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Lottery of Babylon posted:I have been playing magic since Apoc and I have found Theros and Tarkir to be about as boring in limited as DGM. The fact that people feel that unflinching courage is amazing just sickens me because it is just a strictly worse Armadillo Cloak and MaRo himself tried to defend it by stating how the original version was too powerful. New thread title??
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Magic: The Gathering: Megathread: worth more than food that could save a dying village in Africa
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Apr 8, 2015 22:12
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Chill la Chill posted:cockatrice is still a thing, I thought. People still love their broken software, though. That's just trading occasionally buggy rules implementation for do-it-yourself-and-end-up-arguing-with-someone-who-doesn't-know-how-the-rules-work, and occasional random disconnects for people quitting immediately if they don't want to play against your deck because there's nothing on the line. And you can't draft on cockatrice. Sure, you can arrange one using a site like tappedout.net but that's like herdinh cats to get organized to even have a single match.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:17
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Magic: the Gathering: Megathread: There would be sixty-seven apples if her mother would ever just choose one.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:18
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Zoness posted:Magic: The Gathering: Megathread: worth more than food that could save a dying village in Africa It'd be a better title for the eternal thread. It's a hilarious sentiment, basically that no one should have hobbies, and all disposable income should be given to the poor. It's noble but not coming from a guy who wants to get back to the good ol' days of buying cards and then later buying booze.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:21
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:excessive maro hate is stupid because it's not like he's not executing on a vision of mtg shared by all of his coworkers and explicitly mandated by his superiors. in the absence of maro it would just be gottlieb's or nagle's fault. maro is just a public face. maro is an apologist for the worst parts of modern magic design but he also designed hybrid mana, split cards and Time Spiral block. you don't know what i love sone 
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Apr 8, 2015 22:28
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Ramos posted:That's a quote for grognards.txt. I think its from the dude whose picture was linked earlier, although I'm not sure who that is? Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Apr 8, 2015 22:33
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Entropic posted:That's just trading occasionally buggy rules implementation for do-it-yourself-and-end-up-arguing-with-someone-who-doesn't-know-how-the-rules-work, and occasional random disconnects for people quitting immediately if they don't want to play against your deck because there's nothing on the line. Maybe if you went around to magic shops and asked for experienced coders and project managers for free, then maybe you'd have a solid, polished product.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:38
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XMage is free, has rules enforcement, and I believe is draft-capable. Id rather give Wizards my money and play MTGO, but I'm not paying their prices or the secondary market prices for digital cards.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:41
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They could have so many more people on MTGO if they'd made it cheaper to buy and draft virtual cards than real ones, but they're kind of locked into that now.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:51
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Entropic posted:They could have so many more people on MTGO if they'd made it cheaper to buy and draft virtual cards than real ones, but they're kind of locked into that now. They also could have so many more people on MTGO if it worked. I wanted to try it for the holiday cube, and all the responses I got were "Don't waste your money." Hasbro, Wizards, you're swimming in money, hire decent people, cmon.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:00
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Entropic posted:They could have so many more people on MTGO if they'd made it cheaper to buy and draft virtual cards than real ones, but they're kind of locked into that now. The reason they cost the same from the store is due to redemption.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:15
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Entropic posted:They could have so many more people on MTGO if they'd made it cheaper to buy and draft virtual cards than real ones, but they're kind of locked into that now. I'd pay a pretty high fee for some subscription service that let me draft whenever and let me jam constructed decks whenever too. It's ridiculous that in a private game between myself and a friend with nothing on the line I have to have the cards on my account. Trying to recreate paper magic was a good goal in 2002 or whenever but it is really punishing them these days.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:20
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:I'd pay a pretty high fee for some subscription service that let me draft whenever and let me jam constructed decks whenever too. It's ridiculous that in a private game between myself and a friend with nothing on the line I have to have the cards on my account. They put almost nothing into it and people pay money for fake cards. MTGO is not "punishing" them in any way, I assure you.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:23
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Did MaRo ever actually say Armadillo Cloak was overpowered? Unflinching Courage seems more like a clarification than a deliberate nerf, and it's not even strictly worse because lifelink doesn't use the stack.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:26
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It's not overpowered so much as counterintuitive. Specifically what happens when you Armadillo Cloak your opponent's guy - it's like a bad guard duty because you are the controller of the cloak so you gain life for your opponent hitting things.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:27
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TheKingofSprings posted:source your quotes It's a comment on one of kingcobweb's articles.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:29
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I think the most unintuitive part of spirit link vs lifelink is how spirit link on defense interacts with a player taking lethal damage.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:30
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Even in all my MTG grogness I don't think it makes any sense to call Unflinching Courage a nerfed version, except insofar as lifelink in general is different from the "spirit link" of old. I mean, what else were they going to do? It's not like they were going to bend over backwards to write it so that it actually replicated Armadillo Cloak's functionality. Now, if you want me to bitch in general about them making unnecessary functional reprints, hoo boy, take a seat. 
