It became clear that we would have more success by choosing new color options for each Scene Box and building the cards that we made around the central character of the box
If the pieces fall into place, Soulflayer delving Chromanticore and Pharika may be one of the most common and frustrating sentences spoken aloud at Standard events in the coming months
But in the right context, especially in formats like Commander and Cube, where chaos and control often live hand-in-hand, it absolutely shines
Avoiding expensive permanents is also much harder given that multiplayer tends to incentivize permanent-centric play, and that the ability to generate and use large sums of mana is often important
We started out with the somewhat lackluster sets Karlov Manor and Thunder Junction , both of which failed to land any decks on this list, and Fallout , which, as weve seen, was an extremely mixed bag
I predict that the shockland sanctity will only increase as the game progresses, eventually reaching a point where they have as much inherent identity with the baseline game as basic lands have to this point
