The person might have been kicked from the tournament if it was using the duel commander banlist, which the fast mana that was talked about is on the list. Could be that it wasn't relayed or displayed properly during entry or signup.
Commander tournaments are an oxymoron, however...the LGS should be plainly stating the overarching rules. Whether they're Cedh or EDH or something in between. They should be posting what cards are unacceptable for the event and putting it in writing. Basically having the rule zero conversation on paper before taking entry fees...
The best tactic for dealing with that would probably have to be giving a budget (determined by tcgplayer/cardmarket/etc. prices) and probably allowing proxies
@@robertstevenson883 I don't disagree, but that's all stuff that should have been coordinated beforehand. Telling someone who adhered to the rules that they're breaking some unspoken one and are DQ'D is egregious.
@@michaelcollins4534 Not true, as I stated in my comment, my LGS has a Point based commander night with store credit on the line and has been running for a year+. No one typically brings anything cedh or that will roflstomp someone out the game. Ppl have been coming to our events from other lgs because its inviting.
Removing reminder text, i fully agree. With so many sets coming out and so many new abilities, it gets difficult to jump into a set when reminder text is just gone. What does discover do? not sure. Disguise? don't know. Craft? not a clue. Let me pull up my phone real quick and google the rules in the middle of this commander game.
I found it annoying to play the Ixalan Pirates Precon when I played a creature that created a map token, but it didn't say what the map token did. Now of course since it's a precon there's a map token included in the box which has the reminder text, but would've been nice to see it on the creature.
@@pauldyson8098 Secret Lair - Universes Beyond: The Room - Tear Asunder: "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!" - Contested Game Ball: Johnny and friends throwing around the football - Ceremonious Rejection: "I did not hit her. It's not true, it's bullshit! I did not her, I did naaaht...oh hi, Mark!" - Sudden Shock: "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer." -Glorious End: Johnny trashes his room at the end of the movie shortly before meeting his demise by his own hands. The bonus card will be Tommy Wiseau as a reskin of Ulamog.
I would like them to shorten the frase" use mana as though it was mana of any type to cast" with a keyword or something. Having a play from exile or steal deck it gets very wordy to repeat multiple times per match.
1v1 commander has a different ban list than multiplayer commander and, mana crypt for one is banned. In that context why wouldn't the LGS remove the player playing banned cards?
I also thought there could be multiplayer on Arena when I first saw that card, but then I realized it was just an easier way to word it for the opponent. It saves a ton of text by wording it that way, rather than putting 3 lines of text saying the same thing twice, once for you and once for the opponent
How is "from the library of the player to their right" simpler than "from their opponent's library"? Assuming we're limited to 1v1 then each player's opponent is already defined so there's no need to specify a direction.
@@TheSmartCinemayou are your opponents opponent, so that wording is equal to both players. Their opponent directly applies the effect to both players.
@@atk9989 tell me what card you are the one casting that refers to yourself as an opponent? I just went on Scryfall and I can't find a single one. But y'all can keep dreaming about a 4 player mode if y'all want to... A card that refers to you will say "you", not "your opponent's opponent" or "that player's opponent" lol...
The example crim gave of missing reminders text actually happened with cryptic coat which lead to funny moments on the aspiring spike stream as he figured out how every aspect of the card worked
I remember hearing Maro (can't remember where, sorry, likely his blog though) talk about how R&D does explicitly consider digital when they design. The example I remember him using was something like Quick Study: In the past, they would've had target player draw 2, but R&D didn't want digital players to accidentally input the wrong target when you're going to pick yourself 99.9% of the time anyway, so now it's "you draw 2 cards" instead. I don't think this practice is ruining Magic, it's nice that they're doing things for Arena players, but I am concerned that it constricts designers from making cool cards just because they'd be a nightmare for digital. Would we see something like Emrakul today when it was such an epic effort to make it work on Arena back then?
Another subtle example is putting small numbers of cards on the bottom of your library. Before Kaladesh, pretty much every effect like Collected Company, Goblin Ringleader, or Ancient Stirrings would default to putting the cards you didn't choose on the bottom in any order, which is easier in paper. While it hasn't vanished entirely, most newer cards have you put them on the bottom of your library in a random order instead because it's easier for digital magic.
