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resistentialism posted:It plays both a jace voice line and a bolas line every time he uses a copied ability. lololol
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Jolas, God-Castaway. edit: worship entails reenacting gilligan's island episodes.
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Tainen posted:Lamo Don’t forget they have an arena mythic championship that presumably has to happen in June since MC III happening after MCIV would be pretty weird. The details for it are currently TBD, lmao.
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Marketing New Brain posted:Don’t forget they have an arena mythic championship that presumably has to happen in June since MC III happening after MCIV would be pretty weird. The details for it are currently TBD, lmao. They still aren't even close to having a tournament client, right? The top 1000 qualifier tournaments are gonna get run manually on Challonge.
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Hellsau posted:They still aren't even close to having a tournament client, right? The top 1000 qualifier tournaments are gonna get run manually on Challonge. They email everyone slips to sign and email back.
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Hellsau posted:They still aren't even close to having a tournament client, right? The top 1000 qualifier tournaments are gonna get run manually on Challonge. It’s actually up to 2000 people since the top 1000 from season 1 and 2 will be invited to the same qualifier.
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Tainen posted:It’s actually up to 2000 people since the top 1000 from season 1 and 2 will be invited to the same qualifier. 4000, don’t forget mythic limited
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Owlbear Camus posted:i'm not crying you dumb assholes are crying shut up This is a blessed story and I'm reaching out to him to see if he'll illustrate a token with Willow in it for my next Cat Draft (looking at June 22nd to catch the tail-end of War of the Spark). Speaking of metagames, what's your kid's Cat deck looking like these days? My step-daughter just turned seven and I'm building her a Cat deck. I'm probably including some Amonkhet Cats because it's not like she'll be playing in FNM anytime soon.
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LifeLynx posted:This is a blessed story and I'm reaching out to him to see if he'll illustrate a token with Willow in it for my next Cat Draft (looking at June 22nd to catch the tail-end of War of the Spark). I honestly think tree my be a decent WG cat tribal deck if they do an Arena Modern format.
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If we're still doing artists we'd like to see for promos, Junji Ito should be brought in for the phyrexians when they eventually bring them back. Also, the Domri is amazing and doesn't just look like someone LARPing a barbarian.
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My favorite is Angrath but I'm already biased when it comes to rage dad. Would absolutely love to see some Junji Ito or Hirohiko Araki but I get them pulling out a couple big names and then filling the roster with mobile game artists. They ought to do these off style guide alt art promos more often.
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i would have also loved if someone had done tamiyo in the style of those old japanese paintings, like this one i have no clue what the proper art word for it is tho
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Cynic Jester posted:You can't tease like this. Stupid drama is the best drama. So the story of how Frank Cho goes full chud starts with someone else's work entirely. Specifically, it starts with a variant cover to Spider-Woman #1 by Milo Manara. This cover:  As soon as it got solicited, Marvel got a shitstorm of criticism, because, well... look at it. It's ugly, it's overly eroticised, and the anatomy is a god-damned inhuman mess. Now here's the thing: Milo Manara is a porn artist, and he's done variants for Marvel before. So everyone knew more or less what to expect out of him, but here's the other thing: Manara is -- rightly -- hailed as a master of anatomy, female anatomy in particular. He's incredibly off his game on this cover, and Manara's weak explanation about how there's a lip on the edge of that roof that Spider-Woman is climbing over really didn't hold water. So Marvel got dragged on the internet, especially because this was back in 2014 and they were just starting to make an actual effort towards inclusivity (Ms. Marvel had only debuted a year previously), they made a token response to the controversy on tumblr, and then -- this is important -- they published the variant cover anyway. The damned thing came out. But it was too late. The Internet had gone after titties. Frank Cho was triggered. This whole thing happened in August 2014. In January 2015, Cho posts this on his personal website:  This is not a commissioned piece, or an official Marvel variant. It's a sketch cover -- a cover released intentionally blank, so fans can get artists to sketch something unique on it. Cho's simply taken one and done a sketch on it as a private citizen. (I'm not sure if he ever even offered it for sale, or just posted the scan on his website.) No word on why he felt the need to leap to Manara's defense six months after the fact, and honestly, he does his cause more harm than good. He's cheating like hell, changing the angle and Spider-Woman's pose while making the layout of the roof more obvious, and his piece still looks appreciably different -- and better -- than Manara's. All he's done is unintentionally called out just how bad the original was. He is roundly ignored. Cho likes to draw exactly two things; apes and women with big breasts. Everyone writes it off as Cho being Cho. But Cho doesn't want to be ignored, he wants to strike a blow for titties. So, three months later, he escalates:  And this draws a response. Spider-Gwen is a freshly launched title, another salvo in Marvel's attempts to lure in a younger, more female fanbase. Oh, and she's sixteen goddamn years old. Cho is roundly told off, including by Spider-Gwen's actual artist. The criticism is basically "you are being a creep, we are trying to not be creeps any more so that girls will read comics, if you have to go be a creep please do not do it on the characters actively being pitched to young girls, and also stop sexualizing children you goddamn creep". In response, Cho writes this on his blog: quote:Wow. What a crazy couple of days it has been. My parody cover sketch of Spider-Gwen aping the infamous Manara Spider-Woman pose sent some of the hypersensitive people in a tizzy.  (Full disclosure: I liked the Harley Quinn one at the time and, taken on its own, I still like it. But what I like is how incredibly self-aware it is: Harley's holding the pose because the Joker is explicitly trying to rile people up, while Harley derides the whole thing as played out. Sadly, as you can see, that self-awareness was a momentary blip and it won't be back.) And that could have been the end of it. But for whatever reason, Cho was now locked in. And from that day to this one... he has. Not. Stopped.      They're all like that now. I just grabbed a representative five. Also, special note goes out to the one time someone actually paid him to do this, whereupon he crowed about the "anti-censorship" strike his butt cover was delivering, causing the author of that comic to disavow it. Having made himself and his art completely toxic, Cho stopped getting work, but between his creator-owned stuff and the boobie sketches he sells online to own the libs he's doing fine. In the end, what's sad is how loving common this story is. Strip away the specific comic book flavoring and artistic talent, and you're left with just one more story of one more white guy who woke up one day to find that his specific slice of the world now cared about what people who weren't white guys thought, interpreted it as an attack on his very self, and went apeshit crazy and decided the only solution was to wage war on anything that gave any power to non-white guys. It's the story of every nazi, gamergater, fox news grandpa, republican, redpiller, whatever they call themselves. Honestly, I thought it was gonna be funnier to type up, but I'm just so goddamn tired of this loving story. Anyway, Frank Cho, everybody. In a five year long and counting shitfit because one bad comic book cover got called mean names on the Internet.
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mandatory lesbian posted:i would have also loved if someone had done tamiyo in the style of those old japanese paintings, like this one It's called ukiyo-e, and that would rule.
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Since not a lot has been said on collection apps: TCG Player on iOS quick review Inputting cards: It mostly does ok as long as there is a white background. I have scanned in cards in sleeves and in binder pages with a sheet of paper behind them. MOSTLY works fine. It furiously hates foils at least on my iPad air 2. basically never reads them. It's super hit or miss on getting the right set if multiple sets use the same art. Theoretically you can scan whole pages at a time but it's likely to miss some or because of the aforementioned set issue it screws up a bunch and you have to back check everything so you are best doing one at a time. Collection management: Pretty poor overall. As you are scanning cards they get added to a temporary holding list. You can then start a new collection or email it to yourself or a few other transfer options but you can't choose to add to an already existing collection. You can choose to add to an existing collection from it's screen but it's kind of weird and I don't super trust it. Also there is absolutely no way to sort in app. It's just a horrible hodge podge of whatever order you scanned things(Mostly). You can't sort alphabetically or by price. Also even though you can sign into TCG Player it doesn't actually tie into the the collection manager on the TCG Player website. And as far as I can tell you can't batch add to the website even if you email yourself the list of cards. Random upsides: You can sell cards straight through the app on TCG player if that is your thing. Overall: It's mostly functional but super clunky and missing a lot of options you'd want. I don't regret using it because I can just plug this poo poo into deckbox or something but It isn't that great. EDIT: So it doesn't actually export in a manner Deckbox can accept because of the [SET] tagged onto everything. Apparently on android it can spit out CSV lists. I'm now more upset at it! Alaan fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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CapnAndy posted:Anyway, Frank Cho, everybody. In a five year long and counting shitfit because one bad comic book cover got called mean names on the Internet. I know nothing about these people so this was a... A read. I can't call it enlightening or even funny but it was something to be sure so, uh, thanks I guess?.
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I used to use a combination of Delver Lens on my phone and Deckbox on my desktop PC for tallying up my collection back when I had a ton of them. The only hiccups I had was with a couple promo sets not working with Delver Lens' export option to Deckbox and Delver having the occasional problem properly capturing foiled and sleeved cards because of glare (which could be mitigated with a pure white background and making sure not to shine lights directly on the cards). It should also be noted that the Deckbox price lists aren't super accurate and take a bit longer to update after secondary market shifts if your main reason for digitally tracking your collection is trading and selling singles. Deckbox does have pretty good import functions and their fully featured desktop site is accessible through your phone browser (I think you need to pay for their mobile platform).
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I didn't know there was anything to that story besides "someone drew a bad comic book cover that looked like a naked woman with a 3 foot long snake neck and several broken bones in her legs and people didn't like it and other people didn't like that people didn't like it."
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Ok TCG Player can output CSV files from ios the internet just lied to me and I missed a setting page. I'm less mad E: The way it handles sets and a few card names still spits a lot of errors into deckbox's import interface Alaan fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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CapnAndy posted:Frank Cho stuff Definitely appreciate the story, as I'd only seen a few of those covers pop up on my FB feed with little to no explanation as to what the story behind them was. I also find it kinda hilarious just how far Cho is going to keep this poo poo up, because it's really just him digging himself deeper and deeper into the chud-hole and being completely oblivious about it.
