Comments on: Insider: Rotate Now, Not in October

By: Calum Williams

Calum Williams — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:43:14 +0000

In reply to Chaz V. Also worth noting that some of the modern UW control builds have been including non-zero amounts of Narset. Not that this is enough to swing a judgement, but people are testing it and being fairly successful.

By: Ernie

Ernie — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 18:21:17 +0000

Chaz, I like your picks. I’ve been slowly acquiring Soulfire foils, for all the reasons you suggested.

I’m looking at Managorger as a big part in the next abzan builds once it picks up steam.
Thoughts on this investment?

By: Andrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:08:32 +0000

Also I would rate this at 10 this is the stuff I want to read luv it 🙂

By: Andrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:07:13 +0000

Great article after reading it for the 3rd time I decided to comment. I have been picking up copy’s of Mantis Raider, Outpost Siege, Ojutai’s Command as trade toppers for the last month or so. But I see there is some stuff I better hurry up and acquire been looking at Narset for some time now and just haven’t pulled the trigger on it yet overall. Also how do you feel about Silumgar’s Command now that Ruinous Path has been revealed not instant speed so was wondering if you would still move on the commands if had the chane?

By: Chaz V

Chaz V — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:01:55 +0000

In reply to Silverking. Fixed. I seem to be batting 1000. Thanks for the comment.

By: Silverking

Silverking — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:57:04 +0000

Chaz, you still have a problem with your article and comments. MM2015 was not released between FRF and DTK but in late May after DTK released in April. While this did still affect FRF somewhat in draft due to reduced DTK/DTK/FRF drafting the set that I feel would be in shorter supply is DTK which has a ton of value and is sitting low due to the summer lull.

By: Chaz V

Chaz V — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:52:38 +0000

In reply to Ryan Overturf.

Hah Well, as long as you like *most* of it!

On a more serious note, yeah you do make a great argument. Wasn’t saying Kiora was bad necessarily, I just felt Narset is in a better supported color pair.

I could very well have my foot in my mouth once Battle for Zendikar hits, but I have a hard time believing they won’t print *any* viable spells for Narset to become much more viable than it is now. Luckily it’s in DTK so, there’s still plenty of time.

By: Chaz V

Chaz V — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:49:13 +0000

In reply to koen_knx. Thanks so much for pointing that out. That was on me and likely confused my editor (who all do a great job). I have corrected this and was totally my fault. Sorry for the confusion. I do favor Fate Reforged and Dragons of Tarkir over Khans of Tarkir. Fate Reforged *does* rotate with Khans, but was opened less (because of MM2015) and overall is just worth far less than the others currently. Even with plenty of viable cards in it. Dragons obviously rotates later on, and I favor it as such.

By: Ryan Overturf

Ryan Overturf — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:28:05 +0000

I like most of what you’re saying, but Narset is dramatically worse than Kiora. Narset can usually just be ignored in play, but Kiora not only acts as a removal spell if it gets to live, but also threatens to end the game on its own in a very fast manner.

By: koen_knx

koen_knx — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:20:14 +0000

Quote : “To top it off they’re both in Standard longer than their fellow first set in Khans block.”

So unless I misunderstand, you think only KTK will go out of rotation in spring 2016.

If that is the case, the biggest part of this article is based on an error… KTK and DTK will rotate out in spring, only FRF will stay until fall. As you could have read in another article here a few days ago (like I did); I also doublechecked online of course.

Also it feels like you said Khans and KTK a few times when you meant FRF… otherwise it didn’t make sense.

I am confused by this article, if these were indeed errors perhaps you should let your articles be pre-read by someone (if you can’t do it yourself).

Don’t misunderstand this, i was happy with the article overall, but i would like to understand it totally.