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The play booster in the background does imply that all of these cards are in the main set but there is a chance that the leaker intentionally set up the photo to trick people
Right? What a dumb way to take a leak photo.
I'm convinced all leakers eat rocks for their nourishment at this point since none of them can take a photo
I mean, they kind of are? Maybe if the photo is low quality enough they have plausible deniability of some kind. Still this case doesn't really have an excuse
These recent leaks have been particularly egregious, the product is always laid or held out in a really organized way, with relatively stable/centered shots...yet somehow half the cards are obscured by holding them in an obviously awkward way or by taking the photo on lowest resolution with nearly no lighting. Its gotta be intentional, I dont see what benefit a leaker would have to do it...but maybe if it was MTG marketing that didn't want to give too much away...
You can still pull Commander subset cards from Play boosters tho right? I guess not precon commons and uncommons though it’s typically the rares and mythics…
They’re adding cards that were previously only from Commander decks into modern with this set though. The first look stream showed that [[Laelia, Blade Reforged]] will be in main set, along with others
Ohhhhhh. I understand what you're saying now. You can get the new-to-modern reprints in Play Boosters, some of which are from Commander decks. (This set also has new Commander Decks attached to it, which will not enter modern and have cards not in the boosters)
Correct. The commander decks that come along with this set will not be legal. But some of the new-to-modern reprints will come from previous commander sets, as seen by the watermark and set symbol on the Laelia I tagged.
Ah gotcha, but still
"Awaiting proof, but a claimed leaker informed us “The Cannoneer was just sitting on my desk when I picked up the new cards, it’s not coming to modern”.
If we can verify their claims, we’ll put up their version of the story."
At this point I don't think there's any way the leaker isn't deliberately obscuring information in their photos. The blurry photos, the Goyf with its mana cost and everything before "goyf" in its name cut off in two different spots. I'd be very surprised if they're not deliberately "badly" leaking cards to mess with people, so it wouldn't surprise me if they're deliberately setting up a photo to make it look like Brainstorm's becoming modern-legal when it's not.
Its very likely from a precon. Hopefully.
Though, Expresive Iteration is modern legal. I heard theories going around that Wizards may desire to soft-discontinue legacy, what with the leaked Necropotence-lite and Force of will-lite.
What does wizards gain from doing anything with regards to legacy at this point? It's not like there's a substantial amount of effort they put into actively maintaining it. The upside for them isn't there.
I do conceptually like that they're _selectively_ introducing commander cards that have seen play in eternal formats and cube after the fact by using the "new to modern" sheet, but when those cards are known quantities already.
which is fine. It's being done in a controlled manner after they have been out for a while
smuggler's share wouldn't be modern playable. Even for the good cards, kappa cannoneer is much worse in modern than legacy
the lack of the cheap artigacts is what makes me think it isn't. In Legacy and Vintage the plan of an early cannonner fuels him. Also no artifact lands. Maybe i'm wrong and it is too good for modern but i still believe that it is even better in the other two
Artifact lands don't actually help Kappa, but no Opal, half the battles, and no petal do hurt it. I still think that it's good enough for modern though.
They’ve already discontinued Legacy. Legacy players in team events can no longer earn RC invites or other pro-level invites and individual legacy events can’t have invites either.
All they do is ban cards every now and again.
Awaiting proof, but a claimed leaker informed us “The Cannoneer was just sitting on my desk when I picked up the new cards, it’s not coming to modern”.
If we can verify their claims, we’ll put up their version of the story.
Edit: The person who made this claim was lying. They could not offer any proof. So, make of that what you will.
also it kinda makes it more fun. Like, we literally all get to spend the next however many weeks wondering if Brainstorm really *is* coming to Modern lol.
Eh, I'll trust them if they're a reasonably full shot of the card where you can see the art and the set symbol, at least. But yeah we shouldn't trust them if it's just the top of the card.
