Current Events > Magic the Gathering bans "racist cards"

Topic List
Page List: 1, 2, 3, 4
Mezcla
06/10/20 9:48:04 PM
#1:


https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depictions-racism-magic-2020-06-10

me 2 minutes ago: "Racist cards? lmao how racist could they--"




oh

---
Sig
... Copied to Clipboard!
Smashingpmkns
06/10/20 9:50:37 PM
#2:


Holy moly at those cards lol
---
Clean Butt Crew
... Copied to Clipboard!
ModLogic
06/10/20 9:51:36 PM
#3:


... Copied to Clipboard!
#4
Post #4 was unavailable or deleted.
Link43130
06/10/20 9:52:40 PM
#5:


Forgettable posted...
The gatherer ID for Invoke Prejudice is 1488 FYI
wooooooooooooow

---
Steam/XBL/PSN: Link43130
... Copied to Clipboard!
AlisLandale
06/10/20 9:53:10 PM
#6:


Okay, the one in the OP is in bad taste, probably was meant as an edgy joke, but surely thats the worst of...

*sees Cleanse*

holy crap! Lmao how did these ever get printed?

edit: op edited it in lol

---
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 9:53:17 PM
#7:


Additionally, these cards will be banned in all sanctioned tournament play.
I... don't think any of those were seeing a hell of a lot of play anyway.
... Copied to Clipboard!
#8
Post #8 was unavailable or deleted.
BudDupree48
06/10/20 9:53:24 PM
#9:


Lol

---
BANG BANG STEELER GANG
... Copied to Clipboard!
soulunison2
06/10/20 9:53:52 PM
#10:


fun fact, a white supremacist made the art for most of those cards
... Copied to Clipboard!
Vivec
06/10/20 9:55:38 PM
#11:


Forgettable posted...
If that's what it takes to get Cauldron Familiar deleted, I say bring it on.
Lmao

---
RebelElite791
... Copied to Clipboard!
Lost_All_Senses
06/10/20 9:55:44 PM
#12:


I was like "eh, light and dark...pretty different thing". Then I seen the Klansmen

---
Name checks out
"Stupidity is a spectrum, and we're all on it" - OfDustandBone
... Copied to Clipboard!
FortuneCookie
06/10/20 9:56:17 PM
#13:


Forgettable posted...
The gatherer ID for Invoke Prejudice is 1488 FYI




---
2020 going to be a CE kind of year ~ Panthera
... Copied to Clipboard!
Vivec
06/10/20 9:56:58 PM
#14:


Forgettable posted...
The gatherer ID for Invoke Prejudice is 1488 FYI
Really odd coincidence in this case if im not mistaken, but McNeill is a racist pos

---
RebelElite791
... Copied to Clipboard!
DemonBuffet
06/10/20 9:57:17 PM
#15:


Prices just skyrocketed on those cards lmao

---
Trololol
... Copied to Clipboard!
soulunison2
06/10/20 9:57:50 PM
#16:


DemonBuffet posted...
Prices just skyrocketed on those cards lmao

nah most of them were already on the reserved list so no chance theyd get reprinted , they were already expensive
... Copied to Clipboard!
Medussa
06/10/20 9:58:58 PM
#17:


this is not the way, imo.

don't erase the past, learn from it, change, and be better going forward.

---
Boom! That's right, this is all happening! You cannot change the channel now!
fluffy-butt fluffy-butt oh fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy-butt *pop* bum-bum-bum-bum
... Copied to Clipboard!
DemonBuffet
06/10/20 9:59:49 PM
#18:


soulunison2 posted...
nah most of them were already on the reserved list so no chance theyd get reprinted , they were already expensive

6 months ago a copy of cleanse sold on mercari for $14 bucks lol

---
Trololol
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:00:17 PM
#19:


soulunison2 posted...
nah most of them were already on the reserved list so no chance theyd get reprinted , they were already expensive
Invoke Prejudice and Crusade are the only ones that have any useful value in format they used to be playable in, and even then not a whole lot.
... Copied to Clipboard!
kirbymuncher
06/10/20 10:00:42 PM
#20:


