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.
Re: Darksteel Mutation, I like Prison Term better, but it's an okay substitute.
Not quite up to date but nearly.
Among others, I picked up a Teferi, Master of Time and a Hullbreacher.
I could certainly do that.
Birgi, God of Storytelling plus Tuskeri Firewalker or is that too far down the rabbit hole?
You can Krenko into Kiki-Jiki...
Yeah, so it might just nombo, but it's worth a try if the deck lends itself to the card. My feeling is that it won't be nearly as exciting as ideal, but oh well. (I picked up an ugly-border (extended art) Tibalt's Trickery from the one pack of Kaldheim I opened, so I'll at least goldfish it some.)
As a theorycraft for the lolz, this is what the start of a treasure package might look like:
1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
1 Goldspan Dragon
1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
1 Treasure Map
I've been unexcited by chatty games for a WHILE now, yeah.
Badly modded Xenforo I suppose is worse than unmodded Xenforo.
If Sloth had drained you in addition to the NK, he still could kill you. Vaimes was the only player truly bulletproof that night.
There's an argument for increasing the yearly costs for the hosting space to increase bandwidth and all that jazz, if the site grows significantly. As mentioned, I'm pretty sure we could keep things stable, as for growing? Probably slowly, but there's definite possibilities.
Already looking into the difficulty of implementation on this.
Honestly, if we pull together the larger site costs of 2022, we could pretty much keep going until 2025 just on the strength of recruitment power from the current MC senior staff (ScarletCelestial, Kaitou, Osie, Prophylaxis, Wisp). There are two major reasons why talk of MC as a site shutting down has even been in peripheral vision, which are the pandemic and the site costs. The site costs are a little hefty for one person with the pandemic negatively impacting site traffic, but split between even 3 people, let alone something like 5+, are not a big deal.
Like, personally, the $200 I believe we've got coming for the larger 2022 payment isn't the end of the world, but if I'm handling it solo, that means that there's not enough interest in keeping things going. Even if 3-5 people together only covered half of that, I'd be much more comfortable covering whatever's left over.