It was also a miserable experience for those who did get in. Drafts barely fired and many creators ended up facing the same opponents up 3 times in a row. They really messed up by limiting the field of who got early access and hopefully they heard that loud and clear. It was better than no event with MKM but it was only went from a 0/10 to a 1.5/10 event. Hopefully they fix it by fully repairing the early access event and bringing great content creators like Nizzahon back.
I believe the draft archetypes are going to be: WU - Energy Control UB - Drawing cards BR - Affinity Aggro RG - Spawn Ramp GW - Modified WB - Auras BG - Adapt GU - Permanent Ramp UR - Energy Tempo RW - Energy Aggro With maybe a pure colorless archetype.
This might be the first set review I will have watched of Nizzahon where he has a lot of my beloved Colorless to go over. Kozilek the Great Distortion with a colorless Eldrazi deck behind him is my favorite deck to play and constantly update in EDH.
Seems like wastes are going to be high picks if are drafting eldrazi There is a bunch of bestow enchantment creatures as well so that will be something new for a lot of arena players.
AFAIK, the 8 face commanders and alternate commanders from the commander decks can show up in play boosters as well and are thus draftable. Don't know if this constitutes a "bonus sheet" but it's worth keeping in mind.
I play very casually, and was always unsure if the diamond colorless symbol had to be specifically uncolored mana. Thanks for clearing that up for me! Does that mean a commander must include a colorless symbol to include cards with specific colorless costs?
A Commander with the colorless symbol or just generic mana (Kozilek the Great Distortion vs Butcher of Truth) are both just colorless. You can only play cards without colored mana symbols in the deck. You can play cards with the colorless mana symbol in any commander deck, since colorless isn't a color. A colorless commander has no color identity.
No, commanders don't need to include colorless. Per rule 903.4: "the color identity of a card is the colors of any mana symbols in that card's mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities". Colorless and generic don't have colors, so they just don't contribute to color identity. This also means devoid does not remove color identity e.g. the writing crysalis is at least gruul.
@@bugsySA Good thing to mention. Though hopefully a colorless deck takes advantage of being able to play colorless lands and rocks with added utility. That's probably one of the best strengths of playing a colorless decks.
Do you think Wizard's should do "limited" horizon's sets, or cards that don't get printed in Standard/Modern? Then we could get the modal land/spells more often!
That writhing crysalis... I thought it was a junk RARE when i read it. common? Really? The fact that this is a common gets me more excited for the set than the cracked rares and mythics ive seen all over the place. Lol
I thought uncommon, but yeah. Personally, I'm impressed with 3/2 haste for 2. I wonder, did Wizards their math on 0 mana instant that wins you the game and 0 mana creature that does the same? How many years of power creep are we from there?
Good video, I hope I don't come off as annoying, but "generic" as always been the official term for a cost that can be paid for with any mana, it's even been used on many old cards. Magic using numbers for so long to represent both generic costs and colorless mana being generated, I can understand why some people might have conflated the two.
Are you sure the legality introducing reprints are a "bonus sheet"? They werent in MH1&2 so that doesnt sound correct to me. I would assume they are just part of the set.
They are definitely a bonus sheet. Bonus sheets weren't regular features of sets back when 1 and 2 were released. Now they are standard operating procedure.
@@NizzahonMagic Is there some benefit to doing it this way? Is it literally just to say "wow these cards are on the bonus sheet" and/or limit how many get printed because its not just in the set proper?
I am probably a minority but i hope they hold back with mdfc lands in particular. Just the fact that the last batch we got was all monocolored and besides the mythics all always taplands and now we get duals alongside (i think) all potentially untapped lands, i realy hope they dont cross the line with powercreep and, mostly for that reason, hope we don't see too many of them. That said reprinting existing ones is something i would welcome, the main problem here being that a lot of them have "planespecific" names.
Interesting that a older MTG player would like less mana consistency issues whereas a lot of players who are newer, more casual or who are only following MTG via content consumption would defend those issues as a core aspect of the game's skill cap.
If our guy here doesnt get into the early access draft again...
I noticed he's not making videos as part of their content creation program, maybe connected?
It was also a miserable experience for those who did get in. Drafts barely fired and many creators ended up facing the same opponents up 3 times in a row. They really messed up by limiting the field of who got early access and hopefully they heard that loud and clear. It was better than no event with MKM but it was only went from a 0/10 to a 1.5/10 event. Hopefully they fix it by fully repairing the early access event and bringing great content creators like Nizzahon back.
I believe the draft archetypes are going to be:
WU - Energy Control
UB - Drawing cards
BR - Affinity Aggro
RG - Spawn Ramp
GW - Modified
WB - Auras
BG - Adapt
GU - Permanent Ramp
UR - Energy Tempo
RW - Energy Aggro
With maybe a pure colorless archetype.
