Magic The Gathering

[Love Machine]

Tell me the current state of slivers, friends.

 

[Flexo]

Tell me the current state of slivers, friends.

Why you'll be able to purchase an entire premade deck of them, friendo!

For the low, low price of $80.

In case you were curious about the front card:

 

[Love Machine]

Why you'll be able to purchase an entire premade deck of them, friendo!
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For the low, low price of $80.

In case you were curious about the front card:
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>commander
lol no thanks

 

[Haywire]

This game just manages to get worse by the set. There's probably a lot of chars that could have been race-swapped without any real impact for 'mAh devERcity', but WotC managed to go after one of the few chars that were specifically described.

“a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes” -Fellowship of the Ring

A few instances had described him as tall and lean, rascally-looking, but that's about as straightforward as possible. The "grey" eyes (fucking Bri*ish spelling) were intended to allude his Dúnadan heritage. Using the movie char appearances would have probably gotten a lot of pseudo-Tolkien fans into MTG. But no, this absolute racist behavior will ensure WotC goes the route of 30th Anniversary Edition.

Continuing through the spoilers, only 'good guys' got blackwashed. Not one image of the Dark Lord is dark. Éowyn joins Aragorn and Galadriel. What's with the blackwashing effort lately? Cleopatra was also a complete clownish charade.

 

[owTwo]

WotC announced a bit of a fucky-wucky that occurred during the printing of the alternate art for a new LotR card.

Oopsies.
[A]

Turns out The Virtuous Ones in charge of finalizing the card art couldn't keep track of which characters got race-swapped and which didn't. So, now, WotC finds themselves in the awkward position of having to explain via a press release which of these two characters is the correct skin color for Eomer in their interpretation of Tolkien's works:


As we all already know, and as WotC clearly spelt out in the article: White is Right. The left picture is their depiction of a completely different character, Theoden, whom has been race-swapped, and somehow mistakenly was confused for his white son. Well, nephew. So I guess that could make sense. But then that would mean in WotCotLotR that Eowyn is also a Wh-


Shit.

Even Reddit noticed.
[A]

I had a personal theory when I noticed this. I was clicking through the card art for all of the characters to see if I could find any examples of inconsistent race swaps between cards and variants for named characters. The reason why, and my hypothesis was simple: If race doesn't matter because it's art being based off a fictional novel, then surely at least one variant of a named character would be of a different race than another variation WotC commissioned? Wouldn't one artist likely have taken their own liberty and not drawn a black Aragorn, if the character's race is irrelevant, as all of the Redditsoys and Twittertards were claiming? I thought I found that with Eomer. Or, rather, that given that I could only find a single example of a minor character, that maybe the team massively fucked up and the commissioned artist ignored the directions for art of a black guy and just drew a White person, dropped all contact, and the virtuous missionaries at WotC ran out of time and money and said, "Fuck it, start printing the white one. Nobody gives a shit about Eomer anyways!" That maybe that was the reason why there were both white and black Eomers in the set. But, nope! It just turns out that the company sent the wrong file and printed the entire set with the art for the wrong character on a special variant only appearing in $30 booster packs.

God damn, these fuckers are retarded!

 

[Retink Retunk]

Turns out The Virtuous Ones in charge of finalizing the card art couldn't keep track of which characters got race-swapped and which didn't. So, now, WotC finds themselves in the awkward position of having to explain via a press release which of these two characters is the correct skin color for Eomer in their interpretation of Tolkien's works:

That's impressively retarded on their end.

Edit: So let me get this straight, there's now a Special Edition of the Collectors Edition, where you can get white people instead of darkies? Considering that's Eowyn fighting the Witch King on the box art, whereas they made her a nigger in the normal Collectors?

How does this keep getting more retarded?

 

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[Flexo]

That's impressively retarded on their end.

Edit: So let me get this straight, there's now a Special Edition of the Collectors Edition, where you can get white people instead of darkies? Considering that's Eowyn fighting the Witch King on the box art, whereas they made her a nigger in the normal Collectors?

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How does this keep getting more retarded?

Yeah when I saw the holiday stuff announced I was so confused. Like it looks like it came from a completely different game - a completely different company. WTF?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

What are the odds..that after a couple of months when they see which versions of the main cast are the most popular in EDH...they release a secret lair of the main cast using images from the movies?

 

[Flexo]

What are the odds..that after a couple of months when they see which versions of the main cast are the most popular in EDH...they release a secret lair of the main cast using images from the movies?

I would only disagree with you in that I suspect they already have a secret lair ready NOW with movie images. And we'll probably hear about it soon.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I would only disagree with you in that I suspect they already have a secret lair ready NOW with movie images. And we'll probably hear about it soon.

I would presume they would wait to see which of the Versions of the characters are most expensive so they can charge out the ass.


....

