Sheldon and the RC committe Are listening to us, taking notes and weighing options Basicly they are discussing TWD cards
and they will have something to say and will definatly be before the secret lair drops
in other words This looks like a sign TWD cards will probably be considered silver bordered In commander format
Honestly? Good.
"Oh you want this new commander that has a playstyle you like? Well why didn't you buy it in this limited window for this price? Not in your country? OOooh don't worry, you can just buy it for this marked up price from someone on ebay. Thats fine right?"
No totem armor cards or cards that grant/replicate totem armor even though protective spells make sense (apparently Nissa got the memo tho)
Only a singular card that cares about allies (which awkwardly isn't an ally itself) even though the ally type would make sense for a D&D party.
A single colorless card that while not directly Eldrazi support, is about the best of the bunch for representing what came before.
Apparently the world just healed turbo fast and there is not a single Wastes card.
Two cards with 'trap' in their name which do nothing with the actual trap cards.
are people forgetting that the Red Minotaur extra combat dude is in this set.. this lets mono-R be able to drop a bunch of lands in 1 turn and just win the game with 4+ extra combats...
And in case people are forgetting, even getting two land drops with this and the minotaur, is lethal in edh if he hits face (6x3 +3/+0 = 21). Any lands beyond two is extra combat steps for him to swing at the next person in edh which lets say you get 3 instead of 2, he now swings at your face for 10 commander damage. Haven't even touched on the fact that if red does this strategy it usually does run damage doublers so its even faster.
And in case people are blind saying etbt is a drawbak, I guess people have short term memory on amulet titan since it relies on Amulet of Vigor. Not that it would run it but the amulet itself gives you more a reason to run amulet in mono colors. Especially when you factor in the lands that are DFC and can be played as lands that etbt which means the Amulet of Vigor is going to see a lot more use as a way to avoid bolting yourself.
So kick this once while you also have either a Darksteel Ingot, a Darksteel Citadel, or a Cascading Cataracts and you can start doing the equivalent of wildfire stuff more reliably without the immediate need for a Darksteel Forge or other cards that grant mass indestructibility to your stuff in EDH.
And if you have a reliable way to pop the original relic to your hand you can just repeatedly kick it from more tokens of itself. And since it is an ETB, effects like Panharmonicon give you the effect twice. And effects that double the tokens like Doubling Season give it more value.
But also I swear this really stupid. They gave a shrine lord a "when ability triggers" but then they give you two shrines with activated abilities, not triggered abilities. They need to errata that.
8 out of 10 Shrines having triggered abilities is still very useful for the Shrine lords ability.
Yeah 6/10s of that is Sultai that is doing the heavy lifting. Since they dediced to do activated abilities for the red and white one, they are litterally nonbos with their own lord. And the reasoning given was "we didn't want to repeat the same thing like the old shrines". So why not just make the white one have instead a "at the beginng of your upkeep, tap target creature with a converted mana of cost X or less, where X is the number of shrines you conrol" and also for the red one "at the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard a land card or shrine card. If you do, deal X damage to target creature or planeswalker, where X is equal to the number of Shrines you control."
But also I swear this really stupid. They gave a shrine lord a "when ability triggers" but then they give you two shrines with activated abilities, not triggered abilities. They need to errata that.
Hey mods, would you care to move this thread to Talk & Entertainment? Clearly this has little bearing on MTG as a whole and more just as a way for people to in general talk about off topic things.
The reason I keep asking if you understood the context of my post is because I’m alluding to Breonna Taylor, a young black woman who was gunned down in her own home by plainclothes officers executing a no-knock warrant. Breonna Taylor didn’t get the benefit of a safe space where she could just stop being black long enough for a night’s sleep, let alone talk about fantasy card games. I get that this thread and this conversation is an obstacle to your escape from reality - whatever that might be - but it’s still absolutely critical that we have it, even here, on a random Magic forum.
Which is sad, tragic, and unfortunate event to that person.
As for the ‘tags,’ I obviously can’t speak for you, but: it’s simply no longer acceptable on our part to say “I don’t see color,” because that implies that the social and economic barriers people face on a daily basis don’t fundamentally shape their lives.
Wrong. The hurdles in your life may shape you, but that does not ultimately define you.
Simply put, if you don’t see a person’s color you utterly fail to recognize them as a human being. If you’re black and believe otherwise then I’d be very interested to hear why.
Because Martin Luther King is still right in not seeing color, people who focus on it do not talk to the soul of the person they are merely talking first to the shell of that person. If they see a person murdered or their body, choosing to see their skin color first and focus on their skin first, they see the shell of that person first, not who they were as a person first.
Treating people as people, treating them like how I wish to be treated with respect and kindness, matters more to me than treating another as another "[skin tone] person".
I easily could consider myself a: black nonbinary asexual who is biromantic.
But I don't wear those 'tags' as that isn't really helping me except for certain cliques and demographics. I know I could be considered very intelligent as a person, I don't treat myself as one though, as to consider it otherwise boosts my ego with undeserved pride and subjects myself to the folly that is the dunning-kreuger effect on matters I don't know or am barely knowledgeable in.
You’re fairly astute at linguistics, so I can only assume that your decision to say “I live below the poverty line” instead of “I’m black” was deliberate and purposeful. Did you catch the full context of my post?
Because telling you my skin color instead only proves that I would've received brownie points for saying something that is topical and favorable of the current times. I want to be seen as a person, not as what the cover my book defines me as.
