This week we say goodbye to M15 in style. We've wanted to do one of those premium sealed events for a while now, and we would have been hard pressed to open a better pool than the one we opened this week. In my humble opinion, it's well worth a watch.
As the second last of the core sets, they really did their work with M15. It may not have been the most exciting set, mechanically speaking, but I feel like it was well balanced, with plenty of good archetypes, and that it had something for everybody. My favourite deck of the lot was probably the Izzet Artifact deck. I love the mix of synergy and cheap removal. I imagine that we'll be seeing that, as well as the convoke strategy played in Standard for a little while.
Part of the point of the core set is to give you staples for Constructed play for the following year. With the announcement that M16 will be the last of the core sets, I imagine they'll simply fold those cards into the block releases. I'm actually a little sad to see the end of the core sets, as I think this set showed us that the core doesn't just have to be a bland, beginner's release, but a dabbling into the whole tapestry of the Multiverse. In the past, with cards like Odric, Master Tactician, and in M15 with the Soul of Shandalar, we've gotten a glimpse of more of the world(s) than we otherwise would have seen. It's nice to see the resolution of the Dragon's Maze in Jace, Living Guildpact, or see a call back to an older set in Nissa, Worldwaker. The fabric of the Multiverse is intricate, and it's nice to see its complexity represented in a core set.
Still, I understand why they're making the shift, and I look forward to seeing what the future of Magic holds. For now, we're looking forward to Khans of Tarkir. It's paper pre-release this weekend, but still two more weeks until we'll be able to play online. Until then, we'll try to keep things interesting.
Thanks for watching, and see you next time.
-Step.
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