Dusty said: Thuran said: Dusty said: FindingHeart8 said:I do appreciate the tragic twist on the mtg storyline, where the good guys don't always win. The Mirran's fought admirably, the Praetors were interesting, powerful and scary, and it was shortly followed by my favorite mtg world ever made, Kamigawa Hey, good to hear Kamigawa getting some love! Some great art design, especially with the spirits; cool abilities, I've certainly had fun Ninjustuing Ninja of the Deep Hours or Ink Eyes, Splice is neat, and Soulshift was certainly good in limited (Kamigawa 2 should feature Splice onto Instant and Soulshift Elf!); and flip cards, whilst hella ugly, are conceptually no different from Transform cards, and we all know how much people love those. Plus, Tamiyo's home plane Maro mentioned around the time of SOI that the next Kamigawa block is in developement.Of course, they might have scrapped it since then, but it was being worked on! Really??!!!I'm not convinced... Rosewater has been highly critical of the block in the past, and continues to be; Kamigawa was a failure both creatively and in terms of sales.There's not much evidence of a return to Kamigawa on Google, this reddit thread looks promising, but it links to this rather obvious joke.
Thuran said: Dusty said: FindingHeart8 said:I do appreciate the tragic twist on the mtg storyline, where the good guys don't always win. The Mirran's fought admirably, the Praetors were interesting, powerful and scary, and it was shortly followed by my favorite mtg world ever made, Kamigawa Hey, good to hear Kamigawa getting some love! Some great art design, especially with the spirits; cool abilities, I've certainly had fun Ninjustuing Ninja of the Deep Hours or Ink Eyes, Splice is neat, and Soulshift was certainly good in limited (Kamigawa 2 should feature Splice onto Instant and Soulshift Elf!); and flip cards, whilst hella ugly, are conceptually no different from Transform cards, and we all know how much people love those. Plus, Tamiyo's home plane Maro mentioned around the time of SOI that the next Kamigawa block is in developement.Of course, they might have scrapped it since then, but it was being worked on!
Dusty said: FindingHeart8 said:I do appreciate the tragic twist on the mtg storyline, where the good guys don't always win. The Mirran's fought admirably, the Praetors were interesting, powerful and scary, and it was shortly followed by my favorite mtg world ever made, Kamigawa Hey, good to hear Kamigawa getting some love! Some great art design, especially with the spirits; cool abilities, I've certainly had fun Ninjustuing Ninja of the Deep Hours or Ink Eyes, Splice is neat, and Soulshift was certainly good in limited (Kamigawa 2 should feature Splice onto Instant and Soulshift Elf!); and flip cards, whilst hella ugly, are conceptually no different from Transform cards, and we all know how much people love those. Plus, Tamiyo's home plane
FindingHeart8 said:I do appreciate the tragic twist on the mtg storyline, where the good guys don't always win. The Mirran's fought admirably, the Praetors were interesting, powerful and scary, and it was shortly followed by my favorite mtg world ever made, Kamigawa
Blazer said: A little off topic but anyone else REALLY creeped out by the artwork on the Spread of Phyresis support. (shudders in the corner)
Mburn7 said: Dusty said: Thuran said: Dusty said: FindingHeart8 said:I do appreciate the tragic twist on the mtg storyline, where the good guys don't always win. The Mirran's fought admirably, the Praetors were interesting, powerful and scary, and it was shortly followed by my favorite mtg world ever made, Kamigawa Hey, good to hear Kamigawa getting some love! Some great art design, especially with the spirits; cool abilities, I've certainly had fun Ninjustuing Ninja of the Deep Hours or Ink Eyes, Splice is neat, and Soulshift was certainly good in limited (Kamigawa 2 should feature Splice onto Instant and Soulshift Elf!); and flip cards, whilst hella ugly, are conceptually no different from Transform cards, and we all know how much people love those. Plus, Tamiyo's home plane Maro mentioned around the time of SOI that the next Kamigawa block is in developement.Of course, they might have scrapped it since then, but it was being worked on! Really??!!!I'm not convinced... Rosewater has been highly critical of the block in the past, and continues to be; Kamigawa was a failure both creatively and in terms of sales.There's not much evidence of a return to Kamigawa on Google, this reddit thread looks promising, but it links to this rather obvious joke. The biggest issues with the block (as best as I can tell) is it was a legendary-themed set with only rare legendaries. Now that that issue is fixed with Dominaria combined with the new tech they have for printing packs (being used in Battlebond) I could see them making a return eventually.
