Some people would have probably been upset, obviously, but most would have seen it as an acceptable price to pay to ensure that some of Magics best cards could be enjoyed by a new generation
Zendikar aimed to capture the thrills and spills of classic dungeon-crawling and exploratory adventures of early D&D, with elaborate traps, lurking monsters, mysterious relics and parties of adventurers with mixed skillsets who work better as a team
Theres diminishing returns on adding more new resource tokens to Magic , but Blood seems very much like it will be a niche, Vampire-specific mechanic rather than something like Treasure, which goes in every set
Previous playtest cards seen in Mystery Booster packs use black and white illustrations with colored mana symbols and frame edges, while this version has the art from the original Counterspell from Alpha
With Retro-Frame cards in every pack, the past has never been this much of a present.