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I could have sworn i saw listings at $115 just last week, but in the matter of a few days these have moved from $120 to today selling at nearly $150

This comes after a pretty large content creator pointed out the value in this product had been going unnoticed.

Looks like they listened to us, and are providing short term coverage and will be implementing integrated tracking of some kind eventually!

This is extremely good news

Can I just say, I’m pretty sick of Big Score. Please stop throwing it into the big IP drops. We already got it in the fallout drop, tmnt drop, and stardew valley. We do not need more of these centered around food WOTC…
although this is my favorite scene in the movies if you must

I understand that people didn't like the base set, but it seems like we're all starting to realize that the rares/mythics, and special treatments were all actually pretty cool.

I bought a few on clearance from microcenter at a clearance price with no limit, at $260, honestly wish i had bought the whole glass case out now. That's a 51% increase in sell value vs cost in just 8 months.

The surgeon turned the LIVING clowns into batteries, likely keeping them in their pain forever.

The dead clowns all died, relatively quickly. Peaceful by comparison.

Posting this because this entire time i thought it was the DEAD clowns that got made into batteries, but wasn't able to find anything that resembled them in the tubes.

In case it is unclear, Monday's 24/hour window may be the way they do unique product "in a box" drops going forward (assuming it works out for them and like 30% of recipients on back order don't move or cancel).

(Edit spelling)

Only $20 above retail for hobbit draft nights, whereas booster packs are $75, gift bundles $181, and collector boxes are at nearly $800.

Play packs are still valuable, with boxes costing $160-$180 still

Is this just memory from previous draft nights, or is the 12 play packs in there correctly only worth $70

Since the borgs are supposed to be slivers on artifact creatures, i was thinking there may be some pretty crazy combo's you could pull off with cards that were pretty mid before.

One example is if there was an easy way to get a bunch of consumable token artifacts, and use living brain to make them all creatures, which then will take part in the "sliver" hivemind effects going on. Imagine 10 of your tokens turning into 3/3 slivers. (Edit: this wouldn't work as it's once per combat on your turn, but there's got to be more effective ways to do the same idea)

I don't usually spec in singles too much, but i'm interested in what you guys think, or if there's anything specific you'll be specing on for the new set.

***(Images include cards from the welcome deck, and standard set, and SPM. no cards for the precon have been revealed yet)***

Apparently this deck is going to play as a sort of "sliver shared evolution" but as an artifact creature type deck, the main set doesn't apparently have that many borgs, so most of what you will see is commander decks, alongside a couple of (probably weaker) borgs in the welcome deck.

The new Crystalline entiry specifically works similiar to a kindred dominance on an artifact creature, useful for the deck.

My local microcenter is still bursting at the seams with these box's, i also see them readily available at or close to MSRP at other retailers, and on tcgplayer.

What entrypoint are you pulling the trigger and buying these? $400? $350? Sub $300?

I can't be the only one who was fully expecting surge foil variant in this set. Why wouldn't they do *some* type of unique foiling treatments? Also these can be found (in trad foil/non-foil) in play boosters. It can't just be the mind stone, and maybe a texture variant they haven't spoiled yet.

Will the lack of special foil treatments matter for the long term value of collector products for MSH? I would go so far as to say the set reveals have been amazing so far, but if i am opening a collector box, I want a chance that my thor is in a cool foil treatment, especially at $450 a box.

Edit: spelling, they can be found in foil in play packs

Ie
1: iron man is out,
2: i play iron man
3. I create a token copy of iron man, and sac the original
4. I play another iron man, sacing the original but before it resolves i get two additional token copies of iron man, so now I have 4 once a turn copy machines, 3 of which are non-legendary tokens

I feel like this could start going insane with artifact decks

Gavin Verhey revealed that Edge and Star Trek were developed at the same time. That makes me think the precon themes and staple cards used in Edge are unlikely to overlap for duplicates much with the Star Trek precons. At the same time this seems like strong evidence that they will synergizw with each other greatly.

We also already know from the leaked Kirk commander that the set includes spaceships, specifically a card that tutors the Starship Enterprise into your hand. That lines up with what Gavin said about the sets having both similarities and major differences.

Edit: clarity

One of my favorite parts of Strixhaven was how each Elder Dragon mechanically embodied its school through instants and sorceries. The original cycle all had really cohesive “spell-matters” identities tied to their colleges.

Now with “Hexhaven” seemingly being Jace’s alternate-world version of Strixhaven, the schools appear to mirror the original dragon pairings, just shifted into new color combinations and philosophies:

Fatehold // Lorehold
Konstrari // Prismari
Stingerquill // Silverquill
Theorix // Quandrix
Vigorbloom // Witherbloom

That makes me think we may get an alternate Elder Dragon cycle, not just new dragons, but mechanical rewrites of the originals that reinterpret what each school cares about.

For example, the original Witherbloom dragon cared about creatures reducing the cost of spells via affinity. If Vigorbloom is the “rewired” version in GW, I could imagine it becoming an enchantment- or token-focused dragon instead of graveyard/life-drain themed.

Likewise, Konstrari (UR) being “constructive arts” makes me wonder if its dragon could care about artifacts or constructed permanents in the same way the original Quandrix dragon cared about spell scaling/math. Something like:

“Artifacts you cast have affinity for creatures.”
or
“Instant and sorcery spells you cast have affinity for artifacts.”

That feels like the kind of mirrored design space they could explore.

I’d love to hear speculation on:

1. What types of spells/permanents each dragon might care about
2. How their mechanics might mirror or invert the original Strixhaven dragons

3.What identities make sense for these new schools and color pairs

Feel free to also add any Other idea's i may be missing or context most haven't considered with the new schools.

Edit: (mixed up two of the schools)