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moush posted:This is all besides the point though because it just spits in the face of any pro who has played the game for more than 6 months. source your quotes lol
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Can't deny. The MPL is an odd thing.
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May 14, 2019 02:20
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moush posted:This is all besides the point though because it just spits in the face of any pro who has played the game for more than 6 months. Not really because those people should have no expectations whatsoever. Magic Pro Player is not a career that anyone should have any aspirations towards any kind of real success in, and that's how it's been for decades.
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May 14, 2019 02:22
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Yeah the absolute peak highest earners averaged over their career averages to maaaaybe 40k/year pre tax. That's being real generous. It's probably closer to 30k and drops off quickly especially considering most of the pros are either professional poker players or in high paying careers. It's also a super spiky and unreliable income.
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May 14, 2019 02:37
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I'd go so far as to contend that it's good that Magic Pro Player is not a viable career path
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I think that if wotc wants to have professional magic players then they should make it viable to be a professional magic player, i.e. your profession is playing magic, i.e. you are able to make a living wage while solely playing magic.
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May 14, 2019 02:49
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The Shortest Path posted:Not really because those people should have no expectations whatsoever. Magic Pro Player is not a career that anyone should have any aspirations towards any kind of real success in, and that's how it's been for decades. Alaan posted:Yeah the absolute peak highest earners averaged over their career averages to maaaaybe 40k/year pre tax. That's being real generous. It's probably closer to 30k and drops off quickly especially considering most of the pros are either professional poker players or in high paying careers. counterpoint: paying your rent entirely through magic is mostly unreasonable but players still bought plane flights, hotel rooms, etc. for gps with the understanding that they can offset the cost by maintaining gold/platinum pro status. it's a completely reasonable expectation to have considering wotc straight up said "we pay out x dollars if you're in this pro tier" and then gutted the system without any warning. they're still loving with people's budgets even if those people have day jobs. this is one of the big things Gerry is protesting.
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May 14, 2019 02:49
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https://twitter.com/rbuehler/status/1128097328500330498?s=21 How is that top 4 supposed to work? They do best of three Modern then Best of Three Standard and then Modern again if it’s 1-1?
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May 14, 2019 03:33
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uh it's the top 4 of standard and then also the top 4 of modern
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Yawgmoth posted:I think that if wotc wants to have professional magic players then they should make it viable to be a professional magic player, i.e. your profession is playing magic, i.e. you are able to make a living wage while solely playing magic. It's pretty loving clear that they don't though. Whatever that would cost the marketing budget they feel is better spent elsewhere. E: also, how long has PVDDR been playing pro?
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May 14, 2019 04:17
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Sperling wrote an article. The comments - lol
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Hellsau posted:Sperling wrote an article. The comments - lol Throw this dude into the sea
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May 14, 2019 09:38
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Hellsau posted:Sperling wrote an article. The comments - lol The Internet has really broken some people's brains
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cultural marxism is when girls play magic and the more girls play magic the more cultural marxist it is
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Hellsau posted:Sperling wrote an article. The comments - lol "Adversity" and "Magic: the Gathering" should never be in the same sentence lmao. We live in hell. Also how the gently caress do you get the plural "thoughts" correct and then gently caress up the plural "agendas" two words later
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:The Internet has really broken some people's brains people were coming up with elaborate theories to explain why they can't get laid long before the internet. all the internet has done is make it so people besides your close friends will tell you those theories unprompted
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May 14, 2019 12:33
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Hellsau posted:why do you hate merfolk?
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little munchkin posted:people were coming up with elaborate theories to explain why they can't get laid long before the internet. all the internet has done is make it so people besides your close friends will tell you those theories unprompted Yes, and that is an enormous difference that lets these garbage philosophies spread.
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ItBreathes posted:It's pretty loving clear that they don't though. Whatever that would cost the marketing budget they feel is better spent elsewhere. Roughly a decade I think, maybe a little over that (in terms of when his first relevant finish was). PV is really loving good. He's probably the actual best Magic player of all time given how much stiffer the competition is nowadays compared to when Finkel and Budde were doing their thing.
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May 14, 2019 15:40
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Sampatrick posted:Roughly a decade I think, maybe a little over that (in terms of when his first relevant finish was). PV is really loving good. He's probably the actual best Magic player of all time given how much stiffer the competition is nowadays compared to when Finkel and Budde were doing their thing. He's got my vote. I was wondering how the income / year worked out for the earningest player and that's still under 50k a year, though I think that'll go farther in Brazil. Also, wizards has stopped updating their top money winners page, lol.
