Originally Posted by
Dontrike
As I thought more and more about Eternal Masters it is better than MM2, but just barely, and in my opinion is the exact same as MM2. They really improved on one aspect of the Masters sets after MM2, but the rest....yeesh.
+The card choices are better than MM2, but....
-.....many leave a sour taste in your mouth when they are bumped up in rarity "for limited" which isn't really a great reason for many of them. Some of the upward shifts made sense, but others were down right stupid.
-Not to mention many are bumped up in rarity because of their secondary market prices, which goes against what Wizards had said that they don't look at the secondary market when deciding.
-They brought down the print run back to MM1 levels. MM2 had great print run, although the fact you can find more is proof of how bad the set is rather than them printing too much. Hard to say if MM2 was good would there still be any?
-The set itself isn't really a great callback type of set, using cards from the Modern pool, like the Hondens, when we could have gotten things like P3K cards to see foils for the first time.
-The Khans refuge cycle of lands. They could easily have gotten the color fixing down without reprinting cards that saw heavy printing already, like going with Vivids and Mirage fetches, or really anything else.
-With how limited this set is, and the EV of the set only really being about $8 as of now $10 packs hurts, especially when you can open things like Control Magic and Diminishing Returns, or Worldgorger Dragon as your mythic. Packs for Masters sets should really be $7, especially when drafts are going to run $40-$50 now.
Now it will do its job and reduce the prices of the cards in it, but we all know it could have done a better job of it without becoming Chronicles 2.