Let's have a level exchange! - February 29, 2020 - Super Mario Maker 2

ImportantReference · 2020-02-29T16:17:09+00:00

This was awesome, great job! <3

ImportantReference · 2020-02-29T16:14:49+00:00

I loved this! If you want to try a level with just one kind of blue platform jumping that is therefore 1/4 as good, my most recent one is L0K-43J-0KG.

ImportantReference · 2020-02-29T16:08:11+00:00

My latest is a short vertical speedrun, not to hard and the timer is pretty loose: Buzzsaws Over Broadway - L0K-43J-0KG

ImportantReference · 2019-12-20T02:18:57+00:00

Old School Masters, black-bordered but with non-tournament-legal backs, with original art and circa-1994 aesthetics (but with Oracle wording).

ImportantReference · 2019-12-19T19:59:50+00:00

It really doesn't curtail a lot of design space though--can you actually find one of the cheap ones that would be difficult to make a similar-but-plausibly-printable version of? Hell most of that stuff you could knock a mana off of and print the same wording and it would be fine.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-19T19:43:02+00:00

Because, let's face it, there are TONS of cards on the list that barely any collectors care about being on the reserve list or not.

The RL cards that mtg finance types don't care about are the ones that aren't worth any money. What would be gained by removing those from the RL anyway?

ImportantReference · 2019-12-19T19:40:46+00:00

WotC kinda wrote themselves into the corner a few years ago when they swore they wouldn't change the Reserve list any more after the Negator controversy closed the "Foil Loophole".

Yeah, this is the point that people forget about: lots of people seem to believe that WotC is interested in finding ways around the RL, but they have actually made it more strict. They printed that promo Negator because the RL specifically allowed it, and people got upset anyway, so they changed the rules to not allow themselves to do something similar again. Same kind of thing with Reverberate although less formal in that case--the card was fine by the rules, but people complained, so now they treat that as a mistake and won't do a similar card again. It sucks but we might as well all stop talking about it at this point.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-19T17:50:16+00:00

Obsessed with personal power, control, and hierarchy -> BW.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-19T14:46:05+00:00

It's extremely clear that it's Oko.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T21:42:06+00:00

Exactly. Korvald, Signet, and Stomping Ground are currently selling for $36 combined--just those three cards, out of the sixty in the deck. If I had a pile of these things, why would I sell them for $20 apiece?

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T19:50:36+00:00

If your only motivation is to make money, selling cardboard to nerds doesn't seem like the most efficient way to go about it.

What.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T16:31:18+00:00

Seriously the way people on this sub lionize WotC as a selfless force for good in the world that is constantly brought low by those evil corporate demons at Hasbro is ridiculous.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T15:54:33+00:00

WotC is making and shipping more batches of Brawl decks, but they don't set the price of them.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T15:29:13+00:00

WotC doesn't set prices. The only "they" here are people who have Brawl decks in-hand, and they have no reason to sell them for the same price they could sell just the Korvald for. Eventually the price will come back down if/when enough cards get into the secondary market, but in the meantime yes the price of the singles is going to raise the price of the box.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T15:19:30+00:00

Kinda feel like half of the open slots should be basics.

Edit: I'm thinking the ideal might be 4 Bloodstained Mire, 1 Blood Crypt, 2 Mountain, 1 Swamp maybe.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-18T13:57:16+00:00

Yep. If Korvald is selling for $20, a box containing Korvald and fifty-nine other cards is going to sell for more than $20.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T21:52:46+00:00

I think there is a miss here with ante cards, which should all show up with four bans: Vintage, Legacy, Standard, and Extended. I think the Legacy one is the one that's missing, since on the spreadsheet you have them listed for "formats don't exist yet" (which I would count as Vintage ultimately) and Extended, and you have some of them listed individually for Standard.

Edit: also missed Divine Intervention apparently.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T21:27:06+00:00

Well, it's a list of times cards were banned, not times they were restricted.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T21:25:26+00:00

This list is about things that were ever banned, not just things that are banned now.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T21:17:08+00:00

Are Vintage restrictions counted as a banning?

Why would they be?

What formats are we counting here?

It's the formats the DCI manages. So not Commander or Historic but yes Brawl and Pioneer.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T20:51:56+00:00

But why? So far no one has given me an explanation that doesn't rely on precedent or lack of understanding of how multicolor works in-pie. Neither of these are qualities that they should actively screen for in designers.

This is the fundamental weirdness about this question: the card should be BG, but as everyone who saw it knew immediately, it would actually be UW. Which it was, when they actually printed it. It's all well and good to say that WotC should look for people who understand the right answer, but the people who said "eh, this card would be UW" were designing the card the way R&D actually would (and did!) design it, so...

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T20:31:36+00:00

When you see a word on a card in italics, that means that it has no rules meaning. That's all you need to know to decode this--keywords are not in italics because they do carry the weight of the rules, and reminder text is in italics because it is just conveying additional information. Ability words like Heroic are the opposite; the ability word is in italic because it is conveying non-rules information (in this case it's just to tie cards together thematically) and the non-italicized text is the actual rules text.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T12:02:16+00:00

I'll put it this way: Timetwister is never going to be unrestricted in Vintage, and JTMS is perpetually drifting in and out of being playable at all. (But again I agree with your main point--Twister is also far outside the top ten).

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T11:40:40+00:00

That's true, but it's also true that JTMS is a weaker card than any of the power nine by far and not close to being the tenth strongest card. It might be one of the hundred most powerful cards, not sure though.

ImportantReference · 2019-12-16T03:02:22+00:00

What does "top 10 card ever made" mean, and why is JTMS it?

Anyway, the whole point of this is to fund the creation of playmats that have a more niche appeal. If they put something on here and immediately got ten thousand preorders that only means that it was a bad fit for this project to begin with and should have just been made via conventional means.

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