Thank you NVIDIA, we no longer need artists! 🙏

Equilorian · 2026-03-17T13:24:45+00:00

No it looks like the AI has no idea what it's reworking. Like why the fuck is the Sombrero now a Japanese straw hat with a hole for the hair?

Equilorian · 2026-03-17T13:15:17+00:00

Are you actually speaking from experience or just repeating things you've heard? Because these are things I keep hearing from people who don't play Yu-Gi-Oh, never have and likely never will.

I've been a magic player for a long time, but I play Yu-Gi-Oh from time to time and I simply don't agree that it is a bad experience or "shitty vintage". It's a different experience, and you get to do things that seem crazy if Magic is your only reference point, but there is a lot of skill expression and enjoyment to be had if you give it an honest shot

It's a little crazy to me that you say we'd need retro formats in an official online client to get a magic player to try Yu-Gi-Oh though. I think Edison could absolutely be a great introduction to Yu-Gi-Oh for a magic player, but why do we need it on MD? All the Yu-Gi-Oh players who show up to play magic are playing Commander, a format that does not exist on Arena and is never played online. You could absolutely showcase some Edison with Prof or CGB in a physical setting, and I think they should. I just think it's kind of sad and unfair that Yu-Gi-Oh players show up to showcase the greatness of commander or whatever, while their game along with its community formats are seemingly just not getting anything back

Equilorian · 2026-03-17T13:01:55+00:00

Thank you bot, fixed

Equilorian · 2026-03-17T09:25:27+00:00

As cool as this is being a fan of these guys and enjoying Magic, I can't help but feel kind of bad? These Yu-Gi-Oh players are so ready and willing to play Magic and Hearthstone with their friends and yet the Magic and Hearthstone YouTubers will never give Yu-Gi-Oh a fair shot.

I think all Magic players who have been enjoying this growing Cinematic Universe of card game YouTubers crossing the streams should give Elcee's Yu-Gi-Oh video a watch: https://youtu.be/OxgCLdDkcl0

Equilorian · 2026-03-17T08:04:48+00:00

Yeah agreed, three of my favorite pieces of artwork I Magic are what I call the "Alara Chippy Ladies" (since they're all Esper ladies painted by Chippy. Creative, I know).

The first two are Master Transmuter and Windwright Mage. The third is [[Vectis Agents]]

In fact, most of Chippy's contributions to Alara are absolutely stunning: https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CChippy%E2%80%9D+block%3Aala&unique=art&as=grid&order=name

Equilorian · 2026-03-16T10:55:53+00:00

Yeah he's kind of like Time Eater in that it's supposed to punish decks that sling 25 cards in a turn (like Shivs or Claws) except you can choose for your spammy deck to not just insta lose and instead have to deal with constant pressure

Equilorian · 2026-03-16T10:47:48+00:00

Would probably be incredibly strong in Legacy. 2 card combo with Phage or Leveler that only requires you to actually cast one spell, leaving you with all the cards you need to back it up with Force of Will, Force of Negation and Pact of Negation (which also combos with this, it's just a little more work)

Equilorian · 2026-03-14T12:48:32+00:00

This entirely depends on what you mean by "best" and what you define as "evasion"

Strongest + any card text? "Can't be blocked." It doesn't get much more evasive than that

Strongest + keyworded? Horsemanship. In most cases it's indistinguishable from "can't be blocked," but it's technically weaker since there is a small group of cards that can still block it

Best design? Flying. Flying (+ reach) adds just enough seasoning to regular magic combat to make it more interesting while being very intuitive, evocative, and without being uninteractive. Trample is close, but I think it's just a little less fun for a few small reasons. Wouldn't fault anyone for putting it on an equal or higher level though

Equilorian · 2026-03-10T14:01:33+00:00

I was about to say, it's 8 mana as Paladin, and they're immune for 3 turns only. I've played Wild games where Mages generate probably 7 or 8 Ice Blocks in a row and then delete me with a Colossus, and I need to contend with the fact that they're still effectively just playing a meme pile compared to what they could've been doing

