Shadows Over Innistrad Trailer Shows Darkness Over The Plane
March 7, 2016 by deltagamegirl22
The pre-release of the next Magic the Gathering block, Shadows Over Innistrad, is set to launch April 2-3rd, and promises to bring with it a blanket of darkness that has fallen over the Plane.
Those who were once tasked to protect it, have fallen under its spell and turned to dark magic. The angels we once knew, have now found the taste for blood.
The fantastic dual side cards are back in play in this block, offering a unique variety of play to the creatures. One side features the character making all efforts at maintaining civility and nobility, where as the other assumes lack of self control and succumbing to dark magic over Innistrad.
The official trailer for the block has just dropped, and I for one, cannot wait to get my hands on this next set.
Are you looking forward to this next block for MTG?
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Two sided Avacyn wh? I might have to get two of her for my angel collection so that I can display both sides at same time.
I know! I can’t wait! I love my angels. 😀
As someone who loves to play this with friends, I’m going to say that MtG is in a bit of a mess atm.
It is certainly making loads of money for WotC, but Standard has to be in one of its worst states for ages. Hopefully this new set can make things right again.
Online it’s even worse. I fully understand how difficult it would be to somehow come up with a system that could deal with all the interactions that go in when you combine all of the sets in MtG, but the interface is hopelessly archaic. I don’t think it is any surprise that a recent survey about how people felt about MtG online, included a question about Hearthstone.
It must gall WotC no end how much money Hearthstone (which is also going through a rut in terms of how it’s meta hasn’t really changed now since the last expansion, although this will probably be fixed “soon”) is making, and so much of the popularity of the latter must be done to its interface.
WotC should at least be looking to get an online version of Standard. If the interface were better, they’d make an absolute killing.
WRT this set, hopefully we’ll see Tamiyo again.
WotC has recently dropped ball with they several products and MtG Online could also be much better. Right now you can get free versions that allow playing MtG and those have much better interfaces than MtG Online. It’s like they are in they ivory tower ignoring everything that other TCG companies does better. Only format that I still play in MtG is EDH but other than that I don’t really play MtG much anymore with so many other TCGs that I also play and enjoy more than I enjoy MtG these days.
Really excited for this, Innistrad was my favourite Magic set.
Me too, Sam!
My favorite Magic set was Kamigawa but it’s one of least popular once in history of game.
Anyone else remember when Shivan Dragon was the best card in the game?
I reckon thats got to be at least 15 years ago(last time I played properly).
For a game to be going so long and doing as well they have to be doing something right.
I would argue that Standard is in a bad place atm. If you have a look at the standard decks that feature in tournaments, just trying to sort out the mana base (many of the lands being mythic, i.e. the rarest card type) is putting you over £100 before you even start to pay for the other cards you hope to play.
The “honest” (i.e. cheap, although you’d still be looking at £100+ to get the creatures) red deck that seems to crop up in most cycles (I don’t see it in the top 32 of the most recent standard tournament) doesn’t seem to be around. Instead you’ve got all these decks full to the brim of expensive mythic cards.
I’m happy to concede I wasn’t paying all that much attention in previous sets, but Return to Ravnica and Theros didn’t seem so bad.
For the sake of argument, lets say Hearthstone is the nearest competitor. The cost to build some of the more expensive decks (lets say Wallet Warrior) is nowhere near what it costs to build current MtG standard deck (I don’t know the MTG:online costs, but I suspect it’s still more expensive).
Wizards of the Coast have done a mighty fine job, but for me, the last few expansions (excluding Commander / Conspiracy) have been slip-ups. Hopefully things get back on track with Innistrad.
WotC must know they are losing ground online. It can’t be a coincidence that we’ve broken the normal sequence of
Known Plane -> Unknown -> Known, and instead have gone from a popular place (Zendikar) to an even more popular one (Innistrad; the previous set being well regarded for games of draft / sealed).
It just irks me that WotC seem to be catering to this 2nd hand market. Land being Rare or Mythic, the nature of what a mythic card is, etc….
What’s the point in restricting land cards, like Flooded Strand to mythic type, then having the cards cost £25+ when you need 4?
That is so true. Making some of lands in BFZ block really hard to get only made standard in MtG even more expensive format than it already was. It’s easy to see why modern (that we around here call people’s format) is becoming more and more popular and EDH is go to format for casual players like me.
Granted modern also has some expensive cards including some lands like enemy fetch lands from first Zendikar block but least you can use those without fearing that those would rotate out.
I wish WotC would make MtG cheaper and at same time more beginner friendly instead of gatoring to secondary markets and pros that dictate what formats are like and what decks and cards are used by netdeckers.