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The new force of will is fine but doesn't have enough abs.
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cheetah7071 posted:The new force of will is fine but doesn't have enough abs.  It's a bit hard to make iconic art for a card that already has iconic abs art
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Feb 28, 2016 05:53
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"Let's redo the art of one of the most iconic cards ever and not include the sweet abs it has" -- some dingus at wizards
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Feb 28, 2016 06:00
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cheetah7071 posted:"Let's redo the art of one of the most iconic cards ever and not include the sweet abs it has" -- some dingus at wizards Imagine a Jojo force of will. 
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Feb 28, 2016 06:01
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standard.deviant posted:This is only true if the director is better at composition than the artist is. While that is likely true on balance, it is not a safe assumption in all cases. For what it's worth, it's the same reason micro-management makes sense in fast food but not higher-skilled jobs. The director's skill is actually completely irrelevant because they're the ones making the request, if they request a puce and mauve spiral vomiting bright red suns towards the upper right corner, that will be hideous but it will be what they want, and work for hire design is about giving them what they want. If the wanted that spiral but didn't specify any of those colors, it would be a loving nightmare to try to please them.
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Feb 28, 2016 06:04
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Chill la Chill posted:Imagine a Jojo force of will.
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Feb 28, 2016 06:15
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Lord Psychodin posted:I only read here once in a while, but I must post this terrible tragedy I have spotted. Everyone else already covered these but they're not beta, they're unlimited with blacked borders.
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Feb 28, 2016 06:44
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Star Man posted:My favorite thing about this thread is a bunch of non-artists talking about how art direction should be done. lol im an artist
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Feb 28, 2016 06:47
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Lord Psychodin posted:I only read here once in a while, but I must post this terrible tragedy I have spotted. Because it's their own cardboard with wizards on it, so they can do whatever the gently caress they want with it? Just a thought. (I find it butt ugly, mind you, and probably will not play Magic with someone who shows up with these, but I am not particularly angry about their existence, since what's the use? It's someone else's property). Star Man posted:My favorite thing about this thread is a bunch of non-artists talking about how art direction should be done. lol I'm an artist. I don't claim I'm particularly good or anything, but I am decent enough to sustain myself off of commission work. Mind you the "make it iconic" bit on the art direction is, without a doubt, the dumbest thing on that whole bit. The actual description for the piece is fine.
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Feb 28, 2016 07:49
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Jenx posted:Because it's their own cardboard with wizards on it, so they can do whatever the gently caress they want with it? Just a thought. (I find it butt ugly, mind you, and probably will not play Magic with someone who shows up with these, but I am not particularly angry about their existence, since what's the use? It's someone else's property). Not only am I an artist, but I manage outsource artists and literally write these kinds of briefs 
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Feb 28, 2016 08:11
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Jenx posted:I'm an artist. I don't claim I'm particularly good or anything, but I am decent enough to sustain myself off of commission work. Mind you the "make it iconic" bit on the art direction is, without a doubt, the dumbest thing on that whole bit. The actual description for the piece is fine. Well the level of detail might be fine. The actual description leads to a piece that doesn't actually look iconic or like force of will.
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Feb 28, 2016 08:18
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Dysgenesis posted:I was thinking of going, did you go to the Manchester one? Yep it was great. Well organised and had the same big tournament feel as the old style ptqs.
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Feb 28, 2016 08:29
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The decision on what the art should depict is just worse, generally, than the two already extant pictures, of abs man living through being seared and of a woman using her will to literally block flames. I think the error is in trying to use the same general aesthetic for the art, because if the color scheme and general concept is the same, the new art will be subsumed by the old one in terms of recognition/iconicism. The level of detail isn't a bad thing, it's the actual art direction, not the process, which is at fault.
