Evu

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[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 5 points 8 months ago

This all sounds reasonable to me. An understandable motivation for changing, and a sensible way of approaching it.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not clear and it’s going to just be used to further whatever conclusion they’ve already come to.

Yeah, whatever the results of this poll are, I guarantee Mark/WotC are going to learn the wrong lesson from it. Like when they took "it's too hard to maintain a collection for Standard" to mean "cards should stay in Standard for longer" and raised the format's power level by half.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I found this pretty unintuitive in a few ways. To name the card, you have to click "Guess card", then type out the name (even though it looks like the fields are disabled), then click the button again. If that isn't working for you then I don't know.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 3 points 8 months ago

Are we talking about cookie tins, or what? The article doesn't have pictures of the actual product, and doesn't describe them as anything other than "promotional tins". We know they'll contain five booster packs plus two cards, so I guess that puts a floor on how small they could be.

I'd expect you could fit about four cookies, depending on their size and shape, in the space taken up by five booster packs.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 3 points 8 months ago

Commander players have a thing called "Rule 0" that basically says you can change whatever rules you want as long as your whole playgroup agrees to it. But if you want to get your changes accepted on a broader scale, so that you could go to a store event or a big tournament and expect other players to be familiar with them, that's a much taller hurdle. Can you convince the community that your banlist is better than the official one and also better than any other fan-made ones? Can you get stores to support it -- keeping in mind that they have to curry favor with Wizards in order to maintain WPN certification, be allowed to pre-order the amount of product they want, etc.? If you could do it successfully, you'd basically be building a grassroots competitor to the Commander Format Panel. Not impossible, but it would be an uphill battle for sure.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 4 points 8 months ago

The tone of this article sounded so much like a farewell letter or a eulogy, I really was not expecting it to end with "and that's why I'm excited to continue being a part of the Commander Format Panel".

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to think of Magic as a canvas no matter how many times some suit at Hasbro who probably doesn't even play the game tells me I should.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 12 points 9 months ago

This is probably one of those cases where most players were already doing it this way anyhow, because they weren't aware of the actual rule (which I'd have to say is not intuitive).

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 10 points 9 months ago

The initial shock of Universes Beyond is well behind us at this point.

No, it isn't.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I could complain about this, or explain why I don't want it, but what good would it do? The fact that they're making this announcement means it's already too late to stop it.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

“Creatures you control get +10/+10”

I hope this one is called "Bag of Colossus Hammers".

Artifact Creature – Phyrexian Construct

Let's assume this is a reprint. Here are the possibilities. What's your vote?

I haven't heard that Snow or Poison are going to be in this set, so that rules out some things. I think Zenith Chronicler is likely because it plays well in Commander. Personally I'm rooting for one of my pet cards, Phyrexian Walker. It's probably a dark horse but I think as zero-cost creatures go it's one of the fairest.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 2 points 9 months ago

It crossed that threshold for me a while ago. "Diluted" is the right word. If somebody asked me to describe Magic to them now, I don't know what I would say.

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