The deal with being in public and somewhat called "harassment" (and i clearly distinquish between a from a court defined harassment and a person just feeling they are harassed) , is that its really different pieces.
As a private person you have no impact on public that even remotely justifies that anyone attacks you directly.
However, as a public person, like a politician or as we have here, a cosplayer that actively presents their body in public on public events to players, its in your right to criticizes exactly that, which is the body, its presented in a sexualized manner, so commenting in that way is not even inappropriate (might not be your personal taste, but thats a different deal).
If a private person gets mails from random persons theres zero reason or justification, so thats an entirely different matter compared to someone that publicly pushes themselves into public opinion.
Its a really important part of projecting this matter to the context its presented in.
If i see a women feeding a baby and i tell her "You are a 6/10, i wouldnt even rape you" , it would be an unbelieavable inappropriate thing to say , but to someone that in public makes money by presenting their body ? If i tell that to a stripper ? Inapprioriate for sure, but still an entirely different deal, as context matters, the environment matters and if you do not want to expose to that, you are not forced, you can simply not do that job.
If you go to the extreme and outlaw any potenially rude comment, you restrict language by a great deal, so much that people cannot express anything without fear somebody will feel hurt or insulted, and if that justifies that your social media gets permanently flagged and you suffer for it, its a way more extreme response than the "rude comment" started out as.
The adult option would be to point the rude comments out and keep it on a apprioriate level of response, you can talk stuff out and discuss it to proof a point without going to war directly , and still keep in mind, that no person is outright evil, for such things.
And yes, the real sick people are the ones that perform the threats, thats just downright cruelty and has no other reason than pleasing a sadistic pleasure, and that is absolutely nothing a society has to, or should accept, but its a completely different animal to a critic from an public figure.
I am on the side to promote that individuals are responsible for what they are doing.
Jeremy didnt incite harassment, he did poorly phrased comments sure, but thats hardly crazy evil, its just rude and if you talk to him about that, yes ofcourse he knows himself its rude, and thats about it, you can stand above it and realize that something thats already enough, realize you gone a bit to far and the moment you are told so, you can better yourself, problem solved ; the sick people that continue to threaten , thats what remains, but thats adults, responsible for their actions, and any adult that isnt insane should have enough intelligence to not even do that to begin with.
Racist comments are a special kind of deal, just as gay-topics etc. etc.
Its highly controversial to many people and especially your work place is a context with special meaning here.
If i make a racial comment in private, thats it, nobody cares. If someone is insulted they can sue me, i get appropriate punishment, and/or we settle the topic before it escalates, thats the potential for discussion and understanding that is much more valuable than taking every little comment and blow it up like its a death threat right away ; its clearly not.
In your context part you clearly see context matters so much.
Context is key for this here.
All the screenshots are mostly out of context and look entirely different if you get the big picture.
Yes people are offended a lot, but its undeniably a thing you have to be able to deal with if you have any kind of public job, or open yourself up to that (and if you cannot deal with it, its simply the wrong job for you, as theirs issues with lots of jobs and you cannot just blame others for that, self-responsility is a thing, its not that others are always to blame for anything you do and anything you do will have an effect on others, if your job is in public, thats a given).
I think america in special a lot of people are highly influenced by what some special individuals say , so they build up some form of responsibility for what they say, simply because of that.
And i think, it again depends on context and what group you talk to.
In the case here the group of people is the magic community, people that watch Jeremys Channel, thats already a very small subsection again and people that enjoy trollish comments, so they are already open to that and have their own problems why they cannot control what they are doing (as no sane person would write a death threat email to anybody, but lots of people do, especially in heated discusions and extreme topics).
But here Jeremy cannot be at fault for what individuals end up doing, the targeted audience are adults, and should totally be able to control themselves.
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Your last part.
