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bfellow posted a message on [[SCD]] Cellar DoorPerfect for a Door-tribal deck. Door to Nothingness, Door of Destinies, and Doorkeeper are some others!Posted in: Commander (EDH) -
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Drifting Skies posted a message on Toshiro NecrologiaWhen you try to cast a spell as the result of another spell or ability, you ignore timing restrictions due to card type, but you must still obey restrictions such as the one on Necrologia. You can only cast Necrologia via Mr. Umezawa if he triggers in the End Step of your turn.Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives -
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JaceTheWalletShredder posted a message on What does the gathering mean?This article from Daily MTG, dated 16 Feb 2009, explains.Posted in: Magic General
Quote from Mark Rosewater »Magic was almost not called Magic. In fact, when the first solicitation for the game was sent out the game was called Mana Clash. The reason for this is as follows. Richard (Garfield, of course) called the game Magic when he originally designed it. All through the original playtests the game was called Magic. Then when they went to officially name it, they got a lawyer involved who informed them that Magic was too broad of a word to ever be able to copyright. So they started looking for alternatives. Mana Clash was the name they liked best from that search and thus they used it on the solicitation. But everyone playing the game (Richard, the playtesters and the people at Wizards) still called the game Magic. The name just seemed too perfect. They went back to the lawyer and asked what they could do to call it Magic. The lawyer told them they needed to add something else unique and "ownable" onto it that allowing them to copyright the name as a whole. That is how "The Gathering" was added. -
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FieryBalrog posted a message on What does the gathering mean?It means "Now we can trademark the name of this game!"Posted in: Magic General -
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Ark42 posted a message on Ark42 and the like?In case anybody's not clear on a few things, even though I keep posting this on Facebook and Reddit, etc...Posted in: Magic General
ark42.com is run by me, and just me, some random L2 judge from Grand Rapids, MI
SCG emailed me and asked nicely to remove a few specific features about showing price changes. I agreed, because they were polite about it, and didn't ask for the whole thing taken down. I didn't have to, but I felt it was the proper thing to do, because I don't want to create the impression that my site is specifically used to harm SCGs sales by helping SCGs competitors. My site is for MTG players benefit only.
There is nothing close to illegal about scraping facts from websites. There have been numerous precedents set regarding similar things. The best one I can think of is Black Friday ads -- you can get in trouble for scanning the whole ad and posting it online (copyright violation, the layout, art and graphics are protected). The stores can do nothing about people who just post the sale prices and items going on sale, even if the ad isn't supposed to be in people's mailboxes yet. Prices are facts, and not copyrightable.
There could very well be other people doing similar things as my site. It's not an easy thing to do now, because of the random CSS tags and having to OCR the images for the prices, but if I can do it, others can do. My site is not for sale, and nobody else will be using my exact code to scrape SCG though.
IP blocks are meaningless to me, because I have plenty of experience as a Linux and C++ programmer, and I'd just write a custom proxy network and/or P2P system to fetch bits and pieces of their webpage and feed it back to my site. The cat & mouse game is something that I'm pretty sure the person doing the scraping will always win, given proper dedication.
Any further questions, I'd be happy to answer here. I'd rather tell people what's going on straight up than let wild speculation run rampant. -
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Tsunamiis posted a message on [Official] Digital Rendering ThreadMy most used checklist cardsPosted in: Artwork
Major of Avabruck
Huntmaster of the Fells
Delver of Secrets
Got tired of looking at the check list boxes and people asking me which one it is so I marked the cards to represent the cards in my clear sleeves. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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It was taking way too long to upload them to MTGS so I made an imgur album. If anyone wants to crop these out, feel free.
http://imgur.com/a/AYAat
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For this, we're not looking for cards that just gain life. I want to see what cards we can come up with that are good on their own, but happen to gain you life in the process.
I was thinking of starting the ball rolling with the Refuge land set from Zendikar. They're tap lands that throw you a life on entry, thus triggering our giant friend.
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Lifegain is bad on its own. When you get Lifegain tacked onto an otherwise good card, it's good. If you don't believe me, go have a look at Kitchen Finks and Thragtusk.
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So March.
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Considering Dissipate is unplayable in modern, I don't see how that's relevant.
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I have seen them put a card in the spoiler and be wrong. It's only happened once to my knowledge, but it does happen.
I'm not even saying I want him to be wrong. I just would like some semblance of order here.
If TK-421 says it's good, I believe him. But I just don't feel all that good about this.
Ohhhh. Okay. That makes me feel better. I thought this was all just Trollcreature's "leaks".
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Yes, but then he called the ability after Maro basically told us what it was? That's the part I'm skeptical about.
Just because he got one name right doesn't constitute enough proof that he has anything else right. It just seems wrong to put it in the spoiler this early.
I feel like we, as a community, have been jumping the gun quite badly as of late. We're putting things in the spoiler far before we even know the proper wording (see Polukranos).
When did we lose our standards for credibility and correctness? I'm not saying move these threads out of the rumor mill (because they are, in fact, decent rumors), but why are they in the spoiler. I feel like we're just using the Spoiler as the condensed version of the Rumor Mill, when we should be using it for actual reasonably confirmed things.
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Holy mother of... Can no one spell Elspeth?