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.
Never seen M&M melt unless you cracked it.
Like this a lot, they should partner up with M&M and sell this "counters" more heavily ; funny enough i would buy a lot of them, feels way cooler than "normal" M&M.
Next time we get Mana Symbols on them, can become even better.
I have a version that makes 2/2 tokens ; quite funny actual.
Any limited Player should really know that.
For constructed control magics are "normally" to expensive ; but in general the best answer against an opponents game winner => your game winner.
I see the problem that green as the creature color is not really the creature color at all.
Cycles and "bumped up rares" give other colors way better creatures than "the creature color" green gets.
Especially cycles like the Titans and stuff like that.
Green lacks in the field that should actual be its real strength.
Counterspells per definition are not really crazy broken ; its just that in the past the mechanics were not made to be "viable" against counterspells.
Counterspell for example was a UU answer to anything that did not cost 1 mana.
Force of Will has actual a drawback and isnt totally stupid strong in controll decks ; however it gets problematic if a beatdown deck can simply have a counterspell without mana.
The "real" drawback of counterspells is actual that you have to keep the mana and "Hope" the opponent does something ; if they do not, you did nothing ; so by this all instant stuff gets more and more important for this type of "draw-go" decks.
To balanace the fact that other colors do not really interact with combos or the stack in general should not be done with counterspells to everyone.
Theirs plenty of design space to work with the game that each color could get.
White has a real nice way to protect itself pro-active against combo, with the Player Protection enchantments that the combo has to deal with in first hand.
Black has nice no mana graveyard removal against any combo that needs the grave ; and pitch removal against creature combos.
For green it should be a fundamental thing that green "should" really be the creature color ; in fact it is not, especially as cycles like Titans totally mess with this, as each color gets the same Titan just with different abilities.
Also the ability to produce mana and more "regrowth" like effects / including Vengevine like come back mechanics help to give green an actual meaning that can compete against counterspells without the need of a stupid interaction like the Primeval Titan (which is a horrible card, as it makes green decks evolve around it for years right now, and this decks are so horrible boring).
Elves and stuff like that are combo decks themself ; and pure green combo decks is something that makes sence in a balance sence, its really : "If you can't interact with them, join them."
The traditional Archetypes exist pretty much in every set:
Mono Colored Archetypes:
Mono Red / Burn
Mono Blue / Draw-Go-Counterspells
Mono Black / Heavy Swamps
Mono White / White Weenies
[Mono Green ? missing !]
This shows a fundamental problem ; green as a mono color only works in very special szenarios , like Onslaught with Elves and as green lacks a real identity itself it more or less requires you to play another color, especially to utilitize its color fixing ability (which gets kinda outclassed if every color has access to multi color lands, fetchlands, dual lands and that things; greens mana fixing should be strong enough that it really gives you something to work with the other colors do not have).
UW
UB
UR
UG
Are viable archetypes ; so blue is very good in working together with other colors , as it has nice card draw and nice early filtering cards, making it a color that works especially well to make your deck more stabilized and less luck.
Since storm and the shift from black mana rituals to red, UR is nearly allways a combo color combination if its really successfull, while this does not mean the UR "controll" isnt working or good aswell, but combo decks are more or less "designed" for this color combination in the last amount of years as the mechanics for combo decks (mana rituals, card filtering) are mainly here.
Broken singel cards will make combo decks in every color, but you should get the point.
In my view, green lacks the most identity, it does not require a way to interact with spells at all ; but then it should at least have a viable way to outrace an opponent with mana ramp and cards that hinder the opponent, if green is the combo color that works with creatures, why not ? That would make more than sence.
Overall you can more easily change the colors, and transform is easier to retransform.
With flip its really bad to have a card "tap" and flip at the same time , if it can reflip / unflip that would be just super bad visually.
So in this view, a lot speaks for transform ; while the backside problem is not to underestimate ; i hate it a lot in paper form ; if it would work "somehow" without the backside problems that would be super.
Why true, the enchantment could easily cost 1B aswell and still be worser ; as a 2/1 body is actual more useful.
The 2 mana 2/1 super utility formular is a guarantee to make insane strong creatures that are playable bombs for centuries.
Its pretty much impossible to do something wrong if you put a good effect on a 2 mana 2/1 guy.
Put Lightning Bolt on it :
Red one 1R
Creature - Human, Wizard
When ~ enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
2/1
White one 1W
Creature - Human, Wizard
When ~ enters the battlefield, exile target creature and its controller gains life equal to its power.
