Magic The Gathering

[Retink Retunk]

You guys missed the best names:
Invoke Prejudice

What, it's just a magic card bro.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Apparently, one of the WotC higher-ups, Blake Rasmussen, has stated that WotC currently does not have any plans to slow down all of these non-stop MTG releases, and says that people who feel burned out by the sheer amount of MTG releases, should not buy the products they are not interested in:

 

[AnotherPleb]

Apparently, one of the WotC higher-ups, Blake Rasmussen, has stated that WotC currently does not have any plans to slow down all of these non-stop MTG releases, and says that people who feel burned out by the sheer amount of MTG releases, should not buy the products they are not interested in:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CetrXmR2Sl0

WOTC seems hellbent on leaving the LGS out to dry.

 

[Bonesjones]

They see the economic writing on the wall and are pumping and dumping before everything crashes.

 

[ZMOT]

Apparently, one of the WotC higher-ups, Blake Rasmussen, has stated that WotC currently does not have any plans to slow down all of these non-stop MTG releases, and says that people who feel burned out by the sheer amount of MTG releases, should not buy the products they are not interested in:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CetrXmR2Sl0

I really need to get a job at wotc since you don't even need a brain anymore. what's the master plan here? people not buying shit making the whole scheme pointless?

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I really need to get a job at wotc since you don't even need a brain anymore. what's the master plan here? people not buying shit making the whole scheme pointless?

You wouldn't last 5 seconds there, shit's full of troons and woke kikes.

 

[ZMOT]

You wouldn't last 5 seconds there, shit's full of troons and woke kikes.

don't forget the hobos.
but then if all it takes is to grow out your male pattern baldness, adopt the name of a stripper while be shit at your job and still get paid for it might be worth it (kidding, majority will be below minimal wage contractor cucks)

Good I hope it burns Hasbro, and they have to sell it. Best case, we get into an era of Magic sales similar to Lorwyn. Worst case it's some chink company and we can just finally be okay with proxies.

>hasbro dumps magic
>picked up by embracer
>suddenly they now own the license for netrunner
plot twist
>you now have the choice between trooned out FFG or some other soulless corporate asmodee subsidiary

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

don't forget the hobos.
but then if all it takes is to grow out your male pattern baldness, adopt the name of a stripper while be shit at your job and still get paid for it might be worth it (kidding, majority will be below minimal wage contractor cucks)


>hasbro dumps magic
>picked up by embracer
>suddenly they now own the license for netrunner
plot twist
>you know have the choice between trooned out FFG or some other soulless corporate asmodee subsidiary

Netrunner isn't owned by WotC anymore it's been remade by FFG as a living card game. (shit like Dominion, Legend of the Five Rings (yeah that was a ccg at one point too) and such)

Android: Netrunner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Retink Retunk]

So I've been doing some events on Arena as I had gems and gold saved up, and the format isn't bad, but it has the same problem modern magic tends to have, the games can be grindy but just completely warp around one broken mythic on a dime. A turn 3 Kayla into a big turn 4 is pretty much GG in most cases as the amount of value and ramp she can give you is absurd, and if something like Teferi sticks for a turn it's over as those tokens have vigilance and grow out of control.

It's just not very fun when you're playing and then one card completely dominates. Sure, I'm still able to go 6 wins or whatever it is, but every time a game just bends around one card it's frustrating when you lose to it and not very fulfilling when win because of it. I mean really, what game play is there in activating a Kayla on turn 4, drawing 3-4 cards, and dumping 5-6 mana of stuff into play? Even late game she's just devastating as the card draw is so brutal in an otherwise attrition based format. She's not the only offender, but she's just the one that comes to mind first as I've probably had her in the most pools.

WOTC seems hellbent on leaving the LGS out to dry.

All of the variants aren't helping either, as not only does it kill the price on everything but it makes any kind of sorting and listing online an absolute nightmare. Though the fact that they sell so much product direct or just turbo dump it by means of Amazon now any LGS that depends on MtG is probably fucked. Though that's probably been true for a while as all of the product sells at distributor pricing pretty much, outside of the occasional special release. It's kind of amazing how they had a single product line that could keep an entire industry running and they managed to fuck it up.

Rudy's idea that Amazon should buy Hasbro is kind of dumb though, any IP Amazon or Netflix acquires gets raped into the dirt.

 

[Bonesjones]

Netrunner isn't owned by WotC anymore it's been remade by FFG as a living card game. (shit like Dominion, Legend of the Five Rings (yeah that was a ccg at one point too) and such)

Android: Netrunner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Legend of the Five rings had the cool concept that they pushed the storyline a long with the World Championship results though.

 

[ZMOT]

Netrunner isn't owned by WotC anymore it's been remade by FFG as a living card game. (shit like Dominion, Legend of the Five Rings (yeah that was a ccg at one point too) and such)

Android: Netrunner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

literally the second paragraph:

In 2018, the game was discontinued due to the license with Wizards of the Coast ending. Fantasy Flight stated that Netrunner products will no longer be sold by them as of October 22, 2018, and Reign and Reverie was the last expansion.

if you wanna believe some theories it happened because it was becoming a serious contender to magic and wotc/hasbro got butthurt; similar to what happened to all their warhammer stuff, apparently because ffg was muscling in on their mini-territory with stuff like imperial assault and x-wing, and then the runewars minis (sadly dead now), although the latter might just've been a reaction to that.

dominion isn't a lcg, it's a self-contained deckbuilder (pretty much the first and spawning it's own subgenre), initially published by rio grande, not ffg.

as for ccgs in general, no one in his right mind does that anymore since enough people got burned by magic for 3 decades (GOT and cthullu were originally ccgs too), it's lcg or bust.

