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Lol at the dumb faggots actually engaging Cuddle Striker. Just ignore that shit-for-brains.
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I wouldn’t mind most these crossovers if they were handled like the Godzilla reskins for Ikoria: Fun thematic alternatives to the official cards of the set. Unfortunately, they’re really trying to make some of these properties as exclusive as possible with secret lairs, which makes the arguments of “gatekeeping” look really dumb.
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I remember people being big mad about the Ikoria alt arts and Secret Lairs because of their ability to be used to bleed outside IPs into the game and cash in on popular trends. Looks like they were all right!
The state of Magic is pretty sad. It's still a great game if you stick to limited play, outside of that, it's a mess of product oversaturation to soak whales, online product designed to soak whales, and game formats getting broken in half by an RnD team that is either incompetent or getting overruled by marketing at every turn. Kinda sad, because one of the few "nerd" things I enjoy anymore is cranking out some draft and sealed leagues here and there.
What's even sadder is that Wizards is making money hand over fist with this shit. Sets are selling faster than can get stocked, Secret Lairs and reprint sets are guaranteed money for those that can get their hands on them, commander product is always sold out on release.
And yet, Wizards has not made a remotely enjoyable standard format since the release of War of the Spark nearly 3 years ago. Legacy and Modern are constantly getting melted by cards pushed to sell new sets, usually egregious design mistakes that get broken within a month of release. What's even the appeal of the game anymore? Is it just another hyper consoomerist NERD HOBBY(tm) where you're supposed to get your fun out of buying a thing that someone else also bought?
The state of Magic is pretty sad. It's still a great game if you stick to limited play, outside of that, it's a mess of product oversaturation to soak whales, online product designed to soak whales, and game formats getting broken in half by an RnD team that is either incompetent or getting overruled by marketing at every turn. Kinda sad, because one of the few "nerd" things I enjoy anymore is cranking out some draft and sealed leagues here and there.
What's even sadder is that Wizards is making money hand over fist with this shit. Sets are selling faster than can get stocked, Secret Lairs and reprint sets are guaranteed money for those that can get their hands on them, commander product is always sold out on release.
And yet, Wizards has not made a remotely enjoyable standard format since the release of War of the Spark nearly 3 years ago. Legacy and Modern are constantly getting melted by cards pushed to sell new sets, usually egregious design mistakes that get broken within a month of release. What's even the appeal of the game anymore? Is it just another hyper consoomerist NERD HOBBY(tm) where you're supposed to get your fun out of buying a thing that someone else also bought?
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While I sit in the 'none is better' camp for crossover IPs the ones I don't really mind are reprint secret lairs etc... People have been paying money for altered art painted magic cards for a long time and it's essentially the same thing.
The LoTR crossover is planned as a modern legal set which is just fucking bizarre to me. I remember when people were upset that the crossover they had with Walking Dead would introduce new playables available only through that secret lair, which was a really big problem. They all turned out unplayable in the eternal formats they were legal in which kind of took the wind out of people's sails and made the issue die since no one ever had to lose a legacy game to Rick Grimes or whatever the fuck. Now there's a very real possibility I'll have to play against some weird shit like "Balrog/Gandalf reanimator" in legacy or modern which just sounds retarded.
I don't understand why, they don't seem to have issues coming up with 1-3 original settings a year (nvm its obviously money.) If they wanna make alter art $60 boxes people can coom over, that's whatever. I couldn't care less if someone has an Everflowing Chalice called Chug Jug, people have been doing that shit for years and paying money for it from 3rd parties. I just don't want to play with an original card that's actually good based off some meme IP wizards bought licensing from.
I remember a big argument at the time they had a lot of shakeups and decided to do modern horizons etc was that the formats had become increasingly stale. Instead of banning or letting one to two cards trickle into modern/legacy from standard their answer was to introduce higher power alternatives. I don't even think that's the wrong move, I was pissed when Deathrite Shaman, Sensei's Top, and a few others got the ban, especially because they didn't do any sort of prisoner exchange for shit that wouldn't really be broken in the current environments like Survival of the Fittest or some of the tamer wheel effects like Windfall.
The appeal of the game these days to me is just Pauper on MTGO. Shit costs like 10 bucks for a deck, has actual tournament support, and I have tons of tix saved up from when they did the flashback drafts way back when so it feels like it costs nothing. The worst thing they've done to pauper is print Peregrine Drake as a common, and they banned it like a month later back when emergency bans were a thing.