I also think he could be much less rude in his comments and from his latest comments he acknowledges this, as often you have to be told you are going over the edge, and if its good to think about it (but again, its about critic and staying on a non-extreme course, you want discussion and not open war).
Lots of stuff i can relate to and the topic is simply overblown by extreme margins.
In the end, people said some mean things and others reacted to them ; thats actually all that happened, thats rude at best, but its not downright evil.
This topic would much easier and smoother be solved in a much smaller circle, or in private between these two.
Pulling it to public just makes things worse, by a lot and it doesnt serve anybody, be they right or wrong, in the end, this open warfare just damages the community and people will bunker themselves into even more extreme sides and become even more unable to discuss anything without directly insulting each other.
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But one thing is guaranteed, this will be a hot topic for the rest of the week and probably the next one, and at some point, nobody will care anymore and just play Magic again.
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Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemPosted in: Articles -
Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemThe fact that a comment makes someone feel harassed doesnt mean it is harassment.Posted in: Articles
Just because someone feels insulted, its not automatic evil in nature.
Most important, he never told to her directly, you literally have to seek out his channel to see the comments, so you actively have to search yourself to see negative comments about yourself.
The indisputable issue are the sick minded individuals that go over the top and do exactly that, email directly, twitter to her directly etc. They do the harassment, they are 100% guilty for it, and they qualify for it, as they indeed take a sadistic pleasure in doing that, its among the most harmful type of troll.
Then theres a difference between private people and people in public.
As a private person nobody has any public interest in what i do and so comments about my person would be out of context.
The moment what you are doing is part of a community, like cosplay at a grand prix and doing pictures of that etc. You present yourself in public and so comments about exactly that are clearly presented.
That alone is no harassment and its just as important to clearly draw a line between what people truly say and what is casually said, simply put, if you are talking to a group of people for hours, chances are you will say something stupid and someone will feel insulted ; so it has to be viewed in context and not just "oh god, look what he said" , and finger point exactly that and ignore anything else.
And especially for Jeremys channel, its clearly a form of topics and talking that you might easily find offending, others do not, some think hes right about a bunch of stuff, and i believe you can easily see he has a bunch of points.
All the so called harassment can be put down to context that gives it a background, so that is what makes the topic a lot more slippery than just believing its all crystal clear.
The idea of thinking its downright crystal clear and theres only black/white in it, is already short sighted, as you have to see more of the picture to get a real glimpse of the actual truth.
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Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemYea, if people truly think theres just 1 problem at hand, and that others, but ofcourse never themselves are a part of it, thats just ridiculous, as it is the kind of finger pointing that just wants to make someone else responsible for what you think is bad.Posted in: Articles
If someone truly feels harassed, seek the police, file a claim, prevent the harassment, thats what you can do as an adult, theres a little bit of responsibility for your own too.
Its not your job to defend your wife, if you truly want fairness, she can do that on her own and she should be absolutely able and willing to do so (and if she isnt, that is a problem you have to start working on).
Its always a big question mark, if you have to drag your personal issues into public.
That just makes everything worse, much worse, as you are suddenly exposed to people that choose sides and over dramatic defend it, no matter if it effects them at all.
The adult way to solve the issue would simply be if she started out to simply ask to stop exactly what she thinks is bothering her. Any responsible adult will accept that and change behavior if its reasonable, and if they dont, you file a claim against them, so they get judged by a neutral court (or you are proven wrong on your feeling of being harassed, thats also an option and as an adult your have to live with it). -
Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemTheres critic and just phrasing opinions and as a form of entertainer and content provider he has a form of talking that a lot of people find offensive, but there is plenty of comedians i find offensive, but that doesnt make them in any way problematic.Posted in: Articles
Comments can easily be in bad taste and thats undeniable the case for Jeremy, but the real core of the issue to discuss is the small amount of truly idiotic people that take it to a true harassment and violent form of threats ; and the question to discuss would be if you as a content provider are truly responsible for what some sick individuals do , given they are adults, these people are the actual problem, and thats not Jeremy.
