I have continued to play Magic Arena but since the last core set was issued, I have not thought about collecting paper Magic or cubing with paper Magic. I love core sets, which I guess makes me a minority in the Magic playing community given the two times Wizards has gapped core sets since Origins. Yet finally someone came to their senses and we will soon have a new core set, Foundations. Here are some previews.
Not only is this set featuring many classics from the previous core sets, it is also featuring reprints from non-core sets (which is the usual fare). Progenitus with the original art is easily the best pick. It's a singularly Johnny card and I am a Johnny, and that artwork is amazing.
I would like to cube Foundations by itself, but I would also like to add my own list to the cube from Tenth Edition, my favorite Magic set of all time (did I mention that I love core sets?). On paper, the price of the most expensive cards, which are those that are more expensive than the pain lands, is a small number (thank you Wizards for the perfect reprint policy). Here they are.
This means that even the most expensive cards are not prohibitively expensive. Remember, this set has 363 cards (383 when you include the lands), and that is 121 each of commons, uncommons, and rares. I have all of the commons and the uncommons, but I am missing probably 30 or 40 of the rares. So that's what I have now as far as affordability of the paper cards. I already have a good selection, but I will never have enough Xth edition cards, and that means that I will be buying a few more.
In Magic Online, I am in much better shape. I have at least one of every non-land card.
And so there is a physical cube and an online cube. It's early days since Foundations comes out roughly three weeks from today. A new core set, finally!!!
