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Tranny Chaser
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The Ready Player One transmutation of Magic: The Gathering is fucking awful.
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The Ready Player One transmutation of Magic: The Gathering is fucking awful.
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Honorary Shit-PhD
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I don't even know what you mean, I just based what I said off of seeing nothing but pop culture references. Sounds fucking atrocious and nothing but an end-life money grab by WotC.
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Tranny Chaser
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What I mean is that every property and license is getting mushed together in to a pile of grey goo. You play a game of Magic and you could run in to Frodo Baggins, Negan from The Walking Dead or even Godzilla.
Instead of being it's own, unique thing Hasbro has decided to dilute MtG in to little more than a frame to hang every bit of pop culture they think a soyjack manchild will throw money at.
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Honorary Shit-PhD
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Then agreed! Ultra gay and anyone who still plays should feel intense shame.
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Tranny Chaser
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I use Ready Player One as the comparison because that film was references references references isn't this so cool he's driving the car from Back to the Future look it's the Iron Giant omg is that the Akira motorcycle? Also,
is a real card.
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CaughtCross
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If they have Yoshitaka Amano art for the Final Fantasy MTG set coming out, gonna be hard for me to not buy them. This strategy works in the short term at least.
The book was a lot of fun. But that movie was fucking trash.
Also...really real card?
Sterling
El Presidente
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Koushirou
Log Wizard
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Was just up until 1am last night sorting all my cards to sell. Anything that wasn’t in a deck is gone now and anything new is getting proxied from here on out. I hate all this UB shit and the company itself is just garbage. Don’t want to give them money anymore. Have to find something new to buy at our LGS when we go to play because we at least still want to give them money.
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elcaro1101
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Cool rarity on a Wubby MTG stream.
Finds the pack:
Finds some more infos:
Bonus Arabian pack opening at the end too.
Finds the pack:
Finds some more infos:
Bonus Arabian pack opening at the end too.
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Why in the ever loving fuck would anyone watch that virgin weirdo, let alone give him money while doing it? Kids are fucked up nowadays.
Urlithani
Vyemm Raider
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I only play Pioneer and Standard now. I didn't cut out commander because of the universes beyond stuff, but it was a small factor. Pioneer and Standard is all MTG universe only cards for now.
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Did they bring back the power 9 cards for something? I haven't kept up Arena for a few years, so no clue about sets and stuff they released. I think the last one that I did anything with was the Godzilla set. I know they were periodically bringing in historic sets for a smattering of cards on occasions.
I thought about picking the game back up but I might be so far behind at this point it's not worth it. Had a small group of buddies all playing a few games in the evenings just sitting around BSing with a beer over discord, and it was enjoyable. I really thought about trying it out again but I have limited time for games and there's so much other stuff out there right now. I really do enjoy playing magic though, think I I got my first starter deck and a few booster packs of revised back in 94.
Mist
REEEEeyore
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Lots of cantrips and other shit.
This was from an earlier iteration of the deck before I completely demolished the format. This was from Standard Alchemy, so regular Standard + the Arena-only Alchemy cards associated with those sets.
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Holy shit that's pretty crazy. I'm guessing there were a lot of folks running those types of decks? I imagine it'd be a hell of a lot of fun though.
Mist
REEEEeyore
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There were quite a few, but I tuned the shit out of this list specifically to ladder-grind.
The thing about Alchemy is that it is filled with broken, Hearthstone-like cards, and tournament results/decklists are scarce with being Arena-only and mostly Arena Ladder-only.
It's one of the few brewing formats left out there. But there's a ton of degen shit.
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What exactly is Alchemy? I pretty much played just historic, and I think the time pioneer was the next thing that was maybe going to get implemented. Is it just a different set list or something?
Mist
REEEEeyore
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Every set on Arena now has a supplemental set of 'Arena Only' cards that can do things that paper cards can't really do easily, like conjure other cards, or perpetually alter cards even once they've changed zones, etc.
They're very Hearthstone-inspired mechanics. But unlike paper cards, if they're broken they can just be patched, have their text or attributes changed.
It's weird, and I usually hate it, but passing up a change to break the format with a Power 9 deck was too good to pass up. Combined with the fact that the format generally does not get 'solved' as easily, due the high number of unusual mechanics and lack of decklists, it was a fun way to end my time with Arena.
I honestly do not miss the stress of competitive ladder grinding, in limited or constructed.
The number of stressful decisions in a game of Magic is not to be undercounted.
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