Much as Wizards and Hasbro seem to be somewhat imploding at present with shockingly bad marketing and business decisions that are alienating, fatiguing, and insulting the player/customer base the product remains good. Really good. Most of the traditional standard drafting sets have been on point since the madness of the "push the envelope" sets Eldrain, Theros (II) and Ikoria. The Brothers War looks like it is good to draft. The cards are interesting and playable without being just pushed to the point of being boring and oppressive. White has started to get interesting with lots of option rich cards and value generation added to the mix. Green is having some issues ironed out with viable fight cards. Blue is getting some tools to compete for board presence with. The mechanics of the set are interesting. The art is good. The flavour is great. I am loving this full circle on lore and the nostalgia that comes with it. I have started following the lore (since Dominaria United) which is a first for me. I have dabbled before but now I am following it. The blueprint cards are lovely. Even some more old bordered basics for the land perverts like me. The power level of the set is on point. Not too oppressive and creeping but equally not so weak that nothing new is making the cut. It must be disheartening for the many Wizards employees who work on design, testing, development, art, and all that jazz that do such a great job and get tarnished with the same brush as those making the non-game choices for the company. I am very much looking forward to seeing how they round out this epic series on the Phyrexians.
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(* commander cards)
Mechanized Warfare
Buskwhack
Siege Veteran
Demolition Field
Mishra's Research Desk
Loran of the Third Path
Combat Thresher
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Feldon, Ronom Excavator
In the Trenches
Recruitment Officer
Phyrexian Dragon Engine
Scholar of New Horizons*
To Test (with high expectations)
Thopter Mechanic
Steel Seraph
Lay Down Arms
Third Path Iconoclast
Obliterating Bolt
Misery's Shadow
Horned Stoneseeker
Kayla's Music Box*
To Test (with low expectations)
Simian Simulacrum
Platoon Dispenser
Audacity
Urza's Battlethopter
Arbalest Engingeers
Kayla's Reconstruction
Arcane Proxy
Transmogrant's Crown
Overwhelming Remorse
Skitterbloom Battalion
Tocasia's Welcome
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
Gnawing Vermin
Awaken the Woods
Skystrike Officer
Cityscape Leveler
Rootwire Amalgam
Titania's Command
Combat Courier
Airlift Chaplain
Legion to Ashes
Dwarven Forge-Chanter
Scatter Ray
Loran's Escape
For Constructed Reserves
Machine Over Matter
Goblin Blast-Runner
Zephyr Sentinel
Gixian Infiltrator
Fallaji Archeologist
Forging the Anchor
Fortified Beachhead
Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard
One with the Multiverse
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
Fade from History
Harbin, Vanguard Aviator
Stern Lesson
Bitter Reunion
Haywire Mite
Energy Refractor
Defabricate
Urza, Chief Engineer*
Sanwell, Avenging Ace*
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