Good example@@Marenth - the number of times where "random order" vs. (essentially) "an order of your choosing" for a few cards to the bottom would be meaningful is probably nearly zero; the bottom of your library is a pretty hard zone to interact with! I know there's a couple cards that care about it, but I think that's mostly a Commander thing. Like, if you scry a card to the bottom, you're almost certainly not seeing it again unless you tutor for it or shuffle again and draw it from somewhere else, in which case the order placed doesn't matter. The "target player draws 2" vs "you draw 2" is another good example - I can support eliminating this choice where players would like 90% do the obviously correct thing to target themselves with it, 0.1% choose the other to finish someone off by decking, and 9.9% frustrating misplays. I once saw a game on MTGO where Seth was playing against Amulet Titan, and watching all those triggers tick by was a drag. Might as well try to shave down a lot of more-or-less useless clicks where you are essentially confirming a really obvious game action.
@@Marenth The 'in any order' variants definitely had another subtle downside as well. That being that people were spending a lot of time deciding the order to put the cards in. A choice that very likely did not matter but at the same time could be rather complex. Easier to just give them a quick shuffle and pop them on the bottom.
Just to highlight, for people that don’t know, the reason foils curl is because they aren’t foiled on both sides. You see the same thing with woodworking. If you paint one side of a board the different sides will absorb moisture from the air at different rates (and expand/contract at different rates) and cause the board to warp. Foiling both sides would fix the problem but presents an obvious challenge when it comes to people playing without sleeves. Making foil patterns with lots of alternating, small foiled and unfoiled regions would help mitigate curling to an extent as well.
I was thinking about this - I wonder if they could foil the opposite side, but then cover it with something opaque so you can't tell it's foil. Then you get a standard magic back that also acts like the foiled side with its moisture absorption.
Alt and textless versions of cards can definitely be annoying, but unless you're going to also mandate all cards in a tournament be in a single language it's hard to say it's a new or unique problem. The solution to both is having your phone ready.
I can see an argument for textless cards. Originally they were smart enough to do it only to cards with like, a sentence of rules... but these days they'll turn anything into a textless card... no matter the textbook of rules it might have. I do have sympathy for any tournament lost because someone might play a textless card and nobody remembers EXACTLY what it does... I don't see ANY argument at all for alt art cards... they still say what the cards do on the cards.
One easy space-saving keyword option would be to make “Investigate” equivalents for the other artifact tokens, like “Cook” instead of “create a Food token
Shortcut red card Exile: Impulse 2 until end of turn, or Impulse 3 until the end of your next turn. Instead of having to say: Exile x cards from the top of your library. You may play them this turn
Problen is some cards are play vs cast until end of turn. Add on until end of next turn/next end step/your next end step and they would need at least 2 keywords or more to do this.
@@themrrental2509or just standardize on one. If it was just always "play" and "until the end of your next turn". It wouldn't help the old nonstandard versions, but it could help some.and all new cards.
@@themrrental2509I see no problem moving forward just being able to use the wording for playing cards moving forward . since playing cards still lets you cast spells ; it just let's you play lands in addition Edit: impulse x until end of turn Or impulse x until end your next turn And that would eliminate " exile cards from the top of your library you may play them" Though you would need a new keyword for exiling opponents cards from top of their library so maybe something like "plunder" Plunder x from target opponent Plunder x from each opponent
Don't know why my comment got muted. But I was going to say that I like impulse as a keyword and it should be about playing cards since you still get to cast spells for cards that care about casting from exile. But there would have to be one for doing the same with your opponents library why not call it "plunder" Plunder x from target opponent Plunder x from each opponent And can add until end of turn/ or until end of your next turn/ or as long as they remain in exile
In Yu-Gi searching your library always implies shuffling it afterwards, trimming down the need to add "shuffles their library" after any search effect. Would trim down ramp cards and tutors at the same time.
This is a good point, I don't think there's a single effect that permits a player to search WITHOUT shuffling afterwards; while I'm sure an overwhelming majority of players wouldn't even try, no doubt someone trying to spike a tournament would try to search then note down their top few cards (or all, why not).
