It's usually the smelly ones who don't notice it. It also appears that you don't notice sarcasm either. Poor little guy.
TLDR: When you're butthurt about people being butthurt about other people being butthurt, you're just an idiot.
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Nov 8, 2015
Joban8 posted a message on The Magic Street Journal: How to Handle "That Guy"Posted in: Articles -
Nov 6, 2015
Joban8 posted a message on The Magic Street Journal: How to Handle "That Guy"Posted in: ArticlesQuote from Klamsmith »This isn't a platform for your victim complex. The article was fine until the phrase "The elephant in the room is women and minorities playing Magic in unwelcoming areas" where your article turns into the great plight facing women in gaming. Three of my good magic friends are homosexual we play magic at three different venues regularly. There are several female regulars we see and play with as well and if someone says something degrading to them they wouldn't hesitate to call them out on it, they don't expect a white knight to save them. The thing is "That Guy" is already reguarded as an a-hole wherever he is. Stereotypes exist thats the cold hard truth it's your job to change that perspective. This article shouldn't be about what I have to do as a player if I see BS I'm calling BS on someone acting like an a-hole. It shouldn't be about what a judge should do or what a store owner should do they already understand what needs to be done. It should be about helping women change that stigma of "just being there for their boyfriend" and "not understanding how to play". My wife plays magic with me as well the only time anyone said anything to her was two years ago when she boomerranged a guys first and second attempt at putting a land into play at fnm. Who just ended up rage quitting and leaving the store after she called him out. So yes magic has a number of "That Guys" who are the internet trolls of real life and the number one rule is don't feed the trolls.
Tldr: Defend yourself from the beta's at the magic shop.
Bravo, my friend. This starting off fairly interesting until it turned into a soap box for political correctness. "That" guy certainly exists, but it's not a given that all ********s are racist/sexist/transphobic/other labels that you're trying to push. Stereotypes exist and they're not going away. I'm a man who's dating a transgender woman, but I don't get butthurt when we play with our group of friends and they crack an off-color joke every now and then. It's called humor and it's a two-way street; she gets in on the banter and gives it right back. I completely understand that when you're playing at an FNM or casual event with new players, these kinds of comments and jokes are uncalled for and simply make you an ********. However, in the comfort of your own playgroup, with people you know, what's the problem? Because chances are that if a player can't take a mild joke then they're not somebody I'd want in my playgroup. Everybody has their own insecurities and joking about them with others is a great way to find acceptance. You want to write a piece about social problems affecting LGSs? Investigate the poor hygiene that's exhibited by, unfortunately, a large number of players; I find that to be a much more influential factor affecting the experiences of new players...unless of course it's rude to stereotype people who suffer from alblutophobia? - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Back to playing two Dryad Arbor in the 75?
Whether or not we should take the comments at face value or not is a different conversation, but they've already stated how MM did more to suppress Modern reprints than promote them and going forward they'll be able to reprint more Modern staples now that MM is decommissioned. Folks keep asking how will they be able to reprint Modern cards without a Modern Masters set every 2 years, which seems like a legitimate concern at first glance, but if we look back to the set lists as a whole, we can clearly see how inefficient they were.
Using MM15 as an example, 249 cards were in the set and as of today there are 48 cards currently worth more than $1. Out of those 48 cards, less than half are Modern staples or see fringe Modern play; the other half are holding value due to Legacy or EDH play. That's 24 Modern-relevant reprints from an entire set dedicated to Modern and 225 cards that are either draft chaff or irrelevant to competitive Modern. That's far from an efficient reprint strategy; WotC's comments regarding their ability to reprint more Modern staples across X amount of misc supplemental sets, products, etc seem much more reasonable considering they have two years worth of products in which they would have to scatter those 24 reprints across.
IMO, Modern's mana base is the only major obstacle to this sort of reprint strategy, namely fetch lands. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see enemy fetches show up in a future Standard set despite how problematic that may be; if Arena continues to perform well despite the inevitable clunkers of standard set(s) then I can see WotC caring much less about how fetch lands/shuffling affect gameplay.
True; I've picked up way more copies of Windswept Heath over the last 3 years than I'd like to admit. Hard to pass them up when ONS copies can be had for $15 and KTK for $11 as recent as a week ago. Arguably the least desirable fetch next to Marsh Flats, but it can't stay sub-$20 forever...or at least that's what I've been telling myself since KTK rotated out of Standard...
