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Quote from PharesZoran »Quote from Evil Never Dies »
and did I miss anything or no adventure enchantments at all in this leak?
I think the new permanent type with adventure is "Legendary" with Beluna Grandsquall. I don't remember there being any legendaries in Throne of Eldraine with adventure, but I could be misremembering.
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Quote from Xcric »Am i supposed to be hyped for this, new capenna, or kamigawa? Im confused. What product am i actually supposed to care about right now?
Because when spoiler season overlaps with spoiler season and a new set release... well i end up not giving a **** about any of it
Disappointed its a crossover set, dissappointed in how absolutely bombarded with commander ***** we are, but neat elf lady i guess.
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Because it wouldn't matter with a new character. Oh look, Kaito got compleated. Zero impact. No one cares. People complained about War of the Spark having no stakes, and this was the response: actual stakes. Now there are complaints in the opposite direction.Quote from soramaro »On the one hand, another story arc with a new big bad is kind of neat. On the other, I hate the "oh, this character you loved? They're brainwashed and evil now" thing. I honestly would've preferred Tamiyo to die. WotC's anti-human bias also continues to show - why not have one of the random human planeswalkers suffer this fate, I'm sure we have over a dozen of them at this point.
The boring part about an established character (human or not) becoming compleated is that it basically removes all nuance from them. Once they're Phyrexian, they are nothing more than a "doing evil things for the sake of being evil" type of caricature.
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Quote from Evil Never Dies »All those "Spellbook" mechanic cards could have been perfectly made in Black Border.
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Quote from Dontrike »It feels like they wanted to make an Un-set and a Battlebond set and since they couldn't do both they decided to mix them together for no reason.
Quote from Rosy Dumplings »If someone can look me in in the eye with a straight face and say "I thought the card that cared whether creatures in the art are smiling or not was eternal legal", I would be fairly impressed.
Quote from Dontrike »There are plenty of silver border cards that could easily be black border, much of Unstable could have seen normal print. Things like Crow Storm, Amateur Auteur, Big Boa Constrictor, Animate Library, Chittering Doom, and more shows that no, not everything that could be eternal is. Any cards that mention contraptions call to a black border mechanic thanks to Steamflogger Boss.
There are many black border cards that show some insane effects that would normally be silver border. One poster put many of them and I'll show another with Chaos Orb. To say that Magic doesn't have silver border effects within black border is just plain wrong.
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You're missing the point. Are these three UNIQUE to Harry Potter? No. Hell, these aren't unique to the genre. These are also all general school tropes (specifically college), even outside of fiction.Quote from WarMachinePrime »Quote from lookingupanddown »Almost every magic school in fiction (heck, most real-life colleges) has a stadium, Codie and the Sorting Hat are both supposed to be mascots, and Zimone is one of the oldest tropes around. Please, please read more than just Harry Potter.Quote from WarMachinePrime »Quote from user-11102155 »didnt they say no H.P. stuff ? the stadium looks kinda "inspired" by that
Yes Maro said it wasn't HP inspired but you can see card after card they had planned for crossover versions, so he is blowing smoke. This card is the Quiddich Pitch, the new UG Prodigal Student is Hermione, Codie is the Sorting Hat and there are a slew of others. Its obvious it was designed with HP in mind then they didn't get (or didn't want) to get the property rights for those.
I have and that's why I know many cards are a blatant copy.
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Quote from potato_of_pendelhaven »yeah i agree its the artists fault, i just dont think people should ignore the fact wizards are more and more haphazardly pushing out their products, and not vetting artists is a symptom of that. so is the record number of bannings in the last 4 years.
and in a way, ultimately it IS WOTCs product. if theres plagiarism in it due to their contracting standards, that is on them.
i mean they barely playtest cards anymore, they print half a douzen different versions of any given card now, they change plane every set just so people dont get bored. they throw together makeshift sets like ikoria just from art they have lying around. and unsurprisingly the game is in an almost unplayable state in products like arena.
'its all subjective' is a go-nowhere statement tho. of course it is, everything is. but if you prefer the poorly rendered, washed out modern digital art with its total disregard for color balancing or restraint in detail, over the incredible art that used to be created for this game, then you factually speaking dont have much knoweledge in this area
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Quote from Dontrike »Pizza places literally try and make something that as many people as possible can enjoy, that's pretty much the point of anyone making a product, especially food.
Quote from Dontrike »Also, people complain about toppings someone else orders all the time, usually because they share the pizza.
Quote from Dontrike »Pizza was probably the worst choice you could make trying to argue the "product isn't made for everyone" kind of thing.
Quote from Dontrike »And Magic could trigger the part of the brain that loot boxes and gambling does, it isn't as far off as one would think from any of those as you may think. Heck, card boosters were some of the first loot boxes.
If you want we can compare it to poor movies that made a ton of money, is that better? The Lion King remake is a bad thing that made money. Lead paint was popular too. Asbestos. Smoking. There are dozens to pick from when it comes to the "popular, but not good" category.
Quote from Dontrike »You yourself chose the wrong thing to make an example of, but I'm not lambasting you for it. Perhaps calm down and try again.
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I think I understand what you're saying, but it seems like your argument is still stemming from your opinion that the art is overtly sexual. Again, I feel that the fact the art is being printed shows that Wizards does not view it as problematic artwork. And while you may see a lack of consistency in WotC policies and decisions, I think it might be more accurate to say that WotC's decisions are not consistent with your values and opinions.
I'm not too sure if I understand what you're suggesting with Gathering Throng. Are you saying that Wizards should have covered-up the two men in the background for the official version of the art in the same manner that they covered up the cleavage? If so, I feel as though these are very different examples. While I would argue that breasts and cleavage are not inherently sexual, I do understand that the broader view of society is that they are so I can at least understand the logic behind the censorship. Conversely, I do not see anything sexual about the two men in the background of Bearscape; whether it be in my own views or the views of society at large. Intimate? Sure. Romantic? Probably. But sexual seems like a stretch to me. Granted, that's just my opinion, and your opinion differs. But again, the fact that it's being printed suggests that WotC's opinion is closer to mine.
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I'm a little confused by your argument here. Earlier it seemed you were suggesting that the art is overtly sexual like the Chandra/Liliana art, which most people seemed to strongly disagree with. And now you're pointing to this four year old Blogatog post which, if anything, seems to hurt your argument.
If Wizards is making a conscious effort to move away from art that would make a subset of players feel uncomfortable and they are printing a card with this art, then it seems to me that suggests they don't believe this art would make people feel uncomfortable. Likely because they don't see it as overtly sexual.
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I think you're right that it's WotC retconning, but given the ambiguity in the novel it could easily be what 5colors suggested above and that the Sister of Flesh role isn't static, but passed down with the role of emperor. So it would still be the Sisters of Flesh and Stone, just not Michiko. It may not be a hard retcon, because there is nothing from past lore being explicitly contradicted or changed, but I'd still consider it to be a bit of a retcon because I highly doubt that's what was intended when the novel was written.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/magic-the-gathering-strixhaven-reveal-quintorius-of-lorehold-college/
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Edit: Maro's hint of "protection from God creatures” appearing in rules text makes it seem a little more likely that there might be more than just 5 Gods