There are cards that tell you to search graveyards and/or hand. Finale of Devastation, Invasion of Arcavios, and lobotomy effects are examples of this. However, the instruction to search a graveyard or hand only happens when the card also instructs you to search a library.
"Ramp" could work as a shorthand. "Ramp a basic land tapped" works for Rampant Growth. "Ramp a forest land" works for Nature's Lore. "Ramp X basic lands tapped where X is the number of lands you control" works for Boundless Realms. Not sure if ramp is worth shortening in general tho.
22:07 The problem with this is that they're reducing text not for making things simpler, it's so they can add even more conditions, restrictions, bonuses or other effects to a card to increase it's complexity and add as legitimately make cards even more wordy and complex than they have already become in the last 4+ years. I wouldn't be surprised if 2 years from now ETB will just be added to replace enters.
i think the term "fetch" would work for any searching of the library for lands fetch 3 basics put 2 onto the battlefield, fetch up to 2 forests and put them onto the battlefield, etc.
I like the exile land idea kind of... but I think a better design would to make it an exile fetch basically. you can't do recur shenanigans since you exile it but otherwise it's exactly the same as a fetchland. that'd be a really excellent land to have printed.
Cool seeing the crossover between Crim and Travis Gafford lol. That man talks about MTG almost as much as League! I am sure he would love to be a guest on a Commander Clash or something!
Isn't this basically prismatic vista without the deck thinning? Well I guess it negates the need to run any basics but that sounds more like a deckbuilding problem. (Is this just a roundabout way to complain about having to run basics?)
part 2 arena card list we need: kird ape, the original signets,high tide,wild cantor, simian spirit guide,storm herd,eye of the storm, skred, BIRDS OF PARADISE, vampiric tutor cycle,fire//ice,undermine,noble hierarch, ignoble hierarch, path to exile,thorn of amethyst,reflecting pool, progenitus.
My LGS hosts a point-based Commander tournament, its been going on for a year and everyone who attends seems to enjoy it. Avg of 16 ppl each weekend and it goes well. The point system we have encourages casual play. Every once in a while we have a player who plays a deck that verges cedh but loses anyway because they dont get enough points in the end.
@@ryanstuck4292 We have 2 sets of ways to score points, 1 is Play Points and to get them they vary. The community put in their suggestions i.e Get first blood with a commander, non commander and non combat, each being a different point. We have Deck points as well i.e Does your deck have the least amount of lands or the most sorceries. We post these points a half a week ahead so ppl can prepare. There are few points that are set in stone as they are recurring each week but we have like 12 of each to score on and as well as voting at the end who had the coolest deck and who was the most fun.
the thing with the text removal, there is a big difference between keywording and text simplification that still fits within the rules and templating. ex: we could keyword the "ramp idea" though not using the word ramp and it would be narrow but useful. changing search tho does not function like a mechanic of its own and reducign its wording to just search would limit design space of using the word search or searching other zones in the future.
Whenever I start a EDH sessions I keep it as bring whatever you got since worrying about power level is just a hassle. Then if its about testing the deck then my group usually talks about whether they want to test it against average prebuilt edh or try against maximum risk.
It needs to be legible... I'm colorblind and some of the Secret Lairs are impossible to read. As a self imposed rule I bring a printout of any foreign language card or secret lair that I can lay over the original at my opponents request.
RE the Reddit post - The only time I’ve played Commander for prizes was Commander Legends Draft where I built a Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant deck that only cared about wiping the board and playing my commander in the same turn for 2/2s. The rest of the deck was nothing but counter spells, removal, discard effects, etc. and it’s the only Esper commander I’ve ever built/played in over 10 years of Commander. So while the post may not tell the whole story, the idea of being kicked out because the store doesn’t like your deck when in a tournament/prize setting is insane. You’re asking people to sweat when you put prizes on the line.
