I've not decided yet what I will do with this set. It's in-universe, but barely, only in name.
For every Bloomburrow and Fondations, we get how many cyberpunk, cluedo, freddie, cluedo, cow-boy, and now death-race (or speed racer)... plus a myriads of FF, Dr Who and Spiderman.
Maaaaaaybe this will mostly be Kaladesh but unfortunately with less fantasy vehicles and more thinly-disguised V6 muscle cars and super-bike?
Nice it's Temur energy and Kaladesh (my favourite plane aesthetic), but it's a ******* death race set.... Can't help but think of the "look how they massacred my boy" scene from Godfather.
My interest in Magic is all but gone at this point and the rest of the releases this year, outside of Tarkir (hopefully), are only going to get worse. I'll just keep using the cards I already have or buy old singles when my friends and I game.
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
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Unpopular opinion: sorcery-speed removal is *not* as terrible as you think it is.
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
As usual dumb crazy woke censorship.
That's a stretch. They wanted it to mean one thing, it meant something else, so they changed it.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
According to this site, both Kal and Kala means tomorrow in Hindi!? It gives multiple example of usages of both kal and kala and it always means tomorrow or sometimes yesterday, related. It is never shown to mean anything like a racial slur.
As usual, the people who get upset over something that doesn't matter have nothing better to do with their time than get upset over something that doesn't matter.
Now...as far as the set theme itself....even if it is some weird mash-up of Death Race and Speed Racer, I don't have a problem with that. Vehicles are cool, but in reality only two or three vehicles have ever been relevant (maybe four, because Heart of Kiran was a significant early-game threat in the Standard of its day).
Now that I mention Death Race and Speed Racer, it occurs to me that we are leaving out Wacky Racers. Only those of you who are of a certain age know the cartoon I am referencing.
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Unpopular opinion: sorcery-speed removal is *not* as terrible as you think it is.
As usual, the people who get upset over something that doesn't matter have nothing better to do with their time than get upset over something that doesn't matter.
Now...as far as the set theme itself....even if it is some weird mash-up of Death Race and Speed Racer, I don't have a problem with that. Vehicles are cool, but in reality only two or three vehicles have ever been relevant (maybe four, because Heart of Kiran was a significant early-game threat in the Standard of its day).
Now that I mention Death Race and Speed Racer, it occurs to me that we are leaving out Wacky Racers. Only those of you who are of a certain age know the cartoon I am referencing.
This set is more lighthearted than I thought it would be and I'm liking it.
Anyone else got Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds vibes, specifically "card games on motorcycles", from the BOOSTGOD followers, though?
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
As usual dumb crazy woke censorship.
My dude, they did not even retcon the name (it was changed in-universe as well, it is recognized as the old name for the plane, and none of the cards that spelled Kaladesh will be changed), and how the hell would it be anything but a small aesthetic change unless you desperately wanted the (accidental) racist connotations in the name to remain? As usual people decrying "woke censorship" don't even know what either of these terms mean.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
According to this site, both Kal and Kala means tomorrow in Hindi!? It gives multiple example of usages of both kal and kala and it always means tomorrow or sometimes yesterday, related. It is never shown to mean anything like a racial slur.
Kala (which means "black" depending on the pronunciation, which is why it wasn't noticed when Kaladesh was created, and stems from sanskrit) is a very common slur against black people in the entire south-east asian region, including India and Myanmar. Just putting in "kala" in google translate gives you "black" as its main translation too.
Now...as far as the set theme itself....even if it is some weird mash-up of Death Race and Speed Racer, I don't have a problem with that. Vehicles are cool, but in reality only two or three vehicles have ever been relevant (maybe four, because Heart of Kiran was a significant early-game threat in the Standard of its day).
Now that I mention Death Race and Speed Racer, it occurs to me that we are leaving out Wacky Racers. Only those of you who are of a certain age know the cartoon I am referencing.
This set is more lighthearted than I thought it would be and I'm liking it.
Anyone else got Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds vibes, specifically "card games on motorcycles", from the BOOSTGOD followers, though?
From a physics/automotive engineering perspective, do vehicles have batteries which use stored Aether for power or do they have "power conversion cells" which draw their power from the ambient Aether itself?
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Unpopular opinion: sorcery-speed removal is *not* as terrible as you think it is.