The same kind of sick individuals exist on the other spectrum too, some of them Social Justice Warriors that somehow feel Jeremy has to be "utterly destroyed" and death threats against him are "totally fine".
Seriously, its the same kind of sick individuals and its the CORE of a true problem which puts every little issue into full on overdrive roadkill.
It serves nobody and its a form of discussion that is very prevalent in the internet.
Its a culture of trolls and social justice warriors that simply cannot keep their actions behind a healthy line that keeps a minimum of civilized discourse alive.
If people get famous they undeniable have to have a tougher hide. The more people you know and the more people respond to you, the more bad comments you will accumulate.
Thats natural, and people will either like what you do or they will not.
Some of the sick people will downright hate you for whatever you do and this leads to the exact problem of people that think they have to act themselves , right now and fight what they think is the evil, everyone thinks they are in the right to do so and so nobody is able to self-reflect and see they are going over the top.
If matters settle down you could easily see Jeremy seeing himself that a bunch of stuff crosses the line , but bad taste comments and actual harassment should be dealt with in court and absolutely not in public for people to just judge and start their little lynch mobs in every corner burning whatever victim they just found.
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So there is more than just one problem.
A lot of problems and everyone is part of some problem, if they see it, know it, or still deny it. -
Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemTheres plenty of "good" men that started wars and killed people in the name of what they thought to be somehow the right thing.Posted in: Articles
The reality is, there are no "evil" and no "good" men, just opinions and people that push these ideology with violence over the other, who ever wins will be in the right, the other side clearly must have been wrong.
Its not the job of people to start a lynch mob and "destroy" other human beings and its downright pedantic to think that is in any way what "good men" should do.
Any problem has to be discussed and solved on the appropriate level.
Pushing topics in public only serves the trolls and media hype , people calling out for a single entity to be blamed for everything they think is bad.
The reality is, theres not a single bad person and everyone is usually to some degree responsible for what they do or do not do.
People really like to give small problems horrific names so they sound like much bigger problems, that leads only to despair and misery, it has no positive benefit for anybody, just pampers the ideology of people that really think they are the only legit form of judgment call, self-administered justice isnt the way to go and if you ever get in the situation to think someone is the personified evil, you are guaranteed wrong and simply ignore the other standpoint (so you become evil yourself, just to pretend to defend against evil, thats in no way a solution and only leads to a conflict in which everyone can blame anyone to be in the right and suddenly there are no good men left anymore).
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Nov 30, 2017
TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemA very big issue is that different topics are brought together, while they simply do not fit.Posted in: Articles
Nazi and troll posters are two very different things and should never be put together, just to fuel a cause, thats selling your own arguments cheap and makes them one-dimensional black/white thinking again, which is good for nobody.
Also, there will be critic and negative critic as well, that has to be acceptable.
Nobody is forced to be overly positive about anything.
If you truly dislike something you can say so, and its value to the discussion that this is expressed and not just ignored, or even outlawed as something terrible wrong.
At the same time its very valid to criticize something and not come up with a solution on your own right away. I can critic a cook and not be able to make it better, thats totally fine and it must be legit to do so. The point of critic is that you should never need to justify for it, the receiver can take the critic and see it as an issue, or they dont, thats their cup of tea and its what an adult has to learn to deal with.
But here again, this changes a lot if someone is in private or its brought up in public and presented to a mob of people.
If you just honestly dislike cosplay and say so, thats fair, nobody forces you to like anything.
The "locker-room-talk" is a topic entirely for its own. Its something that is widely accepted and always was. Women to the same about men, they even do it among each other, it might just be more subtle than the direct approach of actually saying it out loud, even if its just in the "locker-room" (or in this case a youtube channel, or a bunch of twitter posts).
Its fine on its own.
