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Also the angel seems to have become everyone's new waifu since they released her art.



It's a pretty strong design
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foolm0r0n posted...

pjbasis posted...

Why don't they just put in less side quests

That's a REALLY good question actually, for a lot of RPGs. But in Xenoblade, sidequests have 0 cost. You solve them totally automatically and they add no friction at all to the rest of the game, and some end up with some cool bonuses and stories. So it's fine that they added a bunch of pointless ones.

This isn't really true for a lot of the important ones that advance the development level, which have a few major optional goodies locked behind them (IIRC 2 skill trees per character, that entire town that develops, and some exclusive battle skills). Those, combined with the sheer quantity, make it just as tedious or more so than usual games.

But yeah if you don't care about any of the major rewards and just want some bonus gold/exp every once in a while, you can absolutely reap the rewards of the small subset of convenient sidequests.
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Pauper has always been a self-defeating format at all the places I've played at. It's unpopular because...it's unpopular. Yeah you can build 10 decks for the price of 1 Modern deck but it doesn't matter if there's no one else to play against. But good for you if you have an active scene for it! It seems kinda neat.
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So say what you will about the actual design and frame changes of the Saga cards, but the art on them has been incredible.
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You definitely shouldn't have to manually click through phases unless there's something you can actually do. Otherwise you can hit End Turn to auto-pass priority and put stops if you want to do something EOT.
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redrocket_pub posted...

Also, they seem to be relying on the very played out evulz scientist trope this time after avoiding that in the first movie.

OK but the way it played out was actually a good twist that built on plot points established in the first movie. It's one of the few things that felt that way!
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Anagram posted...

plucky earnest heroes versus monsters duking it out and whatnot. Building falling, scenes of scientists, all that stuff.

Well this also describes the movie perfectly. And it IS cheesy, it's just that "cheesy" has become what all Hollywood movies are like now thanks to Marvel movies.
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Really? I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

A lot of people are complaining that it's too actiony and I honestly don't understand it. The overemphasis on some of the ultimately pointless characters and the fight scenes taking place at night in the ocean were the worst parts of the original. I will gladly accept fixing those as a tradeoff for losing the slow, weighty fights.

Only thing I didn't like was the unceremoniously killing off Mako. And I guess the Fuji plot was dumb but it didn't take me out of it.

It didn't have the soul of the first movie, but tbqh a lot of the best parts of that soul went into the world and concepts, which are still mostly intact.
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Yeah that's kind of the problem. They didn't really account for their new crafting system and seemed to have a similar reward system to Hearthstone. They made it a little more generous, but the same progression doesn't work well for MTG because sets are twice as big and release more often, and you need 4x for a playset instead of 2x or 1x.

People are extra mad right now because they replaced the Mythic Wildcard from the vault with a random mythic while increasing the rate it opens. Based on feedback that people had too many Mythic Wildcards stockpiling back when the only sets were Ixalan and Rivals and so most mythics were bad.
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The NDA lifted on Thursday.

Spoilers: the economy is real bad right now

And just so I'm not being totally negative about it, the rest of the game seems great (in terms of look, feel, interface, etc.)! They just need to polish it up a little bit more and reduce some of the lag and some other minor things. It's frustrating because it's going to live or die based on how generous it is going F2P, and right now it's tuned WAY too low.
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Elemental Shaman needs a god damn curve. Even when it was a mediocre deck around Ungoro launch, it's biggest problem was that you had ONE good one-drop and nothing great to follow up with turn 2. So you still had to play the pirate and jade packages to fill in the holes the deck had. And now those are gone.
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Very dependant on Shaman getting good cards. Unless almost all of its class cards are awesome this set, it'll have almost nothing good in Standard. Even leading up to the Shamanstone meta it took about 3 straight expansions of Shaman getting staples as it slowly became a good deck.

