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BizarroAzrael posted:Announcing Conspiracy: The Empty Throne! This is the cleverest promotion they've done in a while and I hope they keep it going.
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Entropic posted:OK I like the marketing for this set. Chamale posted:This is the cleverest promotion they've done in a while and I hope they keep it going. Yeah, I have almost zero interest in Conspiracy, and loving the promotion so far.
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Feb 24, 2016 17:11
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Feb 24, 2016 17:15
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"I'll go to Innistrad and find Sorin" - Jace Is it too much to ask to have just one Jace-free set I swear to god That smug telepathic shitbeard better not show up in Conspiracy
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Feb 24, 2016 17:43
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^ But Conspiracy is the perfect place to reprint JTMS!Barry Shitpeas posted:They should have changed the lead designer as well I think you mean the Main designer Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Feb 24, 2016 17:43
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:"I'll go to Innistrad and find Sorin" - Jace A magic set without Jace would be like an avengers movie without Tony Stark
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Feb 24, 2016 17:44
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Zoness posted:A magic set without Jace would be like an avengers movie without Tony Stark Good? 
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Feb 24, 2016 17:45
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The writing is so bad, but I like Chandra:quote:"What have you done?" bellowed the spirit dragon. A blast of heat washed over Jace, Ugin's internal fires stoked by anger.
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Feb 24, 2016 17:51
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Despite Jace's [disapproval, objections, complaints, fussing, being a gently caress boi - ahhh!] protestations
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Feb 24, 2016 17:56
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Entropic posted:The writing is so bad, but I like Chandra: She's using a piece of Ulamog's skull as a chair and I find that hilarious.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:11
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Why do they write this stuff? I've never met a single person who likes Jace or cares about any of this poo poo.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:12
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Ciprian Maricon posted:Why do they write this stuff? I've never met a single person who likes Jace or cares about any of this poo poo. Branding. The story also dictates card design now, enjoy.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:13
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Ciprian Maricon posted:Why do they write this stuff? I've never met a single person who likes Jace or cares about any of this poo poo. Hasbro, Inc. /ˈhæzbroʊ/ (formerly Hassenfeld Brothers and Hasbro Bradley) is an American worldwide toy and board game company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Sickening posted:Branding. The story also dictates card design now, enjoy. I actually think that's a good thing - there have been a lot of incidents, some in recent memory (Emmara Tandris?) where design completely flubbed the handling of a story character. The story's not that important, but the cards should, at the very least, reasonably depict the characters on them.
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Uncharted Realms: Magic Storyquote:The setting sun glinted redly off a shirtless Gideon Jura’s hairless chest. Red, too, was the glow in Chandra Nalaar’s eyes, though it seemed a little brighter than one would expect from a sunset alone, even on Zendikar, the magical plane with a special kind of mana where the newly-formed Gatewatch, a super-cool team of four planeswalkers, had just defeated the unimaginably fearsome Eldrazi. Actual story: * Gideon wanders around the Ally Encampment going for his new custom: a morning jog without his armor (I swear I am not making this up). He shirtlessly ruminates upon all that happened and is like "gently caress yeah we rule." Tazri catches up to him and is like "good job Gideon" and they run together for a while. Tazri's like "with all the people leaving, we're gonna be alone here in a couple of days." Gideon is too dense to get that she's saying she wants to gently caress, so he's like "yeah I bet haha" and then Tazri's all sad because Gideon's planning to bounce. * Chandra's sitting on an uncomfortable chair (they tell you this about a billion times). She's using her pyromancy powers to heat up soup and survey her fellow Planeswalkers. She's hot for Gideon (but she always was) and she's already bosom buddies with Nissa, but Jace is straight up staring off into the distance brooding because he's Jace. They keep going around this chair thing a lot and it turns out to be Ulamog's skull and it turns out that Chandra's paralyzed (temporarily) for using all the world's power to fuel the spell that killed Kozilek and Ulamog. * Jace is brooding about poo poo and he straight up starts bemoaning the fact that he's a charisma black hole which isn't nearly as cool as Gideon. This happens. * Ugin shows up and he's a huge dick. He gets mad at Jace and listens to the Gatewatch explain all the poo poo that happened, but Ugin isn't having it and he's mad because he wanted to study the Eldrazi and discover their purpose. He didn't actually have an idea something bad would happen if you killed them; he was literally just making that poo poo up. Jace is like "tell me what you know" but Ugin is a dick and refuses and tells Jace he sucks. Jace lists the remaining threats for the gatewatch: Nicol Bolas, Emrakul (who Ugin confirms left the plane entirely), Ob Nixilis and finding Sorin for whatever reason. Jace confirms he is heading for Innistrad to find Sorin. * Nissa wanders around the glyph marvelling at how awesome she is and thinking about trees and poo poo. Chandra walks up with her Ulamog's Skull Cane and they have a Girlz Moment where Nissa's like "but I cannot possibly leave Zendikar" and Chandra goes "well you don't have to" but then gives the Uncle Ben speech about power and responsibility and Nissa instantly changes her mind because it would be too hard for her to leave her friend Chandra behind, despite the fact she met Chandra 2 chapters ago.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:29
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:"I'll go to Innistrad and find Sorin" - Jace Doesn't he have a desk job in Ravnica keeping the guilds from destroying each other? What happened to that?