My LGS does EDH tournaments sometimes that he specifically lists as high powered, but people join with casual decks and get frustrated with the power of other peoples decks and drop. I think it should be labeled cEDH, because that is the crowd he wants to draw in but I can't imagine that would actually fill an entry since there aren't many people that do cEDH at my lgs maybe only 4-6 at most
19:00 I like Crim's move here, to keep texted versions on hand of all their deck's textless cards. I hope he does the same with the full text basic lands :P All joke aside, I do the same with all my double-faced cards, with an extra copy on hand flipped around in a different color sleeve, since I hate de-sleeving and re-sleeving my double-sleeved cards.
I can understand banning foils, including the masterpieces and such. Just because of the curling. When i was foiling my abzan deck, back with rhinos and lotv, i made sure to shuffle before looking to see what foils id be ordering this time, took all nonfoils shuffled them and ordered whatever i "drew" led to no issues at all
Juggle the performance is just flavor for juggling. You pass the ball from your right hand to the left. Honestly pretty insensitive for left handed jugglers
I get the sense that WotC is not designing cards for digital but rather the digital designs are influencing how the card designs are thought of in general. Kind of like a feedback loop of "what can we do with digital only" > "hey that's a pretty cool design, what would it take to do this in paper"
My issue with the foils conversation is that some cards ONLY exist in foil or (as Crim pointed out) the cheapest version of that card only exists in foil (eg bundle version on The One Ring) so while the rest of your deck is non-foil you are forced to have to play foils because that is all that exists. You cannot force someone to foil their deck because WOTC made a busted foil only (before secret lair) Buy-A-Box promo card (Nexus of Fate) when they show up to a tournament.
never in the history of the internet has anyone ever lied on reddit. shame on you for suggesting otherwise. the internet is the paragon of truth and reddit one of its purest safe-havens!
i think another motivation for arena wording stuff as “target opponent” and “to your right” is to let players play them with proxies if they wanna put in the elbow grease to make alchemy work in paper. now, in reality I don’t think anyone wants to do that but I do still think wizards cares
Step 1: put text on the back of full-art cards. Step 2: realize that you can put "some" reminder text on the back of normal cards. Step 3: "Questing Dragon Beast" with 5 keywords, 3 activated abilities, 2 ETBs and couple of lines of flavor text, because why not, we have ALL that space on the back, LET'S USE IT FULLY!
I've found that Commander is fine for things like Point or PreCon Leagues but if people want to 1v1 compete, pick a competitive format or define the power level in a way that's easily understandable. Pauper EDH is a thing if you're trying to keep the power levels within a certain threshold and budget consideration. French/Duel have their own ban list(s) and whatnot I'm pretty sure. There's a reason WOTC barely supports like a dozen formats. You can't just keep shoving a social format into a competitive structure based on however Judge Hank feels that night.
I don't mind the change of "enters the battlefield" to just "enters", and it's way better than the alternative of printing "ETB" on the card. But I hate that Magic cards are getting so wordy that WotC needs to do this sort of thing to save space in text boxes.
I think the unreadable cards are a huge problem for competitive magic. I shouldn't have to pull up scryfall on my phone to know what my opponent's card does. I don't care if they're "legal game pieces", WotC decides what is and is not legal. If they can print non-standard legal cards in packs of standard sets, they can declare that only some versions of a card are tournament legal. They absolutely should ban textless and phyrexian versions of cards, and any versions that don't have standard text boxes (like the secret lair poster versions of cards). I don't think they need to go so far as to ban alternate art versions, but there should be some expectation of legibility. It's the most basic part of playing the game - the ability to read the cards to know what they do.
57:00 You might put a token of that basic land, it would be like “As this card enters the battlefield and if you control three or less land types among lands you control exile it and create a token that is a basic land card of any type”
That tournament story reminded me of the fact that selling my collection and never looking back was the best decision I’ve ever made. Save for the rare individuals or content creators (like Seth or Crim), everyone else, from WOTC to players to LGSs to Content Creators, they all seem hellbent on making the MTG community (and general experiencie of playing MTG) THE ABSOLUTE WORST…
Recently, I came to the conclusion that it would be best for the future of competitive play to not allow showcase treatment, secret lair, or textless cards. Competitive tournaments should only focus on the basics of playing the game, leaving no room for guessing as to what a card says.
