This is really cool actually, I love products like this and Bloomburrow is the perfect set for it

This seems really good, either early or late game. Kind of like Shark Typhoon in a weird way.

I think it homogenizes everything it touches, to be honest. The cards are purposefully designed to be more powerful every release, and every time they do one it squeezes out more and more older cards. Even Vintage seems to not be immune from these sets.

Oh good correction there, that I can’t speak for 😅

IMO I think we ultimately see 3 UB sets per year, 3 “in universe” i.e. Magic sets per year, and 2 Horizons/Remastered type sets per year. You can’t really pump a set shorter than 6 weeks, and it seems like 8 or 9 sets is the upper bound on what they can release each year.

It was unwatchable, almost every game was Boros Energy vs Boros Energy, or you could get lucky and see Boros Energy vs. Jeskai Energy, oops I mean Jeskai Control. 32 copies of Galvanic Discharge in the top 8 decks!

I understand that Amazon is a way a lot of players buy cards, but… I don’t think it comes with the buy-a-box promo? It also feels kinda bad that they’re essentially drawing customers away from shopping at their LGS.

I completely agree. Honestly, this seems like the direction they’re going and it just totally screws over the LGS market. It’s clear as day they want to scrape every available penny from every product they sell, but this is all at the expense of the game stores that have been a huge part of Magic’s history and success.

Magic: The Gathering® – Assassin’s Creed® Bundles

Just want to say, I strongly recommend NOT buying the Assassin’s Creed bundle. It doesn’t even come with an oversized d20, they included a normal size solid black dice w/ red numbers. It looks like a pre-release dice.

The 7-card packs each contain a land in one of the cards, so you’re getting 6 cards really. And they’re charging $65 for these instead of the normal $40!

If there are AC cards you want I would strongly suggest buying them as singles, you cannot even build 2 sealed decks with the cards you get from this bundle which is what I normally try to do with the cards whenever I get one.

I forgot how much I love Susan Van Camp’s artwork. This really brings you back to the older game.

Sometimes I look at these cards and I just cannot believe how many words are printed lol. This is such a wall of text, no wonder they had to shorten “enters the battlefield” to just “enters”. This seems really strong to me.

I honestly think they’re going to try selling these for $3, which is absolutely bonkers nuts but I think their plan was to raise the “normal” booster price and then sell this garbage for around the original booster price.

I think Guide of Souls is the real issue here. Ocelot Pride and Phlage are certainly pushing it over the top, but Guide of Souls is just an insane card for 1 mana and I don’t see how it doesn’t get nerfed in Historic at some point.

What I see is them asking $270 (!!!) for 120 cards. 12 boosters of 10 cards each, for $270 is just insanity to me. Right out of the gate you’re spending $2.25 per CARD. The first and last collector booster box I ever opened was for Neon Dynasty and even those 12 packs felt bad given the cost. I remember trying to stretch it out over two days. This feels even worse for the same exact price and I just cannot understand who is paying it.

I just pin some posts with more active discussion on them, usually just for a day or two

The Plains made me instantly think of Gaea’s Cradle

Saw this on the reddit thread and did a real lol:

It’s a value booster for their shareholders

Yeah that’s a very good point. If WoTC starts getting their lunch eaten by a rival game (cough Sorcery Contested Realm cough) or if anything else happens that starts tanking demand then I could definitely see them selling it off for the short term gain while they “regroup on traditional games in their product lineup”.

We’ve come a long way since the beloved Spirit of the Night, this is 4 mana less and has some decent removal built into it. I think Maha is a lot better sadly.

It’ll never happen, but the only way to make Magic better for the players is if Hasbro sold off WoTC. I can’t even come up with a scenario that would cause them to sell, it seems to be the only thing keeping them alive.

That could actually be fun. Especially with the lower powered packs. The person who opens a rare would be like the one-eyed among the blind 😆

What’s kinda funny is that the 7 card packs don’t even make it around the table once in a draft lol