Comments on: What We Should Expect from Scars of Mirrodin

By: JelfLover69

JelfLover69 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:47:59 +0000

Where has my favorite writer gone?!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:13:54 +0000

Yeah cool stuff indeed. I’m loking forward to trading with these beauties. http://www.scarsofmirrodin.org/ have some cards listed already.

By: Biff

Biff — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:08:04 +0000

“Maybe on a later trip, in a new form on a different plane, or in the second or third set of this block, where it would be smaller and more controllable.”

Yeah, like cascade.

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By: Biff

Biff — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:54:02 +0000

“wizards has been wanting to let players cast the cards they like, thus by providing all the mana and other resources to make such a wide quantity of what used to be unplayable cards now considerable”

Isn’t providing mana to play cards you like basically the premise of playing a game of Magic: The Gathering?

By: Rob Jelf

Rob Jelf — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:31:38 +0000

@Biff Imprint suffers from utilizing cards that players want to cast (otherwise, why have that card in the deck?), and wizards has been wanting to let players cast the cards they like, thus by providing all the mana and other resources to make such a wide quantity of what used to be unplayable cards now considerable. Imprint works against this.

@Kanguilla Lodestone Golem is going to be at the bare minimum a sideboard card, and more likely, you will see a firm divide of artifact strong decks and artifact eating decks in the meta that will give Lodestone a good reason for being. Slowing down the rate of artifact destruction or interfering with tempo for less parasitic decks will be amazing for the Artifact heavy archetype that I suspect will form.

@Bob Affinity could, theoretically, come back in a form such as the land-golem cycle, but I doubt it. There is just too much potential and too many bad memories to bother with it on this trip back. Maybe on a later trip, in a new form on a different plane, or in the second or third set of this block, where it would be smaller and more controllable.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:45:39 +0000

i think affinity could come back in the form of sprire golem like cards. Affinity for something other than artifacts.

By: kanguilla

kanguilla — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:12:41 +0000

Thing about Lodestone Golem is, the more people playing artifacts, the less valuable it will become. I’m guessing that artifact themed decks are going to be more common, so I don’t see why that card would be more desirable.

By: Biff

Biff — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:26:02 +0000

Why do you feel so strongly about imprint? It was clearly the most fair and usable mechanic. And Lord knows they won’t add any different abilities to Scars, since they’re going back to Mirrodin, so why take imprint away? I’d like some intelligent debate re: this ability plz.

By: Cornhusk

Cornhusk — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:22:51 +0000

Cool story bro!!!!