Hello and welcome back to the weekly set retrospective! This week, we will take a look at the second half of Future Sight, a set so full of money cards that I had to split up the analysis! Let’s dive in!
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Future Sight was the third set in Time Spiral Block and it was full of all the busted elements you could imagine. The Development team decided to look at how Magic would appear at some point in the future, perhaps in an alternate universe. We saw keywords like Delve that haven’t appeared since, along with cards like the Pacts that revisited ideas on just what you’d pay for a “free” spell.
Future Sight is also full of money. Don’t lose a dime of it; read the article!
This week, we are looking at Planar Chaos, the second set in the nostalgia-heavy Time Spiral block.
Welcome back to another week of financially-minded set reviews. This week, we are finishing our look at Time Spiral, an incredible set for players and collectors. Like I said before, Time Spiral was a set that rewarded long-time players.
Time Spiral is a reward for being a veteran Magic player. It’s the badge you earn when you get Achievement Unlocked: Play Magic For A Decade. Time Spiral, like a Lars Von Trier film, is one for the critics.
Coldsnap was an ambitious set, built on a MaRo-driven myth of a lost set. It was created to make Ice Age into a real block, but it fell short of most of its design goals. The designers wanted us to like Cumulative Upkeep, but few of the cards were even playable in draft. There are still some amazing and unexpected gems in the set, so take a look for the money cards of Coldsnap!
Dissension, the third (and chronically-misspelled) set in Ravnica, showcased the remaining three guilds. We were introduced to the hellbent Rakdos, the gene-splicing Simic and the board-stalling Azorius guilds. Ravnica block is good for a couple money rares, but it didn’t go as casually deep as I thought it would when I first thought about the block. Dissension has a few nice tournament staples aside from the obvious shocklands – let’s take a look at the set!
Guildpact is the second set in Ravnica block, bringing us The Orzhov, Izzet and Gruul guilds. Or, if you prefer, the B/W, U/R and R/G color combinations. It was a fine set, especially because it deeply explored B/W. Guildpact brought the guilds’ shocklands, along with a few other money cards. Let’s take a look at Ravnica Block’s second set this week!
This article marks the second half of our review of Ravnica: City of Guilds. Last week, we saw some power uncommons and surprisingly-valuable casual cards. This week, we’ll get into heavy hitters like shocklands and more! Let’s take a look…
