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Hey professor can you please make an episode of addressing the shrinkflation... You made a video talking about them increasing the prices soon.... But I think you're overlooking that they're including even less and less booster packs every set that's come out for the last three sets and if you look at the commander Legends set boosters as an example you'll see that it's 15 card boosters and there's only 18 booster packs in it compared to new capena which for the same price was 30 packs of 15 cards.... And it's 24 packs of 20 cards and you might say oh but these draft booster boxes have 20 card packs that's why you get less packs but if you add up the amount of cards you get you're getting less cards than the previous set draft booster box even though the packs contain more cards in them.... So I've seen them go from 36 packs to 30 packs to 24 packs the same goes for the set booster boxes... And nobody's talking about that
Im so glad my playgroup hasnt made 3cmc mana rocks obsolete. Hearing everyone online go on and on about how anything above 2 mana is worthless just makes me appreciate my playgroup even more.
It's not the power level you play at that makes 3cmc rocks bad. Use whatever rocks you want, but they're inherently worse than 2cmc rocks in most cases.
@@employee4275 We all run a mix of both, but the amount of 2cmc rocks is very low incomparison to 3cmc ones. Its partially an agreed upon thing to do to slow the games down. Sure, 2cmc ones ARE better. But the 3cmc ones are not bad, theyre just not THE BEST so most of the MTG youtubers have shoved them aside calling them trash.
I always buy singles but only if I want the card .. SO why don't we approach buying sealed in this way? Only buy sealed for the joy it'll brings you, not for the gamble. Be okay with dud pulls. Or keeping it on your self for nostalgia. But I only crack what I will enjoy, regardless of their market value.
@@mindlightwave strictly for the nostalgia, that's the reason I bought a ridiculously overpriced Alara Premium Foil booster pack. Cracking it made my early days of magic wash through my memory for an awesome dopamine rush. P.S. I HATE buying boosters.
Shrinkflation...less cards same price... Why are set boosters not 20 cards in a pack with 20 card boosters??? Sounds like I'm complaining about something that's not an issue... Of course there's less packs in the set booster boxes because there's more cards in the pack except there's not the last set booster boxes from new capena had 30 packs of 15 cards this one is 18 packs of 15 cars for the same price tamagawa set booster boxes were 30 packs of 15 cards are you telling me that the 18 packs of 15 cards in Commander Legends battles for baldur's gate are worth more than those two
I REALLY hate how fast wizards is producing stuff and I haven’t had a chance to enjoy Kamigawa ☹️ this just makes me sad and like they are rushing their products instead of taking time to develop it. Once every 3 months for a new set would be alright I think, even the 4months was 3 new sets a year, two normal and one commander focused then on top of those they have the unsets and modern focus they could put out plus alllll the other product that comes with each set too. 🤷♂️ there is a lot of space for good content and instead we get too many sets that really aren’t as anticipated or exciting
I agree with you in that. When kanigawa released at the beginning of the year I just bought a handful of packs. Only this weekend when new cappenna starting being more dominant in draft did I ask my lgs store owner for a draft booster box of kamigawa. I pulled some pretty good cards for my commander decks and i had enough multiple cards left over to make a decent standard deck. They are flooding the market too quickly!
Can't even finish brewing up and deck from a set before the next batch of legends are announced and my interest in building the last set's legendary creatures is gone. Absolutely coming out too quickly. They're over saturating the market with too much commander product.
I actually bought a box and went to a prerelease for the first time in over a year. I normally never buy a box but I thought the set looked like a lot of fun, I think more dice rolling mechanics are great which I want more of, and dnd is pretty cool so I want more sets like it. Though even then having so many new sets every year is exhausting.
The sapphic format is crazy, I've been playing it for quite awhile and there actually is extra support specifically for this month. A lot of big box retail stores are also giving out on going promotions for the sapphic format but its usually pretty bad because they give you poorly made cards and use the money you give them to actively try and destroy the format from casual play. Anyways, Happy Pride!
Some of us have been playing since the EDH (Elder Dyke Highlander) days! I think they should stop making "made for EDH cards" (too many token generators) and fix the problems inherent to the system. The first deck was a RG Riot theme! Happy pride.
If Old Gnawbone can exist, then so can Ancient Copper Dragon. You can argue neither should, and that would be fair. But this is the power creep environment that exists when Wizards decided to actually recognize the format and push cards into it to sell product.
It isn’t as good as everyone thinks. In terms of raw power, it is a good effect. However, raw power, power in a vacuum is not the deciding factor in how cards perform. Goldspan Dragon is far better than it for that exact reason. Swings 2 turns faster, and I suspect that in most cases, making a bajillion mana vs about 6 mana in the same period of time is just going to be win more. You can totally abuse it if you try, but there are a lot of cards that are “broken if you just have x” and most of the time, a card with such a powerful effect that has no protection other than a very common form of evasion is not very likely to survive one round around the table.
@@DrewskiTheLegend But that's the thing. In red, having such a dragon that only needs one single good swing, and can do so in a very very very early stage, is what makes Ancient Copper dragon so yucky. It doesn't need to "survive one round around the table" because you sneak it in with sneak attack effects and then reap the reward from the massive mana jolt you suddenly get, and can be done so even in Mono Red. It's not as toxic as many combo pieces are, but I would've been happy if Ancient Copper Dragon instead just said "Roll a D20, then deal as much damage as it rolls to any target." Cheating in large amounts of mana or playing things for free is two out of three of the things that are the most powerful thing in the game, the third one being drawing lots of cards.
