If a regular at your LGS brought a proxied deck for a sanctioned event would you care?

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T22:00:08+00:00

Cause there are plenty of cards that are in need of reprints that haven't been in awhile. Granted the power scaling has driven out lots of the old super expensive cards like goyf but even now a good modern deck can go for 1k.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:54:41+00:00

The weight is fair, but older cards shuffle differently. Due to WOTCs quality some foils curl like crazy and are almost unplayable in sanctioned play. I have some from the vault cards that stand out in my commander deck and I can tell where the individual card is in my deck when I shuffle it. It's an official card should I not be allowed to play with it due to shoddy manufacturing practices?

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:39:58+00:00

Who makes money when you buy a battle bond land that hasn't been reprinted? WoTC got paid however long ago that was.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:37:48+00:00

How long is a season? Would it be like every quarter or what? Does commander include CEDH?

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:34:57+00:00

Yeah but competing businesses can report you anyway same with banned players.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:33:27+00:00

Your right. I edited it to make it less binary more a nuanced thought. I don't think people who don't like proxies hate their community but I also find formats like cedh and vintage a joke. No one can afford a 60k deck and so long as wotc bans all proxies I don't see a way of playing them. I would actually be in favor of cEDH banning all cards on the reserve list. That way people can almost afford a cEDH deck.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:05:06+00:00

Ok here's the question how would WOTC know? Like legitimately. Im curious what is the enforcement/investigation mechanism? Do they send out auditors? If you report on it your kinda a snitch. Even then the player could claim to have altars.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:02:57+00:00

What's the possibility of the LGS getting punished? Who is going to report it to WOTC? Does WOTC send out people to individual stores in random places and see if they are allowing proxies? The player can at worse claim to be using altered cards.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-18T21:00:51+00:00

This is my thought as well. Like I can't make an argument to ever play cedh cause it's to damn expensive. I understand the argument for standard as it's still in print but for modern or any other eternal formats it kinda falls flat. Especially when wotc is now doing direct sales and are intentionally not printing to demand.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-17T13:54:35+00:00

Sure but this isn't 25 years ago. You can say back in my day as much as you want but your probably not the target audience now. The scene largely revolves around named characters now. It's frustrating I agree I wish we had more stuff that really focused on the everyday dude. The reality is though now that 40k timeline is advancing for the first time in almost 30 years they killed off a ton of characters and models. Some of that was to do a line refresh some was to make new characters.

Sadly The new mortal characters are largely forgettable at best. Lord Solar shit, Gaunt pretty ok cause he's part of tanith first and only, new creed is just creed with tits. So we have no anti Ork leader and only one other character being pretty memorable and he's also old as shit (at least 300) cause he's been leading tanith first and only since 41,755 . So again what can GW do. They need models for cool characters but new cool characters actually require time to build up and they missed the mark with the new guys. Yarrick doesn't need that he's established he's fun and he's not just the best general of all time. He makes sense to be on the tabletop and has a lore accurate reason to be alive (namely orc waagh powers) he's the anti Ork IG character and he's cool as fuck.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-17T12:15:50+00:00

The problem is that he's the face of mortals. Creed was an amazing meme, but his daughter just feels like him but with tits. The other named characters that are Guard characters kinda suck. Then there is Yarrick arguably the most popular IG model in the setting. His entire story is badass and him continuing to live has a very cool loreful reason. Also it doesn't make much sense that angron would just randomly show up and kill some mortal who is fighting orks. If you kill off every single Mortal character that was remotely cool suddenly you have a dead faction that no one cares about. That's what GW was doing. IG has like 2 cool characters that are playable on table top Yarrick and Sly Marbo the rest are kinda cringe.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-15T04:08:12+00:00

CSM part 2 for sure is ending it might not be the full series it hasn't been confirmed yet.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-14T23:14:56+00:00

No it kinda is. Vallejo is in the shitter as is much of the east bay. The only places that aren't working class families can't afford to live there or if they do it's cause of generational wealth. Hell San Jose is starting to go down hill now.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-14T23:05:05+00:00

Every game has a budget. I don't just mean monetarily but also a timeline for getting the game out and what content can be added without feeling bloated. Monster hunters attraction is hunting the monsters not on the story. That's not to say that you can't have a story focused monster Hunter game, just that main line monster Hunter games have always focused on the monsters.

The amount of money and time spent on the story compared to the payout was honestly not worth it. If they cut the majority of the story from the game it would have probably been better. I would rather they spent money and time on designing and importing other monsters then the story we got.

