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Why hasn't scryfall put up the arena alt arts yet
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>>96506084Hot Dog Cart.
>>96506084Just told a guy "eww UB" on MTGO after he cast an FF card, and he maturely responded by AFK'ing to run down his clock timer.
>>96506084This is the future you chose.
>>96506148I never bought any UB, i voted with my wallet, so why is this my fault?
>>96506212You didn't stop it.
Ruzic, Never Goon
They've already used the three most typical arch-whatever words, what could the red and white ones even be called?
>>96506292turning a card that probably wanted to be discarded anyway into a lotus petal seems like not much a "downside"
>>96506334Archgoblin's charmArchangel's charm
>>96506335Its downside is that it is not Regi in stat and it is legendary so you can't have 2 at the same time.When you play Regi your hand is empty all the time, it is a real downside. The treasure will rarely help when your hand is empty.
>>96506335btws it comes on a 5/4 creature for 3 and it can crew ships, but none of this matters when you lose to Vivi on turn 4
>>96506334Archangler's charm
>>96506334>>96506339archgoblin just sounds stupid but I can actually see them using archangel for the white charm
>>96506339>>96506360Archnemesis' charm for red
>>96506363archnemesis=archenemy
>>96506364Sure but who cares, we have Screaming Nemesis as an iconic red creature
>>96506340I think the treasure token is very relevant when you're trying to cast from the graveyard and may have discarded some number of lands
>>96506357is there an actual reason why scryfall still refuses to show this set on their page when it's already fully spoiled?
I made a poison token. Does the phyrexian symbol look acceptable or is it too obviously digital
>>96506430Looks neat
>>96506430is it written in phyrexian too?
>>96506376The Gather's update messed up their easy data retrieval so now they have to work manual. It seemed more instantaneously when their was a slow drip.
Venom secret lair concept art.
>>96506468what?
>>96506376waiting for 17 lands to add mock spiderman draft so I can once again fool myself into thinking i'm in any way "prepared" for the live version
>>96506524...what?
Just wanted to say I would've, unironically, consumed and drafted this set just for the cool spider creatures. I'll never get over the fact that this is the one and only Magic set WotC will ever make that has spider tribal as an archetype.
>>96506334Archdeacon'sArchrival's
>>96506090Oh, you mean Treat Trolley?
>>96506550just do the same with the spiderman set, ain't that hard
>>96506578So they re-used scrapped art from previous sets?Even that looks unironically better.
>>96506593Some artists have mentioned that there are newly commissioned arts.Also, the Spider cards are definitely commissioned for the set. They are very specific (requiring a spider and a human/goblin/... pairing) to be lying around randomly.
>>96506593The digital-only set does use many older set's plane settings like Bloomburrow, Edge of Eternities and Duskmourn.
>>96506601>there are newly commissioned arts.some, sure. not all are new.>Also, the Spider cards are definitely commissioned for the setrushed, thus having atrocious quality
>>96505918Arena devs have confirmed no flavor text will be on the cards on release.
Made some more
>>96506334archlord, archfiend, archbishop, archduke, archtraitor
>>96506671What would you choose, white man? Typical New York issue OR Duskmourn phenomenon? The choice is yours.
>Digital only>art is somehow better Ain't this a place to be.>>96505932>9:30 Premodern tourney>14:30 Rodizio with the boys Yup!
>>96506671This could've kept the same name and instead be orzhov themed.
>>96506891I was thinking the exact thing wtf
>>96506909>Picture of two people cleaning a church floor with an orzhov overseer looking over them>"If you can't afford to pay, we can help you to"
>>96506891slush art
>I will have to play Peter Porker if I want to play events or IRL with my friends>Arenafaggots get to play Aracktusk and have literally 100 times better art in their shitty digital clientHow is this fair?
>>96506939*Play mtgo*I was never fair, cucky.
Is this card the Vivi of the future? Because looks pretty stupid to me…
>>96506524I do this too
>>96506524Not sure what 17lands mock draft offers over this one but it's already up here https://draftsim.com/draft.php?mode=Draft_SPM
>>96506989>1/1>Can't be cauldron>Effect requires moar mana to be dumped in a specific order/Mtg/ can't beat the allegations /memeg/ started huh?