Another plus for Ancient Copper Dragon.... red also is the color that can give double strike :) Also not mentioned, but I think Battle Angels of Tyr is going to be a really good one. It's low cost and having myriad does give it the possibility to triggering the treasure token, life gain, and card draw every time it attacks. Another card, even though a lot of players shy away from 3 mana mana rocks, I do think the no maximum hand size while also being able to generate colored mana makes Decantur of Endless Water a pretty decent card, obviously worse than Thought Vessel the fewer colors you're playing with, but having redundancy on the no max handsize alone makes it worth considering in many decks.
I'm tired of treasure tokens really, they keep appearing everywhere, every set, every color, it's exhausting, it really feels like it homogenizes a lot of games, I wish it was kept as an exclusive red mechanic like a power crept ritual, but now you can make them as you sneeze.
It seems like overcompensating, but i think it is really important that they keep printing white card draw. Every color has lot's of card draw to choose from, so there are always cheap effective options for people that can't afford rhystic study, necropotence, sylvan library, jeskas will etc. .White doesn't have as much card draw to choose from as the other colors so if you can't afford esper sentinel, mangara the diplomat or archmage of oghma you are happy that cards like secret rendevouz or cut a deal exist. It honestly makes me kinda sad that people are bored of white card draw...
it does not only seem like overcompensating but i think it was maro who directly said they are providing now white with better card draw then they usually would to make white more competitive with the other colors. And while we are talking about white card draw: don't forget (or rather overlook) the new card "Your Temple Is Under Attack". a great modal white card draw or protection spell. It looks even solid for decks with other good card draw colors in it.
Ancient Copper Dragon also looks like he would pair well with Henzie “Toolbox” Torre. Blitz the dragon out for five or even less and get that treasure. Hell, why not get the black and green dragons too?
This has literally been the time for Dragon Tribal in Commander. The Dragons in this set and the dragons in Kamigawa really open up a lot of plays with plenty of Dragon Commanders to choose from to use all five colors. Definitely a year for singles in Dragon Tribal.
@@jamdaham9054 Back when the 2017 commander decks came out, I drove around to four different stores to find one of the Ur-Dragon decks. SOOOOOOO worth looking for at the time!!!
I really appreciate how the prof will adjust his language to try to make sure he's addressing magic players at all ages, and not a specific genre of player.
At the prerelease I drafted an ancient gold dragon and a legion loyalty. Through making treasure token I got my dragon out on turn 5 and played legion loyalty on the following turn where I was able to swing and connect with each opponent. I rolled 2 15’s and a 17… we didn’t play commander, it was a game of archenemy.
Can I just say Professor I love that you have the Death Gate cycle books on the shelf... For years I have watched that shelf and some things have moved but the Death Gate cycle has never moved.
The new smothering carpet (i think that's it's name) is a sweet little soft stax piece that helps chunk off the life total of whoever is storming off on their turn. Even more exciting is the mirror of life trapping for a psuedo-portcullis effect that synergises with etb effects.
Every new set has must have cards for Prosper, it's incredible! It's becoming challenging to keep up and upgrade my deck every time a new set comes around, and frankly a bit tiring
“Great reprints” that’s news to me considering I can’t think of many reprints I’d have wanted to see outside of the Bond lands WHICH SHOULD BE REPRINTED IN EVERY PRECON. I know why there’s minimal reprints tho; gotta save that for Double masters, ami fucking right! (Pain)
What was that voice crack at 7:14? Either way, love the vid! I forgot about Cut a Deal, and I’m glad you mentioned it, because I want to put all kinds of cards like that in my new Gluntch deck!
I've really enjoyed the draft / prerelease format of this set, defo agree that you shouldn't buy the set boosters though! most of the good edh reprints in this set are actually at Common / Uncommon, and most of the rares and mythics aren't pricey at all as singles.
Most of the reprint value is in the precons lol... Party time in particular. Luckily for me I got a few opponent lands and an archivist of oghma in my draft as well as a borderless bramble sovreign.
Yeah I'm going to have a lot of fun with this draft season. It would be a real shame if it was overshadowed by the next set within a month. Good thing that won't happen haha...
White card advantage is a good surprise with this set, but it feels almost a bit too much, for white at least. Especially the gnome guy that is just a repeatable fetchland with flash
They will become new staples and cost a fortune for the next couple of years XD. But since i barely play with white and only splashes of it, I can and WILL ignore it thankfully.
Archivist is an amazing pick but im surprised to see Deep Gnome Terramancer not on the list. It works like typical white catch up ramp but with out the catch up limitation.
The mythic dragons are great, but this set has some great dragons at lower rarities and, more importantly, lower mana values. One of the challenges of dragon decks like Ur-Dragon is that nearly every playable dragon has a high mana value, so the deck struggles in the early turns and just tries to ramp before it's overwhelmed by faster decks. Cheap dragons that block early and help late? Yes please. Scaled Nurturer is a Llanowar Elves. Swashbucker Extraordinaire is a poor-man's Atarka. Crystal Dragon is a regrowth for your best cards on a dragon body. Renari, Merchant of Revels gives your dragons flash. This set has toys for every dragon deck imaginable, and for some new ones too. Miirym might replace Ur-Dragon as my commander of choice for the deck.
I think treasures have done a lot of damage to magics mana base and ecosystem. Part of the flavour and charm of magic is the lands and mana system is about expression, treasures dilutes that and makes the game feel more ubiquitous and fast. Sadly I think it’s already too late to undo some of the damage treasure tokens have done, but it’s not too late to print some treasure hate cards to fight them and deter players from running it in too many situations. Cards like ‘treasures enter tapped’ or ‘whenever an opponent sacrifices a treasure, they take 1 life’.
I am higher than Argyle right now to introduce Ancient Copper Dragon to my Rionya deck. Im gonna make so much damned treasure that there'll be a Dies to Removal episode about it damn it!
