Oh, the old discussion of Wizards being miserable on paper. Why they asked a deck-designer so nicely to make a BW Tokens if they don't want to print tokens?
You may say whatever you want of Venser vs. Koth, but that's a product without problems for that. No tokens, comes with two emblems with those cool Magic backs (that I believe MANY newcomers made the mistake of shuffling that in). I personally hate to mix other products/sets things on others, and because of that, even with the fact that I got cool foil plains set to replace the whole Sorin's deck plains, I won't be doing it, because, you know, it is not from the product.
Atleast this complaint isn't, by far, the worst of things. One could easily live with that.
Well, there is pauper. It exists and actually has a pretty decent following online, but you have to understand most people don't have that issue and would rather play standard than pauper, with or without high prices...
Now, as I have said in many threads... "There needs to be" requires justification. Without facts to back that up, it's just an opinion, and like other unsubstantiated opinions, it is pointless...
That was a nice post.
This whole "There needs to be" won't happen, specially to netdecking. Let's make an comparison with another sport, well, like NASCAR or Formula One (since are the ones that I have more knowledge, but, this applies to everything that uses some tech, either to play, either on materials). There was this happy little time called the 50's, where in motorsport, every single car were different from each other. For example, let's take 1952. We had engines ranging from, Inline with four cilinders to monstruous Enzo Ferrari's V12s. Let's not talk about the chassis, that most of them were handmade and the slight difference would mean a car being half second slower than the rest of the field because the artist wanted to make the thing in a hurry. This is Magic on it's primordials. No one could share with the wide world their deck, their interactions, and tournaments had very ununiform (if that's even a word) fields.
Then the time passed, and we reach today. Pick a singular season, such as 2009's. The engines were the same and patterned to every team (rules enforced that, but, before that, with free engine development, they tended to be equal aswell), and the chassis and bodywork were very similar. Due to financial problems, Honda quit Formula 1 with a well build and developed car, after several rule changes and a genius named Ross Brawn, who worked for the team, takes the management of the team and debuts the season with several wins, mostly due to a part on the back of the car that granted more downforce advantage. After the british race (mid-season or something), the richer teams copied the system and the advantage the team had was gone, and Red Bull proceeded to have the best car on grid on most tracks, because their good, specific tunes for low speeds. This is Magic today. If something powerful comes to life, in few hours people will be testing builds of it today, then tuning it to face mirror matches, or to face some certain field.
Every sport that has tech attached to it will lead to uniformization. Far from what's being said here, this doesn't lead to a blatant copy scenario, but to a scenario that requires more dedication, testing and knowledge (including heavy data analysis and math) to make a version of a certain deck the best possible.
And to read aswell. And to understand. I won't even say how it is hard to play this. What's not hard about it is smashing the opponent's face playing this to the floor.
This is not the Custom Card Creation forum. Guessing at roughly what a card does based on its named or art, other cards in the cycle, or similar is fine, but please don't post full designs or mockups. The one exception is when you are using a design strictly to illustrate a broader point.
It amuses me the lack of knowledge of color pie and the poor arguments here.
And while everyone is voting on black, I think they're hoping that a new Necropotence could come, but, I don't know. Black always had nice enchantments. Why turn to red at sudden now? And why all these poor propaganda? Are those behaviours that makes me sure of voting for anything but red.
- Innistrad printings had more color saturation on english printings than the ones in portuguese (I can't specify which printings they were);
- Return to Ravnica printings in portuguese could be easily recognized just by analyzing the color. The ones I picked after prerelease had lighter colors, while the newer ones had more paint than the former.
It happens all the time. I guess every sheet are different, if you can analyze properly.
I'd take my girl to Hawaii, without thinking. Do it for the memories. If I could get rid of my collection right now to have a great time with my girl in a cool place such as Hawaii, I'd only keep a Duel Decks for ocasional play, and have a hell of a good trip.
