- wallycaine
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wallycaine posted a message on [BOT] Transformers Universes Beyond, available in Brother's War packs and bundlesI would advise looking up trademark law. It's very different from copyright law, and they absolutely could win a case for someone else creating toys named Transformers. A single example that pre-dates them enforcing the trademark in a seperate category does not represent the ship "having sailed"Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on Rumor…return….of…priceless treasures (very huge “if”)Barbary Apes and Pyrotechnics (due to featuring the name Navajo, which may not the be preferred naming for the tribe) strike me as likely candidates for that. On the other hand, for a promotion where they know players are going to probably compare notes/post stories on line, they may have set a minimum number of a card opened to include it? If (due to similar print run weirdness) they only opened say, 3 Sylvan Libraries, leaving it on the list of cards in the set might get them blasted later if none of those 3 are opened by someone who posts it online. ...That said, I only just noticed that all the money cards on the list of "opened but left out" are Harold's, so I'm leaning away from the second reason.I can guess at a couple possibilities. On one hand, there's a few of the cards that might have been revoked for similar reasons to Pradesh et al, even if they didn't hit the threshold for banning from the card image gallery entirely. Stuff like Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [CLB][CUBE] Undermountain AdventurerGGGGGG in a vacuum/isolated card, it becomes extremely confusing when you've got cards with EEEEEEEE and cards with EEEEEE next to each other, and you're trying to parse quickly exactly how much energy you need. So when you need to create more than 5 of a resource, they short hand it because that many symbols in a row can be hard to read.It's because of Kaladesh/Energy. While it's nice looking to have Posted in: Cube Card and Archetype Discussion
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wallycaine posted a message on [NEC] Upgrades Unleashed precon — Jumbo Commander previewSmoke Spirits' Aid has exactly 0 interaction with Dockside Extortionist? They're still your enchantments, even if they're on your opponents creatures.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [NEO] Mindlink Mech — Games Academy Brescia PreviewClone a Clone you get a copy of whatever the clone was copying, not another Clone.Correct. As far as the Vehicle tokens are concerned, they copied a 4/3 flying artifact vehicle Scute Swarm, so that's what they are. It's the same rule that makes it so that when you Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [NEO] Mindlink Mech — Games Academy Brescia PreviewThe second. Normally, making a copy of a crewed vehicle would get you a third option you didn't consider (an uncrewed version of the Vehicle), but Mindlink Mech has a copy ability built into it. So you'd copy the copy, which in this case would be a 4/3 flying artifact vehicle Scute Swarm, and since it would have all the relevant text from Scute Swarm, it would continue making copies in other turns when you play a land.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [NEO] Awakened Awareness — Kyle Hill previewThat's actually beneficial for you, though. You get to keep the +1/+1 counters, but the part that locks it into being a 1/1 drops off. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [NEO] Asari Captain — Deathsie previewAdditionally, they mentioned that they wanted there to be a variety of payoffs, rather than just +1/+1. For example, we've already seen "cheap equip", tap down a creature, and tribal firebreathing, all of which play differently than exalted would. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [NEO] Kaito, Atsushi, Hidetsugu, and Ukiyo-e basics— Weekly MTG previewsAs with a lot of Mark's scale, it's A) based off what Mark *thinks* is the likelihood, not personal preferences, and B) only 10 really represents "never going to happen". As the scale notes, an 8 is "unlikely to return, but possible if the stars align". While I'm sure we'll find out more as previews go on, this strikes me as similar to Madness' comeback from also being an 8, where things lined up just right to make this an appealing call. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [MTG Alchemy] New Arena-Exclusive Format --"Rebalanced Cards."Maro has mentioned that they were put in Alchemy because they *weren't* put in the Innistrad sets. It was this or nothing for them this visit. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [UNF] Mothership 11/29 — Unfinity sneak peekUnhinged also didn't do great on sales metrics (hence the long gap between it and Unstable), but the Marks were able to show that it wasn't because it wasn't selling, they just overprinted it to start with. They printed it like a 3rd set of the block, which sell *way* more than supplemental sets, and Wizards ended up with a bunch of unsold Unhinged. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [VOW] Welcoming Vampire— Weekly MTG previewMorbid Opportunist that triggered on the end step would be much much weaker, as it would miss out on drawing cards from Wraths or trading in combat if it doesn't survive them.I'd point out an additional limitation on version 2: gating it to a specific time means the opponent can wait to see if you trigger it, then remove it before you get the actual benefit. Or you can lose the opportunity to benefit if the creature dies before the appointed time. For example, a Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on [VOW] Welcoming Vampire— Weekly MTG previewIt's really amusing to me how many people are calling for strictly worse versions of templating, just because "this ability triggers once each turn" is at the end?Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on WOTC Confirmed we will give the TWD cards in MTG universe version of cards on the listAs far as we can tell, the frequency of these cards will be seperate from The List's size. If they're guarenteeing one in every 8 set boosters, they'd have to be either 50% of The List (unlikely), or they're effectively a seperate "slot" from the normal The List. The latter seems far more likely to me. So the main question mark to me is whether they'll be supplating "normal" pulls, meaning that the frequency of other The List cards will go down to 1/8 (to make it 1/4 packs having "The List" cards in them), or if they'll be supplemental. Either way, there should be plenty in circulation. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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wallycaine posted a message on Commander Banned and unbanned announcemntAnd that's why it's still banned. People will put Sway into lists as a "well maybe it'll make for an interesting story" card, and end up making everyone at the table miserable. Worldfire is a card that clearly communicates "use this to win immediately", Sway doesn't. Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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