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YggdrasilTM posted:And so, the block structure is basically removed, the Gatewatch reduced as importance, the core set reintroduced, as many wanted, to have less restrictions with reprints, and the masterpieces are not in all the set anymore. Many different people play magic, and they don't all want the same things.
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Shovelmint posted:Flavor text will be 25% worse So then go back to using real-world quotes! This is the thing I miss most about old Magic. My most prized card ever is the judge promo Wasteland, but that's because I have a line from the T.S. Eliot poem as a tattoo on my arm. I'm sure there are other former English majors out there who play as well.
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quote:I did though want to talk briefly about one R&D change today. Standard has had a rough year, so we wanted to figure out how to change things to prevent a repeat of it. To do that, we've formed a new group in R&D called Play Design. We've hired a man named Dan Burdick to manage the new team. We've allocated a number of existing R&D members to the Play Design team, including turning a couple of our contractors into full-time employees (welcome, Melissa DeTora and Andrew Brown). We're also looking externally for additional people to join the team. This dedicated "Play Design" team seems like a potentially great step in the right direction, with regards to more rigorous playtesting with a focus on competitive play. Allocating more (and better) resources to playtesting throughout the design/development process can only help. At the very least, I applaud them wanting to address the recent issues with Standard head on.
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Necronomicon posted:So then go back to using real-world quotes! This is the thing I miss most about old Magic. My most prized card ever is the judge promo Wasteland, but that's because I have a line from the T.S. Eliot poem as a tattoo on my arm. I'm sure there are other former English majors out there who play as well. That's the MPR Wasteland, and I can confirm that they're great. Edit: A funny....ish Maro comic suicidesteve fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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YggdrasilTM posted:And so, the block structure is basically removed, the Gatewatch reduced as importance, the core set reintroduced, as many wanted, to have less restrictions with reprints, and the masterpieces are not in all the set anymore. why does it feel like some significant percentage of your posts in this thread are basically "ha ha ha magic players are never happy lol magic players"
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suicidesteve posted:What. Delver is bad in Modern and the joke for Legacy/Vintage is that they aren't actually formats because very few people are able to play them. 99% of my opinions are hyperbole YggdrasilTM posted:And so, the block structure is basically removed, the Gatewatch reduced as importance, the core set reintroduced, as many wanted, to have less restrictions with reprints, and the masterpieces are not in all the set anymore. Literally: ThePeavstenator posted:Ugh, all magic players do is complain!!! ...and you still did it
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Elyv posted:why does it feel like some significant percentage of your posts in this thread are basically "ha ha ha magic players are never happy lol magic players" Nah, I did it only 4 times, or something like that. - graveyard hate/artifact hate in amonkhet - ban of felidar guardian - changes in R&D structure - and now. YggdrasilTM fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Autism Sneaks posted:Yeah, lol at them arriving at the conclusion that Theros just didn't have enough umph for three sets. The "world" was fine, they just botched the set design and story I think block fatigue really is an issue now, with twitch streaming/video content meaning that everyone experiences way more drafts per set even if they don't play them themselves. back in the day a typical player might draft 1-5 times per set and that was their only exposure to that block's limited format, whereas now you have a lot of the playerbase who have played and/or watched e.g. 20 Theros drafts by the end of triple Theros, which lowers their appetite significantly for 'Theros but with one pack different' even if the small set pack didn't suck.
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Nettle sentinel is most broken in pauper with birchlore rangers. Play pauper. E: also viridian longbow. Pauper elves is fun as heck to play.
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Bonus posted:And contracting two words into one and calling it a day with regards to coming up with names for cards. See: Bloodrage Brawler, Bitterblade Warrior, Bloodlust Inciter, etc. And those are just from the first 20 creatures in amonkhet alphabetically. My favorite burn spell is still Fireblast Bolt or Bolt Fireblast or Blastfire Bolt or Firebolt Blast or whatever the gently caress One of those is the actual name of the card and I can't be bothered to remember which
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Yeah MaRo, it's almost as if most recent changes have been proven to be bad, just as the playerbase thought when they were first announced, as evidenced by you changing stuff back (Core Sets) or just going all the way with the fix (blocks)
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Jabor posted:I got Bloodblood Blooder That's games workshop's nounverber territory!
