Masterpiece Standard, would you play it?
Standard forum
Posted on Sept. 15, 2016, 6:09 a.m. by Chandrian
WotC announced that from now on they will add a Masterpiece Series to all the following sets (or at least will do so for a while)... The cards from the Masters Series are not legal in standard, they're only legal in the formats they are currently legal in.
I was wondering... would anyone play in a standard format where the Masterpiece Series cards are also legal? I know it would be some sort of weird semi-legacy standard... would you consider it "fun" to play? Or would people only play the "Masterpiece" cards?
Discuss, but keep it civil :)
ps: I didn't post this in the standard forum because... well we're not really discussing standard here.
Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Lotus Petal, Mox Opal, Sol Ring.
You call it semi-legacy? Non-combo legacy wouldn't stand a chance.
ultra-legacy would be a better name.
Generating 12 mana turn 2 wouldn't even be difficult.
September 15, 2016 6:59 a.m.
This would be an amazing format, but it would probably be open only to people willing to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on it.
September 15, 2016 7:11 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #5
THe format would be all colorless with splashes. Reality Smasher T2 would be nothing special. 10/10 would play.
September 15, 2016 7:29 a.m.
It would suck hard. Just imagine having to pay for all of that cardboard. Barrier of entry would be miles above any standard format.
September 15, 2016 9:15 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #7
TheDevicer i think it was more a question on how the format with the cards would look like, not the financial part. Of course, everything would be insanely expensive with these cards legal.
September 15, 2016 9:19 a.m.
I get that, but even if the format turned out to be balanced and diverse enough to justify play, no one could play it.
September 15, 2016 9:22 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #9
I would play any format where I could have Ulamog T3. :D
September 15, 2016 9:44 a.m.
aeonstoremyliver says... #10
So, Vintage? Lol!!! Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, and Sol Ring are banned in Legacy even. Allowing cards of that power level in a Standard format would be redunk. I'd probably play Standard if they were legal, though. :-D
September 15, 2016 9:47 a.m.
What if you had a banned list? The masterpiece series cards just counted as being in the recent sets?
September 15, 2016 11:40 a.m.
EpicFreddi says... #12
_person_ yeah, it would be standard with the masterpieces (and probably expeditions). No banlist.
September 15, 2016 11:42 a.m.
How can you tell if I'm saying it like it's a bad thing?
September 15, 2016 1:04 p.m.
I'm quite aware that with all those powerfull mana-artifacts we got in Kaladesh (and some extra ones in Aether Revolt) the format would be very fast...I also realise that with the expditions from BFZ and OGW we'd all be playing 5C Bring to Light or (much more likely) the most broken version of Eldrazi ever.
Would I like to play in a format like that? Hell yes!Why? Because you would do broken/powerfull stuff with cards that are in Standard now... most of those cards never EVER will go into a deck with said powerfull cards. The card-pool also would stay limited and once BFZ/OGW and KLD/Aether Revolt rotate we'd have a Masterpiece standard with creatures/enchantments/sorceries... It would take brewing to another level since you would face interactions you'd never have expected before.
September 15, 2016 2:31 p.m.
snowboundleaf says... #18
What if you could play two or three cards form the master piece set but you were limited to one or two each? We could name it "Powered Standard"!
September 15, 2016 3:12 p.m.
kipahlord13 says... #19
I have a slightly different, but related idea. Rather than play cards in Standard from the Masterwork Series, ONLY play cards from the Masterwork Series. I'd include Zendikar Expeditions, Kaladesh Inventions, and whatever else comes next. Right now just looks like shit because most all we have are lands, but more will come, and I think the format would be really silly and super broken.
By the way, no basic lands were printed in any of the Masterworks so far...
September 15, 2016 5:20 p.m.
snowboundleaf That's a good idea. 3 might be too low a number to be functional, but maybe if we said that you can have 1 copy maximum of each card in the Masters Series (except cards that are actually in standard like Combustible Gearhulk) with a total of 10 cards from the Master Series in the deck.
Any thoughts? (I personally would love playing the limited Masters Series version because I have better odds of pulling some of the cards on the list than full sets and it would be a shame to have to proxy this stuff :p)
Epochalyptik says... #2
It's not discussing the actual Standard format, but it's discussing a variant thereof, which is close enough.
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September 15, 2016 6:32 a.m. Edited.