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Apr 17, 2018
Arborea posted a message on The Limited Archetypes of DominariaDid you know that Wizards of the Coast linked to this article from their site? Have they forgiven Salvation for rancored_elf and the rest? I thought they even sued someone at one point.Posted in: Articles -
Aug 25, 2017
Arborea posted a message on Magic Story: Alara to AmonkhetI know the story is still technically ongoing, but it makes less than no sense to me that Bolas would just tear down Amonkhet once he has a working Eternal factory, not to mention the years he spent setting himself up as the God-Pharaoh. I don't believe there is such a thing as "enough" when it comes to mindless killing machines - and more importantly, I don't believe that Bolas does. And since he's lost his godlike power, you'd think he might hold on to the one place that gives him the respect he feels is his due.Posted in: Articles
I also spotted another curious thing when I was looking at my Empyrial Archangel playmat. They decided for Theros that Elspeth's sword came from there and was made by Purphoros, yet it has the same design as the standard swords on Bant. Many of the angels are shown with similar swords, as is Rafiq of the Many. Now, I don't believe there's any storyline significance to this - I think they just wanted to use Elspeth in Theros and decided to try and make a connection between her and the plane, and they were typically careless and forgot what they had established only four years before. -
May 29, 2011
Arborea posted a message on ANGELFIRE - Boros CasualThis is the one from the Casual forum before, yes? Looking good.Posted in: Rowan Blog
As you've noted, there are a few mono-colored cards with guild watermarks. Leave No Trace and Wojek Embermage spring to mind, although both are the kind of card that's either very good or rather sub-par. -
Mar 1, 2010
Arborea posted a message on Johnny is wrong, or why R&D's player demographics are not equally valid viewpoints@bloggerPosted in: Let them hate me, as long as they fear me
Have I ever told you that you're an idiot?
Well, you are.
Flame infraction. --Binary -
Feb 26, 2010
Arborea posted a message on FML, or, quitting facebook. . . So basically your post is "I'm a shallow dick and all my friends think so?"Posted in: 1-800-cyanide line
Yeah, dude, FYL. You suck. Quit Magic too, I just read one of your posts in the UW control forum and I wish I hadn't. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
I'm curious, what exactly were the punishments available in Return to Ravnica and Khans of Tarkir?
I wasn't playing Standard then, but I collected quite a lot of cards from that era (Khans of Tarkir reminds me so much of The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, and that makes me smile). There aren't any Blood Moon style cards in those sets, and all the Standard deck archives from both those eras show a lot of three and four color decks.
And it's jumping the gun, of course. The set isn't even in Standard yet and control traditionally gets stronger towards the end of a block. (I don't know whether that pattern will hold once they no longer release sets in blocks, but I think the pattern of strengthening after it's been established what sorts of threat decks are possible in the current card pool will probably hold.)
Until then, it's worth testing: Lay Bare the Heart.
They could always print more stuff that can't be countered or can return from the graveyard to play (as in after it's been countered), but that would be unfair to blue apparently.
And there are also plenty of "Timmy" cards people will latch on to as supposedly unbeatable and turn into memes (Carnage Tyrant is definitely the favorite for that).
The one comment that I would make, though, is that you might want to keep flavor-themed boosters, whether for constructed or limited or whatever other purpose they are printed for. One of the strengths of Magic is the variety of visual styles and card concepts between (or within) different planes. If your concept is "year of steampunk", both your limited and constructed boosters for that year would have art and names like Kaladesh, and it would be followed by the "year of Egypt".
On a more serious note, I would love to see more of your ideas - I was reminded of a lot of hidden gems by reading these!
I'd guess he means "have to" as in "should". Personally, I think that regardless of your field, you should be trying to build a devoted fanbase, not a rotating one. I think Rosewater once said that the average player sticks with the game for six years, which is pretty long by modern standards, but when you consider that there are still people playing the first edition of Dungeons and Dragons . . .
And besides, Wizards of the Coast let slip a statistic a couple of years ago to the effect that less than 15% of Magic players have ever been to a tournament. That's ever, in their entire life.
If this is the case, then I'm curious why people who don't have an interest in fantasy, or only have a minor interest in it, choose Magic at all. Is it just because it's the biggest TCG and it only happens to be fantasy themed? If what you want is to play cards and you don't care about flavor, why not play poker?
Poker also has the advantage that they're never going to print a strictly better Ace of Spades . . .