I’ll just warn anyone who clicks on this that this is pure rant and serves no purpose really.
I used to play magic a lot, mainly standard. I would go to FNM every week and went to plenty of bigger tournaments. But standard has been a disaster to me starting with Shadows block, the amount of over pushed broken stuff has actually made me stop playing the format totally and I don’t think ill ever get back in to it.
I don’t like Modern, its just a disaster of who can do the most broken thing the fastest. I did try it for a bit but the silver bullet nature of it put me off.
Legacy and Vintage are just too pricey to get in to so there are off the table.
Casual Commander is about the only thing I still play, although it was never my favourite format as I prefer the 60 card format to the 100 singleton.
So they announce Pioneer, starting at my favourite block ever (Return to Ravnica) and my interest suddenly returned.
Then they said they didn’t want it to be “modern lite” – even better since I don’t like Modern.
Weekly bans to get rid of all the broken cards – Wow WOTC this is sounding amazing.
Nuked stupid Combo decks from orbit – YES YES YES
And yet with all that I still don’t want to play it and I’ve been trying. Ill come back every so often and have few games only to find myself getting incredibly annoyed every time. I just tried recently and had a 5 game run on MTGO. Every game I played was some stupid Uro deck. Which itself is an absolutely borked card designed by a moron. Each deck contained T3feri, another horrifically designed card. Finally, as the cherry on top, 3 of the decks were Omnath decks as well, which is another card designed by an amoeba. I lost 4 and won 1, 2 of the games were frankly non games, as one player or the other just had land issues out the ass. The final game, I was playing a control deck, kept a nice opener and T3 the guy goes to play T3feri, I counter. Turn 4 he tried again to play T3feri, I countered it again. Turn 5 he played yet another T3feri and it lands and the game is all but over because I’ve lost the ability to interact at instant speed, I try to kill it on my turn only to have my spell countered. I scooped out of frustration. I sat back in my chair, and thought, “ya know, if this is what WOTC want Magic to be then I don’t think Magic is the game for me anymore”.
I just don’t get how, with design like this, magic is still going. I mean what these games basically boiled down to is getting run over by unbelievably pushed cards, which if I can’t answer almost right away will all but guarantee I lose and even when i can answer them they have generated so much advantage im now so far behind i might as well scoop anyway. I just dont get it.
End of Rant.
If you managed to get through this ramble then, I feel like I should say something nice, so let me wish you a good 2021.
I think Lotus Field needs to go as well. Uro is almost as bad Oko ever was. Wouldn't shed a tear to see him go. The format seems to be withering. I think some fresh bannings would stir interest NOT lower interest.
The format needs a Pioneer Masters set now not in a year as well.
Pretty much. The metagame looks pretty diverse on goldfish until you realise that a third of all decks are some just variation of abusing Omnath and/or Uro and/or T3feri with a lot of them splashing black for Thoughtseize. Its easy to tell how much lower interest there is in the format now compared to when it opened up. WOTC needs to drop some ban hammers quick if they want to salvage this.
I am feeling similar atm tbh. They need to come in with the ban hammer hard in order to save the format at this point. I was pretty excited at the start because I was fed up with how degenerate modern is but having played a few of the challenge tourneys on mtgo and watching some streamers play them etc it’s just horrifying. People are just jamming all the broken "f.i.r.e" cards together from new sets and its horrifying. Just had three games on the bounce where i was against 5 colour Omnath, Uro, T3feri garbage. One I was watching got 3 Phoenix, 2 Hollow one and a Amalgam out on turn 3. It’s all just too much. “Fair” decks won’t ever have a chance in these eternal formats once they get a large enough card pool unless WOTC grow a spine and come down very hard on this kind of stuff, they said they don’t want Modern Lite well they need to prove it at this point because that’s all it is. What I find pretty funny though is that I was excited for Pioneer because it doesn’t have access to all the old op garbage and they went and replaced all the old op garbage with new op garbage courtesy of "f.i.r.e".
Ive been playing magic for year but recently ive been playing a lot of Magic online currently on MTGO and Cockatrice due to lockdowns and LGS being closed etc. Ive just accepted mana issues as part of the game typically but playing so many games in such a short space of time has just made me question the efficacy of the mixed deck design.
Everyone knows mana flood and mana screw happen but with all the deck building considerations in the world sometimes the gods of magic just want to bend you over.
