Mangaka of Yasei no Last Boss confirmed for being a MASSIVE NERD
>>285487236A mangaka? A nerd? Wait till you hear about that time I found a blender in a kitchen
>drew the nonshitty depiction of snekbased
>>285487236>>285487740Although MtG is shit right now this one is PURE SOVL
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>>285487925It's shit right now because they took out the sovl and replaced it with a committee
I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB I FUCKING HATE UB
>>285488065Yep
>>285488065TRVTH NVKE
>>285488144>>285488168>ECL >Pretty nice actual in-universe throwback set>Some pretty ok cards, nice art >Fucking TMNT cards show """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""leak"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" by """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""accident""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I will Kyoani Hasbro's fucking HQ.
>>285488065Same here brother, it hurts. It really, really hurts.
Yuriko>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sneak
>>285488264It's absolutely ridiculous It was one thing when they had rare alternate art cards with Godzilla on them in a set that was designed entirely before they ever got a deal to make Godzilla cardsThat was weird, but it was okay Then they went and fucking Fortnite'd the game with cards that were only ever meant to be crossovers
>>285487236>MTGlol
>>285488663Based Void Winnower.
>>285488663Are you laughing at the chance to post these machine translated cards or is mtg itself something that gets you saying lol
>>285488707Anon, check the card descriptions.
>>285487236Do we know of any other manga with overt MTG references like this?Aside from the actual manga about those kids playing MTG, that doesn't count
>>285488767He's the one with an accurate translation.
>>285488743I have been sitting on this fucking image for too damn long, I'm gonna post it, dammit!
>>285488065What's wrong with Dimir?
>>285488065This.
>>285488829He never realized that mill isn't actually taking cards from him in quite the same way forced discard is
>>285488785Magus of the Library mangaka is a known Magic fan for all I know.
>>285488862Mill rocks.t. Sultai player
>>285488862>Magus of the Library YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>285488881Of course the sultai player likes mill, it just makes him stronger when the opponent uses it on him
>>285488934>>285488864Correction
>>285488864>>285488934Oh so it's the name of an actual card, of course
>>285488785It's a light novel with a manga adaptation, but Reborn as a Space Mercenary has a ship named the "Black Lotus" as an overt reference to MtG.
>>285489022>RebornDon't care
>>285488785I really like the K-On doujin
>>285489038Valid. It's just "basic bitch isekai: in space". The main character lays a lot of pipe though, so I enjoy it.
>>285488785In the latest WN chapters we got one of the enemy faction utilizing game that's blatantly referencing MtG, all with the mana cost and color pie.
>>285489073Yeah I'm gonna give it an extra bad mark then, I don't need more horny shit in my life
>>285489050It's literally just a tutorial, what the hell
>>285489211Then comes the Yu-Gi-Oh legacy match of UW Miracles vs Affinity
>>285489258This is incredibly funny for no reason at all
>>285489258Mugi is such a tryhard. What a bitch.
Years ago I was looking up cards for human tribal, and found that one of the best cards available was some midwest-looking guy with blue jeans and a shotgun.Baffled, I searched around, googled his name. It was a character from The Walking Dead. It took a little more searching to confirm that yes, this was actually a real card.It was then that I realized Magic was truly dead.
>>285489315The entire thing is really well done. Just an MTG and anime fan who decided to make a doujin about 2 interests. He explains it for newcomers and then does a real match of Legacy with real meta decks (at the time) with Mugi and Yui."If the Light Music Club played Magic: The Gathering" is the title
>>285489098Does this have a good translation or is it done by someone with no skill in English beyond writing things literally?I really dislike reading translated novels because the prose ends up being terrible, makes me want to just learn Japanese and read the original so I don't have to tolerate the absolute butchery of language that translators do
>>285489371It's only gotten worse.>human tribalt. vanilla lights on missionary sex haver
>>285489371The signs were there long before that they stopped caring about their own universe and storylines, the crossovers were just the bright neon lights for the people who missed it
>>285489371MTG fans all fucking hated that Walking Dead set because it was the obvious Oblivion horsearmour of MTG, but commanderfags are slopeaters who are retarded and refuse to play actual nerd boardgames and instead stick to EDH which is a shitty experience of an actual social multiplayer game.The same fucks who buy Funko pops fueld Secret Lairs and UB
>>285489553Real commander fans hated when WotC started making cards designed for commander
>>285488065I'm so out of the loop I initially thought you were talking about Blue & Black decks.
