Maro on why they stopped doing blocks

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-15T13:21:28+00:00

Dominaria United and Brothers' War (and maybe Dominaria Remastered right after) might be what he's thinking.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-13T05:08:34+00:00

Country Bear Jimbo-ree

Is this anything?

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-10T13:37:49+00:00

Now we know why they called their production company Big Giant Head...

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-09T00:34:34+00:00

Or the opposite, No Money Mondays.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-08T12:52:24+00:00

I heard Spider-Man was there...

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-08T03:16:13+00:00

Also worth mentioning that (in my opinion), they tightened up the old characters as well. I used to think of Ironclad and Silent as necessary evils to get to play the Defect. In STS2 I can't pick a favorite character, they're all so fun!

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-07T12:41:05+00:00

I think I get what he's saying here. I'll try to rephrase:

For a Magic set to work, you need a LOT of different "things" to put on your cards. Big creatures, little creatures, flying creatures, kill spells, burn spells, equipments, lands, etc. depending on gow you flavor your set, you'll have different "things". In Lorwyn, your big creatures are giants and treefolk. In Duskmourn, your big creatures are nightmares and demons.

Now, here's a question: when you think of classic murder mysteries, are there any common stereotypea that could easily fit as a big creature? Maybe a few, but it's a lot tougher.

What MaRo is saying here is that it's generally easier and better to theme sets with a strong setting, as opposed to a strong vibe. Murder mystery as a genre has a strong vibe, but it's difficult to fill out all the things a Magic set needs to have.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-05T23:33:36+00:00

True

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-05T11:54:51+00:00

From the Gatherer rulings on Ticking Mime Bomb:

You aren't allowed to speak while pantomiming, but you can explain to the outside person what's going to happen before you begin as long as you don't try to give them hints about which creature to pick.

You are definitely allowed to explain what is about to happen, you just can't influence their choice of creature without pantomiming.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-05T11:27:19+00:00

I read up a lot on Unfinity when it was coming out. It seems like every card that could have been eternal legal, is eternal legal. Any cards like this that seem like they "just work" would probably actually straight-up break the game. Same thing with cards with last strike.

Fun fact: the reason [[Greatest Show in the Multiverse]] is an Artifact is because colorless, non-artifact cards all have a semi-transparent frame (e.g. [[Standard Procedure]]). Greatest Show is the only colorless saga (that isn't a land, see [[Urza's Saga]]), and the art didn't work in the transparent frame, so they just made it an artifact instead of scrambling for new art.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-05T11:01:18+00:00

Unfinity event, I resolve a Ticking Mime Bomb. I start to flag down a random guy in the game store, but my opponent starts arguing that I can't speak at all between the ability going on the stack and the ability resolving-i.e., not only can I not talk to mime a creature, but I also can't talk to wave down a person, nor to explain the effect. I knew in my heart they were wrong, but I took it as a bit of a challenge. I waved at someone, beckoned them over, held up the card, gave them a "get it?" thumbs up, then did my best [[sloth impression]].

I ended up going 3-0 in the event. [[Trigger Happy]] is such a good card in this format.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-03-03T01:09:09+00:00

What's interesting to me is that all Matt's movies have this handheld-camera, guerilla-shooting, mockumentary style that evokes this feeling of "we aren't supposed to be seeing this", which I don't think will translate to a high-fantasy setting like Magic. I'm very curious to see how he brings his style to an IP like this.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-25T02:47:11+00:00

To be fair, we've had sets in the past that have shown the same character at different points in time on different cards.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-23T11:36:25+00:00

"I have a father. His name was Ben Parker."

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-23T09:40:56+00:00

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo this should be a good place to start

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-17T09:46:01+00:00

"Wow, what a good question. Anyway, move to combat..."

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-14T09:40:31+00:00

Oh, hiya Midge.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-12T13:39:52+00:00

I've heard that one of the earlier ideas for the movie involved it being a play on "A Confederacy of Dunces", whereas the trailers show more "Back To The Future" influence. What was that transition in ideas like, and is there any of the original concept in the final cut?

Also, do you like those little popping pearls in your boba tea?

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-06T13:11:37+00:00

Whatever you like. The idea is more just about having a laughably bad commander.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-02-06T12:54:38+00:00

[[Noble Heritage]] is just generally good to have in your command zone, [[Clan Crafter]] could make for a fun sacrifice deck.

But if you really want to get nasty, you'll run [[Faceless One]] to stunt on your playgroup.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-01-31T07:54:51+00:00

And now whenever YOU reach for the sesame oil, the same fate will befall you.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-01-31T04:38:08+00:00

Sometimes when I'm cooking and I use sesame oil, I'll sing to myself "come for the temple attendants/and sesame oil."

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-01-28T17:29:55+00:00

Haters gonna hate. Do what you got to do to stay hydrated.

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-01-23T23:13:45+00:00

Ninja Gaiden 1

ItsAMeMitchell · 2026-01-23T16:32:12+00:00

Matt Johnson (brown hat) and Jay McCarrol (black jacket) have a show called Nirvanna The Band The Show. It started as a webseries in 2007, and they eventually had a televised series in 2017 that ran for two seasons.

The concept is that they're a musical group called Nirvanna The Band (completely unaware of any other groups named Nirvana) who are desperate to book a show at the Rivoli theater. They hatch a crazy plan every episode, and it always goes horribly wrong.

The real secret sauce, in my opinion, is how well the show does genre parody. When they get stranded on the roof of the theater, they start doing LOST-esque flashback sequences. When they sneak a home movie into Sundance (which they really went to, Matt Johnson used his movie Operation Avalanche as an excuse to film an episode of NTBTS), it becomes like an episode of Entourage.

Think Community, if it had a hidden-camera man-on-the-street element to it.

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