After looking at the oracle text for all the cards I put into my Cube, it's kind of funny how many creatures have had erratas changing or adding additional types. This is mostly of pre-Odyssey creatures; before creatures had multiple types.
I would say nearly all pre-Odyssey creatures in my Cube are different than what they say on their printed card. "Human" is the most common addition. This is relevant when you have many cards that let you "choose a creature type" as part of their effect. A lot of times the correct choice may be to choose "human," sometimes costing them the game because they chose incorrectly.
The people I play with when I play (and I don't play very often) are with people who don't really follow Magic religiously and are much more casual than me.
Does anyone play with house rules that creatures are just of their printed types?
Do you just keep reminding people what types every creature is until they get it?
Do you not run into this problem because your entire play group already knows all the changes as well as you do?
How do you handle it?
I feel like I should be making a cheat sheet or something. The amount of changes are that bad.
I have three such cards in my Cube - Coffin Queen, Khabál Ghoul and Nightscape Master, who are all now Zombies (and therefore work with the Cube's Zombie lords). I've just reminded people constantly as we go, and it seems to have sunk in.
Only in my tribal cube where it actually matters though...
For the same reason I don't have any "Creature type matters" cards in my regular cube. It's just too much of a hassle to include those few cards.
What about cutting little rectangles out of the sticky part of Post-it notes and writing on that? Just stick the damn thing on the card. It's yellow and obnoxious and nobody can miss it. You may be able to tell when it's thicker at times or when you're dealing and feel the face of the card with your fingers but... this isn't a super serious format anyway.
What about cutting little rectangles out of the sticky part of Post-it notes and writing on that? Just stick the damn thing on the card. It's yellow and obnoxious and nobody can miss it. You may be able to tell when it's thicker at times or when you're dealing and feel the face of the card with your fingers but... this isn't a super serious format anyway.
You'd have to really try to notice the "mark".
I would use this technique until the regulars understand the erratas.
Most of the creature type errata are entirely self-evident from looking at the artwork. In any case I'd probably write the type onto the perfect fit sleeve for each erratum just to make sure.
What about cutting little rectangles out of the sticky part of Post-it notes and writing on that? Just stick the damn thing on the card. It's yellow and obnoxious and nobody can miss it. You may be able to tell when it's thicker at times or when you're dealing and feel the face of the card with your fingers but... this isn't a super serious format anyway.
I've used that method for errata on at least one card in my non-tribal cube (Impulse, adding "Don't shuffle your library afterwards." to the Visions version.) It isn't the prettiest solution, but it works and I've never really concerned myself about players feeling for the post-it square.
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I would say nearly all pre-Odyssey creatures in my Cube are different than what they say on their printed card. "Human" is the most common addition. This is relevant when you have many cards that let you "choose a creature type" as part of their effect. A lot of times the correct choice may be to choose "human," sometimes costing them the game because they chose incorrectly.
The people I play with when I play (and I don't play very often) are with people who don't really follow Magic religiously and are much more casual than me.
I feel like I should be making a cheat sheet or something. The amount of changes are that bad.
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Only in my tribal cube where it actually matters though...
For the same reason I don't have any "Creature type matters" cards in my regular cube. It's just too much of a hassle to include those few cards.
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Well - I have spared my 7ED foil Lord of Atlantis from this treatment.
You can also write on the perfect fit sleeve if you double sleeve. That's the best option, if you don't want to write on your cards imo.
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What about cutting little rectangles out of the sticky part of Post-it notes and writing on that? Just stick the damn thing on the card. It's yellow and obnoxious and nobody can miss it. You may be able to tell when it's thicker at times or when you're dealing and feel the face of the card with your fingers but... this isn't a super serious format anyway.
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You'd have to really try to notice the "mark".
I would use this technique until the regulars understand the erratas.
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Yeah - My tribal cube aren't double sleeved though.
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