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Nibble posted:This isn’t really a hard problem to solve if they wanted to, though. That was my first thought but lol if they try to change it after the fact. If they put reminder text on a card in a core set, it's gonna be really confusing later on when the oracle text says something completely different. I bet it's something the design team might feel constrained by. It's such a unique, specific, infrequent problem that it's probably not worth hand-wringing about anyway.
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Crackbone posted:That Akroma is a just a really sloppy design. It's not that exciting of an ability and it's a mess to put into legible rules. I agree. It's also a 7 mana creature that dies to removal so who cares anyway lmao
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Nov 5, 2020 06:28
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The assasin thing that gives monarch was the hot tech in MBC for 3 the 3 months or so before it stopped being a deck. I still play the hell out of it, because it feels like the best tier 2 deck, and has action against all kinds of things, it's just slower than slow tron at this point, gets 0 cards and ridiculously strong commons that needed banning kept coming out. Give us deathrite shaman wotc. Mono black, lose the life gain ability, wow now it's a fair card in a set like this.
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Nov 5, 2020 06:42
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If wotc would either unban hymn or reprint stupor downshifted to common, mbc would be a real deck again But they won't because it's not tron or mono blue
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Nov 5, 2020 08:22
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I'd take sinkhole. It's not my fault the most unfair thing in the format is playing lands.
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Nov 5, 2020 09:11
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Nibble posted:This isn’t really a hard problem to solve if they wanted to, though. I mean they already have a master list of every subtype in the game they could have one for whatever akroma is supposed to pump and then we'd only be asking if a creature with multiple instances of bushido stack withy this ability
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Nov 5, 2020 13:15
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It’s wild how much damage control Gavin Verhey & Ari Nieh are trying to do for Commander Legends, but the white cards we’ve seen are an order of magnitude worse than the other 4 colors so far and that white Mythic sword that equips for FOUR (4!) and conditionally makes 1 Angel a turn is easily the worst Mythic of the set. https://twitter.com/gavinverhey/status/1323873246995910656?s=21 https://twitter.com/sixthcomma/status/1324061419059486729?s=21 https://twitter.com/sixthcomma/status/1324034093047259138?s=21 I guess the idea is that Commander Legends was a larger than normal team with more input, so the design has been going on for a really long time and the white cards were all designed seemingly before the fever pitch of “white can’t do anything” had hit its current crescendo.
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Nov 5, 2020 13:23
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"damage control"
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Nov 5, 2020 14:46
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Glad to finally find out why Standard was so poorly developed the past year, it was that they needed the entire team to try to make white not poo poo in commander.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:00
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sometimes this thread starts jumping at shadows out of the blue in a way i just fundamentally don't understand where it's coming from and at this point I just always start assuming it's from the sections of the internet I intentionally avoid
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Nov 5, 2020 15:05
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Man, Gavin is either being groomed to be the new maro, or is trying to force it and if you thought maro couldn’t get worse, try adding smilies after every other sentence.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:06
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Lone Goat posted:Glad to finally find out why Standard was so poorly developed the past year, it was that they needed the entire team to try to make white not poo poo in commander. Narrator: "White is still poo poo in Commander".
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Nov 5, 2020 15:10
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meanolmrcloud posted:Man, Gavin is either being groomed to be the new maro, or is trying to force it and if you thought maro couldn’t get worse, try adding smilies after every other sentence. I think he's been the heir apparent for a while now, though it's probably more like he's getting the job because of his attitude than faking the attitude angling for the job.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:15
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He would be a Kaufman level genius if that were the case.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:22
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meanolmrcloud posted:Man, Gavin is either being groomed to be the new maro, or is trying to force it and if you thought maro couldn’t get worse, try adding smilies after every other sentence. see this is what I'm talking about everyone I've seen talk about maro likes him a bunch and thinks highly of him despite the position he's in to the point where I've used him in conversations about the harassment devs in other places get, and here's someone casually talking about how much they think everyone hate him
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Nov 5, 2020 15:25
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Its both for me. He genuinely has a passion for good design and sharing his love of magic with the world, be he is also a corny motherfucker and obtuse in the extreme about corporate poo poo in a way that always reminds you hes gonna put wotc's needs above the games. Hes a lot like Russell Wilson honestly
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Nov 5, 2020 15:28
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It's one of those things you discover as you get into the real working world. You'll go a lot further being a competent person who is really easy to work with than you will being some super-talented genius in your field who sucks poo poo to be around every day. There are certainly people who defy that, and fields where it's more accepted, but by and large that isn't going to be you.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:29
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What happened to the fetch reprints that were supposed to happen?
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Nov 5, 2020 15:36
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ilmucche posted:What happened to the fetch reprints that were supposed to happen? Next year.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:36
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ilmucche posted:What happened to the fetch reprints that were supposed to happen? Weren't they included in the box toppers for paper zendikar?