I think if they are having to remove "the battlefield" from cards it's a problem in card design at this point where cards are just getting too wordy and a word and a half isn't gonna change that it kinda removes the theme a bit where now they enter whatever place instead of a battlefield where my creatures battle and cast spells
Interesting card design I just thought of that would allow a counterspell to be used to stop a combo but not also funstion as a way of protecting the combo at the same time. Shut Down 2UU You may dicard a blue card instead of paying this cards mana cost. If you do it cannot target a spell, if that spell also targets a spell. Counter Target Spell. --- Effectively it can do the free shutdown a combo thing for free, but cannot counter someone elses counter spell on the stack unless they actually pay the overcosted counter spell.
There’s a lot of things they could improve on with Keywords like instead of exile target whatever and return it to the battlefield they could just start using “blink”
When EDH started our stored adopted it very quickly. A lot of long time players with huge collections we couldn't' play with. LGS decided to hold a tournament. 4 player pods. Winner of each pod would move on to next round. 40 players showed up. The top 4 players get put into the same pod first round. Claimed pods were random.....yeah right. I'm playing Animar, Soul of Elements. The precons were rather new at this time. I keep my hand. I can win on turn 3 or 4. I'm last to act. Player 1 sol rings. Player 2 land mana dork. Player 3 don't remember. Me Turn 1 land > birds of paradise. Player 1 kills my birds of paradise. Player 2 ramps, Player 3 don't remember. My turn 2 play land go. Player 1 Plow Under my 2 lands to the top of my deck. I spend the next 2 turns replaying my lands from the top of my deck and nothing else. Player 2 Plow Under my 2 land to the top of my deck. Another 2 turns playing my lands from top of my deck. Player 3 Plow Under my 2 land. During all of this time the entire table is attacking me with everything they have while I have nothing in play. I paid $25 to enter that tournament. NEVER AGAIN!!!! EDH is a flawed tournament format.
I did the exactly same thing with my Kwain, Initerant Meddler Deck. I love the japanese Secret Lair really much, so I got one of those to lead the Deck and also a base english one for those who want to know what he does.
I’ve had discussions about card games and referred to 3 and up as multiplayer as a “common” way to express this but people keep correcting me that 1v1 is “multiplayer” as if I didn’t know that. I just don’t think it should be considered multiplayer since all tcgs are at base level 1v1. What do you think?
Okay, but some of the various printings have been legitimately a problem. I'm not saying we should ban them outright, but things like the textless cryptic command and phyrexian cards have made it feel like you have to play with a gatherer page open. Also sucks the the cheapest version of any card is typically it's phyrexian version so you're a lot more likely to see them.
You know, after the cmc and shuffle change, that particular set was the start to this whole “too many words on cards” era, right? The change is 100% implemented because design wants more words, not to reduce them, this is an omen.
arena card list we need: dream halls, intuituion, syvlan library, the big boy jace, stoneforge mystic, the evoke creatures ,urza saga,goryo's vengeance, off colored fetch lands, gaddock teeg, sensei's divining top, counterbalance, tron lands, big old karn planeswalker,wasteland, ponder, daze,gush, chrome mox, aether vial,karakas, tabernacle,forces cycle, trinket mage(i like this card leave me alone!),life from the loam, bridge from below,lion's eye diamond , urza's saga lands(tolarian academy and stuff), imperial recruiter, recruiter of the guard,batterskull, past in flames,ancestral visions,carpet of flowers, oath of druids,yawgmoth's will,tithe,puresteel paladin, paladin en-vec, dragonstorm,glimpse of nature, umezawa's jitte,flash, summoner's pact...
I didn't fully read the Commander Tournament piece, and like Seth said, it's one-sided. But I could see the store using the french commander banlist and the poster not knowing.
When people say "too much text on cards", what they really mean is too much information to process. When wizards does something like this it's probably in order to cram more information onto cards.
In here we have commander tournaments that works. It is 2v2 (not two headed) and have limits with the price of the deck. The deck must have $150 or $250.
12:47 nah, I agree about banning them because of accessibility issues. Some of these cards are extremely hard to read, especially the latest secret lair cards. The tournaments should allow proxies in this case.