Legend of the Five rings had the cool concept that they pushed the storyline a long with the World Championship results though.

that started with aeg, ffg just picked it up at one point (can't remember why). they even made a movie around it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamers:_Hands_of_Fate

it's now up on youtube in episodes:

and then the madlads actually released the fictional game based on it as a real game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143701/romance-nine-empires

Romance of the Nine Empires is a fictitious interactive collectible card game (CCG) set in the fantasy world of Countermay. In the game, players assume command of one of nine vastly different warring factions — including steampunk aliens, a dark god-king's crusade of conversion, displaced WWII-era American GIs, and a risen empire of the undead — to expand, glorify, or defend their empires. Through its fictitious fifteen-year history, players have shaped the world of Countermay through their individual and collective achievements, and the results are reflected in the story and the current state of the empires. That concept was inspired by the Legend of the Burning Sands CCG, which in turn is based on the Legend of the Five Rings CCG: in those real-life games, tournament results affect the actual story in future expansions.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

they even made a movie around it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamers:_Hands_of_Fate

it's now up on youtube in episodes:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DvlNV0riXw
and then the madlads actually released the fictional game based on it as a real game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143701/romance-nine-empires

Didn't know this, thanks for the information. May give it a watch.

The conceit of having the plot match the games was cute but I think ultimately wound them up the same way some of the nonsense Games Workshop had when they tried to do the same. Which is proof they never had anyone with proper GMing experience involved because thinking the cursed players will ever do what you want them to without a item of real world value under physical threat of being flattened with a brick is delusional.

 

[Logistical Nightmare]

people who feel burned out by the sheer amount of MTG releases, should not buy the products they are not interested in

This is just like when the Diablo mobile app was announced. Management isn’t taking criticism and is just telling the playerbase to fuck off if they don’t like what the company is doing. Hope they fire Blake first, but I’ll be laughing all the way to the bank if hasbro stock goes sub 30.

 

[Retink Retunk]

This is just like when the Diablo mobile app was announced. Management isn’t taking criticism and is just telling the playerbase to fuck off if they don’t like what the company is doing. Hope they fire Blake first, but I’ll be laughing all the way to the bank if hasbro stock goes sub 30.

A lot of these companies seem to not get that they make a luxury product and that their role in things is effectively hyping up said luxury product and not much more. Sure, the player base might be retarded, but that's why you do shit like eBay used to, where people hate the color change of a website from yellow to white, and instead of just forcing it onto them or arguing with them, you change the shade of yellow to a slightly whiter one every day until after so many months it's white and no one had time to notice or put up a stink.

 

[Flexo]

that started with aeg, ffg just picked it up at one point (can't remember why). they even made a movie around it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamers:_Hands_of_Fate

L5R being story driven goes way, WAY back to the beginning of the game.

FFG bought the property a few years back and relaunched it as an LCG with some intention for community driven stuff (there was even a card created by vote on the web) but well... that's a story for another day. It has since released a final co-op set and is now considered a "complete" game.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Been playing Arena again (first mistake)

Fucking Christ the autistic faggots there have no creativity of their own. Literally fought 10 lifelink decks in a row that were all built with the exact same cookie cutter “I googled the best deck because I don’t know how to actually play the game” build. They’re easy to beat because the retards have no clue how to actually play the game but still annoying having to fight against the same shit over and over hoping you get matched against someone with a little creativity

 

[Retink Retunk]

I'm taking a moment off of bitching about Hasbro to bitch about Rudy, dude needs to stop putting what's his face in his videos as a cut away. I don't need what's otherwise entertaining content ruined by some soy cuck of a failed community college professor doing his best Linkara impression.

 

[Logistical Nightmare]

Many magic the gathering players ask: how else would we get the most milk toast take that doesn’t delve deep enough to help cast treasure cruse?

At least Rudy doesn’t collaborate with unpleasant kenobi

 

[Flexo]

Been playing Arena again (first mistake)

Fucking Christ the autistic faggots there have no creativity of their own. Literally fought 10 lifelink decks in a row that were all built with the exact same cookie cutter “I googled the best deck because I don’t know how to actually play the game” build. They’re easy to beat because the retards have no clue how to actually play the game but still annoying having to fight against the same shit over and over hoping you get matched against someone with a little creativity

Des' red/white deck here seems fun.

Spoiler: decklist updated for BW

3 Homestead Courage (MID) 24
4 Plains (HBG) 292
4 Illuminator Virtuoso (SNC) 17
4 Twinblade Geist (VOW) 40
2 Adamant Will (DAR) 2
4 Lizard Blades (NEO) 153
4 Sundown Pass (VOW) 266
2 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (NEO) 268
2 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (NEO) 276
1 Intrepid Adversary (MID) 25
5 Mountain (SLD) 66
4 Antagonize (SNC) 100
3 Furious Bellow (DMU) 126
4 Stolen Vitality (MID) 161
3 Blessed Defiance (MID) 5
4 Wind-Scarred Crag (ELD) 308
2 Ironhoof Boar (NEO) 148
2 Whirling Strike (BRO) 157
3 Monastery Swiftspear (BRO) 144

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

Been playing Arena again (first mistake)

Fucking Christ the autistic faggots there have no creativity of their own. Literally fought 10 lifelink decks in a row that were all built with the exact same cookie cutter “I googled the best deck because I don’t know how to actually play the game” build. They’re easy to beat because the retards have no clue how to actually play the game but still annoying having to fight against the same shit over and over hoping you get matched against someone with a little creativity

this is mostly a symptom of arena and its shitty economy, if there’s a cheap linear deck that can be mostly autopiloted then it will be vastly over-represented. no one wants to spend a month grinding every time they want to try out a new deck.