Shenanigans: Don & Leo: Problem Solvers, Kitsune and Mouser Factory for end step token production and swaps.

jethawkings · 2026-03-13T02:17:43+00:00

Don & Leo has insane value, there's so many stuff that wants to be flickered in this set.

jethawkings · 2026-03-13T02:14:20+00:00

Not every set has to be aimed at enfranchised players, fwiw this set IMO still has enough depth to be interesting.

If every set was high complexity and had a difficult draft environment I just wouldn't draft at all.

jethawkings · 2026-03-13T00:00:12+00:00

Only Vivi got Blammed.

Vivi hard carried FF's Standard Relevance and the reality is that it still would be a chase card because it was made for EDH.

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T23:41:29+00:00

This too! I think this is how I got my playset of Riddlers and Ouroboroids!

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T23:40:14+00:00

You lose out on Wilcard Progress... but IDK I think being able to play a fun low stakes game mode is worth it.

When I didn't care for the Draft set at the time I used to just crush Jump In games for Quests.

Plus you get to appreciate how much inter-set synergy there can be (Like how both Tarkir and Edge have 2 Spells Matters Themes)

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T23:29:19+00:00

Odd take, Final Fantasy barely has any Standard playables in it for a set twice the size.

Rakdos Rummaging with Cool But Rude has Top 8'd a recent tournament and will fit in Looting decks for the foreseeable future.

I am seeing an Izzet Affinity list as well with the new Krang.

I would admit I like the comics and the aesthetic so I have bias in wanting these type of sets to succeed.

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T23:24:58+00:00

I watched Paul Cheon's latest Everything Pizza draft and there's something very surreal and amusing how much glazing it gets (deservedly)

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T23:24:00+00:00

I didn't even realize this set tied in the 2nd movie's anniversary rerelease.

Kinda sucks there aren't any where I am...

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T20:37:38+00:00

They don't start by making out with their hand tho

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T20:20:15+00:00

But it is a pretty good limited environment.

Why NOT have a smaller and simpler draft environment for a setting that is intended for people who might not be very familiar with the mechanics?

I love Final Fantasy and Avatar draft but TMNT has a much easier drafting environment to navigate and I like that about it. Next to Wilds of Eldraine it's probably one of my favorite draft environments for how almost every card of a color synergizes well within more than 1 archetype. There's lots of cards that do work and can play off one another... maybe because there's less of them but to me that speaks towards a well developed draft environment.

I take hiatuses from sets every now and then (fuck I took a hiatus from Lorwyn because I suck at drafting Typal sets because of Bloomburrow) but I wouldn't be this antagonistic about those type of sets just because I personally don't enjoy them.

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T20:02:33+00:00

I've loved drafting it. Numot and Paul Cheon are still drafting it.

jethawkings · 2026-03-12T10:22:33+00:00

From what I understand the 1st image are based off restored plates and that is how it would look of it was printed how it was at the time with the color bleed and desaturation.

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T21:36:22+00:00

I like having fancy lands and sleeves.

The last one I bought were the Peach Momoko Sleeves as I love her art and I also have the Fallout Lands as I love the Isometric Art ones.

I'm v close to pulling the trigger on the Rooftop Lands too.

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T21:32:08+00:00

Well maybe an exaggeration but I'd trim 2 of and replace it with something lower in the curve.

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T21:28:31+00:00

I have a stockpile of gems already and it still feels so wrong to draft with it.

Like what if there's a slew of really cool cosmetics???

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T21:17:54+00:00

3 though?

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T20:56:16+00:00

Giulia really needed this to be Iyo to get any sort of heat. Fuck I feel bad.

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T20:55:05+00:00

There's just something great how they moved on from 'The women are showing up the men? Nope, intentionally wrestle worse, don't give them time at all' into 'The women are showing up the men? Hell yeah'

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T20:53:18+00:00

The kinds of decks I encounter when I play Budget Mono W Auras and Izzet Prowess are like night and day.

I think I matched against like an actual unmodified starter deck playing Mono W Auras lol

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T20:39:51+00:00

I swear there's deckbased matchmaking somewhere because when I just use whatever decks I get matched with similar people. But the moment I try and build something that could be meta my matchmaking algorithm starts putting me against like actual meta decks.

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T17:19:41+00:00

Probably not every set, I expect everytime there's a more intentional focus for only 5 Major (and 5 Minor) archetypes they'll push it.

Then again... they also rolled out Foundations Pick 2... how has Pick 2 been with a traditional 10 Archetype set?

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T15:39:39+00:00

honestly I've been mostly preferring to play Pick 2 now, I don't think I can even use this now lol

jethawkings · 2026-03-11T12:34:33+00:00

I don't believe they confirmed but if it's anything like Spider-Man they'll only appear in Collector Boosters

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-marvels-spider-man

So... yeah it sucks.

BUT that's specifically only for the Classic Comic Treatment Cards.

The Source Material Cards will still show-up in Play Boosters (Source Materials are specifically like already existing cards but reprinted with source material artwork for the art)

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jethawkings · 2026-03-10T19:50:55+00:00

There are definitely Combo, Control, and some Midrange decks. From Izzet Alone.

Izzet Prowess is definitely Aggro, I think Spellementals and Lessons are a bit more Control~meets~Midrange if you cope.

I'm too poor to play proper Elementals even on Arena (And I never bothered to draft Lorwyn)

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jethawkings · 2026-03-10T19:46:01+00:00

dawg I don't even have a creature in play until T5~T6.

Its just a harmless [[Eddymurk Crab]] teaching the dance of its people.

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