What really pushes the topic to become a real issue is how stuff completely gets lost and out of control incited to be way bigger than what it really is (and yes, thats a terrible huge deal with the amount of media and the very real interest of media to promote topics into "highlights" and further push the mob to generate more horrific events to report about, its almost a self proclaiming prophecy, so its very difficult to truly say what amount of discussion is healthy and what is just talking it to bits and pieces, as many if not all topics will be seemingly super hot for the moment and meaningless the next week, as there is no real issue beside the illusion of talk at all).
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How would an adult deal with bad talk about them in private ?
You confront the person and actually tell them to stop as its not ok for you.
Solves the issue, unless the person is actively not recognizing your problem.
In public it changes a lot.
Theres either somewhat anonymous people that jump on a topic train and pick sides, which very often leads to extreme reactions, way over the top (any threats via mail or any form of actual harm is absolutely no-go, no matter what the topic is, theres never a reason to choose violence to solve anything.
So if you talk in public, it will have an effect on people and it will polarize the people more and more. Thankfully lots of people can distinguish between a topic that truly effects them and just a rat catcher lynch mob , but some cant, and the poster shouldnt be responsible for these individuals, as almost anything could be seen as an incentive for violence, if the individual has some sick mind, theres an entirely different problem of its own (and yes, you have to ask yourselves why so many "troll" people exist and no matter the topic, they are harmful and actively ignore any productive discussion).
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For the topic at hand, the first problem that ignited this into a public *****-fest was that it was brought to public at all.
Solving these kinds of issues should have been a thing between Jeremy and Sprinkle , in private or by her actively telling what bothers her, its just fair to do so, as it solves most issues and avoids outside people to intervene.
If that doesnt work out and somebody is not taking your arguments, you can take it to the police and to court to actively stop what bothers you with something like a protective injunction suit, which again should solve the issue at hand, instead of putting it up for debate to a lynch mob that just wants blood, no matter from who.
Its a very clear picture if a topic is just instantly brought to public, avoiding any legal options (or doing so later, in hopes the public opinion boosts your side).
See, if a topic is discussed in public, it will never be fair.
People pick side right away and defend it for whatever the cost, even if it doesnt effect them personally at all ; which brings the Social Justice Warrior term to fruits.
Yes thats a problem just as trolls.
Its good to have empathy, but its bad to jam ideals and ideology into a topic and mix topics entirely, just to proof a point that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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Believe it or not, neither Jeremy nor Sprinkle are somehow "evil incarnate" , they arent and they arent "toxic" to the community.
The kind of topic and how much its media-hyped and exaggerated , thats an entire issue of its own and overshadows the problem they personally had to solve between each other and makes it like a community issue , which it isnt, the community is fine, theres very rare cases and problems to deal with and they shouldnt be ignored, but also not exaggerated into spheres they arent fit for.
And this is, about a game, a hobby, people enjoy playing the game and enjoy being part of a community, if this is taken to a level of social criticism it doesnt serve a purpose for the game it just harms the experience for everyone, as it puts a stigma to the game, that it neither deserves or justifies at all. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Sorcery
Discard your hand, then draw three cards.
Problem is easy. Either you draw 3 without any other card, which makes it essential "hellbent - draw 3 cards" ; which is pretty good.
OR
You abuse it right away with Dredge which is also no fun (see Breakthrough, problematic enough, but discard first then draw is even more problematic in dredge).
However, i think the card can work, just more expensive.
Surreal Visions 3
Instant
~ costs 3 less if you have exactly three cards in your hand.
Discard your hand, then draw three cards.
Might be a slighty bit complicated as some players might now get the idea if it counts itself or not, but the overall design seems to be more fluid, as its "3 cards, 3 mana less, draw 3" , catchy i think.
And upgrading it with Instant might be a reason enough to play it in some Controll decks (that abuse flashback spells etc.).
And hitting it with Hellbent is also quite welcome, so 4 mana seems to be the cost to make it decent.