>>285488065I hate shit like Spiderman and TMNT. We don't need to go to New York twice in a year. But I like Final Fantasy, Avatar etc. At least they make the characters look like they should, instead of giving Chandra a fucking masectomy
>>285489623You haven't been missing much, modern MTG isn't something worth being in the loop onThey've done nothing but defile everything the oldfags liked
>>285489623UB = Universes Beyond aka Fortnite/Funko pop bullshit.Some of it is cool and kinda fits (Warhammer, Final Fantasy) and others are total fucking shit (TMNT, Spiderman, Marvel in general)
>>285489645I like those things too but I don't want them in MTG
>TMNT>Marvel Heroes>Star TrekI'm going to kill myself.
>>285489693I am convinced that Edge of Eternity was a failed Mass Effect collab and they recycled a bunch of the designs.
>>285489645>At least they make the characters look like they shouldHow do we tell him, lads?
>>285489397>t. vanilla lights on missionary sex haverThank you.It was an offshoot of the soldier tribal I was cooking. Most of my boys were human already, so why not? >>285489463There’s a difference between dying and dead.It’s funny how back in the day we gave WotC shit for their superhero squad of planeswalkers, felt like the Justice League or Avengers or something. And look where we are now.
>>285489985She's a black woman in the original comics and the 80s toy commercial white washed her
>>285489984It was deserved back then too, that plotline was stupid and it never went anywhere interesting
>>285489984MaRo made a whiny blog post about people calling it the Jacetice League and that was really funny. They also dialed him way down after that term took hold
>>285489645Did you not see what they did with Tifa?
>>285490018it's not unreasonable to read her original depiction as a white woman with a perm, especially compared to the other definitely-black characters that show up in that comic.
>>285488959And if he dares not to use, I'll use ok myself and in him too, just for shits and giggles>>285489371It was most the wound that started a death by bleeding. Slowly.>>285489553Fuck off, playing EDH and vouch for UB are shit related
>>285490040No argument here, but it was at least an original story. One worse than what came before, especially the mostly self-contained stuff like Ravnica, Kamigawa, and Mirrodin, but it was at least something. Are they trying to write lore reasons for this Fortnite-ass crossover bullshit? Something something multiverse? Christ, I hope not.>>285490089Brilliant. Also deserved.
>>285490200No they're not cramming it into the lore, they're just slowly pushing the lore out off of the table to make more room for whatever gimmick they think will be good for advertisement Even the new canon stuff is all just bland gimmicks with no personality and no proper stylistic or lore connection to the old stuff beyond "hey, this character from before showed up and is doing things"
>>285488663ENTER
>>285490243Oh God they're turning it into Yu-Gi-Oh
>>285490243>MTG was sped-up to compete with videogamesThat might be the most revolting thing I’ve ever heard about this game, even more so than the crossover shit.
>>285490317If anything, YGH is becoming more like MTG by actually making cards that can interact with your opponent at the speed of that game.
>>285490317He's lying. Do not believe his lies.
>>285490364I've been around man, I saw this process happening so I know it's true
>>285490146Tell me
alara was the best block desu
>>285489671Yeah, I guess I heard a little about it years ago when they were first starting with stuff like a D&D set and whatnot. Didn't really pay attention to it because it seemed like a dumb idea. Disappointing to see that the concept didn't flop outright and grew legs instead, but not really surprised given how licensed properties have a weird stranglehold on people.
>Magic: The Gathering Arena>"Not available in your region">check on different account>Mixed Why are they so shit? How many times did they fail to release proper MTG pc game?Why does it have region locks? Not surprising YGO is shitting on it. Wizards of the coast is the enemy of humanity.
