General New Format: Pioneer

Onderzeeboot

Onderzeeboot

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Velrun said:
Eric Twice

You will probably LOVE this Time Sidewalk from Wizards’ testing pile that will be released with the Mythic Boosters ;)

It hasn’t released yet so I won’t spoil in this thread but you can find it on MythicSpoilers by clicking here:
(SPOILER ALERT!)
http://www.mythicspoiler.com/my1/cards/timesidewalk.html
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I like how it effectively makes you mulligan to add some insane cards to your deck every few games, while messing with your spells to land ratio in a pretty big way. This spell is less obviously good than people are going to assume :)
 
ravnic

ravnic

What exactly is their reasoning behind starting with RtR? It seems kinda random, but I bet they put some thoughts in it. I expected Pioneer to be something like the official Frontier, or just a larger standard/better extended.

Well, I'm not going to play it anyway :p
 
Velrun

Velrun

Nothing is better Extended than Extended was :p

I think starting with Return to Ravnica was done for several reasons:
1. The card pool is about as big as Modern was when it became a sanctioned format = Logic reason.

2. Return to Ravnica was very popular and sold really well = Marketing reason.

3. Modern card pool was the first 10 years of Magic. Pioneer is the next 10 = Mathematical reason.

Those would be my guesses
 
Aston

Aston

Return to Ravnica was the first set where they greatly increased their print runs to keep pace with Magic's growth from Zendikar forward. I don't know whether they've given this as a reason but it makes sense to me as to why they would start there.
 
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