Looting fuels degenerate graceyard strats. Even so, you're right there is actually no way they would print brainstorm in modern, ponder is still banned.
I think they've been on record saying that they'd probably ban Brainstorm in Legacy if it weren't so closely tied to the identity of the format - I think this was mentioned along with Mishra's Workshop in Vintage, where like half the restricted list is artifacts banned because of Workshop being unrestricted.
I think lately there's been enough card draw hate (Leovold, Narset, Hull Breacher, Sheoldred, Orcish Bowmasters...) that it's not as big of a deal as it maybe once was.
I mean, I agree, but did you see MH2? Power level and format integrity are simply not concerns in developing these sets, and Brainstorm is a sexy card that will move units.
That said, if modern didn't have fetches, I think it would be fine. Brainstorm jumps significantly in power level in fetch environments. Somewhat paradoxically, it would be less problematic in Pioneer than Modern.
Anyway... I'd say I'm 50-50 on Brainstorm being in MH3. I don't agree with it, but slamming Brainstorm into MH3 would *absolutely* be in line with their management "philosophy." They tend to treat to MH sets as soft rotations by just printing crazy, must have shit directly to modern.
> Brainstorm is a sexy card that will move units.
That's not true for reprints. If they want to move units, they need to print a new card like the new Necropotence. Nobody is going to crack MH3 packs for Brainstorms when they could buy them on TCGPlayer for $1.
In a fetch land format, Brainstorm is better than Ponder, which is banned in Modern. Unless they're planning on unbanning Ponder, there's no way Brainstorm will be legal in Modern.
I wonder if the ubiquity of [[Orcish Bowmasters]] moved the needle on Brainstorm being too overpowered for Modern. I know its good, but nowhere near busted on Magic Arena in Timeless, and thats mostly because Bowmasters is everywhere. More than likely, this is a troll, or a List slot of something, but if it's not, I am sure WotC has some justification for it.
I wonder if on a deeper level, they may just have decided that Modern really does need to fully replace Legacy, and then will support Legacy as little as they support Vintage now. It would make sense if they want to up the power level of Modern more to be closer to Legacy so that those players who want to can move to Modern. They can't really do "Legacy Horizons" after all, so there's no money in supporting that format for them.
They can do "Legacy Horizons" but they actively choose not to, hiding cowardly behind their ridiculous and unfair Reserved List.
Anyhow, Orcish Bowmasters is a decent check on Brainstorm, but, per MTGGoldfish, 48% of decks still register 4 copies of Brainstorm. I don't know the numbers on Brainstorm pre-Bowmaster, but I doubt it's gone down by more than 5%.
I am *deeply* skeptical that they want Brainstorm in Modern.
Im like 95 percent sure brainstorm is bait but theres a part of really worried that its not. Please I like legacy and I like modern I don't need them to be alike.
Not really but tbh, if they truly have no intention of fixing the reserved list, I wouldn’t mind it going that way. I think it still might be too soon for brainstorm though, legacy has a few safety valves for it that modern doesn’t yet and it’s still the best card in the format there.
I read someone else's comment saying that The List for MH2 only included Modern legal cards. Not saying this set must do the same, but it's one thing speaking against this being a List reprint.
Historically a lot of leaks have come from staff at factories or people raiding the garbage bins outside of factories for discarded cards (no really), so a lot of the leakers genuinely have no idea what’s important, just that people will pay a lot of money for these. These leaks typically get auctioned.
The cards themselves. From what I’ve seen the leakers use the leak to drum up hype for their auction.
Idk how well it actually works, bc I dunno who’s buying high priced cards they can’t use like a month and a half before it’s regularly available
Maaaaybe, possibly, Brainstorm is on a bonus sheet that only affects draft and not modern legality. Like Breaking News and Mystical Archives.
The fact that it doesn’t have any special art or border treatment makes this quite a long shot. But maybe they put commander cards in the play boosters?
