sets apart anymore.
I feel like Magic reached it's design peak years ago. All these cards look the same to me. Very little appears new or innovative. Apart from flavor, I can't tell the sets apart anymore.
Yeah like Firemind, Lightning Strike, Lightning Bolt, Shock, Banefire, etc.
What is this? A supplemental, non-Standard booster product?
EDIT: Oh, wait. This is the third Ravnica set?
I'm super curious to see if this ties into Brandon Sanderson's novella, which seemed to have some pretty serious implications for the future of the MTG story (with Entities that seem to be able to cause people to spark.)
No, doesn't ring a bell at all.Yeah like Firemind, Lightning Strike, Lightning Bolt, Shock, Banefire, etc.
I'm sure that won't have any influence on the game story for a while, and certainly not in War of the Spark. It seems to be setting up for events post-Bolas.I'm super curious to see if this ties into Brandon Sanderson's novella, which seemed to have some pretty serious implications for the future of the MTG story (with Entities that seem to be able to cause people to spark.)
I'm sure that won't have any influence on the game story for a while, and certainly not in War of the Spark. It seems to be setting up for events post-Bolas.
Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance is all setting up Bolas arriving on Ravnica with his crew. War of the Spark is when everyone fights him. Then we get a core set, then we get whatever's after.Ah. I thought the Ravnica stuff was the culmination of the Bolas/Gatewatch story for the near-future, which is why it felt like War of the Sparks (or whatever follows in the fall) might kick off the post-Bolas stuff. I'm not sure why I was under that impression.
That actually sounds quite possible, some new twist on PW that would allow to put a lot of them in the new set.I guess we're going to see some lower rarity planeswalker variants. Perhaps uncommons with static abilities only (so they're like enchantments you can attack) and rares with no ultimate.
We already knew that's what they were doing. There are two Ravnica novels being written by Greg Weisman. One coming in spring, one in fall (so both well after the sets they cover come out).Speculation: So they're going to release another novel for the third set while the Ravnica novel is only gonna cover GRN and RNA, huh?
Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance is all setting up Bolas arriving on Ravnica with his crew. War of the Spark is when everyone fights him. Then we get a core set, then we get whatever's after.
1 power matters feels like it would be difficult to pull off. Though I suppose we have seen a fair number of 1/3s.
Is that what you took from the story? I guess I'll have to re-read it. I didn't think the Entity caused a spark in anyone that didn't already have the spark, in line with previous spark/planeswalker situations, but I admit it's possible I missed that. I kind of felt like the entities are drawn to people with sparks.I'm super curious to see if this ties into Brandon Sanderson's novella, which seemed to have some pretty serious implications for the future of the MTG story (with Entities that seem to be able to cause people to spark.)
Is that what you took from the story? I guess I'll have to re-read it. I didn't think the Entity caused a spark in anyone that didn't already have the spark, in line with previous spark/planeswalker situations, but I admit it's possible I missed that. I kind of felt like the entities are drawn to people with sparks.
9 mana to gain temporary control of a nonland permanent while giving the opponent 1+ turns of scry seems incredibly expensive to me. Does blue not normally have a way to steal control otherwise?
And/or are most other steal control cards non-planeswalker-compatible?
9 mana to gain temporary control of a nonland permanent while giving the opponent 1+ turns of scry seems incredibly expensive to me. Does blue not normally have a way to steal control otherwise?
BO1 vs BO3 is not just about sideboarding. Play vs draw and opening hand variance are bigger factors.Sideboarding is usually less relevant in Draft than constructed formats so I'm not totally against the idea if it stays in Draft. I do think this would change what kinds of removal that the game should have at common rarity. Fewer cards like Plummet and Naturalize and more modal removal spells like Abrade would help.
BO1 vs BO3 is not just about sideboarding. Play vs draw and opening hand variance are bigger factors.
Can we get the free mulligan on Arena, then?
I think the theory is that best of 1 on Arena has the mana fixer bias which replaces the free mulligan.
Less relevant, but still super relevant. If you think otherwise, you're probably drafting wrong.Sideboarding is usually less relevant in Draft than constructed formats so I'm not totally against the idea if it stays in Draft. I do think this would change what kinds of removal that the game should have at common rarity. Fewer cards like Plummet and Naturalize and more modal removal spells like Abrade would help.
Hasn't looked like that from my own experience. At least, not since we left closed Beta.I think the theory is that best of 1 on Arena has the mana fixer bias which replaces the free mulligan.
According to the developers it's still that way as far as I know for casual best-of-1? There's a non-guaranteed bias towards having a land-to-nonland ratio that best approximates your deck, as far as the developers have said, and I'm not aware of any announcement otherwise. There was even a big thread about it, plus an ingame announcement in open beta -- one of those hint things that popup during loading.Hasn't looked like that from my own experience. At least, not since we left closed Beta.