I get the feeling...
I find it funny that they realized git probe and misstep were busted fucking cards, then decided to see if they could make cards not-quite-as-bad but still-clearly-bad and didn't feel the need to playtest them.
All of these are fine, because you can represent them with a penny. I hit blessing - I have this penny, just to say I have it for the rest of the game (dumb mechanic). Emblems I can look at the planeswalkers for reference - this penny means I have a Sorin 2 +1/0 emblem. The person who has the monarchy has the penny.
In itself, none of those mechanics are a problem, but the volume of them is what creates the bloat, and then you end up with really dumb shit like two instances of how werewolves work because one set uses day and night tracking and the other uses game conditions to morph, which is messy. Things like the City's Blessing shouldn't even be an ongoing tracking mechanic, it should just be like Threshold, where it's checked constantly instead of staying on once hit once.
having to keep track of extra stuff sucks but it isn't even the worst part about them. i think it's incredibly shitty design that not only do you have cards that introduce mechanics to the game only after you play them that didn't exist before, but that these new effects are always in a weird spot where they exist in the game but also not and you can't interact with them at all. if someone ults a planeswalker and gets an emblem, it's just there. you can't do shit about it.
You forgot fallout commander decks.
Yup, a lot of shit that gets turned into a mechanic could just be reminder text, but they need to keep putting out mechanics so they keep making up names for things with no interactions or point to existing. Block structures allowed them to potentially take three sets to flesh out an idea, but they never really too advantage of that back in the day either.
The what? Did they announce *more* universes beyond garbage?
We are getting Fallout Commander Decks, Final Fantasy set thats based on 1-16 and then we are getting Assassins Creed.
Over Under on 50% of the Final Fantasy set being FF7Remake and FF16 garbage?
Oh shit Karlov is Ravnica, my brain is so mush on the lore Details that I could have sworn that was one of the Vampire Families on Innistrad.
No way. Final Fantasy has its own card game. They wouldn't--
Ravinica "remastered" means it's a reprint set. Like Dominaria or Time Spiral remastered.
Well the creator of vampires on Innistrad is "MARKOV" so it's understandable you mixed it up since there's only 1 letter difference.
Bloomburrow is an original animal people set. It's supposed to be very "charming".
Guns are a big part of the western setting, but you could do interesting spellslinger stuff instead of gun stuff on a western plane like bandoliers filled with spell capsules instead of bullets. It's just going to be new capenna with a western coat of paint.
That Duskmourn art has a Giger biomechanical look so it's probably going to be knockoff scorn plane. Which adds to an insane theory I had about the ruining of the phyrexian body horror aesthetic being so they could make a future plane using the aesthetic.
Didn't Dominaria Remastered ultimately hard flop and is still available at under launch prices? I'm surprised they didn't abandon the format yet, but maybe this time around it will be the last nail in the coffin as I can't imagine Ravnica Remastered going over well. What reprint value can they even stuff into it at this point? Dark Confidant?
