Kaladesh inventions standard legal?
Standard forum
Posted on Sept. 24, 2016, 8:46 a.m. by Squidocide
So, the articles I've seen say the kaladesh inventions masterpieces cards are legal in limited and any format they're already legal in. If they're released with kaladesh, and you can crack them in kaladesh packs, wouldn't that make them standard legal?
DarksteelBadger says... #3
They are legal in Limited, but not anywhere where they previously weren't legal.
September 24, 2016 9:03 a.m.
Squidocide says... #4
So, even though they're being printed and released alongside a standard legal set, and some of them are even from that set, they're otherwise not legal in standard, or anywhere else they've been banned.
am I the only one who feels like that's the lamest thing ever?
September 24, 2016 12:08 p.m.
Probably. It totally makes sense. As much as everyone wants Sol Ring in their standard deck, no one wants Sol Ring in standard.
September 24, 2016 12:34 p.m.
it's not any different than when they printed the Expeditions in battle for zendikar block, in fact it's exactly the same except their now apart of a larger series called the "masterpiece series" and this installment is called "kaladesh inventions" instead of "expeditions". I don't really understand why people could grasp the concept of the expeditions and how that worked, but the idea of having "inventions" people just can't understand like it's some completely new concept they've never seen.
September 24, 2016 7:49 p.m.
Squidocide says... #7
I wasn't playing or buying magic when expeditions released, or I would have had the same minor issue with it. I'm not angry about it, it just seems like a lame thing to do.
It is nice, however, to have the potential to Crack a card in a booster that has the real potential to finance a few weeks worth of limited and constructed play.
September 25, 2016 12:35 p.m.
Winterblast says... #8
It is indeed lame that these cards aren't in Standard, but that is because the format has a lame power level in general - so it makes sense to not make the inventions legal there.
September 26, 2016 6:02 a.m.
We all realise that you CAN use any of the Inventions in your Standard deck that have the same name as Standard legal cards, right?
September 27, 2016 12:03 a.m.
Squidocide says... #10
Oh yeah, that's understood. The inventions versions of the gearhulks are totally legal in standard.
September 27, 2016 12:06 a.m.
My friend cracked the White Gearhulk as an Invention.
Lucky bastard.
September 27, 2016 12:08 a.m.
Squidocide says... #12
I mean, yeah it's lucky. I wouldn't play it, personally, but I'd love to crack one.
I decided I'm not even a little mad about this anymore. I cracked a chromatic lantern and it covered my entire night.
September 27, 2016 12:10 a.m.
Oh wow.
If I had cracked that it would be starring in one of my EDH decks, as we speak.
September 27, 2016 12:15 a.m.
Squidocide says... #14
I have a wife who holds the purse stings. I get brownie points for playing free magic.
September 27, 2016 12:21 a.m.
Squidocide says... #15
I have a wife who holds the purse stings. I get brownie points for playing free magic.
September 27, 2016 12:22 a.m.
Fair enough.
However, you know you are doing it wrong.
I taught my partner how to play Magic and he's gotten quite good at it.
At the start of a new season I say to him, "Well we could NOT buy the Chandras, but then your deck probably won't win".
We always end up buying the Chandras.
pib says... #2
It's much like the expeditions. They're in Kaladesh packs, but they aren't from the Kaladesh set, which is what is becoming legal in standard. I could give you a pack of The Dark in your pool and say you could use it, but that wouldn't automatically make it legal in the same places as the rest of the cards. Hope this helps.
September 24, 2016 8:52 a.m.