>>96506989it doesn't get better when you kill it so I don't think so
>>96506989>mana value equal toNo
>>96506995the only times I've ever done mock drafts on 17lands before a set came out I immediately fumbled my first few drafts, way worse results on average than the times I go in blind.
>>96506989This interacts with X spells, right? If you cast a creature like Endless One, paying whatever Druneth's power is as mana, you get to copy it, right?
Why aren't the omenpath cards on scryfall yet? Are those trannies too busy dilating?
>>96506989Amazing card for Humans in Pioneer, can't think of any other deck that wants to go 1-drop into this into 1-drop + 2-drop to get full value early on and can easily splash for UG.
>>96506592I could, but the set is significantly more expensive than the regular sets, and also most of these creatures clearly aren't spiders, they're just spider-infused humans. It's a real shame too, 5-color spiders would've been a really cool deck to mess around with in standard (minus the $200+ mana base and dealing with Vivi).
>>96506887>>art is somehow betterit really isnt, which is sad
all omenpath cards are offtopic and should be posted on the arena threadyou cannot play with aomenpath cards on paper unless they are proxiesthis is a blatant case of prejudice towards alchemy cards, which are also online only but never ever get posted or talked about hereALL alchemy previews should be forced here just like this omenslop is, considering as to how it's allowed to go on
>>96507316Omenpath cards are just digital reskins of the existing cards. Alch*my is a fake game with cards that don't exist in paper.
>>96507334omenpath cards don't exist on paperyou can't buy omenpath boostersyou can't buy omenpath boxesyou can't play omenpath cards in tourscope alchemy racist
>>96507316>Fake shit Alchemy enthusiast mad no one never ever will like that absolute trash of HS ripoff or even consider it real enough to discuss it here.>Tries to mess with Omenpath that are actual REAL cards with just a better art out of pure envyLOLLMAO evenAnd what’s worse is a fucking namefag
>>96507316Omen path cards are on mtgo too, lil nametroon
alchemy is a failure, really no one that cares for magic the gathering plays with fake digital only cards… when jotc will cut the support for that travesty?
>>96507361actual REAL, CUTE AND VALID card which isn't being printed or put on sale by wotcbut trust me sis, it's REAL in my mind>>96507364i'm sure you and the other one and a half persons playing it are in bliss over it
>>96507371You don’t get mocked enough at the Arena general that you should also come here to ridicule yourself? Alchemy cards are fake, Omenpath cards are not they come from Spider-Man set an UB set but real despise your effortless baits
>>96507370except you'll be playing with fake digital cards when you play omenpathyou are the alchemy troon>>96507374if omenpath cards aren't fake them why can't you play them in tours?? they are even lesser than white border reprints since those are actually printed and soldcope and cope some more then point me to the place where i can go and buy wotc printed omenpath cards irl
>>96507384Arena is the official platform to play sanctioned digital games of Standard. If Omenpaths are legal in Arena Standard, they are no different than paper cards in terms of legality.
>>96507396care to prove that going to a tour with omenpath cards?
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/proxies-policy-and-communication-2016-01-14"Our stated policy specifically applies to DCI-sanctioned events. Cards used in DCI-sanctioned events must be authentic Magic cards."so you be sayingyou be sayin sisterthat your magic card printed at homeis 'authentic'cause 'le arena is le official sanctioned platform for standard play'and then you want to make fun of premodern players using proxies for being 'poor', really?really now?dwgkd
>premodern loony troony is now fully mask off name fagging here tooPaupershill was right, btw.Post the pasta.
>>96507398Yes, by attending an official sanctioned digital event of Standard on Arena. Arena Standard and paper Standard are the same formats, no matter different card art and card names. They are functionally the same cards for as long as WotC says so.
>>96507430Dios Mio, la schizola creatura. I start to wonder if you are the Polish rogue janny.
>>96507439coward you can't even qualify to arena tours, pathetic cope
>>96507451You need help, professional help, faggot.
Trolling outside of /b/.
>>96507449>>96507463>>96507465not an argument, i accept your concession
>>96506097I've rarely encountered a "nerd type" outside of Magic that has so many petty people and sore losers. I don't know why, but Magic just attracts a lot of very shitty people. I stopped going to FNM because of that. 90% of the people were just fucking insufferable. And the closest one to me was even the more "casual" one in my area.