Sorcery
Each creature becomes 0/0 until end of turn.
Seems legit to me, as its more or less a big cross over of each color.
White has its wrath effects, black has the -X/-X (and Damnation), while blue simply transforms stuff into something (in this case a pile of goo).
Also works pretty great in a set that has +1/+1 counters ; even with equipment you can keep your stuff alive, also little bonus abilities ala Exalted can keep your creature alive.
Wonderfull card actual, as it offers so much possible interactions, way more than the classic wrath "destroy all stuff" which only allows indestructible and stuff like that.
An additional fix that might be slighty more enjoyable could be to reduce the creature to 0/0 AND remove all its abilities, just to kick persist / undying in the nuts aswell.
Bla :3mana::symw::symb::symu:
Sorcery
Each creature becomes 0/0 and lose all abilities until end of turn
Could justify the cost even more, as its something stronger than a classic wrath taken that Final Judgment costs 4WW and 6 is really expensive for a wrath (as today, even 4 mana is quite a lot for a wrath in constructed, which makes all the red mass removal better in most metaGames, as they are cheaper).
For the blue Wrath i highly "dislike" Evacuation, as it does not work out as an actual Wrath ; they replay the cards anyway, and it obvisiously works way worser against cheap creatures.
With all the "Grasp of Phantasmns" like effects, blue could get a updated Evacuation that does not suck as much.
Edge of Time 3UU
Sorcery
Put all creatures on the top of its owners libraries.
Most simpel form, and being Sorcery mirrors Wrath more, while its obvisious stronger against multiple small creatures and at least not worthless against a singel big target (as its not much more expensive than Grasp of Phantasmns).
In innistrad i could see this even with flashback and be an actual card for constructed.
Innistrad Edge of Time 3UU
Sorcery
Put all creatures on the top of its owners libraries.
Flashback 7UU
You could easily make way more emblems, but it has to make sence, something you can lose track without a "marker".
With "multiple" Emblem the idea of emblems is eliminated anyway ; as the actual "emblem token cards" are WAY to rare currently (yes they exist).
Sorin is one of the worst examples, as its to easy to use the Emblem multiple times, and thats just a pretty annoying "marker" that sticks around, if it gets combined with others the hole point of the markers gets in trouble (unless you use emblem token cards, but as i said, nobody really does that, a work around could be to use different colored dices or something, but also pretty bad).
So currently we have just a small amount of emblems, at least "works" this way, but overall the idea of emblems kind of sucks, it simply gets problematic in bigger numbers and so its "doomed" to be a mechanic in small numbers (very small actual, just a handfull of mythics).
A work around i enjoy for emblems on sorcery spells is the use of "suspend" like effect.
Simply "exile" the card and let the card itself be a pseudo Emblem marker.
Could easily create a new mechanic around that.
Aethermanifestation ( Exile this card with an manifestation counter on it. As long as its exiled with a manifestation counter, [effect] ).
So we catch multiple problems in one swing, without the need of an enchantment ; could also be funny in a set that uses the "Exile" more active, with ways to hit this exile cards aswell.
The mechanic is also more flexible, you can place "X" counters on it to increase the effect, or give it an effect that might remove counters, to use it up, could even be a creature, that gets some form of pseudo suspend using the mechanic.
Many options actual.
For the actual card i could see a version of "Beast Within" instead of direct vindicates, might play better in EDH aswell, as "you" play the fatties, and blast stuff, while the others beat each other with the 3/3 tokens, as you obvisious have the 6+ mana dude to block.
Beastly Dominance 2GGG
Sorcery
Aethermanifestation - Exile this card with a manifestation counter on it.
As long as ~ has a manifestation counter on it, whenever a creature with converted manacost 6 or more enters the battlefield under you control, destroy target permanent and its controller puts a green 3/3 beast creature token onto the battlefield.
Gets kinda wordy, so the wording could require a rework.
