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- JaceBluesMaster
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Aug 27, 20182
Antiantiserum posted a message on Christmas Gift Pack (5 new creatures)Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
Apr 19, 20181
Lithl posted a message on Should Wizards release another Arsenal product?Posted in: Magic General
Commander's Arsenal had a horribly bungled delivery. My LGS at the time -- one of the largest in the country, which broke regional prerelease attendance records on multiple occasions -- was allocated a grand total of three Commander's Arsenals by Wizards.Quote from someplaneswalker »Seeing that the Commander's Arsenal was a superb product
Instead of selling his copies for inflated prices or going first-come-first-serve on his 3 copies of the product, my LGS owner used them as prizes for three different events, one of which was the (free) Commander league that I was running. -
Apr 15, 20182
Colt47 posted a message on WotC in talks with GameStop to host Magic Tournaments and EventsPosted in: Magic GeneralQuote from JaceBluesMaster »Game Stop has been moving in the direction of "nerd store" for many years now. Hosting Magic and Pokemon tournaments just makes sense from a business standpint. It gets people into the stores. Once they are in, the players are likely to buy something (be it a new video game, some boosters, a pop, etc.).
For Hasbro, this makes sense. There are fewer and fewer retailers in the market. Unless you want to start hosting events at Target or WalMart, then your two go-to options are going to be Barnes and Nobles and Game Stops. Game Stop is likely a better call due to the fact that the fact that the people who regularly go to Game Stop are the same people Hasbro/WotC want to target (kids and teens).
In most areas, there are at least one or two Game Stops that are larger than the "closet" sized ones. These larger Game Stops could (if free standing product was moved to the back room) easily accommodate 8 or more players. One of my FLGSes is in the mall. Before they expanded, they were maybe half a gain as large as the smallest Game Stop that exists in my city. That store could squeeze 16+ people in every week for tournaments. I mean it is not like we are playing 40k here (6x4 table required for every two players). If you squeeze, people will fit.
I seriously doubt the goal is to be overflowing with people at each event. It is likely aimed at casual fans who are intimidated by FLGSes. This is a marketing tool to nudge people to play the game and introduce them to the greater world outside their kitchen table.
Pretty much my own opinion on it. I don't think they would run the same kind of events that a regular LGS would run unless they start selling singles there, too. I could see them running sealed tournaments and probably open house kind of events. -
Apr 11, 20182
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on I FINALLY got what Dark Confidant's flavor is supposed to be!In blacks color pie the strong rule and everyone will use any chance to overthrow the more powerful to replace them or become even bigger with more power.Posted in: Magic General
Being the king just makes you a target, the better place is the slightly less powerful guy that gets the money and nobody really knows about.
Like a manager from a pop star. They get all the blame, fame, and get dragged into the spotlight, while you earn the benefits and you can replace them should they fall.
Its a very classic "black" scheme and done in real life at almost any corner.
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If you want to be the "king" in a world of selfish and violent people, you have to be sure that YOU are the most selfish and MOST violent of them all, so fear is stronger than the will to overthrow you. -
Apr 4, 20184
FirstSwordOfBant posted a message on "Two-Headed Giant"Posted in: The Rumor MillQuote from void_nothing »I like it. Two-thirds' chance of an upside is good for Limited
It's 50% actually, 4 possible outcomes, since order matters (HH, HT, TH and TT) and only 2 of them provide an upside
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Mar 26, 201815
AnImAr_ posted a message on Planeswalker DecksTeferi has a child. Makes sense though. Can't be going around the multiverse looking like Idris Elba and not having someone that'll let you phase them out.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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Mar 22, 20181
doc.brown posted a message on Brawl - the formatyeah true, but the idea is that you see a cool legend that you like and you build around it. what are you talking about is doing the inverse process: building a deck in certain colours and then find a legend that fits.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
In your specific example with Beckett Brass, you can't just replace her with another random grixis legend anyway, because she only works with pirates. Having a pirate deck with say Bolas as commander just cos he fits the colours wouldn't have much sense. -
Mar 22, 20181
Pylgrim posted a message on Brawl - the formatPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Ashiok »Very hard not to look at this as a cash grab move.