Enough about spiderlooserGive me Avatar spoilers
>>96506578This fucking angers me so much. Who the fuck asked for Spiderman? Was it Hasbro Execs?
>>96507497Can we have Omenpaths of Avatar too?
>>96507545No. Avatar is an old forgotten property. Nobody cares.
>>96507552I care considering soon Cabbage merchant will be a legal card in Standard. I rather have something like pic related >>96506578
>>96507570Old man selling cabbages is still better than a modern hot dog cart.
>>96507544Yes, Hasbro has a deal with Disney for the Marvel License for toys, that also includes MtG since it's part of the same division
>>96507570Cabbage Merchant is not actually standard-legal. It's a Jumpstart card.
>>96506097I don't know if it's a "me problem" but I like to be nerdy on MTGO and RP as a planeswalker in very minor ways and people get really pissed off about it. I removed a golgari player's avenging hunter and he started blowing his entire hand worth of kill spells getting rid of my 1/1 tokens. Said something like "feeling scared, planeswalker?" and the guy lost his shit.
>>96507620who thought this card was a good idea?
>>96507620You think they won't include the beloved character in the main set?
>>96506989It requires you to actually cast all of your cards, so no.
>>96507668https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFDr8Vgp_QHe is more of a character than hot dog cart.
>>96507668Anon, modern "designers" can't create anything other than memes. They don't understand resonance or sticking to a theme / setting without including themselves or things they like as self-inserts.
>>96507707Time was that having a real world persons face on a Magic card was a privilege reserved for a world champion or invitational winner. Now it’s everyone from JOTC employees to Seb Mckinnon’s sister
>>96506989Does it produce a bunch of free mana or a bunch of free cards? If not then it's not broken.
>>96506989Well, if you go t2 this guyt3 1 drop + 2 dropYou now have 10+ power on board.You will lose to that in mtga single queue. Probably can use him with the landfall gimmick deck.Overall it's probably worse than the double strike mouse because it does nothing on existing board and the color combination is shit.
>>96507776>Pings your 2 drop for 1
>>96507622Definitely not a me-problem. That's what I mean, Magic is completely infested with sore losers with zero humor. I don't know what it is about Magic that attracts those types, but it's honestly insufferable to be around.I've only played at home with my old friends since corona shit and I've never had more fun playing it than now.
>>96507545Design your own proxies in the same fashion as OM1, change the names and create some AI slop art.
>>96507449Nah, lil Corotinho there is a well known brazilian over on /mtgag/, he even shills premodern.
>>96507913Shill doesn't mean what you think it means.
>>96507776That's a best case scenario and the only one where it's decent. Play it t2 and don't have a one drop to follow? You played an overpriced charging badger. Play it t2 and have a one drop to follow but not a 2 drop? Well I hope your one drop was Ragavan or something similar and you have something to do with those 2 mana because if not you waste your turn 3. And that's not talking later when it's a bad topdeck.
people are sleeping on this. the flash and X cost make all the difference
>>96507690More likely he'll cameo in the background a bit, but his own card won't be in the main set.
>>96507620Proxy template
>>96508032Member when Gavin Verhey said White would get more Flash to save the color?I member.
>>96507740An artist using a relative as a model is not so bad in principle but the results vary depending on the skill of the artist.Card designers that put their OC nugget in, and get several variants while established characters get recolors are cringeworthy.Weren't the original legends named after role playing characters of the design team?
>>96507740I do think the real world models have been more dramatic in the past ten-ish years, but lots of beloved artists like Terese constantly drew real people on to cards. Any Terese card that depicts Hanna is modeled after herself. Her style just keeps it from being jarring.
>>96508312It's been showing up here and there lately. Not usually anything GOOD, though.
I've always primarily been a Standard player, but I am thinking of taking the Brawl pill finally. I've adamantly avoided Brawl because it contains Alchemy cards, but I think Standard is in such a rough spot I will am willing to turn my nose at the occasional Alchemy card. I've actually been having fun playing Brawl, I've been playing Elf Tribal, a tribal I've always been fond of.I feel like it's over for 60-card formats and Brawl and Commander is the future, isn't it?
