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Toph Bei Fong posted:Mark: i am already really tired of the disingenuous stuff people have said in response to this tumblr response up to and including 'format legalities are broken now' and 'i have free reign to make broken custom cards and bring them to tournaments' if there's any reading past the face reading of that post it's 'mark's a bit pissy about people making GBS threads on un-sets' imo, but still it's just 'don't get lovely about someone playing a card that's legal for them to play, just because you don't like that card' Sickening posted:I can't stress enough how much really competitive magic is played on MTGO vs arena. Like its a bad client in every single way but somehow its infinitely more affordable and true to paper than Arena might ever be. turns out being around for 20 years lets your client support more paper formats than the one and a half arena supports
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flatluigi posted:i am already really tired of the disingenuous stuff people have said in response to this tumblr response up to and including 'format legalities are broken now' and 'i have free reign to make broken custom cards and bring them to tournaments' He knows that there's no reason not to play expensive cards produced by Wizards, but his job depends on him not acknowledging that he knows 
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Oct 11, 2022 17:46
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I wonder what the geographic distribution of WPN premium stores is. Wizards doesn't make a large search query on their store locator easy, and unsurprisingly there are like 5 in the Seattle area compared to much larger cities LA with 4 and NYC with 1.
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Oct 11, 2022 17:49
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Yelling at MaRo about anything other than card design is fruitless and mean-spirited. But, mostly it's taking up time you could use for yelling at MaRo about card design, a thing he is also bad at and deserves criticism for.
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Oct 11, 2022 17:50
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Cactrot posted:I wonder what the geographic distribution of WPN premium stores is. Wizards doesn't make a large search query on their store locator easy, and unsurprisingly there are like 5 in the Seattle area compared to much larger cities LA with 4 and NYC with 1. Baltimore has 2, but we're an outsized gaming hub vs. population.
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Oct 11, 2022 17:52
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Toshimo posted:Yelling at MaRo about anything other than card design is fruitless and mean-spirited. But, mostly it's taking up time you could use for yelling at MaRo about card design, a thing he is also bad at and deserves criticism for. unfinity seems like a fun set
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Cactrot posted:I wonder what the geographic distribution of WPN premium stores is. Wizards doesn't make a large search query on their store locator easy, and unsurprisingly there are like 5 in the Seattle area compared to much larger cities LA with 4 and NYC with 1. There are 3 in the state of Connecticut
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Oct 11, 2022 17:57
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Maro is actually cool and good
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Oct 11, 2022 18:11
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It’s kind of crazy that Maro has done his blog for so long. I can’t think of anyone else involved at a high level capacity in any of my other hobbies who would willingly take abuse from 30000 pissed off, insane* people a day.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:17
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Sickening posted:I can't stress enough how much really competitive magic is played on MTGO vs arena. Like its a bad client in every single way but somehow its infinitely more affordable and true to paper than Arena might ever be. Modo is a great client actually. It's the paper exerpience on your screen, and it turns out paper is ugly.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:25
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fadam posted:It’s kind of crazy that Maro has done his blog for so long. I can’t think of anyone else involved at a high level capacity in any of my other hobbies who would willingly take abuse from 30000 pissed off, insane* people a day.
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HootTheOwl posted:Modo is a great client actually. It's the paper exerpience on your screen, and it turns out paper is ugly.  The modern format on Arena might triple their revenue growth for the year.
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Oct 11, 2022 18:48
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Even if they dumped Modern 1:1 on Arena this afternoon I would probably keep playing on Modo just because of card renting.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:04
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I feel bad for Maro. He clearly loves the game, but he made the game so well that Hasbro has demanded that he make 10,000% more game or else everyone will die. It feels like he's constantly hitting the talk show circuit because he's pumping out Ghostbuster 2016s and they MUST make money.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:05
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I hope the dudes who really put themselves out there as "Faces of the Game" realize how valuable that is for them personally, and have taken the game doubling in profitability in 3 years as an opportunity to get paid out to keep smiling about it.
