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Reject anime printings, embrace traditional weeb values

ronne said:

Reject anime printings, embrace traditional weeb values

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What's the appeal of cards you can't read?

Chris said:

What's the appeal of cards you can't read?

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Korean 4th > Japanese 4th!

Chris said:

What's the appeal of cards you can't read?

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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.

That's the FOURTH different art cycle for basic lands I've seen for this set. Jesus. They do look nice though.

If the end of this Phyrexia storyline involves Bolas going back in time to be the nameless dragon planeswalker who created Phyrexia I shall be moderately amused.

Fail your deck checks in style.

pharmakos said:

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.

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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.

Amused that they pushed the set back, but that means it's like 2 months between Phyrexia All Will Be One release and March of the Machines release

pharmakos said:

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?)

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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”.

pharmakos said:

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?)

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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.

Is Elesh Norn covered up in every alternate art or just the main one?