MTG thread

ronne said:

MTG design for the last couple years has certainly been uh, something?

What a fucking mess they've managed to make.

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It all started when Maro jerked himself off about how awesome they were adding a playdesign team or whatever the fuck as a layer between cards going through their design and playtest teams.

They also jerked themselves off all three of the times they changed the rotation/block structure in a few years about how they had learned all these super smart and amazing lessons.

I used to love Maro's game design articles, but I think it's led to them all being full of themselves and thinking they can do no wrong.

I think they are in panic about paper player numbers, but every panic driven change is making it worse.

The playtest team being full of diversity hires probably hasn't helped.

Going from Large-Small-Small to Large-Large-Large for set sizes also introduces more chances to fuck things up, while creeping the average price of standard.

Kuro said:

Going from Large-Small-Small to Large-Large-Large for set sizes also introduces more chances to fuck things up, while creeping the average price of standard.

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Yes. I prefer the large, small, small personally as a collector. The small boxes are more fun to open IMHO. Nothing like my 2x Mox Diamond + Queen Stronghold box.

Conversation in my Magic telegram channel about 3feri gettingbanned led to this discussion

them: “Just wait until New New Phyrexia for Two-feri.”

Me:
“Teferi, The Compleated
Legendary planeswalker - Teferi
UB

10 loyalty

+1 destroy target creature, it’s controller discards a card

-1 return target permanent to its owner hands, they discard a card and you draw a card

-12 search your deck for any amount of Teferi planeswalkers and put them Onto the battlefield. Double the amount of loyalty counters on all Teferi planeswalkers you control


Will prob be banned a week before New New Phyrexia cycles out“

Got box protectors for some of my more expensive boxes.

Vinen said:

Got box protectors for some of my more expensive boxes.

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Pretty snazzy. Where do you pick those up at? Wouldn't mind upgrading some of my Ziploc bags (lolz).

Better yet, put the box protector inside of the ziploc bag.

you pretty much have to spike multiple big cards for old boxes to be worth more opened than left sealed. Like you're less than 10 percent on most old product.

Vinen said:

Got box protectors for some of my more expensive boxes.View attachment 290663

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Have you double boxed those boxes? I only see one layer of box around the boxes.

Because there's more copies of singles in circulation than there are sealed boxes. Lower supply vs apparently sufficient demand from sealed product collectors. I know at least a couple locals who started trying to get a box of every set after they reached mid-level salaries.

OneofOne said:

Pretty snazzy. Where do you pick those up at? Wouldn't mind upgrading some of my Ziploc bags (lolz).

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Was chatting with a store owner in Las Vegas earlier this year as we were negotiating on some power 9s. He mentioned these to me. like 30 USD a pop.

Was wondering what Target, etc were going to do with all this theft. People have been talking about how easy it is to steal at the big boxes for some time now. Never done it myself, but seems it was stupid easy.

OneofOne said:

Was wondering what Target, etc were going to do with all this theft. People have been talking about how easy it is to steal at the big boxes for some time now. Never done it myself, but seems it was stupid easy.

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Childhood past time.