Some lgs kept the rebate of 2 set boosters included with a prerelease kit. It was rebalancing the price as set booster were worth more this time. The problem with that list is that I wanted a lot more card than only the top 8 . Add reflecting pool and command tower, artefact like the diamond, swiftfoot boots, blade os selves and basilisk collar,most of legendary creature that can become a commander, the gates to upgrade my gate deck and many more. There is some sleepers like campfire or rug of smothering that will fit well in some decks. So in the end I am closer to the price of some boxes with some singles
the Ancient Dragons also work well with Double Strike. They're on combat damage, not attack, after all. Double Strike is Double Damage is 2d20 Treasures. (And, y'know, 12 damage to a player)
I made a deck using Neera and the Displacer Kitten. Only "creatures" in it aside from them are instants/sorceries that make tokens so I can eventually go infinite with Grapeshot, Ral, Storm Conduit, or Aria of Flame.
Use Wild Magic Surge agents themed decks is not so good. Like The Ur-Dragon. use it on a dragon and I can get, Tiamat, Utvara hellkitre, Broodmate dragon or Balefire dragon to name a few.
I’ve already designed a Boros deck with the new legendary Duke guy, and the focus is ETB and Combat Damage value by giving Myriad to dragons. It’s pretty freaking good. Lol ok I started typing this before you even mentioned Myriad, yeah it’s pretty clear how good this combo potential is.
To the suggestions you made towards the end of #1 being Ancient Copper Dragon and splash in some Boros shenanigans, I think Ancient Gold Dragon + Dragon Tempest would each get a slot in my 99. Great video as always, Prof!
No new sets were released... but there were 14 new Secret Lairs announced, including the brand new "Secret LairXRiverdale" and "Secret LairXPaw Patrol"
Monster Manual was one of my favorites from this set that was not included in your video. I put it in my Tiamat deck and it's so fun being able to cheat in a Dragon.
Brand new to the game, I just bought one of the dual starter decks. Should I buy a booster box and upgrade or buy one of the Card Kingdoms battle decks and build upon that? Thanks in advance, absolutely love the content!
I really like Archavist, just at first glance - Tempt With Discovery is one option, but that think of all the other things this boosts: Path to Exile? They get to choose, which means either I get free card draw, or a 1cmc exile spell with no downside. Field of Ruin is a guaranteed draw-three. Scheming Symmetry lets you draw _and_ tutor something to the top (preferably followed by something to mill your opponent). This card is a sneaky little powerhouse in the right deck.
Only reason I am buying a box is to have a draft with my little cousins. Im buying this as an experience for us and that is going t be it from this set for me
Wild Mage Surge isn't bad in a red deck, either to kill a goblin no longer serving its purpose or if someone is going to kill your guy, blocking or otherwise, instant into play and get one of your own creatures
Ancient Silver Dragon is definitely a must in any deck that can run blue and more so if your commander can make creatures unlockable such as Kaseto Orochi Archmage
Thank you for this video prof ! I was getting a bit tired of eternal spoiler season, so I skipped this set entirely. Your video helped me get an idea of what cards I might still want to get !
me only playing standard *understandable, have a great day* i miss standard content, especially since standard is kinda on a fine spot rn with midrange decks coming back to the front seat :(
Best financial advice I've heard in quite a while. Personally disappointed CLB does line up with CLR. Really needs a dramatic price adjustment from Hasbro. Thankfully there a nice precons.
I know it doesn't go into every deck, but the card I am most excited for is Battle Angels of Tyr. My Giada deck (formerly Lyra) will love it. Other than that, I'll probably buy the Party precon for pieces, Wilson for my bear deck and that's kind of it.
I love the impertinence of MTG™ sets on release, mixed with Prof's panic-states, intermingled with sponsor segments. It all seems like a giant layered kerfuffle... is it a parfait or an onion?
See while Ancient Copper Dragon is the most universally good of the five, Ancient Silver Dragon fits in perfectly with Scion of the Ur-Dragon. If an opponent is foolish enough to let him through, you are two mana and a die roll away from a massive advantage for the entire game.
Ancient Copper Dragon feels like one of the most pushed cards in the recent year(s). It's a buy it now or never card, because that price is not going to drop... ever. Or you can just proxy it, HEY!
I predict in 6 months it will be $20 max. Once people realize that it will just be killed immediately because it’s a big threat with no protection that costs 6 and doesn’t do anything the turn you cast it in most cases.
With all the new white card draw, (and let's be honest, it already had more ramp than any grixis colour,) I feel like we can stop saying white needs fixing. People are forgetting that mono decks are already weak, and by now I feel mono-white isn't really that much weaker at all than any of the other mono coloured decks (Besides maybe mono green).
"more ramp than any grixis colour" That's both true and wrong. Red Black is able of way more explosive ramp than white will ever be. But it's true that white "ramps" better land-wise, between landtax, WW, the two new buddies, smothering tithe and racoon study. However, I wouldn't say white no longer needs fixing (it's in a decent position but very stuck in a specific gameplay - stax); and I disagree that mono-white is at level with other mono coloured; but I'd say it's more due to the lack of a really really strong commander like other colours can have. Yawmgoth/Krrik, Urza, Magda, Selvala and Yissan are so bonkers that it's quite hard to find a decent comparison in white. Heliod is decent but only pushes the stax problem further, Adeline is interesting but lacks consistency (and kinda feels like a bad Najeela), LightPaw is cute but definitely not good enough to be reliable in cEdh, ... just my two cents.