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Nov 5, 2020 15:38
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ilmucche posted:What happened to the fetch reprints that were supposed to happen? MH2. Which is either going to be half-masters set to make them available or they mean that the fetches will be box topper bullshit.
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Shrecknet posted:Its both for me. He genuinely has a passion for good design and sharing his love of magic with the world, be he is also a corny motherfucker and obtuse in the extreme about corporate poo poo in a way that always reminds you hes gonna put wotc's needs above the games. Yea, my initial couple of years interfacing with maros content gave me an appreciation for his passion and his level of ability, which are both generally high. After a decade, those things are still true, but he has to pump out corporate friendly, newcomer-centric surface level content which takes away the magic of a public facing, communicative insider.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:40
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Nibble posted:This isn’t really a hard problem to solve if they wanted to, though. Considering how infrequently they use the ability this seems more trouble than it's worth, they'd have to have reminder text listing the combat keywords, or reminder text that points to the section of the comprehensive rules by number. I think that's why they have the big list more than anything. Any card that uses the big list has their effect defined by the big list so trimming down the rules text wouldn't do much more anyway, like what Akroma is already 4 keywords and pumps the team unreasonably based on what they have, what else does she need to do? The ones that get the keywords in the big list, well, that's their thing, getting a shitton of keywords. Only ten cards use this big list of keywords, and it's a 6/4 split of standard legal/commander product. None are standard-legal at the moment, last one was Majestic Myriarch in HOU. It's not really a problem that needs solving.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:41
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Maros always stayed within the boundaries of what corporate says is ok and repeats the party line when there is one (ref: mythics). I'd say it's an increased number of controversial decisions from wizards corporate.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:43
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Maro is bad and using MTG to enact petty vengeance on people who wronged him literal decades ago to the detriment of the game and will forever be The Coward Mark Rosewater.
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Nov 5, 2020 15:53
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HootTheOwl posted:Maro is bad and using MTG to enact petty vengeance on people who wronged him literal decades ago to the detriment of the game and will forever be The Coward Mark Rosewater. Did all his high school bullies play white in commander? This post is incomprehensible.
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Nov 5, 2020 16:06
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Mark Rosewater mainly invents new mechanics and card ideas and the problems with Magic are far too interlocking to lay at his feet.' He is also the highest-level public-facing person in the system so he's the only person we can really complain to about Oko having a + where it'd be much better to have a - or whatever.
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The Prof just told a story on his newest podcast about talking to Mark Rosewater at an airport for a little while and MaRo going on like a 15 minute rant about how path to exile & swords to plowshares are bad cards that break the color pie and he wishes he could get rid of them of them.
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Bust Rodd posted:The Prof just told a story on his newest podcast about talking to Mark Rosewater at an airport for a little while and MaRo going on like a 15 minute rant about how path to exile & swords to plowshares are bad cards that break the color pie and he wishes he could get rid of them of them. Wasn't swords like an alpha card?
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Nov 5, 2020 16:42
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Maro would / does disown alpha so fast vis-a-vis the color pie.
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Nov 5, 2020 16:44
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If you were playing a tournament today, what deck are you bringing Standard- no clue Modern- shadow Historic-goblins (I don’t think this is the best deck, but I really love jamming it) Legacy- hogaak
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Nov 5, 2020 16:50
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standard: uhh rogues? modern: 4c omnath cat combo historic: BUG control splashing yasharn legacy: ELDRAZI POST
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HootTheOwl posted:MH2. They confirmed that (only) the enemy fetches will be reprinted as part of the regular set at rare.
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ilmucche posted:Wasn't swords like an alpha card? Yep. Alpha also has psionic blast.
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Nov 5, 2020 17:43
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Death and taxes for modern/legacy, feather in pioneer, mono u tempo for historic and whatever in standard
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What color should Swords be? Black I guess, unconditional removal at a price. Black gets exile but has to overpay for it, though.
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Nov 5, 2020 17:50
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Some Goon posted:Maro would / does disown alpha so fast vis-a-vis the color pie. He should. Alpha was a mess in almost every aspect. It’s probably a testament to how good the core game concept was.
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Nov 5, 2020 17:53
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I always thought absolute removal or lockdown removal was a white thing. Also the answer to the format thing is RDW.
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Nov 5, 2020 17:54
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Huxley posted:What color should Swords be? Black I guess, unconditional removal at a price. Black gets exile but has to overpay for it, though. MaRo is wrong and Swords SHOULD STAY white.
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Time posted:If you were playing a tournament today, what deck are you bringing Standard: a pile of junk if I have standard legal cards Modern: bw tokens Pioneer: bg creature scales Historic: I don't play arena Legacy: cloudpost or deadguy ale if I ever have money to build them Swords and path are premium removal that white needs
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