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Yeah I have in the past, we could go shoot the shit in the https://kiwifarms.net/threads/magic-the-gathering.16399/ since this one is more for the community drama stuff.
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Yeah I have in the past, we could go shoot the shit in the https://kiwifarms.net/threads/magic-the-gathering.16399/ since this one is more for the community drama stuff.
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Oh right, I forgot this is where we make fun of magic players
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I managed a game store in my younger days, in a town that has an abnormally large MTG community. I can confirm that shady stuff absolutely happens, and it is the norm, not the exception.
People reselling stolen cards, stores working with each other to price fix, owners constantly screwing other owners out of inventory, and nothing, I mean absolutely nothing is ever kept track of on paper. No accounts payable or receivable, no inventory, no hours worked, nothing.
It's a giant mess of people who want to be white collar criminals, but are to fat, dumb, and lazy to get into high end white collar positions.
At first I thought it was just the store I was struggling to run legally, but I started to reach out to other managers (not owners) around town and in my State, and found out pretty much every game store is run that way.
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Can confirm. I have a cousin that worked in a card shop for a few years, and she said two of the employees had to be fired because they were stealing product and selling it on MTG card bartering sites. They were able to get away with it for a long time because one of them was in charge of inventory and would fudge the numbers to cover up any cards here and there that they swiped. It didn't help that the boss was a dilettante who was more MTG fanboy than business man who trusted his employees way too much. The only reason they got caught is because another employee who gave a damn noticed a lot of these "discrepancies" and brought his findings to the boss, who investigated it and found out what those two thieves were doing.
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It's that time again!
I don't know if Terese Neilsen has come up before, but she is causing more issues just by existing. There is a tournament happening this week and one of the players, Autumn Burchett, a non-binary whiner brought lands with Terese art, and scratched out the name and wrote things like "trans rights are human rights."
Wizards, not wanting to start this debate again over someone who has not actually expressed terf views, told them not to use those lands.
The response was as expected.
More coming, including a crossover with SA
I don't know if Terese Neilsen has come up before, but she is causing more issues just by existing. There is a tournament happening this week and one of the players, Autumn Burchett, a non-binary whiner brought lands with Terese art, and scratched out the name and wrote things like "trans rights are human rights."
Wizards, not wanting to start this debate again over someone who has not actually expressed terf views, told them not to use those lands.
The response was as expected.
More coming, including a crossover with SA
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I've been following this quite a bit myself. I'm wanting to said that Autumn later wrote trans rights on some lands and was upset when judges said that was fine. I love that people are still upset, like that thought a corporation was their friend or something.
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The maddening thing is that the lands in the tweet are fucking expensive - I'm talking hundreds of dollars per land. And that smug troon defaced them for some virtue signaling.It's that time again!
I don't know if Terese Neilsen has come up before, but she is causing more issues just by existing. There is a tournament happening this week and one of the players, Autumn Burchett, a non-binary whiner brought lands with Terese art, and scratched out the name and wrote things like "trans rights are human rights."
Wizards, not wanting to start this debate again over someone who has not actually expressed terf views, told them not to use those lands.
The response was as expected.
More coming, including a crossover with SA
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It's that time again!
I don't know if Terese Neilsen has come up before, but she is causing more issues just by existing. There is a tournament happening this week and one of the players, Autumn Burchett, a non-binary whiner brought lands with Terese art, and scratched out the name and wrote things like "trans rights are human rights."
Wizards, not wanting to start this debate again over someone who has not actually expressed terf views, told them not to use those lands.
The response was as expected.
More coming, including a crossover with SA
he’s desperate for relevance now since it’s pretty much revealed he’s just a mediocre standard player who got popular because muh LGBT diversity.
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He didn't draw on the cards.
He drew on the sleeves. You can tell because the marker marks visibly leave a shadow on the card.
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Expensive lands that were defaced to virtue signal over something no one can even prove happened. To my knowledge nobody has any screenshots or any other proof of Nelson's transphobia.
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I doubt the counterfeiters could get the little GURU foil symbol right anyway. I was guessing it's only on the inner sleeves too.
I had a feeling that Autumn was gonna be trouble though. I mean just the way they dress alone is like poison dart frog levels of "beware".
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Isn't that against the rules though? It's been a while since I followed MTG, so I don't remember if tampering with the front part of sleeves is bannable, like how marking the back of sleeves is a bannable offense.