I think 3 Mana rocks with any kind of useful utility are absolutely playable. E.g the 3-mana red dragon mana orb, that produces R but also gives haste to a Dragon you cast with it, basically acelerates your Dragon's attack by two turns. (one turn, because ramp lets you cast things a turn sooner and one turn, because it grants haste.) turn 1: mana dork turn 2: dragon orb turn 3: play a beefy 5-6 mana Dragon with haste (6 if Ur-Dragon with his eminence ability is your commander) It's not exactly cEDH, but if your casual group likes to play "fair" magic, this is a satisfying sequence of play. A turn two signet is still just as good, especially if it comes into play untapped and lets you cast another 2-mana spell (if you played a manadork turn 1) but I'm not arguing that 3 mana rocks are better, just that they are very playable still, if they have actual utility, unlike a lot of vanilla 3-mana rocks. Say, Darksteel Imgot, where very few decks (artifact animation) can make use of the indestructibility.
Draft is so fun, and so is opening packs. I got a set booster box but mainly to build my collection. Totally buy singles if you got a specific strategy in mind. Also there's been so much treasure and artifact bs going around, I'm gonna just start running artifact hate in my control decks.
I've honestly been lukewarm about this set. It feels like it's got 2 focuses, one for Draft, and another for Commander specific, which mean's it's chasing two targets at once. I don't want to draft for fear of getting expensive, but dead cards, that only have value in my pod. And I don't wanna crack set packs for fear of cards that only have value in draft. Plus, this is expensive per pack! I'll be waiting to make purchases until I see what the market does, except for the Pre-Cons. Everything buy the Kamigawa pre-cons have been LGS day 1 purchases for me because of the sheer number I've cannibalized for cards for my other decks. It's cheaper for me to buy them than to buy singles, oddly enough.
Prof do you think we will get another Phyrexian Altar in double masters 2? It needs a reprint! It has doubled in price the last 2 years and on track to do that again in ‘22.
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Cut a Deal sucks in my 95 man Commander games, I always deck out instantly
Hey professor can you please make an episode of addressing the shrinkflation... You made a video talking about them increasing the prices soon.... But I think you're overlooking that they're including even less and less booster packs every set that's come out for the last three sets and if you look at the commander Legends set boosters as an example you'll see that it's 15 card boosters and there's only 18 booster packs in it compared to new capena which for the same price was 30 packs of 15 cards.... And it's 24 packs of 20 cards and you might say oh but these draft booster boxes have 20 card packs that's why you get less packs but if you add up the amount of cards you get you're getting less cards than the previous set draft booster box even though the packs contain more cards in them.... So I've seen them go from 36 packs to 30 packs to 24 packs the same goes for the set booster boxes... And nobody's talking about that
I wish I had a partner to decide with them what he lix.
Im so glad my playgroup hasnt made 3cmc mana rocks obsolete. Hearing everyone online go on and on about how anything above 2 mana is worthless just makes me appreciate my playgroup even more.
It's not the power level you play at that makes 3cmc rocks bad. Use whatever rocks you want, but they're inherently worse than 2cmc rocks in most cases.
@@employee4275 and if nobody in the groups runs 2cmc ones it DOES NOT MATTER!
that's because they're not and are usually overexaggerating!
@@employee4275 We all run a mix of both, but the amount of 2cmc rocks is very low incomparison to 3cmc ones. Its partially an agreed upon thing to do to slow the games down. Sure, 2cmc ones ARE better. But the 3cmc ones are not bad, theyre just not THE BEST so most of the MTG youtubers have shoved them aside calling them trash.
*laughs in empowered auto generator*
Can we take a second to appreciate the transition at 1:54
New secret lair vibes
Into the mouth of madness.
Jokes on you I didn’t have the money to buy it anyways. BUY SINGLES!!!!!
Relatable lol
I always buy singles but only if I want the card .. SO why don't we approach buying sealed in this way? Only buy sealed for the joy it'll brings you, not for the gamble. Be okay with dud pulls. Or keeping it on your self for nostalgia. But I only crack what I will enjoy, regardless of their market value.
I will go to my local priter shop, to print singles!
wait that sounds wrong... i mean cards!
@@mindlightwave strictly for the nostalgia, that's the reason I bought a ridiculously overpriced Alara Premium Foil booster pack. Cracking it made my early days of magic wash through my memory for an awesome dopamine rush.
P.S. I HATE buying boosters.
Crying in lack on money
Experiencing a lot of new set fatigue. This is compounded heavily by the continued release of powercreep /eyeroll cards.
im just tired of cards with 20 lines of text.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a product from every set, don't let FOMO control your decisions.
@@mindlightwave pretty much have to buy double masters though look at the price of 2020's set
@@dshockeybreaks with the price I just can't get a box to open, but I will end up buying a draft pack or two for some casual sealed with my bro
Shrinkflation...less cards same price... Why are set boosters not 20 cards in a pack with 20 card boosters???
Sounds like I'm complaining about something that's not an issue... Of course there's less packs in the set booster boxes because there's more cards in the pack except there's not the last set booster boxes from new capena had 30 packs of 15 cards this one is 18 packs of 15 cars for the same price tamagawa set booster boxes were 30 packs of 15 cards are you telling me that the 18 packs of 15 cards in Commander Legends battles for baldur's gate are worth more than those two
Ancient Copper Dragon is going right into my Dice Matters Delina Deck.
Want to play, Prof?
Lol. Dmd
Maybe you can bribe him with like MTG themed food?
sounds fun, do you have a decklist?
I REALLY hate how fast wizards is producing stuff and I haven’t had a chance to enjoy Kamigawa ☹️ this just makes me sad and like they are rushing their products instead of taking time to develop it. Once every 3 months for a new set would be alright I think, even the 4months was 3 new sets a year, two normal and one commander focused then on top of those they have the unsets and modern focus they could put out plus alllll the other product that comes with each set too. 🤷♂️ there is a lot of space for good content and instead we get too many sets that really aren’t as anticipated or exciting
Totally agree, way too many new mechanics too
Agree with you... many of us are experiencing product fatigue. I stopped buying a while ago and just visit lgs store for singles here and there.
