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Took down our Modern Masters Sealed PPTQ today. Had a great R/G Tokens sealed pool, but my spider senses (and my midnight drafting experience) told me that R/G tokens is a horrible trap, so I avoided it by going 4 Color Blink with my 3 terrible Shimmering Grottos of Awfulness, my 4 signets, and...

See, THIS is tempting to play. Ain't nobody want to play EQ expansions past 2003. That's why they all quit in the first place.

Modern Masters drafts were fun. R/G Tokens, and to a lesser extent B/R Sacrifice feel like traps unless you aggressively hate draft away Cower in Fear. Watched those decks just roll over and die every time they ran into anyone who drafted what essentially amounts to 3-mana cost, COMMON, Wrath...

The *option*? Shit's gonna be mandatory for the plot.

Rating/Reviewing game is just more of the patriarchy's oppression. Bunch of white dudes mansplaining why a game is "bad." There are no bad games, only different experiences. ME:A just refuses to be what is traditionally defined as "good," because the foundations of that tradition is the...

A nice part of a non-"action combat," GCD, tab-targeting game is that you can basically test a bulk of your class/ability system as a tabletop system and identify shit that's not pulling its weight there. D% rolls like a man!

Banning fetches+blood moon after reprinting them in Modern Masters would be the supreme troll move.

Yeah, plowing 3 lands against a deck whose mana curve ends at 2 feels bad.

Plow Under'ing immediately after your opponent's Turn 3 was good times.

4 Mana Wraths, Non-Basic Land Hate so that it isn't so insufferably easy to play hyper-greedy 4+ color manabases, and solid sideboard-dwelling hate cards are all things I'd love to have back. Ghost Quarter, Pithing Needle, the middle-aged core set cycle of color-hate cards (Flash Freeze...

No banlist changes, which makes sense (and is preferrably to them knee-capping another 3-4 cards again). Amonkhet is 5 weeks away, and they've got Modern Masters Release Hype followed by Amonkhet Spoiler Season Hype to try to carry them to Amonkhet hopefully shaking things up.

I mean, the devs finally succeeded in pruning all the bits of the game they say "ruin Magic." Except it turns out the Magic that's produced without those bits? Pretty bad. But I wouldn't let that take away from your friend's win. Anyone winning a GP put in a lot of work (and probably...

Yeah, the new starting area looks like it was made by an intern. Shadowlands/Alien Wars starting zones were much better looking, and felt less like a corridor funneling you through.

Got to play Anachrony last night. Quality game, but I don't know how much replay it'll get. The density of decision-making (not really the complexity, most choices are relatively simple) piles up to make the game feel a bit taxing. I was the only one at the table who wanted to play anything...

If you don't buy a switch how will you catch the switch-exclusive pokermanz!?

Can definitely see Marsh Flats hitting $10 again.

This set is like Sam Stoddard asked "What if we reprint ALL the things?"

Making Kibler preview Bonfire of the Damned is pretty savage, WotC. Frank Karsten getting Stony Silence is pretty lulzy, too.

I must draft this set until I get Resto+Thragtusk. Added sweetness if Unburial Rites and Angel of Serenity are in.

Creeps was definitely a WoW introduction to the genre. Huge arguments over Mob VS Creep in trade/barrens chat back then :D

That and the duping bugs that were in beta and made it into live without fixes pretty much wrecked the economy right out the gate.

Depends on whether the modern masters run is as massive as the early rumors said. Prices will do their standard dip, then rise, but will take longer to rise based on how much product there is. You aren't going to get $12 fetches out of this like you did with Khans, but it should be a severe...

Being forced to use them in order to get mobile meditate via horses was ass.

Isn't the point of MMOs to be disappointing? That's what I'd gathered from the last two decades of them.

Just think of all the time you saved by having faster move speed!

I might change my vote if the hamster gets to start the fight wedged up another animal's ass. Knife can probably do a lot of damage in there.

Turtle, I'm a sword-n-board man.

Got Anachrony in. Going to need a god damn time machine to travel back to now and play it after I spend the next 30 years punching shit out.

Yeah, don't know if they're reverting for good reasons (Game's making enough money they can afford to self-publish) or bad reasons (Gameforge shedding a toxic asset), but fuck gameforge either way, so at least they've separated from that particular cancerous mass.

Pantheon In A Browser!?!

I mean, the non-zombie version of their zombie game apparently prints money, so I can't fault for CN for trying to go back to the well.

So, Magic Digital Next looks like it is just Magic Duels with a full rules engine. Acceptable.

Nebraska: Unexceptional in Any Way. Which is amusing, since our University System is the third most wealthy in the United States. Accountants fucking love College football fanatics.

The question is, who will release something recognizable as an MMO first, Smed or Brad.

Art team has to be high-fiving, has to feel good to know you'll have absolute job security regardless of how shit you are at your job.

Sad Magic-related smiles this week. My Dad passed away friday, and I found my original DCI card worn and faded in his wallet; he'd kept it ever since he registered me for our first DCI-sanctioned event as a wee lad back in the mid-90s, moving it from wallet to wallet over the years. Also, he...

I like how "We can't keep up with the poopsockers" has become a justification for "We're going to make no effort whatsoever. Slap some PVP and griefing in and hope people amuse themselves."

"GoD's Gift to Blizzard"

He was wished back at the same time as everyone else, and then went on to be a park ranger (yeah... the fuck), thus the silly RANGER armband. I guess he's fighting to protect the forests! Except 18 and 17 would need some pretty serious upgrading to be even remotely relevant at this point...

Yeah, he spiked hard, and his decks got cleared out of anywhere they were lingering, when Atraxa got released. Superfriends is having a huge boom right now.