That Master of Waves art is peak, we didn't know how good we had it.

I think the logic is more likely:

New major UB products are all Standard legal now

We need our UB sets to be successful

Hybrid mana makes limited formats more interesting and draftable

We're putting hybrid into every UB set

If we change hybrid rules in EDH, there's even more demand for UB cards

I've been watching Has since 2019, since before he adopted Kaya as a puppy. He had her trained professionally. She's place-trained so that she doesn't hurt her joints lying on the hardwood floor, and she gets lots of exercise before he streams and after. She's exceptionally well-trained. No shocks.

Finally got Vega (Claw) on a Magic card. Awesome!

The replies are a Monty Python sketch I stg.

"I put all my Sol Rings through the paper shredder yesterday."

"I haven't touched a Sol Ring in 10 years. Land ramp only for me."

"I don't run any ramp at all, just one land a turn, fair and honest Magic. Never felt better in my life! Cured my gout!"

Saw a distributor thingy there're 4 decks

Final Fantasy inspired me to make ~10 new decks so that's definitely not a deckbuilding restriction I'd be interested in.

I don't pile shuffle but I often find that if I do the recommended 7-10 mash shuffles I often find the same cards I had in the previous games in close proximity to each other. And it makes sense; you could mash shuffle 10 times and that Sol Ring and Arcane Signet could still be next to each other.

They were so cautious in OG Zendikar. They had understatted/nonfunctional cards that turned on with Landfall. Today in the right EDH deck if you play a land the battlefield explodes (make a 5/3, make a 5/5, draw a card, make a floating mana, flip my library for an Elemental/Elf, add WURG, etc etc).

Use it to fetch your Plato

The focus on UB seems to have slowed down their reprint schedule. Phyrexian Altar is sitting around $50 again. It's super-desirable in aristocrat decks and it's not getting reprinted. Bonus sheet reprints are low quantity. They need to slot some powerful reprints into precons. See: Exquisite Blood

The Coheed mention was on-point. I had a faint hope for an Amory Wars Secret Lair timed around this set but that seems unlikely.

This is every reactionary now except with Citizen and Nextdoor apps, staring at local crime statistics that are historically low but if you count them one by one it sure seems like a lot!

(and I really wish the flavor text on the back side was something a little less tell and more show, but luckily half of those words mean nothing to someone who didn't play FFXIII)

There is something to be said for unknown legendaries with art and mechanics that intrigue you deeper into their story. Magic did this with Feldon of the Third Path. FIN replicates this with cards like Serah Farron. I knew nothing about this character but man, flipping the card over tells a story.