Kamigawa ? I wanted to draft timespiral remastered but its unaffordable since day 1 :(
I agree with you in that. When kanigawa released at the beginning of the year I just bought a handful of packs. Only this weekend when new cappenna starting being more dominant in draft did I ask my lgs store owner for a draft booster box of kamigawa. I pulled some pretty good cards for my commander decks and i had enough multiple cards left over to make a decent standard deck. They are flooding the market too quickly!
Can't even finish brewing up and deck from a set before the next batch of legends are announced and my interest in building the last set's legendary creatures is gone. Absolutely coming out too quickly. They're over saturating the market with too much commander product.
I actually bought a box and went to a prerelease for the first time in over a year. I normally never buy a box but I thought the set looked like a lot of fun, I think more dice rolling mechanics are great which I want more of, and dnd is pretty cool so I want more sets like it. Though even then having so many new sets every year is exhausting.
The sapphic format is crazy, I've been playing it for quite awhile and there actually is extra support specifically for this month.
A lot of big box retail stores are also giving out on going promotions for the sapphic format but its usually pretty bad because they give you poorly made cards and use the money you give them to actively try and destroy the format from casual play.
Anyways, Happy Pride!
What is the Sapphic format ?
Some of us have been playing since the EDH (Elder Dyke Highlander) days!
I think they should stop making "made for EDH cards" (too many token generators) and fix the problems inherent to the system. The first deck was a RG Riot theme!
Happy pride.
@@PhyrexianFleshgorger My existence isn't politics~
@@sportyeight7769 Search up Sapphic then look at the card Secret Rendevouz again
@@PhyrexianFleshgorger So, straight characters are "politics" too, then... weird
How Ancient Copper dragon was ever printed is baffling. The abuse of treasure tokens as of late is extremely tiresome.
Old Gnawbone is stronger imo. She doesn't even have to attack for the treasures
If Old Gnawbone can exist, then so can Ancient Copper Dragon. You can argue neither should, and that would be fair. But this is the power creep environment that exists when Wizards decided to actually recognize the format and push cards into it to sell product.
@@erosbronzo6518 Yep, Old Gnawbone was a mistake, too.
It isn’t as good as everyone thinks. In terms of raw power, it is a good effect. However, raw power, power in a vacuum is not the deciding factor in how cards perform. Goldspan Dragon is far better than it for that exact reason. Swings 2 turns faster, and I suspect that in most cases, making a bajillion mana vs about 6 mana in the same period of time is just going to be win more. You can totally abuse it if you try, but there are a lot of cards that are “broken if you just have x” and most of the time, a card with such a powerful effect that has no protection other than a very common form of evasion is not very likely to survive one round around the table.
@@DrewskiTheLegend But that's the thing. In red, having such a dragon that only needs one single good swing, and can do so in a very very very early stage, is what makes Ancient Copper dragon so yucky. It doesn't need to "survive one round around the table" because you sneak it in with sneak attack effects and then reap the reward from the massive mana jolt you suddenly get, and can be done so even in Mono Red.
It's not as toxic as many combo pieces are, but I would've been happy if Ancient Copper Dragon instead just said "Roll a D20, then deal as much damage as it rolls to any target." Cheating in large amounts of mana or playing things for free is two out of three of the things that are the most powerful thing in the game, the third one being drawing lots of cards.
Another plus for Ancient Copper Dragon.... red also is the color that can give double strike :)
Also not mentioned, but I think Battle Angels of Tyr is going to be a really good one. It's low cost and having myriad does give it the possibility to triggering the treasure token, life gain, and card draw every time it attacks. Another card, even though a lot of players shy away from 3 mana mana rocks, I do think the no maximum hand size while also being able to generate colored mana makes Decantur of Endless Water a pretty decent card, obviously worse than Thought Vessel the fewer colors you're playing with, but having redundancy on the no max handsize alone makes it worth considering in many decks.
I mean there IS a reason I play secret rendezvous in all my white decks…
Always play the gayer of two cards.
@@devononair words to live by
I'm tired of treasure tokens really, they keep appearing everywhere, every set, every color, it's exhausting, it really feels like it homogenizes a lot of games, I wish it was kept as an exclusive red mechanic like a power crept ritual, but now you can make them as you sneeze.
Don’t really think the cards are good, but man playing limited with this set is like some of my favorite limited play I’ve ever experienced!
100% agree!
@@snackplaylove That's the truth right there!
I felt the same way about the AFR. Not a great set, but draft and pre release were so much fun.
I loved and miss the old pack wars from Alara Reborn. Booster pack + 7-10 lands...shuffle up and play. So fun
I find it hilarious that just after Baldur's Gate pre-release weekend, we've already got Double Masters spoilers.
24 seconds in and I'm already laughing. It's a day ending in y so that means its preview season. Prof please never change!
It seems like overcompensating, but i think it is really important that they keep printing white card draw. Every color has lot's of card draw to choose from, so there are always cheap effective options for people that can't afford rhystic study, necropotence, sylvan library, jeskas will etc. .White doesn't have as much card draw to choose from as the other colors so if you can't afford esper sentinel, mangara the diplomat or archmage of oghma you are happy that cards like secret rendevouz or cut a deal exist. It honestly makes me kinda sad that people are bored of white card draw...
it does not only seem like overcompensating but i think it was maro who directly said they are providing now white with better card draw then they usually would to make white more competitive with the other colors.