They should do more cards with the "tap all your lands" cost. It opens quite a bit of design space.
>>96508576No. I disagree.
>>96508576>Prophecyprovably the worst set ever printeduntil Aetherdrift came out
You will proxy all the Spider-Man cards into the Omenpath variants? Right.Do it for her.
>>96508677feet
post the feed spiders at least
>>96508786>eight feeteven more
Playing mtg in the current year must be a humiliation fetish
>>96508833Just play Premodern.
>>96508833just made your own gamethat's what I did
>>96508576>They should do more cards with the "tap all your lands" cost.>It opens quite a bit of design space.There's not a lot you could do with that without it either being not worth the cost or way too broken. Maybe in a draft innovation set/straight-to-commander product it would be interesting, but in standard the effects would either be too slow, too irrelevant or too much for one card, no inbetween.On the other hand, I kinda wish they played a bit more with the "Lands don't untap during your next turn" archetype. It obviously wasn't great for spells, but a permanent with an extra-broken ability that can do that would probably be a lot more reasonable and a lot easier to balance.>>96508677Nah, I'm just gonna skip the set and play with the cards that eventually get reprinted in the 2030s, if I'm still playing the game that is.
>>96508908I stopped playing
>>96508910I've said it before, but I think stun counters were a great idea and they could do a lot more with them. One of those being lands, both as pseudo land destruction but also as a drawback on your own lands. That way there's more of a gradient instead of affecting all lands or none, and there's still an impact even when used on tapped lands. Not to mention more interaction in general with counters.
>>96506550This is almost like a core set where we are traveling to all the spiders in the multiverse. From the vault: spiders.
>>96508677cute feet
>We will never get another set with this amount of Spider support specially if Spooderman set fails as it looks like will do.>The only way to stomach the whole set is playing only digital gamesSpiderbros… Why?
>>96509000Because it's too hard to stay in the spider color pie. The golgari support doesn't fit uw so this will be a ub flop. They shit themselves and padded out the set with too many spider-men and crap commons.
through the omenpaths cards are the trannies of humans
>>96509000>this amount of Spider supportIs there though? In green?
>>96509023You just have to be a bit more creative.W = hive mind spider colonyU = cyborg spidersB = spooky horror spidersR = mutated artistic spidersG = traditional spiders
>>96509068Why the “Spider Boar HERO” looks like a fucking monstruos creature attacking the forest?
arena feels very sovlessalso thoughts on timeline culler?seems neat how you can keep bringing it back
>>96509091Why does Batman look like a lunatic vigilante?
>>96509091Because they had to work with the type line given.
>>96509091He's just misunderstood
>>96508833I used to play Magic as my only game. Magic being so god awful in recent times has been good, because it has forced me to play other games. I recently have been getting into League of Legends as a complete newcomer.
>>96509223>I recently have been getting into League of Legends as a complete newcomer.I laughed
FUCK!GRETA SURVIVED FUCK YOU FUCKING KIKES YOU SUCK YOURE SHIT YOU'RE GOOD FOR NOTHING FUCK FUCKING USELESS YOU FUCKING SUCKSHITYOU HAD ONE JOB ONE FUCKING JOV*composes himself*Anyway I don't really like universes beyond and I find the spiderman set quite unsavoury.
>>96508948I stopped playing just after Alarabut I stick around because of the shit show this game has become
>>96509292>Israel sending a fpv drone swarm on the flotillaStat the card
>>96509246I'm playing LOL with my IRL friends that I used to play Magic with. We are playing matches with AI-bot opponents & team-mates. My friends both used to play so they are kinda teaching me. It's comfy and low-pressure because we just do AI-bot matches.
>>96509292
>>96509328MADE FOR SEX
>>96509223>the worst possible game>with the worst possible community>with a company that based their entire existence on gaslighting as commanded by their lord and savior a narcissist coercitive-manipulative mentally ill mulatto chink that to the surprise of noone is also a shrink that made the frankfurt school live a second life through riot games>at the worst possible moment>in the worst balancing state that by now keeps going since 7-8 years>ccp rootkit kernel level spyware that it supposed to catch the terror- I mean the cheaters (actual cheaters use a double machine system and are completely undetectable)>trolls are rewarded and protected their victims are punished and persecuted>the og woke company>a company that made societal change through blackmail and gaslighting their main objective>games feel like a special needs school where you get your hand held at every step of the game >company actively insults their players online>they are everything wizhasbro aims to become>their predatory practices make gacha look like a fucking jokeDude... what the fuck are you even doing?Instant ramen, guy in a chair, bearscape and spongebob cards were made for you.