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May 14, 2019 15:48
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Sampatrick posted:Roughly a decade I think, maybe a little over that (in terms of when his first relevant finish was). PV is really loving good. He's probably the actual best Magic player of all time given how much stiffer the competition is nowadays compared to when Finkel and Budde were doing their thing. Definitely the best Magic strategy writer of all time.
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do it for the ixalan lands too and i'm just gonna play 100% lands
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May 14, 2019 16:02
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That's such a waste of good art.
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May 14, 2019 16:21
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Terese Nielsen’s token Kickstarter is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2115225107/terese-nielsens-tokens-of-spirit Looks like they have playmats and prints available as well.
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May 14, 2019 17:07
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max'd wins in traditional draft for the first time ever with my prerelease code with what I thought was a pretty mediocre WU flying deck. Can't really tell if I've gotten better or the people playing on Arena have gotten worse.
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Vidmaster posted:Terese Nielsen’s token Kickstarter is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2115225107/terese-nielsens-tokens-of-spirit I'd be all over this if Nielsen hadn't fallen completely out of my favor a while ago.
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Vidmaster posted:Terese Nielsen’s token Kickstarter is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2115225107/terese-nielsens-tokens-of-spirit No milkshake duck token?
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I forget-- Has she ever done any overt CHUD stuff, or is it just suspect likes and follows and the defensive "muh freeze peach" open letter? Not disputing that's enough not to want to give her money, just genuinely curious.
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May 14, 2019 17:27
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Owlbear Camus posted:I forget-- Has she ever done any overt CHUD stuff, or is it just suspect likes and follows and the defensive "muh freeze peach" open letter? She liked some tweets I think.
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Owlbear Camus posted:I forget-- Has she ever done any overt CHUD stuff, or is it just suspect likes and follows and the defensive "muh freeze peach" open letter? The open letter was the nail in the coffin for me honestly because it was just a huge vaguepost that neither confirmed or denied anything. I would have merely found her distasteful if she had just owned up to it rather than tiptoeing around it, which I felt was really annoying.
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Framboise posted:The open letter was the nail in the coffin for me honestly because it was just a huge vaguepost that neither confirmed or denied anything. I would have merely found her distasteful if she had just owned up to it rather than tiptoeing around it, which I felt was really annoying. I just re-read it and found myself with a mild headache from just how twee it is; I'd forgotten. Tsk. Artists
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Sickening posted:She liked some tweets I think. She's a fairly typical example of an average person who has largely completely incoherent and contradictory political beliefs, with a slightly higher-than-average skew towards chud
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sit on my Facebook posted:She's a fairly typical example of an average person who has largely completely incoherent and contradictory political beliefs, with a slightly higher-than-average skew towards chud she liked or shared some bizarro-world pizzagate poo poo at one point
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May 14, 2019 18:26
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Has WOTC said anything about the lands in Modern Horizons, like ruling out fetchlands, or just said nothing about it?
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evilweasel posted:Has WOTC said anything about the lands in Modern Horizons, like ruling out fetchlands, or just said nothing about it? MaRo posted this last night. He could of course just be talking about basic lands quote:You said Modern Horizons will have some reprints from non-Modern legal sets. Does this also mean that there will be no reprints from Modern-legal sets (that have never been Modern legal)?
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May 14, 2019 18:35
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Tainen posted:MaRo posted this last night. He could of course just be talking about basic lands i found this, which suggests that he's just being coy about the basic lands: https://imgur.com/a/FULzxtL odd to refer to basics as a "cycle" though
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evilweasel posted:Has WOTC said anything about the lands in Modern Horizons, like ruling out fetchlands, or just said nothing about it? I can't think of a pre-Modern dual cycle that they could actually reprint that wouldn't feel like a bit letdown, so if we are getting a dual land cycle it's going to be something new I think.
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flatluigi posted:uh it's the top 4 of standard and then also the top 4 of modern Nah I was right quote:On Sunday, May 19, coverage of the Top 4 begins at 10 a.m. During each semifinal and final match, the players will play up to three best-of-three matches, with the first to two match wins advancing. The first match each round will be Standard. The second match will be Modern. If there's a third match, the player with the higher seed will choose which of those two formats to play again.
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