Seriously, the LTR ones are utterly illegible. Saruman of Many Colors takes like three rereads to have a guess at what it does even BEFORE the words are smeared all over half the card. Pro players like LSV looked at that in their set review and were like ".... what?"
regarding juggle the performance, I feel inclined to believe that they are hinting towards multiplayer in MTGA. Magic has a history of teasing future keywords on cards (goyf for planeswalkers, atraxa for battles), which this sort of announcement would be similar to imo. also, regarding why use an Alchemy card for this “sneak peak,” I could see them wanting to create buzz and conversation around a format that they are trying to sell to enfranchised players.
Your "commander on Arena" discussion made me think maybe Wizards could make a new commander online client that you need an Arena account to log in to, that way you could use your Arena cards on this new client. I doubt they're working on it at the moment tho, it's most likely just formating an online only card's text as if it could have worked in paper or maybe they thought about multiplayer on Arena as a concept and this is future proofing just in case they actually manage to make it work in the future.
You CANNOT have a land that exiles itself to pull a basic from outside the game. Even if it takes up a card slot in your side board. It makes 5 color piles have no draw back at all. De building restrictions are the heart of the game. If you are missing a color you built your deck wrong.
I have a Japanese Kamigawa Patron of the Moon for my Moonfolk typal deck in a clear case and the other side is the mystery booster English one. My Giada deck has the JP anime version on one side and English on the other. I think most people with textless or foreign commanders do something similar.
The issue with the many card variants has been a frustration of mine for ages. I understand the people like having art for card that suits their style/interests, but I was watching a round of pioneer during the recent pro tour, and halfway through the match, I look over at their lands and every single land on the table looked like it was from a different card game. It just looked really ugly from a viewer's perspective and I couldn't tell what lands were in play. That didn't used to be the case, but now it feels very alienating. Definitely turns me off from watching coverage when someone plays a card I know, but don't recognize the art.
Other card games keyword actions like entering & leaving the battlefield and such and honestly this would do a lot to declutter text boxes imo. Imagine, you could have a Wood Elves' text box be as simple as "Fanfare - Ramp 1 basic forest, Shuffle"
30:46 I don’t see how the wording is more convenient. It could’ve just been “of the other players hand” which seems more straightforward. I don’t know if that means we’re getting multiple player but the wording seems way more convoluted than it should be
Sounds like that LGS needs to implement a price point then, cause clearly they took issue with the OP using strong staple cards, well those cards are expensive. The best way to limit the use of them is likely a price ceiling. Because if the argument was that his deck was 1000s of dollars more than the rest of the casual store, then limit him into a similar price bracket
Unfortunately, search probably couldn't be shortcutted. I believe Finale of Devastation searches your graveyard, and they mentioned Surgical Extraction.
The removal of reminder text was especially infuriating lately because it mainly affected the alt art cards, so if you pulled the card with the cool art like one of the cool dossier frames from Murders and it was one of the new keywords you were kinda SOL on what it did unless you also happened to get one with the default frame too (or decided to look it up via phone). It's like cool card art but what does it *do* again? It's not a matter that it doesn't fit because the default printings still have them so... why WotC?
i always hated the debate about textless cards, because for a majority of the people I've played with, foreign cards are just as unhelpful, and I don't see people going around trying to get people to not play foreign cards.
27:24 i think the best way this would work is if ramp meant "search your library for a land and put it into play" and the specifics for the type of land and it entering tapped were appended to the end so a card would read "Ramp a forest" "ramp a basic" "ramp any land tapped"
While that’s a nice idea, you have to consider that ‘ramp’ as a term also includes mana dorks and artifacts. So I don’t think it’s possible to just print it like that on a card, as much as I want that to happen just to reduce the amount of words on some cards 😅
@@lVideoWatcherlI agree with this, there is precedent for keyword + number formatting as well, such as backup 1. Basic Land Fetch 2, put one in your hand and the other on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Land Fetch 1, put it on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Sacrifice any number of lands. Land Fetch X, where X is the number of Lands sacrificed this way, put them on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Just some examples off the top of my head that might work here.
You can massage foils flat. it only takes a few minutes. the foils I play with are as flat as any other card in my deck. You don't have to risk DQ for playing foils. just prepare your cards so they aren't marked. no need to ban foils.
