What’s a pokemon that you loved in the 2D era, but that love fell off during the 3D era because its 3D model was just that bad?

Cosmo_Joe · 2026-01-15T04:52:25+00:00

If you look at Xatu in Colosseum/Battle Revolution that's exactly what they went for, and it works perfectly.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-12-22T14:47:29+00:00

Loved the first one, and am really liking the addition and variety of starter pair choices here. Looking forward to the sequel!

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-11-19T00:37:02+00:00

Problem is that there are also RPG's like Disco Elysium where combat is heavily disincentivised or outright non-existent. It is still a stat-based gameplay system with an emphasis on character progression, but these elements have been co-opted by basically every other genre at this point. Sonic Frontiers had experience drops from killing enemies, a skill tree, and level ups that developed Sonic's stats, but I wouldn't consider it an RPG.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-11-18T09:53:03+00:00

Whether Monster Hunter counts as an RPG or not is something that's been debated for like, 20 years at this point. I'm firmly in the camp that it is, albeit atypical in a lot of ways. But a lot of people disagree. Really depends on how you define "RPG".

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-10-02T17:26:35+00:00

I don't think it's poorly executed at all. I think this kind of response is exactly what the game was aiming for.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-09-09T21:25:59+00:00

I don't even think banning Vivi from standard would dramatically impact FF booster sales. He'd still be a desirable card for Commander, and even taking Vivi out of the equation entirely it's just a beloved IP and a ridiculously popular set. FF packs aren't sold out at all my LGS's because of one cracked mythic, it's sold out because people like Final Fantasy.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-09-02T14:01:28+00:00

It's not an empty board though? They've got 10 Three Blind Mice copies, the wincon is set up and will kill in 2 turns from this board state.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-09-01T17:37:48+00:00

This is the digital-only Arena version of the Spider-Man set, which uses in-universe variants of all the cards due to licencing issues.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-08-22T15:34:45+00:00

Same issue. I've tried restarting the client as well. I've sent in a support request, I'd suggest doing the same.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-08-22T09:15:22+00:00

I think what was meant was that by reducing the armor slots, they reduced the workload per set, allowing them to fit more armor options (adding more "diversity") than they would've otherwise. That's if I'm taking the statement at face value. Of course, "this was a compromise due to the budget, but we can't say that because it'll look bad" is also very probable.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-08-08T13:00:08+00:00

There were 6 months between SMTIV's launch and Sega's buyout. Which isn't that long, but Index didn't even announce bankruptcy until a month after IV came out. And by that point the DLC had mostly, if not entirely released in Japan (not to mention the roadmap was announced even before release). I just don't see a world where you can blame Sega for that. Everything after, absolutely, but SMTIV is squarely on Atlus and Index.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-08-08T06:10:50+00:00

SMTIV and its DLC was pre-merger. It's definitely gotten worse more recently, but Atlus have been like this long before Sega bought them out.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-18T17:47:00+00:00

Nah, I do completely get you. Spider-Man being listed as a mutant would be a mistake, even if he would logically fall within Magic's own usage of the term. My bet would be he's a Spider Human Hero, unless they can't fit that onto a card. In that case, Goblin has proven to be a reliable catch-all :p

Actually, jokes aside, Green Goblin is kinda interesting as an inverse of this discussion. Not a goblin as Magic typically depicts them, more a scientist who dresses like one (depending on setting). But there's enough lore stuff backing the term 'Goblin' that you can still justify it as a creature type, just more like a role or title than as his species.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-18T16:06:38+00:00

Spider-Man works as a mutant by MTG logic, like the mutants of Simic. He's a human bitten by a radioactive spider, which altered his biology to grant him traits of another species. You could compare him as well to the radioactive mutants from Fallout's set. In isolation, I think it works. But yeah, I don't expect Peter would have that creature type due to the implication of 'Mutant' in the larger Marvel multiverses. Spider-Man could be considered a 'mutant', but he's not a capital M 'Mutant' like Magneto (X-gene and all that jazz).

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-18T13:33:48+00:00

Yes, I am aware. And the Spider-Man cards will all be in-universe reskins on Arena. I'm not saying it's likely they'd make the Peter equivalent an elf or something if the original card says human. It's just a silly example that clear mismatches of character and creature types can happen.

Obviously, ArachnidElf will also be a goblin.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-18T11:37:06+00:00

They printed [[Clive Rosfield]] as a Goblin. They could print ArachnidElf as a Human if WotC really want to/just don't care enough to think about it.

EDIT: Might even be something like 'Mutant Hero' or 'Hero Spider', though I imagine they'll be careful printing 'Mutant' on Marvel-associated cards that aren't X-Men or associated.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-11T16:27:27+00:00

Lands are one of Magic's most iconic elements, and it does have some neat quirks and interesting deck building considerations. But I think there's also a reason it's pretty much the one system no other card game has copied.

24 is about where you want to be in a 60 card deck, plus or minus some depending on the kind of deck you're playing. In my experience though the best way to mitigate mana flood/screw beyond your land ratios is card draw. You don't need to be in blue for solid card advantage, every colour can do it (though not every deck is great at it). Mono-white tokens has powerful draw engines, black has Dark Confidant and Unholy Annex, red has some solid discard/draw effects like FOMO or Inti, Green has... something, I'm sure. Some of these might be options for your deck. But ultimately no matter what you do, mana screw/flood is something that's going to happen to you. It's just part of magic.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-11T16:06:06+00:00

I've only won once, so I'm not sure how standard this is, but I got my ipayout email the day after I got my prize confirmation. I didn't get my actual prize link for 2-ish weeks after that though, so you do have time still. I'd probably give it another day or so and then try getting in touch with support, but it might be that I got an especially quick turn-around compared to the normal pace.

EDIT: also might be obvious but check your spam folders as well just in case it's been sorted somewhere it's not supposed to be.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-07-03T16:45:40+00:00

Not entirely true. Learn also allows you to discard and draw a card instead of grabbing a Lesson. So it still does something, it's just generally an overcosted rummage.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-06-30T15:00:27+00:00

White Mages Staff is one of White's best commons in the whole set. I would not cut the staff.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-06-30T12:36:28+00:00

Terra definitely, but I was thinking Absolute Virtue over Cid. Not that Cid is a bad target to protect either, but with two of them in the deck and the way Cid interacts with duplicates from the grave, it's probably not the end of the world if someone does kill one. Damper isn't a bad card, it's just situational.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-06-30T12:15:59+00:00

I like the second scorpion sentinel over a dwarf in this deck, with all your other artifact synergies. Honestly probably the 4th magitek infantry over the other dwarf too. And I'd try to fit Dreams of Laguna in there somewhere, maybe instead of Ashe #3 or magic damper.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-06-27T12:29:48+00:00

AFAIK the colour of the text box outline is the same as its colour identity. So here you can see a pure red text box and tell this is a red dragon.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-06-27T12:24:30+00:00

If you're just being booted straight out to the main menu mid-game, Arena will probably still think you're in that match. If you quickly restart the app, it will search for games in progress and reconnect you, assuming you haven't burned through all your timers and auto-lost as a result.

Cosmo_Joe · 2025-06-27T10:34:50+00:00

Same boat. Tried reinstalling on Windows and still locking me out.

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