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Thran Dynamo
There's a neat trick should you ever forget or be confused as to what type of game Magic is.
Take any old regular Magic card, then turn it around and look at the back. It should be very obvious to you at this point what type of game it is
Magic: The Gathering
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A card game with five colours whose coloured dots are arranged in a pentagram-shaped layout.
What am I missing here?
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Bitter Reunion ain't no spellshaper....?
That's all I got \(^^)/
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Strongly agree with this. This should be the policy going forward in Arena as well, rather than crap rebalancing.
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anyone who purchases this particular product in any way deserves ridicule, but proxies themselves do not. I do think the right take here is to laugh at anyone who plays these "official fake cards" while tapping your own very unofficial fake cards.
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clever.
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What I don't and will never understand is why it seems they've picked IP with deep lore, but slap new art of "the thing we recognize" on generic designs. Abaddon for example is fine, or even good. Y'know, whatever. But what about the design screams abaddon? absolutely nothing. Guy famous for destroying a planet doesn't destroy lands. Guy famous for doing 13 of something doesn't have 13 on it anywhere. Guy who leads crusades doesn't have a
crusadeanthem effect. It doesn't need to be this blatant, obviously, but it should at least be somewhat evocative of the character it's supposed to be. Right? Why use this IP for new designs if you don't want to explore the space?The instant is the opposite. Cool, thematic, spot on design. 8, aethyr, got it. More you fight, more powerful you become in the eyes of this particular god. amazing. Appropriately costed too. Freakin' sweet.
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This take is only the correct one within a broadly anticapitalist worldview. Nobody here applauding representation is defending WotC's profits from the use of lgbtq+ iconography and imagery.
If your stance is that the art is great but the game should not be driven by profit motives, I agree with you completely. Money is imaginary, and proxies are good actually. But if your stance comes from a place of discomfort (I'm not saying it is, but so many responses to this thread have been) then it strikes me as a progressive excuse for deeply conservative ideology. As long as capitalism is the norm, "rainbow capitalism" is absolutely permissible, and in some cases the best possible action from a harm reduction perspective.