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I liked eldraine, but I love the busted stuff. same with WAR. I mostly play legacy/vintage so I don't pay attention to standard sets that often, but all this crap is going to affect my old-man formats and I'm not happy about it.
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Rick was ran in Legacy Humans for a good stint from what I recall.
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Was it really? That's fucking nuts. I never had to play against it thankfully.
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The only thing I really have no interest in is the Fortnite crossover- I imagine they started inking that deal years ago when Fortnite was still the hottest shit, and now that people are more lukewarm on it it feels weird and forced (well, even more than it normally would). There are truly zero similarities between the properties- Fortnite barely even has a coherent "universe," whereas LoTR and 40K make sense as alternate "planes."
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Depends, there's many iterations of the character.
First woman who played the character was white and was with the whole women's suffrage crap so she was probably racist.
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Looks Irish to me.
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At least the art is nice.
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Why do Dracula for Crimson Vow when they didn't do anything for Midnight Hunt. Honestly would work better in the double feature.
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Compare;
Olivia, Crimson Bride; Regular art.
Terrible composition. The purple and red are both extremely vivid and fight for dominance in the image, leading to a clashing sense of colour. The artist had to zoom all the way out to get all of the dress and the blood spirits in the frame, meaning that we get very little of Olivia's features. The end result leaves her as less a character and more a blob floating in the air, maybe some kind of exotic fruit. But even with how hard it is to examine her face, we can see she has the typical western manface problem while all her feminine features are covered up by miles of fabric. Absolutely terrible, would not play or buy.
Olivia, Crimson Bride; alt art
Actual portrait of an actual character. The background is monochrome and the only colour that exists beyond black and white are bright splashes of magenta, letting the singular colour pop without any competitors. Due to the fact we aren't so zoomed out we also get to see that this depiction of Olivia is an excellent mix of beguiling and dangerous. The lace and cleavage contrasting with the armor and spirits of the damned hovering around her. She is a woman at her wedding, but she is also one of the apex predators of her plane, something you want to fuck even though it'll probably end with your throat ripped out.
She also actually has the face of a woman which is just so nice to see on a magic card after all these years.
Very well done. Will buy but probably won't play, which is a shame because this is gorgeous art.
Olivia, Crimson Bride; Regular art.
Terrible composition. The purple and red are both extremely vivid and fight for dominance in the image, leading to a clashing sense of colour. The artist had to zoom all the way out to get all of the dress and the blood spirits in the frame, meaning that we get very little of Olivia's features. The end result leaves her as less a character and more a blob floating in the air, maybe some kind of exotic fruit. But even with how hard it is to examine her face, we can see she has the typical western manface problem while all her feminine features are covered up by miles of fabric. Absolutely terrible, would not play or buy.
Olivia, Crimson Bride; alt art
Actual portrait of an actual character. The background is monochrome and the only colour that exists beyond black and white are bright splashes of magenta, letting the singular colour pop without any competitors. Due to the fact we aren't so zoomed out we also get to see that this depiction of Olivia is an excellent mix of beguiling and dangerous. The lace and cleavage contrasting with the armor and spirits of the damned hovering around her. She is a woman at her wedding, but she is also one of the apex predators of her plane, something you want to fuck even though it'll probably end with your throat ripped out.
She also actually has the face of a woman which is just so nice to see on a magic card after all these years.
Very well done. Will buy but probably won't play, which is a shame because this is gorgeous art.
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I want the card to be cheap as fuck also they should keep Xiaobotong instead of Anna that way they'd have better artists who aren't plagiarists or shit.
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Honestly this is just a case of art not translating well. Taken in the original size it looks pretty good imo. I agree it looks like shit on the card.
Nothing will ever beat og boner vamp art though
The gigantic throbbing cock aside, this picture works well because of the muted tones of the rest of the piece, the only things not in grey shades are her hair and blood cup.
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The problem is that this is a card game and the art should always be made with that in mind. They've been doing this for longer than I've been alive they should know this by now.
And yes, futa cock Olivia will always be a classic.
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I don't get why people call it that, it's obvious it's a superheroine flying pose. It just doesn't work due to the dress and how the body is positioned.
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Its bad anatomy. Its meant to be a hand on her knee but her knee cannot physically be there due to how her legs are drawn.
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I think the story is that the artist went back and forth with WotC on poses and where the legs should be, they wanted them down, so he sent in a copy with them down, not realizing he hadn't fixed the dress.
It's WotC, they fuck up at least one card's art every set. If anything they've gotten worse with time.