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Magic and D&D is basically all that's propping up Hasbro right now, so it's probably even harder to get something quirky approved.
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Do you have insight on how BG3 factors into that? Because it's D&D and I love it. I guess it has improved the overall popularity and name recognition at least.
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From what I recall, Baldur's Gate 3 actually drove increased sales of 2022's Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate set. I'm not sure if the same can be said about 2021's Adventures in the Forgotten Realm though, since that would've been two years old and not as easy to find any longer.
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doverhog posted:Do you have insight on how BG3 factors into that? Because it's D&D and I love it. I think they got a $90 million payment for that?
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They did? I didn't know that. In honor of Shadowheart I decided to post a question instead of just googling it. 
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Aphrodite posted:They've since made Hans and Saffi, and a joke card called "Ach! Hans, run!". There was also an Unfinity card where the art is a bear wearing a costume and the flavor text is "Ach! Hans, run! Get the camera!"
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Neito posted:I know MaRo says Future Sight was a mistake, but I wish they'd do another set like that. gently caress being competative, it was fun. The Modern Horizons sets have big Future Sight energy.
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C-Euro posted:The Modern Horizons sets have big Future Sight energy. In some ways, but for me the really cool bits of Future Sight were the nods to potential future (some came true, others didn't) and the now charmingly ugly frame. The frame:  Future Sight featured newly defined keywords that are now a bigger part of the game (Deathtouch, Shroud, Tribal, Delve), some that haven't yet made it (Fortify etc.) and even Tarmagoyf included a "spoiler" for the planeswalker type that would come in a subsequent set. It's certainly more entertaining as a concept than Coldsnap (a set that was designed to be a "lost to time" throwback to Ice Age but in 2006).
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door.jar posted:In some ways, but for me the really cool bits of Future Sight were the nods to potential future (some came true, others didn't) and the now charmingly ugly frame. wait, coldsnap couldn't have come out in 2006 *looks it up, crumbles into dust* Also I'm still extremely salty that Vedalken Aethermage can't bounce a Nameless Inversion that's on the stack. It's not even a very good play, let me do it!
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Feb 18, 2024 03:48
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I never liked the future sight frames. They make reading mana costs weirdly difficult
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Feb 18, 2024 08:16
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hjell of a lot more useful than johnny appleseed
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ilmucche posted:I never liked the future sight frames. They make reading mana costs weirdly difficult Any time someone does a TCG frame redesign they always put stuff like costs in the top left for people to fan out their cards and see it immediately and like, I get it, but it always looks off.
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I find the future sight ones tended to blend a little with the frame
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I think the future sight frames look generally cool but I totally agree that it was for the best they did not become a new standard. The Planar Chaos ones are pretty fun though while also being very readable because it's mostly just some color inversions going on.
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Feb 18, 2024 21:26
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Time Spiral block was some of the coolest poo poo they've ever done and I wish they'd experiment more like that and less with wacky themes
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Simply Simon posted:Time Spiral block was some of the coolest poo poo they've ever done and I wish they'd experiment more like that and less with wacky themes TSP block also reviewed pretty badly with consumers IIRC on account of its Limited environment being pretty unfriendly to new players, so I think that sort of thing is going to be confined to more "advanced" products like the aforementioned Modern Horizons stuff. Can't remember if it was Legends or Homelands that cribbed a bunch of names and worldbuilding from a D&D campaign that some of its devs were running at the time, but if I ever find myself playing tabletop with non-Magic folks I'm definitely going to crib a name and a bit of background from the assortment of weirdos in Legends.
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C-Euro posted:
I want to say Homelands was the one cribbing for a D&D game while Legends was cribbing from real-world stuff for most of its inspiration.
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Probably both. Legends legends were the creators' D&D characters.
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Hey John, we snuck your favorite character into our Legends set! Sivitri? That's awesome, what is she a 8/8 flier with trample? No, she's a 7 mana Craw Wurm gently caress you. I know Ydwen Efreet and Mijae Djinn were named after Garfield's friends Wendy and Jamie that got married during the design of Arabian Nights so they got mirrored cards.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Hey John, we snuck your favorite character into our Legends set! Wyluli Wolf from Arabian nights is the same, but for his wife Lily Wu.
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I don’t know much Magic but I opened a pack for funsies and what the heck is this thing? https://scryfall.com/card/one/254/mirrex All these cool monsters and I got a cloud.
