TheChirurgeon posted:

My point is, I think you're asking for more than they're capable of producing with the available staff and resources. Magic story has never been good when tied to a set because a Magic set isn't a good way to tell a linear story. When the story stuff has to act in service of that it, it's going to struggle.


This is only a problem if you think of those as something more than world building flavor. I look back at sets like Antiquities and The Dark that hint at really interesting backstories and those are much more compelling and interesting than the more concrete, story-focused approaches we get now. I don't need a story to mention or touch on every character shown on a card. It's OK to just have cards that show us cool things in the world of the set. Sometimes (most of the times), less is more.


Wait, Ashiok is a dude?

InterrupterJones posted:

You underestimate this thread's abilities.


There's an iOS game? I hesitantly ask, is it any good?

Star Man posted:

I went 1-2 in a prerelease because nine mountains in your deck means you will never, ever have the two mountains available to cast Glorybringer and Sweltering Sands.

Pontius Pilate posted:

Oh thank god. I'm sold. What's the best inner sleeve for 'em?


Weird. I checked your blog a couple days ago for the first time in ages curious if you were still writing. Seemed like a no, especially since I don't care about LoL, but here you are.

Bart Fargo posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ov8Q-ZaD5c&t=331s

I don't know how worried you are about water damage, etc. but the side-loaders aren't that great at protection. This covers both Ultra Pro and Ultimate Guard.

Siivola posted:

So hey how long should I sit on my Glorybringer and Rhonas before flipping them for store credit?

moush posted:

so did you just sneak in a luggage scale and use it?

Oldsrocket_27 posted:

He's also consistently just not very good at magic, and the combination of the two sometimes makes me wonder why people give him the time of day, until I realize what most of us are like (exactly like him).

Bulky Bartokomous posted:

As I said, I was pretty anal about my cards.

Bulky Bartokomous posted:

Count Bleck posted:

This is how the Pummeler deck wins now, it's delightful.

Count Bleck posted:

A guy I know built a silly pummeler deck that runs this jerk as an alternate wincon:



Along with Pia's Revolution, Ornithopters, Flings, the Manticores, it's actually really funny that they would print a bunch of artifact recursion, Ornithopters, Not-Spellbombs, an Atog, and loving Fling all in the same format.

Siivola posted:

So wait, there's reasonably competitive mono-black, blue and maybe even red decks going around right now?

Is Standard like this after every new set?

AceClown posted:

Just pay Pat and Ced a poo poo ton of money to cover every event ever and never look back

mandatory lesbian posted:

there's like 2 in ohio that's not a big drive

course i drove halfway across the us within 2 days so i might not be the best judge

mailorder bees! posted:

Finished getting my set of Terese Neilsen judge basic lands signed. I'm so excited!

Ein Sexmonster posted:

If you have amazon prime, linking your twitch and amazon accounts will stop ads.

Sickening posted:

They are going to be cheaper most of the time and it will make up for the 20 less sleeves. I don't dislike getting sleeves in 100, but unless you are buying sleeves in bulk or are set on a certain color, generally getting 100 ds sleeves means you just have 75 dirty sleeves and 25 clean sleeves eventually. The ultra pro double sleeve a little easier but come in less colors. The DS sleeves also have an issue with not being tournament playable with double sided cards in certain colors which the ultra pros are all will pass.

Tortilla Maker posted:

For someone getting reintroduced to Magic after 15 years, would you guys generally recommend a specific format to get back into?

Standard would have the smaller card pool to keep track of; Legacy offers up the chance to play the old cards I'm familiar with but has 15 years worth of new cards; and Modern is somewhere in the middle.

Seems like everyone at my LGS was playing with dual lands at a Legacy event. Seems like a pricey format but does the constant rotation of Standard make the costs comparable?

mcmagic posted:

I can live with that I just except that. It's skipping back like 2 seconds every 30 or so seconds. It's completely unwatchable.

#BanUlamog

Sickening posted:

His personality matches, trust me.

80s James Hetfield posted:

Did WOTC make Gerry cover up his SCG shirt?

Subways Jared posted:

Well between going from the Edit Deck page, to the overview, and finally to saving the copy I edited, I go through 4 different page reloads. And when I only need to change 1 or 2 cards, thats a pain in the rear end. It's not very visual either, unless you specifically go to that overview tab.

The best one I've used is actually DeckedBuilder app on my phone. Very visual, awesome filters, easy to edit decks and auto-save etc. I just don't want to be doing this on my phone, I want to use my laptop.

Dehtraen posted:

Was he on Aluren or was he on that terrible mono red deck he was scrubbing out of tournaments with months ago?

Dehtraen posted:

Is he still on his "I refuse to play brainstorm / force / blue cards" trip?

Errant Gin Monks posted:

Baugh should concede that game to let the other team into day 2. He was done and locked out.

Dehtraen posted:

Not as horrible as the one non-green land keep in the finals and not drawing another land

Walked posted:

Yeah; I've been hugely active on MTGO since the release of Amonkhet. It's super good but has weak spots too. It's really not so great against UR/x decks in my test


But the deck is good. Hit me up if you want to chat about it.

Entropic posted:

Birds of Paradise comes closest to being a budget replacement option, but Exalted ends up mattering way more often than you'd think.

Walked posted:

To be honest; yeah. It'd be fine. Exalted is nice; but not generally making the difference in all but the GRINDIEST of games. If we were playing a more midrange gameplan it'd be different, but we're aiming to combo so Exalted means less than average.

Your curve in a goldfish scenario is:
T2 Druid
T3 Vizier ---> Chord or CoCo / Other Mana sink

The only piece that Noble is helpful for is a T2-3 Chord or Company, and any mana dork will do that decently enough.

Noble is preferred, but minor all said.

Molybdenum posted:

I was very annoyed when Deion Sanders tried out for the Raiders and got a spot on the starting lineup without having ground his way up in high school and college football like I did and furthermore

Edit: poo poo I think it was Bo Jackson that was baseball first and football second, I think Deion was the other way around

80s James Hetfield posted:

What card was a fake and how did they find out?

BTW, isn't there an SCG Open today? They're showing last weeks team event

Rap Record Hoarder posted:

How does this work? The druid's ability 'sees" the counter and triggers but the vizier's ability keeps the counter from landing? What's the kill mechanism?