Mike

Started playing Magic with Portal and Mirage. Currently play off-and-on Historic and Commander.

I love collecting older cards, and I’ve put together a full Portal set cube and about 20 thematic tribal decks with cards all from 2012 and earlier.

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  • MikeMAtoMTGThe Nadu Situation – Mark Rosewater on Tumblr
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    14 days ago

    I think this is just all a bad take from Mark. I understand his position and that this blog is mostly a defense for WoTC’s decisions, but this just misses every one of the complaints for me. He’s basically saying “this is hard, I’ve been doing this for 30 years, trust us” while not addressing the actual complaints.

    To me these are arguments why Maro, Michael Majors, and the entire FIRE team should be let go and new people brought in. Doing this for 30 years and still making these mistakes means that someone else is making the decisions and those decisions are not and won’t be in the best interest of the game.


  • All good bans here, I think they’re still 3-6 months behind on Legacy tho.

    The Vintage bans really surprised me, both of those are much needed imo and I’m glad they did something about them. Vexing Bauble kind of nerfs the entirety of why anyone plays Vintage, and Urza’s Saga is just ridiculous with that many cheap powerful artifacts.







  • This was so unbelievably needed, but I think these cards are also proving to be too strong in the other eternal formats too.

    I think what we’re seeing here is how little playtesting is actually being done anymore. Now, and especially with Arena and the # of games being played, they just do whatever they want and wait and see how it breaks the game. Then let everyone hate their lives for a month or two before fixing the cards back to what they should have been from the outset.

    I don’t think anyone in the world can convince me Ocelot Pride should ever have been printed at 1 mana. That’s a 1/1 or 1/2 for 2W all day every day for me. I just saw Ocelot Pride win in a LEGACY mtgo challenge last night. The deck at least got to the finals, the player streaming lost to it in the top 4.














  • It was unwatchable, almost every game was Boros Energy vs Boros Energy, or you could get lucky and see Boros Energy vs. Jeskai Energy, oops I mean Jeskai Control. 32 copies of Galvanic Discharge in the top 8 decks!

    I understand that Amazon is a way a lot of players buy cards, but… I don’t think it comes with the buy-a-box promo? It also feels kinda bad that they’re essentially drawing customers away from shopping at their LGS.

    I completely agree. Honestly, this seems like the direction they’re going and it just totally screws over the LGS market. It’s clear as day they want to scrape every available penny from every product they sell, but this is all at the expense of the game stores that have been a huge part of Magic’s history and success.


  • Magic: The Gathering® – Assassin’s Creed® Bundles

    Just want to say, I strongly recommend NOT buying the Assassin’s Creed bundle. It doesn’t even come with an oversized d20, they included a normal size solid black dice w/ red numbers. It looks like a pre-release dice.

    The 7-card packs each contain a land in one of the cards, so you’re getting 6 cards really. And they’re charging $65 for these instead of the normal $40!

    If there are AC cards you want I would strongly suggest buying them as singles, you cannot even build 2 sealed decks with the cards you get from this bundle which is what I normally try to do with the cards whenever I get one.





  • MikeAtoSpoilers[BLB] Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes I look at these cards and I just cannot believe how many words are printed lol. This is such a wall of text, no wonder they had to shorten “enters the battlefield” to just “enters”. This seems really strong to me.