Unless they're adding locations and limiting the game to 6 turns (usually), I'm not really interested.

I'm sure there's a lot of people out there excited for Marvel stuff in MTG. Good for them I guess. Personally, I'm more interested in WOTC focusing on creating new, interesting stories and planes, but that ship sailed a long time ago sadly. I guess eventually the in-game universe will collect dust next to battles, world enchantments, fortifications, and a low power standard format.

the marvel super hero set isnt released til mid june

Solidarity forever. Solidarity forever.

I logged in with my old account. I got a lot of stuff but no marvel.

Ub? I sleep

I know when they made the new starter decks for foundations, I think I recieved them? was a while ago, feels like more than a year ago. previous account will probably be better since youd have your existing cards rather than starting fresh since I dont think they give new players much?

I haven't played in over a year because my game wasn't working. I have a new computer. I am interested in downloading again because of Marvel. What will I get if my previous account is found and what will I get with a new account from Marvel set?

To continue to improve the experience for all players, we are releasing our next iteration of Brawl matchmaking on Tuesday, May 19. This will be an experimental and major change to how Brawl matchmaking works so that it prioritizes finding opponents within similarly matched commander tiers disregarding the skill level of the opponent. We expect this change will increase the number of matches of similarly powered commanders while maintaining reasonable matchmaking times. With stricter commander-based matchmaking, we aim to pair players with similar expectations against each other and allow more space for experimentation. This is an intentional change to make unranked Brawl less competitively focused.

Interesting tidbit about Brawl, I always liked it for an easier buy-in via singleton and the ability to play Commanders I didn't want to commit to in paper, but there was a very wide range of power levels.

Wow, I was expecting no changes so quite a list!

Gotta read through all of their reasoning before I comment further, but looks like it'll be a shakeup for a few formats

Edit: I forgot Cori-Steel Cutter was even legal in Pioneer so not surprised it got hit. Not crying over Phlage, was always busted and maybe this will give us more interesting Boros/x decks. Lotus Field is ???, I don't think I know enough about Amulet Titan to weigh in on this ban. Will be interesting to see if the Violent Outburst unban brings back Rhinos as a deck, I can see Living End becoming much more meta now at least. Jitte is really interesting, I don't know what decks want it but it seems like it could bring some new strategies to the front. And Pauper seems good, unsure if Bonder's Ornament will do nothing or need to be rebanned, but it's worth seeing how it shakes out.

Violent Outburst was initially banned in a very different version of Modern, just a hair over two years ago.

Is it not a concern that "just a hair over two years" later the power level of the format rose enough that WOTC believes a strategy is no longer a problem?

Anyway, no changes in standard is surprising.

I don't understand the reasoning on Lotus Field, and the complete lack of discussion about Stormchaser's Talent. The later was one I really wanted to see hit, regardless of UR's position in the meta. It just creates really unfun play patterns that I'm super tired of seeing.

Lotus Field getting removed because of worries about Amulet Titan after the Phlage ban seems kind of premature too.

While I think Standard's power level is way too high (with no end in sight), I've found I do enjoy watching it again. It just seems like some of the matches quickly get to the point of no return with all these value engines and high power cards.

Splitting UR into 3 archetypes is pretty helpful for WotC getting the UR % down... Adding Izzet Prowess, Spellementals, and Lessons gets a whopping 37% of the field.

Just caught up with this, lots of cool tidbits about Reality Fracture:

• Tam is an artificial person created by Jace to be his spy in the regular Multiverse
• Tam's card includes an unnamed mechanic that represents Jace in his role of The Theorist, that they've described as "really crazy"
• Reality Fracture is described as "Planar Chaos"-like but will NOT break the color pie
• Hexhaven features 5 ally-colored schools that mirrors the enemy color schools because people kept asking for more Strixhaven schools
• There will only be a single Commander deck for Reality Fracture

Thankfully, my proxies are all print-to-demand, and a lot fucking cheaper.

I'm kinda new to this hobby compared to other people and even so, from time to time I just want to quit when I see this kind of bullshit

Exactly, and add on top the straight up lying that it was print to demand!

Couldn’t even discount the extras instead of destroying them because they need to maintain the high price at all times. Crazy.

@andrew ugh. I hate capitalism.We gotta have artificial scarcity, so let's print a ton, then tell people they only have a short time to order, then burn everything that wasn't sold in a week.

This is how they get us back in 😜

Me, how has successfully quit MTG for over a year: do I log in to claim this, just in case?

100% the money came with a big legal document attached to it saying "Don't take any legal action against us or give us any bad publicity"

Oh wow, I've seen memes with better Photoshop than that! Honestly I'm at all shocked, I expect wotc would be compensating artists with reduced floggings instead of money if they could get away with it.

It's such a weird situation. Like on one hand, these kinds of things don't happen as a mistake. You can't accidentally Photoshop another artist's work and submit it as your own. But at the same time, it seems weird that an accomplished artist would submit such an obvious hack job. With the last time we saw plagiarism (Jason Felix and Crux of Fate) it was with a relatively unknown fanartist, but this is literally the previous art for the same card, which was massively relevant in basically every format it's legal in. There's no way someone wouldn't notice, which makes it even stranger that the art directors did not.

Just a terrible situation, and while I don't think there's any excuse for this, there's still a lot of questions on how this ended up ever going to print in the first place

Yea I think you are right on this. They just trust Dan and no one wants to challenge that perhaps.

@Postmortal_Pop @mike It recently came out that Dan Frasier's art in The One Ring box toppers poorly copied a previous One Ring artist.You can see in the left that the ring is blobby and the script hasn't entirely been blurred outFrasier admitted to copying it in as reference art and then not properly painting over it, and apologized to everyone including the original artist.WOTC apologized for not catching it, and is now paying the other artist and crediting her work in the digital version

@mike perhaps WOTC is overworked and understaffed because they're going through layoffs while also having to push out 7 sets a year.Maybe they barely even glanced at the final result because it's Dan Frasier and they know he does good work. Or maybe it got lost in the shuffle.