Ah, yes, Magic: The Gathering, the card game where the battlefield can include an anime waifu, a furry anime waifu, Rick Grimes, Optimus Prime, Godzilla, Gandalf, a Space Marine, Eleven (from Stranger Things), Lolth, Rainbow Dash, Chun-Li, Inigo Montoya, the Hexcore, and the Battle Bus.
What happened to Magic?
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Its company decided casting a wider net to get more money was more important than keeping internal consistency within their game.
Game is set in a multiverse.
Undoubtedly bait, but since someone could easily be this moronic:
The characters and locations from "Universes Beyond" and similar products are explicitly excluded from MTG's multiverse. It does not resemble the multiverse of the MCU or whatever. It isn't a collection of branching timelines or possible realities (except the 1001 Rabiahs).
The Game is set in a multiverse.
Those are based though. Especially Rainbow Dash.
Found an autistic gay moron. Every real man likes either rarity or applejack
You should have abandoned MtG years ago for many reasons, but if you're seeing the game turn into Fortnite and degenerate gambling behavior purely in service of a secondary market of professional scalpers, that should be a pretty good reason to drop the game right now.
I have. After Nexus of Fate was announced. And in hindsight I chose the last moment to escape this cesspit. (In 20/20 hindsight I should have quit around RTR.)
They know what makes most money and chase that direction.
Making good games with integrity without chasing mindnless consoomer wallets means purposefully making less money than you could be making. A single paywhale throwing money at hecking quirky collaborations is more desirable customer than 20 people who just want to play the game.
>What happened to Magic?
It made its inevitable transition into cardboard funkopops. There is a sizable market of people out there who will buy fricking anything if it has a popular IP slapped on it. They will also buy it in bulk because of bad spending habits.
Sure, you might squeeze out the players who propped up your game for years, but acquiring whales who will drop ten times as much money if they see Fortnite on a card is worth it in Hasbro's eyes.
FAT
RAT
haha rat you need to take it easy on the cheesy
>People finally get up in arms about Secret Lairs being totally out of control
>They move on to the next, even bigger scam, licensed sets, and lean into it super hard until they ruin that
it's just standard corporate dipshit think.
>What happened to Magic?
they lost to yugioh and so they have to pander to random audiences for attention.
mtg grogs will seethe but they know this to be true deep down inside - if people actually gave a shit about MTG as a brand still, they would buy it and wotc wouldn't have to do this shit
No ygo is also shit. This was not a win/loss scenario. Both are worthless trash that fell off cliffs.
Magic is doing better than it ever had before, chud.
FRICK FAB
They're missing Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight. And Benito Mussolini. The Blue Meanie. Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie.
Robocop
Terminator
Captain Kirk
Darth Vader
Lo Pan
Superman
Every single Power Ranger.
Bill S. Preston.
Theadore Logan.
Spock, the Rock, Doc Oc, and Hulk Hogan.
poor chuck norris
He would have lost to Mr Rodgers eventually anyway. At least he went out gloriously.
>And Benito Mussolini.
on a sled.
They did that, it was called War of the Spark
>And Benito Mussolini.
I wonder how long Fascist Italy would have lasted if Mussolini wasn't so focused on muh new Roman Empire and had less moronic underlings.
It easily could've lasted all the way up until the late 80s-early 90s if he had stayed outta the war. The Allies had no opinion on Fascism after all, they just had beef with Axis nations.
Oh frick that takes me back.
Thank you so much for that, anon
Eldraine already had the Black Knight
Does Diamond Dallas Page have protection from post Malone?
Or was it degeneration X that can block Optimus prime and not have trample damage due to the Suck it typal?
Robocop - Esper Sentinel
Terminator - Solemn Simulacrum
Captain Kirk - Captain Rex Nebula
Darth Vader - Syr Konrad, the Grim
Lo Pan - Nekusar, The Mindrazor
Every single Power Ranger - Mechtitan Core
Bill S. Preston - ????
Theadore Logan - ????
Spock - Aether Channeler
The Rock - Shakedown Heavy
Doc Oc - Queen of Ice
Hulk Hogan - Bonecrusher Giant
I can also hear it now. After all these years, thank you anon.
WotC doesn't need your money. If all you want to do is play Magic, then just proxy everything yourself (extra based points for making proper counterfeits with the actual card back)
You're the reason that LGSs lose money and hapless players get scammed by fake cards. Frick you it's not based to do something illegal when you're hurting the little guys.
If I ever played with you and saw you playing a fake I'd jump across the table pull your cards out of their sleeves and rip them up in front of you.
You wouldn't do shit, champion
>You're the reason that LGSs lose money
They lose money because they're trying to sell a product which is lacking demand.
>and hapless players get scammed by fake cards.
No one said anything about selling counterfeit cards, moron/schizo/shill (pick whichever is appropriate).
Using a proxy for a valuable card which one owns but does not want to subject to wear is totally unobjectionable. Booster packs literally supply their own in-deck proxies for dual-faced cards. Why should I not be able to use one something else?
Opposition to proxies for cards one doesn't own is still absurd. It's cardstock with text printed on it. Why does it need to come from a card manufacturer or cost excessive amounts of money? As long as no one is trying to fraudulently exchange them, I fail to see the problem.
This mentality only works if you keep to yourself. If you encourage everyone else to use proxies also, that is going to make LGSes lose money.
The sad fact is a lot of proxy schizos are moronic and are so afraid of proxies not being accepted widely that they just have to remind everyone 24/7 to use proxies instead of buying cards and attack anyone who doesn't support proxies.
The more important question is, who are they race swapping?
