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Still one of my favorite moments of New Who, and imo the best intro episode of the new era.

There's been a few people here who know what they are talking about. If any of you actually won, you really, REALLY need to sit down and think clearly before you tell a single god damned person. With this much money, you and your family's lives will be in danger, and I'm not exaggerating. That...

Oh, the system 'works', it's just you get very little from each individual card. Unless they changed the math in the last few months, it was like 4% per 5th mythic, 1% per 5th rare, and something like .1% for uncommons. I just remember you needed 100 'extra' rares to open a vault, which is...

See, I get what you are saying, I just think it wouldn't be boring/weird because it'd feel different with Jodie doing it. You have all kinds of different angles to cover that same kind of material with her, that would make it feel fresh again. Plus, they moved away from part of it (the fame)...

Oh, I don't have a problem with the giant flashback, was just answering the previous poster asking why there is a realtor office and such. Though, for a multiple episode flashback, they probably should add some kind of 'before the bomb..' type of text on screen or notification to remind viewers...

This season is kind of weird so far.. I don't hate it, I'm still looking forward to the episodes, but something feels slightly off. I like the individual elements, but it doesn't seem to be coming together as a whole. Yet, anyway. I like Jodie Whittaker so far, but she hasn't had any 'great'...

These things are all one big flashback to before the bomb. At the end of the one episode, the witches show up and are about to battle young mr. fabio anti-christ, then everything since then has been pre-bomb.

It's cockiness and 'i'm just here to haaaalp people..' at the same time, that comes across more as forcing the issue. It's like the words written are cocky, but she isn't delivering them with a confidence yet. For example, when the spaceship was crashing and the dude is like 'think you can do...

And yet, this episode they hinted at some kind of meta story with the 'timeless child' thing. We'll see.. I'm still not sure how I feel about the show so far. It FEELS different. A previous post pointed out the cinematography feels different, like the difference between movies/tv movies, and...

Sure, but that's not really a story arc like I mean, unless there's some reason the TARDIS ejected her and took off. Like, if someone/something is interfering with the TARDIS, then ok. If it's just 'oops, I fell out during regeneration' then that's pretty lame. Though, if they are trying bring...

I honestly don't care about the Doctor being a woman, but they had a bit of an interview with Jodie Whittaker before the 1st episode that my DVR recorded. I watched a few minutes of it, but then she said something along the lines of 'this year is all stand alone stories, so you don't have to be...

If you have a ton of UU and RR cards, you cant splash too much even with a few guildgates. In theory, anyway. Depends on rest of cards, but i think that is their goal. To make the fixing work best for a specific guild, rather then 4/5 color decks. I.e. a mostly guild deck maybe with a splash of...

Also, on the note of Limited, I think they are trying to push people to commit to a specific guild with the cycle of XXYY color cards. Ex: Nightveil Predator costing UUBB. However, people are just gonna take guildgates and manafixing super early, much like previous 3+ color sets, and then pick...

I'm pretty biased towards dimir/izzet guilds, and while I agree with what you're saying, I think the boros/selesnya/golgari stuff all looks just as solid right now. Everything seems a bit stronger then normal, but that's cause there are a bunch of gold cards that are naturally higher power...

Yea, in modern/legacy, it's very easy for your opponent to just not have a basic to grab in the mid/late part of the game. Especially if it's some kind of Abzan shell where you are also using path to exile. There's plenty of decks with only 1-2 basics total. That is certainly a new staple for BG...

Well, of the recent spoiled today, only the Status // Statue card looks standard viable. Rest are likely just limited/casual chaff. Maaaybe Radical Idea sees some fringe play if other card draw is weak and/or a Ux deck has crazy graveyard synergies, but it seems expensive for a double cantrip...

As its worded in his post, you don't draw a card when you surveil. It's just milling bad cards off the top and/or super scrying, depending on the X number.

Yep. There will never be a way to counterfeit the power 9, duals, etc.. to pass detailed inspection by the collector guys UNLESS they manage to reproduce the actual way the cards were printed, but that's practically impossible from what I've heard. i.e. they get the same printing presses (which...

rofl, at 1:09 when he says 'help people in need' as he flashes to steal blue buff just had me cracking up.