Will you be playing the Snappy? IMO, I would've done the same had I needed to buy a Snappy to finish a deck, but if it was a pure financial decision I would've gone with the Mires. Unless WotC announces some product containing fetchland reprints, it's looking like conditions will be ripe for the more played allied fetches to see $10-20+ spikes in the months following Horizons. We're almost 5 years out since Khans and there's a non-zero chance that Horizons will generate increased/new interest in the format; with enemy fetches reaching absurd highs and allied fetches already identified as cheaper alternatives, that gap will continue to close with increased demand. I don't think it's a reach to think that out of the ~200 new cards coming from Horizons there will be a new land cycle that functions in such a way to where the average deck would need/want to play less fetches; aside from a surprise reprint announcement, this is the only other scenario I can think of where prices wouldn't spike following Horizons.
EDIT: Holy *****. Totally missed Misty Rainforest spiking to w/in $20 of Tarns
I only started to pick up a few of the Amonkhet/Hour of Devastation Invocations within the last year, after all the lottery cards were pumped and dumped last April. The relevant Expeditions/Masterpieces ended up stabilizing, but the Invocations absolutely tanked after that. I recall selling a Choke and Counterbalance for ~$100 each and re-buying them for ~$25/ea a few months later. When I noticed the majority of Invocations weren't rebounding, I started to pick up copies of anything relevant to Modern/eternal formats that was still sitting under $30, so I ended up with playsets of Entomb, Slaughter Pact, Boil, Chain Lightning, and Shatterstorm, Threads of Disloyalty, Divert, plus some odds and ends.
IMO, there are still quite a few under priced Invocations from Hour of Devastation, especially when you consider WotC terminated the print run early. Yeah, the frames and hieroglyphics are awful, but from a sheer rarity standpoint I'm surprised there are still a handful of them under $20. Solid upside for not much risk.
Something like D&T could be just one Containment Priest-esque card away from being a T1 deck in the post-horizons meta game, which would arguably result in the effective policing of decks like Phoexix/Dredge. That's just one possibility once 250 new cards are infused into Modern. Let's not be prisoners of the moment, folks; the current meta will be just another blip on the Magic timeline once mid June rolls around.
The vibrant packaging for the mono-white deck will put an end to the guessing game of how long they've been sitting on the shelf once the dust starts to collect...
That's because drawing stirrings is almost always a good thing for those decks until they have tron online. Drawing into multiple Sylvan Libraries would be brutal assuming your opponent isn't running enchantment hate; 4 life per card is a hefty price in a format where mana bases are largely composed of fetches and shocks. I honestly think it wouldn't only be underpowered in Modern, but underplayed as well. Aside from brews/decks in green with no other source of CA, what current deck would play it and furthermore, what deck would want to play more than 1 - 2 copies max?
I haven't read the comments from Maro, but I'd like to do so if anybody has the link handy. I could certainly see the brand new cards adhering to color pie norms, but knowing a chunk of the set will be ported over from legacy's card pool, I'd be surprised if "conforms to color pie" was a major deciding factor for whether or not those cards were chosen/excluded. WotC announcing MH would include reprints pre-8th ed was the first step toward the sort of "legacy-lite" format folks have described in the past; the extent to which that is true will seemingly depend on how many of these reprints are noteworthy cards in legacy. Aside from gameplay factors, the inclusion of cards like a Sylvan Library would go a long way to ensure MH has perceived value from the get-go. They can re-print all the Counterspells, Daze, etc they'd like for Modern, but dirt-cheap reprints won't sell pack and neither will unproven/untested cards (at least during the early stages when players are still figuring out whats actually relevant). Don't get me wrong, I'd be delighted if MH boxes are the same price as a standard set box, but that's unlikely to be the case. Making sure X amount of the reprints are legacy staples with modest-solid value is a sensical business decision that would help to ensure MH sales figures meet expectations; there has to be something among the set of uncertainty that would justify the premium/semi-premium price point of boosters/boxes.
Glimmervoid took a punch in gut from Spire of Industry's printing and Aether Hub is a strictly better Tendo Ice Bridge