MTG Salvation

The slow shift of WOTC from focusing on making a good game, to focusing on making a social agenda statement.

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Same people who buy a single lottery ticket, are the ones buying single booster packs. They know the odds are wet garbage...but there's still a chance to pull a shiny masterpiece.



WOTC literally has to pander to the same gambling instincts and addictions found in the scratch card lottery to get there packs to move....

You're acting like gambling instincts and the TCG business model are new bedfellows. They're not. The rush of maybe getting lucky lies at the core of how TCGs make money, and it always has. I'm willing to admit that I enjoy that kind of rush, which is part of the reason I play limited, and, for people who don't, there's the singles market and LCGs.

Yes, there has always been a gambling aspect in MTG, but WOTC has ramped it up more and more. First with the addition of 'mythics' and now with special lottery cards like the Zendikar Lands, and the Masterpieces. They're becoming less dependent on making a good sustainable product, and more dependent on triggering deep rooted gambling problems.

You picked a bad time to come back because the game and community are in the worst states I've seen them in since 7th edition.

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Wizards is really stepping up their storytelling. First Ulamog and the hedron network, then the death of the Eldrazi.

All told in card art, rather than silly books nowhere to be bought.

Oh you mean the books that at one point came packaged in the old fat packs, that were literally in every barnes and noble in the country and readily available online? Nowhere to be bought, indeed.

I, for one, miss the books that went along with the sets.

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The big question is "will they dilute these $10 MSRP packs with a lot of dollar bin trash rares?"

At this point we should know that "meant to be drafted" is code for "expect lots of filler".

At this point we should realize that the "$10 MSRP" will mysteriously end up in the $15 range at your local game store

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I am terrible at trying to post this kind of stuff, so someone please help me out. Didn't see this anywhere else. Looks like madness is returning.

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So when is WOTC going to announce another round of DCI bannings, you know....because spoilers are "so bad" for their sales...LOL.

From the early editions of Scathe Zombies:


"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise."
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"



EDIT: Also one of my favorite old artworks from MTG.

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Every time someone called the colorless mana "waste mana" I was getting quite mad, but then a friend of mine named it a "rubble mana". Since then I never call it otherwise.

do you call R fire mana, and U water mana?

Only when summoning captain planet!

Well looks like zombie is a new deck...

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I am terrible at trying to post this kind of stuff, so someone please help me out. Didn't see this anywhere else. Looks like madness is returning.

Thread Hijacked - Jay13x

So when is WOTC going to announce another round of DCI bannings, you know....because spoilers are "so bad" for their sales...LOL.

The new banlist will be people instead of cards.

sorry, had to.

They probably didn't want us to be able to rate how bad some of the cards have gotten as of late.

Magic is successful, at least in part, because there's no pretense that everyone deserves to play every format -- that everyone is entitled to be able to afford every card. Aside from playtesting, where it's okay to scribble on a plains just to see if the deck plays better with an alteration or not, I don't support proxies. I don't like the idea of proxie tournaments. I don't care if formats die because people can't afford to play them. I limit my Magic to what I can afford. Everyone should do likewise. There's a reason my Commander deck doesn't contain an Imperial Seal, and it's not because my Sharpie's all dried up. Good for Wizards. Standards are good.

BaronCappucino, your location is stated as hell, and I'm curious if you got there because you kicked the chair under your corporate noose?

Magic is a beautiful idea, and there is room in the community for proxies. Proxy tournaments are just proof that there is a serious under printing of many cards, and it's a real problem for the game because more people could be playing. If it weren't for proxies, myself and many others I know wouldn't even play this game. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind supporting the game and the people involved, but the "not everyone deserves to be able to play with every card" attitude is pure poison.

Magic is better when everyone is having fun. Games should be won through skill, not on one's income.

I am giantically optimistic for April. If Shadows is even remotely good, we will be dropping a lot of four-color fetchbases for more reasonable two-and-three color bases, we might start seeing some variety (and less $800 goodstuff decks).

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Yep, you're pretty much done. Hope you've learned a lesson about sharing accounts with others.

That's not really helpful. The OP indicated they shared a computer, not an account. It sounds like his/her brother has their own account and the OP's account was banned because they share a computer. I don't think there is anything in the TOS that prevents two people from sharing a computer to play on separate accounts.

To the OP: You can try to reach out to Wizards and see what happens. Explain the situation and see if they can re-enable your account. It seems pretty heavy handed to ban your account when it was your brother's that had the problem. I am not sure if it will get you anywhere, but it is worthwhile to see what happens. You may also be best served by calling them rather than emailing them about this situation. Email is relatively impersonal and they can easily dismiss you whereas talking to someone may get you further.

Good luck.

is it fair to blame the godbook leak for poor nph sales though? seems like its just a convenient scapegoat. most of the things they blame for poor sales in recent memory seem like scapegoats that get around the real reasons. like poor design, or bad flavor, or what have you.