Yea that blog post is purely anecdotal etc etc but it really speaks volumes about how absurd the prospect of buying in to paper MTG is to someone who has never played it, especially if they are younger/don't have a bunch of disposable income to toss at it.
They dumped 3 free packs on everyone...
Well, having a bunch of 200+ ping chinese dudes only exacerbates the network and tickrate issues they already have. If half the people you're fighting aren't a full second+ out of sync with you it'll feel a lot smoother in general.
That's been a tinfoil theory about why MTGO is such ass for for just about ever as well, but I don't think it holds water anymore. Things have changed way too much and not having a viable and accessible online product is a serious detriment to MTG at this point. The market for an online game is...
The economy is just pure ass rape as it stands currently with 0 ability to actually acquire any mythics other than pray you roll wildcards from packs instead of your 4th copy of star of extinction.
Arena update is out. Ixalan + Amonkhet block constructed now. Still blind best of 1 games, so that sucks dick.
Whole thing is a clown show right now because no one has any cards, so it's just a bunch of pre-con garbage + 4 crafted removal spells slapping each other.
You could pull Rabblemaster in packs though so there were other avenues to acquire it. This card exists only as the promo version.
That also means there is a standard legal card that exists only in foil, which I'm sure won't cause problems at all :rolleyes:
Cards being exclusive to buy-a-box is so fucking hilariously dangerous for the game I can't even begin to comprehend why they would do such a thing. Like holy shit, they misstep even slightly here and print something even approaching constructed playable in to this kind of a slot and standard is...
Well, if anyone cares, they patched being able to build silos on your home tile and just spamming peasants to gather lol.
Food pecking order is hunters > fishing > farms now it looks like. Farms are just as bad as regular gathering in the winter, so best to build a stockpile with them if they...
Game is pretty cool, but doesn't really do a very good job of explaining how a lot of the gathering math works. I'd like to see production numbers from various buildings on some kind of tooltip someplace.
Food production also seems way out of wack? Like, there's very little reason to do...
Heylel find me 4 FBB revised/4th lightning bolts that don't look like they went through the washing machine. You hang out with all those oldschool nerds and stuff, someone has to have some that they replaced with beta.
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Llanowar elves is the best card in that spoiler. Shoutout to almost-bolt and almost-counterspell though, as its worth noting that delver/peezy/snapcaster are all wizards.
Yea will be hard to know until gatherer updates. My gut says the rack is boned because its old and they probably don't even remember it exists.
I think the two most relevant cards are probably boros charm and lava spike? Burn losing 8 cards that can interact with a walker is significant.
The leak says everything with creature or player targets is being erratad to any target.
The big loser cards are going to be symmetrical damage effects it looks like, earthquake and sulfuric vortex etc.
Something is broken on your end or your connection.
About the only thing Arena really has going for it right now is the client is about a bazillion times slicker than MTGO.
I don't buy the "but its for draft!" argument anymore. This set is a mess for draft, with no discernible archetypes to be seen, and an abysmal EV proposition. Kids will do like, one of these on release, then it's gonna rot just like Iconic did.
Plug a computer direct in to the modem and power cycle it so it gives your IP to that computer and run a test from there. If it's still shit speeds then you're boned and they need to fix their lines someplace. If you wanna get real fancy go outside to your cable box and disconnect the feed going...