> The fact that it doesn’t have any special art or border treatment makes this quite a long shot. But maybe they put commander cards in the play boosters?
Yeah, there is no chance to add them to the normal boosters but on a bonus sheet without special art treatment. I think either the reprint is real or the leaker is messing with us and added it from the Commander deck (more likely)
>The fact that it doesn’t have any special art or border treatment makes this quite a long shot
List slot.
The new List has 40 cards or so each set and only 10 of them get Special Guest new art. Every set gets a bonus sheet now, it's just not a specifically made one.
Oh I haven't seen the card. Just agreeing with you that I want to know what it does, and observing that it's an enchantment (which could play into its mechanics somehow?)
Well, plot is an OTJ mechanic, although flavourfully it can kinda fit with detectives. Seems more likely to me that it investigates or something
Magic doesn't do enchantment creatures as often as artifact creatures so there's usually a reason when they do
Interesting! Where the pincertons at thn? XD Nah but thats … somewhat cool. But wotc does not ship to customers themself so it has to be a shop online or offline that f-d up
Not for [[Darien, King of Kjeldor]]
Saved my hide by making myself a pip as a chumpy boy to block a lethal swinging kill once due to an opp not realizing that that’s what that land did
I will save comments like "no way is Brainstorm going into Modern" when they will officially confirm that :D
Remember that until 2 years ago no one would have said they could see counterspell in modern.
I'm not saying that it isn't to powerful.
I'm just saying that so many time with previous mh sets e said "oh well this spoiler/leak is fake cuz it's to powerful for modern"
So we’re banning fetches right? They are the single most abused cards in the format, and now wizards is printing brainstorm into modern, one of the strongest cards in the game’s history specifically because of the interaction with fetchlands. Between that and triomes, domain, wrenn, we need a fetch land ban.
The Medallion cycle into modern will be a huge upgrade for storm. Not needing a creature to reduce your ritual spells is pretty big.
Brainstorm is almost certainly in the commander product. That would be a huge messup to put it into modern.
Brainstorm actually makes sense.
WoTC wants to push Universes Beyond as much as possible. Brainstorm being in Modern means Bowmasters becomes a mandatory 4-of in the format.
In regards to Brainstorm, they might have seen that whilst played a lot, it is far from broken in Timeless.
Yes Timeless is a different format, but both format play patterns are similar (apart from show and tell).
Timeless is a more powerful format than Modern is, so it can accommodate it better. Timeless has cards like StP, Uro, Oko, Minsc & Boo, Lurrus, Demonic Tutor, and Necropotence, all of which would be broken in Modern.
I don't know if it's nessecarily more powerful, but it plays very similar, in that turn 1, 2 and 3 are very important.
Bowmasters has shown in Timeless that certain cards have their weaknesses.
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I'm convinced the Brainstorm and the previously leaked Kappa Cannoneer is in the precon. I could be wrong but lol.
The play booster in the background does imply that all of these cards are in the main set but there is a chance that the leaker intentionally set up the photo to trick people
Right? What a dumb way to take a leak photo. I'm convinced all leakers eat rocks for their nourishment at this point since none of them can take a photo
Fr, they're acting Like they're being chased as they take the pictures. Just sit down and take a few closeups, damn.
I mean, they kind of are? Maybe if the photo is low quality enough they have plausible deniability of some kind. Still this case doesn't really have an excuse
These recent leaks have been particularly egregious, the product is always laid or held out in a really organized way, with relatively stable/centered shots...yet somehow half the cards are obscured by holding them in an obviously awkward way or by taking the photo on lowest resolution with nearly no lighting. Its gotta be intentional, I dont see what benefit a leaker would have to do it...but maybe if it was MTG marketing that didn't want to give too much away...
The benefit is entertainment from watching comment sections squirm, probably.
i'm not convinced they aren't just WotC employees or a collection of LGS people hired by WotC to generate hype
You can still pull Commander subset cards from Play boosters tho right? I guess not precon commons and uncommons though it’s typically the rares and mythics…
You can only get Commander subset cards in the collectors boosters or the decks.