But the card on its own does the job without the need of an emblem and feels fair enough (as its overkill to pack such a big number of 6+ creatures anyway, even in EDH).
Well its kinda sick that they did not print a 5 color card for a long time now.
They should do at least 1 for each set in some combination.
I mean they could have made a Phyrexian Mana 5 color card, 1 of each Phyrexian Symbol (would be kinda cool).
So whatever, i would like to see at least 1 in each set ; even if its just to print more legendary 5 colors to choose from.
Which are pretty bad if you can not find a totally sick card to interact with them.
Namely Progenitus and Emrakul ; which are sick enough as fatties and hard to kill aswell.
Dragons are not really "good" , if you can ramp with mana its probably way easier to go for Dragonstorm; which also is pretty bad in constructed at its current state.
The 4 mana Overlord that simply gives you a dragon is clearly "strong" and totally unfair in a nutshell ; but for constructed its simply not enough as it also limits your deck choice by a lot.
It requires you to play a bunch of Dragons that are worth it ; which means they are expensive, and nobody wants that much expensive Dragons unless they simply win right away.
And a deck that "Requires" you to have a 4 mana creature to work is plain bad, as its way to easy to interrupt your gameplan.
If it all works out, its pretty unfair, sure, but most the time it will simply not work. Lets say of 100 games it might work out for you 10 times, decent for a casual deck, but extrem bad for a constructed one.
The potential of abuse gets obvisious in the view of Goblin Lackey, and it also illustrates a problem with this card design.
At the time of the Lackey, goblins were pretty bad and small, no real "big" goblins were worth to be put into play and being a 1/1 was not that usefull aswell.
So long time it was just not good enough, with Siege Gang and the massiv Goblin Support it quickly became a totall insane card, being a 1 drop and all that, which could give you extrem unfair games were everything simply evolved around the point that you either kill it turn 1, or you have a blocker that survives.
And Lackey is "sick enough" for Legacy, which has a insane power level and pretty much no card thats "fair" can make a appearance anyway (unless its a role player that interacts somehow for your deck, which is rare anyway).
So whats the goal of the Overlord ?
Does it want to be "fair" ?
_Problably no, as we want it to be a card that at least "looks" awesome and abuseable.
Does it want to encourage a deck full of dragons ?
_Sure, such decks are extrem casual.
Dragonoutcast Overlord 2RR
Creature - Human, Shaman
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
2/2
Works, but its obvisious just a cute card, not a major constructed one.
Tuned for constructed it would look more like that:
Dragonoutcast Overlord 1R
Creature - Human, Shaman
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal a card at random from your hand. If it is a dragon creature card, you may put it into the battlefield.
2/1
Looks highly random, but abuseable. Either play a crap ton of dragons, or be just lucky, or empty your hand quickly and make it hit for sure.
More or less like a Cursed Scroll on Dragons.
In worst its a 2/1 for 2 mana, which is a clear size pushed for constructed to be playable for allmost anyone, be it Aggro, Combo or Controll.
So most important is to answer your own questions.
What exactly is the "Point" of the card ?
What does it want the player to do, and only if necessary, give it a push in powerlevel to be more likely to appear in constructed (while not for sure, that depends on the other stuff in the format).
Look at Gutshot, even that is totally awesome, if you can hit something for no mana at all its pure advantage (as you just spend a card).
Get a 3 damage Gutshot for just tripple the cost is still pretty crazy strong, especially if you want to abuse it.
Too much of that Phyrexian Mana stuff hurts a lot ; as you can simply play a storm based burn, be it Empty the Warrens or Grapeshot.
0 mana removal is not a good thing, especially non that badly hurts the color pie.
Dismember is a big mistake, like most of the Phyrexian Mana spells.
However, if you badly want it ; at least give it a manacost.
