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Burning Fanatic said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-f_BLU16OO0I don't really have much to like nor dislike with the Professor, though I did find part of his video to be amusing. Particularly when it came to criticizing the prose for being so poorly written. The latter half of the video was definitely far less amusing, with all the complaining about "muh biphobia." Nonetheless, I just find all the general outrage at WotC there days to be a fun spectacle worth gawking at.
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Leave it to the professor to be enough of a bugman to make a video about this.

Krokodil Overdose said:
tl;dr: Troons ruin everything. Never cater to them, because they can't stand anything not being about them. JFC.
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They’re like stray cats, once you feed them you’ll never get rid of them.
 
I cant wait to see how the people at my LGS react to this Chandra shit. i only go to Commander nights and the crowd there is pretty chill but we have a 'lesbian' that plays so there might be tasty salt.
 
I mean, from what I’ve seen the book is poorly written. Some of the parts that have been posted by others are absolutely horrible. Judging the book based on that is fine! But saying the book is bad because of bi erasure and making it a huge point is dumb.

Hasn’t half of the characters recently introduced been lesbians? Kaya and Vivian are.
 
Fuck Vivian Reed, she's a fucking Poochie and I'm honestly surprised they didn't shit up the conclusion of the Gatewatch saga even more by giving her the killing blow to Bolas.
 
Another company that drove away 'muh straight white men' and wound up being boycotted by their new rainbow children anyways thanks to eternally moving goalposts? Imagine my shock.
 
Would you say that magic is still worth playing despite all of these failed pandering moves? At the end of the day, it's mostly an american-only side of exceptionalism that you can ignore if you play only in your small community.
 
Changeofheart said:
Would you say that magic is still worth playing despite all of these failed pandering moves? At the end of the day, it's mostly an american-only side of exceptionalism that you can ignore if you play only in your small community.
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Eternal formats (modern, commander, legacy and vintage) are generally a safe bet, if you enjoy playing something in them you will generally be able to always enjoy it, Rarely do they print something that fucks an entire eternal format, and they are generally quick to resolve them. If they print another hogaak or mental miss step you just wait a month or 2 and they will unfuck the format.

Standard meanwhile is a hot mess, currently its dominated by a single archetype, and theres no guarantee that a deck you will enjoy playing will be viable, so you gotta chase the meta, which can lead you to spending months playing decks your not that interested in simply because what you want to play is unviable garbage.

really id just play it on arena. spend less time having to sit opposite neck beards with shit hygene that way,
 
Changeofheart said:
Would you say that magic is still worth playing despite all of these failed pandering moves? At the end of the day, it's mostly an american-only side of exceptionalism that you can ignore if you play only in your small community.
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Even the Americans can avoid it; my side of the MtG community has talked a bit about it, but nothing outside of a couple inquisitive Facebook posts. (It's just a handful of crabby SJ people and WOTC.)

As for playing, you should be fine; Standard just had its dominating archetype neutered as of a few minutes ago, but I still say Eternal formats are your best bet. We just got a new one a month ago (Pioneer), whose decks can run pretty fucking cheap and play well, as well. (Also, if you like Planeswalkers, Oathbreaker is a fun casual playstyle to look into!)
 
Double Dee said:
Even the Americans can avoid it; my side of the MtG community has talked a bit about it, but nothing outside of a couple inquisitive Facebook posts. (It's just a handful of crabby SJ people and WOTC.)

As for playing, you should be fine; Standard just had its dominating archetype neutered as of a few minutes ago, but I still say Eternal formats are your best bet. We just got a new one a month ago (Pioneer), whose decks can run pretty fucking cheap and play well, as well. (Also, if you like Planeswalkers, Oathbreaker is a fun casual playstyle to look into!)
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Oathbreaker is fun as hell.

Actually any singleton format is fun to run.
 
Magic lore basically set the bar low for shitty story along with Warcraft lore. Try not to get too invested and you might have an okay time in parts. You want bad novels? Try the originals circa 4th edition or so where a mute forest sped girl has her Spark awakened by a magic tiara, and she goes around with her brother snuffing the spark out of other bad magic users. And this goes on for several books. Also there was one where minotaurs were trying to civilize a small group of goblin children they stole, and even with magic drugs they couldn't help but nig out in the end. Actually, that bit was a little redpilled and I suspect WotC would like to pretend that book never happened. :story:
 
Changeofheart said:
Would you say that magic is still worth playing despite all of these failed pandering moves? At the end of the day, it's mostly an american-only side of exceptionalism that you can ignore if you play only in your small community.
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I only play cube now with my friends.

It's fun. I don't play standard or modern
 
Magic has always had an incredibly diverse worldwide player base. They can and should be diverse in their settings, characters and artwork, and mostly they succeed. Yes, there are some pandering missteps, but most of what you hear and are frustrated with isn’t from WotC but from their autistic fans.

I don’t think you should allow any altered cards in the pro tour, for reasons obvious to anyone. The funniest part by far is the two different ways autumn half assed it, but no one is willing to confirm that (witting on sleeves, removing the expensive lands).
 
