Yes, WotC is officially completly crazy ...
Thats the only viable way to make sence of this ...
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Squirrelclamp posted a message on Actual state of Innistrad after the events of EMJace will lean in to kiss Liliana after she saves the Gatewatch, but he'll make the mistake of closing his eyes and she'll quickly switch places with a zombie right before his lips land on hers. He opens his eyes and discovers that he's accidentally smooched Gisa's mom. He immediately planeswalks to Ravnica in tears and isn't seen for awhile. The eventual Return to Return to Ravnica block will contain exactly three cards, all of which will depict Gideon in various stages of hugging Jace and telling him that everything's gonna be okay.Posted in: Magic Storyline
Faced with the need to do something with all that Eldrazi meat she and her army have chopped up, Thalia will open a grill called Cathars' Marinade. Saint Traft will possess Liliana and he'll argue a lot with the Raven Man about what Liliana should have for dinner (she's not welcome at Cathars' Marinade after that whole Helvault fiasco).
Lots of vampires and cathars and other non-angel creatures will flock to Sorin's infrastructural prison at Markov Manor and taunt him with stupid stone-based puns like "boy, your relationship with Nahiri sure got rocky." He'll frown really menacingly but not do anything else about it, so he'll serve pretty much the same narrative function as he has for the past few years.
Hal and Alena will get sick of everyone making such a big deal about their relationship and they'll spend years moving around to avoid members of Design showing up at their houses and asking them to pose for card art for a supplemental product. -
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UnsafeNormal posted a message on are ypu happy with the set so far?This set is a huge miss for me as a Standard player, Green and White just continue to get good cards, blue and red are pointless and Black is literally being supported by Languish.Posted in: New Card Discussion
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Jack Power posted a message on are ypu happy with the set so far?I call this set "The set that finally compelled me to quit Magic altogether (except for one EDH deck I'll be updating periodically)"Posted in: New Card Discussion
So much flavor, so much potential, all the gameplay and design experience of a Design and Development team that should know better. This should have been the greatest Magic set of all time.
It is considerably less than that. "Disappointing" doesn't even begin to describe it. "Infuriating" is closer.
I can see in a few cards (Lone Rider in particular) what this set really wanted to be and should have been. But, as I believed to be the case from the beginning, it ended up being a handful of chase cards buried in a pile of delusions of mediocrity.
Saying that Wizards "dropped the ball" doesn't go far enough. More accurately, they dropped the ball, booted it onto the freeway, and caused a 26-car pileup.
This set is bad, and Wizards should feel bad. -
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docstorm4 posted a message on are ypu happy with the set so far?Full set is up, and I must concede the point to those that said that blue and red are underpowered, along with noncreatures. I call this set Magic: The Abzaning.Posted in: New Card Discussion -
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thememan posted a message on are ypu happy with the set so far?Posted in: New Card DiscussionQuote from Ashiok »There is an issue that I didn't see anyone mentioning so far. Magic has been depowered and pushed towards creature strategies. The best colors for creatures are and always have been green and white, both in terms of the creatures themselves and spells to support them (eldritch evolution and gideon come to mind). Maybe the fact that G/W is dominant is not just a particular case for this set, but a 'feature' of all future sets that are to come given the new paradigm in Magic.
Remember that back in Khans abzan stayed as one of the absolute strongest decks, playing the best creatures (such as the siege rhinocerus). Now it is harder to splash so you don't play abzan, you play G/W, the color pair out of abzan that has the best creatures. That said, G/B seems to be coming up hard this next season, and so is U/W tempo. What I think is that decks without green or white are soon going to become unplayable. Monored? Nope. Blue/Black? Nope. Black/Red? Nah. Red/Blue? Ha! Never. I think you can see my point. Grixis and its colors combinations are getting shafted.
I've alluded to it before, and it's one of my biggest problem with standard (Keep in mind I'm not even a Control player much of the time). The issue we are seeing in standard is that Wizards *wants* the games to be played to the board in standard as much as possible. While I can understand this in principle, the problem is in part their execution, and in part because Blue and Red are very heavily spell based colors, where as Green and White are very much about raw efficiency.