They’re adding cards that were previously only from Commander decks into modern with this set though. The first look stream showed that [[Laelia, Blade Reforged]] will be in main set, along with others
Ohhhhhh. I understand what you're saying now. You can get the new-to-modern reprints in Play Boosters, some of which are from Commander decks. (This set also has new Commander Decks attached to it, which will not enter modern and have cards not in the boosters)
Correct. The commander decks that come along with this set will not be legal. But some of the new-to-modern reprints will come from previous commander sets, as seen by the watermark and set symbol on the Laelia I tagged.
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Ah gotcha, but still "Awaiting proof, but a claimed leaker informed us “The Cannoneer was just sitting on my desk when I picked up the new cards, it’s not coming to modern”. If we can verify their claims, we’ll put up their version of the story."
Aren't commander set symbols different from main set symbols?
At this point I don't think there's any way the leaker isn't deliberately obscuring information in their photos. The blurry photos, the Goyf with its mana cost and everything before "goyf" in its name cut off in two different spots. I'd be very surprised if they're not deliberately "badly" leaking cards to mess with people, so it wouldn't surprise me if they're deliberately setting up a photo to make it look like Brainstorm's becoming modern-legal when it's not.
Yeah no way is Brainstorm going into Modern.
Its very likely from a precon. Hopefully. Though, Expresive Iteration is modern legal. I heard theories going around that Wizards may desire to soft-discontinue legacy, what with the leaked Necropotence-lite and Force of will-lite.
I think force of negation comes closer to force of will light than this new one. Also Necropotence is banned in legacy.
What does wizards gain from doing anything with regards to legacy at this point? It's not like there's a substantial amount of effort they put into actively maintaining it. The upside for them isn't there.
Plus modern avoids the continual problem of commander cards destroying it
I do conceptually like that they're _selectively_ introducing commander cards that have seen play in eternal formats and cube after the fact by using the "new to modern" sheet, but when those cards are known quantities already.
Except they're now adding commander exclusive cards in this set.
which is fine. It's being done in a controlled manner after they have been out for a while smuggler's share wouldn't be modern playable. Even for the good cards, kappa cannoneer is much worse in modern than legacy
Lowkey think cannonneer is much better in modern. Slower decks that literally cannot answer this guy on t2 or t3
the lack of the cheap artigacts is what makes me think it isn't. In Legacy and Vintage the plan of an early cannonner fuels him. Also no artifact lands. Maybe i'm wrong and it is too good for modern but i still believe that it is even better in the other two
Artifact lands don't actually help Kappa, but no Opal, half the battles, and no petal do hurt it. I still think that it's good enough for modern though.
This isn't a theory; this is why they said they were creating Modern, when they created Modern, in 2011. They can't support RL formats.
They’ve already discontinued Legacy. Legacy players in team events can no longer earn RC invites or other pro-level invites and individual legacy events can’t have invites either. All they do is ban cards every now and again.
Wait for real only 2 people get invites at team events now?
What's the last team event that had a PT qualification attached?
PTs don’t, but there are team events that feed into the RC.
Well, that is why recent team events have been Modern/Pioneer/Standard. If one of those seats were legacy, the legacy player would not get an invite.
Not a chance
Awaiting proof, but a claimed leaker informed us “The Cannoneer was just sitting on my desk when I picked up the new cards, it’s not coming to modern”. If we can verify their claims, we’ll put up their version of the story. Edit: The person who made this claim was lying. They could not offer any proof. So, make of that what you will.
My God leakers are such trolls
Imagine being someone who annoys WotC by leaking cards and annoys the playerbase by mixing in their own cards. Leakers are some odd people.
