I'm doing it: I'm taking the dive into making MTG content! Here's where you can follow me & a quick thread about why you should.
One of the times I'll respectfully ask for social media boosts if you're so inclined.
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Gotta say maybe I’m a boomer but I’m pretty baffled by the idea that you should ban things just to shake formats up if the same decks have been good for too long. Isn’t that what set releases are for?
Bans are to fix egregious mistakes that can’t be corrected for in the meta
Gotta say maybe I’m a boomer but I’m pretty baffled by the idea that you should ban things just to shake formats up if the same decks have been good for too long. Isn’t that what set releases are for?
Bans are to fix egregious mistakes that can’t be corrected for in the meta
"We're not going make changes it's RCQ season."
"We're not going make changes there's a PT."
"We're not going make changes there's a new Set."
"We're not going make too many changes at once."
Feels like not letting any air out of the balloon is going to cost them at some point.
This is telling on yourself to a ludicrous degree. Magic has been incredibly additive & valuable in my life - if it’s not for you, you should simply stop playing and completely rethink your priorities
Magic players complain a lot but just in the spirit of this — I think the average “bad” limited set these days probably runs circles around the average “GOAT” limited set from 15 years ago. Magic is awesome
Guy standing up meme I think comparing volunteers who make tournament magic possible to the modern day legacy of slave patrols is pretty dumb
How about we just say what we think about the situation with the information given
You fool. You posted an interaction you had with your partner on the internet that you found funny because of a playful abrasiveness that highlights your closeness.
I’m about to interpret this interaction as if everyone involved hates each other for non projection reasons
So incredibly classy by Sam there to offer the concession or let Simon play it out. Losing in the finals and still *incisively* kind.
"It's your moment". What Magic should be about.
@yoloswagstudios
Why are we using the R word again, what possible purpose does it serve beyond "feeling slightly edgy is more important to me than offending disabled people"
@Bowiegrrl1
@NaomiBiden
*Sees a Bernie supporter who says they are happily voting for Biden*
"This seems like the time to voice my opinion that Bernie supporters are terrible and toxic!"
Maybe do some self-reflection here. Seriously, genuinely.
All these trans people who want to be friends with me and think I’m trans have just never met a cis man who is nice and chill because he can Intellectually Figure Out the Best Opinions to have about things. No I don’t like having a body
Resource for folks picking up Quint, here's what I was sometimes referencing during the tournament :D Going to post a testing diary entry I wrote the day before the tournament in a bit!!
@rcondon17
Quint combo deck got me to 7-0 at Explorer Metagame Challenge, deck is very unforgiving for mistakes (what mana to find or tap + planning ahead until combo), got it on 3rd try. But BR Vampires still got me the most packs.
@fireshoes
@mtgazone
@woodstockSSB
@TungusBusko
For what it’s worth, I definitely know and have seen what you’re talking about, but also have personal experience with trans/queer communities that explicitly don’t do this and have been incredibly welcoming to me (agender, basically haven’t transitioned outside of any pronouns)
@bloomfilters
I would much rather be trusted as a person than as a man or as a woman and I hope this is true even for people who actually are one of those things
You fool. You posted an interaction you had with your partner on the internet that you found funny because of a playful abrasiveness that highlights your closeness.
I’m about to interpret this interaction as if everyone involved hates each other for non projection reasons
Here's the entry of my testing diary I wrote in the final week before the tournament. Safe to say I think it holds up pretty well! So grateful for all the support
@yangmom2
@NatalieAuRose
@mattxiv
Believe it or not, if you step back for a second, **you** are the one continuously insisting that “birthing person” and “woman” are the SAME category here, and everyone else is trying to explain to you that they are DIFFERENT categories. Who is being reduced?
@woodstockSSB
@TungusBusko
Specific part of the competitive magic the gathering community I’m in may just be cracked but in general I think spaces w/ 1) older queer people and 2) some grass-touching activity even if comm is mostly online do a pretty good job evangelizing via openness rather than cliquiness
A deck having a consistent 55% WR over a long period or a 60% WR over a weekend is not a reason to ban, neither is having a kinda repetitive combo that’s a bit unfun to lose to
@gamixa3
@goofyahfella18
@RyanTonyNemo
@Marxist777
Again, I stress to you: why don’t they look the same to you? Homeless people who are disruptive to others are still PEOPLE, people with histories and personalities and who have done good and bad things, have people who love them, etc. You dont see homeless people as normal people
Anyways…….. I’m 28 today, and I feel WAY younger today than I did a year ago, in all the good ways ❤️
Sometimes you have to step back a little to move forward, and realizing that this past year has been one of the best decisions I’ve made - still trying to make it
I think if some of my college friends who were arrested by cops for protesting government salaried murderers of ppl in their community getting acquitted also played tournament magic, they would not make this analogy
Happy pride!
I’m not very visibly or clearly queer, but queer people make me believe a better world is possible, teach me a lot about myself, feel like home and family, defy borders, are multifaceted and flawed, and, importantly, exist.
