Exactly. Asking for tolerance regarding their opinions is the favorite trick of intolerant people.
I'm very forgiving and I believe it's possible Nielsen didn't consciously mean any harm, but I'm sorry you can't get away with a rosy touching speech a la "let's love each other" if you're supporting alt-right ideas that actively hurt so many. If she's sincere and wants to put her "positive state of mind" in action, she needs to stop lying to herself and realize it is incompatible with that kind of political discourse.
If she doesn't, well that just means that statement was PR BS that can't be taken seriously.
The statement in question actually doesn't state anything. She doesn't deny nor confirm, just says that "we all should live together despite our differences". Is that "the truth"?
It sounds like a bit of a cop out since the persons she was accused of being too close are not for peaceful coexistence themselves.
I think the thing that irks me is the photorealistic skin. Kudos to the artist in the sense that it looks like a photo, however I don't personally want photos as magic art.
The hyperminimalist bits are perfectly fine by me, I liked them even on Harmonize.
I always read that as "of the 63 that we reprint, 56 of them will be cards that already appear in Historic and are therefore legal" rather than "except these 7 we are making the other cards suddenly legal because they appear in Historic". Or, as I understand it, this isn't intended to be Historic Anthology 3.
You read that wrong. It will introduce a lot of new cards to the Historic format. Basically all rare / mythic Archive cards are cards that weren't already in the format, among them only 7 of them being "pre-banned" in historic while the rest is legal.
well, that's kind of exciting then. I don't even mind stone rain in the format. It's not like LD is a big player in Modern or Pioneer last I checked.
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I'd like to auto correct myself though: not ALL rare/mythics are new to the format, I don't know what made me think that... There aren't many counter examples right now, but there's Approach of the Second Sun as mythic that we already had, and Despark and Growth Spiral as rares. Most of the rare+ cards seem new so far but it's not automatic.
I always read that as "of the 63 that we reprint, 56 of them will be cards that already appear in Historic and are therefore legal" rather than "except these 7 we are making the other cards suddenly legal because they appear in Historic". Or, as I understand it, this isn't intended to be Historic Anthology 3.
You read that wrong. It will introduce a lot of new cards to the Historic format. Basically all rare / mythic Archive cards are cards that weren't already in the format, among them only 7 of them being "pre-banned" in historic while the rest is legal.
These dark blue borders are a sweet idea. If they were to do something like that, suddenly all my critics would vanish (the holostamp is really not distinctive enough imo).
I'd be fine with them looking like magic cards, being mechanically unique, featuring other IPs, etc... as long as they're part of their own format, and the blue borders would be ideal to notify that.
And just like Silver borders which are sometimes accepted in EDH, you could see some of these cards being played in "normal" EDH if the table is ok.
That'd be a win-win, really. Heck, having Sauron fighting Ronald MacDonald alongside Rick and Spongebob Pants actually sounds like fun, what I DON'T want to see is a Collected Company dropping a Thalia and Bilbo Baggins into play in any of our traditional formats.
I don't know if I'd go as far as to refuse playing againt someone who has these cards, since I'm already open about Silver bordered cards as long as the player asks for permission. But belittling the persons who've decided to do so by accusing them of gatekeeping is imo offensive and counterproductive.
I believe it is WotC who put the playerbase in an impossible position by tooking a decision that would inevitably create a rift between some of us.
There is undeniably a line somewhere between "expanding the playerbase" and "losing the game's soul in the process", for some this line will be crossed sooner than for others, but it needs to be respected.
I don't really get the appeal of the product either, EXCEPT of course the old-border-shifted cards. These will be the exact same cards we've already played with, and while there are a few valuable cards that will get reprinted from this block, it' not like it was the most requested reprint of all time. If it put a dent in the Reserved List that would be something else, but it doesn't.
It could be a good draft experience, unfortunately it's not a great period of time for drafting.
Wait and see, but I don't think they should expect an enormous commercial success.
I'm very forgiving and I believe it's possible Nielsen didn't consciously mean any harm, but I'm sorry you can't get away with a rosy touching speech a la "let's love each other" if you're supporting alt-right ideas that actively hurt so many. If she's sincere and wants to put her "positive state of mind" in action, she needs to stop lying to herself and realize it is incompatible with that kind of political discourse.
If she doesn't, well that just means that statement was PR BS that can't be taken seriously.
It sounds like a bit of a cop out since the persons she was accused of being too close are not for peaceful coexistence themselves.
The hyperminimalist bits are perfectly fine by me, I liked them even on Harmonize.
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I'd like to auto correct myself though: not ALL rare/mythics are new to the format, I don't know what made me think that... There aren't many counter examples right now, but there's Approach of the Second Sun as mythic that we already had, and Despark and Growth Spiral as rares. Most of the rare+ cards seem new so far but it's not automatic.
You read that wrong. It will introduce a lot of new cards to the Historic format. Basically all rare / mythic Archive cards are cards that weren't already in the format, among them only 7 of them being "pre-banned" in historic while the rest is legal.
I'd be fine with them looking like magic cards, being mechanically unique, featuring other IPs, etc... as long as they're part of their own format, and the blue borders would be ideal to notify that.
And just like Silver borders which are sometimes accepted in EDH, you could see some of these cards being played in "normal" EDH if the table is ok.
That'd be a win-win, really. Heck, having Sauron fighting Ronald MacDonald alongside Rick and Spongebob Pants actually sounds like fun, what I DON'T want to see is a Collected Company dropping a Thalia and Bilbo Baggins into play in any of our traditional formats.
I believe it is WotC who put the playerbase in an impossible position by tooking a decision that would inevitably create a rift between some of us.
There is undeniably a line somewhere between "expanding the playerbase" and "losing the game's soul in the process", for some this line will be crossed sooner than for others, but it needs to be respected.
I may convert to a religion just to do that more efficiently.
Nobody's complaining. We're just skeptical about the success this set will encounter.
I'd have maybe drafted it if my LGS were open.
It could be a good draft experience, unfortunately it's not a great period of time for drafting.
Wait and see, but I don't think they should expect an enormous commercial success.
The Japanese artwork is incredible, but part of me thinks this would have fitted a Return to Kamigawa perfectly ^^
Anyway, really excited.