![]() Several sets have and are planned for re-release on digital platforms Magic: The Gathering Arena and MTG Online, but this one picks some of the best and most sought-after cards from a 2006 block - Time Spiral, Planar Chaos and Future Sight - and bundles them into a playable collection of their own.Ĭards printed in Time Spiral Remastered will showcase old frames, text and other design quirks consistent with their original public release. ![]() Time Spiral Remastered will be the first set from the long history of the card game to be physically remastered in a modern release. Time Spiral Remastered has been touted as a gift to all MTG players while at the same time representing some of its worse recent tendencies. □Ĭlick here to read over 4,000 more MTG Cards of the Day! Daily Since 2001.Wizards of the Coast officially announced the next non-standard set for its massively popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering on February 25th, causing no small amount of excitement - and worry - among players online. ![]() 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: 4 (since you get the first crack at casting things after Time Spiral, that makes this a slightly less risky investment)Ĭommander : 5 (a competent deck may well turn one Time Spiral into a won game, and this is a phenomenal way to extend a combo to its breaking point) It’s still vicious, though, and the good thing about it being on the Reserved List (in a sense) is that it’s less likely to be able to destroy Standard again.Ĭonstructed: 3 (I don’t think this is completely dead in Legacy, but making this shine is definitely not an easy task) It’s never gotten a foothold in Legacy that I know of, though it’s a bit too slow (and Tolarian Academy will never, ever, ever be unbanned), and there are enough release valves to make this less likely to warp the game into a disaster on resolution. Time Spiral is powerful if it ever gets a chance to resolve, and most decks that run it will try to make sure it happens. You reset hands and graveyards, but with the mana to cats something from that new hand immediately, and that gives this great legs as a combo extender and enabler, and it’s part of what drove the entire block past the limits of what most people would consider “fair” and “reasonable”. Unless this gets countered, you’re likely losing nothing to cast Time Spiral once it resolves (besides the Time Spiral itself), and this pairs viciously with cards like Tolarian Academy to generate even more mana. ![]() It can be used in more interesting decks than just Storm or Tolarian Academy, and I kind of want to see a deck that tries to copy it and then rush to play instants between the resolution of the copy and that of the original, as some kind of doubling-down on the Dragon Break-style concept the card plays with!Ĭonstructed: 3/5 (in current Legacy in 1998 Standard it was easily a 5)Ĭoming out of a set with a notoriously high power level to begin with, Time Spiral (never before reviewed on Pojo) is a card I’ve referenced intermittently when Timetwister-style effects get mentioned, and not without reason: aside from the original Timetwister, I would argue this is the strongest of its effect ever printed, and it’s thanks to the appearance of the “refund” mechanic that helped split Urza’s Saga in half. Did Timetwister really need to be stronger? Did you really need to get essentially a whole new turn with seven cards in hand – something even Time Walk can’t reliably do? Did you really need to be able to combine it with multi-mana lands and generate more mana than you started with? Having said that, while it was one of the contributing factors for breaking Urza’s Saga Standard in half, I wouldn’t necessarily discourage it in casual play. I was quite shocked the first time I saw Time Spiral’s game text, and I’m still kind of at a loss to explain it almost 25 years later. Curiously, the same is now true of the expansion it appeared in (and now that Sagas are a regularly recurring thing, I’d be a little surprised if the same wasn’t soon true of The Brothers’ War). Time Spiral has a non-gameplay distinction that’s rare among Magic cards: it is the name of both a card and an expansion.
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