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The oaths, prophecies, and dooms of the setting are so essential to every story in middle earth, and with cards that are supposed to represent spells, shown to be almost any concept or execution imaginable, it will be shame to get gear porn and these were things that happened, the spell.
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junan_paalla posted:tap out for eight turns in a row to put "aaaaaaaa" counters on my goku before unleashing my ultimate attack The original DBZ/GT card game was already baller as gently caress. No need to import it to MtG
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Y'all are joking around but I just took a survey this week asking what I thought about a Minsc & Boo card, so...
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Y'all are joking around but I just took a survey this week asking what I thought about a Minsc & Boo card, so... possible core set spoiler???
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This feels like a bigger deal than the crossover stuff. The chances of it resulting in a better market for players any time soon is basically nil though. Crossover sets feel like a point of no return thing for how they're engaging the customer base more than some sort of death knell for the game but can't say I'm psyched about it. Even if the story in MTG is often half-baked, where is exists at all, it still has a distinctive feel that I don't think just gels onto any old IP. Also there's no way these sets don't get pushed to hell because there is now an even stronger incentive to have them sell well, capitalize on different audience segments, prove the efficacy of MTG as a promotional vehicle, etc. God knows there are enough legacy fantasy or loosely sci-fi IPs for them to run through and gauge reactions but the real tell will be how long it takes for the next "Hunger Games" type phenomenon to get a set. IDK, feels kinda bad but the game has weathered a lot of stuff so maybe this will just be another blip. StrugglingHoneybun posted:MtG is now Super Smash Bros. If they gave up making GBS threads out half assed Diablo clones and generic rpgs in favor of making a SSB style fighting game but just with all your favorite legends, planeswalkers, etc it would be a vastly better use of resources and something I'd actually buy and play. Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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flatluigi posted:either way i feel like i'd give it a week before they say something more about what they're doing with the IPs https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/25/22301336/magic-the-gathering-warhammer-40000-crossover-commander-deck the wh40k thing (and implied the lotr thing) is a commander product quote:During an investor call on Thursday, Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro announced a new initiative for Magic: The Gathering. Called Universes Beyond, this new line of products will include other licensed properties, including Warhammer 40,000 and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. In a blog post published later on Thursday, Wizards provided more detail on what that new product line will look like. edit: official blog post https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/magics-voyages-universes-beyond-2021-02-25 flatluigi fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 19:03
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flatluigi posted:https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/25/22301336/magic-the-gathering-warhammer-40000-crossover-commander-deck It sounds like decks plural, which probably means like a 5 deck series?
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the official blog post outright says "Universes Beyond cards will not be Standard legal", which is goodPyrolocutus posted:It sounds like decks plural, which probably means like a 5 deck series? yeah, sorry, i meant 'a commander product'
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I'm guessing either 4 chaos god decks, or Imperium/Eldar/Ork/(something probably chaos, could be tyranids or tau or necrons).
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flatluigi posted:the official blog post outright says "Universes Beyond cards will not be Standard legal", which is good Looking forward to Vintage environments with Space Marine Librarians and Terminators.
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Pyrolocutus posted:Looking forward to Vintage environments with Space Marine Librarians and Terminators. don't be silly, nobody looks forward to vintage
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The biggest vintage tournament ever. We call it, the Gamemaster Anthony Invitational.
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the 7 people who care about legacy in this thread will continue to be irate while the rest of us stop caring, good riddance.
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I really enjoy vintage and legacy
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Time posted:I really enjoy vintage and legacy Temur Delver, now featuring space marines!
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Paul Zuvella posted:Temur Delver, now featuring space marines! It's me, I am the hooting mandrill that is upset by this.
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Paul Zuvella posted:Temur Delver, now featuring space marines! Please, it’s RUG when you have old lands in it
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Feb 25, 2021 19:35
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Legacy owns and I am upset about it. Let it be commander only since that's The Most Popular FormatTM
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Feb 25, 2021 19:36
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Spoiler list of upcoming Magic sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_licensed_and_localized_editions_of_Monopoly:_USA
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Ah well now that they clarified its not a core set replacement i care way less about it, go wild in that case
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The only way to make Legacy playable for the average person is to replace all the reserve list poo poo with function replacements/upgrades that are Space Marine themed and come in a $30 Commander deck. Anyone who is upset about this hates poor people and I will not be taking questions or comments at this time.
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Feb 25, 2021 19:43
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Rahu posted:Very excited to get a legendary Goku to build a commander deck around in the next few years. I wanted them to bring back the level up mechanic, but not like this.
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I would like for wizards to use the billion dollars they made to port all legacy relevant cards to arena. Tyia
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They made a happy accident.quote:We recently became aware that some customers who ordered non-foil drops of Happy Little Gathering will instead receive foil edition drops, and some customers who ordered foil edition drops of Happy Little Gathering will instead receive non-foil drops.
