uggy posted:

I do actually wonder what everybody's fav/pet card is.

wild mongrel

BJPaskoff posted:

I don't even know what to name the next thread, we're all out of editions! "Magic: The Gathering: The Megathread: Magic 2011 Edition" sounds weird in 2014, doesn't it? And we can't use the naming scheme of the following year (like naming this one Magic 2015 edition) because there needs to be more than one thread per year.

Bread Set Jettison posted:

On the other end of the spectrum, I really really like all of the Eldrazi. I had just restarted playing Magic at the tail end of worldwake, and the first card I saw from RoE was Ulamog and just thought whooooaaa how do I even use this? It was mind blowingly large and expensive, and just really really cool.

Also Vent Sentinel. RoE was the best.

redstormpopcorn posted:

MTG Familiar owns because it's developed by a guy who loves Magic and doesn't want to dick over other players.

C-Euro posted:

Woah, I never realized she did Force of Will.

Kabanaw posted:

If you're interested in the psychographics, here's Maro's articles on them:

Timmy, Johnny, and Spike: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr11b
Timmy, Johnny, and Spike revisited: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr220b
Melvin and Vorthos: https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr278

C-Euro posted:

10? I thought I was bad trying make #s 3 and 4, neither of which I will probably play-
Crosis
Captain Sisay
Oros (WIP)
Budgety Momir (WIP, maybe becoming mono-green with Yeva?)

Korak posted:

It's just my philosophy of what WotC should be doing with every set is pushing Standard/Modern, and this set doesn't look like it will be allowed in any other format?

Stinky Pit posted:

My point was that you can be perfectly friendly and polite when playing the game with the goal of not being invited back. You've got zero clue if steve was rude, or friendly, an rear end in a top hat, or polite. Just because his goal is to get people to stop nagging him to play a miserable format doesn't immediately mean he behaved like a 1980's movie bully.

Death Bot posted:

The point that they're both making in the first place is that, having expressed that they don't want to play commander, this is exactly what the other party is doing to them in the first place

Fox of Stone posted:

Conspiracy sounds like a great set to include true name nemesis if you missed out on the commander rush. I wouldn't mind seeing FOW or wasteland at uncommon (just like their original printing) either.

Fox of Stone posted:

They are both appreciated cards in multiplayer and are uncommon.

Boxman posted:

TNN in every multiplayer set forever would be pretty funny though.

Fox of Stone posted:

I could see that too but I think they belong at uncommon.

Fox of Stone posted:

And yes I know Serra is back to uncommon where she belongs. Just like FOW and wasteland and strip mine for that matter.

Count Bleck posted:

Putting back cogwork to take cogwork and FOIL cogwork

Fox of Stone posted:

Fox of Stone posted:

Ah yes. I forgot they print counter spell and cancel at rare.

JerryLee posted:

"it'd be justifiable to reprint it at either uncommon

JerryLee posted:

I tend to think that reprinting something at its former rarity is the default and doesn't have any sort of burden of proof attached to it.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

And thus the argument for Force at uncommon: gently caress single prices!

Death Bot posted:

I'm curious, what am I supposed to do in this situation? I do a good job of making sure to line them up neatly and whatever, but if someone's 3 packs behind me am I just supposed to tell everyone else to not pass packs either?

Sharzak posted:

a man who has perhaps the largest belly on any human being I've ever seen

Veyrall posted:

Also, Sharzak, I don't know why the existance of utilikilts bothers you as much as it does. I've seen way worse with the Yu-Gi-Oh crowd at my LGS that "cosplays" as "original characters" that generally consist of over-dyed, over-sprayed spike hair, plastic shoulderpads, neon colors, and a desperate lack of aesthetic sense. But they don't steal anything and are pretty polite, which apparently puts them miles ahead of other Yu-Gi-Oh crowds.

Some Numbers posted:

Why is Blackcleave Cliffs $6+?

CountFosco posted:

Not really, because they could very easily not reprint fetches in a return to zendikar block. I don't think they want fetches in standard ever again, really.

Jabor posted:

I'm still holding out hope for fetch+shock M15 super-standard.

JerryLee posted:

They could also put a theoretically playable prismatic land or two in the core set, like City of Brass, Grand Coliseum, or Gemstone Mine, or I guess more likely a new land entirely designed to appeal to infants who will shy away from harsh and punishing mechanics like "take a point of damage" or "a limited number of uses." Or maybe Reflecting Pool, that wouldn't be a bad core set staple.

BizarroAzrael posted:

Don't they sometimes do black intro decks built around the idea from time to time? "X is just another resource" is one of the main characteristics of the colour.

Konstantin posted:

I doubt it would anger game stores that much, sure the prices on those particular singles will take a hit, but they get a cut of each $200 sale which should make up for it.

C-Euro posted:

They won't do that because of the same shadowy cabal that keeps the Reserved List in place by holding Maro's lost Roseanne scripts hostage. But yes, all but a tiny fraction of people who are into Magic would like that to happen.

Ragnar34 posted:

I don't know, it seemed pretty obvious to me the first time someone spelled it out. I mean, I was sceptical at first

JerryLee posted:

One problem is that Wizards's printing department isn't very nimble. They keep up an excellent throughput of stuff, but when they need to react to new information--e.g., "Modern Masters was a good idea, we should print a bunch more of it"

JerryLee posted:

Fair enough, I should have spoken more generally of a Modern Masters-like product. Unless they also said specifically that this one wet fart (in terms of supply) was all the injection that Modern staples were getting, ever, in which case I guess I can go ahead and rip the bandaid off my hopes.

Aaron Forsythe, in Modern Masters Explained, posted:

If the set works and accomplishes what we want—more Modern players—we'll contemplate making another set like it some time down the road. But for now, our plan is to stick with our small printing and keep a close eye on what happens.

Stinky Pit posted:

Wizards printed a very astute amount of Modern Masters. They managed to sell a significant amount of product to a niche of its customers, at a significant premium (double what they usually pay), without interrupting the pipeline of products that sell to the millions of casual players who actually make them money.

toadee posted:

I really don't see what Chronicles 2 would have been a big issue except among a few. Chronicles 1 was a 'debacle' among a select few who actually had a chance to open more than 5 packs of Legends. For 99.9% of us playing at the time, it was like mana from heaven. I loved the loving poo poo out of Chronicles and I would love 'Modern/Legacy Staples: The boxload Unlimited'.

XyrlocShammypants posted:

For some. But eh, screw those people.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

On the other hand, a 150 dollar card suddenly becoming 20 means more people will buy it.

Supply & demand, yo.

toadee posted:

Im sure some retailers that aren't diversified enough to make money elsewhere/with the new influx of people who can play the game they want to play will take a hit. Some will fail. This happens literally any time something shakes up any retail market. Others will not fail, they will thrive, new places will come about to take advantage of the new shift in the market dynamics and overall, more people will be playing these awesome formats because they can. This is better for us, so really I think the massive net positive of availability far outweighs the hit some retailers will face. Also I don't care one single bit about individuals who have money 'invested' or whatever in Magic. That's a risk you take for storing money in the form of cardboard art rectangles.

toadee posted:

Then why does Starcity want WOTC to end the reserve list and print Legacy staples, devaluing their entire stock of them?

toadee posted:

Whatever, I don't really care what others opinions are, the result is going to likely be somewhere in the middle, trying to please everyone and just pissing us all off in the process.