Speaking as someone who doesn't identify as a nerd but wears a fedora more often than not these days, you should never bash fedoras. Honestly, if you find the right hat to augment your natural charm as I did, you'll pick up TONS of women. I've literally picked up so many in the past year since buying the two fedoras I've been wearing regularly that I've lost count and literally refer to one of them as my "magic hat" (which obviously has nothing to do with Magic the game). Truth be told, when the time comes I want to be buried with this hat on because I'm confident it'll attract more women to my grave.
Why should people change their habits to make you feel better exactly?
A little thing called common ******* courtesy. When you smell like sweat-covered gym shorts with skid marks, you make life worse for everyone around you. When you are a dick to everyone you play, you make life worse for everyone around you. When you shark that kid by trading him two broodmate dragons for his liliana of the veil, you make him probably not want to play magic again. The reason society works is because we all buy in, to a greater or lesser degree, to a social contract that determines how we treat each other. Lots of magic players (and maybe other hobbies too, but of the various things I do Magic is the most guilty of this) seem to think that these "rules" don't apply to them and happily go through the event smelling to high heaven, acting like ********s, and generally making everyone else's day a little bit worse. And these 5-10% that act like this are making magic worse for the other 90% of us, both in terms of our enjoyment and the perception of the community.
I don't think magic has the right pace for shoutcasting. That works best in faster-paced games IMO. If you just want to add commentary, the problem is most matches you are going to see online etc are going to have commentary already, so what's the point? It's not like starcraft or Dota 2 where replays get saved and uploaded commentary-free all the time.
We have enough finishers here, and I actually really like harm's way. We might MD it, and it is a very strong card out of the board against certain decks.
Oh my god this pack is absurd. I can see angel, skyfisher, oring, and dsphere all being viable picks here. I actually think angel and skyfisher are much closer in our deck than in a lot of other decks (we are soft against fast decks, skyfisher helps there, it's better with snapcaster than angel is, etc), and I think there's a good chance it will wheel with angel in the pack, so I think we want
Oblivian ring here. It's fetchable, answers everything, and can be blinked with some of our cards if we need to. It gets the nod over dsphere because it is easier to cast and easier to leave up double blue for forbid or snapcaster+something later in the game than dsphere would be. However, I can certainly respect a pick of angel hoping one of the o-ring effects will wheel.
Force Spike. Cheap snappy target and an early game spell for us, which we have almost none of. I would've taken the Memory Lapse from the last pack if I had known Disenchant was available here, but such is life.
It's not. People see anything with the bob clause and think it's gonna be amazing. This card is even worse than blood scriviner in constructed, and that's saying something as far as overhyped cards go.
I don't like the beta forums as much as these ones, but I know curse is in charge now so it's what we get. It remains to be seen if it's annoying enough to make me switch.
It would never, ever make a final 40 unless something went horribly wrong. And even in that case, I'd splash a completely off-color card instead of playing a Hill Giant in my cube deck. Come on people, this is a draft-impact exclusive card. Nobody would ever actually play this in a cube deck ...right?
Maybe a 10,000 card cube? =P
As to the card itself, I think it's an interesting idea and I'd like to try it. I don't think it's something I want in every draft though.
This is exactly why the argument about whether or not printing proxies for person use is legal or not is a waste of time. If I take a slip of paper that says tarmogoyf and stick it in a sleeve with a basic land is that an illegal proxy? What if I write on the basic land? What if I hand draw a tarmogoyf? What if I print it from online? What if I make one in magic set editor and print it there? The fact is, no one really knows where these lines are, and it couldn't matter less.
Unless you are selling or trading fake cards, you can make whatever kinds of proxies you want and you are never going to get in trouble because no one is going to report you, and even if they do, no one they could report you to is going to care.
So bottom line, make whatever proxies you want for personal use and playing with your friends. Use real cards for sanctioned events and trading/selling.
For a changeup in casual draft, multiplayer, or cube once in awhile? It sounds great, and I will try it. This has no place in competetive magic though IMO.
For the vast majority, they are. Like akroma, that is protected. But, grizzly bears, for example, is not, because it's already a phrase in common usage.
This has to be a joke...right?
A little thing called common ******* courtesy. When you smell like sweat-covered gym shorts with skid marks, you make life worse for everyone around you. When you are a dick to everyone you play, you make life worse for everyone around you. When you shark that kid by trading him two broodmate dragons for his liliana of the veil, you make him probably not want to play magic again. The reason society works is because we all buy in, to a greater or lesser degree, to a social contract that determines how we treat each other. Lots of magic players (and maybe other hobbies too, but of the various things I do Magic is the most guilty of this) seem to think that these "rules" don't apply to them and happily go through the event smelling to high heaven, acting like ********s, and generally making everyone else's day a little bit worse. And these 5-10% that act like this are making magic worse for the other 90% of us, both in terms of our enjoyment and the perception of the community.
I admit I haven't played much with duplicant, but it seems slow and awkward.
Oblivian ring here. It's fetchable, answers everything, and can be blinked with some of our cards if we need to. It gets the nod over dsphere because it is easier to cast and easier to leave up double blue for forbid or snapcaster+something later in the game than dsphere would be. However, I can certainly respect a pick of angel hoping one of the o-ring effects will wheel.
Agree for these reasons.
Maybe a 10,000 card cube? =P
As to the card itself, I think it's an interesting idea and I'd like to try it. I don't think it's something I want in every draft though.
This is exactly why the argument about whether or not printing proxies for person use is legal or not is a waste of time. If I take a slip of paper that says tarmogoyf and stick it in a sleeve with a basic land is that an illegal proxy? What if I write on the basic land? What if I hand draw a tarmogoyf? What if I print it from online? What if I make one in magic set editor and print it there? The fact is, no one really knows where these lines are, and it couldn't matter less.
Unless you are selling or trading fake cards, you can make whatever kinds of proxies you want and you are never going to get in trouble because no one is going to report you, and even if they do, no one they could report you to is going to care.
So bottom line, make whatever proxies you want for personal use and playing with your friends. Use real cards for sanctioned events and trading/selling.
For the vast majority, they are. Like akroma, that is protected. But, grizzly bears, for example, is not, because it's already a phrase in common usage.