MTG thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Chris
Potato del Grande
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ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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When's the last time you needed to remind yourself about what Birds of Paradise do?
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Grabbit Allworth
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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There are some weirdos that like the cards for the language (even if they can't read it), but the selling point for most people is that it's a black-border option where only white-border exists in English.
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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Printing a lot of new art for basic lands is one of the things I don't see a problem with at all. Doesn't affect competitive play at all, not required by any means, but gives them a new revenue source while giving people more options for personalizing their decks. Sure alters already exist but meh.
OneofOne
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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I think I'm just tired of the endless versions of everything in every release. I've counted 5 versions - so far - of the exact same Elesh Norn card in this set. 10, if they come in both foil and non. It gets a bit much.
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pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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I know this is obvious, and I don't mean it as talking down -- sometimes you need to hear the obvious shit come from someone else's mouth -- but you don't need to keep up with it all if you don't want to. All the alternate art cards do the exact same thing mechanically. IMO it's kinda cool that someday I might be playing FNM and see some crazy art card that I've never seen before (and have it NOT just be an alter y'know?)
Zaide
TLP Idealist
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This ignores the fact that many people enjoy magic as a collectible. Not only does it make collecting the cards more of a burden, it also makes any given version of the card feel worth less while probably costing more to have the “collection”.
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OneofOne
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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I'm not offended. But we also have completely different tastes/interests, and that's fine.
I don't care, for instance, if I never own a single Elesh Norn in any of however many versions exist. I don't even have issues with alt art. Initially I thought showcase cards could be cool. I recently mentioned I picked up a few of the new Glissa's from a recent Secret Lair because I really like the art.
The game is just feeling so... merchandised? Whored? And it seems to be accelerating. There's just sooooo much product both in terms of number of releases and types. Not only do you have booster/set/collector/jumpstart/commander decks of most releases, the amount of variations within a set is pretty high. Never mind we're now up to an even 150 Secret Lairs, I believe.
Some people look at that and go, "That's awesome, something for everyone". But all I see is some greedy fucks trying to milk this IP for every drop they can get. Yes of course, it's always been about money - the end goal of every for-profit business is. But now it feels shoved in your face to the extreme.
I don't know a good way to say other than "it takes you out of the game", much in the same way as watching a great movie and then seeing a random boom hanging in the scene.
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Alt arts seem to be alright. It looks more like 4 different sketch variants though.
scryfall.com
!"elesh norn, mother of machines" include:extras
14 Magic cards found where the name is exactly “elesh norn, mother of machines”