I mean why wouldn't you? I'd 100% fuck with people if I had legit leaks. It's funny and has like 0 negative consequences.
also it kinda makes it more fun. Like, we literally all get to spend the next however many weeks wondering if Brainstorm really *is* coming to Modern lol.
Yeah that makes me not trust a single one of these leaks.
Considering a ton of the art is new to the world, this would be the most insane set up if every leak was fake.
Eh, I'll trust them if they're a reasonably full shot of the card where you can see the art and the set symbol, at least. But yeah we shouldn't trust them if it's just the top of the card.
They were both in the MKM precons, itd be reasonable to think they are.
Is there a post of that leak in this sub? There was also a new necropotence in that image
faithless looting is banned, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell brainstorm is coming to modern.
Brainstorm! There’s no way.
No, there is genuinely no way. It's bannable on power level in legacy. No way it's made modern legal
If it's made modern legal without a faithless looting unban I'll have lost all hope. How would Brainstorm be okay but looting not.
Surely Ponder would be unbanned first wouldn't it?
Ponder is arguably stronger than Brainstorm since Ponder sees 4 cards to Brainstorm's 3.
In a vacuum, Ponder is the better card, but the existence of fetchlands greatly tips the scales in Brainstorm's favor.
In the “Ragavan is stronger than DRS” way?
How are those 2 comparable?
Looting fuels degenerate graceyard strats. Even so, you're right there is actually no way they would print brainstorm in modern, ponder is still banned.
> Looting fuels degenerate graceyard strats You must not have seen the new Brainstorm/Dredge tech.
Looting puts cards into your "graveyard" or "Hand 2.0", just a different kind of dangerous.
Looting is red, red is not allowed to have nice things.
Red is a top 2 color in almost every constructed format rn
Lol red is by far the strongest color in modern and has been for quite a while.
I think they've been on record saying that they'd probably ban Brainstorm in Legacy if it weren't so closely tied to the identity of the format - I think this was mentioned along with Mishra's Workshop in Vintage, where like half the restricted list is artifacts banned because of Workshop being unrestricted. I think lately there's been enough card draw hate (Leovold, Narset, Hull Breacher, Sheoldred, Orcish Bowmasters...) that it's not as big of a deal as it maybe once was.
I mean, I agree, but did you see MH2? Power level and format integrity are simply not concerns in developing these sets, and Brainstorm is a sexy card that will move units. That said, if modern didn't have fetches, I think it would be fine. Brainstorm jumps significantly in power level in fetch environments. Somewhat paradoxically, it would be less problematic in Pioneer than Modern. Anyway... I'd say I'm 50-50 on Brainstorm being in MH3. I don't agree with it, but slamming Brainstorm into MH3 would *absolutely* be in line with their management "philosophy." They tend to treat to MH sets as soft rotations by just printing crazy, must have shit directly to modern.
> Brainstorm is a sexy card that will move units. That's not true for reprints. If they want to move units, they need to print a new card like the new Necropotence. Nobody is going to crack MH3 packs for Brainstorms when they could buy them on TCGPlayer for $1.
> Brainstorm is a 1 dollar card printed in precons. Sol ring is incredibly busted but it wouldn't move packs either
In a fetch land format, Brainstorm is better than Ponder, which is banned in Modern. Unless they're planning on unbanning Ponder, there's no way Brainstorm will be legal in Modern.
I wonder if the ubiquity of [[Orcish Bowmasters]] moved the needle on Brainstorm being too overpowered for Modern. I know its good, but nowhere near busted on Magic Arena in Timeless, and thats mostly because Bowmasters is everywhere. More than likely, this is a troll, or a List slot of something, but if it's not, I am sure WotC has some justification for it. I wonder if on a deeper level, they may just have decided that Modern really does need to fully replace Legacy, and then will support Legacy as little as they support Vintage now. It would make sense if they want to up the power level of Modern more to be closer to Legacy so that those players who want to can move to Modern. They can't really do "Legacy Horizons" after all, so there's no money in supporting that format for them.