I almost dipped back into Magic and took a look around and immediately dipped out.

The powerlevel in standard is the highest it's been maybe since the Jace debacle (and I was around during the Energy deck meta) and all signs point to the sets not being playtested... at all.

Mark Rosewater, head designer, is hard at work trying to defend the increased power level. Recently on a twitter poll heran specifically about the power level of standard, 63% of people said it was too high. Common criticsism is that they put cards meant specifically for Commander, Modern and other formats into the Standard sets and these cards are having a power warping effect. And this is after MTG already prints various products specifically for these formats. MaRo responded saying he wants ALL players to buy standard, which may have worked 15 years ago, but at this point their wrecking standard by playing to the eternal format crowd who is more active on social media but make up less of a player base.

Archive of Rosewater's tweet
 
Salt_Merchant said:
Eternal formats (modern, commander, legacy and vintage) are generally a safe bet, if you enjoy playing something in them you will generally be able to always enjoy it, Rarely do they print something that fucks an entire eternal format, and they are generally quick to resolve them. If they print another hogaak or mental miss step you just wait a month or 2 and they will unfuck the format.

Standard meanwhile is a hot mess, currently its dominated by a single archetype, and theres no guarantee that a deck you will enjoy playing will be viable, so you gotta chase the meta, which can lead you to spending months playing decks your not that interested in simply because what you want to play is unviable garbage.

really id just play it on arena. spend less time having to sit opposite neck beards with shit hygene that way,
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Well, they just destroyed all of the eternal formats with the release of Ikoria, even though Throne/Theros had broken every format to a certain degree as well. This new set introduced Companions. Companions are basically a commander. You get it every game in your hand, it can't be thoughtseized away, and they are all pretty powerful. They do have deckbuilding restrictions, like every card must be even CMC or odd CMC etc. Lurrus of the Dream Den has become almost 100% of the Vintage meta, and is probably over 80% of modern since it slots in to several different tier decks. What a nightmare.

Dirty Jerz said:
I almost dipped back into Magic and took a look around and immediately dipped out.

The powerlevel in standard is the highest it's been maybe since the Jace debacle (and I was around during the Energy deck meta) and all signs point to the sets not being playtested... at all.

Mark Rosewater, head designer, is hard at work trying to defend the increased power level. Recently on a twitter poll heran specifically about the power level of standard, 63% of people said it was too high. Common criticsism is that they put cards meant specifically for Commander, Modern and other formats into the Standard sets and these cards are having a power warping effect. And this is after MTG already prints various products specifically for these formats. MaRo responded saying he wants ALL players to buy standard, which may have worked 15 years ago, but at this point their wrecking standard by playing to the eternal format crowd who is more active on social media but make up less of a player base.

Archive of Rosewater's tweet
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You did the right thing my dude. I bought a few hundred dollars worth of MTGO cards like 2 months ago, and snagged a couple tier decks for a reasonable price. Horrible time to do that, and I wish I could get my money back. Now they are all pushed out of the meta except for 1 thanks to companions.

Rosewater is a fucking tard. He likes to hire people based on political ideology and not talent or merit. This shows with their decision to allow Play Design to handle playtesting and balancing new sets. These are the geniuses who admitted to pushing Oko so much because when they tested it, they just turned Mana rocks and shit into 3/3 elks with him. These faggots are clueless, and every new card these days does 2-3 more things than ever.

A great example of this is a card called Robber of the Rich. A red creature that costs 1R, and when it attacks, if your opponent has more cards in hand than you do, you get to exile the top card of their library and cast it using mana of any color. There are tons and tons of examples like this where cards do everything nowadays.

WoTC has a huge boner for cards creating instant value the instant they hit the battlefield these days, and I guess they forgot to print cards with drawbacks the last few years. Really sad. I hope companions are banned in eternal formats soon. Then we just have to deal with Uro/Kroxa horseshit every game then. Very depressing.
 
Dirty Jerz said:
I almost dipped back into Magic and took a look around and immediately dipped out.

The powerlevel in standard is the highest it's been maybe since the Jace debacle (and I was around during the Energy deck meta) and all signs point to the sets not being playtested... at all.

Mark Rosewater, head designer, is hard at work trying to defend the increased power level. Recently on a twitter poll heran specifically about the power level of standard, 63% of people said it was too high. Common criticsism is that they put cards meant specifically for Commander, Modern and other formats into the Standard sets and these cards are having a power warping effect. And this is after MTG already prints various products specifically for these formats. MaRo responded saying he wants ALL players to buy standard, which may have worked 15 years ago, but at this point their wrecking standard by playing to the eternal format crowd who is more active on social media but make up less of a player base.

Archive of Rosewater's tweet
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Rosewater needed to be removed from the design department over a decade ago. Skullclamp, Goyf, Myrs in general, fucking Jace, there's so many cases of him releasing outright broken shit that he's somehow, impossibly, managed to outclass the glory days of the early editions, which shouldn't be fucking possible.
 
is force of will a good magic alternitive? im interested in playing a card game again but i dont wanna deal with Wotcs autism anymore
 
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