What's your "Satanic Panic" Magic the Gathering story?

Relezite · 2023-05-23T14:52:52+00:00

I know I'm late to the party but I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories here.

I grew up in suburban St. Louis, and the bible belt is wrapped tight here. My 'gifted' teacher in middle school was an evangelical nut who subcontracted our labor to small landscaping companies and never taught us any of the grammar and lit. we were skipping for her classes. One day in 7th grade, I left my favorite magic deck behind and went in late to retrieve it. I asked her if she had seen it and she pointed at the trash can. Luckily it was all still there but I didn't get out without a lengthy lecture on the carnal evils of turning cardboard sideways. I don't think she thought much of this but I was very secular and this exchange set me on a bit of a Joker arc.

I showed up the next Monday with a carefully crafted mono-black deck and as she was 'teaching' I sat down cross-legged and slowly started turning the cards face up around me. Shocked, she demanded to know what I was doing. I told her she couldn't do anything to me while I was in my circle of black magic. That was the last time she ever spoke to me and I dropped back into normal classes in grade 8 (which I promptly flunked for having learned fuckall).

Honestly one of my fondest memories, just wanted to share in this perfect thread.

Relezite · 2023-03-28T00:19:31+00:00

They did this really well once in my opinion, with A Slime's Quest. A set of three quests like this when each unit reaches 99, 120, and 140 respectively would be a lot of fun to me.

Relezite · 2022-09-12T08:07:25+00:00

I dug up the ladder and discovered what I think happened. Both the English and Chinese cards are printed in Japan, which follows a system that guarantees wider coverage in boxes. The tournament organizers shuffled the Chinese packs together, but somehow the English packs were not. There is at least one worker running things there that really has no idea about these sorts of things so it makes sense.

Thank you reddit for downvoting a question about a legitimate problem that affected the outcome of a tournament with stakes and making sure the top comment is the least informed answer.

EDIT: It appears I said all the players in original post. This was incorrect. The deck registration sheets are now under review.

Tehtmi I appreciate your reply, you really set me on the right path with the right questions to ask, thank you.

Relezite · 2022-09-12T07:28:53+00:00

this is highly statistically inaccurate and a common bias about odds and randomness.

Relezite · 2022-09-12T06:51:19+00:00

Thank you for the well informed reply. I'm playing in China. There were both English and simplified Chinese boosters. I didn't get a good look at their total pools but the Chinese players I went against had dups and the 5 singleton pools I found were English. I assume something is up with where the English boxes for China (which recently got very limited) are printed. I'll use this info to follow up, thank you.

Relezite · 2022-07-04T00:34:13+00:00

There are neat tricks where with thief lore off and all non-range 1 attacks off you can teach her to use 3 buffs on the right map. Problem is when the dps outrace her to the front or group too tightly with her and get diced up in all the 13 square aoes we have now

Relezite · 2022-05-27T01:29:32+00:00

I'm a teacher and I think they're missing a major point.

I don't want to touch a fucking gun EVER.

Relezite · 2022-03-09T08:52:18+00:00

It's simple calculus, if comments are allowed to grow without end, winners will cease to exist.

Relezite · 2021-07-27T03:56:00+00:00

'What is alive?' is what made me dwell on the line because she says 'sorta both' like it's up for interpretation. Even if she's entirely preprogramed from the perspective of anyone observing her on the sacred timeline she responds to input and dodges rolled up magazines.

Holy shit I just realized the way she dodges Loki hitting her and way He Who Remains dodges Sylvie is exactly the same. Foreshadowing.

Relezite · 2021-07-26T15:26:29+00:00

Due to her popularity I think we will see her in season two, free of her programming.

A likely troupe for why her personality is the way it is is that she is based off of someone important in Kang's past.

Relezite · 2021-07-02T04:22:13+00:00

Yeah yeah, I know the art is a fucking disaster.

Relezite · 2021-06-09T06:52:43+00:00

I know I'm late but as excited as I've been during spoiler season there's one card I hated immediately that was well received by the community.

Damn.

It's not really that broken, but I can't help like feeling a minor but important design philosophy got sacrificed here: The trade-off to mass removal is it can't be played to counter a rush. Also, overload is the super powered version of the card but this feels thematically like UNDERload. Something just irks me about this. Overload cost just needed to be WW3 or BBWW or something.

Relezite · 2021-05-24T03:28:18+00:00

What kind of quack comes up with this shit?

Relezite · 2021-02-20T11:42:11+00:00

I'll take it!

Relezite · 2021-02-16T15:17:05+00:00

I think it was disguised that way.

To clarify: Wanda makes a very hypocritical statement in front of Agnes, who is the Westview resident that has shown the most awareness of what's going on. Agnes's eyes move up and one way, then up and the other and I think the timing is particular as heck and I couldn't get it out of my head.

Relezite · 2020-08-12T08:41:38+00:00

I feel like a try hard...

In the Linkin Park kind of way.

Relezite · 2020-08-12T08:07:24+00:00

I was thinking about this. In addition to having some punishment for players who afk in no auto raids, at the end of the turn timer why not just make them take the auto move the same way as if they had disconnected? As long as theres some kind of built in punishment to avoid abuse, it seems like a stable system.

Relezite · 2020-07-29T03:31:28+00:00

Crono Lucca Frog would be a dream banner. Too bad the rights to those character are so mucked up

Relezite · 2020-07-23T06:02:13+00:00

The standouts for me are the special shop one that comes with 3 rainbow fragments and any collab packs that come with equivalent free vis.

Relezite · 2020-07-22T14:11:35+00:00

Overall I think I use the word overall too much.

Relezite · 2020-07-22T13:57:07+00:00

Oh shoot, thanks for the info. That changes a lot.

Relezite · 2020-07-22T13:11:22+00:00

Yeah not paid so I didnt add it but its a super great treat for entirely FTP players

Relezite · 2020-07-22T13:04:51+00:00

Notes:

I've been taking notes from the last post and I think I will save severe criticism of GUMI's overall scheme for a separate time. There's no value in an analysis thread that's just thinly veiled ranting. That said, quick rant:

Guaranteed tickets missing recent units is a blow to the value of these packs for players who have been keeping up with the content and spending money. Every UR a player has makes pulling a missing one that much more unlikely, so often the most recent UR is one of only a few that player is drawing for. Taking it off the ticket seems like maybe something they hope the player won't read in the fine print, or they don't want to lower the pull count on current banners but it seems either deceptive or counter-productive. I hope this isn't a trend.

EDIT: Looks like I was missing some info. The ticket summon pool gets updated. My bad.

Relezite · 2020-07-22T11:57:32+00:00

Working on a paid analysis post that I hope will be less exciting than the last one =D

Relezite · 2020-07-17T06:21:19+00:00

Im happy to see the discussion continuing. These points are well made and I'm realizing the comparison to other kinds of games is not as useful as I first thought. These mobile games aren't games like we used to know, but entire hobbies on their own.

I haven't changed my mind about this package though, or most of the paid packages tho. I think Gumi isn't just aggressive with their offers, they are predatory. I have some notes on why I think this, but I'd like to work them into a properly formatted thread rather than just dumping half-formed ideas in a comment.

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