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Yeah I didn't watch yesterday but I have no trouble believing he used up all his good topdecks. It sure made that Jund sac deck look like poo poo though. Collected company didn't break the game a single time, which does not line up with my recollection of playing against it.
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https://twitter.com/urlichmtg/status/1305534161650880516?s=21 More pros just absolutely miserable. I also saw bits and pieces of interviews with other pros and it sort of seemed like many of the pros were legit complaining in their interviews about how streaming all the time sucks
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I hope that if there's one broad, societal-level takeaway from the Rona Years, it's that social media and digital socializing generally sucks and should be wholesale abandoned
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Sep 14, 2020 20:31
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Honestly streaming sounds like a really lovely job. Just sitting, playing games, talking to a text feed, for hours, everyday, and serious imperilment to your income if you take any time off.
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Sep 14, 2020 20:33
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:May triggers are the worst for online just make it happen. I like it, thought it's probably too good to print. Good point. It should realistically cost 2W or be a 1/1, but if it were pushed to 2/2 it would certainly make help make White Weenie viable in Standard.
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Sep 14, 2020 20:36
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TheKingofSprings posted:In that case why not just remove white as a colour entirely? Saving this quote out of context for posterity
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Sep 14, 2020 20:52
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Chamale posted:That idea sounds a bit like taxes in reverse. And that just gave me an idea. Creature - Human Advisor Whenever you sacrifice an artifact for mana, add (1). 1/1
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Sep 14, 2020 20:57
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I feel like an investment banker would be orzhov colours
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Sep 14, 2020 21:05
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also vampire creature subtype, or maybe ghoul
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Sep 14, 2020 21:15
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Leperflesh posted:also vampire creature subtype, or maybe ghoul Natch https://scryfall.com/card/m21/122/silversmote-ghoul
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Sep 14, 2020 21:23
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Chamale posted:That idea sounds a bit like taxes in reverse. And that just gave me an idea. Yeah this is solid. White cares about balance, so when an opponent does something to disrupt that White gets more resources so they can restore things. Bust Rodd posted:https://twitter.com/urlichmtg/status/1305534161650880516?s=21 Were they not allowed to talk about certain topics on stream? That seems...messed up.
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Sep 14, 2020 21:42
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The whole event was recorded and then streamed out later. So no one was allowed to talk about how it played out so it wouldn't be spoiled.
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Sep 14, 2020 21:44
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RPDR contestants do the same thing and I never see them complain about it 🤔
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Sep 14, 2020 21:46
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armageddon and wrath should be in every standard, always
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Sep 14, 2020 21:53
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Eh, as many issues as there are in the competitive scene, complaining about having a NDA that lasts a whole day when technical issues come up is pretty silly.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:00
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It turns out "The Gathering" aspect of MTG is a pretty big factor when your game is kind of subpar.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Yeah this is solid. White cares about balance, so when an opponent does something to disrupt that White gets more resources so they can restore things. I'm doing a BA in economics and I always liked the tax effects in white, but it bugs me that they don't actually collect the taxes. This neatly fixes that. It could totally work as a way to make white's subtheme stronger, and the tax cards could be costed higher so they wouldn't come down quite as early. And this line of thinking somehow led to this card: Vladimir Lenin RRR Legendary Creature - Human Rebel Whenever a player taps a creature or a nonbasic land for mana, Vladimir Lenin deals one damage to that player. 3/2 Ramp has triumphed over all the world, but this is only a prelude to the triumph of aggro over ramp.
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ilmucche posted:I feel like an investment banker would be orzhov colours no shadowmage infiltrator is blue black
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DangerDongs posted:It turns out "The Gathering" aspect of MTG is a pretty big factor when your game is kind of subpar. who could have predicted that people would find more fulfillment in social interaction than they would trying to min/max a skinner box MisterZimbu posted:Eh, as many issues as there are in the competitive scene, complaining about having a NDA that lasts a whole day when technical issues come up is pretty silly. i think it's totally legitimate to be upset about your moment in the spotlight turned into something you are forbidden from speaking publicly about, especially when the reason for that is a billion dollar company could not successfully execute a twitch stream. probably fucks with them financially too because i'm sure they didn't see an extra dime from the surprise nda but they lost out on a shitload of exposure while professional mtg is become more about building your brand than it is about where you actually place little munchkin fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 23:00
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The most fun I ever had playing Magic was passing out 45 index cards to a bunch of my friends, having everybody design cards and then drafting them all. Most of the designs were awful, half of them were jokes (I distinctly remember “Llanowar Dragon”, a 5/5 flier that tapped for G) and the games were mostly dominated by cards that were clearly much better than their designers had realized, but it was still a blast. Highly recommend.