And while we are talking about white card draw: don't forget (or rather overlook) the new card "Your Temple Is Under Attack". a great modal white card draw or protection spell. It looks even solid for decks with other good card draw colors in it.
Ancient Copper Dragon also looks like he would pair well with Henzie “Toolbox” Torre. Blitz the dragon out for five or even less and get that treasure. Hell, why not get the black and green dragons too?
i thought the exact same thing
Ancient copper dragon and stimulus package just don't get cheeks roles
And then a bunch of alliance effects or creature itb stuff
Ancient Copper Dragon will be all sorts of fun with Goldspan Dragon. 🤩
This has literally been the time for Dragon Tribal in Commander. The Dragons in this set and the dragons in Kamigawa really open up a lot of plays with plenty of Dragon Commanders to choose from to use all five colors. Definitely a year for singles in Dragon Tribal.
I'm just glad I bought the Ur-Dragon back when it was still about $20.
@@jamdaham9054 Back when the 2017 commander decks came out, I drove around to four different stores to find one of the Ur-Dragon decks. SOOOOOOO worth looking for at the time!!!
I really appreciate how the prof will adjust his language to try to make sure he's addressing magic players at all ages, and not a specific genre of player.
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I'm dead. How has no one called this out? Made me smile.
At the prerelease I drafted an ancient gold dragon and a legion loyalty. Through making treasure token I got my dragon out on turn 5 and played legion loyalty on the following turn where I was able to swing and connect with each opponent. I rolled 2 15’s and a 17… we didn’t play commander, it was a game of archenemy.
Can I just say Professor I love that you have the Death Gate cycle books on the shelf... For years I have watched that shelf and some things have moved but the Death Gate cycle has never moved.
The new smothering carpet (i think that's it's name) is a sweet little soft stax piece that helps chunk off the life total of whoever is storming off on their turn. Even more exciting is the mirror of life trapping for a psuedo-portcullis effect that synergises with etb effects.
Every new set has must have cards for Prosper, it's incredible! It's becoming challenging to keep up and upgrade my deck every time a new set comes around, and frankly a bit tiring
“Great reprints” that’s news to me considering I can’t think of many reprints I’d have wanted to see outside of the Bond lands WHICH SHOULD BE REPRINTED IN EVERY PRECON.
I know why there’s minimal reprints tho; gotta save that for Double masters, ami fucking right! (Pain)
Good thing they have bounce lands in double masters ....
Kindred Discovery and Deadly Dispute come to mind.
Ashamed I went straight for a set booster box but I did get most of the cards on the list especially a showcase copper dragon 😍 so not too bad.
got to love that the Displacer Kitten is more dangerous than the Displacer beast from the previous D&D set
What was that voice crack at 7:14?
Either way, love the vid! I forgot about Cut a Deal, and I’m glad you mentioned it, because I want to put all kinds of cards like that in my new Gluntch deck!
I've really enjoyed the draft / prerelease format of this set, defo agree that you shouldn't buy the set boosters though! most of the good edh reprints in this set are actually at Common / Uncommon, and most of the rares and mythics aren't pricey at all as singles.
Most of the reprint value is in the precons lol... Party time in particular. Luckily for me I got a few opponent lands and an archivist of oghma in my draft as well as a borderless bramble sovreign.
Yeah I'm going to have a lot of fun with this draft season. It would be a real shame if it was overshadowed by the next set within a month. Good thing that won't happen haha...
@@dontstealmydiamondsv3156 no shit man. It's just too much. Especially releasing a supposedly premium set into an even more premium set lool
We got spoilers for the next set the same damn day pre-release started lol
I had a great time at my LGS during pre-release.
It's now time to buy the singles I want when the price is right.
White card advantage is a good surprise with this set, but it feels almost a bit too much, for white at least.
Especially the gnome guy that is just a repeatable fetchland with flash
They will become new staples and cost a fortune for the next couple of years XD. But since i barely play with white and only splashes of it, I can and WILL ignore it thankfully.
I got the blue dragon in my pre-release set but another player cracked a pack that had the copper dragon and I bought it so fast hahaha
Archivist is an amazing pick but im surprised to see Deep Gnome Terramancer not on the list. It works like typical white catch up ramp but with out the catch up limitation.
I guess Prof was just sticking to the booster set cards since the Terramancer is from one of the precons
It's preview season!
Again?
Still?
Yes.
Against Wild Magic Surge, you can cast Vampiric/Worldly/Enlightened Tutor to fix what you'll get off the top
The mythic dragons are great, but this set has some great dragons at lower rarities and, more importantly, lower mana values. One of the challenges of dragon decks like Ur-Dragon is that nearly every playable dragon has a high mana value, so the deck struggles in the early turns and just tries to ramp before it's overwhelmed by faster decks. Cheap dragons that block early and help late? Yes please. Scaled Nurturer is a Llanowar Elves. Swashbucker Extraordinaire is a poor-man's Atarka. Crystal Dragon is a regrowth for your best cards on a dragon body. Renari, Merchant of Revels gives your dragons flash. This set has toys for every dragon deck imaginable, and for some new ones too. Miirym might replace Ur-Dragon as my commander of choice for the deck.
That joke in the beginning gave me a chuckle
I got the Ancient Copper Dragon as the foil promo of my Baldur's gate pre pack... With a package press misprint.
I was moved to tears.
I think they dis a darn good job with the Ancient Dragons cycle. Super strong, but appropriately expensive.
Agreed! and you can still whiff if you roll a critical FAILURE :P
I think treasures have done a lot of damage to magics mana base and ecosystem. Part of the flavour and charm of magic is the lands and mana system is about expression, treasures dilutes that and makes the game feel more ubiquitous and fast.
