i did order one of those just because they looked so cool. i have zero use for those cards though... maybe i should actually build the cube i was considering doing last year, I already have power proxies from that idea lol
I got my Ito and Shinkawa secret lairs in today, and apparently 1/4 of the bonus cards is a Shadowborn Apostle worth like $40+ and the other 3 are worth stone cold nothing. So that's fun.
Guess what my bonus cards were? Hint: They aren't worth anything.
What's this $170 for All Will Be One set box on Amazon? They trying to sucker people or is this the new price? Edit: Seems other places are sane, so it's Amazon.
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I absolutely love this combination of name and abilities. Top tier effort from the design team.
I'm trying out a Rusko Clockmaker + Oracle of Alpha deck and when it goes it really, really goes. Rusko may be my favorite new busted alchemy card in general, with a couple exile/return to play effects it gets stupid really fast.
i don't think i even booted up arena this year, so i'm in the bottom 10% of accounts probably
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Where do ya'll get these from
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I recently stumbled across discussion of a format called “Premodern” which seems to fit my existing card pool. It looks like one of those fan made formats? Is there any popularity to it or is it one of those “good luck finding people who play it” things.
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admanbunionize your workplaceSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
I recently stumbled across discussion of a format called “Premodern” which seems to fit my existing card pool. It looks like one of those fan made formats? Is there any popularity to it or is it one of those “good luck finding people who play it” things.
I think only your local Magic community can answer that question. It's definitely a niche format, but with a lot of appeal and a not-terrible buy-in. I assume it has a decent community on MTGO, if that's any value to you.
It's a lot like old school except they learned that telling people "no reprints no proxies" was actually a really bad way to get people to play your casual fan format
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Premodern is the community old-school wishes it was, but it turns out old-school is actually just the players who looked back fondly on all the cheating you could get away with.
(This is anecdotal and a joke, but the last thing I heard about old-school was some IRL friends of mine went to a large-ish event in the area, one of their friends lost to blatant cheating in the finals, and the response from the organizers was basically a big shrug.)
Premodern is a really stupid name for a format and the people who came up with it are creatively bankrupt.
It's an actual word, for what it's worth, and does pretty easily explain what the format is.
Well, somewhat. My immediate assumption for "premodern" would be "everything printed before 8th Edition" but it's actually the cards printed between Old School 93/94 and Modern. Not entirely sure what the logic was there, to be honest.
So, there's drama because people are massively dunking on Sheldon for saying that Mother of Machines is basically on the short list for a ban (note that still means a year before deciding) because is too "generically good" and bad for EDH. Reasons to dunk on him are:
Same format as dumb cards like Dockside, Oracle or Crypt.
Same guy that shat on Legacy players complaining about Initiative, a mechanic he helped design, for being bad for other eternal formats.
5 mana creature without inherent protection that needs other cards to get value.
As a Commander, is on Mono-White, largelly agreed to be the worst and less fun deck around.
Issue kinda blowing up, so will see how that goes.
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admanbunionize your workplaceSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
So, there's drama because people are massively dunking on Sheldon for saying that Mother of Machines is basically on the short list for a ban (note that still means a year before deciding) because is too "generically good" and bad for EDH. Reasons to dunk on him are:
Same format as dumb cards like Dockside, Oracle or Crypt.
Same guy that shat on Legacy players complaining about Initiative, a mechanic he helped design, for being bad for other eternal formats.
5 mana creature without inherent protection that needs other cards to get value.
As a Commander, is on Mono-White, largelly agreed to be the worst and less fun deck around.
Issue kinda blowing up, so will see how that goes.
Dunking on Sheldon is basically sport for EDH players. This feels like just another dipshit thing he's said in a long list of dipshit things -- but it's still fundamentally a casual format.
It would be funny if this were the thing that actually made Sheldon step down.
I have enjoyed the dunking on Sheldon. I didn’t realize it had continued on today.
But yeah, getting over being angry that they have design stage input on anything period, i still have a major issue with him thinking that it’s a reasonable thing to send that “don’t ever print that” email. I understand figurative language for impact, but “don’t print this standard card because of the word of guy only notable for jumpstarting a popular casual format to give bored judges something to do on breaks” is really ridiculous.
Like we just had EW and both legacy and vintage were a showcase for initiative being not ok for head to head play. It’s like the most obvious miss you could imagine. Every competitive player called it out immediately in the legacy discords, but it was mostly living in the fringe until those cards hit mtgo. And it’s really sad, relative to things in a card game, that for these formats that get only 1-2 big events each year to showcase their cool stuff, they keep getting taken over by some new commander card not tested at all for it.
And maybe people would be more forgiving of Sheldon now if he hadn’t used THAT event to make a giant ass out of himself and was directly insulting the concept that design should care about other eternal formats for commander products. And that he gets to do it as a mouthpiece for scg is just frustrating but scg under new ownership is already something I’ve written off ever since they dropped Covid protocols the weekend after major convention staff died from Covid and showed their whole ass about it this last year.
In theory, I have no problem with the RC getting access to cards in order to make suggestions. Many cards in all products are targeted at Commander, so having the Commander people discuss those cards is pretty reasonable. And, practically speaking, this also meant we saw way, way fewer stupid takes about Lutri being a design mistake. We still saw some, but the fact the RC precommunicated it was going to get banned killed most of it.
That said, Sheldon is a terrible spokesperson and it continues here. In addition to his bizarre thoughts on what is and isn't acceptable, he also consistently fails to understand that as head of the RC, he can't publicly talk about his personal opinions as if they are separate from official RC directives. It's mind boggling that he posts articles saying "here are my thoughts on trends and potential bans in Commander. I haven't told the other RC members about this", and it's even more absurd that he'd try to get a card unprinted in Standard and then publicly throw his weight around when he didn't get his way. He manages to simultaneously think he's an important figure to WotC when he isn't while thinking he can be Just A Guy to the community he actually contrs.
