I loved the lore of the house of Duskmourn but what I didn’t love is that now they just use it as an excuse to drop random contemporary objects/fashion into the world

There’s a couple, but they have different restrictions on what they can and can’t copy

1. The official Pixelfed app just has a nicer looking UI
2. There’s not really a competing app for people leaving Insta like there is Bluesky vs Mastodon
3. Pixelfed’s content is mostly visual so it’s easily digestible to casual users and you don’t have to scroll past dry Fedi arguments
4. Better discover features so users don’t have to do a bunch of legwork to find who to follow

Just my guesses though, but like any social media it really depends on if big creators will switch and if users stick with it over time

Vanilla legendaries hype! These guys look fun

Maro’s teaser said there would be a cycle and Fang-Druid Summoner shows 5 symbols in its art so I assume we’ll see a W and U legendary soon

I love that someone at WotC either knew that offhand or took the time to look it up

I think the end step restriction makes it hard if not impossible to go infinite with. But even as is it’s still a token doubler and mini-anthem effect for 1 mana less than Anointed Procession which feels like this is going to be an expensive card, even with the type restriction

Yeah, blink, exile-instead-of-dying effects, or exile removal/graveyard hate will all trigger it. Some abilities like Eternalize/embalm that exile for cost will trigger it, but notably things like Flashback won’t since they go on the stack and then exile themselves directly from there

Better UI and a better discover page mainly. Plus it’s gotten a lot of organic advertising just from luck and people talking about it, and no obvious competitor like Bluesky

Plotting exiles a card from the hand, this only looks at field and graveyard. Which is a shame, I think it would be more interesting to build around if it included suspend/plot/etc…

Sab-Sunen and Ketramose are new gods that were born after Bolas’ defeat

I guess they’re done with the fancy 3D animated trailers? That’s a shame, they did a lot that animated card art just can’t compare with

They’ll be in paper, I can’t tell if it’s just in foil or just in collector boosters though

As an aside, Tintin is probably my favorite IP in my life, and I will always love everything Tintin. But I don’t think I would buy a Tintin magic set at all, and in fact it would kind of make me feel weird. Tintin, a journalist set in the 20s/30s, grounded fully in reality and current events, is the exact opposite of magic and spellcasting. They make as much sense as peanut butter and tomato sauce together.

This is how I felt about Jurassic Park. My favorite movie of all time but I can’t seriously play a card with Sam Neil or Ian Goldbloom on it.

I wish they had given her a bob cut just to keep the joke going

One Ring and Amped Raptor were overdue but deserved. Jegantha doesn’t feel overpowered but the meta is probably better without it. Would have liked to see Bowmasters get hit too.

Those unbans though, they really went all out. I guess this is their apology for leaving Ring in the format for so long

Have we gone back down to 2 Commander decks? That seems more sustainable than the constant 4-5 each set. Also thank goodness we finally get a Temur energy commander. Mummies is surprising for the other one, I would have thought Vehicles for sure

We’re also missing Borborygmos, Enraged for Possibility Storm combo. It’s already on the client, so not sure why they didn’t include it unless they plan to release it somewhere else or just allow us to craft it

I guess it hasn’t seen enough play to be included, but it feels like one of those decks that’s just on the edge of being relevant

Forget all the other traditions, the true meaning of the season is a battle of rhymes with a skeletal horse

That’s the issue with the hard right candidates, people keep settling for Republican-lite Dems that don’t address core economic problems because they’re left in comparison, then predictably they lose to far right politicians when their moderate reforms don’t do anything other than provide temporary relief. We need actual left politicians to institute radical structural changes if we ever want to break this cycle. Or a revolution, but given the way this country is going I have no faith that the victors in that would be on the left

Price memory probably. It was expensive because of desirable cards and Dragons being very popular but those cards got reprinted later bringing the actual price of the cards down. The deck never got reprinted so it stayed at the inflated price.