Sadly I think it’s already too late to undo some of the damage treasure tokens have done, but it’s not too late to print some treasure hate cards to fight them and deter players from running it in too many situations. Cards like ‘treasures enter tapped’ or ‘whenever an opponent sacrifices a treasure, they take 1 life’.
I am higher than Argyle right now to introduce Ancient Copper Dragon to my Rionya deck. Im gonna make so much damned treasure that there'll be a Dies to Removal episode about it damn it!
Electric Boogaloo reference is absolute Fire!
Some lgs kept the rebate of 2 set boosters included with a prerelease kit. It was rebalancing the price as set booster were worth more this time.
The problem with that list is that I wanted a lot more card than only the top 8 .
Add reflecting pool and command tower, artefact like the diamond, swiftfoot boots, blade os selves and basilisk collar,most of legendary creature that can become a commander, the gates to upgrade my gate deck and many more. There is some sleepers like campfire or rug of smothering that will fit well in some decks.
So in the end I am closer to the price of some boxes with some singles
the Ancient Dragons also work well with Double Strike. They're on combat damage, not attack, after all. Double Strike is Double Damage is 2d20 Treasures. (And, y'know, 12 damage to a player)
And that is why it'll be going straight into my Atarka (World Render) deck ;)
I made a deck using Neera and the Displacer Kitten. Only "creatures" in it aside from them are instants/sorceries that make tokens so I can eventually go infinite with Grapeshot, Ral, Storm Conduit, or Aria of Flame.
Honorable mention to the Deep Gnome Terramancer. Two mana ramp in white that can trigger multiple times. Pretty good in commander.
ancient copper dragon is a chase mythic in a premium-priced set, even buying the single is going to be expensive, gonna proxy that one out thank you
Use Wild Magic Surge agents themed decks is not so good. Like The Ur-Dragon. use it on a dragon and I can get, Tiamat, Utvara hellkitre, Broodmate dragon or Balefire dragon to name a few.
I’ve already designed a Boros deck with the new legendary Duke guy, and the focus is ETB and Combat Damage value by giving Myriad to dragons. It’s pretty freaking good.
Lol ok I started typing this before you even mentioned Myriad, yeah it’s pretty clear how good this combo potential is.
I'm glad my ancient tutor cards, Sensei's divining top and a few others are still able to be played. I need to get into commander,asap
This makes me feel even better about the Archivist of Oghma that I pulled in a prerelease draft. I bet it’ll be really expensive.
To the suggestions you made towards the end of #1 being Ancient Copper Dragon and splash in some Boros shenanigans, I think Ancient Gold Dragon + Dragon Tempest would each get a slot in my 99. Great video as always, Prof!
theres actually a lot of great new cards for the sapphic format in this set, really shifting the power away from red finally
Okay, I seem to be too dim-witted to be able to google it. What is the sapphic format / where can I read about it?
@@Hidewrath ask your roommate!
@@Hidewrath it's lesbianism (not really a format, just some cards have women being gay on them or canonically lesbian/bi characters)
How sapphic does a deck have to be to be sapphic format? If I make Saheeli the Gifted my commander, is that enough?
No new sets were released... but there were 14 new Secret Lairs announced, including the brand new "Secret LairXRiverdale" and "Secret LairXPaw Patrol"
Am I missing a joke? Nature's Lore has always been a common, no?
Damn I was really hoping you wouldn’t mention any of the dragons… I need all of them and they’re expensive as it is! 😂
Monster Manual was one of my favorites from this set that was not included in your video. I put it in my Tiamat deck and it's so fun being able to cheat in a Dragon.
Split the spoils is busted. The fact that you can choose the cards AND the piles is hilarious
Got pretty much 80 commander decks. Physical.
Buying a single box wouldn't be a waste of cash as I often tend to use them up.
Brand new to the game, I just bought one of the dual starter decks. Should I buy a booster box and upgrade or buy one of the Card Kingdoms battle decks and build upon that? Thanks in advance, absolutely love the content!
I really like Archavist, just at first glance - Tempt With Discovery is one option, but that think of all the other things this boosts: Path to Exile? They get to choose, which means either I get free card draw, or a 1cmc exile spell with no downside. Field of Ruin is a guaranteed draw-three. Scheming Symmetry lets you draw _and_ tutor something to the top (preferably followed by something to mill your opponent). This card is a sneaky little powerhouse in the right deck.
Only reason I am buying a box is to have a draft with my little cousins. Im buying this as an experience for us and that is going t be it from this set for me
I really enjoyed the commander draft pre-release. In my opinion this is a fun draft set. (Plus I love the D&D flavour of the set)
The flavor is A+
I have never been more dissatisfied with a Magic purchase than I was with my prerelease kit.
Wild Mage Surge isn't bad in a red deck, either to kill a goblin no longer serving its purpose or if someone is going to kill your guy, blocking or otherwise, instant into play and get one of your own creatures
Your video transitions are hilarious and great.
Hate how Streets of New Capenna commander precons are still not in our country.. yet baldur’s gate is releasing soon.
Maybe its just me...but a "destroy target permanent" is a hell of a lot different than Chaos Warp which just shuffles that permanent into the library.
Ancient Silver Dragon is definitely a must in any deck that can run blue and more so if your commander can make creatures unlockable such as Kaseto Orochi Archmage
Oghma has the added benefit of having some dope ass flavor text when flavor text has been going downhill
Thank you for this video prof ! I was getting a bit tired of eternal spoiler season, so I skipped this set entirely. Your video helped me get an idea of what cards I might still want to get !