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Feb 28, 2016 08:50
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Pauper chat: I'm gravitating towards Soul Sisters because that deck gets into my reptilian brain and I want to play it in every format, forever. There's a G/W list going around, but it seems to trade a bunch of tempo for a chance at a quick combo win. Doesn't seem worth it to me. Don't splash green for wardens 13-16 in Pauper. You're fine with mono-W. Soul Warden + Soul's Attendant + Suture Priest is plenty. Throw in some Raise The Alarm, Squadron Hawk, and Gather the Townsfolk and you've got your early curve covered. Triplicate Spirits & Cenn's Enlistment/Battle Screech for the late game drops. suicidesteve posted:I mean you listed the 3 reasons why using a paper legality list is really stupid so glad we agree? Uhhhhhhh, no. While it's probably a good thing CK banned the cards they did for their tournaments, paper legality works just fine at my shop: http://imgur.com/a/9IvkA 10 folks showed up for Pauper today. Despite the internet's insistence that paper commons like Hymn to Tourach and High Tide absolutely must be banned, we do just fine using the paper list and MTGO banlist. I think it has something to do with the regularity and payouts: weekly and low. We don't have modern staples, or an Underground Sea/Tropical Island like another local shop awarded, as prizes so the incentive to play the most busted deck just isn't there. You get a pack just for playing and there's a bonus pack at 1-1-1 and 3-0 if you showed up the previous week. Decks I saw today: 2x Burn White Weenies Suicide Black Acid Trip Stompy Bogles Homebrew deck I forgot to check out GB something I didn't catch. Red Shirt in the gallery is playing it if anybody wants to take a guess. MBC Angler Delver (just for fun, played Burn in the tournament) WURG something (kitty/kuldotha?) (for fun, vs UB Delver) White Tokens (just for fun, I also played Burn in the tournament and got paired against the Suicide Black deck) Delver made a poor showing today; I normally see 2 or 3 with a turnout like this. Nice change of pace! 0 in the tournament is pretty remarkable. Guy I've mostly seen play MBC was on Burn today and played a friendly UB Delver. Looked like he was running the most recent Leagues deck, I'm on a pre-Leagues version with a buncha bad substitutes I haven't bothered to replace (I run stuff I found in the 3/$1 boxes. Volcanic Hammer looks awesome, but it's a sorcery speed Lightning Strike. Found the Scouring Sands in the bulk boxes, kinda like them as "overloaded Electrickery" 3&4) The "aggro" player decided to build Acid Trip for some drat reason. It's a neat deck but not one I'd ever expect him to play. Apparently Curse of the Pierced Heart is really annoying to play against in paper and if you make the mistake of telling me it annoys you, well, I'm going to keep the risky hand with 2 Curses and 1 land. A bunch of people have told me it's annoying and I've made great use of it. I'd play more than 4 if I could. Both of us played our first ever Pauper match against each other; he was on mono-r heroic aka "draft leavings, the deck." W-L-W with the "burn combos off for lethal" finish. He bounced his lifegain land a few times and used a flicker effect that +1/+1'd his Lone Missionary and Hydroblast something and Reality Acid on a Curse the match he won. GB Dredge dude has all of his commons sorted in a box so he can put something together a few hours ahead of time. Still kicking myself for not seeing what he built. He's not running Pulse of Murasa yet in his dredge deck, thank god. Apparently he's solved the Eldrazi modern problem with homebrew GW hatebears: recurring land destruction. Went Loss-Loss to White Weenie. I've been meaning to buy some Flaring Pain and just never get around to it. Fireblast, Fireblast, Shard Volley, Needle Drop is not what you want to see in your hand with a COP:R on the field...not that you'd like to see that in your hand any other time. Dude sleeved up Affinity for his first Pauper tournament, switched to WW because he wanted something more straight forward. Pretty sure I've drawn no-land hands like the above against him before. Mull-to-4 is basically a scoop when you're playing Burn. Burn Vs "Suicide Black" with white splash? Uhhhhhh. We've got 35 minutes left want to play some friendlies against my tokens deck? T1 War Falcon, T2 Loyal Cathar. I Searing Blaze'd the Loyal Cathar 'cause I didn't RTFC. http://universegames.com/store/index.php?main_page=index https://calendar.google.com/calenda...xml#eventpage_6
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Feb 28, 2016 09:27
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Cernunnos posted:Went to my LGS for FNM today since work called me in last week and I missed out. Found out they were scheduling a Pauper event for the middle of next month. You should probably use the CK banlist despite my earlier post. Jenx posted:So what cards actually get lost if you just play with common-on-paper cards? Battle screech is one, but what else? Chainer's Edict is the other big loss. Arrogant wurm. Paper gains like 400 basically unplayable cards, many of which have strictly better versions printed, some Conspiracies you'll only see in brews and a "split 2 damage any way you choose" duel deck card for burn I haven't seen played. There's like 1 white Conspiracy and 1 black Conspiracy that are interesting. The black one is "edict or take 4 damage" iirc with "edict" as the tiebreaker. It's... not great. You can play Desert if you use paper commons. Gorilla Shaman is a massive gently caress YOU to affinity in the sideboard ("R, destroy all your lands" 'cause Pauper affinity actually plays Affinity cards and full playsets of the artifact lands). Kird Ape. Goblin Grenade. MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Feb 28, 2016 09:52
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) but I think I've convinced the owner to go with Paper + Online with the ban-list that Card Kingdom was/is using (Online list + Goblin Grenade, High Tide, Sinkhole, and Hymn). Hopefully it goes well and we can do it again.
