I'm sure that gaming/magic will be one of if not he only profile devision as they were last quarter. It's all the other shit product they put out that's the problem.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Ravnica Allegiance - These 5 Lands Will SHOCK You!
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I'm sure that gaming/magic will be one of if not he only profile devision as they were last quarter. It's all the other shit product they put out that's the problem.
My little pony
Nerf
Transformers
Play dough
Something called Baby Alive
Aren't weird middle aged men into Ponies? They should have lots of disposable income.
They came out with a movie not to long ago and apparently bombed pretty hard
Y'all are going to make SigmasonicX upset.
For real, though. I'm no Brony, but My Little Pony is legitimately good stuff.
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Not sure where those numbers came from. It made around $30 million last I checked.
EDIT: Oh, opening weekend numbers. I don't remember what those were.
Hasbro is more than just WotC. Last quarter, if I recall, basically everything except WotC was down.
Really not a fan of the perceived image WotC has with GP's/MagicFest right now. How do you go from hyping up competitive MTG on Arena a few months ago to what happened this past weekend is meh. Besides all the other things brought up I think it's not the greatest sign that WotC didn't want to spotlight the first weekend of limited Magic when the set just came out. I get it's not the best format to spectate unless you get to follow a player throughout but the first weekend of a set should be an exception. Planning to go to 2-3 this year as it stands since they're not too far away but WotC should come out with an explanation or expectations of what these events are now.
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Since people are curious about the original version of Basillica Bell-Haunt, it was a WWBB 3/3 with etb drain 1, and 2WB: Exile CN and return to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step. #wotcstaff
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We changed it because A) it was pretty miserable when it actually gummed up the game and took forever to win. and B) Pitiless Pontiff became the 'hard to kill' Orzhov uncommon. #wotcstaff
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So it was basically a smaller Ghost Countil of Orzhov, but with a higher mana payment instead of a a sacrifice.
I know a lot of people were kind of disappointed when Bell-Haunt when it was revealed and assumed the original version must have been busted but........the new version I think is better TBH. Better body and better immediate impact. It's worse at being a completely miserable grind card but I feel like it would hard to engineer those scenarios, especially outside of limited.
As an aside, why are they cutting GP/Magic Fest coverage? That issue blew up on my timeline the other day. Seems mad dumb and self-defeating?
As an aside, why are they cutting GP/Magic Fest coverage? That issue blew up on my timeline the other day. Seems mad dumb and self-defeating?
I am not saying I like it but these past events are absolutely in line with Wotc communication.
If I recall correctly their move from GP to MagicFest was meant to focus less on the main event and see it more as an all things Magic event. With this in mind it is absolutely understandable that they are not interested in coverage, that's not the point of MagicFests.
I am pretty sure the future of coverage will only be on paper Pro Tours /Mythic Championships and the Arena events which imo even makes sense though it is unfortunate for GP grinders.
Glad to see I sold my foil Angel of Grace at the right time. It's dropped quite a bit since last week.
As far as promoting stuff, right now the priority is on MTG Arena and Mythic Championships.
My *optimistic* viewpoint is that they want to cut back on the "lower rent" look from GPs and only want to promote their video game, and the Mythic Championships that will use the multi-camera setup they used at PTs that also features spotters reporting on players hands. GP Coverage has always looked kinda low rent by comparison
I thought that might be the case but the initial impression we all got was that the new version was "bad" because the original version was stronger and it came out of a nerf. If I'm being honest, paying 4 mana each time you want to drain or threaten to blank a removal spell seems so much worse. Ill-Gotten Inheritance is already a thing at common and costs you nothing to drain each turn.
Of course, now people are realizing the new version isn't even bad and is even standard playable.
Organised play for everyone not in the top 32 in the world is a shambles right now though, even more so if you're not qualified for the next few Pro Tours (or whatever they are called now). We are weeks into what should have been a new pptq season with no replacement.
Channel Fireball to provide text coverage for GPs
Looks like CFB is going to pick up the slack with text coverage
The only negative is that now event coverage will be split between Sideboard.com and CFB.com, as someone that likes going back to reference old formats/results/text coverage of matches, it's going to suck in a few years
Magic Story - Rage of the Unsung
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Rage of the Unsung
Nicky Drayden
A Gruul tattoo artist finds a mentor—and his calling.
* This is about a viashino tattoo artist named Arrus. He's too weak to fight, but after tattooing his siblings, he managed to get the attention of more famous Gruul warriors. There's something wrong with the ingredients, so the ones he tattooed catch on fire, and he's exiled. With the help of an ogre, he discovers Selesnya is sapping nutrients from their territory, and by challenging Ruric Thar, gets them to listen and attack Selesnya.
* There's a bit about how Gruul tales never tell the stories of viashino.
It was an interesting enough story, but I don't think there's anything relevant to the main story other than Gruul wrecking stuff.
Nicky Drayden
A Gruul tattoo artist finds a mentor—and his calling.
* This is about a viashino tattoo artist named Arrus. He's too weak to fight, but after tattooing his siblings, he managed to get the attention of more famous Gruul warriors. There's something wrong with the ingredients, so the ones he tattooed catch on fire, and he's exiled. With the help of an ogre, he discovers Selesnya is sapping nutrients from their territory, and by challenging Ruric Thar, gets them to listen and attack Selesnya.
* There's a bit about how Gruul tales never tell the stories of viashino.
It was an interesting enough story, but I don't think there's anything relevant to the main story other than Gruul wrecking stuff.
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A reminder:
Most pathetic card spoiled thus far and easily the worst of this cycle by a country mile.
