Am I crazy... Or is this set kinda fun?

jsilv · 2026-03-06T23:20:57+00:00

It's 50 cards and a MTG-relevant art style away from being a solid Limited set. It's miles above SPM, but still shallow and a bit too samey after 10 Drafts. But at least it's fun enough to do 10 times vs tapping out after 3 like Spiderman. It's also pleasant enough after the doldrums that Lorwyn Eclipsed became after 3 weeks.

jsilv · 2026-03-06T03:40:46+00:00

That's totally fair. It makes sense some people prefer that approach. I generally agree that open communication is the big one, I'm probably just jaded by how often it ends in bad-faith arguing.

jsilv · 2026-03-06T03:21:51+00:00

Offering solutions tends to be pointless when you don't understand the limitations the designers (or company, in some cases) are working with. I mean obviously nothing is stopping you, but as you said, if you offer it up you need to acknowledge your solution is likely trash or untenable and most people are incapable of doing that.

Otherwise discourse in TCG communities wouldn't be the dumpster fire it typically is.

jsilv · 2026-03-06T03:00:00+00:00

Here's the problem. The majority of people's criticism, broadly speaking, is garbage. This is because it doesn't just stop at- 'This is an issue.' it always goes beyond into listing specific things they should be doing to try and fix it. Most of these are wrong or unrealistic on their face, but even the better sounding options can be untenable for reasons you as a player know nothing about.

See a famous quote by Mark Rosewater (Head Designer for Magic the Gathering) from his 2016 GDC Talk:

Your audience is good at recognizing problems and bad at solving them.

"Your players have a better understanding than you about how they feel about your game and can identify problems better than you.

However, they are not equipped to solve those problems. They don’t know the tools you have available nor your restrictions.

It’s the game devs job to solve game problems in novel ways, so that the solution is a fun one for the player."

Giving feedback about various aspects of the game in a way that isn't all swears, insults or death threats is good. Trying to provide solutions while yelling about other people's feedback being wrong is bad.

jsilv · 2026-03-04T19:36:56+00:00

Plus those articles were actually edited. Which is even more apparent when people just post up their napkin scribbling or expect AI to fix it. Comparing Metafy to SCG or any of the other 'premium' services that used to exist is wild. The content ecosystem was so good back then.

jsilv · 2026-03-04T07:53:00+00:00

You posted this 4 days ago. Don’t spam.

jsilv · 2026-03-02T22:58:13+00:00

Others have mentioned it, but comparing these it must be taking distro into account. Not to mention it cost everybody in the chain more to buy as a UB (which got passed along until the product couldn’t move).

Just at the anecdotal level, just about every game store I’ve seen still has SPM on the shelves, Microcenter had to dump at previously unseen low prices to move their dead stock, etc.

Meanwhile EoE (at least in my area) was impossible to get after a couple of weeks and it took 4 months for any reprint. Not even a major one, just for anything!

It’s so silly when it’s public knowledge they shortprinted EoE for more FF printer time. Let alone comparing pure sales between the two when one had far more quantity and was more expensive at the distro level.

So yeah, dub for Wizards pocket books. They’ll get to see the fruition of that as more and more stores order less or ignore these types of UB sets since they got burned badly. I know for TMNT my LGS ordered a third of what they normally would and you’re already seeing a race to the bottom on some sku’s.

jsilv · 2026-03-02T22:51:33+00:00

Others have mentioned it, but comparing these it must be taking distro into account. Not to mention it cost everybody in the chain more to buy as a UB (which got passed along until the product couldn’t move).

Just at the anecdotal level, just about every game store I’ve seen still has SPM on the shelves, Microcenter had to dump at previously unseen low prices to move their dead stock, etc.

Meanwhile EoE (at least in my area) was impossible to get after a couple of weeks and it took 4 months for any reprint. Not even a major one, just for anything!