I also am one! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The gap between commons and every other rarity has never been greater I think. It takes 54 cards before you get to the first common in 17L GIHWR.
All your decks must be built around uncommons and rares in modern limited. Commons are humble roleplayers and nothing more.
@RodneyBedell
Absolutely love that most of the way we date nowadays pushes men into thinking they are near-unlovable and pushes women into a totally fun mix of apathy/suspicion towards anyone who expresses interest in them
@TralfamadorianH
@jdcmedlock
You would definitely be a bit “clenched” if I told you I was going to flip a coin and if it came up heads you’d get $300K and GiveDirectly would get $500K
One thing I want to highlight about MTG ELO project is how many high-rating players there are who I've never heard of and seemingly have never played in a PT. Skill game but don't judge a player by their visibility.
Ex:
@hottrashbabe
@starfader
This sounds like a you problem that some people would probably be happy to fix but you shouldn’t be sharing in response to folks being upset about straight men in lesbian bars
@cervixpiercer
Have agreed with you on everything else but I think this is a miss. Cis men are, generally, more dangerous, the issue is you just can’t detect or police gender in an effective, non-transmisogynistic way. Protecting ourselves from abuse will keep out many cis men and *that*’s fine
@RuloMTG
I strongly dislike Commander and clown on it all the time, but it seems more unpleasant to me to make the huge privilege of competing at the highest levels of 1v1 play to be about your *dislike* of a different format that other people enjoy
fools surround themselves with "yes men". i have surrounded myself with "maybe men". whenever i say something, they chime in saying "is that true? could be, could be not. hard to say one way or the other. it's an open question if you ask me". that was also a mistake
It’s really fucking depressing to see the system of fame actively chewing up a young queer woman with a heart & drive to do right who has so far been able to hold onto her will & her soul. How we treat celebrities does matter, we clearly create some of the worst we see in them
@_celia_bedelia_
The threat that many Americans would vote third party *if* the Democrats don’t stop sending weapons to Israel could end up pressuring the Harris campaign to change that policy
That is the argument you have to contend with if you’re having this discussion seriously!
I mean…. Come on… obviously they are? Magic players are supposed to be good at critical thinking come on we’re better than this. We want the people who make the came to accurately report their mistakes, and they will sometimes make them.
@JasonILTG
Just want to say I agree that it’s not crazy to think those things are connected and it sucks, luckily you’re going to be able to continue to force their hand on this
@gamixa3
@goofyahfella18
@RyanTonyNemo
@Marxist777
The messaging about his prior arrest history is trying to get you to do exactly what you’re doing: not see him as a full human person with many traits who was worthy of love. We have to keep the full picture in mind - otherwise it’s easy to dismiss that a full person was murdered
In the interest of not having MTG twitter be all insane runs/trophies -- Here's what it took for me to reach the qualifier this week! (ignoring the couple drafts in the middle)
Arena b01 especially can be brutal, but b03 single elim is no joke either.
I started writing a guide on flexible drafting (my version of "drafting the hard way"), using my 3-0 AC5 draft as an anchor/jumping off point for the theory.
I just reached (not finished, reached) P1P3.
I'm 6,000 words in.
Okay this is getting a little bit ridiculous
@Sierkovitz
any idea what the likelihood of this kind of run is with my historical average of 61.5% WR? (to be fair, that's only Premier draft, trad is higher)
Ethan's the ultimate pro when it comes to both preparing for a tournament & content creation -- totally held my hand, I just showed up & talked about a fun deck (that I think lots of people misunderstand!) with a fellow expert.
Limited content next time queen?🙏♥️🥺
This went super well! I'm doubly thankful to Ryan for redoing this after I botched the tech the first time around. For folks who are interested, it's up here now:
I tried to start playing 4C legends on ladder... oh my god the pilots of this deck are legends. There are infinity+1 decision points and all of them are so unintuitive
This may just be the autism but I think heaven for me would be a world where competitive magic is actually something everyone cares about and does as a hobby lol
By my preliminary count, testing team 5⃣ put through...
3 Division Winners
2 Division Runners Up
1 Wildcard
With a combined record of 42-21 in the regular season.
Best team, not close to being close to being close to being close. So happy to have met all y'all!!! ♥️♥️♥️
IF you have the view that there are some actions that are moral, but not legal while you are playing a magic tournament...
If you are even considering taking one of those actions...
It is your job to keep it away from the people responsible for applying the rules literally
@DynamoNestico
The other thing I said (only have 256 char) is “take responsibility for their own happiness”. This is a first-world entertainment product/hobby that we are all extraordinarily lucky to be able to spend our time on, & if it’s not overall additive to your life,not the game’s fault
I think optimal is just straight up a myth here. Optimal for what? A specific tournament? Might be possible if you got decklist info ahead of time but the marginal advantage of archetype selection and gameplay is orders of magnitude above the 75th card IMO
Dear pro players: How do you go about creating the optimal decklist? I've had lots of recent success with green in pioneer. (13 challenge top eights 4 wins in 40 days). I've done well with many different configs and I'm unsure how to definitively say a build is optimal.