Belly_Beanis [he/him]

They need to ban more than just Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt. Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Mox Diamond, Mox Opal, Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, Grim Monolith, Mishra’s Workshop, and some others I’m probably forgetting all need to go. If they want EDH to be a slow, durdle, battlecruiser format, you can’t have fast artifact mana and tutors.

EDH is a $5,000 turn 2 format its players are in denial about because they want to have their Worldgorger Dragon combo and eat their Demonic Tutor, too.

I’ve been playing since Mirage and Universes Beyond combined with Modern Horizons has left a bad taste in my mouth. They’ve also had more bans in Standard in around six years than the previous 25 years combined, including the initial banlist separating it from Type 1, Urza’s block, and the first Mirrodin block.

UB is WotC trying to avoid paying artists and writers to make new worlds. MtG hasn’t always had the best writing or storytelling, but it’s always been a labor of love creating different settings. With UB now coming to Standard, they don’t have to do any of that. The artwork for Marvel/Assassin’s Creed/etc. is already done. They can use leftover storyboards and concept art from films, video games, and TV shows. They don’t have to do any writing.

WotC will eventually use AI images when they think they can get away with it. Combined with UB, they will completely gut their creative department.

UB would have been great as silver bordered cards. It gets people to actually buy Un-sets while keeping it seperate from the main game. Silver borders would allow them to explore deliberately broken mechanics without damaging the meta of the main game.

Like the Infinity Gauntlet in the upcoming Marvel stuff could be something stupid like an Omniscience, Staff of Domination, and Mindslaver rolled into one card.

Really wish they’d stop making “equipment and auras matter” themed mechanics/archetypes without giving them proper support. The reason decks like Bogles were a thing is because the creatures had hexproof and there was a draw engine with Kor Spiritdancer.

When it’s just “This creature gets +1/+1 for each equipment you control,” it leaves new players feeling like garbage because they constantly get 2-for1’d. They feel like they wasted money and lose interest in the game. Experienced players don’t like these products/draft archetypes because they already understand what happens.

The basic lands look dope, though.

They keep reinventing Extended every four to six years, which was the old rotation schedule of Extended lmao. They would solve a lot of problems if they brought the format back and actually maintained a banlist. The format died due to U/B Faeries followed by Stoneblade pushing everything else out.

Breach is a card that should have never been printed.

I have no fucking idea how it got past playtesting. Yawgmoth’s Will was, for a long time, the strongest non-power card in Vintage.

Daze, Reanimate, and Entomb existed for years without being a problem. Banning them would IMO be a sign R&D screwed up somewhere else.

I too would like to see Bowmasters gone, along with The One Ring, mostly so I can save my store credit. I’d rather drop $200 on ABUR duals than a playset of cards that can be reprinted or always have the banhammer looming over them.

I’d settle for a Columbian necktie, as well.

That’s what I mean. Maybe I’m misremembering, but didn’t he have one that was supposed to put out a list of names online or some shit? And then he died and nothing happened, likely because feds got to it.

Didn’t Epstein have one? I think if something that incriminating can be eliminated, the concept as you said doesn’t work.

One reason it exists is because there’s no way to force jurors to rule a certain way. Once jurors go into deliberation, what happens in that room stays in that room.

Taken to its logical conclusion, there’s nothing stopping a jury from voting unanimously either way. They could vote to convict a person they think is innocent (which happens, especially when used against minorities and especially during Jim Crow). They could vote “not guilty” for a person they think is guilty.

There’s a disturbing number of places that still use fax machines. They won’t let you scan things and send it via e-mail, it has to be faxed. I deal with it a lot filling out my medical paperwork.

AFAIK a lot of people descended from nobility across the world are also among the most wealthy, even in places that “abolished” monarchy. A lot of Japanese companies, for example, are owned by former nobility.

The same is true with descendants of the Medicis. They’re still able to divide that fortune up into fractions of what it was hundreds of years later.

Yeah I’m still holding off on buying The One Ring for Legacy MUD because there’s still a chance it gets banned. I’ve been enjoying Coveted Jewel with Sculpting Steel/Phyrexian Metamorph anyway.

Interesting they unbanned Green Sun’s Zenith but not Birthing Pod. Pod can access more creatures, obviously, but GSZ is ramp, can be cast sooner, and requires no creatures in play to get going. It will be interesting to see how this affects Chord of Calling and Collected Company strategies.

Mox Opal and Splinter Twin should have never been banned in the first place.

To add on to what else has been said, you can just be blunt and obnoxious about it. Tell them “If a bunch of barely literate peasants in China can figure out Kapital on their own despite it being written in another language, you can read a pamphlet or two.”

People smarter than anyone alive have done more in worse conditions and did us the courtesy of writing down what worked and what didn’t. The Bolsheviks, Black Panther Party, anarchists in Civil War Spain and Nazi Germany, etc. were in life or death situations trying to mobilize leftwing revolution. The least anyone calling themselves a socialist can do is read what they wrote. If you say “I don’t need to read theory because it’s just a book club,” you’re being an arrogant, egotistical asshole.

We also live in an age where there are audiobooks and videos that will read this stuff to you for free, something our predecessors didn’t have. People with disabilities have used these tools to help them understand theory when they struggle with reading. There’s really no excuse.

Oh for sure. The number of playables in each set has increased. I’m more often making cuts, rather than trying to fill in gaps. I just wish we had more cards like Tough Cookie and Imodane’s Recruiter and less Atraxas and Sheoldreds.

The first Modern Masters was a blast to play with a high power level (at the time), but it was all reprints. Hell, cube is the highest of high power levels and is curated from existing cards. It’s entirely possible to make good Limited formats without destroying Constructed.

They should have made them silver bordered and put in special Un-sets. Like now you have Un-cards people actually want, while keeping them seperate from the main IP, with the option of making them tournament-legal by reprinting them in-universe.

Wow that’s incredibly out of nowhere. I only know him from LSV’s channel since he’s a regular player on that stream. Really young guy.

Time gets shorter. I’ve already experienced this going from my teens to my twenties and into my thirties. I can remember entire weeks of my childhood. By the time I was in my mid twenties, days and weeks blurred together. Now it’s like months go by and I don’t even notice.

People talk about it more as they get older. Eventually when you enter your 80s and 90s, it’s like entire decades can come and go. So imagine when you’re immortal. If you’ve been alive for 100,000 years, that’s longer than writing has been around. Entire civilizations will have come and went.

But from your perspective, it’s all a blur. Entire genealogies were experienced, yet those people barely registered in your mind. If you had a favorite food, maybe the recipe disappears when you went four centuries without eating it. Jokes and fashions you’re familiar with are completely alien to everyone else. Are you even capable of noticing when things change at that point?

There’s also the question of how human are you? Everything and everyone would seem inconsequential. Would you even be able to socialize with others, or would you be completely sociopathic? That’s if you don’t hurt anyone and get tossed in a jail cell. What happens if you spend a few centuries in prison? Fight in multiple wars? Would you even feel the slightest discomfort when you kill someone?