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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Season passes dont involve gambling which automatically makes them less predatory than lootboxes there are many ways of applying psychological pressures. at least lootboxes are (comparatively) honest.
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Gambling is a land of contrasts.
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Rinkles posted:there are many ways of applying psychological pressures. at least lootboxes are (comparatively) honest. This is the spiciest take on microtransactions I’ve ever heard
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:This is the spiciest take on microtransactions I’ve ever heard i hope you didn't read that as a defense of lootboxes.
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Jul 4, 2019 02:59
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Season passes dont involve gambling which automatically makes them less predatory than lootboxes
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Jul 4, 2019 03:03
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Wizards of the Coast has been using lootboxes since 1993
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The Mastery/season pass thing appears to be an aggressive and successful attempt to make me lose interest in Arena. Not being able to sit down and get the 3 weekly packs is a really bad feeling when you're kinda on the line with your interest.
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Jul 4, 2019 03:18
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Season passes dont involve gambling which automatically makes them less predatory than lootboxes When you think about it, the act of deciding to play a competitive game of Magic is like gambling your fun against your opponent's
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Pararoid posted:The Mastery/season pass thing appears to be an aggressive and successful attempt to make me lose interest in Arena. Not being able to it down and get the 3 weekly packs is a really bad feeling when you're kinda on the line with your interest. Yeah. I have booted up Arena maybe once in the last week and a half. I only really wanted to use it to draft new sets. All the other bells & whistles and wonky formats don't really mean much to me. This just makes it harder to care about using the platform.
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Jul 4, 2019 03:47
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JerryLee posted:When you think about it, the act of deciding to play a competitive game of Magic is like gambling your fun against your opponent's This, unironically, if one of you fuckers is playing Lantern or Dredge.
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AlternateNu posted:Yeah. I have booted up Arena maybe once in the last week and a half. I only really wanted to use it to draft new sets. All the other bells & whistles and wonky formats don't really mean much to me. This just makes it harder to care about using the platform. the changes to mastery have exactly 0 effect on your ability to draft
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Jul 4, 2019 04:23
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:The fishy part is Gamestop selling to him at cost Turns out it was his LGS which has a monthly membership and sells Booster Boxes for $80 to members. He sells them on the side for CC points.
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Jul 4, 2019 06:58
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Can you do your daily quests in bot matches or only against other players?
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Jul 4, 2019 07:16
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cheesetriangles posted:Can you do your daily quests in bot matches or only against other players? Other players, and not friends, or whatever the MTGA half assed implementation of friends is.
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Jul 4, 2019 07:40
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Mat Cauthon posted:Why are they the only ones available for gold? Not that sleeves matter at all on Arena but the Angrath ones looks so good that I'm tempted to spend the gems. I tried a few configurations of vamp tribal and none seemed as good as the already existing orzhov sac deck, which isn't very good in any case. There isn't any good card advantage which hurts it a lot.
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Jul 4, 2019 08:15
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Lone Goat posted:the changes to mastery have exactly 0 effect on your ability to draft Oh. Ok. Cool.
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Jul 4, 2019 12:26
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man it sure would suck to have some sort of lootbox system in Magic: The Gathering
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Jul 4, 2019 12:40
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ZeroCount posted:man it sure would suck to have some sort of lootbox system in Magic: The Gathering 
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Jul 4, 2019 12:47
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Random opponents is a form of loot boxes. Shuffled decks is a form of loot boxes. I'm paying WotC my hard-earned time and attention and in return there's no guarantee of value in opponents or starting hands. I have to play many games to get the experience I want 
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Jul 4, 2019 12:55
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oh lol that mastery pass thing is tied to the set, meaning you have to buy a new one every set, lmao
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Jul 4, 2019 12:59
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mandatory lesbian posted:oh lol that mastery pass thing is tied to the set, meaning you have to buy a new one every set, lmao Yeah, it is literally lifted directly from Fortnite, down to the interface. This is where someone who's been following this poo poo longer tells me that it was some other gacha studio that came up with it "Mastery Pass" is literally the stupidest name they could possibly have given it. "MASTER THE ARCANE FORCES OF THE COSMOS BY SPENDING MONEY!!!" Wait, no, that tracks.
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BrianBoitano posted:Random opponents is a form of loot boxes. Shuffled decks is a form of loot boxes. I'm paying WotC my hard-earned time and attention and in return there's no guarantee of value in opponents or starting hands. I have to play many games to get the experience I want booster packs are loot boxes 
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Jul 4, 2019 13:31
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Since Magic came first, all the random mtx in other games should be called booster packs 
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Jul 4, 2019 13:55
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Elyv posted:booster packs are loot boxes 
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Miracles are the real surprise mechanics. As a bonus they ruin the game just like video game surprise mechanics!
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odiv posted:If you buy the season pass you get extra lootboxes. If we are being reductive enough to call boosters "lootboxes", then the problem is MTG, not the Mastery pass. In which case you should lobby constantly to make it a LCG. Good luck with that
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:If we are being reductive enough to call boosters "lootboxes", then the problem is MTG, not the Mastery pass. In which case you should lobby constantly to make it a LCG. Good luck with that Been doing that for twenty years. I miss the Netrunner LCG at times.
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Jul 4, 2019 17:13
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Corbeau posted:Been doing that for twenty years. There's a reason you miss it
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:If we are being reductive enough to call boosters "lootboxes", then the problem is MTG, not the Mastery pass. In which case you should lobby constantly to make it a LCG. Good luck with that I don't plan on getting the mastery pass, but let's not pretend it's not you paying them some money for some cosmetic stuff, plus some extra packs which are basically lootboxes.
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How is calling a booster pack a lootbox reductive
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Jul 4, 2019 17:28
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Elyv posted:How is calling a booster pack a lootbox reductive You see, lootboxes are bad, which means that the thing that's part of a game I like must not actually be a lootbox.
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:There's a reason you miss it Cuz Wizards pulled the license out from under FFG?
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Jul 4, 2019 18:07
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Reid Duke making Wrenn and Six jund look super strong with a 10-0 5-0. http://www.streamdecker.com/deck/YrTuB4pSYT
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Reid Duke making Wrenn and Six jund look super strong with a 10-0 5-0. http://www.streamdecker.com/deck/YrTuB4pSYT Wrenn and Six is just what every Jund player wanted I guess. A playset of another really expensive planeswalker
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i think lotv has fallen out of favor, it doesnt seem very good against either phoenix or hogaak
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Did you take a look at Reid’s decklist? LotV is too good against the rest of the field to cut from the main, imo.
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nah i didn't check i was just going off other jund decks i'd seen lately. i trust reid is doing the right thing and i was just seeing weird lists or something
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mandatory lesbian posted:nah i didn't check i was just going off other jund decks i'd seen lately. i trust reid is doing the right thing and i was just seeing weird lists or something Reid reviewed someone else's list from a tournament finish and said "This is all very reasonable except I would never register a list with less than 4 LotV".
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Lili and Wrenn have an interesting little value engine going too.
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LOTV is still great but we’ve been trending for a while towards a format where the yard is halfway in your hand and halfway on the battlefield, and since her thing is really efficiently putting your opponent’s stuff in the yard she’s lost a little bit of her edge
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