Serum Visions

Surreal Art in Secret Lairs

Seeing Visions is everything I've ever wanted out of Magic art, but I don't ever see myself playing a blue Modern deck, and four Serum Visions aren't particularly useful in Commander. Can we expect to see surreal, what-am-I-even-looking-at art for all formats in future Secret Lairs?

Any one Secret Lair box doing well will influence us doing similar things in the future.

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Power of Blue Cantrips

These days, we are seeing a lot less blue cantrips with a strength level like brainstorm, preordain serum visions, sleight of hand, and so forth printed into standard. Has design determined that these effects are too powerful for limited, or is there a chance we could see cards like these in standard again

I believe play design is wary about them.

Blue Brainstorm Card Printing Limited Play Design Preordain Serum Visions Sleight of Hand Standard Visions Your Hand

Opt Serum Visions Flexibility

If I control Split Screen and cast Opt or Serum Visions, can I scry in one library and draw from another?

Sure.

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FNM Attendance Factors

Hi Mark. I feel like the most attended FNMs were the ones with the highest profile promo cards. Serum Visions and Path to Exile, for example, were months where my LGS was jam-packed with people. Does the data support my anecdotal experience?

We’ve tracked this over many years. We would love if there was a correlation between the quality of the promo card and attendance, as that would give us the means to get more people into the store, but unfortunately there has never been a strong correlation.

Game Stores Keyword Actions Path to Exile Promos Serum Visions The Exile Zone Visions

Future Set Speculations

Does this mean that Serum Visions or Preordain is coming back in a future set?

The possibility exists but they still have to developmentally make sense.

Preordain Serum Visions Visions

Serum Visions Absence

When asked "why wasn't Serum Visions in MM2" you said it's because scry isn't a MM2 mechanic. That got me thinking, was there any reason Serum Visions wasn't printed in Theros where scry was a central mechanic?

My guess, and remember I’m not a developer, is it might be too strong for Standard.

Card Printing Mechanics Not a developer Power Level Scry Serum Visions Standard Theros Visions

Feedback on MM2015

The absence of Serum Visions in MM2015 seems to have upset a lot of people. What do you think about that?

There’s no nefarious reason. Scry just isn’t one of the mechanics in Modern Masters 2015. I’m making sure to pass along all the comments on Modern Masters 2015 to the rest of R&D and the lack of Serum Visions is one of the bigger notes.

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Serum Visions Reprint Issue

Did you even considered Serum Visions reprint in Theros block? Though I like JOU it saddens me a lot that mentioned card has not been included :(

The design team didn’t. Development was interested in doing mostly scry 1.

Card Printing Reprints Scry Serum Visions Theros Visions

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