Camden since you mention Valanyr, I'd reccomend Tarim if you don't have him. After playing with it, that card is nuts and probably just goes into every Paladin deck forever. It's good when ahead, it's good when behind, it's good at parity, it's only bad when you're REALLY far behind.
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Here's a silly deck that cockblocked me with memes at one star away from Rank 5 tonight. This combo does healing pings for one damage each until the turn clock times out...so it wasn't infinite but it was enough. ALSO needs the Unidentified Elixir that gives Lifesteal so only a 1/4 chance of it even being in the deck. I'd say I wasn't even mad for losing to such a ballsy combo, but......I was a little mad.
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Crafted a second Call to Arms and Tarim and climbed from 13 to 8 on an uninterrupted streak in Wild with my dudes. Deck's ok.
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skullbone posted...

Some aggro Druid lists already don't run any of those cards and now they get a 5 mana 4/8 taunt.

Aggro Druid can play a 5 mana 8/8 that only kills you sometimes and a 5 mana 5/5 that buffs another minion +3 without any deckbuilding restrictions. I won't write Odd Aggro Druid off until we see more cards, but I think you'd pretty firmly want to be in midrange if you're running this. But you're also losing the entire armor package besides Malfurion, so that deck would kind of need a 5/8 taunt to not die against aggro.
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up again
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I actually really like the Saga frame. It's weird but it's not Aftermath tier stupid.
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Since the aesthetics are based on Dota2 they could go really hard on cosmetics if they felt like it. I can't imagine they won't let you buy packs because that's just leaving money on the table, but the cost could be offset by other cash intake.
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Ok this actual design is fine but

Bought the Farm (uncommon)
1GW
Enchantment Aura
Enchant land you control
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until CARDNAME leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted land has T: Add GW to your mana pool.

This is an Oblivion Ring that ramps! Busted.
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This set looks sweeeeet
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azuarc posted...

Unfortunately, blizzard has yet to match their generosity when old gods came out two years ago.

I'd say with the legendary drop changes they are about as generous. They don't give quite as many packs out but it's essentially two free legendaries now. I think all the freebies from Mammoth year are still up, but they might be going away as soon as the next set hits (they said Maiev is for sure), so I'd get on that while you can.

You'll probably have to dust a lot of your collection to make a good deck. If you plan on sticking with the game, then collecting the next 3 sets will help you stay in Standard for the next two years. If dusting most every card you have sounds unappealing, or if you think you'll lapse in and out of the game, then honestly consider Wild. You'll still have to scrounge for dust, and it's not as new and shiny as Standard, but your cards won't "go bad."
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CoolCly posted...

it just occured to me that after infinity war 2 we no longer have the detailed roadmap of where we are going

There's gonna be Guardians 3 and Spiderman 2 but who knows what else is gonna happen!

Well they will probably introduce X-Men and/or Fantastic Four in some way, and for the next "event" they can do Galactus or Annihilation now that they have the FF rights.
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BlackDra90n posted...

30 bucks isn't that much but it just feels kinda bad for draft. I have no problems paying that much for a sealed or something though.

My LGS prefers sealed FNM for some reason, or maybe the store is just trying to push more packs. I hope it doesn't hold for A25 because $60 sealed is gonna suuuuck.
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Well in theory it should benefit f2p as well. The other people it's supposed to help are the ones who play mainly casually, can't reliably make it to rank 15 every month for the rare, and get smashed by meta decks when they show up on ladder. This should give them a wider window to get matched with players around that skill level. The only people who really get screwed are lapsed players and the 10-15 bracket of players.

Also I'm not exactly sure how generous the resetting is, but I only bothered playing to Rank 12 and got reset to rank 15. If you get reset to the tier floors then it should be even easier to coast at higher ranks once people are caught up.
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Definitely my most memorable card from Innistrad.

....because it was my fiance's first mythic she ever pulled. She was VERY underwhelmed. It still sits in her trade binder, unwanted, to this very day.
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I wouldn't go nuts on crafting because rotation is happening soon, but all three above decks are good options. Face Hunter is always an option as well. And I guess speaking of rotation, if you have any interest at all in Wild, Secret Mage is basically the same in both formats, you just jam 4 commons in somewhere (Mad Scientist and Forgotten Torch).

Also make sure to get your freebies. You should automatically get a free legendary weapon from Kobolds, you can get a free Death Knight by doing the Frozen Throne solo adventure intro, and opening 10 packs of a set you haven't opened before now automatically gets you a legendary.
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azuarc posted...