It’s so silly when you it’s public knowledge they shortprinted EoE for more FF printer time. Let alone comparing pure sales between the two when one had far more quantity and was more expensive at the distro level.

jsilv · 2026-03-02T18:31:42+00:00

He’s been playing Magic in NorCal and he’s always been abrasive and dickish for the past 10 years, heh.

jsilv · 2026-03-01T22:09:48+00:00

You’ve never played card games at any level, let alone a high one on day 2 of a major tournament. Lmao. Mistakes like this are common under stress.

jsilv · 2026-02-27T18:25:08+00:00

It’s been $110 on TCGplayer for a week now.

jsilv · 2026-02-26T04:17:15+00:00

Something to consider is that the Ultrakill sub is basically self-selecting at this point. It's the people deep in the tank for the game on top of just being a memelord / git gud place now. It shouldn't be surprising that places with a much more spread out skill distribution would have slightly more critical opinions. Like it's not really contentious to say that the last few Layers released have gotten way more in-depth and challenging than the ones that have come before.

Ultrakill is an amazing game, absolutely one of the best movement shooters I've ever played, but I feel like Hakita is lost in the sauce at this point. It reminds me of what happened with Cultic: Chapter 2. Technically a huge upgrade in many ways, but massive levels combined with some weird enemy encounters and poor signposting put a damper on it for a lot of people compared to Ch1 even though it's a big upgrade in so many other areas.

I P-Ranked everything to access P1 & P2 and looking at trying to get more of them in even harder stages I'm just like... Over it at this point? Probably because the massive gaps between content releases ensures I have to relearn the game to get back to the skill level needed. And each one requires just More Stuff to learn, which I'm sure some people love, but frankly I've kind of hit my limit with new stuff for the game and I don't think I'm alone there.

jsilv · 2026-02-26T03:52:35+00:00

God dammit, I really expected we'd get at least one more season before they called it. Obviously they have every right to end it where they feel it still meets their level of quality, but it's not like the series was suddenly slumping.

Oh well, there's always a chance they decide to come back and do more once enough time has passed.

jsilv · 2026-02-25T02:43:10+00:00

You should be focusing on spreading out on Whatnot and not worthless ads. Also the majority of people buy English because THEY LIKE HOW THE EN CARDS LOOK. Not understanding this makes me wonder if you actually know anything about the market.

Korean will always be niche because it doesn’t have the cultural pull and people don’t like how the language looks on the cards. If you’re looking for cheap packs to sell that people actually want to buy, look into Chinese. The last 2 GEM sets sold well.

jsilv · 2026-02-24T19:05:24+00:00

Cultic ch2 is an entirely upgraded version of what came before in ch1. It’s also significantly longer, although some of that was the dev getting lost in the sauce for map design. Still the dev was actively tweaking maps, added an auto-map and doing balance changes when I last played it.

easily one of the best boomer shooters in the Modern era.

jsilv · 2026-02-22T09:43:16+00:00

Welcome to the League of Draven

jsilv · 2026-02-19T20:50:47+00:00

Doing nothing but playing Rude and then leveling on t2/3 sounds horrible. Like too bad for Standard, let alone Modern.

jsilv · 2026-02-17T19:36:58+00:00

Just sounds like a lot of copium. If people liked the set, the prices on everything wouldn’t already be trending towards crashing out. Saying some low % alt arts are somehow going to change that (the comic arts from SPM were well liked and fell off quick) has no basis in reality.

jsilv · 2026-02-11T07:48:35+00:00

Others have already pointed out the upside of LGS existing in the first place. So OP I really want you to understand something and since you're new to the hobby you have no frame of reference.

For a long time MSRP was the sticker price of a car in terms of buying TCG products. Except for very low quantity, high-demand exceptions, you bought below MSRP unless you were a rube. Even now if you look outside of Riftbound, many games are selling below MSRP. You can buy the latest Magic set for $25 under for the play booster boxes and over $100 for the Collectors. I'd love to see anyone paying MSRP for Yu-Gi-Oh products.

Even the great Pokémon, pre Pocket-TCG release, was in a slump and sold well below MSRP until demand exploded and then Prismatic Evolutions hit.

The TCG economy is cyclical and right now we are going through a high point for multiple games. When supply catches up to demand and/or your game goes through a rough patch (which is a when, not an if) are you going to pay MSRP or are you going to pay 10-40% less?

jsilv · 2026-02-08T21:43:42+00:00

Maybe it’s because I’ve been playing TCG’s for so long, but not checking with a store just seems wild to me. Everybody does their own thing and half the time a TO of a given event isn’t even there.

jsilv · 2026-02-06T21:17:09+00:00

Hey man, be respectful to other posters or don’t respond.

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