Like Dismember:
Headshot 1:sympr::sympr:
Instant
~ deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
This way its like a colorless Lightning Bolt with pay 4 life ; which is still pretty crazy good, for red its more flexible, but its rare enough that you pay Phyrexian Mana at all.
I mean Flames of the Past is red, and all the stuff that grants flashback to a card is red, overall the card "screams" for red, but became blue (maybe because it simply felt way to similiar to all the red flashback cards).
Creature - Spellshaper Warrior
:symg:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
1/1
Strange that this is a 1 mana card, as it feels so much stronger than a 1/1.
A "Beastmaster" like this, could easily be a pretty big creature, so the fight makes sence aswell (a 1/1 kinda feels wrong).
Aggravated Aggravator 3
Creature - Human Spellshaper Warrior
:symg:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
3/3
On this size the card feels stronger, easily uncommon and very brutal in limited.
Prey Upon as "instant" speed is also pretty nasty.
Inflamed Inflator
Creature - Goblin Spellshaper Shaman
:symr:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
1/1
Somehow the one that works the best. Double strike is nuts in Limited, even if you do not use it, every creature has the power to "double up", especially with "Ball Lightning" stuff the bonus of it being a 1 drop makes the cut (otherwise it will never be a usefull drop for your curve).
Its pretty strong, uncommon for sure, but i think this could be an actual card.
Grave Recycler
Creature - Spellshaper Zombie
:symb:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
1/1
The effect is so strong, just to get a endless stream of creatures and all the "possible" interactions with it.
It would even be "ok" if the creature is placed on top of your library.
Possible to make this card, but just keep in mind that a Gravedigger is allready quite good, making it repeatable is very strong and with this active, its very difficult to lose a game (unless you are totally outclassed anyway).
Mind Objector
Creature - Spellshaper Wizard
:symu:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Target player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
1/1
Such a strong mill card can win on its own, but in combination with "other" mill cards it gets totally out of hand in limited.
In constructed, a mill strategy rarely matters, as it lacks any board presence, which means, a viable mill deck is either totally sick, or totally meaningless.
In limited its a good idea to limited such a strong mill with a high casting cost (at least).
Mind Objector 4
Creature - Spellshaper Wizard
:symu:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Target player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
1/5
Stronger than the miller in Ravnica, but gives also a bigger "blocker", to make an actual mill deck that plays fair.
Solder Soldier
Creature - Spellshaper Soldier
:symw:,:symtap:, Discard a card: Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
1/1
Equipment is allready stronger than Aura, so i would change it to tutor "auras".
But ok, the card could easily be done in Limited, as its very unlickly to have enough equipments.
Most the time you will not play this guy, if you have a good equipment, he will play like a Stoneforge in Limited, in constructed you need a crap ton of very nutsy equipment ala "living weapons" to abuse it enough (or just strong single cards that easily win themself, like the Swords or Jitte).
But a much more likely spellshaper that could easily be done.
It has RR as a cost, so its less splashable, in fact splashing a RR card is a lot more difficult (at least 5 red sources to reliable cast it, "somehow") ; while a Fireball is pretty much allways playable for you, take 2 Mountains and you are set (unless your manabase is so horrible, that you can not afford that).
Another thing is the sizes of creatures.
All the nuts 4/4 flyers require 4RR to kill them ; without any additional advantage.
Against "weenies" (all the 1-2 thoughness) a Pyroclasmn will do more or less the same for way cheaper (again just 1 Red mana, easier to splash).
The "bomb" factor on Rolling Thunder compared to MindControll is also depatable, they both have double colored manacost, and a pretty comparable manacost (as a Rolling Thunder for less than 3RR is not likely to make a card advantage).
Question is not if Rolling Thunder is "good" , it certainly is pretty good ; but its a better card for a Coreset that wants to avoid all the problems that Fireball represents.
The Fireball math alone is a reason to remove it, its horrible and we have plenty of red burn that could replace it.