Obviously as with anything of this sort the larger average looks fine but given the larger average is made up of individual games its a pretty limited way to look at it. Play 1000 games and take an average of the number of lands to spells compared with the distribution you would expect from your deck and i would put money on it landing somewhere close to ideal but that doesnt take into account how a run of bad luck can obliterate your chance in a tournament or in an individual game. Ive played a lot of card games over the years and Magic and Pokemon(although in different fashion) are the only ones ive played which feature a resource card/system built in to the main decks.
I dont find it fun to win because of mana issues on my opponants side and losing to such things never feels good. I just cant figure out what exactly the lands/spells mixed deck deck design brings to the table that a split deck design wouldnt? At the same time i cant think of any issues caused by moving to a split deck design.
I used to play magic a lot, mainly standard. I would go to FNM every week and went to plenty of bigger tournaments. But standard has been a disaster to me starting with Shadows block, the amount of over pushed broken stuff has actually made me stop playing the format totally and I don’t think ill ever get back in to it.
I don’t like Modern, its just a disaster of who can do the most broken thing the fastest. I did try it for a bit but the silver bullet nature of it put me off.
Legacy and Vintage are just too pricey to get in to so there are off the table.
Casual Commander is about the only thing I still play, although it was never my favourite format as I prefer the 60 card format to the 100 singleton.
So they announce Pioneer, starting at my favourite block ever (Return to Ravnica) and my interest suddenly returned.
Then they said they didn’t want it to be “modern lite” – even better since I don’t like Modern.
Weekly bans to get rid of all the broken cards – Wow WOTC this is sounding amazing.
Nuked stupid Combo decks from orbit – YES YES YES
And yet with all that I still don’t want to play it and I’ve been trying. Ill come back every so often and have few games only to find myself getting incredibly annoyed every time. I just tried recently and had a 5 game run on MTGO. Every game I played was some stupid Uro deck. Which itself is an absolutely borked card designed by a moron. Each deck contained T3feri, another horrifically designed card. Finally, as the cherry on top, 3 of the decks were Omnath decks as well, which is another card designed by an amoeba. I lost 4 and won 1, 2 of the games were frankly non games, as one player or the other just had land issues out the ass. The final game, I was playing a control deck, kept a nice opener and T3 the guy goes to play T3feri, I counter. Turn 4 he tried again to play T3feri, I countered it again. Turn 5 he played yet another T3feri and it lands and the game is all but over because I’ve lost the ability to interact at instant speed, I try to kill it on my turn only to have my spell countered. I scooped out of frustration. I sat back in my chair, and thought, “ya know, if this is what WOTC want Magic to be then I don’t think Magic is the game for me anymore”.
I just don’t get how, with design like this, magic is still going. I mean what these games basically boiled down to is getting run over by unbelievably pushed cards, which if I can’t answer almost right away will all but guarantee I lose and even when i can answer them they have generated so much advantage im now so far behind i might as well scoop anyway. I just dont get it.
End of Rant.
If you managed to get through this ramble then, I feel like I should say something nice, so let me wish you a good 2021.
Pretty much. The metagame looks pretty diverse on goldfish until you realise that a third of all decks are some just variation of abusing Omnath and/or Uro and/or T3feri with a lot of them splashing black for Thoughtseize. Its easy to tell how much lower interest there is in the format now compared to when it opened up. WOTC needs to drop some ban hammers quick if they want to salvage this.
Everyone knows mana flood and mana screw happen but with all the deck building considerations in the world sometimes the gods of magic just want to bend you over.
Obviously as with anything of this sort the larger average looks fine but given the larger average is made up of individual games its a pretty limited way to look at it. Play 1000 games and take an average of the number of lands to spells compared with the distribution you would expect from your deck and i would put money on it landing somewhere close to ideal but that doesnt take into account how a run of bad luck can obliterate your chance in a tournament or in an individual game. Ive played a lot of card games over the years and Magic and Pokemon(although in different fashion) are the only ones ive played which feature a resource card/system built in to the main decks.
I dont find it fun to win because of mana issues on my opponants side and losing to such things never feels good. I just cant figure out what exactly the lands/spells mixed deck deck design brings to the table that a split deck design wouldnt? At the same time i cant think of any issues caused by moving to a split deck design.