MTG Salvation

There was an issue with how we first added them. Fixed now, but give it a bit to update.

I was bug testing it yesterday actually.
We're at the find-the-bugs and make-tweaks stage.

Kamigawa was considered to be a disappointment and/or failure compared to other sets.

I'd consider it to have "Masque Syndrome". The lore and setting was fine, and the block itself wasn't bad, but it had bad timing and needed more tuning on its mechanics.

It was a low power level block, but followed a higher power level block (Mirrodin). This made all of the cards feel weak/subdued/etc. The power pendulum always swings, but when it goes from high to low suddenly, that low level set/block is always very disjointed from standard and hated. Before Affinity started getting the ban axe, Kamigawa was largely ignored in standard.

The cards that broke the power level descent were problematic. Umizawa's Jitte is still one of the best equipments ever printed. Add to it the overall low power level that surrounded it, and it stuck out like a sore thumb that warped the meta to some degree.

Its mechanics were not well received at all. Although Ninjitsu was generally a success, bushido was considered "ok", and Splice into Arcane and Flip cards were both very un-loved. Splice just didn't have the support and power it needed to succeed. Flip cards failed both on the mechanic and visual end. Even wotc says flip cards visuals were a mistake, and recreated the effect with success in Transform. They were also very "meh" even beyond the visuals. Unlike the cool effects that present day transform has given us, most were "never happen", "not worth it", or "that's just win more".

In the end, the cards and sets were a flop.

While this has nothing to do with the story (which was actually refreshing and good) or plane itself, it has one of two reasons a set falls badly on the Rabiah scale. Either the plane itself is off by design or otherwise can't support a set - like Serra's Realm or the infamous Rabiah - or the cards were received so poorly that it taints the plane - like Mercadia, Kamigawa, and Ulgrotha (Homelands plane).

Any of the latter planes could be revisited and "redeemed" with a new set, but they are - at the very least - hesitant to revisit them because of the initial reaction from players: "Oh, that was horrible the last time".

Personally, I'd like to see Mercadia, Kamigawa, and Ulgrotha all revisited just so they can be done "correctly" and redeemed. The planes themselves were good.

Could you imagine how different the Kami war would have been if there was something as simple as big spiders in Kamigawa?

"Oh dagnabit, O-Kagachi is at it again. Somebody trick him into going in to the Web Forest before he hurts someone this time."

Development is absolutely in the works.
I know this has been a long wait.

There was a period of major development lag due to staffing issues, etc. There's a team back on the project, however, and they are making some really strong headway!

It's ambiguous at best. Could be a ring.

That would be the only instance I can find of her wearing a ring on her left (or any) hand.
Every other time we can see her left hand clearly, it's ringless:
https://imgur.com/a/2qznE

I have been reminded that Gideon, Martial Paragon is technically in standard. I apologize for missing this. The general sentiment still stands, though. Martial Paragon is not strong enough to make Gideon of the Trials reliable. It still needs another good, strong Gideon that allows its emblem to be effective.

There seems to be a little confusion as far as Twitch/MTGSalvation.

MTGSalvation is owned by Curse/Twitch. You are not providing Twitch with any information it doesn't already have. You're simply going through a process that will consolidate the information into one place, so that there aren't multiple servers housing personal information.

MTGSalvation is owned by Twitch. So it already has all of this data. We're simply consolidating how it's all stored so that there aren't multiple servers with personal information.

While the complaint some people have is that it's putting more eggs in one basket, if all of the eggs have the same information and a hacker only needs one of them.. One basket with all that information is better than a dozen baskets with all that information.

Stay.
The process takes less than 2 minutes. If you're not into twitch/streaming or any other site, you won't see much benefit, but there'll be no drawback or anything either. Using MTGS will be the same as it always is.

I can't speak for Equifax/Sony/etc, but I can definitely tell you we care about user security here. We're knowingly asking people to go through a process that many won't particularly want or understand, with one of the main reasons being security. If we didn't care, we wouldn't be doing this. We definitely don't track people for advertisement purposes - google et al do all that. Remember that MTGS/Curse is already part of Twitch, so neither company is getting any more information that it already has. It's simply consolidating that into a single place for security, later potential, ease of access for a lot of people, etc.

I'm sorry you feel insulted.
The security I've touched on several times here. The ease of login is definitely better if you use any other Curse/Twitch site. If you don't, I understand that's not a real benefit. The Twitch user support is definitely high caliber.

Moreso, there are things that are being looked into down the road that could give many users benefits they can see more readily.

Your account is already a curse account, and since Curse and MTGS are part of twitch, you're already trusting them with everything. They're knowingly going through a process that many people will find annoying because you've trusted them with your information, and they want to keep everything as secure as possible.

You should totally stay.
The process takes less than 2 minutes, and you don't have to ever go watch anything on twitch if you don't like that sort of thing.
I merged with twitch when the option first came up.
I see absolutely no difference browsing/using mtgs.

We've had it as a voluntary thing for some time. Seeing how well things worked, and the overall benefits and technical details showed us that we should migrate everyone this way.

We wouldn't need to go through this anything like this again.