Quote from DementedKirby »Interesting... I will probably just maintain my primers here just because they have some history and have been here for a while. There's lots of discussions and I believe that they'll still be useful if I'm still able to edit and maintain them. That being said, the staff here at MTGSalvation have made the experience and forums an amazing place and their dedication deserves way more merit and credit than can be given. I hope that, once MTGNexus is up and running, an announcement can be made and thus be able to create an account there (and hopefully no one takes my username). It won't be easy juggling between being active in two different sites, but I will probably only be attentive here to my primers. If the exodus towards MTGNexus is a certain thing, then I will join that immigration.
If the people who make up the relevant parts of the community to you are moving, then going over there could be reasonable. If not, then, at least personally, the community is way more important than the staff. In my case, at this point in time, I'm almost exclusively focused on the Mafia side of things, with the occasional foray into EDH. The EDH section is losing a number of serious people to this schism, so I'm probably just forgoing the game altogether for the time being; I haven't played Magic since August of last year anyways, if I recall correctly. Both communities will probably change, but it's a question of convenience of staying here or loyalty to people who are moving, the primary group of which and force behind which is staff. Both sites are at an unstable state. This site needs a staff that is actively focused on it and appreciates the community, Nexus will need people who like the old staff of Salvation enough to want to be there, and doesn't have the funding or people to be as stable as Salvation potentially can be at this time.
That said, as a user, you probably won't even notice most of it. The staff are just people, just the same as users. Their authority is an artificial concept. So make sure that whatever you choose, it's based on your feelings about the community, not just following either the staff to Nexus or just staying here for the site structure itself, as either way, you'll likely end up disappointed if that's the reasoning for your choice.
I wasn't bullied into anything. I considered a decision for the week or so you've been signed up and talked with a few different people about it. When it came down to it, several members of the community between players, replacements, and others communicated to me that they were not comfortable with you. Once it came down to potentially replacing people out, I asked several people whose opinions I trust both inside and outside this community and considered for a while before coming to the conclusion that it was better to remove you rather than take the risk with this particular game. That was my choice as the host.
That is all.
Shoushiling (手勢令) Mafia
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(Image credit goes to Dave Watland)
A Closed Blind Role Madness Micro Game by Osieorb18.
A Spiritual Successor to Janken and Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Reviewed by DV and Togs.
General Rules:
Game-Specific Rules:
1, 2, 3... (/in or Join: Username):
Bessie replaces WakeMeUp effective immediately.
Do not discuss circumstances surrounding replacements.
I would be more than happy to see much heavier moderation from MtGS staff. The main area in which I post here has a separate standard anyways, and comparably fewer moderation issues despite accounting for a large percentage of site traffic.
When you say censorship as if it's a big deal...
MtGS is a private company and can do literally whatever they want in terms of limiting anyone's ability to express themself onsite.
Shoushiling (手勢令) Mafia
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(Image credit goes to Dave Watland)
A Closed Blind Role Madness Micro Game by Osieorb18.
A Spiritual Successor to Janken and Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Reviewed by DV and Togs.
General Rules:
Game-Specific Rules:
1, 2, 3... (/in or Join: Username):
Spock, Lizard? (/sub or Replace: Username):
Have my eyes instead... (/spec or Spectate: Username):
Ancient localized culture and modern localized culture are both localized culture. It's perfectly reasonable of you to make a distinction between the two, but there is no need to call someone daft or an imbecile in the process of doing so.
Sounds like something a nazi would say. (It's a joke, don't hurt me.)
In all seriousness, though, there's a short slate of people who regularly lead to threads devolving, and it would not be difficult to take those particular people out of the picture.
17 "Diversity picks" in Standard Legendary characters represented on cards:
Ashiok - Non-Binary
Azusa - Female, Japanese
Basri - Middle-Eastern
Chandra - Female, (Indian?)
Eutropia - Female, Black
Jolrael - Female, Black
Kaervek - Black
Linden - Female, Black
Mangara - Black
Narset - Female, Asian
Niambi - Female, Black
Oko - Asian
Rielle - Female, Black
Subira - Female, Black
Tazri - Female, Black
Teferi - Black
Vivien - Female, Black
Out of 113 characters.
The moxen are also a benefit to it.
As for the Lithoform, I think it's not as good as Rings of Brighthearth and/or Strionic Resonator. The CMC is slightly too high for what it is. The spell ability is irrelephant and the permanent ability is mostly irrelephant.
What are you talking about? All that has been linked in the thread thus far is him saying it was poorly designed but still was "the best selling set in the 26-year history of Magic."
Did you read the link that MrMoustache shared?
BFZ was the best-selling Magic set of all time. Maro directly refuted the idea that it was unpopular with:
The article that Xcric shared in fact states that it was poorly designed, but never that the set was poorly received or a market failure. And then MrMoustache turns it around with Maro's post saying that it was the best-selling set as of that point. That's pretty high praise for something so "poorly received".