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PJOmega posted:Lightning
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Oct 9, 2019 02:31
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Its oracle text is "Add DDD"
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Oct 9, 2019 02:32
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PJOmega posted:Lightening
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Oct 9, 2019 03:48
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Not quite janky enough...Cactrot posted:Lightening
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Oct 9, 2019 04:04
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What I like about this is that none of the modes actually work the same as doing damage.
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Oct 9, 2019 04:47
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Veil of Summer is a sweet card but it makes the existence of modern horizons increasingly arbitrary. this card is ludicrous! why is it standard legal? it's exactly the kind of nonsense "green counterspell" that people have been clamoring for since shadowmoor. its interaction with murderous rider, the most obviously printed-for-standard-card since the og hero's downfall, is horrendously unintuitive. why. 
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Oct 9, 2019 10:27
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ungulateman posted:Veil of Summer is a sweet card but it makes the existence of modern horizons increasingly arbitrary. this card is ludicrous! why is it standard legal? it's exactly the kind of nonsense "green counterspell" that people have been clamoring for since shadowmoor. its interaction with murderous rider, the most obviously printed-for-standard-card since the og hero's downfall, is horrendously unintuitive. why. What is unintuitive about it?
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Oct 9, 2019 12:39
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I'm assuming the whole "if the adventure fizzles due to the target getting hexproof, it's goes to the yard and you can't cast the creature" Seems like a mistake you make once then it makes sense? I dunno
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Oct 9, 2019 12:42
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ungulateman posted:Veil of Summer is a sweet card but it makes the existence of modern horizons increasingly arbitrary. this card is ludicrous! why is it standard legal? it's exactly the kind of nonsense "green counterspell" that people have been clamoring for since shadowmoor. its interaction with murderous rider, the most obviously printed-for-standard-card since the og hero's downfall, is horrendously unintuitive. why. What’s unintuitive about it?
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Oct 9, 2019 13:48
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MikeCrotch posted:I'm assuming the whole "if the adventure fizzles due to the target getting hexproof, it's goes to the yard and you can't cast the creature" wait til they find out about the interaction between murderous rider and lucky clover with only one creature in play, they'll fuckin flip.
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Oct 9, 2019 14:11
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Lone Goat posted:wait til they find out about the interaction between murderous rider and lucky clover with only one creature in play, they'll fuckin flip. the copies resolve first. 
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Oct 9, 2019 14:13
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Its unintuitive because black should just be able to murder a green creature, and when you can’t and lose it feels bad.
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Oct 9, 2019 14:18
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Is it true that women make up 38% of the magic community, or is that a marketing strategy by wizards?
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Oct 9, 2019 14:35
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Nolgthorn posted:Is it true that women make up 38% of the magic community, or is that a marketing strategy by wizards? Its wishful thinking. WOTC is poo poo with data and I wouldn't trust any data they are flaunting.
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Oct 9, 2019 14:40
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in what fuckin sad universe is a number that pathetically low wishful thinking or boasting
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Oct 9, 2019 14:55
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rabidsquid posted:in what fuckin sad universe is a number that pathetically low wishful thinking or boasting You’ll find that 38 is 38 points higher than 0.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:08
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Probably a lot of us playing Magic who never want to touch a store again. Arena is a godsend btw.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:24
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rabidsquid posted:in what fuckin sad universe is a number that pathetically low wishful thinking or boasting It's higher than whatever single digits they were stuck in for the first ~20 odd years of the game. But I guess it also depends on if by "community" you mean people who participate in some level of organized play or if you mean just anyone who has ever bought a few packs or a booster box and turned some cards sideways around the kitchen table. Honestly WOTC should be making a huge push to get more women into MTG through Arena. The lack of chat interface and social network features cuts down dramatically on the amount of sexist bullshit and harassment anyone has to deal with. Even my wife is like "oh put that on the tablet so I can try it out" which is more interest than she's ever shown in MTG, ever.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:32
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i don't count people that just go to events because unless you think wizards has been lying about this for basically ever only a very small percentage of the player base go to FNM let alone tournaments.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:36
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rabidsquid posted:in what fuckin sad universe is a number that pathetically low wishful thinking or boasting It doesn't seem pathetically low number by many gaming metrics. I would say that 38% would well above average for the genre. I would also say that its most likely bogus number because again, WOTC is bad with data. WOTC has gone through great lengths to make appearances look better for metagame health, I don't trust them to be truthful with this kind of data either.