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe mirror of life trapping could be used to double ETB's similar to Panharmonicon or Yarok
What do you mean @5:58? The artwork for secret rendezvous is sapphic but not sure what you meant by not being familiar with that format?
me only playing standard
*understandable, have a great day*
i miss standard content, especially since standard is kinda on a fine spot rn with midrange decks coming back to the front seat :(
Green is still currently the one that can generate the most treasures...but copper does help red a lot.
Best financial advice I've heard in quite a while. Personally disappointed CLB does line up with CLR. Really needs a dramatic price adjustment from Hasbro. Thankfully there a nice precons.
I know it doesn't go into every deck, but the card I am most excited for is Battle Angels of Tyr. My Giada deck (formerly Lyra) will love it. Other than that, I'll probably buy the Party precon for pieces, Wilson for my bear deck and that's kind of it.
I love the impertinence of MTG™ sets on release, mixed with Prof's panic-states, intermingled with sponsor segments. It all seems like a giant layered kerfuffle... is it a parfait or an onion?
See while Ancient Copper Dragon is the most universally good of the five, Ancient Silver Dragon fits in perfectly with Scion of the Ur-Dragon. If an opponent is foolish enough to let him through, you are two mana and a die roll away from a massive advantage for the entire game.
Ancient Copper Dragon feels like one of the most pushed cards in the recent year(s). It's a buy it now or never card, because that price is not going to drop... ever.
Or you can just proxy it, HEY!
I predict in 6 months it will be $20 max. Once people realize that it will just be killed immediately because it’s a big threat with no protection that costs 6 and doesn’t do anything the turn you cast it in most cases.
With all the new white card draw, (and let's be honest, it already had more ramp than any grixis colour,) I feel like we can stop saying white needs fixing. People are forgetting that mono decks are already weak, and by now I feel mono-white isn't really that much weaker at all than any of the other mono coloured decks (Besides maybe mono green).
"more ramp than any grixis colour"
That's both true and wrong. Red Black is able of way more explosive ramp than white will ever be. But it's true that white "ramps" better land-wise, between landtax, WW, the two new buddies, smothering tithe and racoon study.
However, I wouldn't say white no longer needs fixing (it's in a decent position but very stuck in a specific gameplay - stax); and I disagree that mono-white is at level with other mono coloured; but I'd say it's more due to the lack of a really really strong commander like other colours can have. Yawmgoth/Krrik, Urza, Magda, Selvala and Yissan are so bonkers that it's quite hard to find a decent comparison in white. Heliod is decent but only pushes the stax problem further, Adeline is interesting but lacks consistency (and kinda feels like a bad Najeela), LightPaw is cute but definitely not good enough to be reliable in cEdh, ...
just my two cents.
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So the Prof doesn’t even pick these cards? It’s just him reading this script written by someone else? Not sure how I feel about that.
My friends and I are doing a commander boxing league. I built a Minsc and Boo with my box!
I think 3 Mana rocks with any kind of useful utility are absolutely playable. E.g the 3-mana red dragon mana orb, that produces R but also gives haste to a Dragon you cast with it, basically acelerates your Dragon's attack by two turns. (one turn, because ramp lets you cast things a turn sooner and one turn, because it grants haste.)
turn 1: mana dork
turn 2: dragon orb
turn 3: play a beefy 5-6 mana Dragon with haste (6 if Ur-Dragon with his eminence ability is your commander)
It's not exactly cEDH, but if your casual group likes to play "fair" magic, this is a satisfying sequence of play. A turn two signet is still just as good, especially if it comes into play untapped and lets you cast another 2-mana spell (if you played a manadork turn 1) but I'm not arguing that 3 mana rocks are better, just that they are very playable still, if they have actual utility, unlike a lot of vanilla 3-mana rocks. Say, Darksteel Imgot, where very few decks (artifact animation) can make use of the indestructibility.
ancient copper dragon, miiriym, aggravated assualt, plus something like berserkers' onslaught goes near infinite
Miss out on prophets later because he's whaling the cards for himself. Helps me too btw.
WOTC HATES HIM!!!! These 8 little singles with SAVE YOUR BUDGET! why?! basically, you're gambling
Sorry prof I think they released a new set around 5 minutes in. and at 10 minutes in. then again at 11, 12, and 14.
Draft is so fun, and so is opening packs. I got a set booster box but mainly to build my collection. Totally buy singles if you got a specific strategy in mind.
Also there's been so much treasure and artifact bs going around, I'm gonna just start running artifact hate in my control decks.
1:53 Never have I thought that I'd see the day of Prof vore. I stand corrected 😂
I've honestly been lukewarm about this set. It feels like it's got 2 focuses, one for Draft, and another for Commander specific, which mean's it's chasing two targets at once. I don't want to draft for fear of getting expensive, but dead cards, that only have value in my pod. And I don't wanna crack set packs for fear of cards that only have value in draft. Plus, this is expensive per pack! I'll be waiting to make purchases until I see what the market does, except for the Pre-Cons. Everything buy the Kamigawa pre-cons have been LGS day 1 purchases for me because of the sheer number I've cannibalized for cards for my other decks. It's cheaper for me to buy them than to buy singles, oddly enough.
Precons are great value.
Espacially if you are avid deck builder, and need resources to spread around.
The cards I'm desperate for from this new Baldur's Gate block are the Gates themselves (gotta love mana sources!) and Raised By Giants.
Prof do you think we will get another Phyrexian Altar in double masters 2? It needs a reprint! It has doubled in price the last 2 years and on track to do that again in ‘22.
Definitely getting the copper dragon, not sure about the other ones yet. The white cards look good to me as well.
That "into the mouth" Segway was hilarious
With archivist of ogma, you can recur field of ruin with sun titan and get mad stacks.
I grabbed 2 Copies of Reflecting Pool for my 3 Color Decks since it was down to $10.