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Quote from Justavictim1182 »Was Field really THAT bad? I have played a bunch of paper tournaments and no one was playing it. I have seen a ton of red based decks. Most were aggro but I have seen some Phoenix decks
Quote from Ree Wicker » I think the more silly thing is writers seem to have it down pat the ability to build up a romance, but then when the characters are finally in a relationship, the writers tend to flounder about and are unsure where to take it from there.
Quote from Caranthir »I'm frankly disgusted by the reaction of some of the community. I have seen people attacking Weisman under his tweets saying he is a "crap writer" and a "terrible person overall". People claiming "freedom of speech" and "right to voice their disagreement" as an apology to behave like stupid jerks bashing the author in a rude and arrogant way. People writing below every single status and tweet repeating tirades about Chandra and Nissa.
I mean, his works are not a masterpiece. But I quite enjoyed and appreciated threading the old lore into Forsaken - for example, the cameo of Myc Zunich, or senator Nhillosh, the pro tem Grand Arbiter of the Azorius - that one is taken directly from Dissension. That alone are hints that he frigging tried to respect the old things. Or his representation of Teysa Karlov, that was by all means more truthful to the original character of Cory Herndon that when Doug Beyer wrote her in The Secretist.
When I started with Magic lore, I was a student of about eighteen. Now I am almost forty father of two. I had many gripes with the storyline along the years, many pages of heated discussion. Maybe it all mellowed me a bit, taught me to appreciate small things, but I still do not understand and loathe these people insulting the writer, full of empty self-entitlement, behaving like kids...
Quote from Pip_Maxwell »So we have more understanding thanks to Greg of what happened finally with WotS: Ravnica and WotS: Forsaken. Something I was actually waiting on. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRpQpGU0AARU3l?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 Its not what people were hoping in an apology, but it confirms much more about him being hamstrung. Essentially it was doomed from the start with Nissa and Chandra. They were never truly meant to be together, the possible romance forever baiting the readers. As them actually being in a romantic relationship is not what the company WotC or the publisher Del Rey wanted, but Greg did. That when it came to Forsaken, he was given a mandate to break them up. Along with being asked to rewrite chapter seventy-three until it met their approval. And what he says redeems Forsaken a little, even if its just for the single chapter of seventy-three.
Quote from ilovesaprolings »Wait... are them from Kylem?
Quote from Dom4419 »Has it ever been confirmed that she is bisexual? I've been reading the stories since KTK and never got this confirmation. I understand why people might interpret it so as there were some passages that did make you wonder but nothing definitive. Her only obvious interest to me was Gideon. Is there any parts I missed or is it all speculation?
On Ravnica, in the wake of Gideon’s death and Bolas’, they had admitted to each other that they loved. But both of them knew deep down they were only speaking platonically.
Chandra had never been into girls. Her crushes — and she’d had her fair share — were mostly the brawny (and decidedly male) types like Gids. But there had always been something about Nissa Revane specifically, something the two of them shared in that great chemical mix — arcing between them like one of Ral Zarek’s lightning bolts — that had thrilled her. From the moment they first met. Now everything’s different. It was over. Before it had ever had a chance to begin. Maybe, maybe they had missed their moment.
Quote from Tiro of Meletis »It’s not enough. De-canonize both novels immediately before this hemorrhages our faith In WOTC out any longer.
Quote from Pip_Maxwell »Farewell elks, you will be missed.
Quote from the n00b king »Quote from JaceBluesMaster »I feel like this is confirmation that the higher ups at WotC had no faith in this set's ability to sell based off of a combination of its themes, setting and lack of a Jacetice League member, so they relied on the tried and true method of adding a couple pushed cards to the set to ensure it sold well. Play Design had been doing such a great job, this is really the only reason I can think of for why this set has experienced so many problems. I mean everyone immediately knew Oko was going to be oppressively good. There is no way Play Design missed that, or let it slip through the cracks. The more I read about play design and the more I think a lot of people's hate is super misguided. Play design DOES NOT design cards with the purpose of sales. That is NOT their role. I don't believe for a second that that's their main goal when designing cards.
Quote from JaceBluesMaster »I feel like this is confirmation that the higher ups at WotC had no faith in this set's ability to sell based off of a combination of its themes, setting and lack of a Jacetice League member, so they relied on the tried and true method of adding a couple pushed cards to the set to ensure it sold well. Play Design had been doing such a great job, this is really the only reason I can think of for why this set has experienced so many problems. I mean everyone immediately knew Oko was going to be oppressively good. There is no way Play Design missed that, or let it slip through the cracks.
Quote from the n00b king » Reading the last article about play design really helps puts things in perspective, in my opinion. What's been happening is that they have actually powered down standard quite a bit but have pushed a few cards really far in one direction. So that's why some of these seem so egregious. To be completely honest, it's better to push the envelop than to hold back. Sometimes things come together super well and other times, they don't. They have no way to predict what the meta will look like (consider that there's only like 20 of them vs the collective hive mind when it comes to play testing). Mistakes will slip through.
Quote from the n00b king » The problem, and i hope they scale this back, is 3 mana planeswalkers. These tend to be too strong when you have 1 drop acceleration available in standard. Hell even without acceleration, we all know how strong 3 mana walkers are (too efficient). If you bumped both Teferi and Oko up to 4 mana, they are nowhere near as oppressive (as your opponent will have had time to build a board).
Quote from the n00b king » Additionally, WotC has mentioned that they would be more aggressive to correct metagames with bannings. I'm totally on board with this. In fact, the truth is that in the past, they should have been more proactive to address bad metagames.
Quote from the n00b king » I understand that some players may feel frustrated with this, but without the ability to "nerf" cards, this is the only way.
Quote from the n00b king » Green has been pushed quite a bit since the last Innistrad. I think every color will get it's time to shine. Eventually, that might even be white!