>>96507343Omenpath cards are on MTGO. Your turn troon
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/standard-and-moving-ban-announcementSome stuff about bans and whatnot. TL;DR, no emergency bans during RCQ season because that'd be too disruptive, but for next year on they'll do a B&R announcement after every major set release and they're slightly moving the B&R date up by two weeks (from the 24th of Nov to the 10th) for this one.Vivi is definitely going to get banned, Soul Cauldron they're less sure on.
>>96509473>ccp rootkit kernel level spywareyeah I dropped league in the late 2010s and was kinda getting the itch to comeback but this completely killed it for me
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/standard-and-moving-ban-announcement>Vivi Ornitier is a clear outlier, but the format hasn't reached an equilibrium point yet.>the format hasn't reached an equilibrium point yet.New pasta just dropped
>>96509487>B&R announcement after every major set release and they're slightly moving the B&R date up by two weeksAbout fucking time. Fuck (((((investors))))).
>>96508368Only a handful. Nebuchadnezzar was named after the Babylonian King, and Rasputin Dreamweaver was originally just Rasputin. Other were simply names giving that fit what the card looked like. There was also a great deal of last minute changes and rotation of the creatures colors. Adun Oakenshield for instance wears Green/White because he was originally supposed to be a green white legend.
Sisters how can the equilibrium be so low and how do we increase it? I can’t take much more equilibrium.
>>96509487>>96509489"Ignore Standard completely until November 10th and possibly beyond that" message received, WotC.Also LOL at them thinking Spider-Man will do anything for Standard.
>Flourishing>Equilibrium hasn't been reached yet
Leave him alone.
>>96509487So this is their excuse to absolutely let Standars rot until November?And what about the fucking formats they completely neglected? What about Legacy? What about Pioneer? God this company is awful…
Spider-Man is so low powered i can’t understand how this fuckers think using this shit of a set that is already hated as one of the worst even before full release could change shit on Standard
>>96509584>>96509521Nowhere do they mention Spider-Man at all.
>>96509565>What about Legacy? What about Pioneer?both are dead formats, commander is the only thing that they care about
>>96509584R&D is utterly delusional when it comes to designing removal. They print cards like Vivi because they can't dare risk a FIRE card not being strong enough, but when it comes to removal they ALWAYS torpedo the shit out of it because they don't want control to be good on Arena.
reprint me, chief, i can save your 3 year 6 sets a year full power creep format, chief.
>>96509596Anon, the whole "We don't think the format has reached its final form" is corporate speak for "we are praying something from SPM helps in the meantime".
>we are monitoring the situation>people stop playing because format is shit>not enough vivi players to push ne meta share anymore>our data shows that all archetypes are seeing enough play ; ^)you know it's gonna happen
>We're still fiddling with that cadence, but our aim is to have one for each major set release (or close to that amount) to maintain a sense of predictability and avoid disruptions during play seasons.Bros i'm retarded what is a "major set" release? Is that anything non-UB? So we'll get bans every 2 sets? Big if true
>>96509625If they really are willing to not ban in almost EVERY SINGLE format in November but specially Standard they deserve to be nuked.
>>96509643nta but also when is there NOT a play season?
>>96509643It means every set. Non-major releases are just precons or the odd occasional non-Standard set which probably won't happen for a while.
>They will ban cards that costs hundreds of dollars 6 times a yearAre they crazy?
>>96509647I'm genuinely surprised they didn't call the cauldron a problem card like they did vivi. after bridge from below ate the ban for hogaaks sins I always expect the worse/jewish decision from them
>We can ban UB anytime we want>We just don't wanna do it yet>But we'll move the date to huh, very close haha>It isn't like we can't ban the UB card>I mean, we could if we want to>We just don't want to.