Simply put they are unwilling to print good Red or Blue creatures within their philosophies, and when they do (Such as with Young Pyromancer) you can be certain that they won't print the type of cards for them to function at a reasonable level (Cheap and efficient tempo based spells). The sort of synergy based cards that you see out of Blue and Red simply cannot compete with the raw power of Green and White given the current philosophy of R&D. The colors simply do not have a critical mass to function, and that's on a *good* day.
As it is currently, Red and Blue can't even get good synergy based creatures that can even come remotely close to competing with White & Green's power. They can't effectively deal with the resolved creatures *or* planeswalkers that G/W has to offer. And frankly, this isn't changing. People are going crazy over Nahiri's Wrath as though it is a game changer; the fundamental issue, however, is that is only middle against Token, poor against CoCo (Due to instant speeding everything), and only okay against Mono-white. The cost of discarding cards is very real, and given the sorry state of playable Madness cards this isn't changing. Equally, these decks have a lot of ways of making you a very sad person; both Dromoka's Command and the new O-Ring for spells spirit crap all over wrath. The ability to get *any* value out of it for madness is equally unlikely given that you will have to wait till turn 5, 6, or even 7 to have enough mana to cast it and you madness spells, at which point your are near dead on cards. Given that these decks typically do not have a means os recouping their hand (Which is what Madness really needs to function in constructed), I simply think it's a lot of hype over a card that won't do a damn thing.
So, what they have done is take many of the tools that Red & Blue are known for, weakened their creature that are *already* not particularly strong, nerfed what is left, and have printed some of the strongest Green and White cards ever printed.
As I said, it's not that I'm a control player. It's that this philosophy that Magic can only be about decks that are piles of exceedingly efficient cards needs to stop. Because it will lead to more and more skewed meta games, which in turn will have a negative impact on the overall game (Which I have already seen locally due to plummeting standard attendance at FNMs and other events). The game is far better off when there is a plethora of options, not when there is only a few.
They love to talk about how they prefer to print cards that are 1's or 10's, and that they can't please everyone. Frankly, it's become apparent that this philosophy does not apply to either Blue or Red where certain types of cards are killed off because players don't like them. -
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Ashiok posted a message on are ypu happy with the set so far?There is an issue that I didn't see anyone mentioning so far. Magic has been depowered and pushed towards creature strategies. The best colors for creatures are and always have been green and white, both in terms of the creatures themselves and spells to support them (eldritch evolution and gideon come to mind). Maybe the fact that G/W is dominant is not just a particular case for this set, but a 'feature' of all future sets that are to come given the new paradigm in Magic.Posted in: New Card Discussion
Remember that back in Khans abzan stayed as one of the absolute strongest decks, playing the best creatures (such as the siege rhinocerus). Now it is harder to splash so you don't play abzan, you play G/W, the color pair out of abzan that has the best creatures. That said, G/B seems to be coming up hard this next season, and so is U/W tempo. What I think is that decks without green or white are soon going to become unplayable. Monored? Nope. Blue/Black? Nope. Black/Red? Nah. Red/Blue? Ha! Never. I think you can see my point. Grixis and its colors combinations are getting shafted. -
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axxein posted a message on Liliana, the Last Hopemore like liliana, the fiend-blooded.Posted in: Liliana, the Last Hope
shes just so terrible. I was really hoping she'd be playable, but that hope went straight out the window. -
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Titus0 posted a message on Gisela, the Broken BladeWhy, hello there Mini-Baneslayer Angel.Posted in: Gisela, the Broken Blade -
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Algernone25 posted a message on Graf Rats and Midnight Scavengers (New "Meld" mechanic)Posted in: The Rumor Mill
QFT. This is WORSE than lazy design like rally or support, this is straight-up pants-on-head STUPID, and I'm shocked at how many people think this is remotely a good thing. It destroys limited, it completely disregards NWO, and that's saying NOTHING about the rules confusion.
