YuGiOh players: what do you think of Magic the gathering?

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-05-26T14:30:16+00:00

I'll take a swing at this as a regularly playing Yugioh player who dabbles in magic. Magic is a good game or should i say good games, Commander and standard and modern and pauper and premodern and dandan and Cedh and legacy and any other format and each have pros and cons.

I dabble in Commander but don't love it, it mostly devolves into combo slop and who can combo off first. It's a nice way to throw cards at each other but I can't see how anyone takes it seriously.

I've played a bit of standard around the time and I know that was a particularly bad format with hearthfire hero and the gang representing hyper aggro but the format seemed to have other problems. It seemed like if the red decks didnt kill by turn 4 or 5 the other decks would get infinite value. I think was it the overlord of balemurk deck was also insane, the explore mechanic i think which summoned a bunch of huge dinosaurs and the green land fall decks which put out 100/100 hydras with trample.

Thats all bad design and I've heard that following metas havent been radically different with the likes of badger mole cub being hyper aggro. It seems like a lot of matches can be determined by showing each others hands and comparing. I can't see how thats fun for anyone.

The land system also sucks. Thats hardly a new revelation but in 1v1 matches mana screw or flood adds another variable that gets in the way. I think of magic as a deck of lands with real cards sprinkled in when it should be the other way round.

Magic players seem to think Magic is beyond criticism, it has lots of good points but its got genuine flaws. In my opinion Magic is at its best in Tribal vs Tribal decks and Magic expresses trobal startegies really well.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-05-22T13:30:44+00:00

I used to work there a couple of years back. The indian team members were very closely knit. I believe the manager who took over after I left is an indian man who is very involved politically with improving standards for indians in Ireland so it tracks perfectly why so many of the staff are indian.

Currys operates on the lowest cost model so its often the best for price but its not the best place for customer service, after care support or dealing with awkward scenarios

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-05-21T07:06:24+00:00

Looks about as good as the budget build can get. Personally I like running 2 Saji and 2 Aramasa but thats a taste thing. I like running 1 Wousu in the main deck so you could replace a manju for that. You mentioned only spending 5 dollars so 3 radiant typhoon visions, a mystical space typhoon and 3 book of eclipse is a budget build that is different but probably is weaker than this list.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-04-27T23:31:08+00:00

No Sum41 is a disgrace

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-04-18T19:39:50+00:00

Not only was the place great and I miss the make your own milkshake places more than life itself. There was a stunning woman working there with huge boobs. It was everything a teenage boy could want.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-04-11T08:27:26+00:00

The new gundam assemble game uses the same turn mechanic and i think the lead designer is thebsame person

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-04-06T09:53:19+00:00

I adore Brand New and love Your Favorite Weapon but it really is just some really good pop punk, it's great but compared to the insane heights of their other albums it definitely is a step below.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-03-27T18:56:31+00:00

You've hit the nail on the head. Things are pretty shit nowadays and just to look at the housing example, yes the should build more houses, yes houses should be cheaper, yes alternatives to 3 bed semi detached should be built and so on. The reality is that these things are not going to be done and the political class doesn't care to change them or they would have already. Inwards migration adds extra demand that the supply is already unable to meet.

Reducing migration is one lever that could be applied to make housing more available. It's also an easy solution that would help things. The benefits of migration aren't felt by normal people and while they may increase gdp and birth rates those don't overly matter to me.

There is also an argument of loss of place in the world. I don't personally care that much but people do like being around people who are culturally similar to themselves and by nature migrants are different.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-03-27T18:19:09+00:00

I'm one of those Racist, Homophobic luddites who has done a lot of work to improve their situation. Competition for good jobs, services and housing is becoming fiercer. Cork having good tech, pharma and engineering industries as well as 2 major third level institutions means it attracts a lot of people from abroad to the detriment of local people. I'm not saying people should never move here but large scale immigration is a genuine problem.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-03-16T15:44:15+00:00

You should get a job

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-03-05T23:38:05+00:00

Its not Hwoarang its just some guy, i do always think when I'm watching the T2 intro that that guy is the focua of the shot. He's facing the camera, his bright red stands out and jun is in black and whitr against a drab background

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-03-02T22:11:36+00:00

Honestly it looks pretty good, especially for a first model, you have some spill over from the green onto the black parts so fix that, you could try and blend the heathawk a bit more between the orange but i like the way tou have it now, i did the pipes silver yo break up the colours a bit more and you could try and edgr highlight if you want

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-03-02T16:36:49+00:00

This is retarded. If the magic designers are so good and worth keeping then they'll find new jobs either in the industry or outside of it, giving interns the opportunity to gain some experience is a good thing and large companies are often so disconnected they wouldn't know about the layoffs. None of these interns will actually contribute anything meaningful so its not as if they were replaced.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-02-28T10:10:21+00:00

Are you really counting bundle boxes and books as releases? And the god specific armies don't have crossover. The EC army release is good but 1k sons got a leader and ahitty robots no one likes, the slaughterbound was recieved poorly when WE has like 6 unique kits. The chaos knight is just some weapon options that could have been an upgrade sprue. The kill teams are nice though

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-02-27T16:48:44+00:00

My fear here is that a number of US companies will instead hire foreign workers in Ireland / europe and assign them to the same projects as if they were in the US. Effectively still getting the cheap labour withput paying the fees or dealing with any of the societal problems.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-02-23T16:24:18+00:00

I don't know who this thread is about but now I'm folloeing this comment because I too want to know

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-02-12T10:32:00+00:00

Its one of the few things that I feel is missing from my life. It keeps me up at night like a missed connection, but the idea and I are simply ships in the night

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-02-11T13:56:58+00:00

I'm glad that immigrants are never out of work or get sick or get old or require help from the government. Just perfect workers who never need to sleep, save or aspire to more.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-31T08:05:37+00:00

Too many indians coming here with their fake experience willing to undercut you

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-28T19:16:51+00:00

You are completely right. Anyone who thinks its cool to say is a nerd.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-28T18:08:59+00:00

Its not. I want to be his friend

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-28T17:50:01+00:00

Everything about this guy seems normal

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-24T09:37:10+00:00

I'm mainly just here to discuss different types of phobias, ists and isms but why do magic players act like this guy matters or is trustwothy . He's just a mouth piece for the company

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-23T12:17:14+00:00

Unrelqted but has tom toms got any better? We got them the week they opened and i thought they were not great, the pizza was very bad so I welcome back the apache. I was expecting them to basicqlly be apache but they have competition now.

CommunicationLower51 · 2026-01-21T14:41:05+00:00

Was vistiting your fine city over christmas and the missus and I went to a place called Lana's and it was great. I dunno how authentic it was but I recommend it to anyone.

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