Thuran said: Mburn7 said: Dusty said: Thuran said: Dusty said: FindingHeart8 said:I do appreciate the tragic twist on the mtg storyline, where the good guys don't always win. The Mirran's fought admirably, the Praetors were interesting, powerful and scary, and it was shortly followed by my favorite mtg world ever made, Kamigawa Hey, good to hear Kamigawa getting some love! Some great art design, especially with the spirits; cool abilities, I've certainly had fun Ninjustuing Ninja of the Deep Hours or Ink Eyes, Splice is neat, and Soulshift was certainly good in limited (Kamigawa 2 should feature Splice onto Instant and Soulshift Elf!); and flip cards, whilst hella ugly, are conceptually no different from Transform cards, and we all know how much people love those. Plus, Tamiyo's home plane Maro mentioned around the time of SOI that the next Kamigawa block is in developement.Of course, they might have scrapped it since then, but it was being worked on! Really??!!!I'm not convinced... Rosewater has been highly critical of the block in the past, and continues to be; Kamigawa was a failure both creatively and in terms of sales.There's not much evidence of a return to Kamigawa on Google, this reddit thread looks promising, but it links to this rather obvious joke. The biggest issues with the block (as best as I can tell) is it was a legendary-themed set with only rare legendaries. Now that that issue is fixed with Dominaria combined with the new tech they have for printing packs (being used in Battlebond) I could see them making a return eventually. What are you talking about? XD the block had plenty of un common legendaries, and iirc also some common ones? Example: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=78968
Dusty said: Mburn7 said:Oh. Huh. I should note, my only real knowledge of Kamigawa design comes from all the times Mark Rosewater talked about it when mentioning all the mistakes they didn't re-do in Dominaria. Pretty sure he mentioned that a big issue was a legendary theme with a terrible As-Fan of legendaries. I may have misunderstood.Sorry. I'll go back to being a passive spectator here lol. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/because-salt-makes-mistakes-taste-great-2016-05-09It wasn't that all the legends were rare... it was that all the rares were legends Kamigawa had some uncommon legends, and so when I went to the prerelease and saw dozens of people opening legends, the theme seemed obvious to me, but I guess it wasn't to small groups opening handfuls of boosters. The 'historic' keyword allowed them to write 'legendary' on a bunch of common cards in Dominaria without those cards being too narrow.
Mburn7 said:Oh. Huh. I should note, my only real knowledge of Kamigawa design comes from all the times Mark Rosewater talked about it when mentioning all the mistakes they didn't re-do in Dominaria. Pretty sure he mentioned that a big issue was a legendary theme with a terrible As-Fan of legendaries. I may have misunderstood.Sorry. I'll go back to being a passive spectator here lol.
FindingHeart8 said: Blazer said: A little off topic but anyone else REALLY creeped out by the artwork on the Spread of Phyresis support. (shudders in the corner) I'm desensitized to it now, but when the card first came out in paper mtg I was like wooooah creepy.Now to me, it's just a fun card in paper mtg to turn yourself invincible
wereotter said: FindingHeart8 said: Blazer said: A little off topic but anyone else REALLY creeped out by the artwork on the Spread of Phyresis support. (shudders in the corner) I'm desensitized to it now, but when the card first came out in paper mtg I was like wooooah creepy.Now to me, it's just a fun card in paper mtg to turn yourself invincible Same, though the art from this one still makes me super uncomfortable even all these years later:
FindingHeart8 said: Kamigawa's primary failure was that Wizards realized they screwed up in making Mirrodin overpowered, so they tried to counterbalance the power spike by making Kamigawa weaker. Obviously, that didn't sit well for the buyers looking for mighty new cards to add to their decks.
Thuran said: Hmm, maybe the demone can chance size or shape? Maybe certain parts of him are really small for a demon?