If this turns out to be confirmed, I'm going to have to think long and hard as to whether or not this game is worth staying with, because this is by far the most parasitic, not to mention cancerous mechanic I have ever seen someone produce, real or fake. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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I would argue that wizards doesn't make good cards anymore
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80%+ of all sets are junk nowadays, ruins brew variety. The cards have also been lame as ****. It doenst even if they come up with a good mechanic or not, all the cards that have it will suck and/or be unfun
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Then they need to cut the crap with these *****y draft sets and print real Modern and Eternal Masters
Until they do, I'm playing the better designed Force of Will Trading Card Game(It's a better designed MTG, I really suggest everyone checks it out. It's pretty anime themed though, heh) and waiting for Wizards to learn their lesson. Which will likely be never though, 'cuz they have proven themselves to be greedy snip over the last few years. But a boy can dream I suppose.. But wizards will not get a dime more of my money until they stop this insanity
MTG is a game 1st, and all of it's success has stemmed from that. They need to understand this
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Ironic, I think that is closer to the mark for your own post instead
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The current death of MTG is hard to articulate, but it's happening. I can see it in the attitude at the stores, the people who play it. Truth is, most people are <bad> and not all opinions are equal, and I think it is still early enough that most people can not see it. But it will become more evident in time, and perhaps then you may happen to think back to this post in a few years. People just are not excited about the game, the cards and decks for standard are just not as fun, and people are priced out of modern and with so few new good cards coming into it, it is growing stale. They think banning reasonable decks like Twin will solve this, but that's absurd and they are crazy. Ive been playing this game from its inception, and I can say that Magic has been in a slow death after RtR. It'll be a long death, and it wont ever vanish entirely(it'll likely end up like pokemon) IMO. But this wildly successful game is not going to be around in anything like it's current state in 10 years, if at all. Agree or not, it's up to you and this is a bold claim. But it's obvious to me, and I did several MTG tournies a week of all formats for years, and I travel around. Some stores are not hit as much by Wizards ******* up the game as others, but as a whole, compared to the last several years, it's very evident that this game is tanking now. The reason is the absurd prices, to many worthless cards in packs/standard that really don't allow for much competitive brewing, and eternal formats being a huge 'investment'. That trifecta is what is going to kill the game, coupled with Wizards stupidity in how they run this company.
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Ive seen stores stop running events due to lack of sign ups, I talk to MTG players at tournies several times a week, at several diferent shops, and the opinions all around are getting much worse.
Those are facts man... You dont know where I get my info, didnt ask how I got there, and just jumped to a favorable conclusion for you. If I where to tell you how you are acting, I'd get a flame warning, hahah. It would not be pretty
@Otherguy: There are several other polls that show similar stuff...be better then this.
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The two are very linked(lol..?). It's absurd how I have to type this...
MTG is going to be a bad investment long term, and a lot of people are going to loose a lot. This forums activity may even be an indication of that..
Also, way to dodge how I pointed out that you where incorrect. Why is it so hard for people to see the obvious? It's mind blowing, they just dodge and see things how they want to so easily
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But if you want to play a better, much cheaper game, just place Force of Will, hahaha. MTG is such a money pit for a game with such a terribly designed power level(Most of the cards are un playable crap), and terrible job keeping the prices down so you can brew often. Force of will is like MTG, but super cheap, very well designed cards, a better designed game(Think MTG without the Mana screw and many more combat and card options)and you get a commander that's a lot more interesting then what EDH ham-fistedly tries to do
I think MTG's days of being a solid investment are numbered IMO, they are treating it like an investment 1st and game 2nd when it comes to reprints, and $1,000+ decks combined with their inability to print many good/fun* cards in a set will kill this game.
MTG's success comes from being a fun and accessible game 1st, not an investment(Unless they really wants Modern to be the next legacy). Until MTG learns that, i'll be saving a lot more money, heh
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A OTK isnt something that happens, maybe your info is old
It really is MTG but better..and so much cheaper..so you can affordably brew decks. The power level on the cards are actually good to, so it's much easier to brew with then MTG, where 90% of the cards are trash(Wizards of the coast is terrible about creating a set with well balanced cards, they lost their touch years ago)
I was a doubter, but now I'm a fan boy
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