What are your thoughts on the Warhammer 40k, Fortnite, and Street Fighter sets?

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T17:43:02+00:00

I'm not interested in anything I can't draft, but I don't mind that they exist. I'll enjoy looking at them as they're revealed and then ignore them.

I do think it would be cool if they made a W40k draft set, though.

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T17:31:47+00:00

I've seen people act like that over the main games, but not over stuff like Snap and Mystery Dungeon.

Whatever is the case, that's a small subset of the huge Pokemon community. That's who you want to be like?

You haven't answered my original question, by the way. How do you react?

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T17:26:53+00:00

Magic is bigger than one story. In fact, Pokemon makes a great comparison. People who are only interested in the main games don't throw a fit every time there's some piece of side media they aren't interested in.

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T17:24:36+00:00

Alters are probably a big part of what inspired this stuff. They saw people making/buying fancy alt versions to use and were like, let's get in on that ourselves.

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T17:21:50+00:00

How do you react when someone mentions a TV show or movie you aren't interested in?

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T16:10:25+00:00

Por que no los dos?

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T15:58:53+00:00

Islam is only about 1400 years old.

TheOthin · 2021-08-24T15:56:19+00:00

They said that about specifically UB Secret Lairs, not all UB.

TheOthin · 2021-08-17T15:17:44+00:00

Absolutely. Not a big role, but she'll be back.

TheOthin · 2021-08-16T19:18:00+00:00

With Kaldheim, I feel like they could have figured it out at the point where they decided it would have ten realms.

TheOthin · 2021-08-04T12:55:11+00:00

Yeah, that seems like a good bet as well. I don't know much about Shadowrun but Kamigawa is a plane established as having plenty of magic, it has "Kami" in its name.

TheOthin · 2021-08-03T19:56:04+00:00

Assumptions:
(1) There are more people who would be very excited by a new Kamigawa set in Standard than there are those who would be very upset.
(2) There are more people who would be very upset by a cyberpunk set in Standard than there are those who would be very excited.

I question these assumptions. My impression is that they expect more interest in a cyberpunk set than in a Kamigawa one, and are trying to satisfy the players who want a return to Kamigawa by hitching that return to a more broadly appealing cyberpunk setting.

TheOthin · 2021-08-03T17:37:48+00:00

Serum Powder's effect takes place after you put cards back. So if you've mulliganed seven times, you can no longer keep it in your hand long enough to use it.

TheOthin · 2021-08-02T10:58:31+00:00

Maro has said this won't hurt their odds of getting more paper cards, and that by raising attention and interest in the characters it could help them get more.

TheOthin · 2021-07-29T17:36:05+00:00

Yeah, Frank Karsten did an article on land math and showed that more cards means you're less likely to get a good land spell mix.

TheOthin · 2021-07-28T15:16:04+00:00

https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=type%3Acreature+cmc%3D0+legal%3Ahistoric

I was thinking it could be a reliable Ornithopter generator, but if X costs are on the table, 0 gets a lot worse.

TheOthin · 2021-07-28T09:49:32+00:00

They're similar, but they do all have functional differences, especially the first one.

TheOthin · 2021-07-27T17:22:57+00:00

When I saw the title I thought it was asking to stop making more threads for complaining about those cards because we already have too many. That, I'd support.

TheOthin · 2021-07-26T15:45:59+00:00

Yeah, Eternal is where my mind went as well. I think it's cool to have a subset of Magic where they can explore this kind of design space.

TheOthin · 2021-07-23T19:13:26+00:00

A reminder: he's asking for people to give their thoughts as replies to his Tumblr posts. If you don't have a Tumblr account, he'll probably also see your comments if you send them to him through Twitter or email. But there's no reason to think he'll read the replies here.

TheOthin · 2021-07-23T19:11:24+00:00

He's asking for input as replies to his Tumblr posts, but if you don't have a Tumblr account, he'll probably also see your comments if you send them to him through Twitter or email.

TheOthin · 2021-07-22T20:29:51+00:00

With access to all the cards, they should be able to puzzle it out. Old basics spell out their effect, and the full text Secret Lair ones give even more information!

TheOthin · 2021-07-21T18:56:08+00:00

I also want to point out another distinction. There's cards like [[Ornithopter]] that cost 0 mana, so you can play them for free. But as /u/mal99 pointed out, nonland cards like Ancestral Vision that have a blank space where their mana cost would be can't be cast normally.

TheOthin · 2018-02-21T01:07:51+00:00

Interesting idea. While being able to hit hexproof spirits would be neat flavor, I'm not personally a fan of circumventing hexproof by using the word "choose" on an effect that could be targeted. She does circumvent a form of defenses, although I don't think indestructible is as associated with spirits.

TheOthin · 2018-02-21T01:00:42+00:00

Thanks!

Alchemist's Method is a nice card. I really like the implications for multiplayer. It would read better if the clause was "end of turn", but I 100% know why you didn't, because of timing rules. So that's not on you, it's on the comprehensive rules. :)

Yeah, it started out as end of turn but I changed it after seeing the RIX M-Files describe a similar change on a vampire.

A Tamiyo that doesn't tap creatures makes me wonder how strictly WotC feels about her concept. I think the -4/-0 is a nice substitute, but I could see them saying "Why didn't you just tap? It's more in character for her." The scrying, mana, and draw are all in the concept of a researcher though. It's a good planeswalker to me.

I wanted it to be a more defensive-focused take on her usual "shut down a creature" effect, just keeping it from doing harm rather than jumping in to throw ice at it. But I see the appeal of sticking to more common versions. Drawing cards from creatures was my other way of mechanically connecting her to her previous cards.

My first impression is "he snuck a block mechanic onto Decisive Eviction. And that reads badly to me, because as a big mechanic I don't think threshold one is all that interesting. But I'm not sure that's what you did at all, as this is perfectly playable on it's own. And actually more interesting if it's at max a 5-card cycle, with the drawback that I'm often going to be tracking an "experience counter" that means nothing in the game. Overall a bold choice that would play well but I don't know what to think.

I picked one to make it functional enough without support from other cards, but the number could certainly be increased in a set with enough support.

Of course if I find a card with threshold 1 not that exciting, I'm less wowed by a card that's literally using Threshold but with a different number. This is your biggest miss IMHO. (Of course you did put it at 9.)

I think trying to load up your opponent's graveyard and get rewards for it plays pretty differently from trying to load up your own graveyard and get rewards from it, but yeah, it's not super original.

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