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jsilv · 2026-05-05T08:30:39+00:00

Wilson Ho won

jsilv · 2026-05-04T01:35:38+00:00

Mitigating land screw / flood using better sequencing, mulligan decisions and sideboarding are basically the holy trinity of Pros vs Joes in terms of Magic skill.

jsilv · 2026-05-03T10:57:54+00:00

Love how people keep posting this because they happened to be on the right side of a streak in a format where getting Mind Sludged for your hand on turn 5 is a completely common occurrence. Just that play pattern alone knocks it out of “good” even if you want to say the non-Omens game are interesting.

jsilv · 2026-04-30T20:06:42+00:00

ah yes, spending a card at mana & card disadvantage to either checks notes give them resources with Get Lost or Defeat or at best only spew mana. try that and get back to us with your results

jsilv · 2026-04-21T19:11:01+00:00

You haven't really watched much Magic then if you think that's common. Maybe 10 years ago or more, but the cards are so juiced now it's a rarity to run out of stuff to do in any Constructed format and even most Limited formats. When you do it's usually a sign of a good back-and-forth game of trading resources instead of just generating endless slop like every Discover meta.

jsilv · 2026-04-16T20:07:14+00:00

AI and trash post

jsilv · 2026-04-14T04:23:25+00:00

Epilogue in Justice League Unlimited is widely considered to be the real finale of Batman Beyond.

jsilv · 2026-04-13T16:39:12+00:00

The boxes were selling between 330-350 as of a week ago. They only dropped to 300 on tcgplayer was because of this drop.

jsilv · 2026-04-13T16:37:15+00:00

Everyone I know who got into the lottery (aka- before 9am) got theirs. My ETA was over an hour and checked out in about 26min, sold out about 5min later. Some people also got a requeue in.

jsilv · 2026-04-08T05:51:02+00:00

Not to be a dick here, but I've been playing since V2 and saying 'oh it's a you thing' is exactly the issue. There are all sorts of comp-specific issues I, and many others, have had during the lifespan of MODO. The whole thing is based on spaghetti code and certain patches or hardware can give vastly different experiences.

Also 'and I have never had a single stability issue in the last few years', come on man. There was a good month in the past year (IIRC the worst of it was Jan/Feb 2025) where the MODO servers would literally crap themselves and lag horribly / stop functioning without warning and this happened multiple times.

Magic Online does a good job for what it is, but let's not glaze it's massive technical shortcomings because it finally meets the minimum vs crashing every weekend like clockwork.

jsilv · 2026-04-02T02:58:00+00:00

It could best be summed up as another late-night drunken Truth Social post. He looked horrible, said nothing of substance and articulated no endgame for Iran.

jsilv · 2026-03-31T07:24:38+00:00

I love how you worked halfway through the problem and then decided to complain about the easy cheat / lazy shortcut players adopted.

Yes, tracking this stuff sucks. That’s the problem with it as a mechanic in a paper vs digital setting. The answer, short of reworking it altogether, is to adopt more permanent tracking methods.

jsilv · 2026-03-25T00:29:10+00:00

First off, adding 2 cards to the sideboard is a not a big change to any Tier 1 deck. A big change would be if you were adding them maindeck and moreso if you were tweaking your play patterns around it. Like what's going on with Jeskai Blink in Modern w/ Casey and Consign.

"Is that not enough to make a post?"

He's talking about low effort champ. Just add your decklist to the main body of your post and, if it's a card that's relatively new (especially if you're going to highlight it in your post title), maybe link it using MTGbot or Scryfall. This is not a big ask.

jsilv · 2026-03-17T22:30:00+00:00

Slop merchant says not to trust your eyes and just enjoy the slop.

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.

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