I think they finally did something the players have been asking for. Jegantha correctly identified as a mistake. I’m glad they hit something in Modern’s Boros Energy w/ Raptor but they could have gone harder with Guide of Souls. That card is just silly and will always be the source of too much energy.

Frog and Bauble also great hits in Legacy, I think TOR should go in Legacy but I guess they will let that go a little longer too. Really can’t wait to see what new decks come out in Modern over the next few weeks.

$54 for a bundle has finally pushed me out of all sealed product purchasing. The $40 bundles were the last thing I was buying, mainly for the oversized dice, but this is too much. I can buy the dice on ebay I guess.

Exactly. My current take on this is that the % of the customer/player base that wants to collect all or a majority of the cards, wants to know about all the cards as they hit etc is just small enough to not matter to them anymore. Same thing for the 60-card non-rotating constructed player base. Too small to cater to and maybe they figure that group isn’t going to quit anyway.

No doubt in my mind that the suits at Hasbro would kill off all competitive events and just sell us scratch lotto cards if they could but they must currently figure that’s an end-game scenario. So they begrudgingly have to support constructed play and they went in on Standard because it rotates (i.e. forced buying) and Commander because it’s the largest group that actually still plays the game.

The biggest group though, and the one they principally cater to is the Finance/Investment base. The ones who buy 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars of sealed products. That’s who they are building this “game” for moving forward but that’s a different topic.

Personally, I think this is not a very clear question to ask in a poll. I’m not sure if Mark is asking if we want standard to be higher power or if we no longer want any direct to modern sets, or something else. It’s not clear and it’s going to just be used to further whatever conclusion they’ve already come to.

I think direct to %format% sets have been perhaps the biggest mistake in the game’s history. That’s how you kill off constructed formats through engineered powercreep, and it looks like that has succeeded. The entire game’s balance hinged on the cards being designed for a single format that waterfalled through the other non-rotating formats. We have pretty much Standard and Commander right now and if you like 60-card formats you’re pretty much out of luck moving forward unless you want to play a 7-sets-per-year Universes Beyond standard.

I agree on the 24 packs. I think those boxes should be priced at $60-70 as well. If they did that I may actually consider gettting back into sealed products.

Kind of a cool idea, you can’t go wrong with either of 3 tin artwork options. My guess is that this tin will be the exact size of a booster pack and probably be big enough to hold a single 60 card deck.

At $5.50 MSRP per play booster now this thing is looking like minimum $30 and I don’t really see the appeal outside of just wanting the tin box. Perhaps they should just sell that for $5 😄

The Pioneer Masters streamer event seems pretty cool. I’m not sure what it is outside of just watching the regular streamers play on Thursday/Friday but perhaps they’re just talking about early access?

Whoa that’s awesome. I didn’t know this was a thing but I definitely would love to get one.

There are definitely a lot of cards in here with new artwork that I would love to collect but $150 for this seems pretty crazy. Not even this but any Commander precon. I think maybe $75 is where I would expect to pay for this.

I think Pioneer masters is awesome for Arena, but I can’t help but think it will cause the in-person and MTGO Pioneer communities to diminish, in the same way that Standard seems to. I recently bought into paper Pioneer and I’m still pretty irritated about all of the UB and increased sets announcements impacting what seemed like a really cool and stable format.

And a 4th time if you want to play with the physical cards in person.

That’s just so sad though. It seems like Wizards just doesn’t want paper constructed 60 card formats to exist.

The art on Felidar Sovereign is just so good. Definitely gotta get one of these once they get broken into singles:

A whole new video game for Commander is kind of interesting, but if it doesn’t tie in directly with your Arena collection I think its kind of a non-starter. Also, it feels like that will yet again fragment the community even more. Arena seems to have already killed off in-person Standard, I can’t imagine it is going to help store events if they make Commander a digital game.

I personally think all of these cards should be re-printed into regular “Universes Within” sets but I get the feeling that they’ll just scatter them into the 3 Marvel sets coming out.

I missed this post when it hit, but saw the video pop up in my suggested feed. This was so cool and I never knew this little bit of history.

I will set up some time with Andrew to check this over the weekend, but I was doing some quick checks and I do see mtgzone content coming in from our site: https://lemmy.world/search?q=donato+giancola&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

I’m ignorant in much of this though, I was just curious if you had anything we could use to test the outward federation while we debug it. I do remember earlier I wasn’t able to see any search results from mtgzone on the .world site which seems at least promising now.

If this issue was related to server resources, we upgraded those some months ago and that could possibly impact the federating. I’ll check that out first.

Thanks Evu! I love this

This is really incredibly sad. I learned about this yesterday and still can’t really wrap my head around it. I remember finding out about JBro 5 or 6 years ago by seeing “TeamJbro” constantly at the top of the Vintage Cube Draft leaderboard on MTGO when I would watch people streaming it. I looked up his name and was so happy to see that he was also regularly streaming.

I watched him regularly for years, also admiring him and how incredible his energy was and how happy he always seemed to be. Over the last few years I absolutely noticed his stream taking a more non-interactive, distracted turn. He started streaming much less and less, and when he did it looked like he was not well. I always just thought of it as the tiredness from having 4 young kids, or from his political career and all of the time and energy that takes.

This news is just so counter to everything I ever thought about him but that just shows how you don’t really know anything about someone unless you’re with them, spending regular time in person, or having regular real conversations with them. We only ever had this image of JBro, but I can’t even imagine what kinds of things he was dealing with mentally or emotionally or what.

I feel so incredibly sad, to lose this wonderful person but also for what will be an impossible thing to overcome and try to explain for the family he leaves behind. Those little kids won’t have that wonderful dad anymore, and will have to forever find some way to make sense of this if they ever can.

This is just so sad. I and so many others will miss you JBro. You were an amazing person, just through and though, and there was so much positivity that I added to my life that I learned from you. There is so much about you that I have taken into my life and I’m so happy for that.

ETA - 1 final Bless Up for you JBro.

Thank you for bumping this thread, I had forgotten. No not yet, but Andrew and I are going to have to spend some time investigating the logs I think. Neither of us, unfortunately, are very well versed in the lemmy source code or hosting the service, but I think we could try upgrading to the latest version and getting on the discord to debug with some experts.