That would be very PC of you to say, if we were still living in the ‘90s. No, indicating your skin color would have actually made your comment relevant to my post. Socioeconomic status correlates, certainly, but to assign yourself victimhood in a conversation about racism and then deliberately avoid the topic of race is... well, confusing to say the least. To infer anything else right now would come off accusatory, but I will say this: there’s a very good reason (several, actually) we still read To Kill a Mockingbird in public school, not the least of which is because so little has changed.
If for whatever reason this is a sensitive subject for you, or I haven’t been appropriately empathetic, then I apologize. We can certainly continue this conversation by PM, if you prefer.
Thank you for being more understanding. I personally believe that purposefully giving yourself 'tags' only hinders yourself in the long run. To shed as many of those 'tags' turns you into a better person that isn't defined to mere shallow words. A person's inner light, who they truly are, shines better when they are free of these things. I claim, as you put it, "victimhood" because I took offense to being called 'privileged' when I know my living situation is the opposite. As I believe we cannot truly be seen as people if we give ourselves 'tags' that allow others to easily categorize us and also make a common recurring situation "us vs them". You say its a PC thing of the 90s by avoiding using such things as race, but I believe it is foolish to be seen for only what you appear on the outside as we are all humans and as a collective we deserve better than infighting and hatred amongst ourselves.
You’re fairly astute at linguistics, so I can only assume that your decision to say “I live below the poverty line” instead of “I’m black” was deliberate and purposeful. Did you catch the full context of my post?
Because telling you my skin color instead only proves that I would've received brownie points for saying something that is topical and favorable of the current times. I want to be seen as a person, not as what the cover my book defines me as.
As for escaping the political conversation, consider yourself blessed. Or privileged, or lucky, or whatever. You get to go home and sleep tonight without worrying about dying in your sleep from a no-knock warrant, a luxury not everyone gets - ask those people if they want to take a break from political conversation so we can fantasize about cardboard.
Are you for real? I live below the poverty line. Don't preach to me about how lucky/blessed/privileged I am.
Imagine for a moment what it would be like to never really get to escape those discussions or their ramifications. Your discomfort and frustration are valid, I hope they can serve as a gateway to empathy for people impacted by bigotry in the community.
I have empathy for people. I don't have empathy for faceless corporations that shallowly pretend to care about you or try to be your friend.
As for your last point about less younger people showing up, you can blame it on a "toxic culture", I blame it on how Wizard's is whale hunting and pricing out people who would be legit interested in their game. Other card games are on the market and they tend to be cheaper than what Wizards's offer. Also more kids are likely to play Pokemon or Yugioh or Legend of Runeterra because its bright and happy generally simpler to understand compared to MTG. Wizard's knows this to, they know that things like Hearthstone tend to attract a larger audience than the grungy and dark elements that the game was founded on.
"Oh you want this new commander that has a playstyle you like? Well why didn't you buy it in this limited window for this price? Not in your country? OOooh don't worry, you can just buy it for this marked up price from someone on ebay. Thats fine right?"
Disgusting.
Only a singular card that cares about allies (which awkwardly isn't an ally itself) even though the ally type would make sense for a D&D party.
A single colorless card that while not directly Eldrazi support, is about the best of the bunch for representing what came before.
Apparently the world just healed turbo fast and there is not a single Wastes card.
Two cards with 'trap' in their name which do nothing with the actual trap cards.
And in case people are blind saying etbt is a drawbak, I guess people have short term memory on amulet titan since it relies on Amulet of Vigor. Not that it would run it but the amulet itself gives you more a reason to run amulet in mono colors. Especially when you factor in the lands that are DFC and can be played as lands that etbt which means the Amulet of Vigor is going to see a lot more use as a way to avoid bolting yourself.
And if you have a reliable way to pop the original relic to your hand you can just repeatedly kick it from more tokens of itself. And since it is an ETB, effects like Panharmonicon give you the effect twice. And effects that double the tokens like Doubling Season give it more value.
But also I swear this really stupid. They gave a shrine lord a "when ability triggers" but then they give you two shrines with activated abilities, not triggered abilities. They need to errata that.
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Also your missing out Shrieking Drake and Dream Stalker.
Wrong. The hurdles in your life may shape you, but that does not ultimately define you.
Because Martin Luther King is still right in not seeing color, people who focus on it do not talk to the soul of the person they are merely talking first to the shell of that person. If they see a person murdered or their body, choosing to see their skin color first and focus on their skin first, they see the shell of that person first, not who they were as a person first.
Treating people as people, treating them like how I wish to be treated with respect and kindness, matters more to me than treating another as another "[skin tone] person".
I easily could consider myself a: black nonbinary asexual who is biromantic.
But I don't wear those 'tags' as that isn't really helping me except for certain cliques and demographics. I know I could be considered very intelligent as a person, I don't treat myself as one though, as to consider it otherwise boosts my ego with undeserved pride and subjects myself to the folly that is the dunning-kreuger effect on matters I don't know or am barely knowledgeable in.
I have empathy for people. I don't have empathy for faceless corporations that shallowly pretend to care about you or try to be your friend.
As for your last point about less younger people showing up, you can blame it on a "toxic culture", I blame it on how Wizard's is whale hunting and pricing out people who would be legit interested in their game. Other card games are on the market and they tend to be cheaper than what Wizards's offer. Also more kids are likely to play Pokemon or Yugioh or Legend of Runeterra because its bright and happy generally simpler to understand compared to MTG. Wizard's knows this to, they know that things like Hearthstone tend to attract a larger audience than the grungy and dark elements that the game was founded on.