This might be the first set review I will have watched of Nizzahon where he has a lot of my beloved Colorless to go over. Kozilek the Great Distortion with a colorless Eldrazi deck behind him is my favorite deck to play and constantly update in EDH.
Seems like wastes are going to be high picks if are drafting eldrazi
There is a bunch of bestow enchantment creatures as well so that will be something new for a lot of arena players.
MH2 draft was always a blast this set is gonna be so fun
AFAIK, the 8 face commanders and alternate commanders from the commander decks can show up in play boosters as well and are thus draftable. Don't know if this constitutes a "bonus sheet" but it's worth keeping in mind.
Neat, thanks for that tidbit of info.
Could this bring about the advent of an Eldrazi Summer?
Hot Eldrazi Summer baby!
How can we spend time at the beach when we have lost all our lands. 🌊🤔
I play very casually, and was always unsure if the diamond colorless symbol had to be specifically uncolored mana. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Does that mean a commander must include a colorless symbol to include cards with specific colorless costs?
A Commander with the colorless symbol or just generic mana (Kozilek the Great Distortion vs Butcher of Truth) are both just colorless. You can only play cards without colored mana symbols in the deck.
You can play cards with the colorless mana symbol in any commander deck, since colorless isn't a color. A colorless commander has no color identity.
@@cax1175 related to this is command tower and arcane signet don’t tap for mana. Which is something that I’ve seen in brawl games before.
No, commanders don't need to include colorless. Per rule 903.4: "the color identity of a card is the colors of any mana symbols in that card's mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities". Colorless and generic don't have colors, so they just don't contribute to color identity. This also means devoid does not remove color identity e.g. the writing crysalis is at least gruul.
@@bugsySA Good thing to mention. Though hopefully a colorless deck takes advantage of being able to play colorless lands and rocks with added utility. That's probably one of the best strengths of playing a colorless decks.
Do you think Wizard's should do "limited" horizon's sets, or cards that don't get printed in Standard/Modern? Then we could get the modal land/spells more often!
My go to for new sets I care about, thank you
Does anyone have an idea what in person mh3 draft is going to cost?
That writhing crysalis... I thought it was a junk RARE when i read it. common? Really? The fact that this is a common gets me more excited for the set than the cracked rares and mythics ive seen all over the place. Lol
I thought uncommon, but yeah.
Personally, I'm impressed with 3/2 haste for 2.
I wonder, did Wizards their math on 0 mana instant that wins you the game and 0 mana creature that does the same?
How many years of power creep are we from there?
The Goblin isn't a 3/2 Haste for two -- it can't buff itself.
@@NizzahonMagic, oh, sorry! Thank you for your attention!
Good video, I hope I don't come off as annoying, but "generic" as always been the official term for a cost that can be paid for with any mana, it's even been used on many old cards. Magic using numbers for so long to represent both generic costs and colorless mana being generated, I can understand why some people might have conflated the two.
Yo, amped raptor is broken in burn
fury was just too much of an allstars LOL
Are you sure the legality introducing reprints are a "bonus sheet"? They werent in MH1&2 so that doesnt sound correct to me. I would assume they are just part of the set.
They are definitely a bonus sheet. Bonus sheets weren't regular features of sets back when 1 and 2 were released. Now they are standard operating procedure.
@@NizzahonMagic Is there some benefit to doing it this way? Is it literally just to say "wow these cards are on the bonus sheet" and/or limit how many get printed because its not just in the set proper?
Woooooo
Are we sure the draft isn't going to cost more than a normal arena draft? 🤔🤨
They posted a screenshot of mh3 quick draft and it has the normal price, so regular drafts should be the normal price.
@@bugsySA wizards is going to pull a fast one on us! 😧
Why the OU hat? Are you a graduate? BOOMER SOONER!
Yep, I got my PhD at OU.
I am probably a minority but i hope they hold back with mdfc lands in particular. Just the fact that the last batch we got was all monocolored and besides the mythics all always taplands and now we get duals alongside (i think) all potentially untapped lands, i realy hope they dont cross the line with powercreep and, mostly for that reason, hope we don't see too many of them.
That said reprinting existing ones is something i would welcome, the main problem here being that a lot of them have "planespecific" names.
All the mono color can enter untapped if you pay 3 life. The duals are tapped always
Interesting that a older MTG player would like less mana consistency issues whereas a lot of players who are newer, more casual or who are only following MTG via content consumption would defend those issues as a core aspect of the game's skill cap.
Well, I definitely don't like them in 60 card formats. But they make decisions during drafts much more interesting