If only prereleases weren't so expensive now. I used to go to them, they're pretty fun, but I just can't justify spending £30 on an evening, before factoring in food and drink. It's a 50% upcharge on boosters that already aren't really worth their price tag.
Mark my words: The One Ring will be reprinted as a chase card in either another LotR set/printrun or a Masters set in the next 6 months. Then it'll be banned within 10 months after.
Congratulations, Commander is now a rotating format! I'm sure WotC has planned this for a while now... gotta push those new cha$e card$! (Infinity Stones? Infinity Gauntlet?) It'll be Moxen 2.0! ... and they'll ban it after a year or so to clear the runway for the next rotation.
After being assessed that The One Ring is less important than originally thought for it to be included in every deck, especially for turbo decks that are pretty much as fast as they were before the bans (RogSi I am looking at you), that is in no way as problematic as having thoracle still legal. It's pretty much as every dimirless color identity has been nerfed, all at once, while a combo that doesn't require any of the banned pieces has been preserved. And don't mention dockside because dockside is dead weight while going for turn two wins. Always has been. Thassa's Oracle is entire orders of magnitude more problematic than TOR right now, furthermore costing more mana by itself than the entire Thoracle combo. Wanna draw cards at a casual table? A Consacrated Sphinx will outdraw a TOR any day of the week. Cheers and thanks for the video, healthy debate is what the format needs now to thrive in such uncertain times.
It will never happen to a card that is serialized as the front of a set! Fast mana has been on the RC's radar for quite some time! Sheldon even spoke against people investing in jeweled lotus when it was printed in a star city games article!
I kinda agree with all the bans because I never played it but Ive played aganist those type of players who curb stomp with those cards in casual and the one ring is definitely up there as well, rule 0 doesn’t really exist to the extent most people think it does at lgs, and new players just wanna play, im happy for a little bit of shake up in the meta also I would say sol ring shouldn’t be banned because its in every precon
problem with that sol ring comment is the fact that it is in basically every single precon... if they ban sol ring then they make every single commander deck unplayable out of the box and thats just not a good look for wizards
they don't care if the financial hit is on the players hands. People with Jeweled Lotus's just lost all their investment in them as there is no format for them anymore so they'll lose 90% to all of their value
@elahem6940 it's not the financial hit they would be taking there sol rings are worth like 50 cents.. it would be making a mass majority (if not all) of their commander product that they are selling unplayable out of the box, especially to new players looking to buy a precon to shuffle up and play for the first time at a local game store (I'm talking about sol ring not jeweled lotus)
My Green Tron has x4 1 Ring I had to buy x4 Fat pack/Bundles to get them costing me $110 per box, If they ban the 1 Ring that will be the final straw in my world.
My amulet titan deck has 4. I think either a ban is coming or a massive reprint. I'd prefer a reprint over a ban, I don't think the card is ruining modern, but a lot of people feel that way.
I own 5 copies of TOR, and the LOTR set goes out of print in 3 months as of today. I am keeping my copies to play them in legacy, but as it's the most played card in the format, I am already mentally set on the idea that it's going to be banned within the next six months. Meta polarization towards a specific card has ALWAYS been a factor for ban assessment. They want every deck to feel different from the others, to feed a competive scene that is entertaining afterall.
@@Hapkins-le6xf they can't reprint UB cards freely. WOTC needs to pay licenses that are time limited in order to print cards from other franchises. So those cards are close to be non-reprintable because no company would ever renew a license to print just two cards. Although I think that the design of Orcish Bowmasters is vague enough that it could be reprinted without incurring in any violation of intellectual property.
@mattkent5869 they said they can as in universe versions. I was under the impression that they couldn't, and that UB would function like a pseudo reserve list. But mark rosewater said they could do it whenever they want.
The goofy expansions are what people want. They might not say it but it brings in casual players which is good for everyone, WOTC,LGS and players who are attending tournaments and the new or casual players.
The problem is wizards, stop blaiming the committe, you are toxic, wizards is the one printing overpowered cards, cards only for 1 format, bad designed cards, wizards milks you.
Are you aware that the committee is paid by wizards of the coast? And also that Sheldon himself was subject of a compensation for inventing the format, so that the company could use the name of the format, and print products about it? It's just unrealistic and naive to pretend that the RC has a complete unbiased card assessment procedure.
The trouble is we don't know their methodology for banning. We have some vague words from them about the general philosophy and that's all. What quantitative metrics does a card have to meet in order to warrant a ban? Without knowing that, it's difficult to make purchasing decisions.
This decision definitely erodes my confidence in holding high profile cards. Mana crypt was never used in causal as rule 0 took care of that. Same with jeweled lotus. Dockside was most likely a mistake. They made it more powerful than they understood. Nadu is just unfun value engine. But now my two cEDH decks just make me feel like I can get “had” next time. No thanks. I’m just gonna exit those cards
I remember at the nemesis pre-release, you could always tell when someone had drawn a split card, when they took a beat to rotate their head sideways to read what they'd drawn 🤣
If I'm being honest I've played every year since 1994. 2-3 years ago I all but gave up on trying to learn and understand new mechanics because there's 10 new sets per year.
I'm in a similar position, except I started in 2013 and yugioh already gave me a high tolerance for learning new mechanics. 2022-2024 MTG suffers not just from having so many new mechanics but having so many new mechanics that aren't very interesting. I don't feel incentivised to learn the new mechanics, I'm not interested in using them so I'm not interested in learning how to use them. Rooms are ugly, so I'm not going to use them, so I'm likely not going to learn how they work.
@@arglebargle5531Commander players habitually play with training wheels on because they don't want other players to knock over their extremely fragile house of proverbial cards or potentially upset someone because they didn't get to do their decks "thing" but in a pre release the goal is to actually attempt to win which I would assume would throw Commander players into a complete hissy fit as they aren't used to playing with any sense of (this game has to end. Someone has to win and someone has to lose.)Especially if they've never competed in any kind of limited or sealed environment.
Well said! I agree completely, particularly the point about sharing your love of the game with newer players. I teach dancing, and I love sharing the joy of dance with newer dancers.