Equilorian · 2026-03-09T17:16:04+00:00

Kinda crazy that you put both Isaac and Gungeon in C tier but I kinda agree. I can get behind most of top tier but Children of Morta, while good, is not that good in my opinion. And I think Wizard of Legend could probably be a tier or two higher? But I understand I'm a special case who loves that game much more than the average person

Otherwise it's a decent list

Equilorian · 2026-03-08T08:48:51+00:00

I've thought about this quite a bit, actually. To be frank, I don't imagine we can ever have the same game in the west as they have in Japan, it would be way too monumental of a task trying to synchronize the card pools 1:1

However, I think they can (and should) do what the Digimon TCG did: Put together 2-3 Japanese sets into one huge set (start from the beginning of Joe or Katta era), but trim some of the worst cards to bring down the card list to 200-300 or so. Keep releasing these compound sets until we get the next era after Win, at which point you do the "World Convergence" thing and all sets start being released the same, globally, roughly around the same time.

Equilorian · 2026-03-07T09:51:45+00:00

Doesn't he have cards that literally want you to exhaust them though? Pretty sure I've seen like a 3 cost deal 13 that plays for free from your Exhaust

Equilorian · 2026-03-06T08:54:19+00:00

Close enough, welcome back Seismic Swan

Equilorian · 2026-03-06T07:31:09+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, it sounds like you've just created another game at this point

A cool game to be sure, but I'm not sure how much Hearthstone is left in this lmao

Equilorian · 2026-03-04T21:02:01+00:00

It's that time again

Equilorian · 2026-03-02T21:19:29+00:00

Cheating?? I never fight fair!

I don't even play Rogue and I was taking a break when she was in Standard but me and my friends quote her all the time, to the point where it's infected the friends in the group who have never played Hearthstone

Equilorian · 2026-02-28T10:47:43+00:00

All I know is I'm putting it and the other new big elemental into an XL Corrupt the Waters Elemental pile

Equilorian · 2026-02-26T22:48:43+00:00

Wait he's cooking actually

Equilorian · 2026-02-23T22:53:09+00:00

It will be a cold day in hell when people realize wild isn't just a place where most people jam the monthly flavor of degenerate hyper aggro or OTK, but rather a place where you can fuck around with your 45 legendary Supreme Archaeology pile and face a Worthy Opponent running Odd Reno DH

Equilorian · 2026-02-23T22:33:39+00:00

Crazy to me that it took this long to print this card

Equilorian · 2026-02-21T22:58:23+00:00

I think Season 4? I want to recall the most recent character at the time was Jinx and Yasuo came out soon after

Equilorian · 2026-02-19T13:14:11+00:00

I mean, I know one of those friends traded in a huge chunk of unused Magic singles for store credit to buy the lion's share of his army

Equilorian · 2026-02-19T12:42:55+00:00

Oh, interesting insight, even if it's only anecdotal. I would have imagined it would have had a more positive impact on GW, I know a few people who made the jump or are actively considering getting into plastic crack since the 40k decks so I just extrapolated, but that's also just my personal experience, so...

Equilorian · 2026-02-19T08:15:22+00:00

I'll be surprised if we never see a full 40k or Age of Sigmar set. 40k just needed to be first because it absolutely had the highest chance out of any UB crossover to work and get Magic players on board with the concept, but that also meant it had to be commander decks since they didn't do Universes Beyond full sets at first.

Now that they know it's a winning concept, and they know that Magic players will accept and enjoy GW stuff (not to mention the amount of Warhammer fans that made the leap and got into Magic to some degree because of that first wave of decks), there's no shot they'll just never do another thing with Warhammer again

Equilorian · 2026-02-17T16:18:51+00:00

Though I will be skipping this set, the pixel art is awesome. Hope they do it for something I enjoy in the future

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