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@TheMagicer I don’t have recommendations for good ones, but I’d recommend avoiding anyone who makes the cards look like the real thing, so as to not feed the counterfeit market.

@rigatti @MysticKetchup why not?

@silverchase @SecretSauces I support a lot of these points! Many of the just-in-case cards belong in the sideboard. Focus on making your own deck do its thing as efficiently as possible, and then bring cards back in from the sideboard to counter the opponent’s plan after you’ve play tested it and know how the deck plays against the metagame.
What gives you the the most explosive start? Play that. Unless you’re a hard control deck, most of your cards should have 2x-4x copies

@Semjaza @MysticKetchup checking out of Magic for a bit is a totally reasonable and normal thing, especially with all these upcoming UB sets. If classic sci fi isn’t your thing, I think it’s totally reasonably to skip Aetherdrift and the UB sets and come back in for Llorowyn.

@Semjaza @MysticKetchup unfortunately decayed sacrifices at the end of combat, while the warrior thing is end of turn. I thought the same thing

@Worx generally it would exclude itself, or exclude all other creatures with X name, in order to avoid this runaway situation

@PattyMcB @MysticKetchup the flavor text, art, and story are such a critical part of the game! I love them too

@UnPassive only if you have double strike. Otherwise the “or more” text limits it no matter the number of creatures hitting

@ptc075 @MysticKetchup that makes sense, since they did say this was a beta. I think the bracket descriptions are strong, and I expect they’ll tinker with the game changers list

@Postmortal_Pop @KoboldCoterie isn’t all this covered under the explicit Rule 0 discussion point? Where you say “yeah this card is in my deck but I’m not using it optimally so think the deck is a lower tier”

@mike @Stern I expect air would be white and Spirit would be black

@salieri @MysticKetchup it’s technically possible, but fairly difficult to organize millions of players across the world, especially for something so decentralized. And we just had a community controlled version that collapsed due to online hate. Who wants the job now?

@Ithorian @mike I agree that they shouldn’t be standard/modern legal in the first place, but further restricting the supply would only make situations worse

@Ithorian @mike
I don’t think the answer quite means what you’re thinking.
If MaRo’s answer had been no, that would mean the only way to access these mechanically unique (and tournament legal) cards would be in the limited print run secret lair. That SEVERELY restricts supply, which would cause any cards that are needed for tournaments to spike to hundreds or thousands of dollars, depending on the format.

@Didros @Dippy half of the full box magic sets next year will be universes beyond. Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and unknown.
The regular sets will be the racing one, Tarkir, and the space opera one.

@mike @nokturne213 I fully agree from this, especially with corporate’s push to minimize costs (aka employees).

@lovestha @andrew in Hasbro/WOTC’s eyes, “the right amount” and “sell out immediately” are likely the same thing

@mike @blubfisch
I feel the same, though I do think it’s correct for them to step in to create a shield if the community is going to be garbage like this. *sigh* This is why we can’t have nice things

@luxyr42 @mike Obviously we haven’t seen this enacted yet, but I wonder if it’ll end up being similar to the Arena Historic Brawl ranking system.
I know Amazonian has run into issues where including a high-power card in a low-power deck bumps her up to a high-power tier despite playing a pile of durdle cards.
I guess that’s what the conversation is for.
But also, there’s never been a good way to rank commander deck power so *shrug* can’t be worse than what we already have

@mike I think with the “shouldn’t have been printed vs should be printed into the ground” thing, the idea is it shouldn’t have been printed in the first place because it’s bad for the format, which is also why it should be banned. But given the reality that it was printed, it should at least not be strongly gate-kept due to price, creating a high amount of inequality. Especially because that high price limits options later.