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Feb 24, 2016 18:33
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Ojetor posted:Doesn't he have a desk job in Ravnica keeping the guilds from destroying each other? What happened to that? I'm guessing we will get an interstitial chapter with that. Last we saw Liliana was hanging around Ravnica for reasons also.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:36
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Liliana, Interim Office Coordinator
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Feb 24, 2016 18:37
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Ciprian Maricon posted:Why do they write this stuff? I've never met a single person who likes Jace or cares about any of this poo poo. beats me
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Feb 24, 2016 18:39
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I know people who really like Jace specifically because they don't read any lore poo poo or notice flavor text and instead see him a purely functional series of Magic cards. Whenever you say "Jace is loving awful" the response you get is "No Jace is awesome cause my favorite deck ever was this one control build..."
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Feb 24, 2016 18:41
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Angry Grimace posted:
No way. Did they really just retcon the only thing that could redeem the BFZ's writing?
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Feb 24, 2016 18:42
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Ugin is like "ugh, you mortals wouldn't understand, but in 10,000 years they're going to come back and be so mad"
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Feb 24, 2016 18:44
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Feb 24, 2016 18:45
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He basically says "You have no idea what the consequences might be. I don't either, but they could happen a long rear end time from now after all you non-dragon idiots are all dead."
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Feb 24, 2016 18:45
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Archenteron posted:He basically says "You have no idea what the consequences might be. I don't either, but they could happen a long rear end time from now after all you non-dragon idiots are all dead." Yea which is a pretty valid stance really. "Hey it's easy for you fucks to do this when you'll be generations dead when the backlash comes but I may have to still handle this poo poo, so maybe I wanna be more pragmatic than you."
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Angry Grimace posted:* Chandra's sitting on an uncomfortable chair (they tell you this about a billion times). She's using her pyromancy powers to heat up soup and survey her fellow Planeswalkers. She's hot for Gideon (but she always was) and she's already bosom buddies with Nissa, but Jace is straight up staring off into the distance brooding because he's Jace. They keep going around this chair thing a lot and it turns out to be Ulamog's skull and it turns out that Chandra's paralyzed (temporarily) for using all the world's power to fuel the spell that killed Kozilek and Ulamog. tbf they do say that chandra's uncomfortable chair is ulamog's skull which was kind of funny
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Problem: the bad guys are big, and powerful, and immortal, and multidimensional, and incomprehensible, and if killed will only come back more powerful [spends seven years trying to find an answer] Solution: the bad guys are actually none of those things, and instead are made of kindling
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Feb 24, 2016 18:51
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Barry Shitpeas posted:Ugin is like "ugh, you mortals wouldn't understand, but in 10,000 years they're going to come back and be so mad" for some reason i thought becoming a planeswalker leads to a much longer life. is that not true?
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Feb 24, 2016 18:51
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea which is a pretty valid stance really. Whether intentional or not, I thought it was a pretty ironic echo that Ugin tried to drop this bullshit logic given that when his foolproof Eldrazi trap failed, he happened to be dead at the time.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:55
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Problem: the bad guys are big, and powerful, and immortal, and multidimensional, and incomprehensible, and if killed will only come back more powerful Didn't get theorized that just like the broods could be considered as individual cells from the Titan's projection on the plane, the Eldrazi Titans themselves could be cells of one overarching being? edit: All the hate for the story on the cards aside, it was an unbelievable fuckup not to have Elspeth's death featured on a card, or referenced in any way, shape, or form until the set after theros block. Also that Taigam never got a loving card. e2: Hah! I just got the callback of Ajani Steadfast to Ajani Vengeant. Now that's a cool way to show character growth. A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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ptkfvk posted:for some reason i thought becoming a planeswalker leads to a much longer life. is that not true? that was part of the pre-Time Spiral godwalker package
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Feb 24, 2016 18:58
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Ugin is the only character in the story who i have any kind of sympathy for
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A big flaming stink posted:Didn't get theorized that just like the broods could be considered as individual cells from the Titan's projection on the plane, the Eldrazi Titans themselves could be cells of one overarching being? They will end up going back to Tarkir sooner or later, and people have such short memories they will actually complain when fetchlands aren't in it.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:59
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Angry Grimace posted:Whether intentional or not, I thought it was a pretty ironic echo that Ugin tried to drop this bullshit logic given that when his foolproof Eldrazi trap failed, he happened to be dead at the time. This is also true, no one ever said Ugin wasn't a hypocritical jerkwad about it, just saying it was a bit more valid of a point for the character to raise than just a total retcon.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:59
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Barry Shitpeas posted:that was part of the pre-Time Spiral godwalker package Speaking of, wasn't Nicol Bolas's bullshit during the Conflux a way to get back to old-walker status? How'd that go/is going?
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Feb 24, 2016 18:59
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Barry Shitpeas posted:that was part of the pre-Time Spiral godwalker package Well, they were like actually immortal before werent' they? Irony Be My Shield posted:From what we know of SoI so far it doesn't look like killing the titans was a great idea. THE MOON WAS EMRAKUL ALL ALONG.
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Feb 24, 2016 19:00
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Sickening posted:Branding. The story also dictates card design now, enjoy. Nah they do lots of other stuff for that and its well executed. I'm not trying to complain that they are creating content for people other than me, they've done lots of good branding that way. For example they paid that PewDiePie guy to play Magic on youTube with famous nerds and even sent him to a Pro Tour. That's the kind of branding and outreach stuff that while not really enjoyable or interesting to me, I understandable is valuable and important to the company. This stuff though is buried on their website, it requires a knowledge and familiarity with their IP that no newer player will have, and its just flat out really not executed well. I don't see how it fits into a strategy greater than "some guy at the office loves to write fanfiction"
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Irony Be My Shield posted:From what we know of SoI so far it doesn't look like killing the titans was a great idea. We don't "know" anything at all relating SoI to the Eldrazi, that is all speculation based purely on the set name. Dragon's Maze didn't even have any dragons in it!
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