2/1
The funny thing is, Snapcaster is pretty much "that" , while it requires you to play the cards to flashback.
Snapcaster is just the type of card that makes allready strong cards (cheap spells) way better.
Land
When ~ enters the battlefield proliferate.
Seems useful to me and could easily be common and do its job.
Repeatable is stronger.
Inkcreep Heights
Land
4
Funny is, on a land that produces mana the cost is actual 1 more than on the contagion artifact ones.
While its slow, its pretty powerful and taken you can abuse the effect its easy to win with it.
Inkmoth + this makes for an Win option for control decks.
So manacost alone seems to be slighty too good and a singel poisen counter that wins on a land might be not fun and really hard to handle.
Inkcreep Heights
Land
Might be harder to pull this as it requires more infect permanents, but getting 2 activations from it is allready pretty good.
With Infect around this proliferate land will be kinda dangerous, not necessary from its power point, but its a land that can win without a chance for the opponent to do anything against that, and such permanents are problematic because they force a format to adept to the special needs it requires.
Creature - Illusion (C)
Mist Behemoth can't attack or block unless you cast a blue spell this turn.
"Yes, it may lose a fight with a stiff breeze. But my enemy isn't a stiff breeze."
5/5
Why does it cost so much ?
In like 95% of the time it can never block, attacking is way easier with it.
Maybe you change the card so it can also block if you played a blue spell.
Like this:
Mist Behemoth :4mana::symu::symu:
Creature - Illusion (C)
~ can't attack or block unless you cast a blue spell since your last turn ended.
"Yes, it may lose a fight with a stiff breeze. But my enemy isn't a stiff breeze."
5/5
This way it can block if you played a blue spell and this makes it at least somehow more usefull for the "traditional" blue/white deck that could at least consider this card (otherwise its really just an expensive 5/5 attacker which should never make the cut).
Brutal Valor :1mana::symw:
Instant (C)
If target creature would be destroyed this turn, instead remove all damage from it and destroy all creatures that dealt damage to it this turn.
No matter how bright the sword shines before battle, afterward it's always black with blood.
Seems good, but i would make the first part simply "regenerate", as its kinda strange if the card is destroyed without damage, your card would still save it, but it has no damage at all and it reads strange so some might missplay what the card actual does.
So little change:
Brutal Valor :1mana::symw:
Instant (C)
Regenerate target creature.
Until end of turn, if that creature regenerates, destroy all creatures that dealt damage to it this turn.
No matter how bright the sword shines before battle, afterward it's always black with blood.
Feels simpler for me as the stuff is made via regenerate and peops understand easier that they can save a creature from a destroy effect with it rather than getting the same with a wonky replacement.
Powerwise i think its fair, as you will normally get a 1 for 1 trade , very rarely more, especially if your opponent can see it comming.
Stronger combat tricks like Test of Faith are normally uncummon, maybe this should be aswell ; making it more expensive makes it just less nice ; as expensive combat tricks are horrible cards, allways feels bad to have a crap ton of mana open to use a trick, only cheap ones really work out, for 3+ mana its pretty obvisious to see it comming.
Redwood Assassin :5mana::symg::symg:
Creature - Treefolk Assassin (C)
When Redwood Assassin enters the battlefield, destroy target non-Forest land.
Trees have always had much broader definitions of "murder" than most.
3/6
Seems to be super overcosted, as 7 mana is more than a lot and you rarely would play a 7 drop at all, especially not if its just a 3/6.
Foxfire Oak and stuff like that do really more than this card, as land destruction is more or less meaningless on a 7 drop, the best chance is to get a splash land, but its hardly usefull at all.
It should really not cost more than 6 , as 6 mana is allready expensive and most 3/6 trees cost exactly 6 and all are bad cards you do not want to play.
4GG is the cost that should not be crossed.
Crystal Speaker :1mana::symu:
Creature - Human Wizard (C)
:symtap:: Target spell or permanent becomes all colors until end of turn.
Among those who would commune with the mineral minds of Alefnu, "rigid thinker" is the highest of compliments.
1/2
Usefull if the set really cares for the colors. Seems like a typical gimick card that helps to support the mechanic , and potentially strong with the right cards / like the mechanic working ala Domain so with the activation you get all 5 colors right away.