Someone's going to have to explain what Brode means by limiting interactivity with battlecries, because I'm not really seeing it. I mean, we already have that shaman card, Murmuring Elemental, which could double up the draws if we're looking at mill.

No, that's exactly it. Brann + Coldlight is a very powerful combo in mill decks. Especially if it's followed up by shadowcasters or something. If they want to make more effects that affect battlecries, they have to keep looking at Coldlight to see if it breaks mill decks in Standard.

Also since people mention counterplay, it should also be mentioned that it's very hard to counterplay against mill decks unless your deck is made of very cheap cards to dump your hand and kill the mill deck quickly. If there's a very powerful mill strategy, it could potentially lead to a Quest Rogue situation where it just eats slow decks alive and forces an aggressive meta shift.

Wild should be "interesting" if mill gets better. Also Molten Giant nerf = Naga Sea Witch buff???
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I wasn't expecting her, but no Lili reprint means she probably becomes the most expensive Modern card after Jace is reprinted here.

Also BOLD and completely baseless mythic predix:
Stoneforge Mystic upshift
Tarmogoyf because Wizards loves reprinting him
One of the green "permanent vomit" spells, probably Hypergenesis
That ghost assassin to represent Conspiracy 2 and to have a second planeswalker
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I was totally wiped last night after playing all 10 rounds of Magic, but I went 7-3 at that charity IQ. Wasn't enough to cash out (and I could have except for one misplay...), but I placed top 64 and got 4 IMA, 5 RIX,1 UN3 packs. I faced 10 different decks across the rounds so it's good to see Modern still pretty diverse so far.

Spoilers seem pretty par for the course aside from the upshifts. Feels good to have called the Thalia reprint and I'll probably buy into Humans over the next few months now. And Cursecatcher is a fantastic reprint for my fiance who is putting the finishing touches on Merfolk!
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This event is going to be streamed on Twitch starting soon if anyone is interested in watching. It's the first big Modern event since the unbans so it worked out pretty well for them.
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Well, if it was new comic character, it would release to critical praise and tons of internet buzz, then sell no issues and get cancelled within a year.

Since this is a MCU movie, it probably is just as successful, but generates a lot more controversy. The people who would want a hate it, who already exist and do hate it, would just be louder and more annoying without a comic book precedent. Though, that might just make it more successful.

I doubt the same movie gets made without the original comic to draw on. It would probably be a little more grounded.
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Nah, it's the Hunter Burton Memorial in North Texas. It's cool that there's multiple charity tournaments though! Outside of Extra Life events I wasn't really aware it was a thing.
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Not sure, I'm not really familiar with him or the current Modern pro scene.
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I'm probably too tired to do FNM today but there's a big Modern tournament in my area this weekend I'm thinking about going to. It's even for charity, so at least I'd be scrubbing out for a good cause!

Pretty hype for spoiler season too. Maybe we'll get some stuff over the weekend.
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DC is still doing their insane continuity stuff, they just keep it localized to events now and no longer uproot every single book whenever they want a crossover. The "main" books can keep doing their more accessible stuff while whatever story is doing an event can just go nuts. They finally found a way to have their cake and eat it too.
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They actually have a whole line of "almost-Marvel-but-not-quite" books coming out called "New Age of DC Heroes". That's not a totally fair summary because there are some revived classic DC concepts and pretty fresh takes in there, but in premise and style there's a few that seem pretty clearly inspired by certain Marvel characters.

Which, reading this topic, I can't exactly blame them for trying.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Lemire needs to escape Marvel, too.

He's currently on a book called The Terrifics at DC, which is a 100% shameless Fantastic Four ripoff starring Mr. Terrific, Plastic Man, Metamorpho, and Phantom Girl. I'm skeptical of his ability to do a team book since JLU wasn't that great, but it's a much smaller cast this time and it certainly sounds rad. Comes out next week I think.
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Oh, that gives me an idea.

Bunch of Punches (uncommon)
Sorcery
1RG
Target creature you control fights target creature an opponent controls, then you may copy this spell choosing a new target creature an opponent controls for the copy.

I can't figure out how to make it care about the creature having to die in order to do more punches without adding something like the Anger of the Gods rider (if a creature an opponent controls dealt damage this way dies this turn), but that would lead to some weird shit.
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