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Bro Mirrex is actually insane. It's perfectly plausible for it to win the game single-handedly
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Bro Mirrex is actually insane. It's perfectly plausible for it to win the game single-handedly Hey now, let's be reasonable here. You need three other lands with it! ...but yeah, it does seem like a ridiculously good card.
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A one-off Mirrex is in a lot of decklists right now, yeah. Barely hurts to include (comes untapped and gives all colors for one turn helps a LOT), and later gives you something to do with your leftover mana, something that gives you inevitability to win? That's busted. However, you're quite right, it's not very cool. Lands aren't cool*. A big issue in Magic is that most decks contain 10+ rare lands that are absolutely necessary for the deck to function or at the very least flow well, and the lands are fairly expensive, and it's super unexciting to eat your vegetables like that when deckbuilding. *everybody post lands that actually are cool   
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Randalor posted:Hey now, let's be reasonable here. You need three other lands with it! ...but yeah, it does seem like a ridiculously good card. It's not overpowered or anything but it can be pretty irritating because, generally speaking, you're not going to have any way to destroy it (because it's a land and most decks have no land destruction).
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Simply Simon posted:A one-off Mirrex is in a lot of decklists right now, yeah. Barely hurts to include (comes untapped and gives all colors for one turn helps a LOT), and later gives you something to do with your leftover mana, something that gives you inevitability to win? That's busted. Tolarian Academy is cool and should be legal because I like it.
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Tiggum posted:It's not overpowered or anything but it can be pretty irritating because, generally speaking, you're not going to have any way to destroy it (because it's a land and most decks have no land destruction). And the creatures it makes are risk-free to the land, worst case scenario you're making a "free" chump blocker every turn to throw in front of an attacking creature and best case... well, okay, best case is you have some infinitely-untapping land loop to make infinite tokens, but the second-best case is that your opponent doesn't attack, which means you get to build up am essentially-free army (resource wise) army that can poke your enemy to death. Simply Simon posted:*everybody post lands that actually are cool  Not really cool by itself, but kind of neat from a historical perspective that something from a promo card from the early days of Magic was almost used word-for-word for a mechanic much later on. I think the only difference is that Fight doesn't tap the creatures.
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Randalor posted:And the creatures it makes are risk-free to the land, worst case scenario you're making a "free" chump blocker every turn Lol no you aint
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Randalor posted:And the creatures it makes are risk-free to the land, worst case scenario you're making a "free" chump blocker every turn to throw in front of an attacking creature and best case... well, okay, best case is you have some infinitely-untapping land loop to make infinite tokens, but the second-best case is that your opponent doesn't attack, which means you get to build up am essentially-free army (resource wise) army that can poke your enemy to death. Mites can't block specifically so that Mirrex and Skrelv's Hive don't just gum up a game and make it last forever
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Lol no you aint Jolyne Cujoh posted:Mites can't block specifically so that Mirrex and Skrelv's Hive don't just gum up a game and make it last forever Oh, whoops, missed that line. In that case, worst case scenario is that you're putting your opponent on a clock if they can't throw out creatures as fast as you. Either way, risk-free creatures that cost no cards are always a good thing.
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If the tokens could block Mirrex would be unbelievably annoying, like various lockout strategies in the old days (Ensnaring Bridge, Fog on Isochron Scepter...). The "unable to block" thing has shown up on a bunch of standard token types in recent sets specifically to make it easier to attack for both players - they don't want the games to devolve into "nobody can really do anything" boards. Downside of that is that recently, Limited formats were extremely fast, and the current set HAS tokens that can block, for the explicit goal to pump the brakes a little.
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This new Thunder Junction set is pretty entertaining, and I absolutely love this giant tumbleweed. https://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/rumbleweed/
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AcidCat posted:This new Thunder Junction set is pretty entertaining, and I absolutely love this giant tumbleweed.   https://scryfall.com/card/otj/118/cunning-coyote https://scryfall.com/card/otj/141/resilient-roadrunner
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Fearless_Decoy posted:I haven't played in decades so I don't know if they're good, but I can't help but enjoy this pair from the new set. I feel like the coyote should equip an artifact without paying its equip cost when it attacks, then sacrifice it at end of turn instead of this plot crap. Much more on brand.
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Also the coyote takes damage
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