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Charity Porno posted:Eh, they are buffs to cards no one plays. They nerfed several cards people actually do play, for no good reason Can I ask you for examples? I'd like to see some before/after shots.
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champagne posting posted:Can I ask you for examples? I'd like to see some before/after shots. Narfi, Betrayer King, a card I mill over with stichers supplier and/or crypbreaker now costs 4 and was printed at 5
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May 30, 2022 12:24
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Charity Porno posted:They nerfed several cards people actually do play, for no good reason I see they learned nothing from Wild Nactal.
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May 30, 2022 13:25
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Charity Porno posted:They nerfed several cards people actually do play, for no good reason Like what?
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May 30, 2022 13:45
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I believe the one people were annoyed by the most was Luminarch Aspriant's trigger being changed from "beginning of combat" to "end step".
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May 30, 2022 13:59
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yeah but that card got bopped because mono-w was and continues to be a great deck and that card was a huge part of it
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Boy, playing kami war 4 turns in a row feels good
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tinaun posted:I believe the one people were annoyed by the most was Luminarch Aspriant's trigger being changed from "beginning of combat" to "end step". You're right it should be banned instead. gently caress that card and that deck.
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May 30, 2022 15:31
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Please don't play Alchemy ever. That kind of nonsense shouldn't be rewarded with your money.
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May 30, 2022 16:12
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it is genuinely funny to me that this thread's talking about alchemy being bad because of how ridiculous and 'nonsense' it is while the arena thread simultaneously is talking about alchemy being bad because it's not doing anything weird and feels too much like stuff you could just print in paper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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May 30, 2022 16:15
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The gameplay of alchemy has nothing to do with why it's bad. It's economy is completely predatory and unreasonable.
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May 30, 2022 16:16
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flatluigi posted:it is genuinely funny to me that this thread's talking about alchemy being bad because of how ridiculous and 'nonsense' it is while the arena thread simultaneously is talking about alchemy being bad because it's not doing anything weird and feels too much like stuff you could just print in paper Where's the Arena thread? In games?
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May 30, 2022 16:20
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mcmagic posted:The gameplay of alchemy has nothing to do with why it's bad. It's economy is completely predatory and unreasonable. good news! for the next set they've both changed up the rarities so that there are fewer rares/mythics to make it easier on wildcards & they're doing a draft event where a common is replaced with one of the alchemy cards (of any rarity) so people can get them without spending wildcards (regular SNC draft will still exist) champagne posting posted:Where's the Arena thread? In games? yeah: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3897805
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Picture of the buttcrack guy but hes kneeling in front of flatluigis posts
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mcmagic posted:The gameplay of alchemy has nothing to do with why it's bad. It's economy is completely predatory and unreasonable. They want to change around cards to test out the concept of a format where changing cards often is the norm. Fine. Doing that while nickel and diming your customers to the max is just weird.
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May 30, 2022 16:27
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mandatory lesbian posted:Picture of the buttcrack guy but hes kneeling in front of flatluigis posts just tell me outright if you want me to gently caress off or not, it's easier than whatever this means
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flatluigi posted:just tell me outright if you want me to gently caress off or not, it's easier than whatever this means I think it means your posts need a belt?
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flatluigi posted:just tell me outright if you want me to gently caress off or not, it's easier than whatever this means I know what it means.
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Koirhor posted:If its any consolation I think Avacyn Restored draft made lots of people cry Avacyn Restored sucked an insane amount of rear end, but she did open the titular mythic and a bunch of other sick mythics. Honestly she had a heck of a sealed deck iirc. Draft was absolutely god awful, which is such a shame because triple INN was the goat and even 2x INN 1xDKA was fine I kinda liked the little achievement things they did too for the pre-release 
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i legit think a loving lot about game design and why choices are being made the way they are in games, and i almost definitely should post less about it when people really obviously don't give a poo poo, but i feel like sometimes people get caught up in just saying poo poo without knowing what the deal is and i feel like talking about it can help (especially when stuff like 'they're actively working to make acquiring alchemy cards better' could've easily gotten missed)
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flatluigi posted:just tell me outright if you want me to gently caress off or not, it's easier than whatever this means gently caress off flatluigi (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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TheKingofSprings posted:gently caress off flatluigi that was a question directed at mandatory lesbian, i already know you hate everyone
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Played against a deck that played a bunch of hideouts and then splendid reclamation + galvanic iteration to ramp to like 14 mana on turn 6. But then it didn't do anything and died. Cool concept though!
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May 30, 2022 16:58
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flatluigi posted:i legit think a loving lot about game design and why choices are being made the way they are in games, and i almost definitely should post less about it when people really obviously don't give a poo poo, but i feel like sometimes people get caught up in just saying poo poo without knowing what the deal is and i feel like talking about it can help (especially when stuff like 'they're actively working to make acquiring alchemy cards better' could've easily gotten missed) The way alchemy sets up players to be ripped off if they paid money for cards sucks a lot and this opportunity to maybe randomly draw an alchemy card only reduces that grift a little and folks here are not going to accept that as an actual fix. You're welcome to argue otherwise and I think the thread should be less hostile in general to that, but I think your expectation that people heavily invested should be unemotional about it isn't realistic.