AlisLandale posted...
*sees Cleanse*

holy crap! Lmao how did these ever get printed?
I don't think cleanse is nearly as bad as invoke prejudice. in terms of mtg setting / lore, especially back then, black's end of the colour pie was all the "unholy" creatures. zombies, vampires, skeletons, that sort of stuff. and you can see that's what most of the art is too. then white is sorta their enemy because they've got the paladins and the holy powers and whatnot, and at that point I tihnk cleanse is a pretty bad naming choice for the card but it's understandable

invoke prejudice on the other hand is like... art that has abolsutely nothing to do with anything mtg and they could have put literally any other picture in thta place instead but they somehow ended up with that one

---
THIS IS WHAT I HATE A BOUT EVREY WEBSITE!! THERES SO MUCH PEOPLE READING AND POSTING STUIPED STUFF
... Copied to Clipboard!
MrCokeacola
06/10/20 10:01:25 PM
#21:


At least this card is still ok.


---
"GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site." ~ CJayC
... Copied to Clipboard!
N3xtG3nGam3r
06/10/20 10:01:56 PM
#22:


They taking out the card to banish all white creatures though right?

---
ASUS B-150 Gaming MoBo| Intel CORE i5 6500k @ 3.5GHz | 32GB DDR4 | 2TB HDD | 600w PSU | nVidia GTX 1080Ti 11GB GDDR5-X
... Copied to Clipboard!
UnholyMudcrab
06/10/20 10:02:27 PM
#23:


N3xtG3nGam3r posted...
They taking out the card to banish all white creatures though right?

Close your account
---
... Copied to Clipboard!
nemu
06/10/20 10:04:26 PM
#24:


I'm confused on the Cleanse one. Is there some symbolism that's not as blatant as the other one?
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:05:10 PM
#25:


nemu posted...
I'm confused on the Cleanse one. Is there some symbolism that's not as blatant as the other one?
Go take a shower and think about it.
... Copied to Clipboard!
Middle hope
06/10/20 10:06:53 PM
#26:


ModLogic posted...
next it'll be racist to say black cats are unlucky.
African-American cats*

---
... Copied to Clipboard!
Zero_Destroyer
06/10/20 10:07:09 PM
#27:


I actually don't think Cleanse was intentional. Black mana-type cards had a Halloween-ish, unholy theme, and white mana types had religious themeing, so the name of the card makes sense, and the terminology "Black creatures" is consistent in game because it's referring to black mana-type creatures, with creatures being a card type in-game.

It's really unfortunate though because if you're not a player it looks awful lmao. I could be wrong; I don't know of the artist has racist beliefs on record. If he does, he likely helped sneak that under the radar and had plausible deniability.

Invoke Prejudice is fucked however esp with the 1488 thing. jesus

---
Enjoy movies and television? Check out my blog! I do reviews and analyses.
http://fictionrantreview.wordpress.com/ (The Force Awakens spoiler review up!)
... Copied to Clipboard!
SolidShadow3
06/10/20 10:07:46 PM
#28:


MrCokeacola posted...
At least this card is still ok.
Love it

---
By Odin's beard!
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:09:06 PM
#29:


SolidShadow3 posted...
Love it
It's seven fucking mana. If that's your win condition, why?
... Copied to Clipboard!
CapnMuffin
06/10/20 10:15:16 PM
#30:


lmao holy shit

Go to McNeills website and you can tell it was 100% intentional

---
Parent or parent-to-be? Come join us: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1027-all-things-parenthood
NNID : CapnMuffin | XBGT : Capn Muffin
... Copied to Clipboard!
Evening_Dragon
06/10/20 10:16:54 PM
#31:


Ah c'mon, this is stupid.

Except for Invoke Prejudice, yikes.

---
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
Guide, it's Guide, it's that Guide
... Copied to Clipboard!
nemu
06/10/20 10:18:34 PM
#32:


Questionmarktarius posted...
Go take a shower and think about it.
If we're going to go down the rabbit hole of attributing every usage of black and white to skin color, then that's going to be a long ass fall.
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:19:42 PM
#33:


Evening_Dragon posted...
Ah c'mon, this is stupid.

