I was hoping they'd just make Field of Ruin legal to deal with Field but I don't think they like to do that. What would you sneak in to the format to deal with him out of curiosity?
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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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Hope you like a field where 2/3rds the decks have 4x Oko and 4x Krasis and 4x Goose and 4x Once Upon a Time and some number of Grazer etc.
This is exactly my concern. Those decks are poised to take over and take over hard.
I wonder if they are willing to ban the big Bant cards like Teferi, Oko, and Krasis. Highly doubt it though. Alas, Field only has days left.
I look forward to a vibrant new metagame featuring decks like Bant Oko, Sultai Oko, Simic Oko, and Temur Fires Oko duking it out.
I could maybe see them trying out a ban on Krasis in order to not ban Oko. I think that would put us in a similar situation to the Bridge from Below ban that didn't actually tame the Hogaak decks, though. Krasis is also not a broken card in the same way that BfB is, much harder to justify a ban.
If you're comparing the prices to preorder prices, that's pretty normal. Everything that's good starts out with inflated preorder prices until product is massively opened and things return to normalcy. Plus we have a scenario where a bunch of decks play 4x of a Mythic and that tends to create a value suction that brings the prices down on everything else.
Theros and Ikoria are probably already done. They might be able to squeeze something into Core 2021 at best.
Krasis is like the 3rd most played card in the MC going on rn, it has always been a dumb payoff for ramp decks and particularly since WAR Nissa came out
The whole lot of them should be banned but I also don't want a world where half the meta is dipshits running around with UG Flash.
A lot of design choices I disagree with rn.
Just make midrange the only viable deck, that would make me happy.
The problem is that when one of these things is too strong, the basic rock paper scissors gameplay concept for a format is nullified. All three need to be about the same power level for things to feel fair. I can't think of the last time they really got it right.
Shards of Alara-Zendikar
Jund/Bant
UW/Esper/Grixis Control
RDW/Boros Landfall
When Lightning Bolt was standard legal. Those were the days.
Yea, I prefer mid-range, but that deck doesn't exist now cause it just gets destroyed to ramp and sweepers.
They should make Bolt legal again.
Also I really liked Scars-Inn and Inn-Rav but I don't know just how balanced it was.
SoM-Innistrad had Snapcaster Mage and Mana Leak so probably miserable lol
Innistrad-RtR had Thragtusk.
I actually don't have any of those complaints and find mid-range season to be an incremental bore 🤷♂️
Yeah but I liked Thragtusk and enjoyed fighting against the Delver decks. Honestly, Delver was strong but not unbeatable. And there were lots of other decks like Solar Flare, Pod and Wolf Run that were top tier any given week. There definitely was diversity back then.
Correct, those cards were often in it, I remember the deck. I played against it often. It was very good but quite beatable, and while the format was warped around its existence other decks existed in the format and could defeat it. The difference between then and now is that there were were answers in the format. I was huge into Pod back then. Man those were the days.
I remember people telling me krasis wasnt that great of a card. I snatched 4 faster than a horse runs from a rabbit
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This is the masterpiece effect, but toned down a bit. If you look at the price lists, all of the value is being eaten up by showcases and extended art cards which drives the price of regular cards down.
Ooh, showcase Brazy B has come down a bit since release. Maybe I'll end up picking up some of those after all.
I'm glad when they print alternate art cards at a decent rate because it makes just playing paper Magic as a whole cheaper when all you want is the "normal version" cards, while still satisfying the timmies/tammies of the world.
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Yeah, "Ramp to 3" really isn't supposed to be a thing, it's just that the Oko deck has so little concern for what else it could be doing other than playing Oko that, fuck it, might as well just load up a bunch of ramp on turn 1. Even if you aren't actually interested in ramping into traditional (6+) ramp targets.
Like what the fuck, bro.
Cept Eldraine on Arena where all of the decks are control mill...
Fair point. And I agree with IceMarker--this is good for the peeps who just want the reg cards. Though I did like having some $50 cards.
Out of historical curiosity, I bought a Saviors of Kamigawa theme deck, Spirit Flames, and played it last night. I was struck by how less powerful it is, particularly its creatures, against the current sets (Ixalan on). You can buff creatures but most die before that happens. It's probably just my unfamiliarity with the deck as it was my first time piloting it. Maybe it'll fair better when I play today. I really love the Kamigawa set...
case in point for magic being best when it's midrange vs midrange :P
We've somehow returned to Dark Ritual -> Hypnotic Specter.
Only worse.
Day Two with a near even split of Golos Field and Oko decks.
And Oko decks are still legitimately kept down by Golos Field.
Standard is going to get a lot worse with the next banning wave before it gets better with the subsequent one.
And Oko decks are still legitimately kept down by Golos Field.
Standard is going to get a lot worse with the next banning wave before it gets better with the subsequent one.
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