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endlessmonotony posted:They explicitly stated your opponent won't see foil morphs. Or was this wrong? This is apparently wrong.
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They approached me at Card Kingdom's FNM as well, around the Kibler MOCS explosion last year. Only they were looking for QA people at the time and not developers. Approaching randos playing cards seems like the best way to do recruitment.
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Oct 15, 2014 19:22
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Countered a Sarkhan with a Stubborn Denial just now. The board was clogged except for my Ashcloud Phoenix charging over the top. He thought he just ripped the game-winning card. He was not pleased.
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Oct 15, 2014 19:46
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Countered a Sarkhan with a Stubborn Denial just now. The board was clogged except for my Ashcloud Phoenix charging over the top. He thought he just ripped the game-winning card. He was not pleased. A counterspell was used folks. The plays.
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Oct 15, 2014 19:47
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Sickening posted:A counterspell was used folks. The plays. Not particularly skillful, but gently caress it feels good and his rage was amusing.
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Oct 15, 2014 19:48
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Used despise on a guy in an 8-4 draft on MODO last night, and he immediately responded by telling me I couldn't take anything so to hurry it up. Told him I was just typing them down and he proceeded to send several annoying messages about why it was unnecessary and to stop wasting time. Fast forward 45 minutes, and he loses by timeout. I topdecked a wingmate roc so he wouldn't have won anyway, but the irony made it so much better.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:02
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Streaming some Vintage durdling right here - http://www.hitbox.tv/marchhare Going to be mussing about with probably Pyromancer Gush and possibly some Oath stuff? Want to test out Dig and Cruise in Vintage, welcome to suggestions and people telling me how bad I am at this format (very bad.)
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Oct 15, 2014 20:04
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That would feel like a great comeuppance story except it's MTGO so it could just be the guy got disconnected and bugged out. 
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Oct 15, 2014 20:05
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If their official Magic client in the future somehow looked like the Planeswalker/Magic games would you guys be all over it? Or is presentation not really the biggest issue, just robustness and quality of life UI improvements? For people in the community who make Hearthstone comparisons it seems like often that is the biggest beef - that the game is massively superior but the client doesn't do it justice.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:06
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Chill la Chill posted:That would feel like a great comeuppance story except it's MTGO so it could just be the guy got disconnected and bugged out. No, he was desperately attacking and f6'ing up until the very end
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Oct 15, 2014 20:07
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Harmonica posted:If their official Magic client in the future somehow looked like the Planeswalker/Magic games would you guys be all over it? Absolutely, those games are beautiful. Of course, that's assuming they've also fixed the bugs in the background of MTGO and always let you make your plays, since the Duels games sometimes won't let you make a play like floating mana because they're not designed with that much depth in mind.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:09
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:- Allow me to play but don't force me to have identical collections online and offline. Maybe this means phantom constructed events or borowing a deck service or something who knows. This is my biggest problem getting into constructed MTGO. In paper I can build or easily buy into most decks in modern and most legacy decks that don't have Tundras or LEDs. Online I play mono U Tron in modern because I didn't have to buy any $60 Cryptics, Cliques, or Batterskulls on top of the 5 I already have in paper. (Also Mindslaver is screwed so I can barely play that.  )I like your idea of borrowing stuff. Kinda like Kindle has it where you can put books you're not using up for other people to read. On the plus side, I can actually play vintage online for less than any other eternal format.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:11
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:- Client performance is pretty poor too. I don't understand how it can be such a resource hog when all it's doing is moving a few 2d images back and forth. Shameful. I think, purely because of how pervasive it is, that this is the thing that impacts me most. I don't play in big events or anything like that, but the client is constantly being aggravatingly slow. This machine was pretty much rebuilt from scratch about 6 months ago. I can run any modern FPS at a smooth 60 fps, but a slow-paced game that's just buttons and two-dimensional pictures needs to take up to a second to respond to a single click? At all times? There is no loving way you're going to convince me that's caused by anything other than ineptitude.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:13
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Harmonica posted:If their official Magic client in the future somehow looked like the Planeswalker/Magic games would you guys be all over it? Or is presentation not really the biggest issue, just robustness and quality of life UI improvements? For people in the community who make Hearthstone comparisons it seems like often that is the biggest beef - that the game is massively superior but the client doesn't do it justice. The presentation in the V4 client is perfectly adequate, it's just that literally every other thing in the client and server is lovely and unreliable.
