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Chill la Chill posted:I didn't read anything about a man calling himself trick getting fired. Are we sure this is the right announcement? Pretty sweet that a "Global Community Manager" can communicate so badly that his community ignites in near-unanimous disapproval, to the point where his boss needs to step in and do damage control, and he still gets to come to the office the next day. Maybe WOTC isn't such a bad place to work.
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How many of Trick's stupid announcements does Elaine have to packpedal this week?
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Terrible Horse posted:Pretty sweet that a "Global Community Manager" can communicate so badly that his community ignites in near-unanimous disapproval, to the point where his boss needs to step in and do damage control, and he still gets to come to the office the next day. Maybe WOTC isn't such a bad place to work. Well it is pretty obvious that quality is not something they hold in high regard *cough modo cough*
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Maybe using watch someone misconstrue this joke to mean that I think not owning magic cards is as bad as being unemployed Terrible Horse posted:Pretty sweet that a "Global Community Manager" can communicate so badly that his community ignites in near-unanimous disapproval, to the point where his boss needs to step in and do damage control, and he still gets to come to the office the next day. Maybe WOTC isn't such a bad place to work. hmmm *looks over weekly activities report* you took a giant poo poo on the community but there's no evidence that you told people they could use fake cards in their commander games with friends, so your job is safe. good job, ol' sport
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Well, that settled far better than it could have. I also have to wonder if Trick is amazingly good at kissing rear end at work, because his rear end should be fired by now.
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I know that feels crazy, that we regard marker on a card as a counterfeit, but remove the visual accuracy from the judgment – they serve identical purposes when it comes to game play.
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ManiacMatt posted:Going to be in Fremont California for work the next few weeks. Looking at possibly hitting up a pre-release event/day this weekend. Anyone have suggestions for where to hit up or what places are good. Unsure of what's in Fremont, but there's really good stores in Berkeley (Eudemonia), and San Jose (Channel loving Fireball).
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Hellsau posted:I know that feels crazy, that we regard marker on a card as a counterfeit, but remove the visual accuracy from the judgment – they serve identical purposes when it comes to game play. Technically, both a markered card and a "true" counterfeit also serve identical purposes to a real card when it comes to gameplay, but I'm sure the mere thought of acknowledging that causes Trick to poo poo his desk chair even harder than usual.
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:My biggest takeaway from all this is that Trick isn't his actual given name, bestowed upon him by hippie parents as I thought, but the short form of Patrick that he willingly chooses to use in the year 2016. I assumed his parents had just seen Hackers, but it is actually incredible that this is a self-taken name and not either a gaming handle or something he still frowns at his parents for. JerryLee posted:Technically, both a markered card and a "true" counterfeit also serve identical purposes to a real card when it comes to gameplay, but I'm sure the mere thought of acknowledging that causes Trick to poo poo his desk chair even harder than usual. lmao
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Booklegger posted:Elaine also carefully elided discussion of non-sanctioned tournaments. Yeah it's disappointing because when Elaine comments on something, it always feels like she's allowed to be blatant about things. And this time, she specifically avoided clearing up the thing that caused people to be upset about this in the first place. Dr. Clockwork posted:How many of Trick's stupid announcements does Elaine have to packpedal this week? Elaine Chase should take over his duties, with the caveat that she has to write up and publish her articles before or simultaneously with whatever announcement. Especially because I know people who work there, I can't believe that WotC is that out of touch with the playerbase that they can't predict how they will react to major shakeups such as (and these are what was being yelled the loudest): people being banned for looking at spoilers and the nuking of unsanctioned Legacy and Vintage. For what it's worth (broad definition of "worth"), Patrick Jarret's official Magic Twitter account retweeted this: quote:Jim Thevenot @jimthev 56m56 minutes ago ...which I imagine he'd be in hot water for retweeting if it wasn't a fact.
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I dunno, if I owned a LGS that basically lived and died on its WPN status, I still wouldn't run anything with proxies until there was an unambiguous answer, especially with the "personal, non-commercial" wording.
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Kyrosiris posted:I dunno, if I owned a LGS that basically lived and died on its WPN status, I still wouldn't run anything with proxies until there was an unambiguous answer, especially with the "personal, non-commercial" wording. I'm glad we finally have clarity about the rules for this complex, ruled based card game.
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At this point it feels like a huge chunk of the WotC staff is made up of either ex-pros or ex-bloggers, what a coincidence that the most competent people (Elaine, Helene, Maro) either have a professional background in what they do, or have been with the company for like 15 years. It turns out that someone being good at a game doesn't mean they're good at making games, and someone running a blog doesn't qualify them for being the global face of an entire company!
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:At this point it feels like a huge chunk of the WotC staff is made up of either ex-pros or ex-bloggers, what a coincidence that the most competent people (Elaine, Helene, Maro) either have a professional background in what they do, or have been with the company for like 15 years. Looking at her LinkedIn profile, she was also an elementary school teacher, so she has prior experience on how to deal with the magic community.
