- Morphling
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Feb 19, 2018Morphling posted a message on The Role of Ecosystems in Fantasy WorldbuildingVery nicely done.Posted in: Articles
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Dec 2, 2017Morphling posted a message on Word of Command: Un-believableExactly right. Number Crunch is actually the ONLY card in the entire game our casual group ever talked about banning. Luckily, the offending player(s) got the message and voluntarily stopped running it. Let me be very clear: Gotcha cards are TERRIBLE FOR MULTIPLAYER. Don't do it, you will regret it.Posted in: Articles
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Jul 19, 2017Morphling posted a message on Theros: Elspeth's TragedyNicely done.Posted in: Articles
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Apr 19, 2017Morphling posted a message on The Magic Market Index for April 14, 2017Just wanted to check in with you guys. These articles are light-years better than...they used to be. Please keep it up.Posted in: Articles
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Dec 21, 2016Morphling posted a message on The Magic Market Index for December 16, 2016I have no personal beef against Rai, but I would like to voice (as strongly as possible) the opposing viewpoint. These are now actually useful once again, unlike how they used to be. We get targeted comments instead of an recurring obsession on providing bland, neutral, and ultimately-meaningless commentary on *every single card*, no matter its significance or relative insignificance. (And most weeks, at least 50% of them were just lazy cut/pastes of the same repeating statuses over and over.)Posted in: Articles
And a lot of the opinions ("Format BOMB, it's got room to grow." or "This card is garbage, it's going down.") were apparently personal opinions anyway, as we would never get any actual analysis or support to back up claims. That seems a bit pointless too.
I found Rai's updates to be a nearly complete waste of time to read. The current, more focused format is much better in my mind. We get the quick hits and not a lot of fluff about cards that don't even matter.
Sorry but that's how I feel. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I kept it under wraps and then the authorship changed, so I dropped it. (Sorry if any of this hurts your feelings, Rai. Really not my intent. I imagine these are hard to do, and no, I probably couldn't do any better myself.) -
Feb 10, 2016Morphling posted a message on Off Topic: Making a Magic MovieAs for storyline, I think this might be a cool thing: Do a full-on fantasy movie set in a Magic plane. Characters are introduced, crisis erupts, huge battle ensues, ups and downs, all that..Posted in: Articles
Fade to black..
Fade back in to one final, real-world scene in someone's basement. All the heroes (and the villain) are there, talking epic smack, picking up their stuff and shuffling up for the next game. Or packing up for the night and saying something like "See you next time, guys." "Hell yeah, awesome game!!"
Fade to black.. Credits roll.
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Feb 10, 2016Morphling posted a message on Off Topic: Making a Magic MovieAny movie about Magic should spend as little time as possible talking about handsize, milling, any of that stuff. Did the D&D movies spend time talking about dice rolls, THAC0, or encumbrance? (Communicate the flavor of a some rule via a quirky funny one-liner aside to the audience? "You wanna do WHAT now?" Sure--that's reasonable, but absolutely nothing beyond something like that.)Posted in: Articles
The movie doesn't need to be a game tutorial. It's supposed to entertain and get people interested in learning more about the game AFTER the movie.
It shouldn't be an opportunity to stroke Magic players egos with endless in-jokes about Magic and R&D and....a bunch of fanservice, more or less. I mean--Magic players are gonna show up in droves no matter what they put in it. This being the case, they should worry about the NON players and make the movie for them (and less for us). I mean--what's a better payoff? A movie that makes us all feel awesome about ourselves for a few days on the forums or a movie that helps inject a BUNCH of new players to help the game go on for (at least) another decade.
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Aug 31, 2014Morphling posted a message on Why there is a VERY good chance that the eldrazi will get reprinted during Khans of Tarkir blockCool theory..you might get some more looks if you repost this in speculation.Posted in: fire10798
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Never knew this, thanks for sharing.
I think this may be what you are thinking of.
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Probably not wrong...i'm just saying if they feel they have to cripple "scam" decks, they're not 100% not going to ban Ring or Bowmasters...so, that probably leaves....
Sell your Fury's, I think.
The funniest thing about it all is, I think Bowmasters can't be banned b/c it was apparently designed a safety valve for One Ring in Standard. (Too bad they're both still way too good?! lol.)
I think a good question before that is why play either Orzhov man-land? They're not particularly great. Ditto several of them, so I broke that cycle up a while ago and now I just run a handful of manlands and have really never regretted that decision.
Agree on all counts (art too) but I will run it there + probably my main cube too...been trying to make artifacts a bit more viable there. This is a welcome addition, I think.
Yes, I was (barely) on the fence on the WUR one. These are really the only three Doctor Who's I ever watched or care about. And so today, I decided to preorder it. I actually loved TSP block so a Commander deck that cares about Suspend seems super-fun to me. That's it--I'm all in.
Sol Talisman
Mox Tantalite
Lotus Bloom
However, I would also point out that of all the color pairs that care about artifacts, blue/black is near the top if, not *the* top. (Izzet is maybe #2 but it's a little less natural there because enemy colors red + blue pull in really diff directions w/r/t artifacts.) So, I think if you are running even incidental artifact support in your environment, I'd be willing to wager you probably could find a use for a Dimir artifact land in some games. These lands also make normally-marginal Boom // Bust completely gross!! (Ditto fetch lands, but they're already really good.)
I did a recent Cubecobra filter on my cube and it's nearly 20% Legendary in some way. That was a shocking number to me so I added Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful right then and there.
But I must admit, I'm now adding Plaza of Heroes now...tyvm. And, yes, I might consider Delighted Halfling but honestly think Plaza is way better for me. If this effect just completely floors me, maybe I'll add the halfling.