Exectuive 1: "Folks, standard is failing and our profits are down. We can't just keep churning masters set to make people buy premium products, they're starting to notice our scheme".
Executive 2: "Standard has been bad for years, but you know what people like? Commander"
Executive 3: "Why don't we make Commander with only standard legal cards, so people are forced to buy into our new product even though it is bad?"
*Cheers in the room*
*End scene*
It is... almost as though they were a for-profit company instead of the non-profit charity we were led to believe! Monsters!!! -
Mar 22, 20184
FlossedBeaver posted a message on Brawl - the formatPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Ashiok »Very hard not to look at this as a cash grab move.
Exectuive 1: "Folks, standard is failing and our profits are down. We can't just keep churning masters set to make people buy premium products, they're starting to notice our scheme".
Executive 2: "Standard has been bad for years, but you know what people like? Commander"
Executive 3: "Why don't we make Commander with only standard legal cards, so people are forced to buy into our new product even though it is bad?"
*Cheers in the room*
*End scene*
I disagree. It’s very easy to see the appeal, if you’re of an open mind and willing to adopt a less... pessimistic outlook.
The combination of a 60 card deck, planeswalker commanders, and standard restrictions really goes a long way to opening up deck building. And for many players, original deck construction is one of the major attractions to Singleton / commander oriented formats. Sites like EDHREC, as much as I love them, have really helped to solve many of the older commanders, rendering original deck ideas moot. Then you have newer legends that are outright unplayable in a 100 card format, like Beckett Brass. And, as other people have already pointed out, planeswalker commanders were more or less impossible in a format where Doubling Season exists (which doesn’t deserve a ban on its own merits). Brawl, taken as a sum of its separate elements, really fills a role that many people probably wanted without knowing how to execute it properly, and being an officially sanctioned format goes a long way towards legitimizing it. Yes, at the end of the day everything Wizards does will be an attempt to make more money, because that’s what businesses do. But to deliberately ignore all of Brawl’s positive aspects only serves to diminish the outlooks and perspectives of people other than yourself. -
Feb 27, 20182
CasualCalamity1 posted a message on What does Wizards of the Coast need to do to improve magic the gathering?Posted in: Magic General
Look man, nobody is pushing all these topics into Magic. You are the one who keeps bringing it up. WotC is just putting random pictures on these cards in order to tell some stories. You are the one taking an issue with it and making it political. Your demand to have MtG as a safe-haven that has to accomodate you and only you and your personal tastes and nobody else's - that is the problem. Magic is not just for you. It's also for other people. Deal with it.Quote from TheOnlyOne652089 »
Theres a place in the real world to discuss gender topics and all kinds of ideology , and do so in a proper manner (and some just go to war for it, so theres that too ... ).
Magic the Gathering shouldnt be the battlefield to fight these topics, and pushing them into the field just produces these battlefields, which serves nobody and just fuels the fires.
So the irony is, the "inclusion" agenda of WotC actively works against any form of "inclusion" the game itself would be the perfect way to get people together on equal grounds, the moment anything other than the game becomes more important than the game, you lost your battle. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Most likely WotC are only putting X number up at a time. Once they get X number of fully completed and paid for orders, all pending or new orders are canceled. Then they add Y number of boxes to the store and repeat the process. Then once those are gone, repeat again with Z number of boxes.
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Because Sagas are more predictable than Planeswalkers and less interactive.
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She is a mysterious planeswalker who hides her identity. Removing her sub-type is a great way of re-enforcing that concept.
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The lyrics.
Liliana tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it didn't even matter. She had to fall, to lose it all but in the end, it didn't even matter.
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I feel like we still need to resolve the Raven Man, so Lilly will live. Giddeon doesn't have much story reason to live though.
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I wonder if the rewind was due to some timey wimey stuff?
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Ironic then that his own soul was stolen
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