>>285490532hasbro is retarded when it comes to digital services. they refuse to spend money to make them properly and extensible then shut them down when they don't make immediate money. arena is only still around because it does make money and it's missing some very obvious functionality, like multiplayer (more than 1v1)
>>285489553This, UB is literally made to appeal to EDH Timmies who want their themed decks
>>285488065Dragonball UB imminent
>>285487236Just sell the IP to Japan
>>285491417To who exactly?The country? Is there gonna be a government appointed team that runs the card game?
>>285491417Hasbro is literally a sinking ship that is negative profit in every single department EXCEPT for MTG.They are never letting go and they are stepping on the gas. Line WILL go up
>>285491618They killed all the appeal of actually sticking around for the hobby, that line is going to stop going up one year because they made the wrong call on who to do a crossover with and then everything will fall to pieces
>>285491682It's not that simple because Magic players are some of the biggest paypigs on the planet and also MTG sales get massively propped up by speculators. There's a bunch of points where the bubble should've logically burst, but the market remains irrational as long as the consumers remain irrational.
>>285491898The official mtg subreddit bans you for mentioning that you can print proxy cards
>>285489396No reply :(
>>285492039they got rid of the mod that was doing that years ago
>>285491472Bandai could do another card game lol
>>285491061if these fucking toy companies had any fucking brains they'd have made videogame adaptions of all their toys. make standalones for the popular ones and value collections of the kitschy shit
>>285492054I'm ESL and it's serviceable from my perspective. The biggest hurdle would be game knowledge since the series is a mishmash of those competing against each other, for example defense tower pitted against JRPG
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>>285492617Cards won't lose counters when they phase out?
>>285492658No
>>285489258>Legacy AffinityA bold choice even for 2012, but I respect it.>>285492658Phasing doesn't move a phased object from zone to zone. It just says, "If something comes looking for this, it's not there."
>>285487740Ah, my first commander. Found this card under the bleachers in middle school. Still have him tucked away somewhere in my closet alongside all my Slivers. Blessed.
>>285490532Don't even bother with Arena, it's rigged on every level imaginable and will punish you unless you're a whale.
>>285491312Genshin Impact collab fucking when?
>>285492876Back when a five color deck was something worthy of respect rather than just a brainless heap of cards
>>285492876That’s a hell of a card to just find. A moment of silence for whoever lost it.>EDHMeh.
>>285492658Phasing used to have a lot of weird exceptions and clauses to Enters and Leaves and tokensThey made it a lot cleaner by making Phasing a state, similar to how Tapped/Untapped is a state and everything just makes a lot of sense now.
>>285492617I can’t tell how good this is anymore.
>>285493082That Kaito is shit, the one that sees play is the ninjutsu one.
>>285493157Now THAT I can tell is fucking great.Man I love ninjas. Ninjitsu is so fun. Never got to play them much, though. Was their interaction with first strike ever capitalized on, or is it still just obscure, kinda useless trivia?
>>285493225>Was their interaction with first strike ever capitalized on, or is it still just obscure, kinda useless trivia?Not really. Ninjutsu and first strike tend to appear in different colors, ideally you're returning cheap evasive creatures with ETB triggers rather than something that deals a lot of damage with the first strike, and ninjutsu based decks usually win through some combination of value and tempo, not straight face damage, so the interaction is an awkward fit into the overall strategy.
>>285493225there's a ninja with first strike in the upcoming teenage mutant ninja turtles set, but otherwise you'd have to just run first strikers to ninja out. assuming you're thinking of a more casual format like kitchen table or EDH- you can run ninjas in a grixis or esper deck that cares about 'things similar to ninjutsu but not only ninjutsu' and run red or white first strikers there. there were recent commanders made for just that sort of thing.
