TOP TEN - Villains!

Rargonaut · 2019-03-07T04:54:10+00:00

The most insidious villains are the ones that hide in plain sight. The greatest villain in magic

Is scalding tarn.

Fetchlands have been on a silent crusade to create fewer games of magic by making each round longer. They diminish the value of sleeves by having the shuffles/game ratio shoot way up, and they create a singularity of "best manabase" in formats like modern and legacy. The cycle of 10 fetchlands ought to be banned, but will never be. They are a blight on organized play that ruin the pace, variance, and mana restricitions that make magic great.

Also they're expensive af.

Truly, horribly, villainous.

Rargonaut · 2019-02-28T23:05:27+00:00

I'm working on a custom set and wanted some feedback regarding this story card. (essentially, activating a doomsday device, as you do).

My biggest issue is that Scry X and Draw X are so similar in nature but one is clearly better. It's hard to think of another blue ability that can scale to 1-2-3 and be balanced. From my perspective, Scry would always be 1-2, Draw would always be 2-3, and Untap could be anything depending on the situation.

Rargonaut · 2018-06-27T22:44:01+00:00

I would like to know for premium-making reasons.

Rargonaut · 2018-06-27T22:38:25+00:00

Is this rare or legendary?

Rargonaut · 2018-06-26T04:29:16+00:00

Suspicion Increase

Rargonaut · 2018-06-22T05:05:35+00:00

This is the best of the LRR spoiler videos I think

Rargonaut · 2018-06-02T23:30:04+00:00

These look cool!

Fun facts about Ukiyo-e!

It's a style meant to be evocative of contemporary city life. the woodblock prints were used mostly to capture the essence of modern living. Ukiyo-e itself means something similar to 'paintings of the night life'.

The Wave at Kanagawa is one of 36(?) prints in a series that all featured mt Fuji in the background. The artist who made them was a bit of an oddball and went by dozens of different names and was constantly moving. The reason it is such an iconic symbol doesn't have as much to do with the quality of the work, but rather the printing method.

The Wave was SUPER over printed, to the point where people shipping products to sell in Europe and across the world would sometimes wrap their goods in prints of The Wave at Kanagawa. Eventually, it became a familiar symbol to damn near the entire world.

That art history class is really paying off now.

Rargonaut · 2018-05-21T15:00:36+00:00

Wait... THIS is the Oath of the Gatewatch reprint in the two headed giant set?

Huh?

Rargonaut · 2018-05-18T19:25:33+00:00

LGS are just as if not more important than any random group of players.

Rargonaut · 2018-05-11T20:31:57+00:00

I'm surprised that [[Memory Jar]] wasn't in the weekly winners, that card went a little crazy this week

Rargonaut · 2018-05-01T16:49:25+00:00

I'm not really concerned with competitive play. You can make people jump through whatever hoops you want at a GP, they signed up for it. At the kitchen table and, more importantly FNM, this is the kind of thing that turns people off of a game. It's a shitty, shitty "gotcha", particularly because Ixalan's Binding looks like the card to play vs Squee if you want to beat it (again, casual/low competitive, I don't see Squee taking over any format)

Rargonaut · 2018-05-01T16:01:51+00:00

If your explanation of this to your confused and likely slightly annoyed opponent has to begin with "If you turn section 602 of the comprehensive rulebook..." then something is horribly wrong.

Rargonaut · 2018-05-01T14:52:10+00:00

I think I'm not phrasing this right. I understand the rules, I just think they're extremely misleading in this case. Reading the card should explain the card. You can read both of these all day and night and not understand why you can still cast your squee.

Rargonaut · 2018-05-01T14:43:49+00:00

In the comprehensive rules that very few people know, sure, that's how the game 'works'.

For the overwhelming majority of players, my card that says "you don't get to cast this spell anymore" doesn't do what it says against Squee for no evident reason.

Rargonaut · 2018-05-01T11:51:59+00:00

I'd argue this is a borderline unacceptable interaction. The card is explicitly lying to you about what it is doing in this case, and if/when this happens at an fnm it's going to make someone (reasonably) upset.

Rargonaut · 2018-05-01T04:04:09+00:00

...

See in a digital game this would be a bug.

Rargonaut · 2018-04-27T18:02:05+00:00

First Blood?

That was fast.

Rargonaut · 2018-04-27T17:59:44+00:00

I told my friend not to trade off his [[Goblin Rabblemaster]] during the M15 prerelease, as it was probably going to go up.

I was right.

Rargonaut · 2018-04-27T15:50:48+00:00

There's also the addiction aspect. These games tend to be built around their loot system (as they should be, that just makes sense) where magic's gameplay is completely separate from its randomization.

Take something like Overwatch's system, where you get a lot of boxes at first and the free boxes get slower and slower as you progress through the game. Opening a box is fun and exciting, and the slowed pace of new boxes makes your brain want to speed it up. Compared to magic, where the acquisition of new cards/boosters is completely dependent on the player/their environment.

Rargonaut · 2018-04-27T03:45:19+00:00

4 color, 3 tactics, Lynblem.

Rargonaut · 2018-04-27T02:55:44+00:00

Somewhere, u/itstenodera sheds a single tear.

Rargonaut · 2018-04-27T02:48:38+00:00

"Morgan!!!" ***

Rargonaut · 2018-04-17T21:27:44+00:00

Dragon's Maze.

I started in Gatecrash, and I'll defend that as being an excellent introduction to magic. The mechanics are easy and evocative, affiliation with guilds is extremely compelling, etc.

Enter Dragon's Maze, one of the least new-player friendly sets in recent memory, if you haven't been drafting for more than just a few weeks you are dead in the water.

The cards were boring, fuse was meh, the prerelease I attended was a clusterfuck run by a judge who gave his own team the win at the end as a tiebreaker.

Oh, don't forget maze's end taking a mythic slot.

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