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LifeLynx posted:This is a blessed story and I'm reaching out to him to see if he'll illustrate a token with Willow in it for my next Cat Draft (looking at June 22nd to catch the tail-end of War of the Spark). I'm trying to convince her to go mono white and play an up-gunned version of the Challenger deck (basically with a full grip of the sagas and a few other things), but she actually likes the version I made that is G/W with Sissay's Legacy, Saprolling Migration, Venerated Loxidon, etc etc and doesn't want to-- even though I showed her that it has more cats than just Warleader.
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The bullet bouncing off Power Girl's tits and hitting Spider-Gwen in the head while she says "outrage" (complete with blood, so you know she's dead) is definitely a sign that this guy is "Not Mad."
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CapnAndy posted:Strip away the specific comic book flavoring and artistic talent, and you're left with just one more story of one more white guy who woke up one day to find that his specific slice of the world now cared about what people who weren't white guys thought, interpreted it as an attack on his very self, and went apeshit crazy and decided the only solution was to wage war on anything that gave any power to non-white guys. It's the story of every nazi, gamergater, fox news grandpa, republican, redpiller, whatever they call themselves. Honestly, I thought it was gonna be funnier to type up, but I'm just so goddamn tired of this loving story. Cho is Korean-American, but otherwise yeah he's gone completely down the chud path and will stick to it as long as there are people to buy his junk. Shame really, the guy's style has always been limited but it was (somewhat) unique and interesting. I do wonder why Marvel and DC haven't sent him a cease and desist of for using their IPs in his stuff, but I guess it would be more of a headache than it is worth. When does War go up on Arena? I kind of want to tinker around with Simic Stompy with Roalesk.
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Mat Cauthon posted:When does War go up on Arena? I kind of want to tinker around with Simic Stompy with Roalesk. tomorrow~!
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Speaking of Arena, has anyone noticed that when you go back to the home screen in Arena, literally everything else you're doing online stutters and disconnects? Downloads, twitch streams, discord. Its like Arena looks at your entire everything and goes "yeah that should just barely be enough resources". Every time I end a game, I have to refresh the stream I'm watching or something.
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AFter like 4 months off finally playing at least enough to get my dailies for gold in prep for War. Today was wild rear end random poo poo day. I played a black red deck with not one, but two unique 4 mana land destruction spells and some mind rot effect. Later I played a 250 card BR dead.
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A Moose posted:Speaking of Arena, has anyone noticed that when you go back to the home screen in Arena, literally everything else you're doing online stutters and disconnects? Downloads, twitch streams, discord. Its like Arena looks at your entire everything and goes "yeah that should just barely be enough resources". Every time I end a game, I have to refresh the stream I'm watching or something. That's something on your end
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There’s three aura in WAR, and essentially only one creature aura spell in WAR that isn’t pseudo removal. The other is an enchant land. Don’t know if I’m happy or sad about this because I love blow outs vs new players but I also like when limited rolls around and i can build some crazy all in aggressive deck when the stars align.
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I haven't played magic since M13, before Return to Ravnica came out, but WAR looks like a really exciting set so I'm coming out of retirement to play limited this weekend. What are some of the newer rules I should be aware of? Like I know about the new legendary and planeswalker rule--my opponent and I can both have our own copy of Jace on the battlefield. I know there's a vancouver mulligan now and I scry 1 after deciding to keep after mulliganing, but there's some newer mulligan rule?
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AlphaKeny1 posted:I haven't played magic since M13, before Return to Ravnica came out, but WAR looks like a really exciting set so I'm coming out of retirement to play limited this weekend. The new mulligan rule is being tested at the Pro Tour, after which it will be implemented everywhere else because it is so absurdly good for formats that aren't nonsense, but you can ignore it for now. Also ignore the fact that they renamed the Pro Tour to something else, that'll probably get reversed in a few years. Other than that you're good to go for limited.
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lol I don't understand, they renamed the PT to numbered "Mythic Championship"? That new mulligan rule seems insanely good and makes a lot of decks much more consistent. I'm excited for WAR limited, it seems like a slower format and potentially grindy so I hope I open a good blue planeswalker.
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AlphaKeny1 posted:lol I don't understand, they renamed the PT to numbered "Mythic Championship"? LSV got his 9th Mythic Championship top 8 at the first Mythic Championship.
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Oceanbound posted:LSV got his 9th Mythic Championship top 8 at the first Mythic Championship. 10th, actually. Their slide said he had 9 MC Top 8s but that wasn't counting the first MC that was being broadcast. and yeah the new mulligan rule needs to be implemented, it's just so great for regular decks, and if it requires nonsense to be banned to avoid breaking eternal formats then ban the nonsense.
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New mulligan rule is absolutely amazing in limited. Loving it in legacy cube.
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I like that people are coming around to the new mulligan rule. The sacred cow that results in mana floods and droughts runs opposite to the stated aims of Garfield's design philosophy and can result in much NGEs. Then again I've always thought Garfield was better at writing about game design principles than he was at actually designing games.
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Chill la Chill posted:I like that people are coming around to the new mulligan rule. The sacred cow that results in mana floods and droughts runs opposite to the stated aims of Garfield's design philosophy and can result in much NGEs. Then again I've always thought Garfield was better at writing about game design principles than he was at actually designing games. What's NGE?
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