Inportant Dates
Previews Begin August 18, Conclude by August 26
Arena Release Sept 1
Set Specific Special Factors
30th Anniversay returns to Dominaria
How will Legends Return Boosters be conveyed on Arena, if at all? IRL, this is only done in Collector boosters, so I doubt we will see a Strixhaven sort of set. I suspect we would have heard about it by now?
Upcoming Content
Budget Perspective of the set on September 1st
Comprehensive Codes will set up for this set's giveaway video on September 2
Yargle Day September 3?
Jump In Tier List Update on September 4th
Future content will include Top 5 Jumpin in Options of Renewing Players and Top3 for New Players!
Midweek Magic Phantom Draft begin September 6th, with Live Play events on Twitch for Primary Account on 9/6 at 8pm EST, and the F2P Account on 9/7 at 2pm EST!
Mastery Pass showing exactly how I determine value for 2023 on September 10th!
Budget Deck Tier List, a first for the channel and will kick of this periods deck building efforts on September 11th! I am targeting one video a week, attempting to take a "Bad deck" and make it "Good".
Quick Draft of the set begins on Spetember 16, with content expected to begin posting on 9/22!
Mechanics and Themes
Confirmed
Kicker: Not only does temperal firstrom confirm Kicker as a mechanic, it also hints at support of enemy color pairs!
Legendary
Phyrexian: Confirmed on multiple fronts, probably a continuing theme through the Brother's War
Coalition (5 color matters? Based on Jumpstart naming conventions, this appears to be the White based concept)
Jumpstart Color based "keywords"
Blue: Mischief - suspect an instants matter or flash theme?
Black: Totally?
Red: Ready? suspect this is just a reference to HASTE
Green: Territory? Land matters?
Teferi, Ajani, Jaya
Suspected
Historic (mechanic)
Artifacts Matter? (Historic as a mechanic, has a lot of crossover with Artifacts as a concept)
Sagas
Jodah, Archmage Eternal and Shanna, Sisay’s Legacy, Liliana, Braids
Why I don't do Preview Content.
In short, I just don't have much to add to the conversation. Preview Season mostly revolves around powerful Rare and Mythic cards, and as a Budget Player and Content Creator, I know that I get what I get in this category. Spending a lot of time and effort talking about cards which I know only about 50% of this community are likely to own, just feels out of place. This is why my Budget Perspective content. at the beginning of each new release, focuses instead on Uncommon cards. These are often powerful or synergistic enough to influence Budget Decks, while being perfectly attainable to everyone with minimal efforts. You will see a plan to double down on this viewpoint this year, as we focus on a much smaller list of decks. Just going to be talking about the best of the best for the newly broadened formats on Arena. Time freed up from trying to make marginal decks better, instead will be used to expand conversations on why I think the best decks are the best. Teaching has always been a cornerstone goal of the community.
Don't get me wrong. I think the preview season is important, and I consume it eagerly every time. I get my preview content from Dev over on SBMTG, and look forward to each daily video he produces on the content.
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