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Oct 9, 2019 15:59
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Hellsau posted:Yeah I watched that three times and was like, drat they missed the negative sex number by just a little bit. Almost certain he was saying negative, because the slur didn't occur to me until reading on here. The maths is off though, since the rider has lifelink.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:11
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That number is from external research groups they pay. It’s accurate. Most magic player never go into stores beyond buying some packs and leaving. The people you see at fnm and beyond are a very very tiny percentage of the overall player base
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Oct 9, 2019 17:14
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rabidsquid posted:i don't count people that just go to events because unless you think wizards has been lying about this for basically ever only a very small percentage of the player base go to FNM let alone tournaments. Lots of people do think they're lying about this, and that kitchen table players don't really exist. It's kinda sad.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:22
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There are people at my work who play Magic and looked at me with a blank expression on their faces when I asked if they play Modern lol.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:24
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ItBreathes posted:Lots of people do think they're lying about this, and that kitchen table players don't really exist. It's kinda sad. thats sort of weird to me but because i am an old person i remember starting magic before the internet or organized play was even a thing at all. there was a time the only place i could buy magic cards was a christian book store (lol) so i don't really understand why anyone would be skeptical of people who just pick up loose packs wherever and play with friends at home
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Oct 9, 2019 17:37
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Pretty sure most people who play magic are kitchen table players. We are simply biased to think that most are enfranchised because that's who we associate with most and most people who go to LGSs are enfranchised as well. Your average Joe player is more likely to go to big box stores and it's also probably why there's an FNM ad in pretty much every pack.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:39
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The shocking thing isn't that there's a ton of kitchen table players, but that they're the majority of the income. Most games with gambling as your purchase method (e.g. lootboxes, booster packs, etc) get most of their money from a tiny extremely enfranchised portion of their playerbase
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Oct 9, 2019 17:43
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the extremely huge difference there is that those other games with gambling purchase methods do not have handy second hand markets full of copies of the individual things you want or need.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:46
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I'm not actually surprised. My guess is a lot of enfranchised players don't actually make WotC a lot of money since we are probably more secondary market shoppers than primary ones (buying singles, etc). e;fb
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Oct 9, 2019 17:47
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Lol just found out Ross Merriam is a full on tankie, how did I not find this out before
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Oct 9, 2019 17:49
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Idk it’s basically all he tweets about.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:52
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Well I only just looked at his Twitter because Twitter rots your brain
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Oct 9, 2019 17:54
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AlternateNu posted:There are so many places to sling spells in NYC that I haven’t found any particular place to be more crowded than the places I played at in NoVa. That said, prereleases and special events get sold out loving quick up here. So it’s always a good idea to prereg for stuff. Oh hey, as a former NoVA person, what's the best place to go if I want to play in some drafts? Is Victory Comics good? As far as actual paper play I've only ever played kitchen table. Never gone to a tournament, event or FNM, despite playing a shitload of Arena. I mostly just don't really have the time as a 30-something to build a deck in paper and go to a tournament and FNM just isn't appealing to me when Arena exists. I'd go to draft tournaments though since you can't really get the draft experience in Arena and I refuse to touch MTGO because it'll die soon. axeil fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 18:15
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axeil posted:Oh hey, as a former NoVA person, what's the best place to go if I want to play in some drafts? Is Victory Comics good? Victory Comics isn't bad. There's a good mix of casual and high level players. They're probably the biggest regular gathering in the Arlington/Falls Church/Annandale area. The big issue is their singles and product are pretty overpriced. Compleat Strategist has events, but it is a lot smaller and less dedicated to Magic. An acquaintance of mine was running The Island Games down in Centreville, and they have super cheap drafts if you just want to get reps in, but apparently they closed back in August? Then there's Curio Cavern down in Springfield. I think I went to that place maybe once. Don't remember much about it.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:36
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MikeCrotch posted:Lol just found out Ross Merriam is a full on tankie, how did I not find this out before I take it sucking China's cock isn't ironic and he is genuinely just awful.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:40
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If you're drafting on MTGO you're not doing it to build a collection, so it's impending death doesn't really matter. Can't speak to the population, though I have to imagine the people still there are pretty serious about drafting.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:46
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Modo will outlive Arena
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Oct 9, 2019 19:09
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Oceanbound posted:I take it sucking China's cock isn't ironic and he is genuinely just awful. https://twitter.com/RossHunneds/status/1181464485028077568 not sure "urging cynicism at the US's motives in exploiting HK protests" qualifies as sucking cock 
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Oct 9, 2019 19:13
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/RossHunneds/status/1181464485028077568 you cherry picked his least stupid tweet. When I read the tankie post I rolled my eyes because 90% of the time when someone’s called a tankie it’s just some pearl clutching lib or socdem outraged at the uncouth Marxists, but merriam’s Twitter is full on Grover Furr. he’s a dum dum. I mean being a Marxist is good and I’m glad to see that but being an apologist for brutal state capitalist regimes because they say the right thing about US imperialism is some red guard poo poo
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Oct 9, 2019 19:17
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:you cherry picked his least stupid tweet. When I read the tankie post I rolled my eyes because 90% of the time when someone’s called a tankie it’s just some pearl clutching lib or socdem outraged at the uncouth Marxists, but merriam’s Twitter is full on Grover Furr. he’s a dum dum. ok looking at his retweets yeah its pretty loving yikes. i mean he has a point that us criticism of the prc is never ever done in good faith and will likely not lead to actual beneficial outcomes for workers but they can be not as bad as the us and still loving sucks.
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