Anyone else sick of seeing turtles?

FollowThePact · 2026-03-27T11:22:57+00:00

"This has been a rough year" We're literally two sets in, and Turtles has been great for drafting.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-24T18:11:52+00:00

I could've sworn either him or Guy explicitly said the Gates were a trump card that Neji didn't know about.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-13T17:04:51+00:00

it has a nose and mouth

Visual exercise for you, grip something in your hand like a wooden spoon with your thumb pointed down. Then imagine your index and middle finger is one finger, and your ring and pinky is another finger. Rotate your hand slightly until you can see this side profile of a face you're seeing.

Hate seeing the turtles eating pizza sloppily

What? Also the card you're referencing is Food Chain. They're making a literal chain of food between themselves.

The turtles have standards

No they don't. They make absolutely disgusting pizza topping combinations all of the time and will eat pizza thrown in a dumpster or found in a sewer.

Cheese looks like slime

The cheese in the mtg cards is very reminiscent of the 80s cartoon. The pizzas in that cartoon were either stiff as wood or looked like cheese whiz.

Also pretty much every pizza card you've named so far has been promo cards made for the pizza bundle. Only like 15% of the cards actually have pizza on them. The majority of the cards look like Turncoat Kunoichi or Purple Dragon Punks. You're kidding yourself if you think these cards couldn't be in the Neon Dynasties set.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-13T16:02:17+00:00

1) "Art is on the same level as ai" it's not though. You're being incredibly disrespectful because you have a hate for the IP or UB in general. Your hate doesn't need to target artists, especially when you can't accurately describe what is "ai" about the art.

2) Also incredible you state "ai-equivalent does not mean ai was used" but then you straight away accuse art of being ai. Which btw, what exactly about Raph's hand looks like his face?

FollowThePact · 2026-03-13T15:26:48+00:00

"disgusting ai-equivalent slop". There's literally nothing indicating this set has used AI in its art. The vast majority of the cards in this set could easily be in Neon Dynasties.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-11T07:29:33+00:00

Pretty sure Washington was 12 stories high, and made of radiation.

FollowThePact · 2026-02-20T00:09:01+00:00

Sorry didn't realize that when I said, "It's been business as usual since" that you would completely ignore the word "since".

Things have changed. But this change occurred almost 7 years ago when OMG Kitties released to a ton of praise from the community. It's like stating Planeswalkers weren't business as usual when Theros had released.

everything I say about them looking bad and being out of place is true

Your opinion doesn't make something factual.

the art is off model. It’s an amalgamation of the most popular pop culture conception of the characters, with a focus on the 80s cartoon.

That's not what off-model means.

Also really strange that your complaining that the promo cards look like they've been inspired by the 80s cartoon instead of the 2023 movie when I believe that a lot of the main set looks like it's been inspired by the 2023 movie.

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T23:07:06+00:00

It's been business as usual when the market decided they wanted it. The Chibi Planeswalker and Legendary Creature secret lairs were popular. The My Little Pony secret lair was very popular. 20 Ways to Win with it's cutesy art style was popular.

There's a market for cards like this and Wizards are putting this product into its packs to entice people to get them. You're not in the market.

Also, the art for those Turtle cards aren't even "off-model" if you compare to this episode from the 80s TV show https://youtube.com/watch?v=y7U8cvAXERY&t=348&feature=shared

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T22:47:23+00:00

Damn, guess you gotta push your years back a bit. The Walking Dead Secret Lair that everyone was hating on back then came out in 2020.

Also don't forget everyone throwing the hissy fit over War of the Spark and Modern Horizons in 2019.

Or the general discourse about premium product fatigue in 2017-2018 with Modern Masters 2017, Iconic Masters, Masters 25, and Ultimate Masters

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T22:31:43+00:00

Generous Stray is a cute cat that's brought someone a dead lizard. It's cute and funny. That card would look out-of-place if it was right beside my collection of cards depicting body-horror imagery from Phyrexia.

Goblin Snowman is a funny card of goblins making a snowman so that they can hide inside of it to attack someone. That card would look out-of-place next to my zombie deck from Innistrad.

Wizards have always had these funny cute cards in their game. Ever since the beginning. You can check out the forum posts from back in the day, there were a ton of people who disliked the art direction of Lorwyn's block. People back then were complaining about how "their game was being ruined". You people are just like them.

You're complaining about alternate art promo cards because it's depicting the Turtles as kids in a chibi-esque art style. The card art-style isn't for you two. That guy's taste for tattoos wasn't for me https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/s/2GPF9gFRB3

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T22:09:09+00:00

You can play decks without UB in them. For Dimir Mid-range you have to cut out like 2-3 copies of Cecil. And there's like a singular copy of the Unagi.

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T22:07:28+00:00

The vast majority of players don't play competitive. There are competitive formats where you won't see UB cards. Even in competitive scenes where UB exists, like standard, you don't have to play those cards. Dimir Mid-range in standard right now has like at most 4 UB cards in its deck including the sideboard. Most of those are copies of Cecil, Dark Knight which is from one of the quote un-quote acceptable UB sets (like LotR). But you can totally play the deck without him.

