M14 (Baseless Speculation and Spoilers)

[Birdbrain]

Yeah this new red card, pretty much screws {U} {W} control

http://mythicspoiler.com/m14/cards/mindsparker.html

i think some people at wizards remember when blue was running rampant and are scared it might scare off new players. Meanwhile, green and red are reaching that same level, and it looks like there passing the point of no return. If there going to make that guy, at least make one that hoses red/green aggro too

[Birdbrain]

This ^ coming from a guy who played gruul in dragons maze an likes the color combination

[Birdbrain]

Those of you who want control need to remember that there is plenty of control to make a good deck. Control outranks agro mostly in standard right now. I hope for an equal amount of both. They cant make control too overpowered you know.

I have to disagree.  Naya Blitz, and Aristocrats is ruling standard right now.  ESPER control is up there, but very little of it.  Yes control has good cards, but aggro seems to have 5 answers to each good card.  And on top of that, beaters that are just there that dominate their spot.  I want there to be archetypes again, not tap sideways every turn to attack.  White Weenie used to be a thing, so did burn.  What happened??

after looking at the core set as a whole, I see promises of archetypes. After all, there are cards supporting archetypes in this core set. Maybe that's the theme of theros, and there dual lands discourage greedy mana bases because they want to make an environment were archetypes can exist again

[rarehuntertay]

Regardless of whats in theros, I will still play RG... Have since 96/97

[Mlerner12]

so far I've only collected 3 of the ten guild gates, anybody have all ten?

lol, it was a serious question, I havnt bought all the gate crash and return to ravnica packs yet, I was just curious if someone had all of the guild gates. XD honest question, mate.

I have playsets of all ten in both arts

Yeah dode. Couldn't tell if magic still had things tap sideways. But whatever

What? I thought we had to turn them upside down now! or are we supposed to throw them at our opponent to tap them, and pick them up to untap? Gooby pls

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[JustAWalrus]

Who esle is pre ordering playsets and / or a booster box

[Silent1236]

I already ordered a playset of that 3 drop paladin dude.  So sweet.

[JustAWalrus]

I want

4 awaken the ancient
2 chandras phoenix
4 Goblin diplomats
4 mindsparker
4 scourge of valkas
3 shock
And 4 young pyromancer

I also want 4 burning earth to punish junk esper naya and jund but SCG.com is out of stock

But i might not order them till after i open my pre release packs and my box

[imthelolrus]

Kinda disappointed outside of a few random EDH stuff, a few slivers, ooze and  {Mutavault} reprint. Won't preorder anything but I'll be looking for a few cards

[Wally]

What are everyone's thoughts about Elite Arcanist?

I thought it would be amazing with some of the 1 drop spells out there. {Silence} for example. {Savage Summoning} would be another.

[ChrisRodriguez]

What are everyone's thoughts about Elite Arcanist?

I thought it would be amazing with some of the 1 drop spells out there. {Silence} for example. {Savage Summoning} would be another.

I think he's a weaker {Panoptic Mirror}, but it should be fun using him in edh with {Time Warp} and the other powerful spells in that format. In standard I don't see him getting much play, and that's sad. He will be a fun card.

[Mikefrompluto]

What are everyone's thoughts about Elite Arcanist?

I thought it would be amazing with some of the 1 drop spells out there. {Silence} for example. {Savage Summoning} would be another.

I think it's a bit fragile being a 2/1 creature. But it is {U} so there's bounce effects and counters to protect it. Super sweet if you have two out, one with {negate} to protect them, and another to do whatever else you want to do. Four cards is an awfully big commitment, however.

[Wally]

firstly its only instants, so no time warp.
secondly its only a 1/1 so its even weaker.

like you said, its a bit of commitment, but really, in the right deck you will already be running counters and such, so i dont see him being much of a stretch.
what i dont like is that i will need to find a way to give it haste so its actually usable.
also clone is a reprint, so he will sit right in there beside him.

[Mikefrompluto]

Yeah I'm definitely going to try him out in standard. A reuseable counterspell is a good thing. Even if it's only ever used to keep himself on the board, they're still burning up all of their spells trying to get rid of it.

[Coffee Vampire]

{Quicken} reprint just made it all worth it. .love. yes.