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As far as I know it's fine if it's not making the card distinguishable from the rest of the deck when shuffling/drawing ect. I could be wrong but I don't think that was the problem. It'd be like an altered card pretty much, which as long as you can tell it's the original card (and certain information) is visible is perfectly okay.
My guess is if it was said like Autumn claims, then WotC/Hasbro are worried about pissing off China, but it almost sounds like they were given the okay to use them then acted like they were told they couldn't.
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From what I've read it seems that the rules are you are allowed to write on the front. You are not allowed to cover the names or the symbols. As you can see from the images above the writing covers the symbols so it was disallowed. As usual cue autistic screeching pretending you've been hard done by or that this has anything to do with what was written.
All of the headlines are saying that they "reversed" their decision due to the pressure. They didn't. Burchett just used some new cards where the writing doesn't cover the symbol, which have always been allowed.
All of the headlines are saying that they "reversed" their decision due to the pressure. They didn't. Burchett just used some new cards where the writing doesn't cover the symbol, which have always been allowed.
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....Note the defaced cards here being ones worth about $0.65 and not the $200-300 rare error-lands.
It's one thing to farm outrage. It's quite another to fail utterly at it.
Well, let's be fair here. She blew five whole dollars scribbling on the Unglued island.
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Those aren't errors, those were GURU lands.
https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Guru_program
Basically you just taught newbies how to play, earned points and every 10 points you got a land.
Thing was the program was pretty short lived so not many of the lands really got out there.
Indeed, I still don't believe they did it on the actual GURU lands.
I have this feeling we are getting ready to see a bit of drama from this, even though it's a complete non-story it sounds like and I wonder if it's actually true even. Basically, I think we might have a Jussie situation, even if it will just get swept under the rug.
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I can prove that the Guru Lands weren't defaced, and not just because no true MTG Fag would sacrifice a 200-400 dollar cardboard rectangle:
Let's start with what I mentioned earlier: the ink in the Guru Land images has a shadow. This is really obvious. Especially so on the Forest land, where it looked like she accidentally spelled it "Mo."
Next, note the gigantic disparity in ink density between the allegedly defaced Guru Lands and the defaced regular lands? The Guru Lands have clear spots you can see through - something you only see with permanent marker on plastic - whereas the defaced regular lands are heavy and dark, which is the sort of thing you get when using the same kind of marker on cardstock.
The most obvious tell is the attempt at redacting the artist's name, because the sped that tried to make this look legit did so by repeatedly scribbling the marker over the text like a hobo trying to slit his wrists. That sort of dappling effect happens one of two ways: a marker that's rapidly drying out, or writing on fucking plastic, and you can tell which it is by the way the effect looks. If that had been ink on cardboard with a drying marker the dappling would have been darker and layered. That isn't the case, so it's a dead give-away that it's on plastic - the card sleeves themselves.
Pretty much anyone with even a passing familiarity with packing or shipping would be able to pick up on this.
Next, note the gigantic disparity in ink density between the allegedly defaced Guru Lands and the defaced regular lands? The Guru Lands have clear spots you can see through - something you only see with permanent marker on plastic - whereas the defaced regular lands are heavy and dark, which is the sort of thing you get when using the same kind of marker on cardstock.
The most obvious tell is the attempt at redacting the artist's name, because the sped that tried to make this look legit did so by repeatedly scribbling the marker over the text like a hobo trying to slit his wrists. That sort of dappling effect happens one of two ways: a marker that's rapidly drying out, or writing on fucking plastic, and you can tell which it is by the way the effect looks. If that had been ink on cardboard with a drying marker the dappling would have been darker and layered. That isn't the case, so it's a dead give-away that it's on plastic - the card sleeves themselves.
Pretty much anyone with even a passing familiarity with packing or shipping would be able to pick up on this.
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Under the new Magic Pro League the players with the lowest score at the end of the season has to win a small tournament against hopefuls to keep their contact and the salary that comes along with it. Not sure how the total score is calculated but I know Autumn's results haven't been great recently. The MPL also has a few discretionary spots open to people of Wizards choice. Smart money is on a Jussie situation as @Ebonic Tutor suggested.
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I’m surprised wizards didn’t give autumn a Job after they won UK nationals. Every time some woman or LGBT does better then 3-X at are large event they become a community writer or web caster a few weeks later.