As a Tribal player, I'm totally indifferent: new cards are new cards. However, as stated on another topic: I rarely expect more than 4 to 5 cards from each set, apart from the new Tribal combinations I'm making like Slivers, Hydras, Ninjas and cheap Devoid Eldrazi. I rarely have hopes and great expectations tedistently writing machinery on more than 4 to 5 cards, rarely hopes for Enchantment Creatures like those from Modern Horizons 2 to fill my
Estrid, the Masked EDH deck. I even haven't bought those ones, but they're in the version here, albeit not in the full deck, although not very unlikely to be bought in the future. The Tribes are the priority. I have Hydras and Ninjas in evolution mainly in finding the money and then individual caprices in such cards. To have a new toolkit box to fill with Tribal decks. That's the end-year target and I hope to fulfill it. So, new cards are new cards. Even, D&D wasn't such a blast as it had some few Tribal things like
Den of the Bugbear and
Hobgoblin Bandit Lord, but I don't look in the upcoming sets in Standard so much rather than in Tribal mindset. Approach to synergy with many creatures in united attack that have lords. Just, it's that I don't have decks that aren't Tribal oriented. Really. Even the Nature of the Beast, which was conceived from scratch, is one of the best Tribal EDH budget editions that can be easily built from scratch with buying the cards that'd be the same financially as buying the edition itself. It's basically the same for me, even better since I had good selection of Beasts that I could select and chose from when making the order and I had several like
Godsire,
Mayael the Anima,
Mayael's Aria and
Titanic Ultimatum provided by my friend Boris (krgr) when was making the deck around Christmas. 44 decks and I'm always brewing, but new cards are new cards. I'm looking just at Innistrad: Vampires, but I don't expect more than several Madness ones, and probably re-releasing
Stromkirk Captain. I love this deck of mine. 4x
Lightning Bolt, 3x
Terminate, 3x
Stromkirk Captain, 2x
Rakish Heir, 2x
Indulgent Aristocrat, 2x
Stromkirk Noble, 2x
Cordial Vampire. All the time counters. Oh, and 2x
Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage for sure. Fantastic deck. I hope to get some new, I'm hoping for a new Red-Black lord in the line of Falkenrath and Stromkirk but better. Several new cards are several new cards. Ok, I make new decks from new editions, like I totally did for
The Ur-Dragon, but it's gradual process, since I had that idea of combining Fate Refordged:
Ojutai, Soul of Winter,
Silumgar, the Drifting Death and
Dromoka, the Eternal together with the Alara line of
Intet, the Dreamer,
Rith, the Awakener and those types, but without
Atarka, World Render; filled with a lots of defenders evenly with like-flavored cards:
Nesting Dragon,
Pramikon, Sky Rampart and
Arcades, the Strategist. I decided to play
Atarka, World Render in Modern deck with
Sarkhan Vol and
Dragon Broodmother in a Duel Deck edition Knights vs. Dragons, back in 2011, when I had my reentry in the game. I hope to achieve 45 deck or 4th EDH deck, one of those from Commander 2017, somewhere around next year, because they're expensive editions for sure. New editions are new editions. Also. Some EDH editions can be incredible additions to one's collection like it happened with Adaptive Enchantment. It's already old, but precon editions are also very good and people can have good approximate versions like it's with Nature of the Beast.
Kind regards:
Chavo