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 Post subject: Announcing: Unsanctioned
PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:06 am 
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-unsanctioned-2019-10-10

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It's unbelievable. Unheard of. Unusual. It's unique. And it's unfathomably fun.

Announcing Unsanctioned, the preconstructed silver-bordered experience coming February 29, 2020.

Unsanctioned contains five combinable 30-card, silver-bordered decks for wacky Un- fun.

The set contains sixteen brand-new Un- cards to trip your Un- trigger, plus the reprinting of beloved Un- cards from previous Un- sets. It's unbelievable!

Unsanctioned also comes with new full-art black-bordered basic lands that will do the Un- line proud—with a new Un- style and new art. Regular, gorgeous art.

Each copy of Unsanctioned contains the following:

5 30-card decks
2 six-sided dice
10 double-sided tokens
10 full-art basic lands (5 regular, 5 premium)
1 reusable box
Unsanctioned will be available worldwide in English, and will be available in local game stores, mass market stores, and online.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:04 pm 
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The idea of combinable decks is interesting. I'll be curious to give this a shot.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:33 am 
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I suppose they decided that the Un line wasn't suited to boosters. I guess that makes sense; for a lot of folks it's a one and done deal. Or is this more like the Magic Night box set they put out? Starting to think so here. Un with a multiplayer focus sounds like a hoot.
The 30 card deck are a real surprise. I guess nobody would want to run an 80 card deck so they had to make the precons(?) half the size of a regular deck? Or are they just trimming it down for bite size fun and/or lower print costs?

I like that they advertise the "reusable box" I hope very much that the box is not special at all. It would really loose something to me if the box was of high quality.

And once again I hope WOTC realizes there's nothing stopping them from printing black border nonland cards in an Un set. Just throw some goofy art on an old classic and people will snap them up!

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:38 am 
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TPmanW wrote:
I suppose they decided that the Un line wasn't suited to boosters. I guess that makes sense; for a lot of folks it's a one and done deal. Or is this more like the Magic Night box set they put out? Starting to think so here. Un with a multiplayer focus sounds like a hoot.
The 30 card deck are a real surprise. I guess nobody would want to run an 80 card deck so they had to make the precons(?) half the size of a regular deck? Or are they just trimming it down for bite size fun and/or lower print costs?

I like that they advertise the "reusable box" I hope very much that the box is not special at all. It would really loose something to me if the box was of high quality.

And once again I hope WOTC realizes there's nothing stopping them from printing black border nonland cards in an Un set. Just throw some goofy art on an old classic and people will snap them up!

A few clarifications here.

1) This isn't a replacement for silver-bordered booster products. They just wanted to make a fun boxed product and decided that silver-bordered was a fun way to do that. https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/1 ... hat-i-dont
2) This box is designed for 1v1, not multiplayer. Each player takes two decks and shuffles them together to make one 60 card deck.
3) Every card in Unsanctioned is silver-bordered, except the basic lands. https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/1 ... r-bordered

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Notably unless we assume that the decks are designed to run with only 20 lands, this would imply that each deck contains 1-3 silver bordered lands, correct?


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Notably unless we assume that the decks are designed to run with only 20 lands, this would imply that each deck contains 1-3 silver bordered lands, correct?

That's a good point. That makes sense.

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I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that there is one card which is in all of the decks. That could be a land.

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Any idea what the MSRP will be? Tempted to get four sets and use them to make decks for each color pair.

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Any idea what the MSRP will be? Tempted to get four sets and use them to make decks for each color pair.

Magic products don't have an MSRP anymore, so the price will largely depend on supply, demand, and whatever the price is that sellers have to pay for them.

I did find some pre-orders available for $40-$50, so that'd be my best guess.

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https://www.cracked.com/article_27000_a ... w-set.html

Full decklists, all of the new cards, and an interview with MaRo.

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Honestly looks more fun than standard or limited.

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Tempted to get four sets and use them to make decks for each color pair.

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