Starting next year, all Universes Beyond booster sets will be legal in all constructed formats, including Standard. The 2 on the roadmap are Final Fantasy and Spider-man. There will also be sci-fi...
Starting next year, all Universes Beyond booster sets will be legal in all constructed formats, including Standard. The 2 on the roadmap are Final Fantasy and Spider-man.
There will also be sci-fi set.
I was really hoping Foundations was going to be a signal for Magic-y Magic to make a comeback. It's not.
Standard rotation will happen at the first set release of the year rather than the fall set. This will hopefully make it easier for people to track/remember
Returning mechanics for Foundations: Flashback, Threshold, Prowess, Raid. Personally I did not like Threshold when I was a new player because I had to keep counting graveyards.
Minor rules change - when defending player declares blocks, attacking player no longer has to order them and assign lethal damage, they can split damage however they want.
Yeah, when I heard about Foundations I was like "Hell yeah, a 6 year long core set!" Honestly I loved Core Sets, they were just simple magic and I really enjoyed drafting them. It felt like...
Yeah, when I heard about Foundations I was like "Hell yeah, a 6 year long core set!" Honestly I loved Core Sets, they were just simple magic and I really enjoyed drafting them. It felt like playing old school. Maybe I'm just a MTG Gen X (not a boomer, I only started in 2009).
But then they announced all of these changes, and I'm just like ehhhhhhhhhh
MSRP being back is cool though. And although I'll miss the fall rotation timing, having it be with the new year makes sense.
Huh. I'm unsure how to feel about that. On the one hand, it feels like a departure from the thematic origins and universe MTG was created in. On the other hand, we have gradually waded into waters...
Starting next year, all Universes Beyond booster sets will be legal in all constructed formats, including Standard. The 2 on the roadmap are Final Fantasy and Spider-man.
Huh. I'm unsure how to feel about that. On the one hand, it feels like a departure from the thematic origins and universe MTG was created in. On the other hand, we have gradually waded into waters kind of like this when we introduced planes with various levels of technology (other than Phyrexian I mean).
I suppose... it would in part depend on how many Standard-legal releases they want to cram into a year. Wallet fatigue is real, and telling people 'you now have to pay twice as much if you want to stay competitive in standard' would be kind of a dick move.
To me this is a big one. Especially relevant in limited formats, this weakens defensive combat tricks and makes decisions in the combat phase simpler and blander.
Minor rules change - when defending player declares blocks, attacking player no longer has to order them and assign lethal damage, they can split damage however they want.
To me this is a big one. Especially relevant in limited formats, this weakens defensive combat tricks and makes decisions in the combat phase simpler and blander.
I personally really like DnT style decks from modern. You have interaction, but it’s not a v complete lockout style (sometimes). I’d love to see that more in standard so cards like Aven...
I personally really like DnT style decks from modern. You have interaction, but it’s not a v complete lockout style (sometimes).
I’d love to see that more in standard so cards like Aven Interruptor and soul partition have been a big hit with me.
I also like the phyrixian stuff and proliferate so seeing both of those again was nice (even if it was very lack luster). Ditto with eldrazi.
Starting next year, all Universes Beyond booster sets will be legal in all constructed formats, including Standard. The 2 on the roadmap are Final Fantasy and Spider-man.
There will also be sci-fi set.
I was really hoping Foundations was going to be a signal for Magic-y Magic to make a comeback. It's not.
Other minor bits of news:
Yeah, when I heard about Foundations I was like "Hell yeah, a 6 year long core set!" Honestly I loved Core Sets, they were just simple magic and I really enjoyed drafting them. It felt like playing old school. Maybe I'm just a MTG Gen X (not a boomer, I only started in 2009).
But then they announced all of these changes, and I'm just like ehhhhhhhhhh
MSRP being back is cool though. And although I'll miss the fall rotation timing, having it be with the new year makes sense.
But Universes Beyond in standard just sucks.
I will now retreat to my Core Set cube.
Huh. I'm unsure how to feel about that. On the one hand, it feels like a departure from the thematic origins and universe MTG was created in. On the other hand, we have gradually waded into waters kind of like this when we introduced planes with various levels of technology (other than Phyrexian I mean).
I suppose... it would in part depend on how many Standard-legal releases they want to cram into a year. Wallet fatigue is real, and telling people 'you now have to pay twice as much if you want to stay competitive in standard' would be kind of a dick move.
We'll see how it goes.
To me this is a big one. Especially relevant in limited formats, this weakens defensive combat tricks and makes decisions in the combat phase simpler and blander.
For 2025, that number is 6. 3 in-universe and 3 Universes Beyond (the last set on the roadmap is not revealed yet but they said it's UB).
So they've added 2 more Standard-legal sets per year? Yeah, they are pushing to see how much money they can extract from their playerbase.
Yeah it’s eh. Some of my favorite cards are from recent sets but they’re also going harder on things that look eh.
Which cards for which formats?
I personally really like DnT style decks from modern. You have interaction, but it’s not a v complete lockout style (sometimes).
I’d love to see that more in standard so cards like Aven Interruptor and soul partition have been a big hit with me.
I also like the phyrixian stuff and proliferate so seeing both of those again was nice (even if it was very lack luster). Ditto with eldrazi.