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Oct 15, 2014 20:44
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BaronVonVaderham posted:The MTGO design flaws continue! I hadn't though about this - but it's interesting that playing foils in limited, if you are playing some number of non-foil, plus a foil card, you are giving away information if they see a non-foil Game 1, and a foil Game 2. They'll know you have at least 2 copies, when they wouldn't know you had more than 1 if not for foils.
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Oct 15, 2014 21:00
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:- Recreating paper tournaments. I enjoy spending an evening drafting at the store with friends. I might even take a whole saturday for a ptq occasionally. I do not want to be tied to my computer for 4+ hours to do one magic event. Take the hearthstone draft model (for sealed events) at the very least where I can drop in and play a round whenever. And has been for something like four or five years now. MTGO development is just so stupid.
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LordSaturn posted:The presentation in the V4 client is perfectly adequate, it's just that literally every other thing in the client and server is lovely and unreliable. What I don't get is why they don't have an option to decrease the (unnecessarily high) graphical fidelity to improve performance like I dunno, every other PC game ever? I'm fine with things looking like v3, if it means I don't have to deal with the client locking up for 20 seconds every time I click OK. Starving Autist fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 21:04
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BaronVonVaderham posted:The MTGO design flaws continue! Your opponents don't see your face-down morphs cards as foiled. Your morphs also return to a randomised position if they are bounced. edit: quoted wrong post. Harmonica fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 21:11
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Harmonica posted:Your opponents don't see your face-down morphs cards as foiled. Your morphs also return to a randomised position if they are bounced. Except they hosed it up. My opponent commented on my playing my Rattleclaw Mystic face down and he saw it as foiled. On a somewhat related note, Wizards should print actual foil tokens some time.
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Oct 15, 2014 21:19
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That about covers things I've seen or been personally exposed to lately. In addition, there's the whole major events breaking thing. For instance, a recent online PTQ (or was it MOCS?) bugged out and forced some players in the top8 to play with their entire draft pool as their deck. That's compounded by WotC's crappy compensation policy - basically, if an event breaks and you lose out on prizes or qualifier points, you won't get refunded if you won sealed product exceeding the entry fee of the tournament and won't be compensated for lost time/QPs. Broken events are generally not redone. Hyper Crab Tank fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 21:23
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Devor posted:I hadn't though about this - but it's interesting that playing foils in limited, if you are playing some number of non-foil, plus a foil card, you are giving away information if they see a non-foil Game 1, and a foil Game 2. They'll know you have at least 2 copies, when they wouldn't know you had more than 1 if not for foils. I've seen people switch out foil for non foil after game 1 just to (minorly) gently caress with their opponents. For the Pro Tour and other big tournaments they always mark the cards in the draft portion. Are those little designs different for each pack and doesn't that give away a bit of information like a foil would?
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LordSaturn posted:The presentation in the V4 client is perfectly adequate, it's just that literally every other thing in the client and server is lovely and unreliable. The presentation is actually okay, its the fact that it runs like poo poo constantly. I've actually heard rumors through the grapevine that WOTC is actually now attempting to hire new programmers at reasonable salaries to fix the issues with the client since the playerbase declined so much. (and this rumor is very much in the realm of "I know a guy" so nothing could come of it) Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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odiv posted:For the Pro Tour and other big tournaments they always mark the cards in the draft portion. Are those little designs different for each pack and doesn't that give away a bit of information like a foil would? No
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:
Their "Binder" system is the stupidest thing ever. I dread any time I accidentally make too many of a card tradeable, as there is currently no way to search your trade binder. You have to manually scroll (which is incredibly laggy) and find it to undo the mistake. Not having a search function seems like a really fundamental oversight.
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All it really needs to do is work without quickly bogging your computer down, which it can't do. The display is fine at the times at which it actually bothers to remember your settings. Its way better when you run the game on dual screens though since you can then shove a lot of information off to the side and keep your view of the battlefield uncluttered. Fingers McLongDong posted:Used despise on a guy in an 8-4 draft on MODO last night, and he immediately responded by telling me I couldn't take anything so to hurry it up. Told him I was just typing them down and he proceeded to send several annoying messages about why it was unnecessary and to stop wasting time. It does actually tell in the chat log what was in their hand. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Their "Binder" system is the stupidest thing ever. I dread any time I accidentally make too many of a card tradeable, as there is currently no way to search your trade binder. You have to manually scroll (which is incredibly laggy) and find it to undo the mistake. Not having a search function seems like a really fundamental oversight. Searchable binders are coming in the next update, next week, as well as a bunch of other things. On the morph foil thing, that's shocking if true - since they currently think foils are hidden. Did your opponent actually tell you they saw it as foil?