No one, since all the white characters are israelites, not whites.
Wotc's parent company Hasbro is primarily focused around selling kids toys in an era where toy sales for kids has been going down the shitter.
Because of this they have been leaning hard on their subsidiaries like Wizards to bring in the money.
Wizards is the most profitable of these subsidiaries and so Hasbro has spend the last 5 or so years changing the leadership into peons meant to take everything vital from Wizards and turn it into quarterly cash injections for Hasbro.
This will continue until Hasbro crumbles in on itself or Wizards is a dried out husk.
This
How likely is Secret Lair: Genshin Impact?
Yugioh won, how can any Magic archetype stand up to the raw power that is Ojamas?
You forgot Ian Malcolm
Hey, don't forget the Doctor and my friend who has a sick Magnus the Red deck
>What happened to Magic?
Imagine being such a snowflake that you can't handle even seeing black people.
>Imagine being so unique that you can't handle even seeing black people.
That doesn't make sense
naw, this image sufficiently illustrates whats wrong with wotc's creative priorities in a succinct way.
>"we made this legendary character black, a woman, and in a combat role"
>"okay, how do those traits service her as a unique character in the story"
>"story?"
Hey now, at least 4 of them are major characters in their set. That counts for something, this definitely isn't just pandering to a demographic that will literally never get into MTG in signifigant numbers. Also Kaya's first appearance was a fricking driveby shooting lmao.
I don't want LOTR in Magic because LOTR is gay and I'm tired of pretending it isn't.
Nah, they haven't been self-aware enough to make a card like that since the 90's.
>hates LOTR
>hates black people
Believe it or not LOTR isn’t actually filled with Black folk. I know you’re a 16 year old moron who thinks the Amazon series is canon. Read a book anon, you’ll find a beautiful Anglo-Saxon mythology with equal roots in European Paganism and Roman Catholicism.
I don't have a problem with them being in the game, I have a problem with them being diversity bait. The interesting ones always get pushed to the side so characters like Kaya can get screentime, mostly because WOTC is pretty open about her existence being diversity bait. Which just makes her introduction funnier. Also most of them aren't even hot, but that's the coomer part of my brain talking.
>Read a book anon, you’ll find a beautiful Anglo-Saxon mythology with equal roots in European Paganism and Roman Catholicism.
I did read the Hobbit, it's been years but I thought it was alright. Just not enough to read the other books set in Middle Earth. I've never really liked fantasy and LOTR just sounds like the kind of generic fantasy that puts me to sleep. I don't care if it's a golden calf or not, I'm never going to be interested in it or give it a fair chance.
Then you're a homosexual and your opinion is worthless. Like the rest of you
I don't mind seeing them but this weird obsession with forcing them everywhere is creepy.
Ok Black person
This is someone's fetishized obssession, these chicks aren't even proper characters, they're someone's spank fodder.
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We Wus KANGS
*RotKangz
Hey man, Morgan Freeman as gandalf would still be a killer pick
>Eowyn and Galadriel got BLACKed
I will never forgive Magic the Gathering
wotc's data says most magic players stay with the game for a period then leave.
so their theory is mtg should rape itself in a creativepy bankrupt fashion by chasing trends and properties to suck in as many fresh suckers as possible. Since in their eyes, all MTG players are temporary guests.
The only ones who aren't seen this way are the investors that they hope will be left holding the bag when card games become stale again. And by that time they'll have made obscene profits and can just sell off wotc to a chinese company or some shit.
The time to speak out was Godzilla. Instead you all said it was OK since the cards had subnames, but you ignored that any game worth playing is that way in large part due to the world it resides in having some integrity.
If you don't have an imagination and say only gameplay matters, this is the result. It becomes a soulless wasteland.
>Oh no what about magics amazing story ;-;
Magics story is ass and I am tired of you pretending it's some fricking LOTR shit. The original fricking phyrexian invasion is ended by Guff realizing he is omnipotent and can just make the entire fight end however he wants. It was fricking stupid.
And I am sorry, Gandalf fits in just fine as does Inigo Montoya
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE A FANTASY OR STORYBOOK THEMED CHARACTER IN THIS GAME THAT IS FANTASY SETTING AND ITS LATEST SET IS STORYBOOK!!!
do they have a card about jumping the shark?
It sold out.
Ayo wtf why Galadrielle is white???
So she can date black aragorn
You know with mschf secret lairs being a thing I always wondered why they never did a Lois Vuitton (since they kinda lean street wear), Dior , Hermes secret lair… I’d definitely run Christian Dior and just have a classier looking EDH deck
Or an edh deck box made by Hermes
Outside leather like their birkin bags inside their traditional H printed silk
Other than the LoTR cards, none of those actually ever see play.
I don't even think people buy Secret Lairs unless they're collectors and wouldn't ever play with them.
I might get these cards just to spite you and because I love the Princess Bride and 7th Sea
Why are the LotR cards built different?
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Look at fortnite and how profitable this is? Actually I am quite suprised it‘s not yugi doing this at first. Getting mangakas designing some cards or doing archetypes.
Same with pokemon, a pokemon designed by akira toriyama or oda would be really popular
Genuinely so happy that I quit magic about a year ago. Drafting was always fun, and EDH with friends could be a good time, but the direction the game's gone for the past few years has been awful and all of these crossovers are moronic. Who in their right mind wants to play a Dr. Who card? Gay.
Remember when the whole point of secret lair crossover cards was to have "analogous" cards in the actual game to avoid game breaking balance, like the Godzilla cards that had analogues in the Kaiju set?
I guess that didn't sell enough?
It was the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny.