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its especially strange because the word abuelo comes from colonial spanish, which the vampires are coded as, and not nahuatl, like the sun empire is coded as. the closest equivalent word in nahuatl is colli.
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Gonna make a card called Peepaw's Procession where the guy's name is actually just Peepaw
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uggy posted:Butter triumph rips .... rear end. Because it stinks!
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kalel posted:why would you have a character's name be abuelo. literally "grandfather" in spanish. really weird Because he is old enough as a ghost that he doesn't remember his name, but he remembers he was a grandfather so that's the name he gets.
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kalel posted:I get that part, but it's like english-speaking-babby's first fantasy name for an old spanish person. it would be like if there was a character who is a butcher, and his function in the story is that he's a butcher, and his name was... "Butcher" People don't avoid those names because they are bad names for those characters, they avoid em because something else already has a stronger claim to it they can't or don't want to compete with.
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HootTheOwl posted:.... rear end. No it’s great it might be the best 2 mana black removal spell for cube
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Hideo Kojima presents the new planeswalker: Draw Cardman
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Because one of his only memories is of young children calling him that.
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Hideo Kojima presents the new planeswalker: Draw Cardman Easily countered by Island Passturn
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Metal Gear Solid: Planes Walker
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Another refurbish for portal to phyrexia is kinda hot, even if it makes the thing a 1/1.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:
This card is going to loving rule in UG(x) +1/+1 EDH decks. "Bounce everyone's creatures but mine, swing unblocked?"
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kalel posted:I get that part, but it's like english-speaking-babby's first fantasy name for an old spanish person. it would be like if there was a character who is a butcher, and his function in the story is that he's a butcher, and his name was... "Butcher" No, he's not called Abuelo because he's old. It's because he's bisexual.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bitter Triumph is uncommon This set symbol loving sucks. I've never had an issue telling rarity before, but this one has tripped me up several times. Forget spoiler fatigue, the need to come up with 17 set symbols every set for all the special printings is going to cause real problems for legibility and distinguishability.
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i would like to know if it's more readable in paper, but for now it's just a good habit to look at the bottom left to double check rarity
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:This set symbol loving sucks. I've never had an issue telling rarity before, but this one has tripped me up several times. There's also the 3 letter set codes, if you're on arena you'll have seen BRO, SIR, SIS, and MOM and MAT within the past year. Algid fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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So, I was swayed by the Doctor Who collab to try the game, in part because I heard the decks were good. And naturally I assumed that since the whole point marketing-wise is to bring in new customers, I figured they'd be a pretty natural jumping on point to learn the game. So I played my first few games today, using the Thirteenth Doctor deck against an acquaintance's Davros/villains deck. And oh god I was wrong in the most amazing way. I'm actually kind of impressed at the deck's power level once I found how to make it swing, but holy poo poo, is it a weird introduction to start with a deck that literally rewards making your turn as unnecessarily complicated as possible. I actually won one of those games, and I think I gave myself a headache just trying to process the combos that got me there.
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Cleretic posted:So, I was swayed by the Doctor Who collab to try the game, in part because I heard the decks were good. And naturally I assumed that since the whole point marketing-wise is to bring in new customers, I figured they'd be a pretty natural jumping on point to learn the game. So I played my first few games today, using the Thirteenth Doctor deck against an acquaintance's Davros/villains deck. I don't keep track of commander stuff, but that's a time counter deck right? Does seem sort of annoying to track, but with the design constraint of having the cards both being flavorful and faithful to the media as well enticing new players because insert_brand_here, I guess they leaned more towards the former.
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Magic products for new players which have some degree of synergy and powerful interactions are a much better introduction to the game than something like the Game Night box, where the games get into stalls and last forever. Plus, the deck isn't rules complex particularly, just book-keeping complex.
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Algid posted:I don't keep track of commander stuff, but that's a time counter deck right? Does seem sort of annoying to track, but with the design constraint of having the cards both being flavorful and faithful to the media as well enticing new players because insert_brand_here, I guess they leaned more towards the former. The Tenth Doctor deck is primarily time counters, Thirteen is mainly built around a new keyword, Paradox - several cards trigger effects for every time a card is cast from outside the hand. Thirteen herself distributes a +1/+1 counter; some others let you draw cards or do damage. So not only does the deck swing a lot of stuff like Foretell, Cascade and Rebound, it rewards using those basically just for the sake of it, because even if you don't get a stronger benefit from casting the card like that, you proc an additional effect just for doing it. The Classic Doctors deck, for comparison, is mostly swinging Sagas: it's an entire deck built around watching a TV show and finding out you're watching a multi-part story, which I think is perfect. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Cleretic posted:The Classic Doctors deck, for comparison, is mostly swinging Sagas: it's an entire deck built around watching a TV show and finding out you're watching a multi-part story, which I think is perfect. Past Universes Beyond sets/decks were things I was familiar with, but I’ve never watched Dr.Who. It’s been really neat seeing people react to the cards (and explain the lore a bit) when I’m clueless on the references. There was a neat bit in the Elder Dragon Social Club game where River Song’s Diary was played, and someone really into the show commented “no spoilers…” then right after that River Song was played, and she had an ability called that. With such an emphasis on time travel, you can play the cards in basically random order and it still tells a weird little story. Also been basically addicted to Baldur’s Gate 3 lately, and It’s making me want to build around all those characters’ cards.
