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Wow Moulder wasn't even top 14 gravy is going to be devastated
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I'm not that excited till I've confirmed the art and VA are good tbh

I remember what they did to Lute :(
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Oh, I thought it was going to be Enzo vs Cedric for the title at the Royal Rumble since they've been hyping it up forever.

P sure this was indeed planned
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bot who does Mothra save
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Hell yeah a fellow Gilbert top 5 (actually Edgar has probably kicked him out by now)

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I'll take the money

It'll plant the seeds for my ultimate upset special of Link winning the contest
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I'm almost okay with Marisa being Ayra so

A. I can actually get her to higher + levels easier
B. So Marisa is op as hell

On the other hand I won't complain if she's free either.
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Oh there is!

Hell yeah!

Does that mean she's the next Ayra or that she's the next Tempest Trials reward though.
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I was really hoping the red would be a certain other unit from that game instead of the alternate costume no one really wanted

Oh well at least I've got a superior blue mage to shoot for after failing to get Micaiah and her art isn't bad
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Probably more that if you started with the original you're probably more open to emulating. I'd love to play Thracia 776 or whatever but don't care enough to emulate it.

Granted I've played FE6 but kind of a weird situation there as to why I've played it.
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Conquest was perfectly fine though I didn't much care for the cast as a whole. Map design was definitely much better than Awakening's at least. Not as much with Birthright but.
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It is worth noting that I didn't binge Season 1 though. My viewing habits haven't changed-- though I don't think Season 1 had a mid season break either.
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Yeah I can't quite put a finger on why The Good Place isn't working for me but it's sad because I did like the first season a lot. I almost think I should just marathon it after the season is done-- they're taking awkward breaks as well which isn't helping. Like they should've made the 3 week or so break after they got on that train if at all possible. Instead they broke on I don't even know what.
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A "dig" is probably not quite the right word.

I mean GANON had this ridiculous Harth build he kept adding and adding to on the mercs board and kept saying it was the greatest thing ever and I'm pretty sure most of the abilities are stuff he created

I mean, it not being balance checked was more a product of the nature of the merc GANON created than intentionally releasing a "bad product"
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I'm really enjoying Happy! and Lethal Weapon.

I still like Lucifer but it's not the best season.

I've been watching The Good Place but something with it really stopped clicking with me this season. I think they got too heavily into the romance angles or something. I'm considering just dropping it honestly.
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I had to give Matthew a vote

Remaining 5 votes will go to Serra though.
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True story I have an W/B Avacyn deck with a bunch of hideous looking horror cards in it like the Vebulid so I'll have your back on that when I win
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Sacred Stones too high.
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It's hard to have a ton of nostalgia for something when WWE won't let you forget any of it.
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Heihachi is a tough one to price because on feats that don't involve surviving he's not really that impressive. That being said he was a 2/week in M3 and I made him a 4/week in M4 because you can't deny catching bullets in your teeth, but honestly if he got in a fight in M4 I wouldn't be surprised if he was closer to the 2/week respect level because of the coloring from M3.

He's kind of an interesting case study in how much upkeep skews perception.

And yeah were I to remake Heihachi I'd just make Iron Fist his base ability and the pit thing (fully upgraded) one of his upgrades. I think he's good merc there even though it's not clear if Kanzaris thinks so !
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It's not like MtG's design principles have changed all that much since the first GDS. Like the specifics are going to be different but overall if you understand the first two well it can only help for the most part.
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At 7 days a week with no holidays and only two weeks of break a year this isn't even worth considering. Strong no.

5 days a week I'd probably still not do it because of how unfulfilling the "work" would be, especially since I can't count work on board projects for it, but it'd be something I'd vaguely consider at least.
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Yeah that's what I was assuming on the essays. They're probably used in later rounds but I doubt they're even read in this round.
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I assumed any stage with servants that weren't Waver or Merlin was good for that quest
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Well I got an email saying I advanced to the multiple choice-- anyone who did the thing not get one?
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Fall from grace implies he had grace to begin with.
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Well first of all unstable is its own thing from Unglued not Future Sight.

Things like Conspiracy and Commander though-- not really like Future Sight. They're a bit more normalized and focused I feel. There are similarities but I don't think they're really the same thing. You may be right that MtG would treat them as the same thing, though.
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Now on the trainwreck note... Alliances...
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It's not something I'd want to see often, but there is a certain charm to Future Sight being so unique without being a trainwreck and I do think seeing a set like that once in a while isn't a bad thing.
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Yeah I still love it too but I'm a big fan of limited so not being able to experience that aspect is gonna put it below a lot of the sets I have played limited in

But conceptually that block is aces for sure
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I would've almost certainly voted Future Sight or Planar Chaos for favorite set were I playing during that time. I took a break between 2006 and 2009 though. Bad timing!
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Aura Swap was only on one card!