>>96509669Bold of you to assume they're going to ban the new shiny money card that sells packs, rather than the older card that they didn't remember during playtesting
>>96509691They literally just confirmed Vivi is getting a ban
I'm going to throw a wild guess and say that after they ban cards from standard, it will still remain an awful format and will break in a set or two because they can't balance for shit
Aren't you glad you don't have these issues in Premodern.
>>96509669I hope so but it's most likely just a trick to make the sheeple happy. they will be just putting up a "no changes" post more often and it will take a while before normies realise that but by then they have come up with new excuses why there are not more bans
>>96509487>>96509487>moving the ban 14 days>still two and half months of this trashso what do we play meanwhile
>>96509657Thanks. I'm going to be daring here and HOPE for frequent impactful bans and unbannings (unban uro)
Don't you find it funny how WotC will routinely cut pro tour support while rushing card design because they want to focus on a casual, self-regulated playstyle (Commander), but the second the topic of the banlist comes up, they allegedly care about pro tour?
>>96509710no speako brazilero
>>96509722It doesn't look like you speak English either, retard.
QUICKLY MARK! WE NEED MORE PUSHED RED CARDS! IT'S NOT DOING WELL ENOUGH IN THE 120 LIFE FORMAT. PRINT ANOTHER 1-DROP THAT BURNS YOUR OPPONENT WHEN IT DIES.
>>96509487A lot of classic stuff>Don't want to disrupt upcoming event>Meta is still evolving>Bans are scawy for poor innocent investors, I mean players>Our data suggests it's only really a problem for competitive play
i’m not happy with more frequent bans, i mean someone doubt they will just pull the flourishing meme again when bans are needed? or that they will ban unrelated stuff like they did with hopeless and abuelos? they can’t balance even if their lives depend of it and they are greedy bastards that are willing to let broken stuff to run rampant for as long as they can hold it just to get profit…this shit smells awful.
>>96509527Equilibrium will be achieved when the construct known as the white race (which doesn't exist) will be removed from the gene pool entirely, at which point every jew will own 1800 goyim that will serve them eagerly and willingly, as prescribed by the talmud.
>>96509669They have 100% proven that they will absolutely NOT ban UB cards for at least a few months. If it is still shifting packs then it won't eat a ban.
Oh nice, more months of Aggro dominating the formats, Control almost non existent and Combo absolutely disappeared. I surely love the Balance Team of this game…
>>96509087I'm referring to existing support. It's so hard to draft they came up with the pick 2. Eoe draft on Spoodermang release is very telling. Beyond that I'm frustrated that b/g spiders/insects aren't eating that well from this set. I'm mad, mad about spiderman ub. >>96509102>also thoughts on timeline culler?It's a breddy gud card for 2/2 hasty black
>>96509809Vivi is combo thoughbeit
>>96509809You incels complained that every single game in every single format was a turn 1,5 win by combo decks, so we gave you 95% aggro meta share and you schizos still complain?Maro was right when he said that if they put $20 bills in $4 booster packs the players would complain about how the money are folded.(Formerly $4).
...and when November rolls around, you're going to WISH for Vivi back. Why? We're also going to ban all creature removal. Research showed that combo and control have a combined meta share of 1%. If it went to 2% after the announcements, Arena players would riot because they can't finish their games before their moms enable the parental controls.Here's your future:>No effects target (Arena players don't like extra clicks)>100% aggro meta share (Arena players prefer short games)>No playtesting (We need more product for Commander)>No banlists (If we pretend the problem doesn't exist, investors won't notice. Players should just self-regulate like we tell Commander and D&D players to do. That works 100% of the time.)>More price hikes (It's hard to ensure the foils come pre-curled)>More UB (UB players aren't experienced enough to know about the game's problems)>More Loot (We need a marketable mascot)If you complain, we'll send the Pinkertons in after you.
>>96509843>Forgot to mention that no triggers are optional eitherFUCK
>>96509615Oy vey goyim, what have we said about TALL ASKING
>>96509839I'M SORRY MARK! I KNEEL BEFORE YOUR SUPERIOR VISION!
>>96509839>>96509843I think this Standard and i mean Standard since OTJ were Slickshot already was a problem, is in is absolute worst state the prevalence of Aggro through Modern level creature threats, the inefficiency of removal mostly shitty sorcery or overcosted effects and the lack or attack on good Combo decks (Before bans the meta at least had some variance with Omniscience but they killed that deck instantly and everything became Vivi) has lead to the awful unplayable and boring format we have nowadays a format only the most sweaty addicts are willing to play.
