Quote from typo_kign »It's occasions like this in which so many Magic players demonstrate themselves as being insufferable, entitled children who demand nothing less than what they want when they want it, and it's good that Wizards has both the patience and perception to weather these one dimensional complaints and focus on the long game of the game. Yes, there is an acknowledged shortage of key staples across multiple formats, with their accompanying price spike, but this is not something that's immediately remedied through simply jamming reprints into a single set (or even multiple sets), at least not without producing a separate series of problems. It's for this reason that I have to balk a bit when I see some players wrap their complaints in terms of what's "healthy for Magic": they don't care about the game's health, all they care about is completing their playsets, in which case Wizards can just clean up the mess (which they'll also complain about until they do).
Whether by oversight or negligence, the repairs to these problems need to be implemented and unfold over a long period of time, far longer than the timespan of a set or block of cards. The people who complain about Wizards reprint policies are the same people who would just print more money in times of inflation, so I'm glad Wizards is in charge of the bigger picture, rather than its players.
I suggest you get over it.
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The worst part of Ghostbusters is that it's a completely bland movie that wouldn't have caused so much drama if Paul Feig hadn't preemptively called everyone sexist racist *****lords for daring to say his movie was anything but precious and perfect even before anyone actually started making fun of the horrible trailer.
It does reek of insincereness: Here's a black woman, probably the most under-represented character in america. But we don't believe she can carry a story so dress her up like a girl you saw on the street so we can call out everyone who thinks she's underdesigned and bland a KKK member because she kinda looks like someone you'd see in the street who may or may not be opressed.
I was happy when I saw the mongolian man in magic was a nutjob who probably hoards dragon dildos because flaws and quirks are more relatable than bland inoffensiveness unless you're so superficial all you can see is her dark brown skin and unruly hair (which I'd argue is actual racism). Then again I don't play in the tumblr opression olympics.
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I like my own ethnicity so much I have to make up ridiculous caricatures in my mind to kinda-sorta understand why people insist white is the "OP nerf now!" in this game of life.
You may want to direct that comment to the shriveled white executives who still can't understand why to this day black teens relate more to Peter Parker's ***** for life despite his great inner potential than they do to Miles Morales' innofensive, over-produced safety "character".
In my experience the only people who like being coddled and given specially tailored technicolor toys, because we apparently are too stupid to play with the white toys, aren't even minorities but hysteric rich white women who have unressolved feelings for their mexican pool boy or white men directly making money out of x/y movement's donations pool. But who cares about what the brown people have to say, tumblr and curriculum-padding college courses know what "minorities" need better than the people who happen to belong to those minorities!
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No matter how much people are dying to call Legacy dead, the attendance numbers and price stability of staples tells an entirely different story.
They don't want us playing Legacy because it sells less boosters of ***** sets like EMN.
They could fix this by making more sets like KTK, RTR, ISD, NPH, ALA, ZEN, LOR, TSP that actually sold out in part thanks to Legacy (and Commander/Modern) players but no, they need to keep making "three good cards for standard, everything else is crap" sets because we're in an age where companies compete to see how much they can penny pinch and browbeat out of you instead of how much they can improove over the competition.
Designing for Legacy isn't hard, you don't need to make "U. Instant. This spell can't be countered, you win the game!" cards. Nahiri, Thought-Knot Seer, Flip Jace, Monastery Mentor, Eidolon of the Great Revel, Deathrite Shaman, Golgari Charm, Young Pyromancer, Griselbrand, Delver of Secrets, Liliana of the Veil, Snapcaster Mage, Elesh Norn, Gitaxian Probe, Surgical Extraction, Glistener Elf, Emrakul, Iona, Jace the Mind-Sculptor, Stoneforge Mystic, Batterskull, Preordain... All these cards are post NWO, have made waves in Legacy, some completely changed the format and most didn't even get played when they were Standard-Legal.
It's not a matter of not being able to support Legacy with cards and events, it's a matter of them not wanting to and not having the balls to say so because people giving up on Legacy would crash the price of their precious RL hoard sacks way harder than any ammount of reprints ever could.
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You guys sound like SJW caricatures.
He said she looks bland and she does. She looks like she's wearing brandless Wal Mart clothing for the sake of easy cosplay and that's a character design sin. You character has to stand out even if he's "an assasin", spy or part of a uniformed organization. Look at Hitman, Assasin's Creed, Bloodborne or closer to MtG the cathars. You know who is who because of the little details, this design has no little details to look at. She doesn't even have a standout silhouette.
Her jacket could have a nice pattern on the hood/sleeves, her scarf/sweater could be an interesting color, she could be wearing an interesting hair adornment, in short she could be actually designed instead of just a black lady dressed like a random northern WA citizen.
But no, "bland" must mean she's not expicitly designed as your anti-tumblr, patriarchy-apporved sexualized boogeywoman.
And Nissa was a vastly better character when she was elf Hitler than just "Oh" and "Ashayaaaaaaa!".
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