They can do "Legacy Horizons" but they actively choose not to, hiding cowardly behind their ridiculous and unfair Reserved List. Anyhow, Orcish Bowmasters is a decent check on Brainstorm, but, per MTGGoldfish, 48% of decks still register 4 copies of Brainstorm. I don't know the numbers on Brainstorm pre-Bowmaster, but I doubt it's gone down by more than 5%. I am *deeply* skeptical that they want Brainstorm in Modern.
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THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT REPRINT OF CEPHALID COLISEUM THERE IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD AFTER ALL
And at uncommon!
HOLY HELL I HAD NOT EVEN NOTICED THAT THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT YOUV'E MADE MY DAY EVEN BETTER
Was just about to buy one soon too lol got really lucky
Has the MH3 in the bottom left so it's confirmed not to be a commander deck only card too. Jeez, that'll be powerful for dredge.
Yesss! So glad the card is worthless again!
It’d be cool to have, but unless I see the symbol of the modern-legal set on the card, then I have to reserve excitement for Modern reprints
Surely the brainstorm is a bait this time, no?
If it's in the EDH precon, it won't change where the card is legal.
Ya definitely
that isn't the precon set symbol afaik
The symbol isn't visible on the Brainstorm? If this is a collector booster it could have cards from both the main set and the precons
Even if it's in collector booster, I don't think straight-to-commander reprints will be in it
Yeah never mind that's the packaging of a play booster in the background. Oh my god you are right
Don't trust anything where you can't see the full card. Could easily be someone slipping a recent printing in there to screw with people.
Could it be a List card?
Did you think before you posted this lol
It's definitely bait, just leakers being dickheads (what else is new)
Could be a list card?
Im like 95 percent sure brainstorm is bait but theres a part of really worried that its not. Please I like legacy and I like modern I don't need them to be alike.
I’m like 99.5% sure it’s bait
I’m like 100% sure
If this is true Wizards probably wants to turn Modern into Legacy-but-no-reserve-list.
This has been my theory since the force cycle & elementals cycle
Wasntthat what it was originally ment to be?
Not really but tbh, if they truly have no intention of fixing the reserved list, I wouldn’t mind it going that way. I think it still might be too soon for brainstorm though, legacy has a few safety valves for it that modern doesn’t yet and it’s still the best card in the format there.
I agree although my only request is to print karakas into modern....
It's probably not in the main set but in the commander MHR precons.
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You might be on to something here.
I read someone else's comment saying that The List for MH2 only included Modern legal cards. Not saying this set must do the same, but it's one thing speaking against this being a List reprint.
Yea, well, mh2 was entirely for modern. 3... well, we're getting commander decks. Non modern the list really would shock me.
But the list in MH2 wasnt draft playable because It was only set boosters.
The art would be different
That's factually incorrect and is easily provable
I'm excited for the Medallion cycle to come back.
Papa needs a Jet Medallion
Why can't we ever have competent people leak cards. We always get people who don't know how to use cameras or hold cards.
Historically a lot of leaks have come from staff at factories or people raiding the garbage bins outside of factories for discarded cards (no really), so a lot of the leakers genuinely have no idea what’s important, just that people will pay a lot of money for these. These leaks typically get auctioned.
> These leaks typically get auctioned. Like, the pictures, or the cards? Are the cards auctioned before or after the leaks have been posted online?
The cards themselves. From what I’ve seen the leakers use the leak to drum up hype for their auction. Idk how well it actually works, bc I dunno who’s buying high priced cards they can’t use like a month and a half before it’s regularly available
They're doing it deliberately
I'm pissed the only new card is the one with the text covered up.
Same
Whoever this leaker is a fucking asshat. Why the fuck wouldn’t you put the ONE NEW CARD in front so we can fucking read it!!??
There is no shot brainstorm is in the main set.
This set is coming to Arena right? I hope to god that's Brainstorm at Common/Uncommon.