Right, but it used to be different. I specifically remember back in the day, Rhys the Redeemed could never be a commander, only a card in some W/G commander's deck. They changed the rule because a lot of people disliked it, and it got worse as more legends got printed that had off-color symbols...

yea, they don't. I was just being silly. Although, there used to be a rule about color symbols that appeared in the text box had to match as well, but I think that got changed awhile back. idk, I don't play commander. Didn't come up much, except I remember Rhys the redeemed was one notable...

lies, it's not red or black. Sorry, I seem to only be responding to you as a troll, suddenly.

So, you have like one signed copy? :)

This is also why sealed boxes are the only thing mtg finance guys (like rudy from alpha investments) ever talk about as investments (not packs, anyway). You know it hasn't been mapped when it's sealed, and a full box lets you do a draft with some left over. There's some people who just buy old...

Yea, what heylel said. You have to get the packs in the original order to try and map it. You open a few, put it into a program, and it figures out what the rest are in the box. It worked because they printed rares on a sheet, so there was certain order to them. They would shuffle the packs a...

Yea, playmats can be worth money to the right person but hard to move. Also, you will have some trouble selling loose packs. Or, you wont get as much as you think. Boxes can be mapped, especially from that time period, so people are wary of individual packs.

yea.. exactly. If you are playtesting with a friend, who wins is irrelevant. You are trying to figure out which deck is better, and you learn nothing in a game where one player has mana issues. It's a bad use of your time to play those games out. With a casual friend, nothing on the line...

I didn't say he was perfect, he made other mistakes in designing the game, of course. Did he think to himself 'I want a mechanic that specifically screws over one player 10-15% of the time' before inventing mana? No. Did he know that there needed to be random elements out of the players control...

You might prefer to lose to a good deck/player over winning by them getting mana screwed, but if you REALLY hated winning from opponent's mana screw.. then you'd just scoop to them every time it happened. However, I have a feeling that idea sounds just as horrible to you as it does to me. You...

No, I'm really not. I'm pointing out that you are looking at a very small portion of each game, without regards to the overall picture, and trying to make direct comparisons. I assure you I understand your point, because I used to share it. Let's say you are playing limited and you keep a 2...

Are these revised duals? Are they SP, MP, HP? Being signed doesn't add much value to cards, overall, unless you are the specific audience for them. In other words, they are worth less except to the few people that they are worth more to, if that makes sense. Most vendors just mark down a signed...

Yes.. they do, because one is a 5v5 game and the other is a 1v1 game. You can't just look at the 'resource' system of both games and try to make a direct comparison. Mobas are not resource management games. They are reflex and strategy game. Just because both games have 'resources' does not mean...

err.. besides the fact that they aren't even comparable genres, the closest analogy between them would be your teammates in solo queue. You can get a shit teammate or a disconnect and you lose despite winning your lane. There's always some element that is at least somewhat out of your control...

Yea, there's a sliding scale and a sweet point of RNG, of course. Vanilla HS had some, and it wasn't too bad from a competitive standpoint. But, the game itself got more popular as they added some more. So, they kept adding more, but it had diminishing returns and hit a wall eventually where the...

We're not saying it has to specifically be 'mana issues' but there has to be a random element to the game. If you removed mana screw/flood from MAGIC, specifically, then it wouldn't have enough randomness. Other games that have succeeded, while eliminating land draws, chose different random...

The problem with your position, is the WoW tcg did exactly that, and failed as a result. You could play any card face down as your 'land'. The best players won too much, so it drove off the casual base. They learned their lesson and added rng cards/effects when they turned it into hearthstone...

Honestly, I do have a problem with their shuffler. Not that it isn't random, it is, but that's exactly the problem. It's TOO random. When we shuffle cards physically, everyone subconsciously mana weaves a bit. You do it a little before you shuffle, and then you only shuffle like 4-5 times, so it...

The included app is kind of interesting, though. If we assume for a moment, that they have somehow balanced the cards almost perfectly, so that no random collection of cards is inherently stronger than others. Then, using the app to watch for meta shifts (oh, most people are playing decks with...