Neural Disruption :1mana::symb:
Instant (C)
Until end of turn, cards in target player's library can't be looked at, revealed, or put into another zone except during the draw step.
Draw a card.
"You may feel a brief mind-shattering pain."
Seems to be a rulez problem ; no idea how this will handel "search" effects. Maybe you simply can not find what you search.
The text also sounds super strange, as everyone will tell you "why am i not allowed to look at my own library ?" and stuff like that.
Maybe its allready enough if cards can not be revealed and library can not be searched.
Covering any possible way to effect the library might be too wordy and sounds just plain bad.
White Rats
Creature - Rat (C)
Spells that target White Rats cost
Eskevos didn't see what the point of the new rats was. There had never been any shortage of peasants.
1/1
Well a 1/1 is normally extrem bad, the effect is also, while its potentially funny to play, nobody would put it in a limited deck.
With the flavourtext it might all make sence.
But its the type of card that gets printed and never played ; while some might feel a need for that, i highly dislike this, as a card should at least "somehow" be viable, while a 1/1 most likely never is unless the effect is worth it.
White Rats
Creature - Rat (C)
~ is white and blue.
Spells that target White Rats cost
Eskevos didn't see what the point of the new rats was. There had never been any shortage of peasants.
1/1
Maybe it adds some funny stuff if the card is also white and blue, using the cardboard to make it visual also.
Its called "white rat" anyway, so why not ? (Especially if the set somehow cares for multi color , which is quite difficult on 1 drops if they are not hybrid mana ; so maybe make this blue/white hybrid).
If they want some money, they should simply kick out more product like Commander with cards that are "only" in this product ; so peops will buy it for sure.
Boosters are allways bad, and no matter what, you have tons of online sellers that will still sell the cards cheaper than a Local store.
So if something helps the game, give Local Store "only" products away that are intresting like Commander, that is a good idea , not raising the booster prices.
Well control magic could easily be more viable for common/uncommon if it is somehow restricted.
As control magic is , you just take the best creature ; which is removal AND you get the card to win the game.
No matter what bomb your opponent has, you take it and you win with it.
For an uncommon thats ridiculous swingy.
Something like :
"Gain control of target creature with power 2 or less." Could be better for a control magic that does not steal bombs.
Or the other way, a control magic that is at least somehow restricted about time ; done with Cumulative Upkeep or something like that.
Played out overall better in Limited than the direct drawback less versions.
And we allready had a rare Control magic ; even the powered up ones for constructed , so its not a bad thing to get "stronger" control magics in higher rarity and more narrow ones otherwise.
I would also say that all the phyrexian mana cards are badly done as they totally work against the color wheel and totally outclass normal manacosts.
Your card is even stronger than Dismember , a spell that is so strong that it heavily damages what removal should be.
An more or less easy fix is to give the card an actual manacost and mix phyrexian mana in , so at least you stay in the color.
Phyrexian Flametongue RR:sympr::sympr:
Artifact Creature -Beast
When ~ enters the battlefield, it deals 4 damage to target creature.
2/1
So bigger for the manacost you gain an super super efficient creature in red decks, as you do not really care if it damages yourself , it deals with pretty much anything thats in your way and beats itself.
But most important, the card will not be used ofcolor, while that was a big idea of phyrexian mana (to act as colorless 5 color decks) , but hurting the color wheel in this way is way more damaging than it helps.
Overall the sunlight thing never made sence and its such a giant drawback.
If vampires could not stand the sunlight they could never build up and Humans would simply kill them all (or drive them all in underground caverns).
The vampires in Inistrad are totally different and thats a good thing.
As lifelink, wither, infect ; anything that adds something if the "thing" deals damage , not combat damage only.
Well theirs ton of hate against Zoo type of decks ; it was just better to play an even faster Combo deck instead.
Chalice type Tezzeret UB is a valid option ; if control gets at least something to interact with combo at all in a timely manner.
So far, preBannings Combo was way to fast to have any chance for control decks to take over.
Missing Force of Will is a damn serious thing, Modern just shows how important that card actual is in Legacy.
Well they are also "valid" cards for non DCI tournaments , a bunch of Highlander tournaments will allow you to use gold bordered cards (with shields ofcourse) as they are pretty much the very same cards like normal magic cards.
Most EDH players i know use gold bordered Wastelands and stuff like that ; why not, they serve there purpose (especially as unsleeving them for a Legacy sucks a lot, if you have 4 EDH decks over and over).