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
As usual dumb crazy woke censorship.
That's a stretch. They wanted it to mean one thing, it meant something else, so they changed it.
Dude. It's not normal that a creative team is taken hostage by politically correctness only because any random word they make up for they fictional worlds can have an offensive meaning in one of the over 7000 languages in the world. This is simply crazy, I can't bother to be afraid to make up words because for pure coincidence can have a bad assonance in another language and I should learn over said 7000 languages just to be sure to not offend anybody in the world. Thats totally folly.
This is no different than removing the word "demon" from magic cards to not offend the bigoted christians like how WotC did in the 90' (and rightfully reversed the policy over 10 years later), the only difference is that WotC is caring now more about laical snowflakes than religious fundamentalist, but the same intolerant bigotry mindset behind of being offended by anything they don't like is literally the same.
My dude, they did not even retcon the name (it was changed in-universe as well, it is recognized as the old name for the plane, and none of the cards that spelled Kaladesh will be changed), and how the hell would it be anything but a small aesthetic change unless you desperately wanted the (accidental) racist connotations in the name to remain? As usual people decrying "woke censorship" don't even know what either of these terms mean.
Problem is, is not only an aesthetic change, but an ideological agenda, and is not only about Kaladesh, but a recurring thing that is actively harmful against the freedom of expression in fantasy literature and not only. They already removed the surname of Kiora Atua because they didn't want to be offensive against the haitians and totally retcon the apparence of Tarkir Rakshas despite being a totally ficitional fantasy creature of an inexistent world and many other things. This is bad and is not only about aesthethic, is about the same old millennia problem, that freedom of tought and caring to hurting others people subjective sensibility and resolve this with censorship, whetever is religious or in any other form, are not in any way compatibile together.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
According to this site, both Kal and Kala means tomorrow in Hindi!? It gives multiple example of usages of both kal and kala and it always means tomorrow or sometimes yesterday, related. It is never shown to mean anything like a racial slur.
I know everyone always liked Temur energy (do we *always* call it Temur and *never* Ketria? same colors, so just wondering) but Jund Energy (or, if you prefer, Riveteers, again they are the same colors) was pretty good once Winding Constrictor was available.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
As usual dumb crazy woke censorship.
That's a stretch. They wanted it to mean one thing, it meant something else, so they changed it.
Dude. It's not normal that a creative team is taken hostage by politically correctness only because any random word they make up for they fictional worlds can have an offensive meaning in one of the over 7000 languages in the world. This is simply crazy, I can't bother to be afraid to make up words because for pure coincidence can have a bad assonance in another language and I should learn over said 7000 languages just to be sure to not offend anybody in the world. Thats totally folly.
This is no different than removing the word "demon" from magic cards to not offend the bigoted christians like how WotC did in the 90' (and rightfully reversed the policy over 10 years later), the only difference is that WotC is caring now more about laical snowflakes than religious fundamentalist, but the same intolerant bigotry mindset behind of being offended by anything they don't like is literally the same.
It's not that it happened to mean something on one of 7000 languages though, it was on the specific language they were trying to reference. I'll give an analogy, dropping the racial component that sets off the anti-woke rants. Say you're a Swedish condiment manufacturer and you make a butter substitute. You decide you want it to sound English because your company has a product line that's supposed to seem American. Your team takes part of the word "butter" and an English word referring to something unspecified. When it hits the market, you are informed that "Buttstuff" means something else in English. When it comes time to run the next batch, do you keep that name because you're against censorship or change it to something with better associations?
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
As usual dumb crazy woke censorship.
That's a stretch. They wanted it to mean one thing, it meant something else, so they changed it.
Dude. It's not normal that a creative team is taken hostage by politically correctness only because any random word they make up for they fictional worlds can have an offensive meaning in one of the over 7000 languages in the world. This is simply crazy, I can't bother to be afraid to make up words because for pure coincidence can have a bad assonance in another language and I should learn over said 7000 languages just to be sure to not offend anybody in the world. Thats totally folly.
This is no different than removing the word "demon" from magic cards to not offend the bigoted christians like how WotC did in the 90' (and rightfully reversed the policy over 10 years later), the only difference is that WotC is caring now more about laical snowflakes than religious fundamentalist, but the same intolerant bigotry mindset behind of being offended by anything they don't like is literally the same.