>>285493406The latter, then. A shame.>>285493773>but otherwise you'd have to just run first strikers to ninja outOr stuff that gives first strike.The issue is that not only is first strike completely off-color for black/blue ninjas, it's also anti-synergy with evasion. Is there a single creature in the game that naturally has both first strike and unblockable? And is cheap enough to not mind playing repeatedly? I don't think there is. Which means to use this you'd have to give your ninja enablers first strike. But enablers bounce constantly, so enchantments are straight out even if they were in black/blue, so it's got to be equipment. And THEN that means you're paying that equip cost constantly, which isn't worth it at all for just a little bit more damage, which means you'll need evasive creatures that also do shit when they hit your opponent, but wait they still need to be cheap, and even then it still so expensive, and this goes on and on and on until you go "fuck it" and play fairy ninjas like a normal person.When I asked if they ever capitalized on this I meant did they add any cards specifically for this, because they'd fucking have to for it to work.The only bit of practical potential I ever found was pic related on the ninjas themselves. And it's still not very good.
>>285487236Massive is too strong an adjective for an MTG reference
>>285494134hence recent not-ninjutsu-specifically-but-ninjutsu-and-similar-effects-(mostly-flash) commander
>>285489645At the very least, Avatar and Final Fantasy are fantasy settings with magic systems in place. TMNT and Marvelslop are not and do nothing but push UB as trite bullshit and has made MTG into just cardboard funko pops.At least my favorite FF character got a good cardso good he was banned in StandardBut who the fuck plays standard?EDH4lyfe
>>285494172Great.
>>285491312I'm waiting on the inevitable Pokemon crossover. And the Giovanni and Team Rocket-themed precon Commander Deck.
why does he make everyone shit and piss themselves with rage?
MTG declined when Urza storyline was finished.
>>285494224You caused this, fucking EDHfag. I hate you.
>>285494290I didn't buy that shit.Only scalpers.Much like the Hatsune Miku shit.
>>285494225my grixis suggestion is Goro-Goro and Satoru, a gnarly kamigawa goblin and toshiro umezawa's great great [...] great grandson.anyway, the actually real reason there's no first strike ninjas is because of the case you're trying for specifically, that you can ninjutsu in the first/double striker for that step and then ninja in a normal striker for the normal damage step. they probably see this as too complicated and don't want to make that happen on purpose.
>>285494276Cloud does stax better
>>285494331You reminded me and now I will punish others with your misdeeds.
>>285494290JESUS CHRIST
>>285490163Not the other anon, but I did find this color depiction and she is pretty white. Giving the other anon the benefit of the doubt, going by just the black and white art, her race is much more ambiguous. At least the card is taking her back to her hacker/activist roots. The cartoon did invent the whole reporter thing.
>>285494331>MikuOh hey, I like Miku, maybe that could be fun->>285494385oh
>>285494398I looked into it and the confusion comes from April being based on the author's IRL GF who was a mixed black girl and April in the comic is white with the typical 80s perm hairdo which is very easy to read as black.
>>285488065You know what doesn't have UB and Hasbroslop? Sorcery TCG.
>>285494398thanks anon that's horrifying.>>285494418most of the rest of the miku cards are good
>>285494463wtf, where is this from? I never saw this Snappy Miku before. Is it some sort of mega rare non-disclosed one?
>>285494532this was the bonus card from the first (kinda meh looking) miku secret lair. it's a thousand dollar card now.the secret card from the second miku set was, uh, beloved princess, I think (aka trash)
>>285494557>look it up>non-foil JP Snapmiku is going for 6k on eBayoo ee ooo, im thinking WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCKThat redditor who posted a foil JP one when no one knew it existed better have held on it.
>>285494276Best colors for not letting people play their cards.
>>285494463Now that looks good.
>>285492107Well I haven't been on reddit for many years
>>285494463>This card looks cool>Might be nice to replace the snapcaster in my cube>$1.5kWelp guess I’ll buy a $2 proxy instead. Fucking silly.
>>285494463I love my Miku themed Command Towers
>>285487236lol
>>285487563Why do you keep a computer program in the kitchen?
