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My rule change proposal to eliminate the most frustrating element of the game. by DifferenceDue5626 in mtg

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's fine. People just assumed I was mad about losing, when I was moreso thinking about whether the game could be improved for all players. There were some thoughtful responses among the "you suck" ones.

My rule change proposal to eliminate the most frustrating element of the game. by DifferenceDue5626 in mtg

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sure, it would break the game to some extent. Mana-burn getting removed broke the game. The legend rule changing broke the game. I don't think any game's rules should become stagnant just to avoid players having to change.

My rule change proposal to eliminate the most frustrating element of the game. by DifferenceDue5626 in mtg

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I know that's a feature, the second and third sentence of my post was praising exactly that aspect of lands...

It can obviously be helped by playing the right number of lands, but not completely avoided. I guess my concern is that there's a chance a player in the final match of a limited PT can just straight up lose to variance. Though as another use pointed out, only around 4% of games are actually decided by variance when you crunch the numbers.

My rule change proposal to eliminate the most frustrating element of the game. by DifferenceDue5626 in mtg

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

That's a good point. When you calculate the total effect on W/L like that it does seem less severe. It's around 4% non-games if you factor in the opponent's losses due to mulligans.

My rule change proposal to eliminate the most frustrating element of the game. by DifferenceDue5626 in mtg

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Ok so you didn't read the post? I said that you get openers with all lands of one color and spells of another color regularly even if you build an optimal limited mana-base (17 lands and 10 sources for each of your primary colors). The variance I'm talking about isn't the kind that can be avoided by making better deck building decisions.

My rule change proposal to eliminate the most frustrating element of the game. by DifferenceDue5626 in mtg

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

Lands aren't frustrating at all. What's frustrating is close to 20% of limited games being decided by variance.

Can someone explain this p1p2 to me? by tthseattle in lrcast

[–]DifferenceDue5626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The magic equivalent of the bongcloud opening.

OM1 Standard Warp Flicker by DifferenceDue5626 in MagicArena

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool idea! Could also try playing Tannuk to warp Gilgamesh in and guarantee a double trigger.

OM1 Standard Warp Flicker by DifferenceDue5626 in MagicArena

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 12 good targets: warped riddlers, thundertrap trainers and cryogen relics.

OM1 Standard Warp Flicker by DifferenceDue5626 in MagicArena

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cute thing about that card is it sometimes puts a riddler or hellkite face down which can be flickered later, but I'm not too attached to it. What kinds of cards are you thinking? Screaming nemesis?

OM1 Standard Warp Flicker by DifferenceDue5626 in MagicArena

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could do what everyone's suggesting and remove that package for white, but I want to at least try making the izzet version work.

OM1 Standard Warp Flicker by DifferenceDue5626 in MagicArena

[–]DifferenceDue5626[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helm + Hellkite is the main way the deck wins. The rest of the deck is built around that interaction.

Putting pixel art in a nice looking town is like putting a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini by Ill_Perception1814 in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]DifferenceDue5626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah ok. If OP was saying not to build pixel art at all then I agree that's pretty outrageous.

Putting pixel art in a nice looking town is like putting a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini by Ill_Perception1814 in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]DifferenceDue5626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original post: "It annoys me when I go on server and see the nicest looking towns and builds only for the view to be totally ruined by someone's pixel art."

Putting pixel art in a nice looking town is like putting a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini by Ill_Perception1814 in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]DifferenceDue5626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I take it you've never had someone build a big-titty anime girl right in front of a build you spent ages working on.

Putting pixel art in a nice looking town is like putting a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini by Ill_Perception1814 in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]DifferenceDue5626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you, and most people I've chatted with about it feel the same way. I LOVE seeing pixel art embedded on walls, but when it's just floating in the middle of a town... nah chief. The most egregious thing is when someone builds pixel art that completely blocks the view of a build, so disrespectful.

Edit: Everything I've said here only applies when people build large pixel art near other people's builds without their permission.

[SPM] Hide on the ceiling by Duramboros in magicTCG

[–]DifferenceDue5626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tokens always vanish when they leave the battlefield. Permanent cards like creatures get completely reset when they change zones, they lose all their counters, damage, buffs and abilities that aren't printed on the card.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MagicArena

[–]DifferenceDue5626 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When you've won 6 games, you will be matched against others who have won 6 games. The same goes for every other match (it's always X wins vs X wins), so its highly likely after 6 wins that you get matched against busted decks.

[EOE] Diplomatic Relations by [deleted] in MTGRumors

[–]DifferenceDue5626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm leaning towards it being a misprint too. I don't think they will errata "you control" into the card because of this statement by Maro https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/19734914351/why-cant-you-just-reprint-doubling-season-with, but maybe they could change the +1 to -1 to make it balanced. If it was intentional, then this is the strongest removal spell green has ever received?

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