narcosis219
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Polish aside, I don't know how you can make MTGO a smoother experience. Priority makes it too awkward to handle nicely. See, in Hearthstone it's easy peasy. You move, I move, no chance to do anything at all in between
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Polish aside, I don't know how you can make MTGO a smoother experience. Priority makes it too awkward to handle nicely. See, in Hearthstone it's easy peasy. You move, I move, no chance to do anything at all in between
Went 3-1 in Legacy tonight playing BUG Delver, beating Sneak and Show, UB Tezz, and the mirror, and losing to Lands. As much as I miss Punishing Fire at times, I really do like this deck.
That's fantastic, way better than I was expecting, no there's no need to cram in a million drafts in what I expected to be just a few weeks. Will also mean the prices wont be too crazy on even Power, at least to start.
That's fantastic, way better than I was expecting, no there's no need to cram in a million drafts in what I expected to be just a few weeks. Will also mean the prices wont be too crazy on even Power, at least to start.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I can already hear the howls of people who speculated on Masters Edition Force of Wills, which probably are dropping by the second.
divisionbyzorro
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Holy *****
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
divisionbyzorro
Member
I want nothing more than to draft Worldknit now. Just take it, draft every good card you see, then grab a handful of random basic lands.
It should also read "Start the game with a giant target on your head."
It should also read "Start the game with a giant target on your head."
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Was he the guy that said FoW was the only card on the MTGO Reserved List or something?
Nope, thats why the card was bulk unplayable until EDH got popular
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
No one plays Decimate in competitive constructed.
Yup.
I have no clue about it, its just the only spoiled card that didn't get posted. Well, this guy:
More from a UI/design standpoint. Lots of awkward layout choices and poor use of real estate. Granted, you're right that Hearthstone is a game that was designed from the ground up to be played on screens, so it has a big advantage there.
narcosis219
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Holy *****
Lmfao, just derp draft, it'll work out so well. This is such a powerhouse in cube. All your sideboard cards are good!
divisionbyzorro
Member
I'm still going back-and-forth on whether or not to include Conspiracies in my cube. Mine doesn't have rares, so these aren't an option, but even if they were, this one might just be too good.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Nobody would put that in a cube though unless they wanted one guy to just draft "I win" cards.
Yeah, these things aren't going to be much fun in a normal draft environment.
Artifact creatures are though.
acheron_xl
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That card is to cube what some of the giant, douchey fatties like Jin-Gitaxias are to EDH. When they design cards for casual formats, I get the sense that they try a little too hard.
divisionbyzorro
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What you're seeing is what happens when designers suddenly have wide-open design space in front of them that they haven't had before. It's not that they're trying too hard, it's that nobody has done it before and they don't know what works and what doesn't. So they make something fun and splashy, because why not!
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
And it's so refreshing to see it, too. I'm more than a little bored with MaRo and the rest of the team talking about how they're too scared to do cool thing X, or why card Y was nerfed, especially when it's a mythic. They may not ever let go of their fear of making awesome things, but maybe if Conspiracy shows that enough people want different and interesting takes on cards, they'll loosen up on the formula they thing they've perfected.
Imma do my part and buy at least 2 boxes of Conspiracy.
Imma do my part and buy at least 2 boxes of Conspiracy.
acheron_xl
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R&D were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
It seems more and more often that there's at least one card a set that makes me go 'they went there, huh?'
I understand the need for risk in design. I lived through Mercadian Masques. But some stuff is just a little on the nose and a little too neat in it's brutality.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Broken cards aren't fun to play against.
Tom LaPille sets have a massive problem with "We wanted this to see play, so we just hacked 2 mana off what the casting cost should be."
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Neither are dull, overcosted crap. Pushing boundaries makes for more exciting gameplay than being scared of your own shadow. I guarantee Conspiracy is going to be an absolute blast to play
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm never going to play it outside of the cards that end up in Vintage Masters. Multi-player games are usually a chore.
Thanks a lot, Ultron87, bigkrev and f0rk (and anyone I missed to mention) That was exactly the sort advice I was looking for.
I just assume they have all the newest stuff I don't have since I've never seen any of the stuff they use. We don't play by any sort of rules. One of them has like 10 different decks including stuff like 100 cards decks with just 1 of every card and rare stuff in them.
I just assume they have all the newest stuff I don't have since I've never seen any of the stuff they use. We don't play by any sort of rules. One of them has like 10 different decks including stuff like 100 cards decks with just 1 of every card and rare stuff in them.
I don't care about it either.
acheron_xl
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I'd give a shit about it if I thought I'd ever draft it. I haven't stepped into a LGS since 2002, so if it's not online, it's not something I'll ever see. I suppose it's good that it seems like all the printable cards will be shoehorned into Vintage Masters, but that doesn't stop me from looking lustily at all the cards designed with draft in mind.
blindrocket
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Those 100 card singleton decks are for Commander / EDH. Check into it, you may like it!
Doesn't Worldknit require you to use every single card you. raft? Even assuming you managed to draft 4 other conspiracies, you'd still be playing with a 50-60 card deck with no consistency because you need lands, right?
It's still really good, but doesn't that make it a lot less good?
It's still really good, but doesn't that make it a lot less good?
blindrocket
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Sweeeeeeeet.
I love seeing Elesh Norn.
Lazy vs Crazy
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Do any decks even use Exploration?
I haven't actually bought any cards in like 10 years but I'm pretty sure I have some Explorations somewhere.
I haven't actually bought any cards in like 10 years but I'm pretty sure I have some Explorations somewhere.
In a normal draft it forces you to play with 14th and 15th pick junk so that's definitely a handicap. So even if you're taking the best card out of every pack regardless of color you're still playing some pretty terrible cards for the benefit of a free Chromantic Lantern.
In a Cube, where the late pack picks should generally still be quite playable and there are a ton of incredibly powerful cards to scoop up it is sooo broken.
Legacy Lands. Commander decks. There might be something else out there but I'm not sure.
This isn't a limited print run item like MM, and the demand for the legacy/cube cards is probably going to be less than the demand for Modern cards.
Have they announced if this will be sold at stores like Walmart/Target?
I hope to god they don't shortchange it. There's a lot of cool stuff in it.
Yeah, this is the "does a casual draft audience exist?" test set.
ThLunarian
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I feel like a lot of groups will do one draft of this set and that's it. It will probably still sell decently due to reprints and for people with cubes to get conspiracies and stuff.
Will definitely sell better than the "Un-" sets, even after accounting for the growth of the player base.
Will definitely sell better than the "Un-" sets, even after accounting for the growth of the player base.
Feels like it would have been the perfect place to sneak in wacky full art lands. Damn it.
The Technomancer
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Do we know what MSRP is yet?
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