>>285500497>he doesn't keep his video games in the fridge
>>285493082hes decent. we are spoiled cause we had too many 3cmc walkers that are simply too fucking broken. id say this is a very fair 3cmc walker.
>>285488065the final fantasy set was very fun to draft. thats about all i know about it. i uninstalled arena and completely gave up on mtg after doing a week of drafts. theres nothing more for me here.
>>285487740Peak magic
My favorite manga? Dorohedoro.My favorite show? LotGH.My favorite movie? Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
>nu anime did wellAnime UB is imminent
>>285502508What property could they even do? Most of the big ones already have card games.
>>285489984I mean I can't say it's vanilla since I'm slowly building a Dragon tribal.
>>285494290Big Bang Theory SL is IMMINENT.
>>285504228that's even more vanilla than humans, anon
>>285506741Yeah, that's what I meant. Dragons are still way cooler, though.
>>285488307And it really sucks because aside from Murders at Karlov Manner and Aetherdrift, the in-universe sets have generally been pretty great. Duskmourn limited is amazing unless you're playing GW.I'm more of a story reader than a game player, though. So I have different things I want. An interplanar cold war between Ravnica and Avishkar since both planes have been establishing themselves as interplanar superpowers in the Omenpath era.
>>285493225I don't get it what do ninjas have to do with first strike?
>>285511027you can activate a ninjutsu ability any time you have an "unblocked creature," which means starting at the end of the declare blockers step when everyone is passing priority until the end of the whole combat phase, after damage.thus you can:>activate a ninjutsu ability using an unblocked creature immediately after blockers are declared>activate a ninjutsu ability using an unblocked creature after the first strike damage step>activate a ninjutsu ability using an unblocked creature after the normal damage step(unsets only, activate a ninjutsu ability using an unblocked creature after the last strike strike damage step)>activate a ninjutsu ability using an unblocked creature before the 'end of combat' step, after damage has been donethat anon wants to have a first striker deal damage, then get ninja'd out so the ninja can also do normal damage; or have a ninja with first strike to ninja in to do damage in the first strike step, then get ninja'd itself so another ninja can deal normal damage.
>>285504428BAZINGA
MTG is /a/ now?
>>285513115yes
>>285487236I was there an eon ago. I was there when Magic was good.
>>285513115Isnt there a manga now? With the tittle being a reference to the effect, no the name, but the textbox of card
>>285513115has been since 2019since then we've had cards with art by>tetsuo hara>junji ito>masahiro ito>yōji shinkawaand honestly i love itthere are tons of different mangaka whose art i'd love to see in this game someday, and as far as i'm concerned, the more the merrier
>>285513281Ah man I hate my luck with magic >Be a little kid around legions time>Big brother gets into magic and gets me into it as well>Mostly with brother since I was too little to just go to the stores>Barely manage to sraco money for an ocassional 2 or 3 booster through the a year>Stopped buying cards due lack of money and people to play with around zendikar>Timeskip>I got a job now, casually find a store and decide to go back (around march of the machine)>Do some prereleases, learn about EDH>Buy my first commanders precons>Even build my own commanders with some of the stuff I.already had and the bulk I got from prereleases>Hasbro goes all in into UB>Prices just keep going higher>Less and less stuff on productsAt least I have my own pod of people to play with but yeah, it has been rough.
>>285513287Yeah, it's a romance series set in the late 90s with period appropriate sets and metagame. Our main man starts out running mono-black, and our girl runs mono-white.
>>285513676>Mono blackNow this is what I call self insert!
>>285513734I would call Hajime a chuuni, but the manga actually points out that the term didn't exist in 1998.
>>285513841Kek, thats some effort for a piece period, but interesting the MC is mono black, IIRC blue has always been the most popular color or at least with pro play
>>285512923did it always work like that? I don't remember that interaction ever being brought up in 2005 when ninjutsu first came out and I was always reading articles on scg and the official website back then.
