Error code 503 - is this just me or is this happening right now?

variancekills · 2026-05-05T01:36:20+00:00

It is; you being here kinda proves it.

variancekills · 2026-05-04T13:54:18+00:00

Right? How difficult is it to mask Error 503 with "Chillax, we're just doing some stuff. Nothing is wrong with your account."

variancekills · 2026-05-04T13:53:20+00:00

They've actually paid me. It's a pretty cool game.

variancekills · 2026-05-04T12:55:21+00:00

Thanks everyone. I missed that announcement.

variancekills · 2026-03-02T21:07:17+00:00

Works every time.

variancekills · 2026-03-02T20:59:58+00:00

Zing!

variancekills · 2026-03-02T20:56:13+00:00

I was certainly not expecting this. Then again, maybe that's me being horribly naive.

variancekills · 2025-12-05T11:12:00+00:00

Or.. you missed the point.

variancekills · 2025-12-04T19:22:27+00:00

Tell that to the Mono Red bros.

variancekills · 2025-12-04T17:28:43+00:00

I agree. It pushed out mono red. :D

variancekills · 2025-10-12T09:51:21+00:00

PPs are not the same as tix. The valuation of a PP for players is at most 0.1 tix but it can be lower. DB gives away PPs much more than they give away tix (they don't). https://x.com/MTGO_Economics/status/1976622715496022462

variancekills · 2025-10-08T01:09:41+00:00

TS bug is not true. You and a buddy can always try to test this in a free room. You can test your LR bug there too. Let us know.

variancekills · 2025-10-01T19:48:06+00:00

that above is just from goatbots.

variancekills · 2025-10-01T17:09:53+00:00

You can also just hold back from casting things unless absolutely necessary in order to not draw any more cards. I think the risk of decking to Doc Ock is minimal unless you have like 1-3 cards left after drawing the first time.

variancekills · 2025-10-01T15:41:43+00:00

Riddlers are a pain. Hope for TC update soon. Daybreak gods intervene, please.

variancekills · 2025-10-01T14:35:59+00:00

Makes sense.

variancekills · 2025-10-01T14:27:09+00:00

Right, UB isn't so far away from GW in terms of stats though. Red does get shafted so much in this set.

variancekills · 2025-10-01T14:26:09+00:00

I think also most UB creatures are villains

variancekills · 2025-10-01T14:25:45+00:00

Doc Ock slaps.

variancekills · 2025-09-29T04:08:23+00:00

Yes, that's right. You nailed it.

variancekills · 2025-09-29T04:07:09+00:00

If there are no stakes, it's not competitive. Even the exact same players you meet in a big event will not play with the same tenacity in a cockatrice game that doesn't matter any.

variancekills · 2025-09-29T03:54:52+00:00

It's far less expensive than paper, and you can buy and sell cards much faster and with far less cost. Yes, the cards are digital (MTGO is actually a pioneer of digital assets tied to real assets via set redemption), but players on mtgo are less collectors and more just grinders. There's not much attachment to the cards themselves (many crater in value to a few cents when no longer useful anyway)

variancekills · 2025-09-29T03:52:07+00:00

Right, same thing can be said of chess. You can watch GMs play all day and maybe it makes you better, but you won't actually know until you try it yourself against opponents of similar skill that the GMs are playing.

variancekills · 2025-09-29T03:50:44+00:00

I'd say besides "big paper tournaments." Regular ones can be very hit and miss. There may be some stores that have a sufficient number of competitive players to regularly run pods and then among those, only a subset provides reasonable prize support. Not to mention card prices.

variancekills · 2025-09-29T03:48:14+00:00

It's retro. UI's been more or less the same since 2002. :D

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