I still don't know what the exact hubbub is or was over Terese Nielsen, but apparently she was tuned into some rather dubious alt-right personalities on social media and a few aggressively left-leaning agitators caught on. She didn't actually say anything herself, from what I gather, and offered a rather contrite response to the larger community, but not before a lot of people swore off her art entirely.
Oh! I vaguely remember that. I remember seeing screenshots of her liked tweets and retweets that were more than just dubious, weird that I blanked on that. It was just last year, right? Damn, I guess the last year just had too much stuff to remember that random a MtG artist controversy didn't stick.
Chick-Fil-A, on the other hand, actively donates (or has actively donated) money to anti-LGBTQ organizations, which has landed them in some hot water on the national scale.
Oh that I do know. There was even a song by drag queens about it!!
And that was a signal for me neither was in the precon
Precons are meant as starting decks for newcomers not experts
And by way i look at mtgstocks all the time when I said $8 I was talking the C14 wurmcoil not scars and I literally said the scars versions price at that time was on par with the locust god
Being beginner product doesn’t some how excuse them from putting value for experienced players that they know are going to buy them. They’ve explicitly stated that they know that we want better reprint value and have said they would do it.
Also what does the post reprint price of a card have to do with anything? Of course it was low. The Scars printing dropped to about $11 post reprint. But that’s not really relevant other than to prove the point of why we want these reprints. None of us are in here expecting fetches and they missed their window to get Oracle of Mul Daya. But it’s not too much to ask to see some things that need a reprint before they get too crazy to get them here. And I know I’m not the only one with this sentiment.
And by way i look at mtgstocks all the time when I said $8 I was talking the C14 wurmcoil not scars and I literally said the scars versions price at that time was on par with the locust god
So let me get this straight, you believe a $20 card wasn't reprinted because the reprint was $8. That makes sense how?
I still don't know what the exact hubbub is or was over Terese Nielsen, but apparently she was tuned into some rather dubious alt-right personalities on social media and a few aggressively left-leaning agitators caught on. She didn't actually say anything herself, from what I gather, and offered a rather contrite response to the larger community, but not before a lot of people swore off her art entirely.
Synopsis: Terese likes a single post on twitter. This triggers some people in the MTG community, notably Autumn Burchett. Autumn Burchett proceeds to be the main person who raises a stink about it and forms a twitter hate mob with others joining in. The most notable thing that happened was Autumn marking her Guru lands by scribbling out Terese's name on the artist credit and writing some rather unpleasant things on them. Terese puts out her letter. Eventually this leads to Wizards severing ties with Terese, as the company doesn't want the negative PR, and the people like Autumn who rose a stink got what they wanted through cancel culture.
Well, this went way off topic overnight... I have not idea what you guys are talking about anymore.
Who is buying these things for value? People want a working and thematic deck, if you are buying these things to resell the reprints you are not the target audience.
So when I am looking at the decks I am thinking about how on theme the cards are so that anyone picking up these decks knows exactly what the deck is trying to do (and can upgrade at their leisure).
Ruthless regiment: It's human tribal, easy enough to understand. But it is missing a few of the important tribal deck pieces such as Coat of arms and door of destinies. Tribal have these core cards and some of them are missing here in favour of weird cards like Titan of epiphany
Arcane Maelstrom: A spells matter deck, The reprint choice is pretty good here but the big problem here is that there is only 1 cost reduction cards, things like goblin electromancer, jace's sanctum are missing. Also for a deck that wants you to cast an instant once a turn they are missing those low-cost cantrips you need to be able to do two things per turn. I would have also liked some flashback cards.
Symbiotic Swarm: Keyword tribal with some reanimation. As keyword tribal, I feel like this works really well the Karametra reprint is probably one of the best reprints. This does have a lot of the setup cards you need to fill your graveyard. The reanimation options are the more expensive options available in the format which is a little disappointing but it seems like a bit of a backup plan. I think this is the best one, but newer players may get confused between the keyword and reanimation themes.
