Should I do this?
Modern forum
Posted on March 5, 2014, 9:01 a.m. by iVampire
Should I put snow covered basics in my deck for GP Richmond even though I have no cards that use snow mana? Just to put them on edge?
The Doctor says... #4
I mean, if you have them, there's not really a reason to not use them.
March 5, 2014 10:28 a.m.
nor is there a real reason to use them, in this context. It's a matter of what you want to do, but any perceived gain is not really relevant. Except against the inexperienced.
March 5, 2014 10:34 a.m.
There's an extremely small number of relevant cards that it might cause folks to play around, but it's not really going to change most decks lines and a good number of folks wouldn't even know all the cards in Coldsnap and such any ways.
I would approach it the same way I would a foil land, it's just there for style.
March 5, 2014 11:59 a.m.
I mean if you are running a Extraplanar Lens or something to that effect it would be worth it, where the fact it is not the same land as your opponent might have.
March 5, 2014 12:31 p.m.
SharuumNyan says... #8
I love the title of this thread. It really caught my attention! "Should I do this..." Should he do what?! I had to know!
Could have been something really crazy like...
"Should I do this....I've been thinking of selling a kidney on the black market to pay for a playset of Misty Rainforest ". lol
March 5, 2014 12:32 p.m.
ChiefWannaHacka says... #9
SharuumNyan I hope you could AT LEAST get a playset of Misty Rainforest and some other staples, unless your kidneys are in heavily played condition.
March 5, 2014 2:36 p.m.
I'm thinking of trading most of my modern cards that I won't play and some legacy/edh and standard cards for Scalding Tarn and Arid Mesa playsets and other lands.
March 5, 2014 2:41 p.m.
The Doctor says... #11
Honestly? Don't.
It's highly speculated that fetches are going to be reprinted in either M15 or the Fall Block.
March 5, 2014 2:48 p.m.
ChiefWannaHacka says... #12
Unless the value you'll get from having them now is greater than the expected loss IF they're reprinted relatively soon.
March 5, 2014 2:51 p.m.
ChiefWannaHacka says... #13
They are the base for most competitive decks. The other cards are easy to get, it's the fetches that are hard to come by.
March 5, 2014 2:52 p.m.
The_Doctor I doubt m15 or the next block, I do expect them to be reprinted though, but in the block following huey, dewie, louis, which is 'blood', 'sweat', 'tears'. Also, please note the comment 'won't play' which means this is pretty much trade fodder anyways. I'm not putting one of my four Jace, the Mind Sculptor on the line for this... more like my playset of Splinter Twin , Birthing Pod , extra Noble Hierarch , etc...
March 5, 2014 2:55 p.m.
It's been "highly speculated" that fetches would be reprinted for several blocks now. Given WotC's insistence at keeping shuffling and slow game mechanics to a minimum, I doubt that we'll see them in any standard set. Even if they do get reprinted in an additional set like Modern Masters 2, that won't stop them from peaking around the summer this year, and it's not as if many of the other staples that got reprinted in the first Modern Masters are rapidly declining in price - most of them are up.
Fetches and other Modern staples are an excellent place to put some Magic speculation money in right now.
March 5, 2014 2:56 p.m.
Slycne the only problem with that, is that maro has stated that development doesn't think they (fetches) are too powerful for standard, once shocks rotate.
March 5, 2014 3:01 p.m.
vampirelazarus says... #17
It's not that they are too powerful for the standard after shocks, it's that they make the game slow.
It's one the things I love and hate about modern. Spending the first two or three turns searching and shuffling.... for both players.
March 5, 2014 3:36 p.m.
SharuumNyan says... #18
The shocks HAVE to be printed in Standard to make them all Modern legal. It will probably happen in the Huey block, for all he reasons previously stated.
March 5, 2014 3:44 p.m.
I would say only if you feel like it to the snow covered land question.
On fetches: I'm not concerned with buying them right now. Even if they see a reprint, the demand is sooooo high that their price drop won't be drastic; they will drop, but not enough to make you cry over your investment.
March 5, 2014 6:31 p.m.
lookoutimscary says... #21
SharuumNyan That is not true. The fetches could be reprinted in a Modern Masters II or a Duel Deck or something of the like.
March 5, 2014 8:14 p.m.
vampirelazarus says... #22
The fetches are legal in modern....
Unless you aren't talking about the zendikar ones.
March 5, 2014 8:17 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #23
Lol, can you imagine fetches in a Duel Deck? There's the payoff from the box twice over!
March 5, 2014 8:18 p.m.
No he is right (if he is talking onslaught fetches), to be modern legal, a card must be printed in a standard set post 8th edition. So the Onslaught fetches must be printed in standard if they are to be modern legal. It would require a rule change to print them in a MMA2 set and have them be modern legal (Only talking about onslaught fetches).
If Zen fetches are only printed in MMA2, I doubt their price will drop much, we need a standard printing.
gufymike says... #2
how would it put them on 'edge', it's just another variable, but nothing to get worried/upset by. At least when I say/hear 'edge' in this context, I think of flustering/frustrating them, getting them near tilt. Which this wouldn't do for the most part. Though I could see them considering Skred deck wins as something they are playing against but that's not much different than them playing against rdw....
March 5, 2014 9:19 a.m.