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Apr 8, 2015 23:33
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Divination should just be Counsel of the Soratami always Soratami on every plane.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:34
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JerryLee posted:Even in all my MTG grogness I don't think it makes any sense to call Unflinching Courage a nerfed version It is no less a nerf than Oblivion Ring is to Banishing Light. You remove a small utility option on a card that's otherwise the same. That's making it worse
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Apr 8, 2015 23:36
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quote:... And women can be guilty of things too (not that this excuses men for being guilty). I recently played at a GP with a women who intentionally wore low-cut, revealing clothes. Her playmat was a custom mat of her nude (but covering the important areas) and seducing Garruk. Ramos posted:Twenty dollars down on the middle one being satire. Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste,  Not Work Safe Playmat/background images
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Apr 8, 2015 23:38
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Lifelink vs Spirit Link is just a rules streamlining. They've moved away from the spirit link wording because it's awkward as gently caress. It's like swapping durdly triggers from must to may to reduce the need to force state rewinds for fuckups.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:39
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TheKingofSprings posted:It is no less a nerf than Oblivion Ring is to Banishing Light. It's not otherwise the same. You survive lethal damage if simultaneous lifelink heals you to positive numbers. Spirit Link doesn't do that. It's an edge case but not edgier than Cloaking an opponent's dude.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:40
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Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, Well, that's enough for me for today. Time to down about twenty dollars worth of alcohol.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:48
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Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, I think I've played against her at an IQ or PTQ. She either didn't have or didn't use that mat though, she was pretty nice.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:16
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Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, 
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Apr 9, 2015 00:19
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Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, 
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Apr 9, 2015 00:19
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Toshimo posted:Magic: the Gathering: Megathread: There would be sixty-seven apples if her mother would ever just choose one. People may hate your pointless posts, but sometimes, I enjoy the Toshimo touch on a bullshit line of discussion.  Edit: Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, 
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Apr 9, 2015 00:21
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Apparently Tara Babcock is an incredibly popular streamer who is the single person most responsible for Twitch.tv changing its guidelines so you had to wear a shirt and pants while streaming last year. Like I looked at the rest of her twitter and she linked a vlog where she says she's actually happy that guys masturbate to her tits but doesn't like it when they "objectify her by implying she doesn't work hard on her gaming channel." It has like 2 million views.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:26
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Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, Well.......that is a thing.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:28
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She's the number one target of grogs that get angry at "fake girl gamers" even though she actually seems to be pretty good andpassionate.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:28
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:She's the number one target of grogs that get angry at "fake girl gamers" even though she actually seems to be pretty good andpassionate. The best grog bait is Kaceytron the League of Legends streamer
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Apr 9, 2015 00:35
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Dehtraen posted:Bringing this back, it isn't satire or mtg erotica accidental copy/paste, You know to be honest I've seen way more offensive playmats. That one isn't even that bad. Something something anime card sleeves.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:36
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Angry Grimace posted:Packs of KTK cost 1.57. It is significantly cheaper. Yeah I forgot about redemption because I just sell my rares for packs. It's cheaper, but it still feels too expensive for fake cards when I'm not on a winning streak.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:42
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You can sell those fake cards (and tickets actually) for real money so I guess I dont see the issue, unless you need to physically touch everything you own
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Apr 9, 2015 00:52
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theironjef posted:Game stores are always run by game guys that had a dream is the problem. You never see a guy running a game store who'd be exactly as happy running a tire store. So right off the bat they're generally groggy and the first batch of regulars in the store are their groggy old friends hanging around in one corner playing with Fantasy armies they haven't bought a piece for since 1991, and those people are used as the baseline for what manner of behavior is appropriate to the store. Lionguild fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 00:52
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:She's the number one target of grogs that get angry at "fake girl gamers" even though she actually seems to be pretty good andpassionate. So by fake gamer girl they mean "girl who would never talk to me in public since im a smelly terribly socially inept grog?" Are they just intimidated by attractive women?
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Apr 9, 2015 01:00
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Attractive women spend too much time on their looks and not enough time playing the game to be good, obv.
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The MTG community is pretty toxic in a lot of ways, it's really kind of gross. The elitism is extremely dumb, Drew Levin touched on this on twitter yesterday. The amount of genuine "what has he ever won?" responses to articles by people who aren't top pros is idiotic. Also the culture has this really repelling way of trying to argue with every little thing and prove everyone wrong at any possibility, which I definitely never take advantage of. Stop this poo poo forever. Stop the pedantry. Stop trying to prove people wrong. Stop trying to be right about everything.
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