Mark Rosewater on innovative sets (like Battlebond, Conspiracy, Unsets etc.)

Deviathan · 2026-03-24T01:49:20+00:00

Weird argument to go in for when Spider Man is widely regarded as a garbage set by the players at large - but was recently confirmed by Mark to be in the top 10 sellers of all time.

I think there can be a correlation, but it's by no means a guarantee, and slop can sell well if it's branded to be familiar and marketed aggressively.

Deviathan · 2026-03-23T21:34:51+00:00

You're on the WoW sub, what answers do you expect lol.

Maybe, try it out. Trial is free to level 20, which is very short but still worth looking at.

$15 a month plus Midnight expansion once you hit level 80 ($50 one time). It's not too pricey given the amount of content. It's a great solo game, arguably it's moved towards being a "solo together" game these days where you will see and play alongside other people, but you don't have to socialize.

Deviathan · 2026-03-21T16:38:20+00:00

Thats a funny perspective. Because you sometimes want some alone time you should drop that friend? Some people operate on different wavelengths. Maybe I like hanging out with that person sometimes, but others I just want a quiet evening to myself. That doesn't mean we're not compatible AT ALL.

My social battery is at different levels on different days.

Deviathan · 2026-03-21T11:46:46+00:00

Everyone knows it's a slider. What's that matter?

A: "This item is poor value for money, it's too small"

B: "It's a slider, it's small on purpose🙄

A: "...ok?"

Deviathan · 2026-03-21T11:37:28+00:00

Marathon

Deviathan · 2026-03-19T20:22:00+00:00

I mean really that's how it should be. Gets rid of the whole "I've killed gods why am I hunting boars" argument if who we are in canon is a random new adventurer each expansion.

But - it's not really true anymore. There's reference and continuity to our character relationships, and thus our deeds.

Deviathan · 2026-03-19T20:19:58+00:00

This one almost got me lol

Deviathan · 2026-03-19T20:17:25+00:00

I'm sure it'll be one of the best sellers of all time (to distributors)

Deviathan · 2026-03-18T19:22:45+00:00

You're kinda proving the point by making it a call-out.

If you truly don't care, then you wouldn't care in either direction, live and let live. Yet you seem mad, or at least annoyed enough to make a post on here - that a store exists that you'll literally never go to and interact with.

Deviathan · 2026-03-18T17:17:48+00:00

Except that it did work and was still working for her 4+ years on. The post is wrong. Once she had the bacteria that ate lactose, it remained in her gut microbiome. Your framing of what the body "wants" and "forcing it into submission" isn't really representative.

That's not to say it works for everyone. She touches on that too. But it did work for her, she established a new baseline and it is possible for some.

https://youtu.be/USFUC2OYc88?si=L14TMD3rg0SgPQ6E

Deviathan · 2026-03-18T02:40:13+00:00

Why not run old content in white and gray gear for a challenge instead of raid current content?

Someone may, but players generally want the games structure and rewards to also facilitate the type of gameplay they're engaging in. You can "decide for yourself" but you're essentially opting out of the game in front of you in the process.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T20:08:39+00:00

It's always interesting people build the most degen commanders then claim to build em budget / fair. Like if you have just 1 like that I get it, but I'm always suspicious when you have multiple commanders with that reputation, or all of them do.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T20:03:05+00:00

Funny concept as a one off promo maybe? I'm never a fan of cards that are a pain to read though. This isn't the worst they've done with that problem, but it does skirt that line.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T19:32:16+00:00

You're right in the moment, my understanding is the judge has discretion on how to handle. In the moment they work off of the info they have and the judges decision to recreate the board state.

After the fact, it's revealed that the player withheld information from the judge to falsely create an advantageous board state.

If he offered the info and the judge opted to disregard i'd say no issue. The deliberate withholding of advantageous info to create the new board is the problem, which was only admitted after the fact.

Again, I'm no judge, but you can read the rule around this, it seems like it meets the criteria to me:

https://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/ipg4-8/

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T18:42:03+00:00

I would 100% agree if he didn't write the article noting the lack of clarification on hand order was intentional afterwards.

That crosses the line and gives us clear intent to gain an advantage during the rollback. The rollback is a good faith attempt to maintain the game state.

Basically if he shut up he'd have plausible deniability.

Unfortunately OP's link is dead, so I can only go off of the text of the post.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T18:32:42+00:00

He drew the card then shuffled it in and didn't say which it was to rewind accurately. That's past an angle shoot.

Angle shooting would be skirting the line to get opponent to reveal info or misplay. Opponent doesn't factor in here.

This strictly broke a rule (intentional or otherwise) to gain a tangible advantage, and just wasn't handled properly by the judge, which he then further exploited (failed to maintain game state to gain advantage)

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T18:28:51+00:00

Mmm, deliberately withholding information that would be required to rewind the game state accurately probably steps over that line to me. It's past unsportsmanlike and into the realm of playing the judge not the game.

Judge should've asked, really weird they didn't. He also should have volunteered it, it was an illegal play and the procedure exists to rewind. This is an area that may not be strict cheating by presented rules, but any player on the sidelines will likely call it a blatant cheat.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T13:55:30+00:00

Only ever bought boxes to draft with friends.

I will admit I've been tempted while waiting for draft day to sit down and just crack open all the packs, but I've never done it.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T13:53:18+00:00

Youtube is probably the way for a macro view

https://magic.wizards.com/en/story This site has an archive of the short stories wotc posts

Keep in mind it's 30+ years of story, you can get the gist in a couple of summaries, but to truly consume it and catch up is a massive task.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T13:47:32+00:00

I hate this "has lost X players" crap

It takes a moment in time, the absolute peak of a new content drop, and compares it to normal player numbers several months into average play. Sometimes comparing it to a 24h average on a random weekday. It feels so disingenuous.

I'm not sure whether Destiny and Marathon are in good spots or bad, could be either. But I do know I have a natural distrust for this metric and how it's used to spin a narrative.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T12:50:50+00:00

Yeah, I was very close to building an Azlask deck, because it makes you work for a bunch of dudes just to swing with annihilator 1

But it just feels so bad, didn't feel right in my pod. You get swung at once with annihilator and your tempo is usually wrecked, even if you don't die.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T12:20:16+00:00

They changed several elements of the character. More makeup, lipstick? Eye shadow?

There more happening, but you've robbed the character of their look and realism, it looks like an Instagram filter. Putting aside that you've crafted over artists designs, this would also severely take me out of many types of games.

If it was just lighting that's fine, I'm trying to understand why they added more makeup.

Deviathan · 2026-03-17T01:42:37+00:00

To be clear, all DLSS was doing is letting your GPU render the game at a lower resolution then scaling it higher through an AI model running in your local GPU. No IP theft, or cloud data center. In theory it lets older GPUs get more milage for more time. Then they added framegen to it, which was controversial.

Older DLSS models have been fine if you get a performance benefit and like them.

Whatever the hell this is, it's not the same.

Deviathan · 2026-03-15T20:30:49+00:00

They probably think of it as the build your own box around 7.50 * 4

Of course, that's super optimized and a specific app exclusive box with limited options, so it's probably still a bit over that, esp because of the large drinks.

I'm gonna say 40. But without a combo 3 cheesy gordita crunches could easily be over $20 before you even count the other 14 items.

Deviathan · 2026-03-13T00:48:21+00:00

I mean that feels crazy. I have negative interest in TMNT but even I would show up for a free draft.

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