cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17504773
I wish they still made green faeries, or even just one Sultai faerie commander. Maybe I should make a custom one.
Also Susan Van Camp's Magic art is so great, eye patches and side profiles for days.
This comes from the same market research that showed "the vast majority of tabletop Magic players (over 75%) don’t know what a planewalker is, ... don’t know what a format is". Take that for what it's worth. I personally cannot believe it, but if that's what we're dealing with it almost doesn't matter what question they ask, they'll get whatever answer they're looking for.
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/698478689008189440/a-mistake-folks-in-the-hyper-enfranchised
Regarding his biggest fear and Magic's biggest threats:
“The places I get worried about are Magic’s tournament system, which has historically been important to Magic’s health. And then the philosophy that you should not make rare cards so powerful that you need them. People feel that’s a philosophy that has been broken from time to time, and I think it’s always been a mistake. It might have made money in the short run, but it has hurt the game in the long run, or at least until it was corrected,” he said.
“I think things that are existential threats for a game like Magic is if the community breaks down, and here I'm thinking of the community built around tournaments, but not just that. Or if people see it as being a game where you can buy victory, which is associated with this idea of making rare cards too powerful—or powerful cards too rare would be another way to put it. Those are serious problems which might lead to short-term profit but will lead to long-term problems that could be catastrophic.”
As the number of cards in circulation grew, Garfield went out of his way to keep common or easier-to-find cards powerful, while also keeping the rare cards narrowly attuned and never so powerful that you needed them to win. He would sometimes demonstrate this by bringing a deck full of common cards to games stores and beating players who had decks stuffed with expensive rares.
Today, getting rich kids to buy 10 sets of the game seems to be Hasbro’s primary business model. Wizards has adopted a punishing release schedule, printing so many new cards that the Bank of America recently reprimanded Hasbro for trying to over-monetize their players and downgraded the company’s stock. When I asked Garfield what he thought about this, he pleaded ignorance and told me he’s been completely disconnected from the game since the pandemic. He’s heard rumors that have alarmed him, but he thinks Wizards of the Coast old-timers like Bill Rose and Mark Rosewater still have the game’s best interests at heart.
I thought this was particularly interesting. I love the original vision Garfield had with commons vs. rares, bring that back!
I honestly don't buy that there is a pristine 10 Alpha Black Lotus in existence. The fact that they're claiming a 10 makes me extremely skeptical of all of this.
lol I thought you were joking -- here is the correct post https://mtgzone.com/post/376725
@andrew@mtgzone.com you forgot a digit in your link
inb4 "All abilities are just kicker" 😛 (TCC vid)
but seriously, I would love to see Buyback as well, I loved Whispers of the Muse and Forbid. Other than Buyback I would also love to see Spectacle come back. I feel like we don't have enough good Spectacle cards.
This is great, I just want to throw out that MTG Online has "Penny Dreadful" as a format:
Penny Dreadful is an unofficial Magic Online budget format where the legality rules include only cards that cost 0.02 ticket - roughly one penny.
I like your idea a lot! I would certainly play this a ton.
I had not known who this was until reading the post, this is sad :( What a great person.
or just bring blocks back!
PLEASE bring blocks back. The most fun I ever had was block constructed as a format. It sits between limited and standard and lets players into the lore more easily. You don't have to keep hopping around sets and mechanics every 2-3 months.
Is this how hydro homies started?
My all-time favorite has to be Skeletons. I think it's really fun to play a theme where the creatures never die, just keep coming back over and over and over.
[[Gutterbones]], [[Sanitarium Skeleton]], and [[Reassembling Skeleton]] are my favorites. You can add other great sacrifice effect cards like [[Bone Splinters]] or [[Village Rites]] and [[Altar's Reap]].
Yes, absolutely. I think they're being a little tongue-in-cheek with that but it was Ice Age Block Constructed and Rade came with a brew that was targeted against the current meta.