You're about halfway there. A recruiter is a thirst trap, a person who is out to trick men into throwing away their lives.
Or even just instead of pointing her finger like she wants to speak to your manager, have her holding up a "soldiers wanted" parchment.
Yeah, this is ultimately the case. It puts it into perspective, because people who are actually enjoyable to play the game with will drop a few hundred over the course of the year, maybe, especially if they draft. These blubbering, annoying whales will drop hundreds every single visit to the store - to speak nothing of what they're dumping buying singles or on wholesale from Amazon. Oh, and stores that give away packs for EDH as anything other than door prizes are retarded and deserve their fate.
I feel they always flock to the most-popular format where they can thread the line and get away with this. I remember this kind of person playing in paper standard back in the days when it existed, but after EDH caught on, that's where they flocked to. As a Limited enjoyer, I never really have to deal with them there; and any of the other formats have a pretty serious skill-and-knowledge barrier that you can't blurt through just by spending more cash.
What I'm looking for is a complete redesigned of the art in a card. I use recruited as an example because she fits the mold of cards I use but hate the art of. I happened to think the OG art is better and invokes the name of the card a lot more than the unnecessary MH3 update.
Knew a guy like this firsthand. For point of comparison, I think my most expensive EDH deck is ~$300 and it's one that I've assembled over 20+ years of playing the game. This loser had been playing for a year, was one of the most aggressively competitive (despite not having the chops for it at all) players I've ever met, and had dropped over a grand on his first deck in lieu of just learning threat assessment, running interaction, or taking the time to politick.
Standard definitely did and still does attract these types to an extent. A lot of them probably get their fix climbing the Bo1 ladder in Arena now. I think EDH just makes it worse because the overall skill level is much lower, sideboarding is nonexistent, and most importantly the culture of rule 0 and loose bans makes it very easy to pubstomp. In a constructed 1v1 event you're pretty much guaranteed to be running into guys who are playing something t2 or higher that know exactly how to pilot it so the odds of just bulldozing someone with cash and prayers is far lower.
They'll start falling off like mayflies and you might even see the EDH bubble start to pop. The handful that care to adapt and have the maturity to take their knocks will start branching out into formats like Pauper, Pioneer, or Premodern, where the barrier to entry is relatively low.
If they just made the negresses hot (I know, I know, oxymoron) I'd care far less. I'm not here to jerk off to cardboard but I'd like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. Somehow I don't think the sense of revulsion I get from the modern art direction is intentional in the same way it was when I was looking at demons and horrors in the early 00s.
Sorry for the doublepost, but on this note you can always download Cardconjurer and run it to make your own high quality customs. I've contemplated doing an entire deck of fine art proxies, but I'm too lazy to ever finish it.
Yeah, won't happen.
I kid, of course, I've known some absolutely stunning black women. But you are correct that these people fetishize anything ugly or unappealing and they take relish in your merited upset.
Whitest black person I've ever seen, including Talcum X.
You can't depict black people as evil or savage. Media Literacy libs literally argue against racism on the level "I've already won- I have depicted white people as a ravening horde of barbarianjaks and black people as the Wise chad king Aragorn."
Moriok Scavenger, my beloved.
They were being contrarian and thus willingly blind themselves to Ashling's potential.
I mean the busted things came from things other than Ashling, like Greenwarden + Myraid and "Panharmonicon and Risen Reef"
This sums up how I feel about EDH lately, and I'm glad I got a pod together with buddies instead of needing to go to the LGS for games.
That's rather like saying, "Black Lotus isn't really busted but the things you do with 3 mana..."
