This card right here represents the issues I have with Modern Masters. They hyped it up to be "let's reprint lots of great cards in Modern format to even out card distribution". What we got was "let's reprint random parts of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, Time Spiral, and Kamigawa blocks".
When has this guy ever been relevant? Why did they think that we needed another round of him? What qualifies him as a "modern master?"
Atali
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
When they decided to make the set draftable, it stopped being a toolbox of modern fodder and started gaining random things like this for limited. Kamigawa, Time Spiral, and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor blocks are heavily represented because there were relatively fewer players during those blocks, resulting in less of those cards in circulation.
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
To Atali and Totema:
I thought the exact same thing when I saw a few garbage cards getting printed. I thought, "ok. Well, they still have 120 more cards to spoil. I bet most of them will have seen some Modern play!". When it was fully spoiled, I was disappointed in the lack of Cycling creatures from Alara (like Deadshot Minotaur, used in Living End (and that as well)) Azusa, Heritage Druid and her pals (Nettle Sentinel etc.), and a whole slew of other choices.
However, once I got a box of it, it all hit me: this was made primarily for Limited.
On the box it says something along the lines of "Prepare for the most intense Limited Experience ever!". This implies that this was more of a reprint of cards in the previous sets that'd make for an intense limited tournament. Later that night, I played a Modern Masters draft (excluding the expensive cards) and this proved true. Who'd guess that using your Blightspeaker to for a Saltfield Recluse would turn the tides of a game?
Long story short, cards like this are exactly what makes up the majority of the set. Sure, they initially spoiled it as a set to reduce the price of them Modern staples, but if they truly wanted to do that, they'd have at least included Zendikar in their array of choosable sets.
Long story short, this card is great in limited (combat tricks on an "anything" creature? Huzzah!) and is in the right place. Had they changed the name to "Magic: 20th anniversary" or something, people wouldn't be so disappointed, but they wouldn't be buying the set.
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Anyone that has ever bought a Pre-Con deck, ever, should not be surprised that the least expensive card in MM is not, in fact, worth a whole dollar. Even if your expectations were 'Commander Decks crossed with a Core Set, limit only Modern-legal cards', you still can't honestly expect to be surprised that some odd cards from sets made it in.
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When has this guy ever been relevant? Why did they think that we needed another round of him? What qualifies him as a "modern master?"
Kamigawa, Time Spiral, and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor blocks are heavily represented because there were relatively fewer players during those blocks, resulting in less of those cards in circulation.
I thought the exact same thing when I saw a few garbage cards getting printed. I thought, "ok. Well, they still have 120 more cards to spoil. I bet most of them will have seen some Modern play!". When it was fully spoiled, I was disappointed in the lack of Cycling creatures from Alara (like Deadshot Minotaur, used in Living End (and that as well)) Azusa, Heritage Druid and her pals (Nettle Sentinel etc.), and a whole slew of other choices.
However, once I got a box of it, it all hit me: this was made primarily for Limited.
On the box it says something along the lines of "Prepare for the most intense Limited Experience ever!". This implies that this was more of a reprint of cards in the previous sets that'd make for an intense limited tournament. Later that night, I played a Modern Masters draft (excluding the expensive cards) and this proved true. Who'd guess that using your Blightspeaker to
Long story short, cards like this are exactly what makes up the majority of the set. Sure, they initially spoiled it as a set to reduce the price of them Modern staples, but if they truly wanted to do that, they'd have at least included Zendikar in their array of choosable sets.
Long story short, this card is great in limited (combat tricks on an "anything" creature? Huzzah!) and is in the right place. Had they changed the name to "Magic: 20th anniversary" or something, people wouldn't be so disappointed, but they wouldn't be buying the set.