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Maro - Agreed with regards to MaRo and his "blog". Cactrot posted:Looking at her LinkedIn profile, she was also an elementary school teacher, so she has prior experience on how to deal with the magic community. Man I didn't play magic until I was in middle school, did I miss out?
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Anyone know why Tooth and Nail is 22 bucks?
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mcmagic posted:Anyone know why Tooth and Nail is 22 bucks? Probably mostly due to EDH.
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Cactrot posted:Looking at her LinkedIn profile, she was also an elementary school teacher, so she has prior experience on how to deal with the magic community. What we also really need are judges like the famous rugby ref Nigel Owens: http://youtu.be/6FDh1xtqaWA
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mcmagic posted:Anyone know why Tooth and Nail is 22 bucks? It seems like it sees some play in Wave-style ramp decks? http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=11241&d=263878&f=MO http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=11159&d=263471&f=MO And even replaces wave in those shells. It fetches Xenagod + Emrakul for a combo kill or something.
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I've seen it in green tron too. TandN out emrakul and xenagod, gg Edit: 
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mcmagic posted:Anyone know why Tooth and Nail is 22 bucks? I have eight of them please keep going up uP UP!
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Molybdenum posted:I've seen it in green tron too. It's super bad in Tron...
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Zoness posted:What does Kenjia Egashira do that isn't meme-ing and making me remember that there is a Kenji that isn't Tsumura? Kenji is actually quite a good player. Often catches obscure lines, and is good at quickly assessing the tempo of upcoming turns. His biggest fault is occasionally making rash "yolo" calls, but I think that's partially because he did does this hours a day, and he seems to be getting better about it. The twitch-steamer "hello friend" package makes me want to close his stream every time, though. - PV was a great, insightful commentator. Who the hell thinks otherwise? Gaby was okay, but, of course, she's barely had any experience (commentating). I'd just like some better color commentary - the Wotc produced streams lack people that are actually legitimately good at the game (the European ones are better about this).
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mcmagic posted:Anyone know why Tooth and Nail is 22 bucks? 1) It's a rare from a set nobody has opened in large numbers for more than a decade 2) Resolving it basically instantly wins you the game 3) #mtgfinance
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:1) It's a rare from a set nobody has opened in large numbers for more than a decade Reprinted in Modern Masters. FWIW
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mcmagic posted:It's super bad in Tron... I don't think anyone is suggesting that someone should put Tooth and Nail in the regular Tron deck. The only deck I've ever played in Modern that had T&N in it was a Utopia Sprawl/Arbor Elf deck.
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mcmagic posted:Anyone know why Tooth and Nail is 22 bucks? Wonder if there is a jump that coincides with this being published? http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/deck-of-the-day-modern-tooth-and-ramp/ Cactrot fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Cactrot posted:Wonder if there is a jump there coincides with this being published? That has to be it. The Titan Scapeshift ramp deck is better I think.
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Cactrot posted:Wonder if there is a jump that coincides with this being published? http://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Mirrodin/Tooth+and+Nail#paper It's been rapidly increasing in price since a week before that article went up.
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Hellsau posted:http://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Mirrodin/Tooth+and+Nail#paper Clearly the CFB card cabal has been buying them up in record numbers anticipating the spike before they released their article.
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I just hope I can get $300 for my foil goblin guide!
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Booklegger posted:Reprinted in Modern Masters. FWIW This doesn't really move the needle on the "there aren't that many of them around" point.
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Saffron Olive had it on his "buy this now before it's $40" part of his article or somethingSaffron Olive posted:Financially, I want to point out that when Wizards prints utility cards at Mythic, in small sets on short cycles, crazy things have been known to happen with the cards' price. Especially when these cards are Modern or Legacy playable. Remember Voice of Resurgence? It spent most of its Standard life between $40 and $55. Bonfire of the Damned? Peaked at just over $45. Lotus Cobra, Baneslayer Angel, even Monastery Mentor is nearly back to $20 despite being a fringe player in Standard. While I'm not saying it will happen, there is a reasonable chance that Kozilek's Return will be the card everyone is complaining about come next fall because it costs $150 for a playset.
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Boco_T posted:Saffron Olive had it on his "buy this now before it's $40" part of his article or something Too bad his comparison were to two of the worst draft sets ever released. I'm not saying OOB will be good, but oath is going to be more opened than those two sets combined. He also forgets expeditions exist, which means even in a set like BFZ where's there's one good mythic, it's going to be available at 20-25$ in a month or two even if there's 0 other money cards.
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Angry Grimace posted:
It's a good card but this set is going to get opened a shitload E: I'll just get 4 of it, but for my money I'd buy up all the Sea Gate Wreckages I could right now. TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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TheKingofSprings posted:It's a good card but this set is going to get opened a shitload Will it? The expedition list this time isn't nearly as impressive, with Wasteland standing far above the others. I think currently the second most expensive one is Eye of Ugin which is going about half. I could be underestimating the chase crowd, but minus the heavily playable lands in the BFZ expeditions I could see it not being as big a deal. That said, I think the actual rares/mythics are a step above this time so that could make a difference (only really Gideon and Newlamog seem to have any value from BFZ, iirc).
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