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- Morphling
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Feb 19, 2018
Morphling posted a message on The Role of Ecosystems in Fantasy WorldbuildingVery nicely done.Posted in: Articles -
Dec 2, 2017
Morphling posted a message on Word of Command: Un-believableExactly right. Number Crunch is actually the ONLY card in the entire game our casual group ever talked about banning. Luckily, the offending player(s) got the message and voluntarily stopped running it. Let me be very clear: Gotcha cards are TERRIBLE FOR MULTIPLAYER. Don't do it, you will regret it.Posted in: Articles
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Jul 19, 2017
Morphling posted a message on Theros: Elspeth's TragedyNicely done.Posted in: Articles
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Apr 19, 2017
Morphling posted a message on The Magic Market Index for April 14, 2017Just wanted to check in with you guys. These articles are light-years better than...they used to be. Please keep it up.Posted in: Articles
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Dec 21, 2016
Morphling posted a message on The Magic Market Index for December 16, 2016I have no personal beef against Rai, but I would like to voice (as strongly as possible) the opposing viewpoint. These are now actually useful once again, unlike how they used to be. We get targeted comments instead of an recurring obsession on providing bland, neutral, and ultimately-meaningless commentary on *every single card*, no matter its significance or relative insignificance. (And most weeks, at least 50% of them were just lazy cut/pastes of the same repeating statuses over and over.)Posted in: Articles
And a lot of the opinions ("Format BOMB, it's got room to grow." or "This card is garbage, it's going down.") were apparently personal opinions anyway, as we would never get any actual analysis or support to back up claims. That seems a bit pointless too.
I found Rai's updates to be a nearly complete waste of time to read. The current, more focused format is much better in my mind. We get the quick hits and not a lot of fluff about cards that don't even matter.
Sorry but that's how I feel. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I kept it under wraps and then the authorship changed, so I dropped it. (Sorry if any of this hurts your feelings, Rai. Really not my intent. I imagine these are hard to do, and no, I probably couldn't do any better myself.) -
Feb 10, 2016
Morphling posted a message on Off Topic: Making a Magic MovieAs for storyline, I think this might be a cool thing: Do a full-on fantasy movie set in a Magic plane. Characters are introduced, crisis erupts, huge battle ensues, ups and downs, all that..Posted in: Articles
Fade to black..
Fade back in to one final, real-world scene in someone's basement. All the heroes (and the villain) are there, talking epic smack, picking up their stuff and shuffling up for the next game. Or packing up for the night and saying something like "See you next time, guys." "Hell yeah, awesome game!!"
Fade to black.. Credits roll.
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Feb 10, 2016
Morphling posted a message on Off Topic: Making a Magic MovieAny movie about Magic should spend as little time as possible talking about handsize, milling, any of that stuff. Did the D&D movies spend time talking about dice rolls, THAC0, or encumbrance? (Communicate the flavor of a some rule via a quirky funny one-liner aside to the audience? "You wanna do WHAT now?"Posted in: Articles
Sure--that's reasonable, but absolutely nothing beyond something like that.)
The movie doesn't need to be a game tutorial. It's supposed to entertain and get people interested in learning more about the game AFTER the movie.
It shouldn't be an opportunity to stroke Magic players egos with endless in-jokes about Magic and R&D and....a bunch of fanservice, more or less. I mean--Magic players are gonna show up in droves no matter what they put in it. This being the case, they should worry about the NON players and make the movie for them (and less for us). I mean--what's a better payoff? A movie that makes us all feel awesome about ourselves for a few days on the forums or a movie that helps inject a BUNCH of new players to help the game go on for (at least) another decade.
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Aug 31, 2014
Morphling posted a message on Why there is a VERY good chance that the eldrazi will get reprinted during Khans of Tarkir blockCool theory..you might get some more looks if you repost this in speculation.Posted in: fire10798
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Sorry, but this really had to be done.
EDIT::evillol:
So does this.
Spam warning.
Furor
2) Start with simple decks...Elves, craw wurms, giant growths, fogs, etc.
3) Start with a face-up game, cards all out on the table...walk him through it.
They just made a bad choice w/r/t coloration for each rarity symbol. It reminds me of the Artifact borders issue b/t Mirrodin/Darksteel & Fixed! in Fifth Dawn. That's all.
You shouldn't make any further conclusions...just a fluke. (read: mistake) They made them before, they'll make them again.
I'm a little ticked off they keep reprinting cards that I have worked hard to collect playsets of.
I dig the Sketch B for Might of Oaks.
I'm kinda meh on either of the Howling Mine sketches.
Good point, but occasionally, just occasionally, they may be won through slightly less romantic elements, such as:
1) Economy
2) Men
3) Materiel
4) Force of Arms (and modern ones at that)
Israel has all of the above. Hizbullah has none of the above.
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Germany & Japan had much strength and certainly they were desperate--especially near the end of things. Like the current homicide-bombers, they were willing to die (to the last man) for their cause.
In the end...things did not work out so well for them.
Instead, you might try reading both sides of the issue and draw your own conclusions. (That is still allowed..)
That said, I think Wall Street Journal and stratfor.com do a pretty good job of not being too biased. You can decide for yourself.
I used to play the TUBA...even better.
Getting a piano in the next 2-3 months, fully intend to learn it...we'll see.
From what (several sources) I've read, it's the latter. Considering the source, not at all surprised.
(Not seen it...maybe will once DVD is out.)
This is the only 'reasoned' post so far in this thread. The rest appear to be conjecture and failing that, wishful thinking.
Everyone (apparently) loves Braids, but "OMG!!11!Braidsis_teh_ROXXOR!1!one" is hardly an argument for _why_ she would be making a reappearance.
The first rule of Fight Club is: "Don't talk about Fight Club."
You're welcome.
Why does this thread exist, exactly?
I can guarantee your condition (whatever it is) will NOT improve as long as you're self-medicating. It's not as cool, it's not as glamorous, it certainly doesn't make a great conversation piece for chicks (or forums)...but it just so happens to be the truth. Let me put it like this: What you're doing is like trying to calm down a fight between two dogs by throwing a cat into the mix.
Actually...I was referring to the above part.
@limmepie: COULD YOU PLEASE INCREASE YOUR FONT SIZE.
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