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pyresword posted...

Dryad Arbor

80/100

I love wacky designs like Dryad Arbor. It's a cool juxtaposition of two basic concepts with the upsides and downsides of both. I love traditional creaturelands, so I'm all aboard with a Land-owar Elf.

"But it can be fetched or Green Sun'd!"

That ain't Dryad Arbor's problem! I think being able to fetch a 1/1 is actually kinda sick. Green Sun's Zenith was a major problem, but that's all on Green Sun's design. Dryad Arbor is just being a neat card that showed the best of Future Sight.

Now, the people who would hide Dryad Arbor in their lands and try to "gotcha" players who couldn't discern it from the rest of the land stack? Fuck those assholes. I'm glad they changed the MTR to stop that shit.

xenosaga posted...

The Reserve List

20/100

Oh boy. Here we go.

I get it. The Reserved List was necessary for the game. Chronicles was an S-tier fuckup that spooked the secondary market that TCGs need in order to thrive, and Magic was the pioneer of this territory. It was the only way to keep retailers invested. An evil, certainly, but an evil to preserve everything else.

God, I am sick of players today paying for that fuckup over two decades ago. I am sick of seeing Eternal formats that feature fantastic and unique gameplay get abandoned. I am sick of #MTGFinance bros.

I don't think it can ever go away. We've seen retailers disinvest from Magic because of the constant glut of product releases now; repealing the list now will just cause the same issue that started it since HotC's goodwill to retails is in the trash.