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fadam posted:It’s kind of crazy that Maro has done his blog for so long. I can’t think of anyone else involved at a high level capacity in any of my other hobbies who would willingly take abuse from 30000 pissed off, insane* people a day. his blog, his weekly column, AND a podcast, its crazy how transparent he is about the design process, and just seems to really really really like his job.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:14
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flatluigi posted:unfinity seems like a fun set I was actually pretty underwhelmed by it in a draft, but I suspect that's because the overriding focus on stickers and Attractions interested me way less than the grab-bag random goofy things from previous Un-sets. It felt like stuff like Urza's Contact Lenses, Rules Lawyer, Duh, Ambiguity, or "Ach! Hans, Run!" was really lacking.
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Huxley posted:I hope the dudes who really put themselves out there as "Faces of the Game" realize how valuable that is for them personally, and have taken the game doubling in profitability in 3 years as an opportunity to get paid out to keep smiling about it. Maro does a bunch of free labor. It's one of his least redeeming qualities.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:21
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Toshimo posted:Maro does a bunch of free labor. It's one of his least redeeming qualities. why do you think he's not getting paid for what he does, lmao
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flatluigi posted:why do you think he's not getting paid for what he does, lmao You'd see the overlord's hands on it.
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Roadie posted:I was actually pretty underwhelmed by it in a draft, but I suspect that's because the overriding focus on stickers and Attractions interested me way less than the grab-bag random goofy things from previous Un-sets. It felt like stuff like Urza's Contact Lenses, Rules Lawyer, Duh, Ambiguity, or "Ach! Hans, Run!" was really lacking. yeah same. I wonder if there was an eternal legal mandate from the beginning that constrained the design team. but also, there's only so many non-annoying munchkin card ideas they could use before it starts to get repetitive
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kalel posted:yeah same. I wonder if there was an eternal legal mandate from the beginning that constrained the design team. but also, there's only so many non-annoying munchkin card ideas they could use before it starts to get repetitive nah, they've come out and said a few times that the idea to make stuff eternal legal came late in development and several cards like plot armor would've been designed differently if they'd planned for things to be eternal from the top (also, fwiw, i think most of the attractions are pretty goofy so idk why calling those out as a reason why the set isn't very goofy is supposed to track)
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You can see the complete and utter disdain on Maro's face in the m30 announcement stream when the marketing ghoul starts justifying the price of the garbage fake cards, so he's still cool with me
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Toshimo posted:Maro does a bunch of free labor. It's one of his least redeeming qualities. What
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Tibalt posted:Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Ward (2) Affinity for creatures Provoke If a creature with power 6 or less would be blocked by Megan thee stallion, destroy that creature.
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This pile ThrabenU just posted a video for looks like a ton of fun to play: https://youtu.be/uk6CT8Mafl0 There are three mechanics/cards I completely whiffed on recognizing how powerful they are during spoiler season in this video: Minsc, Reflection, and Initiative lol.
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fadam posted:This pile ThrabenU just posted a video for looks like a ton of fun to play: He has really gone all in on the brews of late.
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Sickening posted:He has really gone all in on the brews of late. I only started watching his stuff recently but I really like it. Same with Bryant Cook. Those three make Legacy easily my favourite MTG content to watch.
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fadam posted:I only started watching his stuff recently but I really like it. Same with Bryant Cook. Those three make Legacy easily my favourite MTG content to watch. samesies. not coincidentally the three of them host a podcast which serves as a very nice not-memey biweekly temperature check on the format
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kalel posted:samesies. not coincidentally the three of them host a podcast which serves as a very nice not-memey biweekly temperature check on the format Ya I love it. This might sound nuts but I really appreciate how unfunny the hosts are.
