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Shipping costs always kill these Kickstarter campaigns for me. $30 for shipping is just too much and then comes VAT on top.

Wizards would never post a poll like this. Theirs would be "how excited for TMNT are you? Very! Extremely! OMG SO EXCITED!"

As I said in another reply, my son sent this to me from a YouTube channel that does videos about magic.

@nocturne @mike I wonder, was this poll really posted by Wizards? I didn't see a link to the original.The answer options could be an effort to dulute the "no" percentages so that the "yes" looks bigger in comparison.

To me, kinda, reads as indifferent plus. So I see two positives, one negative, and one neutral.

My son sent the poll to me, he said it was from a YouTube channel that does videos about magic. He did not say what channel it was though.

The odd thing about this poll is that there is only 1 positive response. There's no "Really excited", it's just No and two that also mean No.

The worst part is I'm sure someone at Wizards is looking at this feedback, cross-checking the sales numbers, and comes away thinking that TMNT and Spiderman are bad franchises.

The reality is mentally I'm just now coming down off the Final Fantasy expansion. I will be looking forward to the Avatar expansion which releases... 3 months in the past? Oh.

They've simply got to slow down the number of releases.

Cross franchise sets are getting old really fast. I want an internally consistent lore, dammit.

At this point you might as well just start doing stuff like faithfully reprinting the entire urza saga or something and going back to fewer releases

Bought more Lorwyn to draft through those difficult times!

Are you excited to see MTG run out of ideas and turn to the fortnite strategy of franchise collabs.

No

Fuck no

Please god no

Anything but that...

Check out those AI squirtles in the last picture

Ah, yes, all the great characters such as

Michelangelo, Michelangelo, and Michelangelo.

That is awesome!

Something like [[Nyxborn Hydra]]?

I've run the Urzaplex in a competitive red pauper deck, and the only issue I see is that you don't have any low cost creatures to hide behind while you get all three Urzas. I found that adding a few creatures with an X cost or another mana-variable cost helped out as you can cast them cheap as 1/1s if you get stuck, or as 10/10s if you draw them late. These also make great hate magnets.

said offending snow-covered Gestapo officer Shipdit

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Shipdit, who dropped out of high school before they covered German history

This article has clauses that go harder than most parody today

I haven't seen jokes stacked like this since Bojack wrapped

One of the first decks I ever played competitively was an artifact/red deck during Urza's block constructed that I had seen from him. He of course won the 1999 WC with a better busted version of it too, which I also built for casual play. I loved that deck and still do, some of the most fun I ever had was ramping into Wildfires and Temporal Apertures! I will always think of him when I think of those days.

I didn't realize just how much he was the GOAT too. 5 Pro Tour titles and 2 World Championships. Absolutely amazing career and a truly amazing guy.

Damn, sad to hear. Everything anyone's ever said about the guy has been nothing but compliments, and to be taken so young... Fuck cancer.

I accompanied my friend to a random LGS in Germany sometime last year. In there, the owner told me it was the LGS Kai Budde frequents and usually played in all the prereleases at. He also showed me his signature on a poster on the wall ("If you're actually as into MTG as your friend claims, you should recognize this signature." is how the conversation started. I did.) That's also where I learned of his battle with cancer and that the prognosis was dire. Despite not really being very enfranchised in MTG over the last few years, I've thought back to that interaction and to Kai Budde quite a few times since then.

I'm not entirely sure where I was going with that. Just sharing what popped into my mind.

Truly GOAT. Fuck cancer.

Rest in peace to an absolutely amazing player and person.