I didn't know this, it really shows that they don't even understand the stories they're trying to borrow from. Crime stories always have corrupt officers of the law either serving the criminal underground or so weak they can't oppose the criminal organizations.
The did this properly when they did The original mirrodin storyline, making the rebel faction very weak and constantly on the back foot compared to the growing infection. I was really confused at how Streets implied that there were private investigators in the esper faction, and bant and naya both didn’t feel at all like mob factions. I think they could have made them both more like heroic factions with corruption laying within them and still kept the “crime family” aspect.
It's been a very long time since I read the original Ravnica books, but I think there's something dealing with ghosts on the plane having fewer memories of their past life. The first Ravnica book was also a murder/political thriller with Agrus Kos trying to figure out who killed his partner. Murder was okay as long as the person murdered wasn't in a guild in the first books and the guilds only really cared as far as to use it as a casus belli against other guilds. Maybe lore has changed since then.
Yeah if you wait long enough you can find MaRo finally being honest about a product.
You are the only person who has had an issue with them being called Karoos I have ever met.
You're littery the only person I've ever met who called them Karoos. Which is a bit of an insult to the guild lands with how bad that whole cycle was.
I'm surprised that there wasn't a minecraft tie-in. Though in his making of article MaRo swears it's creative.
You're shitting me.
He is, despite the Diamond Pickaxe card. If it were, people would demand they reprint the card Notch made.
Notch is persona non grata with wotc in a similar manner to J.K Rowling. Strixhaven was also obviously supposed to have a Harry Potter tie-in that they didn't get, so instead they did wizard community college.
A big problem MTG has always had is that too many planes are built around the place we first visit on the plane instead of building a world to house the place visited. Too much aestheticization of factions on a plane and sometimes planes in general instead of a working setting that people could live in. Too many planes feel small like they're an island in what should be a larger world. To me the only planes that feel like they could be real settings outside of MTG are Dominaria, Ravnica, pre-dragons Tarkir and pre-scars Mirrodin. All that said, I can see how it could be difficult to come up with a new setting with mechanics every quarter and you can't even explore the ones you just plopped out last quarter.
That's what I'm saying. Fans would demand it if they did the tie-in, so they didn't do it.
It happens. You hit the 8 in 10000 chance. Unfortunately you were rolling for a shit game of magic and not a lottery card.> Be me, playing new deck in ranked (gruul aggro, which is just red aggro with the self limitation of using green cards because you hate yourself)
> Face first opponent full of hope
> One (tapped) lander
> This deck isn't aggro enough for that one
> Ship it
> 3 lander on draw, not great but has a one drop, a one mana cantrip combat trick and that adventure card that exiles 2 cards
> Feels keepable
> Apparently against mono red with no turn 1
> Draw land for turn
> Play goblin pass turn
> Opponent plays 2 drop rogue as 2/2 with haste
> Draw land for turn
> Cantrip the goblin 1/1, another land
> Opponent plays Squee
> Draw land for turn
> Exile off the top for any spell fuck you
> 2 lands
The shuffler can't keep getting away with it.
0.08% chance that 9 of your first 12 cards are lands in a 60 card deck running 19 lands btw.
Yeah, but I can't believe that because only an idiot believes any of the RNG in Arena
WotC has denied shuffler shenanigans multiples times now only to come out and state that those shenanigans were in fact true due to people finding it through third party testing.