Eternal masters roughly one month away, where's the hype (and further spoilers)?
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Only way one would get worth from a box of this is if you open foil FoW, Sylvan, tutors, Jace, balance, Wasteland, mishra factory, etc. Even then you are better off getting a box of BfZ for the expeditions. Since I dont buy boxes to make money either way, I will just be buying single foils I do not have. Sylvan, Sinkhole and Jace, I'm looking at you
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I think the set is ok. The real miss to me isn't the high money cards that weren't included, it's the lack of ANY portal cards. Things like Wei assasins or wu spy that could have been included in with the filler and been exciting even though they are only a couple dollars or already reprinted cards like rolling earthquake that are already available cheap.....there are a lot of newer cards included that we could have done without. I would have rather seen filler drek from portal or older sets
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So how did everyone do? I bought 4 boxes altogether.
1st box started out real strong with a Jace, Mana Crypt, Karakas, Wasteland, Foil Vamp and Foil Winter Orb. 2nd and 3rd were decent with probably break-even EV or sligthly better.
Bought my 4th box yesterday and hit the jackpot of only 2 mythics, Necropotence and Worldgorger Dragon. I think I'm done cracking packs now...
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Bought a box to play sealed with friends (fun limited environ, better than expected).
I beat the odds, the mythics were Mana Crypt, Karakas, and Jace. Foil Daze, Entomb, and GSZ.
I'll edit this in the future if the spoils frm the box do what I hope they do...
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how did this set perform for Wizards? I haven't heard anyone talking about that yet.
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I only have anecdotal stories, but the set seems to have sold strongly, with most stores in my area having sold through their initial product allocation within the first week.
Talking with a few shop owners, they were told there are no subsequent reorders or waves coming. Apparently with Modern Masters there would be a distribution of the stock that was not used in the allocation of the release GP's. As EMA had no Grands Prix, no real second wave to be had.
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Seems well received from what I have seen. I didn't buy any. I played a couple of rounds of Flip it or Rip it but not on my dime.
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I feel the set could have been better overall but is fun to draft. I did one draft so far at a local shop and it was pretty enjoyable. Pulled a Sensei's Top. Cracked 3 prize packs at GP Columbus and opened Maze of Ith and Worldgorger Dragon.
Foils for Force of Will, Pyroblast, Toxic Deluge are all welcome additions though.
Still have not drafted the two boxes I bought need to schedule a time with friends. Will report what I pull then.
@gkraigher
I was expecting Misdirection and Port because of the MTGO insane price on both but they have to save some goodies for Eternal Masters 2.
Grove of the Burnwillows, Dark Depths I think would be in Modern Masters 3.
There have to be some not so great mythics but bulk mythics make me upset.
Balance and Necropotence makes sense because both were very powerful card in their time although not being monetarily valuable.
Worldgorger, Sphinx and Argothian are just duds at Mythic though. Actually played fat creatures like Craterhoof Behemoth, Tidespout Tyrant, Griselbrand, would have been nice. -
@Arianeira said:
Worldgorger, Sphinx and Argothian are just duds at Mythic though. Actually played fat creatures like Craterhoof Behemoth, Tidespout Tyrant, Griselbrand, would have been nice.
I don't disagree, but I suspect they found that putting both Natural Order / Sneak Attack / Reanimator effects into limited with the Best Fatties Ever led to a lot of really stinky drafts. That's got to be the reason why we only got stuff like Roix Bladewing, Sphinx, etc, as the bombs.
Maybe next Eternal Masters will hold back on the cheat-stuff-out effects in favor of printing more amazing bombs.
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We're about to draft it at our office too. That being said, outside of picking up Wastelands on MODO and wanting this Cabal Therapy art in non-foil, the set didn't really interest me outside of drafting.