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Angry Grimace posted:It does actually tell in the chat log what was in their hand. Yeah, the only time it's actually necessary to write down their hand is when you get to look at their hand without them revealing it, e.g. with Vendilion Clique.
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I have always thought they needed a better way to handle priority, although I am not sure what exactly. One thing would be separate keys for passing to resolve the stack and passing to change phases. In other words a pass key that only works when something is on the stack. Far too many times I have been trying to let a large stack resolve after a counter war only to accidentally skip my combat step.
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I Love You! posted:There were certainly cards that were printed incorrectly in alpha/beta and other early sets. One of the circles of protection (red? or maybe black) wasn't available in Alpha. In arabian nights you could get a basic mountain in place of a rare because it showed up in the wrong place on a print sheet. Mostly I'm asking because someone I know is claiming that the lotus pull in that recent video must be a fake because Tropical Island and black lotus couldn't be in the same pack. I'm not entirely convinced that's the case, but the packing process certainly has its quirks like the common runs we see in packs today.
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Olothreutes posted:Mostly I'm asking because someone I know is claiming that the lotus pull in that recent video must be a fake because Tropical Island and black lotus couldn't be in the same pack. I'm not entirely convinced that's the case, but the packing process certainly has its quirks like the common runs we see in packs today. How on earth would he know? It's been more than 20 years since ABU packs were in regular circulation, and I can't imagine all that much mapping work was ever done on them.
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Oct 15, 2014 22:28
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Olothreutes posted:Mostly I'm asking because someone I know is claiming that the lotus pull in that recent video must be a fake because Tropical Island and black lotus couldn't be in the same pack. I'm not entirely convinced that's the case, but the packing process certainly has its quirks like the common runs we see in packs today. Volcanic Island is the one you're thinking of, not Tropical.
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The main thing that keeps me away from MTGO is all the bugs that ruin events. I'd like to take the game at least somewhat seriously if I'm going to spend much money on it, and stuff like people not being able to submit decks for the PTQ, Spirespine ruining multiple dailies, or any other random bug that makes people refund events just seem... awful. I don't have the time or patience to waste a few hours on that.
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Having you opponent attack into you with Zurgo while holding a Deflecting Palm and an Act of Treason is probably the best feeling I've ever had in Magic. Was doing so badly, couldn't find a black source at all, never thought I'd be so happy to see Zurgo.
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Mikujin posted:Volcanic Island is the one you're thinking of, not Tropical. No, I'm aware of the absence of Volcanic Island and that one circle of protection (black?). This person is maintaining that the packaging order of rares prohibits cards that are that far apart on the sheet from being in the same pack. I disbelieve him, but would like an expert opinion.
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Olothreutes posted:No, I'm aware of the absence of Volcanic Island and that one circle of protection (black?). This person is maintaining that the packaging order of rares prohibits cards that are that far apart on the sheet from being in the same pack. I disbelieve him, but would like an expert opinion. Here's an expert opinion: 21 loving years ago, it was the wild loving west in packing and distribution and literally anything can and did happen. Is it somewhat less likely? Possibly. Impossible? gently caress no.
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A good friend of mine recently passed his Level one judge test and was curious about how people get those judge polos. He quickly learned that there's no room for fun in the world of Magic judging. http://www.reddit.com/r/mtgjudge/comments/2j6mz5/i_just_passed_my_level_1_today_this_is_the_most/
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Death Bot posted:The main thing that keeps me away from MTGO is all the bugs that ruin events. I'd like to take the game at least somewhat seriously if I'm going to spend much money on it, and stuff like people not being able to submit decks for the PTQ, Spirespine ruining multiple dailies, or any other random bug that makes people refund events just seem... awful. I don't have the time or patience to waste a few hours on that. As mentioned before and is worth repeating, drafts rarely crash and its extremely stable if you just stick to drafting. This is well worth the time and minor frustrations of the client because drafting at anytime is just that amazing. I hated v4 at first but if you stick to the f2/f6 buttons for the majority of your stuff its pretty smooth.
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kzin602 posted:A good friend of mine recently passed his Level one judge test and was curious about how people get those judge polos. He quickly learned that there's no room for fun in the world of Magic judging. Some of these posts are amazing. quote:Much like the Bagworm Moth constructs a shell of debris around itself to make a travelling home, the lowly level one judge must also construct his shirt before undergoing the miraculous change into the next instar of development.
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kzin602 posted:A good friend of mine recently passed his Level one judge test and was curious about how people get those judge polos. He quickly learned that there's no room for fun in the world of Magic judging. My favorite part was when he said he did it so he'd never have to buy a shirt again. Spoken like a true goon, even if its ironically.
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