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Sometimes, I'm good at mtg:
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
The hard line for profit sharing is 750k gross, so a lot of outrage seems to be people discovering how the sausage gets made on contracts. It explicitely defines what is and what isn't Fair Use, so content creators know what to expect. All of this is completely normal outside D&D.
WotC seems to think they can retroactively revoke their perpetual licenses granted by the original OGL 1.0, which would mean, for example, paizo now needs to pay them to make pathfinder, so that part is gonna go to court probably (I think WotC would lose this argument but who knows)
The new OGL 1.1 also explicitly is not a perpetual license, they reserve the right to change the agreement at any time with 30 days warning which is just, why would anyone do any business using this shit, the D&D core rules and shit are not the least bit irreplaceable
The other thing to note is that mechanical game rules are not copyrightable.
But game terms are, which is why nobody could use the word "tapping" on their card games until 2014.
This is explicitely about declaring a big lawyer fight against Paizo, so will have to see how that goes. There's a good chance thet get something at least. And an out clause to be able to fully revoke licenses from people doing a racism, which, ok then.
Document does say "we are aware that we are going to get flak for this, but we want the laywer fight more, so".
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I absolutely love this combination of name and abilities. Top tier effort from the design team.
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Apparently I played a lot
I wonder how many of those games were against Sparky?
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I think only your local Magic community can answer that question. It's definitely a niche format, but with a lot of appeal and a not-terrible buy-in. I assume it has a decent community on MTGO, if that's any value to you.
(This is anecdotal and a joke, but the last thing I heard about old-school was some IRL friends of mine went to a large-ish event in the area, one of their friends lost to blatant cheating in the finals, and the response from the organizers was basically a big shrug.)
It's an actual word, for what it's worth, and does pretty easily explain what the format is.
Well, somewhat. My immediate assumption for "premodern" would be "everything printed before 8th Edition" but it's actually the cards printed between Old School 93/94 and Modern. Not entirely sure what the logic was there, to be honest.
Issue kinda blowing up, so will see how that goes.
Dunking on Sheldon is basically sport for EDH players. This feels like just another dipshit thing he's said in a long list of dipshit things -- but it's still fundamentally a casual format.
It would be funny if this were the thing that actually made Sheldon step down.
But yeah, getting over being angry that they have design stage input on anything period, i still have a major issue with him thinking that it’s a reasonable thing to send that “don’t ever print that” email. I understand figurative language for impact, but “don’t print this standard card because of the word of guy only notable for jumpstarting a popular casual format to give bored judges something to do on breaks” is really ridiculous.
Like we just had EW and both legacy and vintage were a showcase for initiative being not ok for head to head play. It’s like the most obvious miss you could imagine. Every competitive player called it out immediately in the legacy discords, but it was mostly living in the fringe until those cards hit mtgo. And it’s really sad, relative to things in a card game, that for these formats that get only 1-2 big events each year to showcase their cool stuff, they keep getting taken over by some new commander card not tested at all for it.
And maybe people would be more forgiving of Sheldon now if he hadn’t used THAT event to make a giant ass out of himself and was directly insulting the concept that design should care about other eternal formats for commander products. And that he gets to do it as a mouthpiece for scg is just frustrating but scg under new ownership is already something I’ve written off ever since they dropped Covid protocols the weekend after major convention staff died from Covid and showed their whole ass about it this last year.
Throat cancer is what will cause Sheldon to step down. If internet mobs were going to do so it would've happened ages ago.
AC:NH Chris from Glosta SW-5173-3598-2899 DA-4749-1014-4697
That said, Sheldon is a terrible spokesperson and it continues here. In addition to his bizarre thoughts on what is and isn't acceptable, he also consistently fails to understand that as head of the RC, he can't publicly talk about his personal opinions as if they are separate from official RC directives. It's mind boggling that he posts articles saying "here are my thoughts on trends and potential bans in Commander. I haven't told the other RC members about this", and it's even more absurd that he'd try to get a card unprinted in Standard and then publicly throw his weight around when he didn't get his way. He manages to simultaneously think he's an important figure to WotC when he isn't while thinking he can be Just A Guy to the community he actually contrs.
Good ol' UW Soldiers. I'm also a giant sucker for decks that work well with Kayla's Reconstruction.
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The local testing squad discord is in love with this UR artifact deck though so I’m gonna have to try it out
Steel Seraph is one of my favorite arts of the set too.
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This was my first time using it. I hope it isn't the last. Maybe next time I won't just give lifelink to my biggest thing that already flies?
EDIT: Oh you said "arts". That too!
AC:NH Chris from Glosta SW-5173-3598-2899 DA-4749-1014-4697
Get it?
I mean, a big flying lifelinker is a pretty good way to win at draft.
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capitalism capitalisms again!
also, it's possibly in violation of fair use/copyright laws
https://www.meeplemountain.com/articles/the-board-game-designers-guide-to-intellectual-property-law/
The new OGL 1.1 also explicitly is not a perpetual license, they reserve the right to change the agreement at any time with 30 days warning which is just, why would anyone do any business using this shit, the D&D core rules and shit are not the least bit irreplaceable
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But game terms are, which is why nobody could use the word "tapping" on their card games until 2014.
This is explicitely about declaring a big lawyer fight against Paizo, so will have to see how that goes. There's a good chance thet get something at least. And an out clause to be able to fully revoke licenses from people doing a racism, which, ok then.
Document does say "we are aware that we are going to get flak for this, but we want the laywer fight more, so".