RIP Aura Swap :(
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I made a monk deck back in the days of saviors

I wanted to put a good sweep card in to synergize with COUNT THE NUMBER OF CARDS IN YOUR HAND

Turns out most monks were green and while I did splash red that left my only option the awful Barrel Down Sokenzan

Maybe I should've made it Green/White to use Charge Across the Arabica
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It's actually four if that makes you feel better unless I"m missing one for some reason

Course green is probably the color that could most efficiently use the idea and of course it's not one of the colors that has it
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I guess my problem with channel is you already kinda had it done better with other mechanics like gempalm cycling. It wasn't unusable as much as boring. As I edited in though Evoke is channel done right I think.
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Count the number of cards in your hand wasn't the worst idea-- could see that being cleaned up and keyworded in a potentially interesting way, but yeah I don't think the other two were salvageable mechanics for anything interesting. Evoke I guess would be channel done right. Sweep is just, that's never going to be an interaction you even want to be good I don't think.

I also kinda liked Epic in a way though it's not really a mechanic you can do often and I think the only one that was done in an interesting way for deck construction was the white one.

Overall a lot more bad than good there though for sure.
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Yeah I in fact specifically said Betrayers as my favorite because I didn't think Saviors added anything of value (and noted as such)
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Random note if anyone can be dqed from these things in this round it's gotta be "Kamigawa fanboy" since I don't think people, especially those in mtg creative, particularly liked that block, so I'll definitely be amused if I don't make it to the next round (as I understand it you're basically auto-in as long as you coherently answer the questions though?)

Kamigawa was awesome though and I'll fight anyone. I still have a samurai deck and a ninja deck as well as Masumaro First to Live and Sakashima the Imposter commander decks. Ninja deck is wacky as hell with a bunch of manifest cards and non-ninja creatures in it (manifest is such a ninjaey mechanic I'd love a ninjutsu card with manifest interactions) since what can you really do the creature type wasn't fleshed out much but yeah.
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Yeah had no idea what to do with Vanessa Lewis since I don't know what the top end of Virtua Fighter was supposed to be. She is one of the more recognizable characters from the franchise though so I didn't dumpster her. Totally fine with Virtua Fighter being dumpstered though (why is Vanessa Lewis here and not Wolf Hawkfield though)
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Bite sized versions of my answers.

New evergreen mechanic: Kicker. Feel like it's a good way to help unpack how triggered abilities function for new players, and is a strong balancing tool/safety valve on powerful enters the battlefield effects. Versatile and not tied to a specific theme. Fairly easy to understand and doesn't necessarily contribute a lot of card bloat.

Removed evergreen: Hexproof. Unfun to play against, particularly for new players who may have difficulty understanding how to deal with it entirely as it often causes non-intuitive decisions to be optimal (using a board wipe to kill a single hexproof beast is kinda silly). Also kinda redundant with other evergreen keywords like Indestructible. Proposed Shroud as the superior untargetable keyword to be evergreen.

Second chance: Splice. Splice is a neat mechanic but the costs were generally not done in a way that made the splice interesting or feasible to use (need more things like Veil of Secrets and Horobi's Whisper) and making it tied to something less narrow than arcane spells (like sorceries, instants of cost >= x, etc) would make it something that plays better with the rest of the cardbase.

Favorite set: Betrayers of Kamigawa. Loved the flavor, had a lot of interesting mechanics that were balanced and fun to play with, and Kamigawa is probably the most fun I've had playing in limited. Unfortunately uhhh, stepping out of limited the set doesn't contribute much to the game as a whole. It's sort of on this island with cards being overly self referential. Related issue the new mechanics were poorly named. Ninjutsu and Bushido were great but too married to Samurai or Ninja flavor, which you obviously can't just be tossing into any world setting at will.

Least favorite set: Mirrodin. Felt really powercreepy at the time. Decks were more homogeneous right out of the gate with the high artifact concentration and poor balancing even at the common level (affinity so dumb with artifact lands). Best aspect of it is it introduced equipment (and more powerful non-mana based artifacts in general) which I felt were definitely good for the game in the long run for a lot of reasons.

Strength: That the expansion sets are designed in a fairly stand alone manner when it comes to balance and stuff. Lets new players basically jump in on whatever they want and have a functional deck, and enables a lot of different play environments with limited play.

Weakness: New sets don't pay quite the amount of attention to the existing card base that I'd like. Be it through infinite combos slipping through a bit too often, cards being strictly better than other cards or whatever else.

Change: Said I'd change the design paradigm for new sets and include a non heavily themed expansion once in a while in between the blocks. Kinda like the base sets or modern masters but with less focus on being new player friendly/premium cards and less reprints. It'd be nice to do something like I dunno make some more creatures in the samurai creature type, bring back an old mechanic like Cipher, throw in some fanservice cards tied to an old fan favorite legend like I dunno Baron Sengir, without devoting the entire world setting to it. Would increase player retention rate over time I think.
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