The big thing is that all drafts will be triple Gatecrash (draft is often a large % of packs opened..so that won’t be any different) the only difference is the people cracking packs on their own looking for value (which frankly doesn’t work out well anyways).

how different is random from opponent’s choice? we are talking about a bulk rare.

color me crazy, but I can’t see nearly as much Gatecrash being opened as RTR saw. The power in the cards just doesn’t seem to exist. Probably too early to call that though, what with the PT in a matter of days.

Ya..but local players LOVE them some Naya/Boros so Sacred Foundry and Stomping Grounds (while worse long term are highly desirable now..similar to Temple Garden)

You realize you get the creature at random right? I think this limits it’s playability, if it’s playable at all.

still like breeding pool in the new set, but i also think all the gatecrash shocks can decline. they are sought after though, so trading into them is a win imo.

i am buying steam vents. i am buying hallowed fountain. i could justify breeding pool but it is easier to aquire in trade for me and prices could drift lower on newer shocks as david suggests.

i am picking them all up in trade, they are liquid even if some look overvalued longer term to me (sacred foundry the best example of that).

i think that they can appreciate to at least half of what older versions are trading at today. that is why i like the ones near 50% discount. you get a larger margin of safety.

so yes.that said you are still making bank on reckoner and grats.

it is a card i am buying for its Modern and legacy playability. i doubt standard makes use of it while they are in rav block, but i like the price and their is a chance someone makes use of it earlier.

so it is a longer term play for me.

quote from WoTC “You are about half as likely to open a shockland in Dragon’s Maze as in Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash and, since this is for all ten shocklands rather than five, that means you are about a quarter as likely to open a specific one. There’s also a mythic rare land from Dragon’s Maze that will show up there sometimes!”