You can pry farewell out of my cold dead hands. (This has nothing do with the art, and he can F off for all I care). I love that card though.

I want Griselbrand unbanned sooooo badly. Doooo it. We have enough crazy card draw engines and réanimation targets. What’s one more.

Oh it is, our congress is just weak and cowardly and would rather abdicate their power so they don’t have to work together.

They hope to be the one scamming not scammed. It’s all a game of hot potato. You don’t want to be the one holding it at the end but someone has to be.

$50,000 dollars raised already! I am overwhelmed with gratitude to this community.

One of the biggest yearly fundraisers / giveaways in the MTG community just started.

Prof has done amazing work raising money and awareness for @translifeline.org.

Go donate some money if you can afford to. Spreading the good vibes is free 😊

I always love Prof’s Trans Lifeline charity drives! The community really comes together to make positive change from them.

Oh I super haven’t seen it. Didn’t even finish season 2. I was responding to OPs post about it being boring for 3 seasons. My point stands.

I think you have it backwards. It’s ending in one season because they made 3 boring seasons and it wasn’t working.

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It’s not technically the same art. One is a newly commissioned piece of art and the other is a screengrab from the show, but yes. It is essentially the same art. I’d wager they were two different teams that didn’t catch it but that’s speculation.

I dunno, I watched Brandon Hanz’s seasons. Dude was fuckin nuts.

Who do you think is the most misunderstood character in magic?

Just anything to reduce format size will reduce power level.

I love this energy. I still really like the version of brawl Jimmy and Josh pitched years ago where everything had to have been in standard with the commander (works even better with the new larger standard). I’m also just partial to pioneer/modern only commander.

I mean, sure. That would be great. Obviously it would be great if he left, and I would 100% support it. My point is that it’s not as cut and dry for someone like him. He isn’t exactly a mega business that can afford to lose a chunk of income or anything.

I’m with you generally (I left over a year ago), but I think it’s different when your livelihood comes from there. The people you gotta convince to leave are his followers and the people accessing the site from there, not necessarily him.

I kind of always assumed this was the point

I thought it got delayed? Isn’t it in April now?

Like… are they giving intermissions? Even if I wanted to go see it, I can’t sit for 4 hours without getting up to pee

The easiest way to think about it is that parallel lives doesn’t make an extra token, it changes Ashling to say “create two tokens etc etc.”

One of the perks of that is it could have a smaller dev team like the older games had. Another perk is it would allow them to space out the legends and other mainline games out more. Give them extra dev time without more gap years.

It’s not a unique idea, but I do think it’s a good one. I want to see them branching out more. Making different types of games for different types of fans. I wouldn’t want it to replace any of the usual games but rather be an extra one on top of them.

You’re not wrong.

I can probably get you one but it wouldn’t be till I’m home later tonight.

You know, if I was a group of actors having thousands if not millions stolen from me like this, I’d really consider suing them for it.

Okay but that’s not an interpretation. It’s a pretty known fact in game design. Most players do not know how to optimize for their own fun. If there is a game incentive to do something that is less fun, most players will absolutely ruin their own fun to do so.

nature of the beast. But unless we’re going to start banning left and right, there isn’t a tool to do that.

This is a tool. Making subformats. Bringing back brawl and other variants. If people like commander as is, they can stick with it. But if people want to play with these issues reduced, do it.

is only going to get worse. That is the nature of ongoing games. That’s just as true for commander as it was for every other format. And sure commander is more resistant to it than other formats, but it’s not immune.

So how do you solve it. The only way to do that is remove cards from it. Thats the

Okay but we’re talking about a very real present problem with commander. That is power creep is really negatively impacting it. Years of ongoing design have meant curves are getting lower, play styles are getting pushed out, and decks are homogenizing. That’s been an ongoing issue for years and