The only reason I play Magic is the fun. I don't usually care with prizes, or tournaments, but rather hanging out with partners, eating good food on breaks and laughing at players when they do something fun. It's mainly a hobby to grant me good times. I don't cheat, I don't even care with losing.
Oi, this keeps getting better and better. Look at that Izzet Guildgate... it's marvellous, the whole art. I wonder if arts with such size could become full-arts for guildgates (look, we're about to see boosters that don't have basic land. This could be a thing.)
Interesting is that no one mentioned that they could reveal Friends. And I still think that we won't see that hype that we've seen with Return to Ravnica.
You may say whatever you want of Venser vs. Koth, but that's a product without problems for that. No tokens, comes with two emblems with those cool Magic backs (that I believe MANY newcomers made the mistake of shuffling that in). I personally hate to mix other products/sets things on others, and because of that, even with the fact that I got cool foil plains set to replace the whole Sorin's deck plains, I won't be doing it, because, you know, it is not from the product.
Atleast this complaint isn't, by far, the worst of things. One could easily live with that.
http://www.dorkly.com/article/35668/pwn-up-magic-the-condoming
That was a nice post.
This whole "There needs to be" won't happen, specially to netdecking. Let's make an comparison with another sport, well, like NASCAR or Formula One (since are the ones that I have more knowledge, but, this applies to everything that uses some tech, either to play, either on materials). There was this happy little time called the 50's, where in motorsport, every single car were different from each other. For example, let's take 1952. We had engines ranging from, Inline with four cilinders to monstruous Enzo Ferrari's V12s. Let's not talk about the chassis, that most of them were handmade and the slight difference would mean a car being half second slower than the rest of the field because the artist wanted to make the thing in a hurry. This is Magic on it's primordials. No one could share with the wide world their deck, their interactions, and tournaments had very ununiform (if that's even a word) fields.
Then the time passed, and we reach today. Pick a singular season, such as 2009's. The engines were the same and patterned to every team (rules enforced that, but, before that, with free engine development, they tended to be equal aswell), and the chassis and bodywork were very similar. Due to financial problems, Honda quit Formula 1 with a well build and developed car, after several rule changes and a genius named Ross Brawn, who worked for the team, takes the management of the team and debuts the season with several wins, mostly due to a part on the back of the car that granted more downforce advantage. After the british race (mid-season or something), the richer teams copied the system and the advantage the team had was gone, and Red Bull proceeded to have the best car on grid on most tracks, because their good, specific tunes for low speeds. This is Magic today. If something powerful comes to life, in few hours people will be testing builds of it today, then tuning it to face mirror matches, or to face some certain field.
Every sport that has tech attached to it will lead to uniformization. Far from what's being said here, this doesn't lead to a blatant copy scenario, but to a scenario that requires more dedication, testing and knowledge (including heavy data analysis and math) to make a version of a certain deck the best possible.
And this is perfectly fine.
And to read aswell. And to understand. I won't even say how it is hard to play this. What's not hard about it is smashing the opponent's face playing this to the floor.
We could wait for the spoilers.
http://www.wizards.com/WPN/Events/Rules.aspx?category=magic:thegathering
And while everyone is voting on black, I think they're hoping that a new Necropotence could come, but, I don't know. Black always had nice enchantments. Why turn to red at sudden now? And why all these poor propaganda? Are those behaviours that makes me sure of voting for anything but red.
- Innistrad printings had more color saturation on english printings than the ones in portuguese (I can't specify which printings they were);
- Return to Ravnica printings in portuguese could be easily recognized just by analyzing the color. The ones I picked after prerelease had lighter colors, while the newer ones had more paint than the former.
It happens all the time. I guess every sheet are different, if you can analyze properly.
Bon voyage!
Also, that poll...
It's in EDH. Because those things don't win games.
Why is that every week we see someone complaining about formats with poor arguments? Standard is fine. For the twelfth time today, Standard is fine.
Let's see how I'll perform on this. Two polls, lost two already.