Ramos posted:

Ajani joins up and it becomes Scooby Doo.

Ramos posted:

You mean UG? Because a golgari merfolk isn't going fit too well into that merfolk deck.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Wastes land
Tap: add (D) to your manapool
Tap, (D), sac: destroy target nonbasic land

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Slivers

Zoness posted:

To be fair goons aren't the vast majority of their playerbase and i hear there are some goons who unironically like UR

Zoness posted:

The thing is, if you're in a position to leak cards, you presumably

1. have a contract with wizards to have access to them early
2. stole them from someone w/ access
3. are a literal wizard

In case it's 1, standard operating procedure is for the company to break future contracts with the leaking party. In case it's 2 there's probably some legal recourse and in case it's 3 please teach me literal magic.

Rimusutera posted:

We're talking about 2 as literal theft of property belonging to a Wizards employee here, I don't know what you're on about.

mandatory lesbian posted:

it seems like they expect judges to be representatives of the company

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

the company has a rudimentary comprehension of PR.

Snacksmaniac posted:

Hasbro is an American multinational toy and board game company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world.

odiv posted:

So what is the likelyhood/upshot of someone like SCG running an unsanctioned event if they can't find a judge for a region?

Is that just a non-starter?

mandatory lesbian posted:

just when you think you see the bottom of wizards digital incompetence, you find out they let a third-party handle their tournament organizing

always be closing posted:

For real, every public facing wotc employee I've seen is just trash.

Chill la Chill posted:

Now is a great time to get into force of will which p much plays the same but is improved. Before all your cardboard is worthless.

Snacksmaniac posted:

Leaks are bad guys. It's like stealing. Don't leak cards. Don't talk about leak cards. Don't repost leaked cards. Volunteer at large advertising events for no pay or next to nothing. If everyone reading this bought only one intro deck, our drive would be over.

GeneX posted:

Did none of you aside from Zoness try to look at this without immediately demonizing WotC?

Like, it seems pretty clear to me that what happened was: there were a bunch of leaks for a few sets now (eg this had been happening before OGW, in like, I dunno, KTK and DTK: maybe they revealed mantis rider or something). WotC learned that all of the people in this group knew about the leaks and told no one. So in response, in order to send a message that not telling on leakers will get you in trouble (though not legal trouble), they gave these people who deliberately refused to reveal the leak source a short suspension. Which is, uh, something they're well in their rights to do: judges aren't employees, regardless of the morality of that, and the DCI is allowed to unilaterally ban someone for any reason. They gave the actual leakers a much longer ban, so it seems like they exercised a bit of discretion.

Is it probably a dumb move? Yeah. It looks like they tried to get everyone who knew about earlier leaks (like the theoretical KTK one I mentioned) and knew about the Wastes/Kozilek leak but said nothing. They apparently also got a bunch of people who had no clue about earlier leaks. I haven't actually seen any of the judges categorically deny that they knew about a source of leaks and didn't tell WotC, so this is just being charitable to the judges' point of view.

It would be nice if WotC would actually say more than "this was happening over multiple sets", because it's also possible that they meant "these people were leaking stuff from multiple sets, and we banned everyone who ever associated with them" instead of the much more reasonable possibility I outlined above.

always be closing posted:

Helene is not really that great at her job, she does the bare minimum, and is lauded for it.

Emerson Cod posted:

There was a private Facebook group where cards were leaked. The fact that these players were judges probably had nothing to do with their suspensions but good luck parsing that from the shitstorm on reddit.

Zoness posted:

I think the distinction is pretty simply if you google the cardname can you find it. I think I've done that for every card I've seen posted in here (or checked the URL) just to see what people are saying about it, but if there's no google result that's a pretty good sign it's private?


I mean, it seems to me the set of conditions to have a problem here is pretty rare:

1. Someone in your group has to have access to a private source of leaks
2. That person is only posting to the group
3. This happens over multiple spoiler seasons with the same original source into the group.

And it's not necessarily implied that mere involvement in the group was a sufficient condition to be banned.

Angry Grimace posted:

The market rate for employees is whatever people will actually work for and its apparently really hard to get a job there (see: Melissa De Tora's contract expiring without being renewed).

As much as I'd like to bag on them for it, there's no actual reason for them to pay employees any more than they do.

mandatory lesbian posted:

full communism now, is the correct answer to fixing wizards

Elyv posted:

ThePeavstenator posted:

More like Oath of Suck My Dick lmao

Lieutenant Centaur posted:

These are the best FNMs. I'm sure yall have the guy in your LGS who loves to give commentary on what he would have done different and asks why you're running card X instead of Y because Y is so powerful and seems offended you're not playing like he would.