Magic the Gathering Arena

[Scruffy]

just in case, it might have happened you left something out, I'll update this whenever I remember:

Spoiler

PlayAllegiance 3 Ravnica Allegiance Packs
PlayRavnica 3 Guild of Ravnica Packs
PlayWarSpark 3 War of the Spark Packs
OneBillion 1 War of the Spark Pack

ParallaxPotion - Revitalize
SuperScry - Opt
FoilFungus - Deathbloom Thallid
ShinyGoblinPirate - Fanatical Firebrand
SparkleDruid - Druid of the Cowl

STARTERSTYLES
Luminous Bonds
Divination
Doomed Dissenter
Viashino Pyromancer
Llanowar Elves
Meteor Golem
Special Arena sleeve

OverTheMoon - Arlinn, Voice of the Pack
INNERDEMON - Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
SHIELDSUP - Teyo, the Shieldmage
WRITTENINSTONE - Nahiri, Storm of Stone

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

London mulligan rule going live the same time as M20 hits too, of course. So people can always have it in their opening hand.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

just in case

i guess we are not getting codes for new starter decks like we were supposed to?

They might do that when rotation hits since they'll have to make new starter decks anyway. And given the current starter decks they'll probably sprinkle a tiny amount of goodshit from other existing sets in there, like one mythic a deck or something. And rotation comes with the set after M20 I think.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

hey'll have to make new starter decks anyway

i thought they already did that? As in right now newbies are getting different starters than we did

I don't think so. They just rejiggered the "New player experience" by adding unlock-trees rather than giving you extra daily quests to unlock the starters and shit. So new players were getting the same cards/decks, they were just getting them in a different way (And getting the styles which were new, but that's what the starterstyles code is for).

I think that's a pretty cool card too. Your opponent will still be able to tutor something to the top of the deck (Since Ashiok only cockblocks deck searching on spells/abilities your opponents control, and you'd be triggering it from your own spell) but of course you can then just immediately mill over whatever your opponent put there. Still might be awkward with command the dreadhorde but fuggit.
M20 is gonna get released on Arena on July 2nd, so really goddamn close. Rotation hits and knocks pirates out around September or October which is when the next set after M20 should be arriving.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

i love this

art, effect, cost

 

[Jason Liang]

Scheming Symmetry would be much more fun as an instant and also the art reminds me of Medusa's snake dick ~

Veil of Summer - now this is what I love: green giving blue an assdicking

Dragon Mage - combo with Narset!

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

M20 is gonna get released on Arena on July 2nd, so really goddamn close. Rotation hits and knocks pirates out around September or October which is when the next set after M20 should be arriving.

what about 2019? will we have both 2020 and 2019 for brief period?

Correct. It's weird but we'll have like 3 months with both M19 and M20 in standard.

 

[spectre]

This is interesting, I thought straight up protection from color was something we won't be seeing ever again, much less in a nublet-oriented coreset.
I also thought they'd be promoting Bo1 more, and the coreset has plenty of strictly sideboard stuff.

While I really don't like their recent love affair with planeswankers, it's actually starting to grow on me. Wonder what the rare lands will be.

 

[Jason Liang]

kills Ravager and Walking Ballista in Modern.

Makes the foil Verdant Gearhulks I invested in last year very sad

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[spectre]

Yeah, a good chunk of the 2020 looks like sideboard galore. Wonder how it'll affect Bo1 drafting. I hated drafting 2019 with a passion, so eh.

On the other hand, it's nice to have a good bank of sideboard shit. People have been bitching about RDW, thought erasure, and pretty much everything.
They can now be told to fuck off and mull for Leyline of Sanctity

We can't be trusted to have proper wraths, but it makes a decent ersatz. Nice art, single line of text. Nice and clean. Good to have a final solution to the planeswanker problem.

Seems like we're getting scrylands this time round. Can't say I'll be eagerly spending my rare WCs on those. Could have made this shit uncommon, or give us tri-colors.

Seems like standard will start really slow post-rotation.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Damn those arts look cool tho

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[spectre]

Sheming Symmetry does look like an old timey tutor, would fit quite well in the old border. Most stuff by Seb McKinnon does.
I hope they use Kevin Walker's shit for something good for a change. I've always been a fan of this guy, and they use his shit for... fucking Carrion Imp. That this was barely limited-worthy.

Yeah, basic lands really aren't the same without Rob Alexander. I mean just look at this shit:

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Wew, those scrylands are really shit for being rares. Even after rotation and we lose the checklands I'm not sure people are going to give much of a damn about the scrylands. Color-hungry decks'll still run them over taplands, sure, but the benefit's so small there's no reason to craft them over guildgates. Like Spectre said they seem more like uncommons.

I'm most used to the old original land art just because that's what I've got fat stacks of. Still got lands from other old sets but the vast majority is unlimited/revised/4th edition from when I was first getting into paper, then less of later sets just because I leaned more toward boosters. The Ravnica lands are pretty shitty (Although they're consistent which is good for multicolor decks I guess) but like Spectre's example there is more enjoyable weird-land. I like 'em best when it's obvious what the land type is that's being depicted even if it's otherwise strange, like floating around in the sky. One notable exception is this island in standard though, just really fucking like it even though it's weird and doesn't even really show an island.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Yeah that island is awesome. Reminds me of vaporwave or something

damn the card arts in this set are super cool. Also unsummon seems p cheap for a bounce

 

[Scruffy]

so, who's got a decent ravnica-only deck?

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Huh. That's interesting but doesn't really seem worth it. If it let you take 3 mana of any color combination then you'd be cooking with gas, probably too much gas, but seems a little fucky. I guess there are a fair few cards in M20 that interact with graveyard land though so maybe there's something there.