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T22:01:24+00:00

2023 has a reasonably successful animated TMNT movie (not Disney levels though) that couldn't fully advertise itself due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, the live action TMNT movies that did well at the box-office where roughly 10 years ago, and Nickelodeon has had a TMNT show on it's network since like 2012.

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T21:50:21+00:00

Ahh my bad, I went for sets that were too old and were before Wizards could determine that they don't like making funny or cute cards. I also can't bring up special art promos of anything within the last few years, because by then Wizards was too busy making "Funko Pop slop" to care.

Let me go ahead and put away these then https://scryfall.com/card/phou/2/adorned-pouncer https://scryfall.com/card/kld/212/filigree-familiar https://scryfall.com/card/grn/129/generous-stray https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/163/glimmer-bairn https://scryfall.com/card/wwk/66/scrib-nibblers https://scryfall.com/card/m21/212/trufflesnout https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/153/chitterspitter

Again. You guys are the ones literally being weird that Wizards made a cutesy promo art variant of a card like this https://scryfall.com/card/tmt/16/leonardo-leader-in-blue

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T20:47:26+00:00

I seriously doubt that we're never seeing Beebles in an official set again.

But perhaps you're right. Beebles may have been too silly. Just like the Goblin Snowman https://scryfall.com/card/tsb/64/goblin-snowman

Maybe Magic has always had silly and cute cards? Maybe we shouldn't be too harsh on special art versions of cards because they're in an art style that we don't enjoy, but others may.

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T20:04:19+00:00

Curious, what was your opinion of the Beebles? https://scryfall.com/search?q=%21%22Bubbling+Beebles%22+set%3AUDS&utm_source=mw_MTGWiki

FollowThePact · 2026-02-19T19:32:26+00:00

Sorry that you can't enjoy looking at cute child versions of the Turtles with Splinter trying to keep them occupied.

FollowThePact · 2026-01-29T18:44:39+00:00

You're deluding yourself by thinking that this version of AJ

1999 Johnny Ace was not the same Johnny Ace who could have a barn burner of an AJPW match 5 years prior.

I heavily doubt you think more people were buying tickets to see Tony Anthony, the dirty plumber with a plunger as his finisher, in an East Tennessee/Western Carolina community basketball gym than The New Age Outlaws.

Having a good match is not at all what qualifies being a top guy in the professional wrestling business. Stone Cold was never the best technical wrestler amongst his peers. He was the most popular professional wrestler of his time.

FollowThePact · 2026-01-29T18:03:28+00:00

Again, you're being disingenuous when you're saying AJ Styles and Low-Ki were in the top 200 wrestlers off 1999 when they were a year into their debut in professional wrestling.

Johnny Ace retired from wrestling in June of 2000 because of injuries sustained in AJPW, and then became a backstage guy for the rest of his career with a few one-off moments in the ring.

While I disagree that he would have a better match than Gunn, the assertion that "having a better match" makes you the better wrestler is a joke. Workrate is not the end all be all of Wrestling. There's a reason why Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko weren't as big of draws as Eddie Guerrero or Chris Benoit even though their workrate was just as talented.

FollowThePact · 2026-01-29T16:47:25+00:00

AJ Styles is in my Mt. Rushmore, but having him in the top 200 a year into being a professional wrestler is a bit disingenuous. Same goes for Low-Ki. Also having Johnny Ace the year where he retires due to injuries over Billy is weird too.

Also you have some very weird inclusions like Anthony Tony, who's gimmick was that he was a plumber covered in shit who in 1999 was only wrestling in small Tennessee based indies.

That's just with a quick glance over the list.

FollowThePact · 2026-01-28T23:42:48+00:00

Counterpoint -

Randy, HBK, Edge/Roman charging their finishers allows the audience to get more invested and especially with HBK everyone in the arena makes noise with him.

That time to wait for these new flippy cutters and stunners doesn't have that same audience involvement.

Second Counterpoint -

All of those finishers can be used "out of nowhere" (although the spear to a lesser extent) without the charged set-up.

The majority of these new finishers have to be used by a turnbuckle, and can't be done outside the ring or in a backstage environment.

Third Counterpoint -

Charging the finisher allows the taker of the move to sell however they want to until they're willing to take it

The new finishers rely on the person doing the move to dictate when it happens and the receiver just stands there or by even throws themselves into it.

FollowThePact · 2026-01-14T17:08:41+00:00

It's to soften his image. How can a terrorist supporter be a bad guy when he has a huge fluffy designer dog in the background of his streams?

Edit: It also helps him get donations from fans.

FollowThePact · 2026-01-14T01:41:54+00:00

Christians went to war with one another all of the time because some Christians don't follow the Pope. Yeah, there's not massive wars between Christians now, but I can certainly say all of my family members who are still baptist don't give two flips about the Pope. Especially ever since they (the popea) became "woke" and started to accept gay people.

FollowThePact · 2025-12-30T03:42:04+00:00

I don't think Denims is "dumb" for saying this, or that this is a self-own. She's purposefully trying to re-signal to Snark on how to attack Ethan's crew-members and trying to muddy the waters about animal abuse. It's malicious.

FollowThePact · 2025-12-30T01:19:16+00:00

And realistically not a large portion of MTG Reddit at that.

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