>>96509839That filthy kike is never right. Nosewater can go suck a shekel
is maro never going to acknowlage that standard is as expensive as modern/pio nowadays?there is not a single cheap onboarding product like challenger decks anymore
>>96509487>we're going to be more aggressive next year with the number of banned and restricted announcement windows and the timing>we tried to give ourselves the flexibility to ban cards whenever we wanted by removing predetermined ban dates, sometimes giving notice, sometimes not. It was chaos and, in retrospect, the wrong move.It seems odd to me that they didn't realize either of these things sooner. Most modern competitive games don't roll out ban/rebalancing announcements until right before or after each major expansion, and that matters a ton when you have thousands of options to work with. Maybe they just didn't have that point of reference for some reason.>We believe that we will likely take action in November. Vivi Ornitier is warping the Standard format and likely needs to go. We're unsure about Agatha's Soul Cauldron.Good, I'm glad they're more than open admitting Vivi is clearly the problem, y'know, as long as they don't walk it back once the ban announcement comes.>But we also don't think the format has reached its final form, which would give us the clearest direction to set Standard up for long-term success.>Vivi Ornitier is a clear outlier, but the format hasn't reached an equilibrium point yet.I get why people are concerned about these lines, but I think the main thing they're worried about is a-fucking-nother episode of banning one deck just for another overpowered deck to take its place, their main fears seeming to be that mono-red to take the reigns again and people will complain about it as much as they did the mice deck. Of course to me the solution is obvious, ban Screaming Nemesis, aka the card that nullifies red's main weakness (lifegain).Either way, kinda hard to want to push standard to its final form when one strategy is so obviously broken over others. I'm glad Mite is getting recognition though.
>>96509981I have been saying this since before the seven ban wave…The bans they should do for Standard to START healing are:ViviCauldron (yes both)NemesisManifoldOmniscienceStormchaser talent
>>96509731the only language these things are fluent in is racism
>>96509959Why would he care? The cards need to be expensive in order to please the investorfags and collectors who make up the largest portion of paying customers after UB tourists.
>>96510041>OmniscienceGood luck getting that removed being core set.
>>96510041Wow, I'm really looking forward to Dimir Midrange hitting 60% meta share
>>96510045wow rude to call premodern players things
>>96509487>play this monogreen lmaoNo, fuck you we won't tell you how to deal with screaming nemeses
>>96510095you said the same when they made the seven ban wave fags, guess what we are here with only vivi in charge.
>>96510108Just trample over it and win before you die from the trigger, lol
>>96510121Well what comes next after Vivi?
>>96510122>Just remove it frendo!>Dies to doomblade brother!Haha good tip, champ!
>>96510151Considering WotC just are incapable of balancing this fucking game… I guess some form of hyper aggro but this time Monored and with the Firebend Mechanic as the root of all the problem
>>96510108Hmm... sounds familiar. The vain attempt at trying to tell people that there are other viable strategies is insane and patronizing. No shit people know that other decks exist.>Oh by the way there's a Boros Auras deck that's still underplayed in this flourishing format!!
I'm just going to explain a very basic way that MTG should be balanced, so people understand how shit WotC is at game design.Burn should count to 20. With a starting grip of 7 cards and good draws, it should be able to count to 20. It's that simple.If burn can count to more than 20, it is broken. The game should be balanced so burn does not have overkill damage without being stretched thin.Between Ramunap, manlands, SSS, Mice, impulse draw etc. modern Burn/aggro decks reliably have 15-30 points of overkill damage at their disposal, without having to sacrifice anything consistency to get it. (Combo decks tend to sacrifice consistency for those explosive one-shots.) If you've ever tried to play a life gain deck in the current absolute fucking state of things, you'd understand how big a problem this is. You could gain 20 life over the course of the game and still trivially die to burn. When the primary means to counter degenerate single-focus decks simply doesn't exist because of how efficient said decks are, you have a problem. This is bad design. This is bad balance. WotC is shit and should fix their game.Don't get me started on Screaming Nemesis./blog
>>96510180As they say>There's plenty of room for rogue decks to succeed
>>96510267All macro archetypes are present in the meta. (at 1% meta share or lower)
>>96509487>TL;DR, no emergency bans during RCQ season because that'd be too disruptive,MOTHERFUCKER ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME YOU STUPID FUCKS HOW ABOUT YOUR SHIT FUCKING ASS CANCER DESIGNS ARE DISRUPTIVE RUINING THE ENTIRE FUCKING FORMAT BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO FUCKING RETARDED TO PLAYTEST YOUR FUCKING CARDS HOLY FUCKHOW ABOUT YOU CAUSED THE FUCKING PROBLEM TO BEGIN WITH SO FUCKING FIX IT YOU MORONS
>>96507622lmao making me want to do this on mtgo
>>96509615Maybe not sword to plowshares but path to exile.