>>285514507It worked then and it works now, it’s just so impractical that it basically never comes up. See >>285494134>until you go "fuck it" and play fairy ninjas like a normal person.Especially that. Even if there was a 1-drop with evasion and first strike, it’d still be worse than a 1-drop with evasion and a good ETB effect.
I just wanna say that I hate how Grixis has become Izzet with black access, thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Speaking of ninja enablers, I think that very concept outs ninjutsu as something of a failed mechanic. The intent behind ninjutsu is to play mind games with your opponent. Swing with some shitty creature, doesn’t block, poof, it’s a ninja! Now he’s uncertain about every creature swinging at him. Should he block or not…?The problem is that it really doesn’t work like that. If your opponent can block than he usually will, there’s not really much uncertainty there, and you don’t want to give your opponent choices if you can help it anyway. So instead ninjutsu has ended up being just a way to get pretty good creatures out for cheap via also-cheap evasive creatures, skipping the intended mind games entirely. Which is a shame, because that’s the fun part.Maybe if there was a counterpart to ninjutsu which worked on blocked creatures instead? Ninja Strike or something. And those ninjas do stuff when they hit creatures instead of players, they’ve got deathtouch and stuff like that. I dunno. It’d still probably be worse than ninja/fairies, but it might be fun.
>>285488065based and truthpilled. The UB focus has set the fatigue in deep. Not even the return to Lorwyn had me excited and finding out the prerelease was an excuse to throw TMNT cards at everyone was the final nail in the coffin. The Fortnite style enslopification of all IPs has only made everything more boring.
>>285515101Probably is due about colors, maybe if it was BG, with the cheap low treat creatures being with deathtouch instead, or evasie stuff like flyers, the mind games becomes "Do I block the weak creature and lose my creature or risk it for a ninja"
>>285515388Evasive stuff like fliers is already the plan, and IIRC black has plenty of cheap deathtouch cards already.And even then, it’s still worse than evasive ETB enablers. There’s a reason fairies and ninjas are buddies.
Even beyond UB, constant power creep, and designs hyperfocused on EDH, I just wish we had a chance to see the actual planes rather than everything being a flurry of legendary creatures and planeswalkers for a single set then immediately moving on.
>>285516595Well that’s fucking lame. Nevermind.
>>285516300The increase speed release is really bad, I cant believe bloomburrow already feels like an "old set" with one of its chase cards already being reprinted on the precons.
>>285516595The lore has been really hit a miss, I wish they would go to individual plane stories instead of trying to wave everything to a bigger arc, the Bloomburrow story was quite self contained and I actually enjoy it.
>>285516637It didn't keep her down for long considering she attended her own funeral to continue running the Orzhov after the investigation of her murder and the sort of arrest of the mastermind.And the story did a far better job showing the impact of the Phyrexian invasion than March of the Machines did.
>>285516893March of the machine story should have been 2 sets, the march of the machine should have been the invansions and how the planes reacted, ending with the planeswalker and maybe some of the allies that could fight back preparing for the counterattack and then another set that shows the state of the invansion (theros losing the 5 monocolored gods, innistrad necromancy laughing at the infection and probably even launching a counter zombie invasion) and the actual raid on Elesh norn from both the mirrian resistance and whatever planes that could fight back
>>285516893Oh, right. Ghostdad. Or Ghostmom now, I guess. That’s kinda fun. You’ll forgive me for disliking characters from the era of Magic I liked getting killed in the era of Magic I dislike, though. >the Phyrexian invasionUgh.
>>285516704Yeah, my buddy was complaining (rightfully) about going back to Strixhaven but that was 5 years ago. Ravnica and Return to Ravnica were 7 years apart, but that was back when each block took up a whole year on one plane.
>>285494243If you actually believe that you are retarded
>>285516820Kellan was the only actual throughline for the initial Omenpath arc, the stories were overall pretty disconnected and doing fine until Thunder Junction (which sucked except for its epilogue). Bloomburrow and Duskmourn weren't really heavily connected to their overarching stories either, and were both worlds that I wish we spent more time on.Really, the first thing that colors my impressions of a set's story is the Planeswalker's guide. Duskmourn and Edge of Eternities were helped so much by their planeswalker's guides, and it still sucks that a lot of the factions in Duskmourn never made it to the cards. Luckily Edge of Eternities learned from that.