It's not that it happened to mean something on one of 7000 languages though, it was on the specific language they were trying to reference. I'll give an analogy, dropping the racial component that sets off the anti-woke rants. Say you're a Swedish condiment manufacturer and you make a butter substitute. You decide you want it to sound English because your company has a product line that's supposed to seem American. Your team takes part of the word "butter" and an English word referring to something unspecified. When it hits the market, you are informed that "Buttstuff" means something else in English. When it comes time to run the next batch, do you keep that name because you're against censorship or change it to something with better associations?
That's totally irrelevant. If it's true that Kala is a bad word in Hindi, than just change the name in the hindi language for the hindi products, not for the whole rest of the world. Take for example Disney (that is currently the most uber-wokes company around and that should say something): When they made the movie "Moana", named obviously after the protagonist, in Italy they made a change in "Oceania" and the girl named "Viviana", because Moana in our culture is a name associated with only one thing : a very famous female porn-star, so it's understandable that they changed the name for that specific country. Rakshas are culturally offensive for hindi? Than just change the damn art for the hindi printings of the cards ONLY, instead of forcing the entire world to warp around their cultural sensitivity. Chinese magic cards that depicts skeletons or skulls are re-painted with generical undead and zombies because apparently depictions of skulls and skeletons are offensive for more than a billion people. Do said billion people dictate to censor said skeletons and skulls also for the western audicence? NO! So it's nonsensical that the whole Magic fantasy IP integrity is tweaked and taked hostage in the whole world just because of some very local cultural issues.
When it comes time to run the next batch, do you keep that name because you're against censorship or change it to something with better associations?
Do what all the world always did in these cases : change ONLY for the locals that could be offended, but remain the same name worldwide. Like all the real world examples I did before. That's reasonable. But forcing and censoring your product worldwide for everybody only because some people of some very specific cultures can be offended by it, is simply madness and as I said, dumb crazy woke censorship.
Also still nobody explained to me why now offending christians with demons imagery is ok, while this is unacceptable.
The "buttstuff"-analogy seems on point. They made up a phrase that was supposed to mean something in Hindi and it means something else to people who actually speak Hindi. They failed in the actual language they were trying to use.
According to this site, both Kal and Kala means tomorrow in Hindi!? It gives multiple example of usages of both kal and kala and it always means tomorrow or sometimes yesterday, related. It is never shown to mean anything like a racial slur.
Further I tried to look up a few slurs from languages I'm more familiar with than Hindi and... it never points out slurs as far as I can tell, so I wouldn't rely on that site in particular to evaluate the propriety of your language. Something maybe to keep in mind going forward.
First is GUR Energy matters deck (Okay smito happy now? Temur instead of jeskai this time.)
Is Saheeli URG now? Is that because of Huatli's influence?
Anyway...on Arena I have had some reasonably good results with Jeskai/Raugrin Energy, mostly thanks to Decoction Module and the amazing Izzet Generatorium with backup support from Guide of Souls. Any two of those cards plus one of the others (or even just one of each) turns Whirler Virtuoso into an infinite thopter engine. Of course, I haven't logged onto Arena in nearly a month, but mostly because I have been sidetracked with other things.
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Unpopular opinion: sorcery-speed removal is *not* as terrible as you think it is.
Problem is, is not only an aesthetic change, but an ideological agenda, and is not only about Kaladesh, but a recurring thing that is actively harmful against the freedom of expression in fantasy literature and not only. They already removed the surname of Kiora Atua because they didn't want to be offensive against the haitians and totally retcon the apparence of Tarkir Rakshas despite being a totally ficitional fantasy creature of an inexistent world and many other things. This is bad and is not only about aesthethic, is about the same old millennia problem, that freedom of tought and caring to hurting others people subjective sensibility and resolve this with censorship, whetever is religious or in any other form, are not in any way compatibile together.
"Other cultures exist and therefore that's bad that they had to change incredibly minor details. They're attacking fantasy!"
Nothing you listed was an "offense to freedom of expression." WotC didn't want to be caught in a controversy of any kind and changed it, now they're expressing themselves this way. The only ones upset by this are folks like you, ones that should take a hard look at themselves.
First is GUR Energy matters deck (Okay smito happy now? Temur instead of jeskai this time.)