*puts on tinfoil hat* That is the entire point of the Diversity shit, they are distracting from the fact they printed a ton of versions of each character so they maximize the chances of someone being played in Modern so they can charge 500 Dollars for the Secret Lair version people would actually want to play 4 of in their deck.

 

[Flexo]

I would presume they would wait to see which of the Versions of the characters are most expensive so they can charge out the ass.


....

*puts on tinfoil hat* That is the entire point of the Diversity shit, they are distracting from the fact they printed a ton of versions of each character so they maximize the chances of someone being played in Modern so they can charge 500 Dollars for the Secret Lair version people would actually want to play 4 of in their deck.

OMG I was right!

I would only disagree with you in that I suspect they already have a secret lair ready NOW with movie images. And we'll probably hear about it soon.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/secret-lair-drop-more-adventures-in-middle-earth

I was just wrong about which movie.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I was just wrong about which movie.

Give it time, like I said they gotta see which ones are playable first.

 

[Flexo]

So MaRo posted his article about the set now.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/crafting-the-ring-part-1

I should point out that the license we got was specifically for the books and not the films. That's why, for instance, the characters in the art don't resemble the actors in the films and the cards represent the plot as it occurs in the books as opposed to the films. (For example, the cards show The Scouring of the Shire, an event in the book that didn't make it to the films.)​

[snip]​

We wanted a full range of expertise to represent the many different types of players who would encounter the set. We wanted deep cuts for the long-time fans but also cards that were cool in a vacuum, even if you'd never interacted with The Lord of the Rings in any form. In short, we wanted to make everyone happy, whether they were The Lord of the Rings fans or Magic fans, or both.​

​

First, we created a knowledge pyramid and divided it into three horizontal sections. The bottom section of the pyramid, the widest part, represents the knowledge that most people would have about The Lord of the Rings. This group probably saw one or more of the films but hasn't read any of the books. If you know something about The Lord of the Rings, this is the stuff you most likely know.​

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The middle section of the pyramid represents the fans, people who have seen the films and read some or all of the books. It goes a little more in depth than the stuff in the bottom section.​

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The top section of the pyramid represents superfans. These are people who have seen the films and read the books, most likely more than once. The top section has the details you know if you're really into The Lord of the Rings. For The Lord of the Rings knowledge pyramid, we vertically divided it into three sections: characters and creatures, moments and events, and places and things.​

The pyramid is important because we wanted to prioritize the bottom to make sure we got all of that in the set. It's what most of The Lord of the Rings fans would recognize. We did want many things from the medium and top sections, but those would likely go at higher rarities. Over the years, we've learned that having resonant elements at common and the deepest cuts at rare and mythic rare usually works best. (Note we don't do legendary creatures below uncommon.) For example, Theros, based on Greek mythology, needed Minotaurs, Pegasuses, Centaurs, and Nymphs at common, whereas figures like the Hundred-Handed One worked best at rare. Spelling it all out in the pyramid helped us allocate story elements.​

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[The Ghost of Kviv]

Edit: So let me get this straight, there's now a Special Edition of the Collectors Edition, where you can get white people instead of darkies? Considering that's Eowyn fighting the Witch King on the box art, whereas they made her a nigger in the normal Collectors?

Holy based.

 

[Retink Retunk]

I was just wrong about which movie.

Lord of the Rings: Return of the Ha-White Man.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Only Superfans know about Anduril being reforged?

I Hate Lord of the Rings and I know about that because my GF liked Lord of the Rings so I watched the movies with her.

 

[Flexo]

Oh yeah I should probably tag @Mola Ram into here to let him have a good rage about it. If he isn't already aware of what WotC is doing to LotR.

 

[Mola Ram]

Oh yeah I should probably tag @Mola Ram into here to let him have a good rage about it. If he isn't already aware of what WotC is doing to LotR.

I am not a Magic player but hoo boy I am aware what Grand Wizards of the Coast are doing to Middle-earth. It's dreadful.

At this point I think the only living Tolkien involved with this mess is grandson Simon, and Simon is such a shameless moneygrubber that his wife once showed up on an episode of Antiques Roadshow to have his personal copy of The Hobbit appraised.

EDIT: "Bombadil Rescues the Hobbits" is something only superfans know??!?!?!?!

These people are fucking illiterate.

EDIT 2.0: @Flexo correctly predicted I'd rage about this, but I just have to point out that while Galadriel got blackwashed, her granddaughter Arwen is white as the driven snow, presumably so the race baiters in Seattle can have a good snicker over this card turning her into a snowbunny:

 

[Flexo]

Well it does look like they'll allow one POC bad guy.


And it's not just LotR that is safe...


I think this one annoys me because it looks like they just ripped off Samut.


This just looks silly


And it seems the Asians get to be elves in this set.

but I just have to point out that while Galadriel got blackwashed

I honestly can't tell if she was blackwashed or if she's supposed to be like arab and dark or light depending on the lighting or what they are doing with her...