I want the goblins, cats, and the planeswalkers. I'm not really interested in the eldrazi.

I second this

Each to their own! I'd be a lot happier if there were more cats though.

One thing is sure, I am building an ally EDH. Also, I am glad that landfall is back, as a fan of ramp, I love that mechanic.

Edh did just get a lot of new toys to play with. That will be fun. And land fall is really fun, especially with fetches!

I totally agree with you on that one! Fetches+landfall = funtime

my elves are ready!!!!-ish...
we're going casual babe XD

Elves are scary though D:

if they get going, there ain't no stopping them!
that sharman of the pack after a good few summons. sheesh!

I excited to revisit my favorite set in Magic. Nothing beats full-art lands and land-based abilities.

Fancy lands and fancy land abilities? Heck yes

I am disappointed that there are no red scion producers, especially given how they've been creating cards in that area of red's slice of pie recently. I'm also disappointed that there aren't more/better common green cards with awaken. I was really hoping for awaken Rampant Growth.

Also they're finally printing the enemy half of an existing land cycle while at the same time introducing a new cycle that also very much needs to be completed. x_x

I'm also seeing cards being printed that I want to exist in a cleaner state. 1/4 unblockable for 2U. 1/4 for 1R. */5 for 2R.

Either way, am very happy to have the blue 2/1 with 5: unblockable and the new red 2/3 invoker. A lot of nice new commons that I'm happy to have in existence as well.

Yeah i agree with most of those points as well. Hopefully we get some nice stuff in the second half of the block. An awaken rampant growth would be pretty cool actually. Something to do late game.

This set seems like such a letdown. A lot of the allies are just ~okay~ creatures with the Ally subtext slapped on to them. The Devoid mechanic seems interesting, and will raise the stock of Ghostfire Blade, but I'm not seeing much to get pumped about outside of the Planeswalkers and lands.

Also not getting Lightning Strike/Searing Blaze is kind of a beating for red, since it's losing so much value after rotation.

Well the block does seem to be rather land based so if you're not excited about the lands that's rather unfortunate. Red definitely seems to have slowed down quite a bit and I"m unsure what it will look like now that most of their key cards have been dropped.

It's not that I'm not excited about the lands (getting the rest of the creature-land cycle is great), but a lot of the rest of the set feels lackluster. That might just be me being jaded after coming off of Tarkir, though.

I mean, Wizards did give me an excuse to run twelve somewhat competitive phoenixes in Standard for at least the first few weeks, so that's a thing.

OM NOM NOM NOM NATH!!!!!!!!

That is all.

Omnomnomnath now spits lava in your face when he's done eating xD so gooood

I know! so terrifying!

Pshh I don't know why everyone is disappointed! This is a very exciting set for me, considering Zendikar was my favorite block. I'm excited for all of the mechanics and can't wait to figure out what I'm building since I'm getting back into Standard.

I'm also excited for the Expedition Lands! Think of the value of those

Awaken control! Don't care if it doesn't work - I wanna punch people in the face with lands! My fancy full art lands and my super valuable expedition lands in draft!

The Eldrazi will further the great work.

As long as they don't have infect...

All Will be one

love the idea of awaken. I hope it will be as awesome as I hope

Awaken would have been amazing if they didn't make the initial spells weaker...but I understand why they don't want to make things broken haha

i want to make a jeskai awaken deck. with the legendary roilmage as the base. hope oath helps with this plan.

:D I'm sooper sooper excited for this block, and personally I like this set in itself. Yea maybe I was wishing for a 5-color ally commander, but, what most people seem to forget is this is one of 3 sets. I'm sure we will be seeing alot of the support we were looking for in the upcoming sets.

It seems that BFZ is hinting at cards that will be able to fetch stuff from exile, and well they do in a way, I.e. the processors. I'm looking forward to all the edh shenanigans that will be brought forth from this lol.

Also, expedition lands are printed money and make me wanna cry from all the organs I'm selling to pay for this block x.x

This block does look pretty good! Although keep in mind we only have 2 sets per block now, not 3.

I am a really big fan of the exile mechanic and while I'm pretty sure it won't be too prevalent, it will be fun to play with.

Good luck with those lands. Hopefully your luck is better than mine >.>

To be honest, I'm going to wait and see how Oath starts to shape up before giving judgement on this first set. I feel like things that could be a problem or a disappointment now could end up resolved/improved on with the second half, haha.

That said, I am a little disappointed in how WotC is handling the Expeditions, but its more from a standpoint on their management of MtG as a whole rather then my wanting them. (I mean, sure, I definitely want them, but I feel like it's not the best move business-wise to make them that difficult to obtain)

I did read an article about their reasoning. In terms of card power for constructed formats, this set is actually very weak. Wizards knows that is has to tone down their cards every now and then (or create an infinite loop of cards that get better and better over time) and the expeditions is how they are keeping interest. I mean yes, the set looks fun and casual players like myself will enjoy it, but most of their money comes from the pros and Wizards needs to keep them interested with rare, but high value cards.

While I can definitely agree with that as far as the set is concerned, I'm still pretty disappointed because the Expeditions are going to wreck the secondary market. While WotC is good at a lot of things they aren't really great in handling limited amount runs of high demand cards- case in point being that the cost of modern literally went up, like, 5-10% as a direct result of modern masters 2015.

And I mean, WotC doesn't even really directly profit from the secondary market- the benefit for them is that the circulation means more people will continue to play and they'll make sales on new product as a result, but making the Expeditions a little less rare- maybe the same rarity as a foil regular rare- doesn't hurt them much financially but still keeps the interest. I just have a hard time agreeing with cards that seem like they've been directly engineered to be worth 200-300.

As I said, I like the idea, just not the execution. Especially since most long-term Magic players at this point don't really have as much disposable income (unless they sell cards or have been playing so long that their childhood cards now are super expensive). Either way, just gotta wait and see how things go.