Timeless Wisdom: Cycling. The theme here is extremely strong maybe to the point of breaking their mana base. I love Isperia for my own reasons but I don't see why anyone else would. The reprints here are super hit and miss, some great a lot really terrible. There aren't enough windfalls for the windfall theme and there seems to be a lot of actively bad cards if you aren't using the draw and discard effects (other than cycling). So while the main theme is strong there is a bunch of side themes that just don't seem to work very well.
Enhanced Evolution: X spells matter, and mutate. The X spells matter theme is strong but the deck just doesn't ramp hard enough to make it its primary goal. So again the mutate and recursion themes seem to be at odds with the primary goal of ramping hard into X spells. Also, there is a lot of triple green in those creatures they might be hard to cast with that mana base. I think this might be the worst one, just super awkward and clunky without hard ramp. Although perhaps I am underrating mutate.
Oh! I vaguely remember that. I remember seeing screenshots of her liked tweets and retweets that were more than just dubious, weird that I blanked on that. It was just last year, right? Damn, I guess the last year just had too much stuff to remember that random a MtG artist controversy didn't stick.
Oh that I do know. There was even a song by drag queens about it!!
Archatmos
Excellion
Fracture: Israfiel (WBR), Wujal (URG), Valedon (GUB), Amduat (BGW), Paladris (RWU)
Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
Being beginner product doesn’t some how excuse them from putting value for experienced players that they know are going to buy them. They’ve explicitly stated that they know that we want better reprint value and have said they would do it.
Also what does the post reprint price of a card have to do with anything? Of course it was low. The Scars printing dropped to about $11 post reprint. But that’s not really relevant other than to prove the point of why we want these reprints. None of us are in here expecting fetches and they missed their window to get Oracle of Mul Daya. But it’s not too much to ask to see some things that need a reprint before they get too crazy to get them here. And I know I’m not the only one with this sentiment.
So let me get this straight, you believe a $20 card wasn't reprinted because the reprint was $8. That makes sense how?
My God bless that sweet, sweet chicken!
I should probably go get some tomorrow, actually.
EDH DECKS
Currently under construction
MAGECRAFT STORM
Protection from Degeneracy
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
It's actually not all that good, and more than a bit overpriced. The Popeye's sammich, on the other hand, is worth the hype.
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#BLM
#DefundThePolice
Who is buying these things for value? People want a working and thematic deck, if you are buying these things to resell the reprints you are not the target audience.
So when I am looking at the decks I am thinking about how on theme the cards are so that anyone picking up these decks knows exactly what the deck is trying to do (and can upgrade at their leisure).
Ruthless regiment: It's human tribal, easy enough to understand. But it is missing a few of the important tribal deck pieces such as Coat of arms and door of destinies. Tribal have these core cards and some of them are missing here in favour of weird cards like Titan of epiphany
Arcane Maelstrom: A spells matter deck, The reprint choice is pretty good here but the big problem here is that there is only 1 cost reduction cards, things like goblin electromancer, jace's sanctum are missing. Also for a deck that wants you to cast an instant once a turn they are missing those low-cost cantrips you need to be able to do two things per turn. I would have also liked some flashback cards.
Symbiotic Swarm: Keyword tribal with some reanimation. As keyword tribal, I feel like this works really well the Karametra reprint is probably one of the best reprints. This does have a lot of the setup cards you need to fill your graveyard. The reanimation options are the more expensive options available in the format which is a little disappointing but it seems like a bit of a backup plan. I think this is the best one, but newer players may get confused between the keyword and reanimation themes.
Timeless Wisdom: Cycling. The theme here is extremely strong maybe to the point of breaking their mana base. I love Isperia for my own reasons but I don't see why anyone else would. The reprints here are super hit and miss, some great a lot really terrible. There aren't enough windfalls for the windfall theme and there seems to be a lot of actively bad cards if you aren't using the draw and discard effects (other than cycling). So while the main theme is strong there is a bunch of side themes that just don't seem to work very well.
Enhanced Evolution: X spells matter, and mutate. The X spells matter theme is strong but the deck just doesn't ramp hard enough to make it its primary goal. So again the mutate and recursion themes seem to be at odds with the primary goal of ramping hard into X spells. Also, there is a lot of triple green in those creatures they might be hard to cast with that mana base. I think this might be the worst one, just super awkward and clunky without hard ramp. Although perhaps I am underrating mutate.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own