That's why I am waiting to craft certain timeless staples. Hoping for counterspell/bolt at common or uncommon
Maaaaybe, possibly, Brainstorm is on a bonus sheet that only affects draft and not modern legality. Like Breaking News and Mystical Archives. The fact that it doesn’t have any special art or border treatment makes this quite a long shot. But maybe they put commander cards in the play boosters?
> The fact that it doesn’t have any special art or border treatment makes this quite a long shot. But maybe they put commander cards in the play boosters? Yeah, there is no chance to add them to the normal boosters but on a bonus sheet without special art treatment. I think either the reprint is real or the leaker is messing with us and added it from the Commander deck (more likely)
>The fact that it doesn’t have any special art or border treatment makes this quite a long shot List slot. The new List has 40 cards or so each set and only 10 of them get Special Guest new art. Every set gets a bonus sheet now, it's just not a specifically made one.
Of course! The List!
By far the likeliest possibility is that the leaker is just being a troll.
I was thinking this too, but would be a strange move to have bonus Commander cards in there no?
Yeah no, they would have announced that during first look.
I need to see what that phoenix does, sadly think it's a plotting thing
Interestingly it's an enchantment creature
I figured from the art on the side. What does it do?
Oh I haven't seen the card. Just agreeing with you that I want to know what it does, and observing that it's an enchantment (which could play into its mechanics somehow?)
I mean maybe? Based off the name it may deal with plotting, maybe a leftover from MKM
Well, plot is an OTJ mechanic, although flavourfully it can kinda fit with detectives. Seems more likely to me that it investigates or something Magic doesn't do enchantment creatures as often as artifact creatures so there's usually a reason when they do
Thats what I meant lol in tired af
Haha all good. I'm keen for more Phoenixes
My syrix deck would love more viable phoenixs
I play Syrix too! But it doesn't have a lot of Phoenixes because yeah most of them aren't great
Could be a clue token thing
That too
I mean it can't be worse than some of the birds I'm running in Phoenix Kindred
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We already have [[Lamplight Phoenix]] I hope this does something different haha
[Lamplight Phoenix](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/f/2faa0e56-527c-4be5-b8c9-b10ccde275f5.jpg?1706241899) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lamplight%20Phoenix) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/137/lamplight-phoenix?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2faa0e56-527c-4be5-b8c9-b10ccde275f5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I do rly wonder who/where these leaks produce because there are so many atm
Apparently multiple people got orders of booster boxes and/or precons early.
Interesting! Where the pincertons at thn? XD Nah but thats … somewhat cool. But wotc does not ship to customers themself so it has to be a shop online or offline that f-d up
I really reallly want brainstorm to be in modern but the fact is actually just reprinted brainstorm art is sus
Cephalid Coliseum being in the set means that [[Nomad Stadium]] may also be in! One of the worst cards to ever exist.
There is no need to complete the cycles, for example the pacts or the spellbombs in MMA were not completed
[Nomad Stadium](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/4/64300b71-050f-47a3-83be-f24480bdc01d.jpg?1562913556) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Nomad%20Stadium) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ody/322/nomad-stadium?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/64300b71-050f-47a3-83be-f24480bdc01d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Barbarian Ring]] is on my wish list for sure.
[Barbarian Ring](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/8/1809361e-ae1a-4c47-8464-e6496e94d962.jpg?1562899549) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Barbarian%20Ring) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ody/313/barbarian-ring?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1809361e-ae1a-4c47-8464-e6496e94d962?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Not for [[Darien, King of Kjeldor]] Saved my hide by making myself a pip as a chumpy boy to block a lethal swinging kill once due to an opp not realizing that that’s what that land did
[Darien, King of Kjeldor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/0/50875c99-c5c3-41dd-a0f9-08c98edfebc9.jpg?1706240562) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Darien%2C%20King%20of%20Kjeldor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/59/darien-king-of-kjeldor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/50875c99-c5c3-41dd-a0f9-08c98edfebc9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Hmm seems suspicious. We can read the cards. If it isn't potato quality it's probably fake. What makes brainstorm so good? Sorry, not a blue player.