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nrook posted:The most fun I ever had playing Magic was passing out 45 index cards to a bunch of my friends, having everybody design cards and then drafting them all. Most of the designs were awful, half of them were jokes (I distinctly remember “Llanowar Dragon”, a 5/5 flier that tapped for G) and the games were mostly dominated by cards that were clearly much better than their designers had realized, but it was still a blast. Highly recommend. I feel like this was the same idea behind Llanowar Tribe, that taps for GGG. Or Llanowar Visionary, which was a Llanowar Elves stapled onto an Elvish Visionary. It's like they were just sorting through old cards trying to find new ideas for their respective sets, then happened to find some cards long stuck together with mountain dew and had an epiphany Framboise fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 23:12
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nrook posted:The most fun I ever had playing Magic was passing out 45 index cards to a bunch of my friends, having everybody design cards and then drafting them all. Most of the designs were awful, half of them were jokes (I distinctly remember “Llanowar Dragon”, a 5/5 flier that tapped for G) and the games were mostly dominated by cards that were clearly much better than their designers had realized, but it was still a blast. Highly recommend. We call this a BOO (Build Our Own) Draft and I agree, it's some of the most fun magic I've had. If you get the full 8 people to create 45 cards, then you have one person randomly chosen to review another creator's cards for design tweaks, etc. You print them all, penny sleeve them and draft them. It's a ton of fun!
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Sep 14, 2020 23:37
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nrook posted:The most fun I ever had playing Magic was passing out 45 index cards to a bunch of my friends, having everybody design cards and then drafting them all. Most of the designs were awful, half of them were jokes (I distinctly remember “Llanowar Dragon”, a 5/5 flier that tapped for G) and the games were mostly dominated by cards that were clearly much better than their designers had realized, but it was still a blast. Highly recommend. 
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i would love to see these 8 random folks designing 45 cards each that play well in a draft format together can i see cards or decks
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This is a good read https://twitter.com/originaloestrus/status/1305649502116884480?s=21
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Jihad and Crusade were overreaches with only the barest, most surface level thought put into them and both should be reversed.
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Bust Rodd posted:Look I am just gonna say this posting earnestly and in good faith:
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drat u owned me, I sure have egg on my face now, how will I ever recover from being so owned... online?!
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Invoke Prejudice and Pradesh Gypsies absolutely deserve to be banned. Imprison and Cleanse are reasonable to ban. Crusade, Jihad, and Stone-Throwing Devils seem like odd choices, and I wonder if they actually had a focus group they consulted to determine if these cards were harmful or if they just had some staffer flip through old cards looking for problems.
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Chamale posted:Invoke Prejudice and Pradesh Gypsies absolutely deserve to be banned. Imprison and Cleanse are reasonable to ban. Crusade, Jihad, and Stone-Throwing Devils seem like odd choices, and I wonder if they actually had a focus group they consulted to determine if these cards were harmful or if they just had some staffer flip through old cards looking for problems. Don't give WOTC too much credit, it was an intern at best that had to scour the card database.
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Chamale posted:Invoke Prejudice and Pradesh Gypsies absolutely deserve to be banned. Imprison and Cleanse are reasonable to ban. Crusade, Jihad, and Stone-Throwing Devils seem like odd choices, and I wonder if they actually had a focus group they consulted to determine if these cards were harmful or if they just had some staffer flip through old cards looking for problems. wha? cultural biz. it isn't a game problem or anything, the optics are poo poo. just reprint them as "angry guys" "angry guys 2" "total little jerks" or what have you. nothing about that diminishes the dumb game or anything. they aren't odd choices, there's some cultural stuff that doesn't help anyone there. a lot of it is a little too on the nose, no one noticed at the time. Old stuff! (sorry if I didn't understand that right.)
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i remember at the time a romani guy on reddit saying 'i think banning a card for having the word 'gypsy' in its name is dumb and doesn't do me any good' but 
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I can't judge as a whole - Wizards seems to not want to ban specific printings and the pre-fifth edition Crusade art is basically exactly what the folks who "ironically" scream "deus vult" are picturing themselves as, and banning Crusade but not Jihad would get the entire right wing media apparatus on them next time 45 does something they need to distract from - but his argument about how it shouldn't be removed because "many Muslims consider Jihad to be a peaceful quest for self-improvement" is rather undercut by the fact that the art on the one and only printing being a military action. The combination reinforces the idea that it's militaristic.
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rich does have a point though. when western corporations do things like this, their main goal is almost always to not be perceived as racist instead of actually doing something that helps oppressed groups. that's because that protects their bottom line and avoids bad press. so ironically, their attempts at representation are actually just placating their mostly white audience. they still have mostly white dudes in top positions, have no black artists working for them, and put women in positions that are visible but not actually important. they do pay a lot of lip service though, which is what corporate progressivism is all about
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https://twitter.com/Marc_MTG/status/1305825179583557633
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lmao that's awesome, i like those goofy secret lairs. reminds me of the time i used to white border my molten rains when everyone in my meta was playing tron.
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Not quite as in your face as Jihad, but Liliana was originally portrayed as "middle eastern". If you look at the art for Liliana of the Veil you can tell from her skin tone and nose that was their intent, but more recent cards have her looking like just another white woman. It's weird that they actually had some middle eastern representation outside the Not Baghdad set - and Fa'adiyah Seer, a colour shifted card - and then decided "nah never mind". My parents are orthodox Christians from Iraq and while I don't share the connection that Shay does to religion, and the city I grew up in was multicultural enough that I wasn't teased or bullied for it, but it was still nice to see the slightest bit of representation to my background before suddenly they retconned it away or forgot to keep styling her that way.
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Lone Goat posted:Not quite as in your face as Jihad, but Liliana was originally portrayed as "middle eastern". question, has there ever been a goblin planeswalker? if not, there should be.
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Captain Invictus posted:Ah, the Nico Robin approach. just change her skin color and hope nobody notices she's not supposed to be white. Daretti.
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