If you wanna try it out, put it in your Cube and draft with it ; its a pretty good card ; but hardly a "rare" (which are like Comet Storm, Devils Play and stuff like that).
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This is a reason that qualifies it allready.
Its just ridiculous that FireBall is pretty much unquestionable 1st pick, any card like that should be analyzed for a replacement, as it creates pretty boring Limited (as its the clearly best card) ; should at least give you a reason to play a color if its really strong.
Same like the total bomb artifacts, pretty boring in Limited, as everyone can play them, and they are simply good, no matter what you actual do.
Well they could make it like a "Foil" version ; every 8 of the rare is a "old school" artwork, and every 8 of this is foil aswell ; so its ridiculous rare, but peops will enjoy it for sure (and someone will pay money for the ultra bomb rares).
So in my view, they could pack this kind of "money" in the packs, not that it would effect the market of "normal" cards in any meaningfull way ; just gives a possiblity for extra cash out.
Simply use Triskelion ; works better and pretty easy.
Rulez wise, what happens if the commander is "face down" removed ?
Any way to know that ?
I would say its exiled this someone can "somehow" confirm it ; but does it count if i search my library and its obvisious not in ? I mean, the only face down card is the commander ?!
The same is Land Destruction ; red was very good at.
But LD is considered "unfun" and so Wizards does not print nearly as much of them (that is not ridiculous over expensive).
Right now, red also gets the mana rituals ; which is very different from its pre-Mirrodin state.
And as it seems, the "Looting" part gets more and more red aswell ; while blue keeps the draw of cards without discard.
Red Dragons are iconic ; while they never really made the cut (expect being a combo card for Dragonstorm).
Counting Dragons as a "red only" thing seems wrong aswell ; as Dragons exist in many many forms and are not just the mindless Dragons.
Dragons are in fact a race that every color "can" get, and cycles show that very good (while green Dragons are mostly problematic because flying is not really green ; which i think is a mistake anyway).
Goblins are "overused" thats for sure ; but its just the creature type "Goblin" , while the goblins in fact are very different in form and mechanics, in one set just mindless beasts, in others they are military focused ; Mirrodin and the like they have the focus on artifacts.
I think Goblin as it is can stay ; each World can have its little chaotic race of Goblins, mixing too much different types is worse in my oppinion ; as every race gets less "love" in that way.
Red made a good change, from the color of "burn only" it now is a color of burn, aggression (sligh) and combo decks with rituals / storm.
Even as a controllish color it works, with the mass removal being as important as ever if aggressive decks go rampage (Pyroclasmn is simply better than Wrath of God, if your format has mainly 2 thoughness).
Burn also got an upgraded "value" as it can hit planeswalkers ; which highly increased its uses against controll decks (were it otherwise was more or less restricted to shoot the player).
So red is not that bad right now and goes a good way in evolution to increase its abilities.
Green feels way more "problematic" in this view ; even blue gets way too good creatures and feels more and more out of the scope.
Well not really.
Its just that most cards with "removed from the game" simply got the errata to work with Exile ; but its really not the same.
Removed from the game is now more like "outside the game" which is in fact just your sideboard in non-casual.
Cards like the "Wishes" were crazy good design ; as it gave an additional ressource (your sideboard) and produced complete new forms of sideboards (Wishboards with a ton of 1-offs).
Suspend is a mechanic that plays with the "Exile" , as thats really what it is ; the Aether is a Zone thats really "unreal".
Mechanics that interact with this zone more would be nice, just to give a bigger fight about ressources ; its just plain boring if you can exile a card and give the player no chance to get it back ; Wishes were great at that, but no longer work the wonderfull way they did.
Could even see a flashback mechanic, that plays cards from the Exile ; and shuffles them back in the library ; would work really good with mechanics like "Delve" that abuse the exile a lot more than right now.
In case you did not notice.
All the cards are spoiled on the Magic Site itself.
Just to make your assumption more fruitfull.