Before the recent relaunch of the mothership a few months or so ago, the mothership used to update with the daily articles at exactly midnight United States Eastern Time.
Now it doesn't anymore. I thought they might have switched to updating at midnight United States Pacific Time (that is, 3 AM Eastern Time) instead, since Wizards of the Coast are exactly that (located on the United States West Coast), but it doesn't seem to update at that time either.
So what time of day does the website update? Thanks.
I didn't recognize it because the color balance was changed so much, from the grayish look of the original to this much brighter blue/red/yellow dress she's now got on. Kept thinking it looked familiar but couldn't quite place it.
Also, the other little edits are pretty cool, like the staff being changed to an apple and the glasses being added to one of the "dwarfs".
The fact that Khans of Tarkir will be about wedge clans (Abzan, Jeskai, Mardu, Sultai, Temur) got me to thinking about the old wedge names: Ana (GUB), Ceta (URG), Dega (WBR), Necra (BGW), and Raka (RWU), from the Disciple/Sanctuary/Volver cycles of Apocalypse.
My question is what were Ana, Ceta, Dega, Necra, and Raka: are they places/regions? clans? religions? schools? What were they? (None of the Disciple/Sanctuary/Volver cards have any indicative flavor text.)
and then click on the "Expansion: Magic: The Gathering-Conspiracy" link, that doesn't work either, as that is just the same full expansion URL (the one missing all the actual conspiracy type cards) that I already gave above.
If you go to Advanced Gatherer Search (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Advanced.aspx) and put your cursor in the Type subfield, and start typing, you'll notice that "Conspiracy" is one of the possible default values that can be autofilled into the field by clicking the option. Sounds great, right? Except after you click "ADD" to add it to the search criteria and then click SEARCH, it takes you to
It's a joke reference in MaRo's webcomic. The only thing confirmed is a blatant speculation thread that should be in the Speculation forum rather than the Rumor Mill.
I mean, every single round they played before then to get to the top 8 was best of three, so it's not statistically relevant that they should suddenly have to play 2 more matches compared to the "luck" that got them there in the first place.
No, absolutely it IS statistically relevant because the rounds before Top 8 are not single-elimination.
Probabilistically, luck evens out for people over large numbers, such as a 18 or so Swiss rounds, so you can expect everyone to have roughly the same amount of "bad luck" over many rounds. So you're not screwed for the whole tournament by bad luck in any single Swiss round, because everyone gets some bad luck in some rounds.
But have bad luck in a single game in a quarterfinal or semifinal round, and now you are close to screwed for the whole tournament (much closer to elimination than a single bad-luck game would be in best-of-5).
The other changes are fine, but the reduction of Top 8 quarters and semis from best-of-5 to best-of-3 is terrible. It increases random variance and reduces skill.
If your theory were correct, then we'd be seeing Gatherer results for "Kruphix, God of Horizons" and "Iroas, God of Victory" as part of a Google search, since those are the far more commonly-believed titles of the gods. But we don't. I guess time will tell for sure. I was just posting my observations.
No, this is wrong, and the search result does mean nothing.
Google's algorithm counts incoming links, including those created by random users. No one happened to create a "Kruphix, God of the Horizons" link or "Iroas, God of Victory" link, but as already shown in this thread, a random user did create a "Iroas, God of Triumph" link. Hence the search result, which means nothing.
What do retailers do with unsold MTG product? I guess specialized gaming stores keep the product around forever, even really old sets, until someone buys them, but what about non-specialty stores like Wal-Mart, for which I've noticed they only sell current sets, not older sets? What do they do with unsold packs?
Now it doesn't anymore. I thought they might have switched to updating at midnight United States Pacific Time (that is, 3 AM Eastern Time) instead, since Wizards of the Coast are exactly that (located on the United States West Coast), but it doesn't seem to update at that time either.
So what time of day does the website update? Thanks.
Ah, okay, thanks!
I didn't recognize it because the color balance was changed so much, from the grayish look of the original to this much brighter blue/red/yellow dress she's now got on. Kept thinking it looked familiar but couldn't quite place it.
Also, the other little edits are pretty cool, like the staff being changed to an apple and the glasses being added to one of the "dwarfs".
No, it doesn't fit Jeskai at all. Jeskai aren't Japanese.
My question is what were Ana, Ceta, Dega, Necra, and Raka: are they places/regions? clans? religions? schools? What were they? (None of the Disciple/Sanctuary/Volver cards have any indicative flavor text.)
Thank you!
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=checklist&set=%5b%22Magic%3a+The+Gathering%u2014Conspiracy%22%5d
then you'll notice that the conspiracy (type) cards are missing, though the rest of the set is present.
If you go to a card like Brago's Favor:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Brago%27s+Favor
and then click on the "Expansion: Magic: The Gathering-Conspiracy" link, that doesn't work either, as that is just the same full expansion URL (the one missing all the actual conspiracy type cards) that I already gave above.
If you go to Advanced Gatherer Search (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Advanced.aspx) and put your cursor in the Type subfield, and start typing, you'll notice that "Conspiracy" is one of the possible default values that can be autofilled into the field by clicking the option. Sounds great, right? Except after you click "ADD" to add it to the search criteria and then click SEARCH, it takes you to
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&type=+[%22Conspiracy%22]
which, ironically, DOES NOT SHOW ANY CONSPIRACY CARDS (or, for that matter, any cards at all - instead, we get "Your search returned zero results").
So, how do you get Gatherer to list the conspiracy (type, not set) cards?
No, absolutely it IS statistically relevant because the rounds before Top 8 are not single-elimination.
Probabilistically, luck evens out for people over large numbers, such as a 18 or so Swiss rounds, so you can expect everyone to have roughly the same amount of "bad luck" over many rounds. So you're not screwed for the whole tournament by bad luck in any single Swiss round, because everyone gets some bad luck in some rounds.
But have bad luck in a single game in a quarterfinal or semifinal round, and now you are close to screwed for the whole tournament (much closer to elimination than a single bad-luck game would be in best-of-5).
The other changes are fine, but the reduction of Top 8 quarters and semis from best-of-5 to best-of-3 is terrible. It increases random variance and reduces skill.
No, this is wrong, and the search result does mean nothing.
Google's algorithm counts incoming links, including those created by random users. No one happened to create a "Kruphix, God of the Horizons" link or "Iroas, God of Victory" link, but as already shown in this thread, a random user did create a "Iroas, God of Triumph" link. Hence the search result, which means nothing.
This is seriously a question? Every small expansion set introduces new mechanics, building upon and retaining the mechanics from the large set.
It's a flavor text problem only, but we recently had Wit's End from Magic 2013; see http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=428416.
Tons of people watch it. It's one of the highest-rated scripted shows on TV.