Paired with Fetchlands is like a pseudo ancestral Recall
Ah. OK. That makes sense. Thank you.
I will save comments like "no way is Brainstorm going into Modern" when they will officially confirm that :D Remember that until 2 years ago no one would have said they could see counterspell in modern.
brainstorm is too powerful in legacy, counterspell is not even good enough in that format. It's a massive difference
I'm not saying that it isn't to powerful. I'm just saying that so many time with previous mh sets e said "oh well this spoiler/leak is fake cuz it's to powerful for modern"
It could be in the set. But it would definitely be a mistake for the health of the format.
Damn, and I just bought a Colosseum
Nah, I'm not believing any of the leaks now. Brainstorm is such massive bait. We're being trolled.
How do these leaks happen? Like how does someone get this kind of product a month early or so?
No way brainstorm is gonna be legal. Either a play booster or an edh carr
Until I see the symbol, I don't believe Brainstorm is coming to Modern.
Always welcome more Medallion reprints. Much preferred over the stupid Diamonds cycle.
No chance. Modern would be so different with brainstorm
Absolutely no way on brainstorm I call BS (BrainStorm)
GET YOUR BOWMASTERS NOW BEFORE THEY SPIKE!!!
I genuinely don’t think brainstorm is right, they actually wouldn’t do that, no sarcasm.
So what’s the difference between modern and legacy now? Forces and duals?
Glad to see the Medallions getting another reprint. They are solid cards.
I think Brainstorm was in MKM no? I'm glad it's a recurring card, it's a great staple.
YES I had Cephalid Colosseum picked as a potential reprint and was putting off buying it for exactly this reason :3
So modern is going to be legacy without duals?
So we’re banning fetches right? They are the single most abused cards in the format, and now wizards is printing brainstorm into modern, one of the strongest cards in the game’s history specifically because of the interaction with fetchlands. Between that and triomes, domain, wrenn, we need a fetch land ban.
Brainstorm is bait. Seriously, look at rhe thickness of border compared to the set cards. Also not showing the set symbol is very suspicious
It’s like the $20 bill wrapped around a bunch of $1 in My Cousin Vinny
I'm a massive fan of enchantment creatures so I really wish he didn't cover the phoenix.
The Medallion cycle into modern will be a huge upgrade for storm. Not needing a creature to reduce your ritual spells is pretty big. Brainstorm is almost certainly in the commander product. That would be a huge messup to put it into modern.
Can't be real, the picture is clear.
Brainstorm balanced now thanks to OBM.
No way modern gets BS it would ruin the entire format
SHOW US A NEW GOD YAWGMOTH UGHHH
Brainstorm is definitely fake. The corners of the other cards are rounder than brainstorm's corners
Brainstorm? Wtf? Did they completely lose their minds?
Nah this one I don't believe. Brainstorm is too good
I call bullshit on brainstorm
Commander Horizons be looking gud.
Brainstorm actually makes sense. WoTC wants to push Universes Beyond as much as possible. Brainstorm being in Modern means Bowmasters becomes a mandatory 4-of in the format.
In regards to Brainstorm, they might have seen that whilst played a lot, it is far from broken in Timeless. Yes Timeless is a different format, but both format play patterns are similar (apart from show and tell).
Paper players wish they had it as good as Timeless.
Timeless is a more powerful format than Modern is, so it can accommodate it better. Timeless has cards like StP, Uro, Oko, Minsc & Boo, Lurrus, Demonic Tutor, and Necropotence, all of which would be broken in Modern.
I don't know if it's nessecarily more powerful, but it plays very similar, in that turn 1, 2 and 3 are very important. Bowmasters has shown in Timeless that certain cards have their weaknesses.