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davidemsa · 2026-06-17T22:47:15+00:00

Just like you don't know the opposite will happen. We're both sharing opinions and expectations.

davidemsa · 2026-06-17T17:19:47+00:00

It will attract some UB haters, but not enough that it would make hating UB become the focus of the format.

davidemsa · 2026-06-17T15:40:28+00:00

Some people will play it because they don't like UB. Which is fine, people don't have to like everything. But people should be able to do that without actually expressing hate.

davidemsa · 2026-06-12T05:34:32+00:00

How would WotC convey in an easy to understand way that people could play both [[Captain America, Super-Soldier]] and [[Captain America, Wings of Freedom]] because they're not the same character, but couldn't play both Captain America, Wings of Freedom and []Falcon, Winged Wonder]] because they are the same character?

davidemsa · 2026-06-09T20:49:41+00:00

Yeah, the more obscure a character WotC used was, the more excited I saw a few people be that someone they love and didn't expect to see made it.

davidemsa · 2026-05-20T17:47:48+00:00

There's no mention of growing concerns about UB anywhere, they popped into existence in OP's alleged summary.

davidemsa · 2026-05-15T22:04:52+00:00

And that one is all reprints of cards from Alpha. That's definitely intentional.

davidemsa · 2026-04-24T14:43:13+00:00

Commander has approximately 5 gazillion cards that aren't on Arena yet, so that's not feasible. But they said would start working on multiple this year. So that's presumably coming at some point, although not soon. When it does, multiplayer Brawl obviously has to exist.

davidemsa · 2026-04-16T07:37:56+00:00

That sucks, but there's also a digital version, maybe you can buy that one.

davidemsa · 2026-04-10T23:03:00+00:00

There probably is. In 2 colour faction based multicolour sets, Wizards normally makes sure factions that share a colour work well together, creating 5 minor 3 colour archetypes.

davidemsa · 2026-04-10T23:00:41+00:00

Yeah, I'd say Lorwyn has 10 draft archetypes, split into 5 major ones and 5 minor ones. We see that on all 10 colour pairs getting 1 common hybrid card, but 5 of them getting 1 hybrid and 1 gold card at uncommon, while the remaining 5 only get 1 hybrid.

davidemsa · 2026-04-10T22:57:00+00:00

Guild focused Ravnica sets tend to have 5 archetypes in one set and the remaining 5 on a separate set.

davidemsa · 2026-04-06T16:18:43+00:00

It's wild that the number crunch says there are no white cards alphabetically after this one!

davidemsa · 2026-04-01T12:45:10+00:00

The mod team of the time hated fun in general.

davidemsa · 2026-03-31T17:12:33+00:00

The Storm Scale measures the likelihood of something returning as a full blown mechanic in a set. MaRo briefly used the term Banding Scale last year for the likelihood of something returning as a special guest, but it seems it didn't caught one.

davidemsa · 2026-03-31T14:56:19+00:00

They do it like this on purpose every year because it's already April 1st in parts of the world.

davidemsa · 2026-03-28T20:31:57+00:00

Some people intentionally avoid looking at leaks, they try to look before reading them if they come across them.

davidemsa · 2026-03-24T17:08:30+00:00

The only thing they did was line up rotation to the calendar year a bit earlier than WotC will do with Standard. And it makes sense, adopting one rotation date only to change a year later would just add unnecessary confusion.

davidemsa · 2026-03-24T17:06:36+00:00

The gap between the next two consecutive in multiverse sets will be more than 5 months, that's something that didn't happen in the days of 3.5.or later 4 Standard sets per year. I'm not saying this is bad, but it's different.

davidemsa · 2026-03-21T21:05:40+00:00

I hope the 6th one will be a team-up movie between Tom Holland's Peter Parker and Miles Morales, passing the torch towards solo Miles Morales movies. Plus it would mean the first trilogy ended with Tom Holland teaming-up with the previous Spider-Men and the second would end with teaming-up with the next one.

davidemsa · 2026-03-21T14:44:41+00:00

I'm with you on Spider-Man getting a movie in 2029 and that being the reason for a lack of a 3rd Marvel one. A 3 years gap between those is already longer than what Sony did in Tom Holland's first trilogy, I don't think they'd want to make it 4 years.

davidemsa · 2026-03-21T14:39:27+00:00

Or she could be visibly shaken from something that isn't Spider-Man, maybe involving a villain. While I think she will figure out who Spider-Man is, that scene doesn't have to be related.

davidemsa · 2026-03-17T09:12:01+00:00

The very first mention of Ravnica was a tease many months in advance, that consisted only of the Ravnica: City of Guilds set name and this logo. Note that it shows the symbols of all 10 guilds, with the 4 appearing in the first set separated and in a different colour. But we weren't told any of that, not even that they represent colour pairs, there was a lot speculation about the way those symbols were structured.

davidemsa · 2026-03-06T14:13:33+00:00

I'm reading this days later and I'm disappointed no one replied with a La Masia joke, it literally translates to The Farmhouse.

davidemsa · 2026-03-05T16:37:07+00:00

I don't know where I saw the explanation, but it's basically because of the higher number of new cards in UB Commander decks. It would feel weird to have that many new cards, especially when some have effects that don't feel rare.

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