>>96509487>First, we do think we got our banned and restricted announcement timing windows wrong during this part of the year. ThisZero accountability. You got the designs wrong, idiot. You are bad designers. You suck at design. "We got the ban window wrong" is such fucking cope. How about you shouldn't have to ban cards. How about your shit designs are the fucking problem. How about stop being retarded in the first place so we don't have this problem.
>>96509615This is just going to make Izzet Vivi into Jeskai Vivi.
>>96509487>"Fourth and finally: While we acknowledge that high-level competitive Standard is lopsided, the majority of Standard play is not."This is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard.
>>96510303I get the idea that springing a ban on people right before an event and leaving people scrambling isn't ideal, but I don't get how a miserable event full of gay ass Vivi mirrors and a >75% Vivi top 16 is much better, especially WHEN IT ALREADY FUCKING HAPPENED AT THE LAST MAJOR EVENT.
>>96510311Come at me bro do it
>>96509487See, standard is fine, tournaments don't matter anyway.
>>96510348>I get the idea that springing a ban on people right before an event and leaving people scrambling isn't ideal, but I don't get how a miserable event full of gay ass Vivi mirrors and a >75% Vivi top 16 is much better, especially WHEN IT ALREADY FUCKING HAPPENED AT THE LAST MAJOR EVENT.Ban after the previous RCQ?Nah.Wait for the next RCQ then say you can't ban anything because RCQ is coming up?Yeah.It's just total incompetent narcissism. Excuses, excuses, excuses, zero accountability. Admitting there's a problem without admitting it's your fault. >"While we acknowledge that high-level competitive Standard is lopsided"Who caused the fucking problem.>Vivi Cauldron decks have taken the spotlight with disproportionate metagame shares and top finishes.Who caused the fucking problem.> Vivi Ornitier is warping the Standard format and likely needs to go. WHO CAUSED THE FUCKING PROBLEM.
>>96510313Ban-worthy cards sell better, especially when you refuse to ban them as long as possible. Reminder that we live in a clown world where Sheoldred never got banned after ravaging Standard for months and months because they just fucking waited it out until it got powercrept out of the meta.
Bruh do these retards even play arena? Tryna climb the ladder is so frustrating rn
Honest thoughts on Commander taking over all of Magic?
>>96506886That looks like Zendikar to me
>>96510370Dead serious this is the dumbest fucking shit I have ever read in my fucking life. Total psychotic gaslighting. An unfettered display of narcissistic deflection. Zero accountability. Token gestures hoping to alleviate people being upset, while pretending you've done no wrong. No attempt to solve the real problem, only attempts to convince people that they shouldn't be mad about it.This shit is UNACCEPTABLE.
>>96510379Wrong, the Arena ladder is doing good :^)>The MTG Arena ladder isn't nearly this distorted, and in-store play isn't nearly this distorted. Most players who play Standard outside the competitive sphere have a different experience.
>>96510374But bro you don’t understand the line goes UP!Think about all those poor investors and shareholders, what would our cardboard addicts think if we ban a card they wasted 100$ to get a set? Sales first, balance later
>>96510401HAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT!!!How can they lie straight to the face of their customers and don’t ever be ashamed? I had a day on Arena where I played 12 TWELVE Vivi matches in a row, where is my different and enriching experience JOTC?
>>96510409The gaslighting about the absolute fucking catastrophic failed state of Standard is not acceptable and this article ought to be treated as the attempt at manipulation from an abusive spouse that it is.
