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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 5:07AM
#101
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That...was actually pretty funny. Certainly towers above most homemade sketch videos. I snickered throughout almost the entire pack-selection strategy, as well as the shuffling part.
Zindaras' meta is like a fossil, ancient and its secrets yet to be uncovered. Only men of yore, long dead, knew of it.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 2:23PM
#102
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I don't always post comments about Daily MtG content, but when I do, it's because they show me terrible, unfunny videos.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 3:20PM
#103
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I must admit, that video was pretty hilarious.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 9:19PM
#104
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Jun 14, 2006
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No, that video was tragically bad and a waste of my time, especially when I had to sit through a 30-goddamn-second advertisement first.
From the Vault: Realms
Manufacturer's Suggest Retail Price: $35
Retailer's Actual Retail Price: $350
Hopefully you're right so I don't have to give a damn that WotC's idea of making the modern manabase "accessible" to all players is to release a set of one each that isn't going to be sold at MSRP anywhere on this planet.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 9:23PM
#105
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The art is obviously Thawing Glaciers. Other shoo-ins are Dark Depths, Treetop Village, Rishadan Port and Gaea's Cradle/Tolarian Academy. Less certain are Bazaar of Baghdad and Mishra's Workshop.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 9:25PM
#106
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I can't see the From the Vault: A Bunch Of Lands thing being that appealing, unless they do something awesome like include the ten Ravnica Shocklands. Though if they included all ten, that's not much variety, and almost certainly would not be selling for $35 anywhere.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 9:40PM
#107
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May 27, 2011
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"From the Vault: Realms" I think a better name for this would be "From the Vault: Hey let's rub it in that we haven't done away with the reserved list yet and not reprint any of the legendary lands that people actually care about."
The fact that there are only 38 legendary lands in all of Magic will really throw into sharp relief the lands that are not included in this set because of the reserved list (Tolarian Academy, Gaea's Cradle, Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Volrath's Stronghold, etc.) With the other FTV sets, the categories were broad enough that the identity of the sets wasn't strongly associated with cards on the reserved list. Legendary lands, however, are very strongly associated with the aforementioned cards that are on the reserved list, so it seems insulting to make a set about legendary lands with the knowledge that you can't include those.
It's akin to making a FTV set with a "Goblin" theme and not including Goblin Lackey, Goblin Guide, Goblin Piledriver, Siege-Gang Commander, Goblin Matron, Goblin Recruiter, or any of the goblin lords.
EDIT: And the announcement does specify that all of the lands are legendary lands. So Thawing Glaciers, for example, will not be included (though that would be sweet).
EDIT 2: Nevermind. From Twitter: "From the Vault Realms is not all 'Legendary Land's it is an unfortunate phrasing. Am fixing now."
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 9:45PM
#108
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"From the Vault: Realms" I think a better name for this would be "From the Vault: Hey let's rub it in that we haven't done away with the reserved list yet and not reprint any of the legendary lands that people actually care about." The fact that there are only 38 legendary lands in all of Magic will really throw into sharp relief the lands that are not included in this set because of the reserved list (Tolarian Academy, Gaea's Cradle, Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Volrath's Stronghold, etc.) With the other FTV sets, the categories were broad enough that the identity of the sets wasn't strongly associated with cards on the reserved list. Legendary lands, however, are very strongly associated with the aforementioned cards that are on the reserved list, so it seems insulting to make a set about legendary lands with the knowledge that you can't include those. It's akin to making a FTV set with a "Goblin" theme and not including Goblin Lackey, Goblin Guide, Goblin Piledriver, Siege-Gang Commander, Goblin Matron, Goblin Recruiter, or any of the goblin lords.
It's not specifically Legendary lands, and there are plenty of great non-legendary lands.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 10:08PM
#109
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Wasteland.
Bazaar and Workshop are on the reserved list.
I doubt we'll see a cycle like fetches or duals, just because there are only 15 cards in the set.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 28, 2012 - 10:19PM
#110
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Sep 29, 2010
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1. Non-basic lands are almost the best card type in the game (artifacts are the real best)
2. They CAN'T make a worse Vault set than Legends. Really. That was inadvertently warped by the Commander format to end up not feeling quite as cool as the other From the Vault series sets.
3. The art looks to me like it could be Thawing Glaciers or Dark Depths. Dark Depths is nearly a guaranteed IN card.
4. The odds of getting one Ravnica Shock Land, no more or less, is pretty high IMO.
5. The odds of getting 2 Ravnica Shock Lands, while less certain, isn't unthinkable.
6. Wizards MIGHT just, you know, decide to screw the Reserved List, and announce that this has Library of Alexandria and Bazaar of Baghdad and Underground Sea and Maze of Ith and some other redonculous stuff. I'm waiting for the Mothership to confirm or deny this rumor I'm hereby starting. I want to have something to dream for. :p
7. Looking back at FTV: Legends, Valakut the Molten Pinnacle and Reflecting Pool are strong candidates, tbh. And frankly, Raging Ravine or Celestial Colonnade ARE special as 'really Big man lands that saw major constructed play'. Did Faeries have any particular Lands associated? Oh, and you can bet Eye of Ugin will be so absolutely freaking in. Yeah, 'FTV: Zendikar' sounds as neat as 'FTV: Alara', but....at least Lands are much more broadly useful than gold creatures. :p
8. If Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth isn't in this, I'm going to cry. And it will confirm that Wizards habitually misses balls. Especially the really freaking obvious ones.
9. I wonder if Seat of the Synod or Vault of Whispers will actually be in it? Very unusual to pick a common like those, but....they DID get Banned In Standard, you know. Even WITH the many reprints that cycle has had, in whole and in parts....I'm not ruling them out either.
So-- we'll probably have a high-profile 'represent' Land from each of the major Planes: Dominaria, Kamigawa, Zendikar, Mirrodin, Ravnica, Lorwyn/Shadowmoor, and Alara.
Alara and Zendikar have the highest chance of getting more than one spot.
Dominaria, Mirrodin, and Ravnica will be the source of the most coveted ones.
I think that sums it up pretty adequately.
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