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- GummiBurz
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Feb 12, 2016GummiBurz posted a message on Off Topic: Making a Magic MovieI think in terms of a movie, it would make more sense for the presence of a planeswalker to "corrupt" a more or less featureless land which they then draw mana from. They radiate this energy which mutates the land beneath their feet leaving it well...colored. Desolate stretches of nothing melting into murky bogs and aching trees beneath Garruk the Veil-Cursed's dragging steps across the plane. He stops, an ear to the sky and as a creaking howl of wind stretches through the void, green and black mana swirl from the sickly leaves to his fingertips, coalescing into the snarling fangs of a wolf.Posted in: Articles
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Nov 25, 2015GummiBurz posted a message on The Magic Street Journal: How to Handle "That Guy"Well imagine that, instead of an article on how to foster a friendly environment at your local store encouraging players to come back because they inevitably play against "That Guy" and feel bad about their lack of knowledge about the game, we get this. A lengthy tirade about how "That Guy" is sexist/racist/transphobic, and what we can all do to stop someone from being a blatant ******** (he's still going to be an ******** FYI).Posted in: Articles
Why this? Why aren't we talking about how to foster a friendly environment by playing casually and teaching each other about cards and combos? I'm not saying every 9 year old with a 75 card draft deck should know what layer creature types are in, but maybe how to build a deck they can have fun playing, without feeling the need to, say, use every card they draft in their mainboard, then just as much land.
Instead, you went on this rambling plea for everyone to be nicer to everyone except straight white men. Implying the only ones who need listen to you are straight white men. We get it.
TL;DR: this was not an informative or productive article, as I do not sit at the table and sling insults as well as cardboard, as I am not inept enough to think that it wouldn't make me a gaping ********. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Worldgorger Oracle ruling:6/8/2016 If Animate Dead is put onto the battlefield enchanting Worldgorger Dragon, Worldgorger Dragon’s enters-the-battlefield trigger will exile Animate Dead, which causes you to sacrifice Worldgorger Dragon, which causes Animate Dead to return to the battlefield attached to a creature card in a graveyard of your choice. If you can choose a creature card other than Worldgorger Dragon, you must do so after as many iterations of this loop as you’d like. If you can’t choose a different card, and no player chooses to break the loop, the game ends in a draw.
The important part being that it only ends if a player chooses to end it.
Is Grandmother Sengir/Baron Sengir allowed? It's not good but it's funny...
Oh good now I can read all about how when demand increases and supply doesn't prices go up.
Again: provide a single shred of evidence that a demand increase will result in a price decrease because I can provide hundreds of examples to show the prices will increase.
Summer Bloom rose and fell in price with the popularity and ban updates around Amulet Bloom.
Baneslayer Angel tanked in price after leaving standard because the demand only existed in standard.
Simian Spirit Guide went through the roof when it became a 4 of in modern eldrazi.
Now if you'd like to actually propose some sort of argument for how increasing demand without increasing supply is going to reduce prices I'd love to read it.
I'm fairly certain those economics textbooks you so trollingly linked for me are going to tell me exactly this: economic equilibrium is reached when the quantity produced at a price matches the demand at that price.
This is why prices on virtually every card in a set fall in the first week of its release. The quantity of singles available is rising rapidly and the demand for specific cards varies a lot because nobody has been to a standard tournament yet. As more tournaments happen, the meta is shaped and the important cards for that meta see an increase in demand (i.e. SSG in modern eldrazi) and an increase in price accordingly. Saheeli Rai went up ~$16 with the release of Felidar Guardian as the demand shot up.
Increasing the number of decks people take to a tournament doesn't increase the number of tournament viable cards. It only serves to reduce the supply of those that are tournament viable.
The rate at which you'd lose your non favored matchups would rise dramatically if you had no sideboard. The whole point of the sideboard is to cover your deck's weaknesses against other decks.
When standard players need 3 decks to attend a tournament, that means there will be 3 times the demand for good cards. How does that lower prices? Do you have any evidence to suggest that prices would drop?
You're right, the average price would skyrocket because now there's 3x the demand for every good card...
Legendary Creature - Construct Pirate Demon
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http://magiccards.info/m10/en/231.html
Personally I think it's one of the best foil cards out there, and I would be running nothing but foil ones if I could.
I'd recommend reading a little bit about psychological differences between the sexes before calling people nitwits because they think biology is a factor. I'm pressed to call you the same for saying male gamers is a stereotype when the article you linked mentioned that the female gamer population exploded because they decided cellphone games qualify you as a gamer. My mom plays candy crush and you want to lump her in with the people who spend 14 hours a day playing starcraft? That's more flawed than labeling all gamers as fat sweaty nerds. Decades of scientific research have shown a relationships between gender and aggression. You don't get to decry it as false just because it doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, or because it doesn't agree with your anecdotal evidence. There are legitimate biological reasons for psychological differences between men and women, and you only serve to make yourself look like an idiot to deny it because "stereotypes are bad hurrrrrrrrr" isn't a legitimate argument. The obscene desire of people like you and Osieorb to validate your feelings regardless of facts is beyond disgusting. It amounts to "screw your evidence, I don't like it!"
I don't even have anything to add to the conversation, aside from saying that it's people like you that stop us from having a legitimate conversation on the topic of sex and magic, because you just call people sexist nitwits for using hundreds of years of science as the basis for their claim.
Incoming flame warnings from the dictator.
While a lot of people are happy to move on, some of the people who have experienced criticism for their hobbies in the past may not be very receptive to the source of that criticism coming and playing.
Personally, I find the whole "gender roles" argument to be ludicrous. Not once in my life have I ever gotten any indication that video games and nerd stuff in general was for men, aside from the stereotype of the sweaty neckbeard. If that's a stereotype anyone WANTS to be associated with, I don't know who they are and I don't want to meet them.
I can't say for certain what the source of that stereotype is, but I would guess that the stereotype is what stops people from gaming. My sister and her friends used to make fun of me and my friends, and now she has more tabletop games than I do. As far as I can tell, the only thing that was ever stopping her was the hypocrisy. Either way she always beat me at mario party.
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