Guess what time it is!

>they don't even eat the draft-matters slot

And now?

Fallen Empires is my favorite set.

I remember 5 or 6 years ago, me and my friends got our hands on an Empires booster box from a yard sale for $5, and held a small 6-man draft tournament. The entire time was full of people saying "well...it's not *terrible*...", coupled with surprise when we drew the legitimately good cards that Empires contributed to Magic, like Hymn to Tourach and High Tide.

That same draft allowed me to finish collecting the entire set. To date it's the only Magic set for which I have every card.

Fallen Empires is exactly what happens when a set is released with every good card at common. People complain that it sucks and no one buys it because you can get the singles for cents.

Also Goblin Grenade. Also the pump knights used to be considered good.

Yeah, apparently new players are too stupid to handle two versions of the same card.

>Tidal Influence

Man

These cards may have been pretty bad but some are pretty fucking cool

I'm stealing a lot of the flavor for my own setting, including a race of Ogres who powered their artifacts by shoving souls into them.

>Fallen Empires is exactly what happens when a set is released with every good card at common.
No, Fallen Empires is what happens when they grossly overprint a set.
> People complain that it sucks and no one buys it because you can get the singles for cents.
This sounds like something MaRo would say to justify absurdly strong, meta bending mythics existing along with "muh draft".

Fallen Empires has been maligned as one of the worst sets ever printed for decades now. It isn't. It was usually mentioned along with Homelands (a legit terrible set). It is entirely because of the ease of acquisition of everything good in the set that the opinion exists. There's more playable cards in Fallen Empires than the Dark, but the Dark never had that terrible reputation.

Who cares about idiots and their wrong opinions? It's the rarity being tied to powerlevel bullshit in newer sets that is hurting this game.