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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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SSS for pure efficiency and jaw-droppingness. HM to Voidslime, cute, but not quite my favorite.
It's hard to believe that the game's come so far that Volcanic Hammer is the yardstick--that card is just awful. Even Char didn't get me that excited...
Nice to get some real juice in a CORE set for a change...hope this is representative of the overall power level. It'd be really nice to have a CORE set that wasn't chock full of meh cards for a change. 10th would be a good time to do it folks...
I agree that it is largely due to age.
I think this phenomenon is somewhat driven by not enough knowledge of history and inexperience.
It also has something to do with paying taxes, which young folks don't do as much as older people. The more taxes you pay, the more irritated you become when they find
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And lest I forget...
OK...this has got to be the first (and only) time I've ever seen this happen. I'm sure I'll never see it again.
60 card deck, 20 lands, 40 non-land.
I drew a hand of 7 lands. I know it can happen, but what are the actual mathematical odds?
Tks,
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Funny sidebar:
(OK, so I lied...one guy in our group did this once a couple of years ago. But he had accidentally grabbed a pile of 60 lands by mistake. He actually kept the hand....and played the whole game without conceding before he lost.
Our friends in Australian have a figure of speech that comes to mind: farting sparks...
Kilnmouth Dragon can get utterly retarded in a properly built deck.
Shadow, while annoying, is very potent. Empyrial Armor People whine all the time about shadow. Get over it, play with it....and win--often. Besides, real men play Horsemanship anyway.
I agree Morph is pretty lame. After a couple of matches, the 'surprise' value is completely nil. It was a neat concept though.
I agree Soulshift is pretty worthless, as was its predecessor(s), the Masques rebel cards.
Splice is quite potent in a deck built to maximize its ability... :symu:/:symr: Splice will just kick you in the snarglies.
Landwalk, while annoying, created an interesting flavor aspect. Do you find 'Cannot be blocked' or 'Cannot be the target of spells and abilities' to be as terrible? Somehow, I doubt it.
re: Storm &
Amplify(EDIT: Affinity :)). Seems to me people ***** about underpowered mechanics. ...and then they still ***** when we get some real power. I just don't get it. Just because you may have been schooled (just like I do sometimes..) by it doesn't make it a bad mechanic, folks.This article just didn't seem as thought-through as most we get. I'm sure the author will crank out a great one next time!
Certainly not anytime soon...but we'll just have to wait and see...
However, if you're going to be playing against people who play Lobotomy type effects...it's actually smart to mix them up a bit. Ex: Elfball. I'd run 2x Fireball & 2x Blaze just in case they tried something like that. They'd only get 1/2 of my kill condition.
The two phrases are completely different.
And I believe this thread was originally about the 2nd, NOT the 1st.
The 1st is not something they should not do. It would wreck the game.
The 2nd is something they likely WILL do at some point. Mark my words.
Ummmm....because that's what they've been doing lately?
Ex: Fear, Defender, Vigilance.
I would almost bet that 'Spiritlink' will THE NEXT keyword they announce, among the 'basics' that are left.
...and they just added 10 more in Ravnica, right? They're really taking this 'new approach' so seriously...
I do agree most of the original poster's suggestions are 'too much'.
I would agree with Spirit Link, Web, Lure. Attacker is a pretty good idea too...elegant.
I would rename a couple:
Swift -> SwiftSummon or 'FlashCast'
Immunity is currently covered under Protection, no? "Protection from Opponents" would cover Immunity to Opponents, wouldn't it?
This includes 4x Beatdown (VERY good investment), 1x Deckmasters, 1x Unhinged as well.
Will continue to do so...I'm fairly well committed at this point.
I feel the overall quality has gone up during his tenure, but I also agree there's been to much homogenization and WAY too much reliance on the style guide (the cause).