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Cleretic posted:The Tenth Doctor deck is primarily time counters, Thirteen is mainly built around a new keyword, Paradox - several cards trigger effects for every time a card is cast from outside the hand. Thirteen herself distributes a +1/+1 counter; some others let you draw cards or do damage. So not only does the deck swing a lot of stuff like Foretell, Cascade and Rebound, it rewards using those basically just for the sake of it, because even if you don't get a stronger benefit from casting the card like that, you proc an additional effect just for doing it. If you're actually really new, I would recommend picking up a starter deck set for dirt cheap off Amazon. There's a few of them, mostly extremely cheap at like 10-20 bucks for two decks, and they also come with codes you can input into the MTG: Arena client to get full copies of said starter decks on there as well for two people if you have a friend who also plays. They're much more simple decks in the Standard game type, rather than the commander game type that the doctor who decks are from, which is much more complicated a format.
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Captain Invictus posted:Are you new to magic in general? It sounds like you're familiar with it but also your first post in the thread is you saying you tried out the game with the crossover decks. Your second post sounds like you're more familiar with the game than you might actually be, so excuse me for asking. This is the first time I've actually played the game, but I've been peripherally aware of a lot of it for a while, partially thanks to playing Yu-Gi-Oh and partially thanks to just being friends with nerds. But I did a fair amount of research beforehand, both to generally know what decks I wanted and how to play it without stopping play to ask basic questions too much. I built myself a quick reference of terms this deck alone was using that I couldn't immediately understand, and it's 24 entries long; this thing is complicated. (Granted, a handful of those are just stuff like 'what's that diamond mana symbol' that I committed to memory pretty quickly.) The Thirteenth Doctor deck absolutely dropped me in the deep end, but it does at least mean I'm not quite working from zero, and was able to see the history of a lot of those mechanics just from how I prepared. So yeah, I know Paradox is new but time counters aren't, stuff like that. I think I probably will get into playing the game in some other forms at some point, and if so I've kinda got my eye on black or blue decks that have my favorite flavors of control, but I'll probably focus on getting good with this deck first.
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Cleretic posted:I think I probably will get into playing the game in some other forms at some point, Enjoy the kitchen table while it lasts.
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 For when you really want to wasteland yourself.
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HootTheOwl posted:
Yes. He's just kind of grumpy about it.
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HootTheOwl posted:
Indiana Jones just whipping a Void Winnower into play.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:
This is a pretty bad Field of Ruin. A map is nowhere near the use of replacing your own land. It still costs mana so it doesn't have the pop of Ghost Quarter to justify going a land down.
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HootTheOwl posted:
thats like double secret Reach because its stuffed inside a million words, so I will DEFINITELY accidentally smash a 1/1 flyer into a creature in draft
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HootTheOwl posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/the-lost-caverns-of-ixalan/card-image-gallery Weird but absolutely necessary, being able to filter out alternative treatments and find only cards that are in the set and only in draft boosters makes looking through the standard cards much easier.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Magic products for new players which have some degree of synergy and powerful interactions are a much better introduction to the game than something like the Game Night box, where the games get into stalls and last forever. And don't forget how important flavor is. At the end of the day, it wouldn't feel like a Doctor Who product if you weren't doing something weird and needlessly complex that's powerful if you line it up right. People are willing to deal with a lot for the sake of genre emulation.
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HootTheOwl posted:
I can't wait to see the weird brews people come up with to cascade poo poo into play with this Training Grounds is in standard, remember Edit: Ashaya, soul of the wild, Blossoming Tortoise, Training Grounds, Biomancers Familiar and Zirda are in pioneer and would make for a fun time
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Lurks With Wolves posted:And don't forget how important flavor is. At the end of the day, it wouldn't feel like a Doctor Who product if you weren't doing something weird and needlessly complex that's powerful if you line it up right. People are willing to deal with a lot for the sake of genre emulation. I am really impressed how well they implemented Doctor Who stuff into the game, actually. I sort of expected it'd just be cameo-filled reskins of 'normal' decks, but they really went above and beyond to make the deck play like it feels like it should. The decks also managing to be good certainly doesn't hurt, either. It weirdly helps me learn the game, too. The first time I looked at The Foretold Soldier I spent a good few seconds just trying to parse what it was trying to get across, and then I remembered what that guy's whole thing was in the show and it all made sense.
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Yeah, it helps identify the set only Commander cards since they changed up the numbering this time. Now they're 9- 18.
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There was a post on Maro's blog a few weeks ago where someone asked about the complexity of the Dr. Who decks and how that runs counter to their job as a way to get new players in being at cross purposes, and I forget the exact response but basically they've found that the floor for how complicated something can be before turning a new player off is way higher than they expected.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:
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