Except for Invoke Prejudice, yikes.
Outside of the multiple fuckups Invoke Prejudice got into, the rest are just meaningless gestures involving cards that are either obsolete or never really had much use anyway.
... Copied to Clipboard!
MrCokeacola
06/10/20 10:19:45 PM
#34:


I'm so happy I quit playing MTG years ago. Stupid gacha game ran by idiots.

---
"GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site." ~ CJayC
... Copied to Clipboard!
RadiantAdolin
06/10/20 10:22:58 PM
#35:


Yeah, cleanse is honestly looking unintentional, but it's also practically unplayable anyway so no big loss.

Holy shit at invoke prejudice though
... Copied to Clipboard!
Hayame Zero
06/10/20 10:25:08 PM
#36:


Uhhh, yeah, I can understand why. I'd imagine most players who would even have them in their deck in the first place would be trying to make an edgy, "ironic" joke.

---
...I think I'm done here...
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:25:41 PM
#37:


nemu posted...
If we're going to go down the rabbit hole of attributing every usage of black and white to skin color, then that's going to be a long ass fall.
The Weatherlight saga has all sorts of bad things happening to or involving the black guy, who then becomes a villain.
https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Crovax
... Copied to Clipboard!
Phantom36
06/10/20 10:27:17 PM
#38:


Congratulations everyone, mission accomplished. All issues of systemic racism and police brutality are completely solved now that Magic: The Gathering has repaced a few cards and the show Cops is canceled.

---
The Phantom has spoken!
... Copied to Clipboard!
RadiantAdolin
06/10/20 10:28:04 PM
#39:


Also I used to have one of these cards, pradesh Gypsies. Nice to see some actual acknowledgment of anti-romani racism.
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:31:52 PM
#40:


so, um, is anyone else scouring old sets looking for shit Hasbro missed?
... Copied to Clipboard!
MrCokeacola
06/10/20 10:32:22 PM
#41:


Questionmarktarius posted...
The Weatherlight saga has all sorts of bad things happening to or involving the black guy, who then becomes a villain.
https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Crovax
I don't see anything wrong here.


---
"GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site." ~ CJayC
... Copied to Clipboard!
Evening_Dragon
06/10/20 10:34:14 PM
#42:


Phantom36 posted...
Congratulations everyone, mission accomplished. All issues of systemic racism and police brutality are completely solved now that Magic: The Gathering has repaced a few cards and the show Cops is canceled.

Was someone arguing this, or are you just making a stupid post?

---
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
Guide, it's Guide, it's that Guide
... Copied to Clipboard!
#43
Post #43 was unavailable or deleted.
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:36:43 PM
#44:


MrCokeacola posted...
I don't see anything wrong here.
Too bad.

Wizards deserves to be roasted for panic-banning cards nobody really used anyway, in an overreaction to an epic fuckup pileup.
... Copied to Clipboard!
RadiantAdolin
06/10/20 10:37:07 PM
#45:


MrCokeacola posted...
I don't see anything wrong here.
That's an alternate timeline.
... Copied to Clipboard!
GallisOTK
06/10/20 10:38:49 PM
#46:


Forgettable posted...
The gatherer ID for Invoke Prejudice is 1488 FYI

YIKES
---
"WHAT THE HELL'S GOIN' ON OUT HERE!?" ~ Vince Lombardi
https://imgur.com/rDu2AJS
... Copied to Clipboard!
soulunison2
06/10/20 10:41:07 PM
#47:


MrCokeacola posted...
I'm so happy I quit playing MTG years ago. Stupid gacha game ran by idiots.

the fun is in drafting bro
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:43:46 PM
#48:


... Copied to Clipboard!
RadiantAdolin
06/10/20 10:45:19 PM
#49:


Questionmarktarius posted...
https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=19811
Okay, I'm bad at this.
Is thay supposed to be racist?
... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius
06/10/20 10:46:41 PM
#50:


RadiantAdolin posted...
Is thay supposed to be racist?
I dunno. I'm bad at this.
... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List
Page List: 1, 2, 3, 4