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alchemy more like all crappy lol
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Leperflesh posted:The way alchemy sets up players to be ripped off if they paid money for cards sucks a lot and this opportunity to maybe randomly draw an alchemy card only reduces that grift a little and folks here are not going to accept that as an actual fix. You're welcome to argue otherwise and I think the thread should be less hostile in general to that, but I think your expectation that people heavily invested should be unemotional about it isn't realistic. i have no idea where you got 'i think people should be unemotional' + i'm speaking to people uninvested in alchemy who aren't really paying attention to anything but what they felt about it from the top. i also don't think this is a big fix in any way and would've rather they just make alchemy cards only commons/uncommons now that we know that they don't care about card rarity in their experiments with adding them to limited like i guess i appreciate coming to my defense (even though i also really don't think i needed it lmao) but i think you've got me wrong in literally every way possible
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I simply choose not to play alchemy
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when i'm not doing events or ladder i'm usually brewing and playing historic brawl decks, so i can't ignore alchemy cards outright. they've been nice in hbrawl at least
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Latest Shuffle Up and Play has Cedric and PSully as guests playing Birthing Pod vs Splinter Twin. I thought the concept of the series was great but I wasn't overly charmed by the banter in the last episode. This is a single ep, but it looks a lot closer to something that could hook me. https://twitter.com/TolarianCollege/status/1531291368760324096
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flatluigi posted:it is genuinely funny to me that this thread's talking about alchemy being bad because of how ridiculous and 'nonsense' it is while the arena thread simultaneously is talking about alchemy being bad because it's not doing anything weird and feels too much like stuff you could just print in paper I stand by my analysis in that thread, it bangs. There is a difference between 'Alchemy sucks as a format because it doesn't do enough flashy stuff' and 'Alchemy fails to have an audience because it doesn't do enough flashy stuff'. There are many grognards who say they would never have anything to do with digital-only cards because they don't feel, on an emotional level, that's what Magic should be about. I'm the same way! I don't like the idea of digital-only cards and would prefer to avoid them even though I haven't played paper for years, and probably never will again. Is that rational? No, but that doesn't mean it isn't a valid reason for my behaviour. So what I'm trying to say is, why should Alchemy even try to appeal to people like me? They may as well go hog wild on crazy Hearthstone poo poo - and as I said in the other thread, a lot of Hearthstone's poo poo is actually really good - and try to appeal to the people who actually do like that sort of thing and wouldn't mind seeing it in MTGA. And honestly, I would feel better about it as well, since I could then say 'I'm not interested in this, but can see why people are.' As opposed to the current situation of 'I'm not interested in this and can't understand why anyone would be.'
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flatluigi posted:i have no idea where you got 'i think people should be unemotional' + i'm speaking to people uninvested in alchemy who aren't really paying attention to anything but what they felt about it from the top. i also don't think this is a big fix in any way and would've rather they just make alchemy cards only commons/uncommons now that we know that they don't care about card rarity in their experiments with adding them to limited It would seem I was not the only one who saw your post as defending alchemy or its legitimacy, and at least a few folks may see alchemy as reflecting wizard's intentions for the future of Arena, in which they are heavily invested. Never playing the format is a vote against that concept. I guess. Anyway, whatever, I'm more interested in cutting down on the "gently caress you's" in the thread generally, than I am in coming to your defense, specifically.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I simply choose not to play alchemy Same Also i wasnt saying gently caress you to anyone, just lightly poking fun at somebody trying to say that arenas laughable attempts to be perceieved as improving the economy were worthy of anything other then contempt
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Dr. Poz posted:Latest Shuffle Up and Play has Cedric and PSully as guests playing Birthing Pod vs Splinter Twin. I thought the concept of the series was great but I wasn't overly charmed by the banter in the last episode. This is a single ep, but it looks a lot closer to something that could hook me. Traditional Games > MTG - I checked the sideboard real quick for a 2nd Thrunn
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mandatory lesbian posted:Same yeah don't get me wrong I think it's still pretty far off from good but acknowledging a problem and doing something is always a better sign than doing nothing at all and pretending things are fine making a true to paper extended format on arena and making alchemy cards easier to acquire are both things I didn't expect to see happen this year (if at all)
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flatluigi posted:good news! for the next set they've both changed up the rarities so that there are fewer rares/mythics to make it easier on wildcards & they're doing a draft event where a common is replaced with one of the alchemy cards (of any rarity) so people can get them without spending wildcards (regular SNC draft will still exist) My guess is that this won't be good enough but I'll reserve judgement.
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YggdrasilTM posted:Like what? Luminarch Aspirant, Goldspan Dragon, Faceless Haven flatluigi posted:it is genuinely funny to me that this thread's talking about alchemy being bad because of how ridiculous and 'nonsense' it is while the arena thread simultaneously is talking about alchemy being bad because it's not doing anything weird and feels too much like stuff you could just print in paper The Arena thread is dumb, why is there a separate thread for Arena, it's all MTG Charity Porno fucked around with this message at 22:41 on May 30, 2022 |
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Charity Porno posted:Luminarch Aspirant, Goldspan Dragon, Faceless Haven Iirc arena chat somewhat dominates paper chat, just like how theres a seperate commander thread bc too many dang people play commander instead of 60 card formats I mean none of that matters bc people post about arena and commander in here anyway but i guess if you want alchy specific decks or commander specific decks the threads are there to contain that?
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Is anyone aware of an android app that I can use to scan cards and output to a text/xls file with the card name and set? I have nearly 1,000 cards that I am going to need to catalogue and doing it manually is filling me with dread. [edit] Delver looks pretty good. Going to try this. Aranan fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 30, 2022 |
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arena and commander are both really popular and there are a lot of topics that pertain exclusively to them and not the wider MTG ecosystem
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Huh there's a Commander thread. Guess that's where I'll go for my Ziatora deck.
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