MTG Salvation

Quote from d0su »

Again with respect to the mobile UI, it would be nice to make card tags easier. Perhaps a button that pops up a prompt where you type the card name and press okay? That would be two button presses instead of the ~18 needed to do even the simple “c” and “/c” tags on an on-screen keyboard.

How about [[card]]? Is that easy enough?

Quote from Hermes_ »

Is this you cryo? https://twitter.com/GosseMuijzer/status/1146323918178967552

I can neither confirm nor deny that I own 9 copies of that card in anticipation for it being legal one day.

Quote from Jivanmukta »

I personally believe my endless complaining was what did Trade Secrets in.

It had to be. You're literally the only person I know who gave a crap about that card.

We don't influence change, but we can be the catalyst that gets them to have internal conversations, like we did with Metalworker.

Quote from darrenhabib »

Cool, what's the syntax? I tried [table][tr][td]...

On that note if a bbcode syntax page is created with a full list of available options.

[Pipes]
Header | Header | Header
:-- | :-- | :--
data | data | data
[/pipes]

:-- align left
:--: align center
--: align right

(If memory serves me correctly)

I'll remind feyd to add it to the guide.

Quote from Pokken »

Interesting stuff for sure.

Something I totally forgot was that staff of domination was banned for a couple years there.

That's probably the most comparable card to PE except it's *far* more widely played than PE and significantly easier to go off with, and does very similar stuff. So there is at least some precedent for a contemporary combo enabler being banned just for being an annoying combo enabler that sees lots of play (though it did subsequently get unbanned).

Food for thought anyway.

I think I've seen Staff precisely zero times since it was unbanned. Which is interesting because I actually bought my copy when it was banned because I didn't realize it was banned and wanted it for a deck. And since being unbanned I've never thought of using it (and don't think it's ever been drafted in my cube either).

Quote from darrenhabib »

The ability to create tables with rows and columns for any content. Not just for the decks. This would help a lot.

This is already a feature

Thank you everyone for the great suggestions.

Quote from TheAmericanSpirit »

Off-topic but relevant: I wonder exactly how much red text is in these 1268 pages of discussion. This thread is always so hot.

Entirely too much.

Quote from Anark »

Honestly, the only request I have is to get the Rules Committee and/or Commander Advisory Group more involved with the site. I wish they officially could become more involved with the site as it was the only thing missing from this one. Having a discussion board is one thing, but having a discussion board that the RC and CAG frequent is even better.

As Weebo said, this is up to the RC/CAG to determinewhere they want to spend their time. The mods here worked very hard to make this forum more inviting to them, and we currently have participation from Sheldon, Toby, and Charlotte. I hope they will check out the new forum when it launches, but beyond extending them an invitation there isn't much else we can do.

Quote from FunkyDragon »

I second the Dark Theme suggestion.

If you have a deck builder, please have it either default to lands as the last category or give us control to arrange the card types. I tried the MTGSalvation deck builder and hated it, so I still manually code out decklists.

Dark theme is planned, but not a priority for launch. A proper deck builder is similarly not ready for launch, but a priority. As we get closer to rolling it out I'll hype it, but I don't know what the status is, so "it's on the list".

On MTGSalvation, when I go to New or Updated Forum Threads, it gives me everything from across the site, including tons of things I don't want to see. I'd love a user setting where you could select which forums and subforums to display. I mean, I look at spoilers and play Commander and Cube, so Standard, Modern, Custom Cards, etc is of zero interest to me, yet I have to wade through pages and pages of stuff to find what I want.

You can customize that page. My site bookmark goes to this page and I have it set up to only show me threads I'm subscribed to.

If we're going to keep card tags, deck tags, etc, please keep the noparse tag. It makes it a lot easier when helping people who don't understand tags.

Almost positive it's been added, if not it will be. We love that tag.

And this is probably a long shot, but if we could have an integrated cube interface for managing and drafting our cubes (akin to cubetutor), that would be spectacular. Being able to manage and discuss all in one place would be so helpful.

Cube support is definitely on the list. Can't say much more than that yet.

Quote from GloriousGoose »

Keep the same customized BBCode so I can more easily maintain a decklist on two sites. Being able to copy and paste from one to the other would save me a lot on headache medication.

You're going to be disappointed because if you start customizing your threads on the new site and then copy/paste them here, you'll get a lot of unsupported code.... here.

Buffsam, you need to calm the heck down.

Quote from GloriousGoose »

Gentle reminder that fast mana needs to be banned.

Played three games at my new store last night with Erebos against Maelstrom Wanderer and Yisan.

Game 1: Maelstrom Wanderer opened with Forest, Mana Crypt, Farseek on turn 1 followed by Explosive Vegetation on turn 2. He won that game.

Game 2: Yisan opened with Forest, Mana Crypt, Yisan on turn 1. He won that game.

Game 3: I opened with Swamp, Sol Ring, Coldsteel Heart on turn 1 followed by a turn 2 Swamp, Thought Vessel, and Erebos. I won that game.

The only thing memorable about these games is that fast mana was the deciding factor in who won the game. Well, I guess the Maelstrom Wanderer player giving me ***** for not doing much in games 1 and 2 being utterly dominated by me in game 3 was satisfying, but that's neither here nor there.

And? Then what happened? What exactly did they do with that mana? How long did it take them to win? In my experience, for every anecdotal game like this there are ones where the end is "and that player lost". Hell, one of my games against Sheldon at sgccon were a player opens with Sol ring into smothering tithe, and me sol ring into smothering tithe and exploding veggies. We both lost that game.

Quote from Hermes_ »

I don't recall where I saw it but I think we're going to get an announcement on the 8th regarding the philosophy document along with other bits from both the RC and the CAG.

Sheldon mentioned a while back on a podcast that looking at the philosophy document was one of the first tasks for the CAG. I dont think there is an official date for this to be completed, but next ban list announcement seems like a reasonable guess.

Nothing has been archived out of public view. Prophet was probably banned before we set up this sub if there isn't a SCD. You'd have to search the general ban list thread for Prophet discussion.

There is no hidden motive here, I'm working on a somewhat comprehensive guide to the ""best of" to help new players, so the more you throw at me the less likely I'll overlook something obvious.

Quote from Onering »

The hills that some people choose to die on...

CV is the poster child for "this will never be unbanned". This has been discussed to death tbh.

I think it COULD be unbanned, I just don't see a compelling reason to do so.

Quote from Buffsam89 »

Any distinction beyond that is personal opinion.

Or the opinion of the format creators, but who f***ing cares what those idiots think, they don’t know what they’re doing anyways.

This is becoming Sol Ring discussion 2.0.

I won’t join the new site if there is a thread anywhere discussing Coalition Victory. I’ll let you guys decide if that’s a good thing or bad.

There will be a dedicated area for ban list discussion, but any SCD discussion threads will be naturally occurring. I'm not loading any to begin with. If CV comes up then just ignore it maybe? I'm pretty sure if someone made a thread wanting to ban Land Tax I'd give it a glance but otherwise ignore it.