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flatluigi posted:https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/25/22301336/magic-the-gathering-warhammer-40000-crossover-commander-deck Seeing that the most volume of the commander precons is already existing cards those would also probably be mostly "reskins" of existing spells like Cyclonic Rift = Rubric of Ahriman for example etc with around 15%-20% being brand new cards that are going to gently caress up Legacy and annoy EDH communities for the next few years lmao
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Nothing left to be said but lol. I like how the pallet of Thraben Inspector fits with the old frame, lot of new are doesn't. Doubly so for artifacts 
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The sooner wotc kills Commander, the sooner that random secondary market cards don't just balloon up like crazy, it just makes sense
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fatherboxx posted:Seeing that the most volume of the commander precons is already existing cards those would also probably be mostly "reskins" of existing spells like Cyclonic Rift = Rubric of Ahriman for example etc with around 15%-20% being brand new cards that are going to gently caress up Legacy and annoy EDH communities for the next few years lmao I'm suddenly terrified of them making these functional reprints instead of godzilla-esque reskins.
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Time for legacy to shift from eternal to non-rotating. And ban the gently caress out of brainstorm.
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The change to make Wizards a division of Hasbro instead of a subsidiary and "moving beyond" game stores could be a big change to the relationships with hobby distributors. The sales relationship for paper cards is primarily WotC to distributors (or really big game stores) from the beginning up to now. That relationship could be changing to be primarily Hasbro Inc. to a different set of distributors and/or consumers. My speculative argument here is that neither side of the old sales relationship was very interested in dealing with modifying the reserve list situation. Presumably big game stores and distributors were/are actively against any modification. Tough to say how much actual appetite there will be to do something different with the new relationships. That could be your monkey's paw moment though: you get a functional reprint of some of those cards but they're only released through brand crossovers now that its all interior to Hasbro.
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araeris posted:My speculative argument here is that neither side of the old sales relationship was very interested in dealing with modifying the reserve list situation. Presumably big game stores and distributors were/are actively against any modification. Tough to say how much actual appetite there will be to do something different with the new relationships. Nah, the big retailers like SCG have all said that they’d much rather have the reserve list gone, or at least cut down. More money to be made on formats that aren’t dying to price hikes.
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I tap Valinor to activate Feanor's second ability producing a silmaril token. All noldor gain +1/+1 and t:tap target balrog. 
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HootTheOwl posted:Time for legacy to shift from eternal to non-rotating. Seems dumb
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The Lord of Hats posted:Nah, the big retailers like SCG have all said that they’d much rather have the reserve list gone, or at least cut down. More money to be made on formats that aren’t dying to price hikes. You could be right. Someone like Star City could prefer the end of the reserve list to boost sales for Vintage and Legacy by lowering those entry costs. I have no idea what internal projections they might have. Hypothetical question: if Star City wanted the reserve list to continue, for whatever reason, would they ever say so publicly? Is there any reason why they wouldn't lie about it when asked?
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That second tweet should utterly terrify anyone smaller than SCG/CFB/CK FLGS are already hanging on by a loving thread in the best of times, the pandemic didn't help matters, and if this is a sign Hasbro wants to go full "put our poo poo on every shelf next to the Funkos at Big Boxes only" and some Hasbro exec going "why do we even have Holiday thank-you cards, FNM Promos, organized play or judge programs? Why would we need to support the stores that barely sell any of our actual product compared to Target? Of what use is a central place for people to learn about our game, meet other players or be a non-player who gets evangelized to?" and that's it, no more FNMs, no more MPL, no more "this is an eSport that should be taken seriously," just LotR secret lairs and big-box product, forever.
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araeris posted:You could be right. Someone like Star City could prefer the end of the reserve list to boost sales for Vintage and Legacy by lowering those entry costs. I have no idea what internal projections they might have. SCG, and anyone really, would rather sell power every day at the already good margins on singles, rather than drop x thousand dollars on a card and hold it until some rich dude comes along and they get lucky enough to sell it again. They really don't have any reason to want the reserve list to continue. The only ones would might are sitting on a substantial inventory of expensive rl cards, and any shop dumb enough to tie up all the capital probably already went out of business.
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There isn't a hasbro based judge program is there? judge academy is it's own separate entity and furthermore... End of FNMs and prize support would be really lovely and would slowly kill the game off. With no places to play I can't see even things like commander getting a good following.
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ilmucche posted:There isn't a hasbro based judge program is there? judge academy is it's own separate entity and furthermore... I haven't engaged with the judge system in several years (2013 was the last time I re-upped my creds) and from my former T2 and T3 friends I've heard a lot has broken down/been decentralized.
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