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Serperoth posted:Yeah MaRo, it's almost as if most recent changes have been proven to be bad, just as the playerbase thought when they were first announced, as evidenced by you changing stuff back (Core Sets) or just going all the way with the fix (blocks) Some of the changes like doing shorter blocks were worth a shot but yeah they turned too many other knobs at the same time.
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TheKingofSprings posted:BR update is today yeah? Should be up very shortly, yes. MTGO/digital announcements are today as well.
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It's up, Marvel banned, no other changes http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/june-13-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-06-13
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triple sulk posted:Free Twin Nah, modern is pretty good as is....but if you have to change something we should ban Death's Shadow
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Good. Marvel is garbage gameplay.
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Tales of Woe posted:It's up, Marvel banned, no other changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU
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I'm in the middle of an MTGO League and fully intend to mock every Marvel player I can.
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The "pair banning" idea sounded interesting. A bunch of people, myself included, thought they should have done that with Felidar Guardian. Marvel pairs with more things than Ulamog, but Felidar Guardian isn't broken on its own at all.quote:As such, we're going to pull back on these announcements. We will not have another banned and restricted announcement until after Pro Tour Hour of Devastation. The next announcement will be on August 28.
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Tales of Woe posted:It's up, Marvel banned, no other changes That's just marvelless
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Holy crap, what a terrible year for standard. It's really remarkable that they were able to have relatively good stretches of time where things didn't need to be banned, and now all of a sudden they poo poo the bed like 3 times in short succession.
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BJPaskoff posted:The "pair banning" idea sounded interesting. A bunch of people, myself included, thought they should have done that with Felidar Guardian. Marvel pairs with more things than Ulamog, but Felidar Guardian isn't broken on its own at all. Yeah I thought it was interesting that they mentioned looking into other ways to mitigate the problem besides a ban. Not just pair banning but also allowing for Needle and Duress. Though I think sticking to a plain ban is the cleanest option for now.
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Madmarker posted:Nah, modern is pretty good as is....but if you have to change something we should ban Death's Shadow As much as I love playing Death's Shadow it's probably going to be the next thing in the ban crosshairs unless Hour of Devastation gives other decks a boost. The only thing is that if they're going to ban the deck they have to ban Death's Shadow itself, not Street Wraith. The fact that Grapeshot of all things is still around should show you how dedicated they are to only banning "enablers".
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The digital announcement is that they're phasing out Magic Duels to make room for Magic Digital Next stuff in the future & the first Magic Digital Next thing will be shown off at Hascon in the fall.meanolmrcloud posted:Holy crap, what a terrible year for standard. It's really remarkable that they were able to have relatively good stretches of time where things didn't need to be banned, and now all of a sudden they poo poo the bed like 3 times in short succession. it was more like one giant poo poo that they cleaned up in increments
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Is this what Type 2 was like in 2004? Bannings every month?
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Tales of Woe posted:it was more like one giant poo poo that they cleaned up in increments It's like diarrhea. You think you're done, you wipe, and then more comes and you have to start all over again.
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Siivola posted:Unban Emrakul. Was just about to post this.
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B&R list update 6/13/2017: Standard has been banned.
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Star Man posted:Is this what Type 2 was like in 2004? Bannings every month? there were only 2 instances then iirc, Skullclamp got banned and then later All The Affinity Cards got banned at once
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ThePeavstenator posted:Some of the changes like doing shorter blocks were worth a shot but yeah they turned too many other knobs at the same time. Yeah shorter blocks was definitely a thing I was interested in, hence "going all in with the fix". I just really don't like this "blaming the fans" approach to stuff, tbh.
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meanolmrcloud posted:Holy crap, what a terrible year for standard. It's really remarkable that they were able to have relatively good stretches of time where things didn't need to be banned, and now all of a sudden they poo poo the bed like 3 times in short succession. At least they are doing what is required to fix things. I hope all the people whose opinions got us into this mess are eating humble pie.
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Good It's better to recognize you've poo poo the bed and clean it up rather than to pretend you didn't imo WotC on a two day streak of doing good things
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