Is Saheeli URG now? Is that because of Huatli's influence?
Anyway...on Arena I have had some reasonably good results with Jeskai/Raugrin Energy, mostly thanks to Decoction Module and the amazing Izzet Generatorium with backup support from Guide of Souls. Any two of those cards plus one of the others (or even just one of each) turns Whirler Virtuoso into an infinite thopter engine. Of course, I haven't logged onto Arena in nearly a month, but mostly because I have been sidetracked with other things.
Nothing you listed was an "offense to freedom of expression." WotC didn't want to be caught in a controversy of any kind and changed it, now they're expressing themselves this way. The only ones upset by this are folks like you, ones that should take a hard look at themselves.
It's hilarious how you are reverting the narrative. The fact is that a bunch of people got offended because of religious and cultural sensitivity, said people tell then to WotC to alter their already established lore because they are offended by said things and you are trying to revert that I am the one offended just because I point out that a bunch of bigots snowflakes limits creativity expressions of fictional worlds made up from your head. Your level of mistification of reality is unbelievable.
So with you logic we should still pander christian sensitivity and continue to ban demons in magic and D&D (because it's something that really happened and it's called "satanic panic") and we should ban skeleton and skulls in the whole magic game in every country because chinese are offended by this imagery. At least be coherent with your bigotry until the end, because now your empty hipocrisy is just sickening.
Problem is, is not only an aesthetic change, but an ideological agenda, and is not only about Kaladesh, but a recurring thing that is actively harmful against the freedom of expression in fantasy literature and not only. They already removed the surname of Kiora Atua because they didn't want to be offensive against the haitians and totally retcon the apparence of Tarkir Rakshas despite being a totally ficitional fantasy creature of an inexistent world and many other things. This is bad and is not only about aesthethic, is about the same old millennia problem, that freedom of tought and caring to hurting others people subjective sensibility and resolve this with censorship, whetever is religious or in any other form, are not in any way compatibile together.
"Other cultures exist and therefore that's bad that they had to change incredibly minor details. They're attacking fantasy!"
Nothing you listed was an "offense to freedom of expression." WotC didn't want to be caught in a controversy of any kind and changed it, now they're expressing themselves this way. The only ones upset by this are folks like you, ones that should take a hard look at themselves.
Nothing you listed here would be "woke."
To be fair the whole appeasement towards (some selected) group's sensibilities (often times without much actual involvement - the "offended" are regularly unaffected third parties) is pretty much a trademark of progressivism these days. Sure, a lot of the outcries are somewhat hyperbolic but then that's exactly the reactance that more cautious people warned about like 10 years ago. Well, who would have thought that (social) coercion and corporate opportunism isn't a good way to change societies? My personal prediction is that by 2030 companies will likely try to avoid these issues (and anything vaguely related) like the plague as there's no easy safe ground anymore. I actually have quite a bleak outlook in regards to the whole thing - what's coming probably won't just be a throw back to the "don't give a **** mentality" of the 2000s. Looking from a macro perspective it's pretty fascinating to analyze how what was pretty much a noble idea could backfire so badly.
Also still nobody explained to me why now offending christians with demons imagery is ok, while this is unacceptable.
I know you are being rhetoric but the answer is pretty simple anyways: Because it's arbitrary. Well, OK, there's actually some (kind of) concept behind what group is and what group isn't supposed to be supported but in the end "arbitrary" sums it up quite nicely. Fierce anti-discrimination warriors lamenting some made up "old white man" stereotype as if that wasn't exactly the kind of thought pattern they claim to fight against. Well, it's pretty much a farce and that's before getting into corporate involvement which is usually so easily proven to be insincere that it's basically a waste of time to even go into it.
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First is GUR Energy matters deck (Okay smito happy now? Temur instead of jeskai this time.)
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For every Bloomburrow and Fondations, we get how many cyberpunk, cluedo, freddie, cluedo, cow-boy, and now death-race (or speed racer)... plus a myriads of FF, Dr Who and Spiderman.
Maaaaaaybe this will mostly be Kaladesh but unfortunately with less fantasy vehicles and more thinly-disguised V6 muscle cars and super-bike?
Ugh.
