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All "card collecting" games are dumb and the longer they stay the dumber they get, and the online exclusive ones get dumber faster than the analogue ones cause designers can experiment with truly retarded things and roll it back if it gets completely out of line.

This is because its a pay 2 win system with power creep and the only way to make things spicy is to make up absurd new mechanics, each one dumber than the last.

Play bridge or poker or stick to a card game and only play its first generation set. (though that leads to obvious meta issues but its still preferable ).

The only way around this is to make card selection/deck formation arbitrary or largely randomized and to give everyone access to the same cards. But that would kill the profit motive for this stupidity to exist in the first place and it would kill the faux sense of accomplishment spergs get from hitting their "goals".
 
DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
Magic has gotten so fucking bad that I literally went back to Yugioh and learned how to Pendulum Summon. The absolute state of things when I, someone who hated Yugioh for years due to how joyless and dull the competitive scene was, am forced to fall back on it because MTG players are just that much more unpleasant to be around.
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Honestly any time there's tournaments of some sort, they should just ban anyone who chimps out and kills everyone's buzz. Sort of like how well-run chess tournaments ban assholes, or how even a great tennis player like John McEnroe would cop sanctions for poor sportsmanship.

I can see allowing being a dick in something like poker, because part of the game is trash-talking and rattling the opposition, but there's really no place for it in these goofy collectible card games.
 
AnOminous said:
Honestly any time there's tournaments of some sort, they should just ban anyone who chimps out and kills everyone's buzz. Sort of like how well-run chess tournaments ban assholes, or how even a great tennis player like John McEnroe would cop sanctions for poor sportsmanship.

I can see allowing being a dick in something like poker, because part of the game is trash-talking and rattling the opposition, but there's really no place for it in these goofy collectible card games.
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Rarely do I disagree with you, seriously you may be my favourite staffer the little time Ive spent here actively posting but booy are you wrong here. Or at least in the sense that things shouldnt be like this.

Back when chess was for the cool kids it had all sorts of power plays and trashtalking in it. Done in a sort of gentlemany way, sure but non the less. Kasparov has a sharp tongue, lets not even get started on Fischer.

Now its full of a bunch of goody-two-shoes that from a young age focus on memorization and smugness. No style nor substance.
And of course every tournament is more and more controlled and corporatized from sports to chess to e-games as there is big money in it and people have gone full -woke.


Its almost the opposite in poker I'd say, cause there you're actively playing for each others money rather than for that of the sponsors or organizers. And this is what kind of pisses me off. I dont know when the attitude you describe begun but back long ago, before my time especially, there certainly was a poker decorum that was respected. Lying was looked down upon, thats to say nothing of trash-talking.


You don't fuck with an other mans money. The fact that you're "allowed to" doesn't make it right. That you consider it "Part of the game" is a reflection of society valuing money above all else, including decorum and class. And I know this sounds a bit paradoxical. But it isn't when you think about it.


Im far more for inflaming some emotions with a bunch of nerds at a local club than for doing it when someones morgage (in a worst case scenario) might be on the line. Do you dig?
 
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AnOminous said:
Honestly any time there's tournaments of some sort, they should just ban anyone who chimps out and kills everyone's buzz. Sort of like how well-run chess tournaments ban assholes, or how even a great tennis player like John McEnroe would cop sanctions for poor sportsmanship.

I can see allowing being a dick in something like poker, because part of the game is trash-talking and rattling the opposition, but there's really no place for it in these goofy collectible card games.
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MTG is fueled by salt. take away the salt and there's nothing left but a few titties and topless demon twinks printed on cardboard.
 
I wish that they hire back Terese Nielsen because maybe when somebody is playing a broken ass card, I'll get the pleasure of looking at a good artist instead of tranny cgi shit with faggot borders
 
I'mma real anime gurl said:
I wish that they hire back Terese Nielsen because maybe when somebody is playing a broken ass card, I'll get the pleasure of looking at a good artist instead of tranny cgi shit with faggot borders
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At this point I'd even take back that furry who did art for the early sets. There's no soul in modern Magic.
 
Shaka Brah said:
At this point I'd even take back that furry who did art for the early sets. There's no soul in modern Magic.
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I don't think even furries care that much. There would be much more porn, if they did.
 
Noebel said:
I don't think even furries care that much. There would be much more porn, if they did.
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I'm talking about Phil and Kara Foglio. They were kinda goofy but had spirit. Also I think I was wrong about Phil being a furry but he did do porn (and a really awful and 90s-00s internet famous webcomic called Girl Genius).
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Shaka Brah said:
I'm talking about Phil and Kara Foglio. They were kinda goofy but had spirit. Also I think I was wrong about Phil being a furry but he did do porn (and a really awful and 90s-00s internet famous webcomic called Girl Genius).
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That too, but I was speaking more about the current state of things. MTG has a lot of anthropomorfic depictions. Furries proved times and times again, that they are willing to pornify anything. As of now, it doesn't seem like they are interested. And even if furries don't care, something is wrong. I wouldn't be surprised, if MTG was some obscure IP nobody outside of Pacific knew about, but it is not.
 
So, new set anyone?

First of all, I want to thank wizards for reminding me that dank Nutcracker movie with horrifying cgi nazi rats actually exists and not just my fever dream.
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Thanks, Mark. That's exactly what I've been missing these days.

But that's not all. Look at this one
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I just wonder how they handle art direction at wizards'. It went from my sleep paralysis demon on the original to straight up furry bait on this alternative version.
Speaking of MTG and furrybait, why does Ink-Eyes has the most entries at e621 of all named characters? I don't think she had an important part in the story at the time and never appeared since. I just don't understand furries sometimes.
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In other news, Seb McKinnon attended whatever is going on in Canada https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXcqO0uh-v/ and reddid did not liked this one bit.
 
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