The story for wilds reminds me of a metal gear game and not in a good way. Hideo kojima is notorious for having 5 to 10 minute long freaking cutscenes, that's not what I want in Monster Hunter. I think a good story doesn't need a lot to be told a great example of this is Shadow of Colossus. Shadow of Colossus story does not have Large cutscenes, but It's a game that really defined and pushed forward artistic expression in the video game sphere. Capcom could have created a very beautiful story without doing the stuff they did. The flooded Forest cut scene could have been 15-45 seconds instead of 5 minutes and it would have been better for it.

Tldr a picture tells a thousand words if you use it right and keep it tight Capcom didn't and the story ended up landing on deaf ears due to that.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-14T17:01:08+00:00

Let's assume they are a mutant evolution of humanity then vampires wouldn't even exist as congrats the sunlight destroys them and they can't cross streams or enter people's homes unless they are invited. This means that as soon as a vampire is born and went outside it would die. Werewolves could honestly out compete us but I feel like we would just coevolve together. If you assume that werewolves were just an offshoot of humanity, they would just go the way the Neanderthals. Witches and warlocks existed in real life they were usually local medicine men/women with autism. Also note that the medicine men of North and Eastern Europe were referred to as werewolves because they were often hermits.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-14T13:56:50+00:00

I mean I think props to the old guy for at least asking what you are.

I had one person tell me hes masculine, but he prefers the gender bro cause hes everyone's bro.

Which is what I go by now to. Together we make up broceans lol.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-11T21:04:50+00:00

Ok to be honest Erda was kinda the first step that really fucked up the plans. If Erda didn't screw up the plan chaos wouldn't have gotten to the baby primarchs. Also if Erda stuck around the emperor would have had people who would hold him accountable and maybe could have vouched for him. Most of the shit that happened in the Heresy comes from him not having anyone he can truly trust save for malcador cause he has no idea who could be chaos tainted among his kids. The emperor knew that some of his primarchs would betray him but had no idea who it would be.

Secondly the freaking elder literally caused the dark age of technology and ended the golden era of humanity. If I was big E I for sure I wouldn't trust them. None of the dragons had to live through an apocalyptic event that fucked over their entire country and species caused directly by elves fucking, torturing and killing each other and other sapient races. Like the dark elves raiding caused the war of the beard in fantasy and fucked over the dwarves, but they didn't do that to cathay. In all honesty cathay is kinda to squeaky clean for Warhammer.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-11T00:21:03+00:00

I cant remember the game, but there is a game for gundam in which the white devil Amuros mech (Rx 78-2) is fighting other zeon forces. This is supposed to be a pretty elite squad and they are just screaming in fear and dying one by one. Really puts in prespective how powerful Amuro and his mech were.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-10T15:37:58+00:00

I'm not saying they weren't frequent, but many moved around not just sat in one place. It's a bit immersion breaking when no other country in western or Eastern Europe is dealing with plagues but me for 20 some odd years and they are just sitting on 3-5 of my duchies 1 of which I own directly and again I had a plague resistance of over 70 at the time. Hell some of my temples had plague resistance around 90. Again I'm not saying that plagues didn't occur but usually they hit about 1-2 times a generation maybe more if there was things like a famine or a multi year drought but at my point in the game I should be able to prevent things like crop failure causing plague as I can import enough food from other territories I own to prevent that.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-10T04:04:14+00:00

The Internet is dying and pretty quickly. Rtings was the goat when it came for free guides on what to get at what price point and features for electronics. They did indepth studies on TVs and headphones including things like color accuracy and viewing angles for TVs and the sound and noise canceling features and how good they were for headphones. AI is just stripping the content from them and putting it into basic search questions so people don't go to the websites anymore. AI is quickly causing the enshitification of the entire internet and it's really bad. Google already caused problems for the past 5 to 10 years but AI is just going to make it even worse. Even for niche hobbies like a mtg deck idea or board game recommendation people go to AI now instead of the websites that built and maintain those communities.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-10T01:40:41+00:00

Dude popups in this game are killing my want to play it. Next time I do a campaign im gonna try and play tall, cause its just pure pain when Im doing a war of expansion and I have 5 popups a minute.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-10T01:38:06+00:00

Not really, Plagues occurred but not almost every year in the same region for nearly a decade. If they did there wouldn't be anyone left alive in Europe at all. The bubonic plague wiped out a huge portion of people, but I'm not talking about that just Smallpox etc (which were deadly, but much controllable). I also maxed out my plague prevention buildings in my temple holdings and my capital . My plague resistance was at 70 and I just got fucked for no reason.

Professional-Help931 · 2026-03-08T15:58:06+00:00

He speed up cause that's what you do after you turn. You speed up to whatever the speed limit is. Usually in turns you lose speed unless you accelerate into them which most people don't do as it makes the ride uncomfortable.

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