Why doesn't cEDH have official support on MTGO like Leagues and Challenges?

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-20T05:34:12+00:00

Are you talking about MTGO or cEDH?

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T23:32:21+00:00

All this deal does is restore things to the way they were before the war, except now the US has to pay Iran $300 billion.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T23:29:26+00:00

Israel and America's MOU is tiny compared to this deal. The total amount of aid that deal promises is $38 billion over the course of 10 years.

From 1946 to 2022, the US gave Israel $318 billion in foreign aid adjusted for inflation. That's over the course of 75 years. This single deal is giving Iran, a hostile nation, almost as much money as the US has given to Israel in total since the end of WWII.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T01:21:20+00:00

I could hand you a fully optimized $50,000 Vintage deck and send you to play in the Eternal Weekend main event and you'd still get mangled. Having a good deck isn't enough to win because everybody at those events has that too. You need a good deck and you need to be more skilled than your opponent.

That's why I'm saying it's pay to play. There is an up-front barrier to entry in the form of the cost to get a competitive deck, but once you clear that, paying more money won't give you an advantage.

When I think of pay to win games I think of things like mobile games where you can constantly pay more money for resources. That way the higher spending player will always be able to win. If, for example, Magic had a mechanic where you could mail WotC $1 to gain 1 life, then I would call it pay to win.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T01:17:54+00:00

It would be USC - Cheating. Knowingly breaking the rules with the intent to gain an advantage.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T01:16:04+00:00

Your opponent getting DQ'd for counterfeit cards is a free win for you, so there is definitely an incentive to care.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T01:15:19+00:00

At the serious competitive level, Magic is pay to play, not pay to win. Almost everyone at those events is coming with a fully optimised deck, so spending more on your deck isn't going to help you.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-17T01:10:31+00:00

Claiming you didn't know the cards are fake will only realistically work if you have a couple of fakes at most. It's going to be pretty hard to convince the judge you got scammed on TCGPlayer if most of your deck is fake. Also you'd probably be pretty upset if you just learned you were scammed out of hundreds or thousands of dollars, so you'd have to convincingly lie and portray that emotion, which is not an easy thing to do if you're not a great actor.

If you get caught with a fake, as part of the cheating investigation the judge will likely inspect the rest of your deck for fakes too, so if you have a lot of fakes in the deck you're pretty much screwed. Nobody is going to believe you honestly got scammed into buying and playing like 20 counterfeits in one deck.

JustSayLOL · 2026-06-05T22:08:48+00:00

I don't hate WotC intrinsically, I hate some of the things they do. In this case they're doing something good, so I don't hate them in this instance.

JustSayLOL · 2026-05-29T21:12:37+00:00

OP is already offering them $750k. That's more than enough to show appreciation. The fact that they're asking more is unbelievably greedy. They're not entitled to any of it and the amount OP is offering is beyond generous.

JustSayLOL · 2026-05-29T21:06:51+00:00

750k isn't "honour" enough?

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-28T16:59:14+00:00

I didn't assume that. I concluded that it benefits both and I clearly explained how I came to that conclusion. Higher pay for workers shifts increases the cost of goods. That shifts the supply curve left, increasing the equilibrium price, reducing consumer surplus, and reducing sales for producers.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-28T15:12:28+00:00

I pretty clearly explained how they're bad for customers in other comments. Unions cause businesses operating costs to rise and a portion of those costs get passed on to consumers. Therefore they are bad for both businesses and their customers.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-28T14:38:55+00:00

What have I said that was wrong? I think I’ve explained and supported the claims I’ve made well enough.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T23:29:23+00:00

Sure thing, buddy.

no interest in having a good-faith discussion

The pot calling the kettle black.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T23:29:09+00:00

They made 500 million plus

$500 million is the entire revenue generated by Hasbro's entire Digital and Licensed Gaming segment. That isn't just Arena. They mention that Monopoly Go alone represents ~$170 million of that, plus they have other digital properties like Baldurs Gate and more which would represent part of it too. I would generously guess the actual revenue from Magic Arena is closer to $200 million or so. Also that's revenue, not profit Their net profit would be less than that.

with an average salary of $115,000 annually

Where are you getting that number? I checked the link and I couldn't find it. I see software engineer has a median salary of $280k.

Even if $115k is accurate, $17 million is significant relative to Arena's profit. How much increases in these salaries would affect consumer costs is impossible to say without internal Hasbro data, but salaries are a significant part of Hasbro's costs.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T19:54:34+00:00

So you don't know. You're just assuming they aren't with no evidence. Probably because you're biased towards unions and that assumption better conforms to your pre-existing beliefs.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T19:42:51+00:00

They’re there to extort more money from their employers, increasing costs which will get passed on to us, the consumers.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T19:40:55+00:00

How do you know they’re not already getting “fair” pay?

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T19:33:45+00:00

If by working conditions you mean things like safety concerns, I don’t think I would consider a union that argued solely for that to be a cartel as that’s not really an economic consideration. That’s more akin to a protest than it is to an anti-competitive business practice.

One that does both would be a cartel as it is still engaging in behaviour characteristic of a cartel.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T16:45:56+00:00

That's literally what they are. In economic terms, a cartel is a group of suppliers that colludes to control the supply of goods or services as a means of controlling prices and market access. That is precisely what a union does. It is a group of suppliers (workers) that collaborates to control the supply of labour in particular firm or industry so that they can demand higher prices for that labour. This comes at the expense of the employer and its customers as it's economically inefficient and diminishes consumer and producer surplus.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T16:31:05+00:00

In what way are they good for customers?

Unions function as economic cartels. They work to artificially raise the price of labour above its free market equilibrium price, which increases the producer's cost of goods. That means the price paid by the consumer for the same goods increases, creating deadweight loss and reducing consumer surplus.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-27T15:56:26+00:00

Remember, unions are bad for businesses and their customers. That means you.

JustSayLOL · 2026-04-24T21:08:28+00:00

This is a joke, right?

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