I still don't like it in the context of limited, I can see the value in constructed with burn being a menace
I'm giving it a test drive at FNM tomorrow. If I do good enough with it, it's definitely a keeper.
That does look like fun. Pity about Hydroid Krasis, but I guess you could sub that out for something else.
I have expansion/explosion in mine if the 4x Goats and 4x Colossus fail to do their job, but the beauty of the deck is that it accepts pretty much any overcosted bomb in Temur colours as finisher.
This is the list i run
Creatures (9)
4 Gatebreaker Ram
1 Archway Angel
4 Gate Colossus
Instant (8)
4 Growth Spiral
4 Opt
Sorcery (13)
4 Lava Coil
1 Banefire
4 Gates Ablaze
4 Circuitous Route
Enchantment (5)
1 Rhythm of the Wild
4 Guild Summit
Land (25)
4 Plaza of Harmony
4 Izzet Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate
4 Gruul Guildgate
4 Breeding Pool
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Selesnya Guildgate
You can probably splash Black and run Chamber Sentry. Gates is a ramp deck and often Banefire can be a good finisher. Ixalan Binding is the decks biggest weakness especially if they get your Colossus and Ram and in those matches it might be worth running stuff to counter that in the sideboard.. Also it's really satisfying playing Gate Colossus for 0 mana.
Creatures (9)
4 Gatebreaker Ram
1 Archway Angel
4 Gate Colossus
Instant (8)
4 Growth Spiral
4 Opt
Sorcery (13)
4 Lava Coil
1 Banefire
4 Gates Ablaze
4 Circuitous Route
Enchantment (5)
1 Rhythm of the Wild
4 Guild Summit
Land (25)
4 Plaza of Harmony
4 Izzet Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate
4 Gruul Guildgate
4 Breeding Pool
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Selesnya Guildgate
You can probably splash Black and run Chamber Sentry. Gates is a ramp deck and often Banefire can be a good finisher. Ixalan Binding is the decks biggest weakness especially if they get your Colossus and Ram and in those matches it might be worth running stuff to counter that in the sideboard.. Also it's really satisfying playing Gate Colossus for 0 mana.
Mythic Edition? STILL AVAILABLE. It's selling at a rate of about 150 copies a day.
They obviously already have Mythic Edition planned for the next set, but i'm curious if they remove the "2 per household" stipulation next time so they can actually sell them out.
They obviously already have Mythic Edition planned for the next set, but i'm curious if they remove the "2 per household" stipulation next time so they can actually sell them out.
Oh, that thing I said would happen totally happened? Whodathunkit?!
Wow so they have only done 5,000,000ish in sales for a product that had no additional R&D costs aside from new art and packaging. They must be besides themselves. Heads will roll!
Ouch.
I am starting to think that the pack distribution in my Mythic Editions was maybe not 100-percent random. #sorrytoboaryou
That wasn't the point. The point was that buying this to resell is gonna be a bad time because it's not gonna sell out.
MTG Arena Mythic Invitational
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Magic Arena Mythic Invitational tournament coming March 28-31 at PAX East.
Eight players will be invited from the top ranking Mythic players on Arena.
I'm glad a decent chunk of the invitees appear to be women. The Pro League being all men is still a bad look, but I assume they'll recruit more using this tournament.
Eight players will be invited from the top ranking Mythic players on Arena.
I'm glad a decent chunk of the invitees appear to be women. The Pro League being all men is still a bad look, but I assume they'll recruit more using this tournament.
Might sell out of paper now. There is so much wrong with this announcement. And still nothing about paper organised play when their own deadline was late January.
Competitive Magic was in many ways way ahead of the esports competition in how well it was organised. But after years of underfunding they are pivoting to chase after Hearthstone instead of utilising what they already had set up. It's completely fucked.
Competitive Magic was in many ways way ahead of the esports competition in how well it was organised. But after years of underfunding they are pivoting to chase after Hearthstone instead of utilising what they already had set up. It's completely fucked.
Arena/Duo Standard
So here is, by far, the biggest change: No more sideboards (unless you have Wish effects), you bring 2 decks with you, use 1 in game 1, the other in G2, and can choose in G3. Very much seems like the future of what they want from all forms of Magic, bringing it in line with Hearthstone
And here is your rebuttal on that fact https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/and-mtg-arena-2019-01-31
I have MASSIVE issues with this statement
Making it so you need to spend money to have 2 different decks (no one is actually going to just play the same deck twice) is, in my opinion, a significantly higher barrier for comepetitive than a sideboard. At the most basic level, you take out the cards that don't do anything (like creature removal against a creaturless deck, or enchantment removal against a mono-red deck) and add in cards that might do something. Getting enough wildcards to make a new deck? It's probably not even possible for people not spending money
And here is your rebuttal on that fact https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/and-mtg-arena-2019-01-31
I have MASSIVE issues with this statement
Making it so you need to spend money to have 2 different decks (no one is actually going to just play the same deck twice) is, in my opinion, a significantly higher barrier for comepetitive than a sideboard. At the most basic level, you take out the cards that don't do anything (like creature removal against a creaturless deck, or enchantment removal against a mono-red deck) and add in cards that might do something. Getting enough wildcards to make a new deck? It's probably not even possible for people not spending money
That's only if they make a queue for it. Hearthstone doesn't.
I'm wondering how long it will take for them to realise this format is a terrible idea and just revert to bo3. This tournament will be the first time anyone has played it in anger so I wouldn't be surprised if someone breaks it.
There argument will be "well you don't NEED two decks", and also if you want you can make it like the Abzan Aggro and Abzan Midrange decks from Khans Standard, where the difference was basically if you were running Deathdealers or not. That said, it's shitty
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