Yeah well, if only censoring racists, their thoughts and depictions of it will magically make all racism go away! See No Evil! Hear No Evil! Speak No Evil! (Hint: No, it really doesn't. If any, it'll radicalise those who may have had latent racist thoughts before even further. Trying to talk them ou...

To: Mark Rosewater & Whomsoever Else It May Concern About the response to "Depictions of Racism" in Magic: the Gathering -- An Open Letter Regarding the recent announcement, there may be many complicated feelings. Certainly, it is good to attempt to move forward without real racism. H...

Actually, looking at the number crunch again Wilds are crunched out (under the assumption that we will see a 10-dual-land cycle at common/uncommon, which is a near certainty). There is another rare that comes after Tormod's Crypt, as evidenced by the yet-revealed showcase at 385. So we'll either hav...

Fair enough. At the very least you're consistent at it, I can respect that.

Fair enough, I haven't played enough (competitive) paper Magic to know of it one way or another, mea culpa. In any case my point is if racism is a reason for a card to be banned, wouldn't consistency dictate that other potentially offensive themes should be a consideration for a ban, too ? Like, if ...

[ ... ] Also, I don't understand why these bans are stupid. Cards get banned because they make for bad playing experiences. Players being uncomfortable about or reminded about bigotry and racism certainly isn't creating a positive environment, any more than the guy using a playmat featuring a half ...

The last full art borderless showcase is either another green, or a multicolor. If I were to guess, I'd have said it's the multicolor mythic, actually as it would also fix the color distribution of mythics, which is really skewed right now.

(In case this wasn't obvious). Censorship is stupid. These bans are stupid. Especially the ones like Crusade which are a hell of a ?????. But even the most egregious one, Invoke Prejudice isn't, Barbra or not. This is just a cheap way of useless virtue signalling that helps exactly noone. (Not that ...

[ ... ] Basically, the ID's went by set release, and number of cards in the set. While it wouldn't have been widespread public knowledge at the time, internally WotC would have definitely had the numbers on what card was going to be 1488 in the file. Someone on their team (or multiple people) would...

There's plenty of games that reference to some kind of a Crusade in a fantasy way so that argument is void.

I mean, I can see them banning both Invoke and Gypsies (tho I'd disagree - Barbra Streisand says hi).

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This, also, from the company that won't show fiction with LGBT references in China.
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what is hypocrisy
(Yeah, couldn't find something more related. Sorry.)

God save us from censorship. (And <snip>.)

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[ ... ] I'm going to strongly disagree with this statement. If Standard has access to super-efficient removal, then that makes cards like Baneslayer Angel effectively unplayable... while the Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath and Bonecrusher Giant s of the world are the only things worth playing, because...

Gainland Time! 242 - Bloodfell Caves 243 - Blossoming Sands 244 - Dismal Backwater 245 - Evolving Wilds 246 - Fabled Passage 247 - Jungle Hollow 248 - Radiant Fountain 249 - Rugged Highlands 250 - Scoured Barrens 251 - Swiftwater Cliffs 252 - Temple of Epiphany 253 - emple of Malady 254 - Temple of ...

Seems like nobody mentioned it yet, 275-277 are standard-frame variations of Teferi.

Oubliette would be nigh-unplayable in standard. When was the last time you've seen a serious deck play Murder? Yeah, me neither. What this Standard desperately needs is efficient CMC 1 answers - StoP, Bolt et al. They keep printing runaway CMC 3 threats that would've blown people's minds in 1993 but...

Interesting.
Also, I just realised that they will have to be commons - if your estimated rarity count is correct; there's 10 gainlands but only 6 Us left.
(I also had no idea what the last lands names will be, these were just wild-ass guesses, looks like I nailed it tho)

Gainlands should be all but confirmed. 0 Lands 0 243 - Bloodfell Caves 244 - Blossoming Sands 245 - (?) 246 - Dismal Backwater 247 - Evolving Wilds (?) 248 - Indatha Triome|58086 (Rare Land) 249 - Jungle Hollow [/i] 250 - Ketria Triome|58078 (Rare Land) 251 - Raugrin Triome|58084 (Rare Land) 252 - R...