My interest in Magic is all but gone at this point and the rest of the releases this year, outside of Tarkir (hopefully), are only going to get worse. I'll just keep using the cards I already have or buy old singles when my friends and I game.
Anyway....I saw an e-mail yesterday saying that they were changing the name of the plane? What for? I don't care what they call it--it will still be Kaladesh.
It was originally supposed to be "Tomorrowland" in Hindi ("kal" + "desh"), but it reads as "Negroland" ("kala" + "desh").
As usual dumb crazy woke censorship.
That's a stretch. They wanted it to mean one thing, it meant something else, so they changed it.
According to this site, both Kal and Kala means tomorrow in Hindi!? It gives multiple example of usages of both kal and kala and it always means tomorrow or sometimes yesterday, related. It is never shown to mean anything like a racial slur.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/hindi-word-63929ab6f230c9ee09d9438956288f62daffcd41.html
Now...as far as the set theme itself....even if it is some weird mash-up of Death Race and Speed Racer, I don't have a problem with that. Vehicles are cool, but in reality only two or three vehicles have ever been relevant (maybe four, because Heart of Kiran was a significant early-game threat in the Standard of its day).
Now that I mention Death Race and Speed Racer, it occurs to me that we are leaving out Wacky Racers. Only those of you who are of a certain age know the cartoon I am referencing.
This set is more lighthearted than I thought it would be and I'm liking it.
Anyone else got Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds vibes, specifically "card games on motorcycles", from the BOOSTGOD followers, though?
My dude, they did not even retcon the name (it was changed in-universe as well, it is recognized as the old name for the plane, and none of the cards that spelled Kaladesh will be changed), and how the hell would it be anything but a small aesthetic change unless you desperately wanted the (accidental) racist connotations in the name to remain? As usual people decrying "woke censorship" don't even know what either of these terms mean.
Kala (which means "black" depending on the pronunciation, which is why it wasn't noticed when Kaladesh was created, and stems from sanskrit) is a very common slur against black people in the entire south-east asian region, including India and Myanmar. Just putting in "kala" in google translate gives you "black" as its main translation too.
From a physics/automotive engineering perspective, do vehicles have batteries which use stored Aether for power or do they have "power conversion cells" which draw their power from the ambient Aether itself?
Dude. It's not normal that a creative team is taken hostage by politically correctness only because any random word they make up for they fictional worlds can have an offensive meaning in one of the over 7000 languages in the world. This is simply crazy, I can't bother to be afraid to make up words because for pure coincidence can have a bad assonance in another language and I should learn over said 7000 languages just to be sure to not offend anybody in the world. Thats totally folly.
This is no different than removing the word "demon" from magic cards to not offend the bigoted christians like how WotC did in the 90' (and rightfully reversed the policy over 10 years later), the only difference is that WotC is caring now more about laical snowflakes than religious fundamentalist, but the same intolerant bigotry mindset behind of being offended by anything they don't like is literally the same.
Problem is, is not only an aesthetic change, but an ideological agenda, and is not only about Kaladesh, but a recurring thing that is actively harmful against the freedom of expression in fantasy literature and not only. They already removed the surname of Kiora Atua because they didn't want to be offensive against the haitians and totally retcon the apparence of Tarkir Rakshas despite being a totally ficitional fantasy creature of an inexistent world and many other things. This is bad and is not only about aesthethic, is about the same old millennia problem, that freedom of tought and caring to hurting others people subjective sensibility and resolve this with censorship, whetever is religious or in any other form, are not in any way compatibile together.
It's a slightly different word that can be transliterated the same way.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/hindi-word-a7c3824f2bca2d2dd4a08cc3ad106a2ae88a6c5d.html
It's not that it happened to mean something on one of 7000 languages though, it was on the specific language they were trying to reference. I'll give an analogy, dropping the racial component that sets off the anti-woke rants. Say you're a Swedish condiment manufacturer and you make a butter substitute. You decide you want it to sound English because your company has a product line that's supposed to seem American. Your team takes part of the word "butter" and an English word referring to something unspecified. When it hits the market, you are informed that "Buttstuff" means something else in English. When it comes time to run the next batch, do you keep that name because you're against censorship or change it to something with better associations?