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Feb 28, 2016 10:56
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My LGS now has a weekly FoW event, and a poster and poo poo. How long before the FoW company becomes a target of Wizards legal? Or does the fugly look sufficiently mask any similarities? (Regardless of whether Wotc has any grounds for a complaint)
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Feb 28, 2016 12:09
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Rinkles posted:My LGS now has a weekly FoW event, and a poster and poo poo. How long before the FoW company becomes a target of Wizards legal? Or does the fugly look sufficiently mask any similarities? Considering Hex just had to change starting life total and a couple of names, I think FoW is probably safe
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Feb 28, 2016 13:29
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Barry Shitpeas posted:Considering Hex just had to change starting life total and a couple of names, I think FoW is probably safe As long as they weather the legal battle.
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Feb 28, 2016 13:33
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MisterOblivious posted:You should probably use the CK banlist despite my earlier post. Tyrant's Choice (the black Conspiracy you reference) is 1B for 4 damage nontargeting, so it is at least a good rate for burn decks that want to play black.
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Feb 28, 2016 14:41
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To my understanding most of WotC's patents have expired, so ripping off the mana system is now fair game. I don't know where the line is exactly.
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Feb 28, 2016 16:03
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So that game right there is why I hate jitte. Edit: Also god drat van meter and his buddy are awful. Edit 2: did I just hear correctly that some idiot pro player buys sheets of cards to have them miscut of purpose? Wtf Errant Gin Monks fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Feb 28, 2016 16:26
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Errant Gin Monks posted:So that game right there is why I hate jitte. Lots of people do that, it's really dumb.
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Feb 28, 2016 17:31
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Edit 2: did I just hear correctly that some idiot pro player buys sheets of cards to have them miscut of purpose? Wtf  paging Judas
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Feb 28, 2016 17:31
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Errant Gin Monks posted:
Someone on these forums either does this, or collects misprints knowing this. Probably common in the miscut community.
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Feb 28, 2016 17:43
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Edit: Also god drat van meter and his buddy are awful. Just heard for the 14th time in the 2 hours I've watched them: "It looks like he won't be able to do *thing*." The guy does this thing immediately afterwards. And yeah, Eli Kassis has the stupidest looking cards I've ever seen.
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Feb 28, 2016 17:43
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suicidesteve posted:Just heard for the 14th time in the 2 hours I've watched them: "It looks like he won't be able to do *thing*." The guy does this thing immediately afterwards. Yeah it's really bad. And then they go off on stupid tangents about nothing then tell you what happened like 45 seconds ago that you already saw played out. Also looking up Eli he is the idiot who left 50k of cards in his car and got them all stolen.
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Feb 28, 2016 17:58
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Feb 28, 2016 18:26
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Anyone know what this is about? "Serious technical difficulties" at GP Houston. Anyone know what this is about?
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Feb 28, 2016 18:39
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BJPaskoff posted:Anyone know what this is about? "Serious technical difficulties" at GP Houston. Anyone know what this is about? Well there was a twitch stream ~1 hour ago (and all of yesterday), when I went to watch it on a larger screen it was down. It's still down e:Someone (Rich Hagon?) is doing live text play by play commentary in the twitch chat. It's pretty pointless. Rinkles fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Feb 28, 2016 18:44
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God I miss Patrick
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Feb 28, 2016 18:51
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Rinkles posted:Well there was a twitch stream ~1 hour ago (and all of yesterday), when I went to watch it on a larger screen it was down. It's still down It's back.
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Feb 28, 2016 19:06
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LightReaper posted:God I miss Patrick gently caress at this point I miss Matthias
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Feb 28, 2016 19:28
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2 creatures on the battlefield, both have +1/+1 counters, player plays Avatar of the Resolute. Marshall: "Why does Avatar of the Resolute have 2 counters?" Chat: "Because that's what it does, Marshall" Marshall: "oh thanks chat"
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Feb 28, 2016 20:07
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I've been out of the Standard loop for a while. Why the Hardened Scales decks all of a sudden?
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Feb 28, 2016 20:13
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Lossett just never loses with Miracles...
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Feb 28, 2016 20:18
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mcmagic posted:Lossett just never loses with Miracles... Tom Ross on infect is always more impressive to me because of just how little anyone else is capable of doing with it.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:20
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Rinkles posted:I've been out of the Standard loop for a while. Why the Hardened Scales decks all of a sudden?
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Feb 28, 2016 20:21
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UberJew posted:Tom Ross on infect is always more impressive to me because of just how little anyone else is capable of doing with it. Yeah but at least recently Lossett has been winning more.
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mcmagic posted:Yeah but at least recently Lossett has been winning more. Did you find a spare Eye?
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