
While it doesn't include all of the special versions of cards, which means it likely underestimates the EV of the set by a bit, it should give a pretty decent rough estimate of how much value you should expect to get from a booster box. Like last Double Masterswe're keeping a live expected value spreadsheet. While booster boxes of the set are expensive at around $250 each, so far it seems that the set is overloaded with valuable reprints, which means it should do its primary job of bringing down the cost of important singles, which benefits everyone, whether you crack some packs or not. 😉Ĭlick here to read over 4,000 more MTG Cards of the Day! Daily Since 2001.This week in the world of Magic finance the biggest news - by far - is Double Masters 2022 spoilers. We’d be happy to link back to your blog / YouTube Channel / etc. If you want to share your ideas on cards with other fans, feel free to drop us an email.

We would love more volunteers to help us with our Magic the Gathering Card of the Day reviews. Limited: 3.25 (a 3/3 Ape is better than, say, a majestic dragon with great, big wings) It has a near-functional reprint in Rapid Hybridization, so Commander players have two shots of the effect they know and love.Ĭonstructed: 2.25 (it’s oft just better to hit them with Path to Exile or a related card) It’s not an outstanding card in all, because a 3/3 replacement is a notable downside and it blanks against indestructible creatures, but it gives blue answers it might not normally have. Turning a creature into a prime ape is a pretty good way to either eke value out of a weak creature of your own or make an opponent’s creature less threatening, and being a one-mana blue instant makes this especially potent, given that blue sometimes can have trouble dealing with creatures permanently. For example, using it on your own creature and then recurring the dead one somehow leaves you with the ability to duplicate comes-into-play abilities and the like. In any other format, such a creature is a not-insignificant threat and so it’s less impressive, but you can occasionally find a use for it. If you’ve been deep enough in the Magic internet, you may have seen Commander players complaining about this card: in a format devoted to ramping super hard and casting creatures with enormous text boxes, replacing such a threat with a vanilla 3/3 is sometimes almost as good as Swords to Plowshares. Apparently it wasn’t so alternate after all or, it might have been a card that actually entered the alternate timeline from its equivalent of Future Sight, and then the Mending changed the progression of time so that our universe partly converged with that one.

This general style of effect is now seen somewhat regularly (see also Reality Shift, Cavalier of Dawn, etc), so it’s easy to forget that it actually started its life as part of Planar Chaos‘ alternate reality.