That's totally irrelevant. If it's true that Kala is a bad word in Hindi, than just change the name in the hindi language for the hindi products, not for the whole rest of the world. Take for example Disney (that is currently the most uber-wokes company around and that should say something): When they made the movie "Moana", named obviously after the protagonist, in Italy they made a change in "Oceania" and the girl named "Viviana", because Moana in our culture is a name associated with only one thing : a very famous female porn-star, so it's understandable that they changed the name for that specific country. Rakshas are culturally offensive for hindi? Than just change the damn art for the hindi printings of the cards ONLY, instead of forcing the entire world to warp around their cultural sensitivity. Chinese magic cards that depicts skeletons or skulls are re-painted with generical undead and zombies because apparently depictions of skulls and skeletons are offensive for more than a billion people. Do said billion people dictate to censor said skeletons and skulls also for the western audicence? NO! So it's nonsensical that the whole Magic fantasy IP integrity is tweaked and taked hostage in the whole world just because of some very local cultural issues.
Do what all the world always did in these cases : change ONLY for the locals that could be offended, but remain the same name worldwide. Like all the real world examples I did before. That's reasonable. But forcing and censoring your product worldwide for everybody only because some people of some very specific cultures can be offended by it, is simply madness and as I said, dumb crazy woke censorship.
Also still nobody explained to me why now offending christians with demons imagery is ok, while this is unacceptable.
Further I tried to look up a few slurs from languages I'm more familiar with than Hindi and... it never points out slurs as far as I can tell, so I wouldn't rely on that site in particular to evaluate the propriety of your language. Something maybe to keep in mind going forward.
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Is Saheeli URG now? Is that because of Huatli's influence?
Anyway...on Arena I have had some reasonably good results with Jeskai/Raugrin Energy, mostly thanks to Decoction Module and the amazing Izzet Generatorium with backup support from Guide of Souls. Any two of those cards plus one of the others (or even just one of each) turns Whirler Virtuoso into an infinite thopter engine. Of course, I haven't logged onto Arena in nearly a month, but mostly because I have been sidetracked with other things.
Define woke.
"Other cultures exist and therefore that's bad that they had to change incredibly minor details. They're attacking fantasy!"
Nothing you listed was an "offense to freedom of expression." WotC didn't want to be caught in a controversy of any kind and changed it, now they're expressing themselves this way. The only ones upset by this are folks like you, ones that should take a hard look at themselves.
Nothing you listed here would be "woke."
probably from ixalan and hualti
It's hilarious how you are reverting the narrative. The fact is that a bunch of people got offended because of religious and cultural sensitivity, said people tell then to WotC to alter their already established lore because they are offended by said things and you are trying to revert that I am the one offended just because I point out that a bunch of bigots snowflakes limits creativity expressions of fictional worlds made up from your head. Your level of mistification of reality is unbelievable.
So with you logic we should still pander christian sensitivity and continue to ban demons in magic and D&D (because it's something that really happened and it's called "satanic panic") and we should ban skeleton and skulls in the whole magic game in every country because chinese are offended by this imagery. At least be coherent with your bigotry until the end, because now your empty hipocrisy is just sickening.
To be fair the whole appeasement towards (some selected) group's sensibilities (often times without much actual involvement - the "offended" are regularly unaffected third parties) is pretty much a trademark of progressivism these days. Sure, a lot of the outcries are somewhat hyperbolic but then that's exactly the reactance that more cautious people warned about like 10 years ago. Well, who would have thought that (social) coercion and corporate opportunism isn't a good way to change societies? My personal prediction is that by 2030 companies will likely try to avoid these issues (and anything vaguely related) like the plague as there's no easy safe ground anymore. I actually have quite a bleak outlook in regards to the whole thing - what's coming probably won't just be a throw back to the "don't give a **** mentality" of the 2000s. Looking from a macro perspective it's pretty fascinating to analyze how what was pretty much a noble idea could backfire so badly.
I know you are being rhetoric but the answer is pretty simple anyways: Because it's arbitrary. Well, OK, there's actually some (kind of) concept behind what group is and what group isn't supposed to be supported but in the end "arbitrary" sums it up quite nicely. Fierce anti-discrimination warriors lamenting some made up "old white man" stereotype as if that wasn't exactly the kind of thought pattern they claim to fight against. Well, it's pretty much a farce and that's before getting into corporate involvement which is usually so easily proven to be insincere that it's basically a waste of time to even go into it.