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Roadie posted:I was actually pretty underwhelmed by it in a draft, but I suspect that's because the overriding focus on stickers and Attractions interested me way less than the grab-bag random goofy things from previous Un-sets. It felt like stuff like Urza's Contact Lenses, Rules Lawyer, Duh, Ambiguity, or "Ach! Hans, Run!" was really lacking. kalel posted:yeah same. I wonder if there was an eternal legal mandate from the beginning that constrained the design team. but also, there's only so many non-annoying munchkin card ideas they could use before it starts to get repetitive I'm pretty sure they basically said a lot of the past unset grab bag goofy things had a problem where they were funny once which was terrible for replayability.
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I think we are just going to have to accept the fact that they're not going to nerf the Red-Blue Menace. it's been three banning updates where they explicitly mention legacy as being just fine you guys seriously. the only out at this point is to for the deck to be power-crept out of legacy. maybe mh3 will print a hexproof indestructible dark depths or an uncounterable 2-mana reanimation spell
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if it gets actually power crept out of legacy the format is going to be wholly different and likely wildly degenerate with a clear new villain that does necessitate a ban, because one of main points of playing the deck/archetype is having at least reasonable play against (and opportunities to outplay) pretty much everything that doesn't preclude it from getting dethroned as top dog, but it's at least as likely the end of the "menace" will come when we get another split into different sub-archetypes as meta considerations + new high powered cards make grabbing a third color more appealing again vs. the consistency offered by the current critical mass of UR cards
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Toshimo posted:Baltimore has 2, but we're an outsized gaming hub vs. population. I should've guessed that Gamer Corps is a premium store. Didn't even think to check. E: Maro does seem both cool and good and if I were him I would 100% be smiling and pointing up toward my bosses when people come in screaming about the 30th Anniversary stuff. TotalHell fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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LGD posted:if it gets actually power crept out of legacy the format is going to be wholly different and likely wildly degenerate with a clear new villain that does necessitate a ban, because one of main points of playing the deck/archetype is having at least reasonable play against (and opportunities to outplay) pretty much everything  because it's not going away any other way
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Everybody and their mother is playing W6 now including loving UW control, I'm actually thinking Flame Blitz might be a legit sideboard card
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Roadie posted:I was actually pretty underwhelmed by it in a draft, but I suspect that's because the overriding focus on stickers and Attractions interested me way less than the grab-bag random goofy things from previous Un-sets. It felt like stuff like Urza's Contact Lenses, Rules Lawyer, Duh, Ambiguity, or "Ach! Hans, Run!" was really lacking. I did a draft as well, though the nature of my deck (W/R clown robot aggro) meant that I didn't get to interact with many of the wacky mechanics of the set, as my games were over pretty quickly. Highlights of the event included my opponent using Blufferfish to correctly guess my bluffs, and another game using a card to auction off a casting of Animate Object, with another table winning the bid at 13 life.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Everybody and their mother is playing W6 now including loving UW control, I'm actually thinking Flame Blitz might be a legit sideboard card It's only a matter of time till the card's gone in Modern. I'm absolutely convinced of this, but if I ever break down and buy a playset I'll make sure to post in the thread cause holy moly do I have a bad track record with that
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LGD posted:if it gets actually power crept out of legacy the format is going to be wholly different and likely wildly degenerate with a clear new villain that does necessitate a ban, because one of main points of playing the deck/archetype is having at least reasonable play against (and opportunities to outplay) pretty much everything what does "wildly degenerate" look like in a format that already has turn 1 wins? Weird Pumpkin posted:It's only a matter of time till the card's gone in Modern. I'm absolutely convinced of this, but if I ever break down and buy a playset I'll make sure to post in the thread cause holy moly do I have a bad track record with that I remember a time in modern when even Splinter Twin and Tron were all playing Tarmogoyf, because everyone else played Goyf, because Goyfs can always block other Goyfs. But then everyone stopped playing it and the card is worth about 1/3rd what it was. A Moose fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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