Quote from Mergatroid_Jones »That diminishes the stakes they worked so hard to make real.
... when?
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Quote from SecretInfiltrator »The New Phyrexian invasion evidently is not a good time to be a tree in the multiverse. Any news on Tree of Redemption/Perdition yet?
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Quote from Flamebuster »Love the artwork.
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Quote from pierrebai »Yikes, if you have 3 dragon cards in hand, you can wipe the siege immediately, meaning you get a 4/4/ flying trampler that shock on each attack for 2 mana.
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Quote from Gizlivadi »On the other hand, Aragorn and Galadriel, the two most important representatives of their respective peoples (a Northern European version of Atlantis, a blessed and chosen people meant to incarnate the virtues of Northern Europe that Tolkien himself said tried to rescue after being corrupted by Nazism; and the Firstborn Elves drawn from Norse and Germanic myth) being black is IMO way more of a misrepresentation.
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you good?
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If I'm paying $1000 for my $100 bill you bet your ass I'll complain if it isn't pristine.
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You left out the second part of the sentence, though. And my second post. In context, that is not what I said. And if it is, its not what I meant.
To be perfectly clear: I'm saying that if you think it is not his fault, it doesn't matter. He is partly responsible, and should be viewed as such. Add to that the fact that he takes credit for many of the well-received decisions, but doesn't seem to realize the actual problems with the current state of the game, nor the role he played in making them a reality, then we agree that none of these are entirely on Maro. That doesn't mean it isn't his fault.
If this article is his internalization of recent feedback from players, then he has filtered out most of the recommendations that would improve the game imo.
hhhhhh. I remember why I stopped posting now.
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How absurd.
Maro is not a cashier. He is the de facto spokesperson for the Magic brand as a whole and frequently claims responsibility for major decisions. So yes, I'll continue to hold him accountable for things he did, and I'm not attributing to him anything he did not claim to be responsible for. He was behind (or participated in designing if you're triggered by that wording) several of the problematic products released this year. He, along with anyone else responsible, should be held accountable. This has happened repeatedly. His leadership of various teams, whether its vision design or anything else, whether uniquely his idea or merely a suggestion, his handiwork is behind some of the worst years of magic design. He's also behind some of the best. Choose to ignore the former if you wish, but imo you should not.
@Flossed_Beaver I'm upset by that wording in particular because its a classic non-apology; the implication from that alone is that the inherent advantage of having an 8 card opening hand is not actually the problem, and the set/environment it was printed in is why it was overpowered, which is factually and unequivocally BS (It even says so elsewhere in the article). Maybe he meant "Companion, with revisions" but he didn't say that. He said that it shouldn't have been printed in the same set as mutate. Hope that answers your question.
Point yourself at a wall my dude, you're projecting.
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In case you haven't noticed because you're buried up to your eyes in Secret Lair drops and titan excrement... it is appropriate.
EDIT: If you read this article and weren't at least a little incensed, read this line again.
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What can this be other than Hunted Lamasu and friends?
EDIT: I really like Gavin. I do not like Maro at all. they radiate similar energy but Gavin's positivity just feels so much more genuine and less like an affectation masking arrogance.
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but lol waaah there are WOMZ in it :'(
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No, it wasn't. Sorry if that was unclear. The goal was not to complete the set. We drafted that set over the course of several months. We do this regularly and usually come very close to a complete set after 1 box, with just a handful of singles remaining in the rare or mythic category. We have never, EVER missed commons after only 1 box. That was the situation we were in once we dismantled and sorted what we had drafted into binders. We had, for example a playset of everythingamajig, but we didn't actually because we had only three unique versions. Surely you can see the problem of that sort of design philosophy, if not the particulars of unstable printing patterns, rubbing shoulders with power level if it is adopted by the producers of the game across the board. Something frighteningly close to this has been announced here.
Anyway, the point is not excess, it's availability. Right now we have a broad guarantee that the differences are cosmetic (and I would argue that false scarcity for cosmetic purposes is skeezy anyway, but ignoring that for now) but how long until they aren't? How will additional level(s?) of rarity impact secondary market prices? It has already made an impact on primary market prices.
To be fair, I am not. So the fact we are both concerned by this is noteworthy.