The art looks too much like a cheap photoshop work for me to like
SkyknightXi
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
{sigh} I get the feeling whoever did the art didn't quite realize that grapeshot was the cannon version of buckshot. A piece of grapeshot just shouldn't be that wide. Not to mention that grapeshot was pointless EXCEPT as scattershot.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(6 votes)
FANTASTIC ART.
It looks like the Great Eye of Crayak was Force Spiked. If any of you are curious, this is what Darth Parallax looks like. Darth Parallax is casting Crayak-Grapeshot with one hand and Electrolyze with the other. >:D But his text box says Dark Confidant. >.> And he costs Non-White Four Colors. Because Evil Holism and junk ^_^
qk1
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
Ooo, a piece of candy! Ooo, a piece of candy! Ooo, a piece of candy!
Taudisban
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(10 votes)
Grapeshot: Now 20% more goth.
TheWallinator74
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Arguably the single best storm card ever is back. Lovely.
LordOfTheFlies87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Kind of terrible art. Ehh.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Best Storm card aside from Tendrils.
@qk1
I lol'd at the James Woods reference!! I can imagine him flicking those grapeshots
Osprey_93
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I can't unsee Alex Mercer from Prototype.
SyntheticDreamer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(11 votes)
Bizarro Jace's Force Spikes don't counter spells, oh no...
Storm decks are absurdly cheap, yes, but that's because they need the Manamorphose/Seething Song/Gitaxian Probe/etc. complete package. If you're lucky in draft or sealed, MAYBE you can get a storm count for4 on turn 5. I'm not saying Storm, one of the most broken mechanics ever, should have been better in MM, far from it. I'm just saying that it doesn't really work without all the support it needs, and at least Dredge got the Retrace cards to play with.
It's been made more fair, however, and I'd love to set up a burn deck with Grapeshot, but players who draft it should NOT expect the antics that, say, Affinity and Faeries are still capable of in-set. Storm is not nearly as powerful as constructed decks with it are, and that's a very good thing.
cardraptor6
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
As a relatively new player (started at New Phyrexia) one of the complaints I often make about older cards (besides weird color-pie stuff and walls of awkward text) is the fact that almost all of the old artwork was pretty crappy, and looked like the kind of van art you'd see on an old-school geek's ride. Now that I've seen the modern interpretation of the Grapeshot artwork, representing the kind of people they want to buy their cards lately, I'm not too thrilled. *sigh*
Though it is a nice case study in geek culture, if you're into that kind of thing. Look at the old and new art side by side and you can witness what kind of stereotypical geek fantasy stuff gets marketed to:
Old geek: Fat, sweaty, wearing a ripped black Star Wars t-shirt, with long, unwashed hair riding a van painted with a wizard fighting an eagle and rocking to Metallica while sloppily munching on Combos and Surge. New geek: Socially awkward high school kid who likes to act smug and tough in MTG and video games because inside he's lonely and has little self worth, and is generally a bland hodpodge of geek, punk, goth, and emo subcultures.
CogMonocle
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I was sad about this art. I would've loved to see the same scene as grapeshot done in a new style, I honestly prefer newer art just because it looks nicer...but when they pull stuff like this...
Hungerstriker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Liked the old art a lot more. Grapeshot is a card you only want to cast when it will deal bucketloads of damage, which the old card art represents.
@Cardraptor, I have no idea what you're trying to say in that comment, but I hardly think Modern Masters is an attempt by Wizards to attract brand new players. The price tag and limited print run should rule that out.
lilwolf2005
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
More like rapeshot, amirite?
blindthrall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Hungerstriker: I'll make it clearer, the same way he does it- Cardraptor6: A non-heterosexual.
Jitteryowl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Unfortunately, this is who Wizards wants playing magic.
Kodanshi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I like deliberately misreading this card as ‘Grapes Hot’.
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love how Wizards, in true deal-with-it fashion, knows exactly how ridiculous this card can be, and still reprinted it as a common.
Phyrexian_Niv_Mizzet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Another reason to love Mindbreak Trap!
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would like a life-gain storm card. A 1-mana, white instant that innocuously says "Gain 1 life. Storm"
Basically complete garbage until you have to go second against a TES/ANT deck, in which it become a 1-mana "lol." Children of Korlis basically do this; but it'd be more fun with the storm against Tendrils.
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It looks like the Great Eye of Crayak was Force Spiked. If any of you are curious, this is what Darth Parallax looks like. Darth Parallax is casting Crayak-Grapeshot with one hand and Electrolyze with the other. >:D But his text box says Dark Confidant. >.> And he costs Non-White Four Colors. Because Evil Holism and junk ^_^
@qk1
I lol'd at the James Woods reference!! I can imagine him flicking those grapeshots
Edit: Damn, SyntheticDreamer beat me to it :D
I think players can be misled by this.
Storm decks are absurdly cheap, yes, but that's because they need the Manamorphose/Seething Song/Gitaxian Probe/etc. complete package. If you're lucky in draft or sealed, MAYBE you can get a storm count for4 on turn 5. I'm not saying Storm, one of the most broken mechanics ever, should have been better in MM, far from it. I'm just saying that it doesn't really work without all the support it needs, and at least Dredge got the Retrace cards to play with.
It's been made more fair, however, and I'd love to set up a burn deck with Grapeshot, but players who draft it should NOT expect the antics that, say, Affinity and Faeries are still capable of in-set. Storm is not nearly as powerful as constructed decks with it are, and that's a very good thing.
Though it is a nice case study in geek culture, if you're into that kind of thing. Look at the old and new art side by side and you can witness what kind of stereotypical geek fantasy stuff gets marketed to:
Old geek: Fat, sweaty, wearing a ripped black Star Wars t-shirt, with long, unwashed hair riding a van painted with a wizard fighting an eagle and rocking to Metallica while sloppily munching on Combos and Surge.
New geek: Socially awkward high school kid who likes to act smug and tough in MTG and video games because inside he's lonely and has little self worth, and is generally a bland hodpodge of geek, punk, goth, and emo subcultures.
@Cardraptor, I have no idea what you're trying to say in that comment, but I hardly think Modern Masters is an attempt by Wizards to attract brand new players. The price tag and limited print run should rule that out.
Basically complete garbage until you have to go second against a TES/ANT deck, in which it become a 1-mana "lol." Children of Korlis basically do this; but it'd be more fun with the storm against Tendrils.