I never particularly cared about the flavor in Magic, I got into it around when Champions of Kamigawa was new so I have always been used to the flavor being "a thing that is currently popular IRL with no relation to anything else in the game". What with the new Standard format being super confusing and arbitrary, I think the Universes Beyond sets just make it a bit easier to have an intuitive feel of what's legal at any given time since they stand out more than the typical Universes Within set.
>>285516300Agreed. Peak Magic was when it was self-contained planes and stories, a whole different setting and cast with every set, with a just a little bit of spice from the overall story.I forget, did Ravnica have any of that spice? And refresh my memory, was Lorwyn’s connection that the big bad’s master plan was something to prepare for The Mending? Or in reaction to it? It’s been awhile.
>>285517708I started in Shards block so my knowledge of that era is fuzzy. Near as I recall original Ravnica was pretty self-contained and mostly concerned with the machinations of the guilds, and Lorwyn was mostly about the magic day/night cycle fucking everyone up
>>285517437I am actually surprised how good Duskmourn flavor and lore made me actually like the place, the whole premise of "the whole plane is actually one big house" was really weird and honestly not that appealing, sounded really gimmicky, but learning how everything is basically a demon apocalypse, how everything that could go wrong, went wrong, how people are still alive on this everything wants to kill you world is by design, their safe havens? Because Valgavoth needs cattle to scare, is not because some angel gave their life and holyness to create a small holy ground that Valgavoth could not influence, and remember that technically, Valgavoth is still trapped on the house, he never left his prision, just found a way to make it bigger and get other people inside it, really fucked up plane.
>>285517708Lowryn original story was how the night-day cycle was coming faster than usual, a side effect of the mending, so Oona, the fairy queen started rushing things to secure her and her kingdom safety, while the local heroes were responding to this and some of the people that remember stuff from each cycle noticing what was going on and that Oona was becoming vulnerable, a change to finally kill her and break her chockehold in the plane.
>>285513459>$1400 at minimumImagine how much the card would cost if it was multi-format playable
>>285515101Good players will usually avoid blocking.
>>285514431Dark Ritual made a lot of black decks incredibly powerful
>>285489671Oh WotC are that far gone. It's a proper gatcha now, chasing characters + skin variants. They're following the money, remember they are trail blazers in the expensive gambling cardboard market.
>>2855234467 standard sets released each year and 3 year rotation. Shits FUCKED
>>285523302It still makes black decks powerful on any format that is playable, something I find funny about people that give decl building to recommendations, is that some say stuff like "black can ramp using ritual "like" cards". But there is no ritual "like" cards, like if you say rampamt growth like card, there is only dark ritual because is that strong, they havent made other cards that come close.
>>285524637Yeah, the only things remotely close to it are Cabal Ritual, Rite of flame and LED. Even then those are powerful within context unlike Dark Rit which doesn't really need context it just is
>>285524774Cabal rites needs a filled graveyard, limiting its tempo, even on a self mill deck, you wont be playing it that early, unlike dark ritual.
>>285523446>Made MTG the fornite of TGC>Gayfied D&D>All their changes on ToS in their properties reeks of shit>They want to go digital to be able to charge subscriptions>All because hasbro shareholdersIs amazing they are still the only division making a profit, but they are burning goodwill fast, people will start dropping fast, and UBfags arent probably long term pkayerd once they realize they are not getting more sets of the IP they like.
>>285524637>some say stuff like "black can ramp using ritual "like" cards". But there is no ritual "like" cardsReminds me of that time someone said imprison in the moon type of effects are pretty common. There was also an argument for specific colours, but even without that, Oubliette is the only card nearly as strong. Everythiing else pales in comparison.
>>285525025A little sad how the card went from rare to common when you consider its color, on the other hand, is really cheap now!
