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Penny Arcade - Comic - Magicians, Part Two
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Magicians, Part Two
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But yes, this was me when I played Magic. Intentionally included shitty cards in my deck just because they had cool art. In fact, I stopped playing around the time they started getting more serious about standardizing their style, and the art became less artsy and more generic.
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However, it is hilarious that Gabe would ignore the lands from a single set because they're all the same (art) card. I bet he would make a singleton deck just to keep from having dupe art.
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you know i feel like games like hearthstone really help kids with that problem, no mana or energy cards to fit into the deck, you can just put together whatever shitty combination of cards you want and play away
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It's an ok system. But I don't think "mana screwed" needed to be fixed. It's a part of the game. That's part of what makes MTG unique, and it's a good system. You know it's a good system because nearly every TCG that has come out in the last 20 years has copied (with minor alterations) The MTG formula. It's a formula that works, and getting lands out on the table is a part of the deckbuilding aspect of the game.
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Lands are absolutely a valid element of strategy in deck construction and play.
Armageddon decks for example were my favorite. Plus so many lands have other abilities. Or other cards that affect lands, turn them into creatures, etc.
Lands in MTG are far far more than "drop, tap, gain 1 mana".
Have you seen the card art for Dominaria though?
Inject that shit right into my veins.
Dudes, Lucas is about to go hard into MTG.
Hunter has a pretty cheap spells-only deck that works on standard ladder right now actually.
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Hunter very specifically has a weapon that only works if you only have spells in your deck - and it's actually a surprisingly viable build.
You're going to have to be a lot more specific about what "good" means in this context. I don't know much about Magic, but this statement only seems to have any internal logic if by "good" you mean "financially successful business model."
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They have a much bigger impact in the deck building aspect than the in play aspect. I'd enjoy more non-basic lands that can have secondary effects but that too has its own issues such as you'd see them pop a lot repeatedly because all decks need mana generation.
But their use allowed for things like doing multi-colored decks, trading in some reliability for a bigger card pool. And the colored mana tied to lands allowed for more out there formats like Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander which remains the most fun I've had with a CCG. The knock-on effects of the mechanic are many but since they're mostly in the deck building aspect they're not as significant for more competitive game styles that favor adapting decks others have collaboratively honed.
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To build on this, every CCG needs a mechanic that keeps all the decks from being exactly the same. This is really problematic when you have generic resources (like Hearthstone) instead of flavored resources, like Magic. Hearthstone addresses this with classes, but even with that, there is usually only one deck for each class that is competitive, and frequently some classes are just out of luck. By making it so that you had to include your resource cards in the deck, Magic opened up the idea that there were different ratios of cards--and card power levels--that could be competitive.
The old Star Wars game did this by giving each card a "Force Value" or something like that, where really weak cards had a high force value, and vice versa. Instead of rolling a die, you'd flip over a card and get the force value. So if you had all Tusken Raiders, your "random" dice rolls would be all 10, if you had all Darth Vaders and Emperors, your "random" rolls would be all 1.
Edit: Pretty embarrassed I can't spell Star Wars right on the first try...
guys, "all spells" doesn't mean "all spells, no minions/creatures"
it means all spells, no lands
they really went all-out with fantastic art in Dominaria
if you're talking about the preconstructed planeswalker decks (the Teferi one is blue/white), it looks like they aren't part of it. The angel is Shalai, Voice of Plenty and the stained glass wings pic is On Serra's Wings. The knight from Wesley's post is Danitha Capashen, Paragon.
Wait, is that Karn? Wasn't Karn kind of dead from a sudden case of Oh God Not The Fucking Phyrexians Again?
But seriously, this MTG rabbit hole goes deep. You know what I've been doing today? Looking at set lists for all the sets currently included in Standard format.
Did you guys know there's an Egyptian themed set from a while ago? With anubis's and shit? Like omg you guys. I need to just give WotC all my money right now.
A while ago? That was last year. :-P
Did you hear about the Meso-American Pirate & Dinosaur set? Steampunk India? There was also a Greek Mythology set from a few years back if those gods are more to your taste.
The fuck you mean "Scion of Urza". Urza was a wanker! Like half of everything that went wrong in Magic was explicitly his fault! Dude's basically Fëanor levels of fuckup! You don't have to keep your deadbeat dad's name, Karn!