If you're at an RCQ and someone has foils in their deck, feel for curling. If there is any, call a judge. Even if the entire deck is foiled, differing levels of curling could still count as a marked deck.
"At the beginning of " could be shortened to "In " ("In your upkeep") and they just clarify it in the rules. That shaves off 17 characters from a ton of abilities.
The person might have been kicked from the tournament if it was using the duel commander banlist, which the fast mana that was talked about is on the list. Could be that it wasn't relayed or displayed properly during entry or signup.
Commander tournaments are an oxymoron, however...the LGS should be plainly stating the overarching rules. Whether they're Cedh or EDH or something in between. They should be posting what cards are unacceptable for the event and putting it in writing. Basically having the rule zero conversation on paper before taking entry fees...
The best tactic for dealing with that would probably have to be giving a budget (determined by tcgplayer/cardmarket/etc. prices) and probably allowing proxies
@@robertstevenson883 I don't disagree, but that's all stuff that should have been coordinated beforehand. Telling someone who adhered to the rules that they're breaking some unspoken one and are DQ'D is egregious.
Casual or tournament. Gotta pick one you can't have both
@@michaelcollins4534 Not true, as I stated in my comment, my LGS has a Point based commander night with store credit on the line and has been running for a year+. No one typically brings anything cedh or that will roflstomp someone out the game. Ppl have been coming to our events from other lgs because its inviting.
@@Thorhallx You guys got a custom banlist?
Removing reminder text, i fully agree. With so many sets coming out and so many new abilities, it gets difficult to jump into a set when reminder text is just gone. What does discover do? not sure. Disguise? don't know. Craft? not a clue. Let me pull up my phone real quick and google the rules in the middle of this commander game.
I found it annoying to play the Ixalan Pirates Precon when I played a creature that created a map token, but it didn't say what the map token did. Now of course since it's a precon there's a map token included in the box which has the reminder text, but would've been nice to see it on the creature.
I remember when there was room for flavor text
I misread that as "The Room flavor text."
I want a Counterspell with the flavor text: "Oh, hi, Mark."
@@pauldyson8098
Secret Lair - Universes Beyond: The Room
- Tear Asunder: "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"
- Contested Game Ball: Johnny and friends throwing around the football
- Ceremonious Rejection: "I did not hit her. It's not true, it's bullshit! I did not her, I did naaaht...oh hi, Mark!"
- Sudden Shock: "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer."
-Glorious End: Johnny trashes his room at the end of the movie shortly before meeting his demise by his own hands.
The bonus card will be Tommy Wiseau as a reskin of Ulamog.
I love every word of this.@@TheAverageGuyTAG
I would like them to shorten the frase" use mana as though it was mana of any type to cast" with a keyword or something. Having a play from exile or steal deck it gets very wordy to repeat multiple times per match.
Call it “crystal mana”. Done
"Too competitive" doesn't exist if you are playing 1v1 for prizing. No matter the format.
Casual and tournament don't realy mix huh, who could have predicted that😅.
This. 😂
1v1 commander has a different ban list than multiplayer commander and, mana crypt for one is banned. In that context why wouldn't the LGS remove the player playing banned cards?
@@simic0racle157 More reason to make me believe the whole thing is a horseshit story capitalizing on how soft commander players are.
@@KellyUnekisWanting to play casual Magic and being soft are 100% unrelated, scrub.
I also thought there could be multiplayer on Arena when I first saw that card, but then I realized it was just an easier way to word it for the opponent. It saves a ton of text by wording it that way, rather than putting 3 lines of text saying the same thing twice, once for you and once for the opponent
How is "from the library of the player to their right" simpler than "from their opponent's library"? Assuming we're limited to 1v1 then each player's opponent is already defined so there's no need to specify a direction.
@@bobzour i dont think it would work since I cant think of a card that refers to yourself as an opponent
@@TheSmartCinemayou are your opponents opponent, so that wording is equal to both players. Their opponent directly applies the effect to both players.
@@TheSmartCinemaLook up Shared Fate. It replaces card draw with drawing from the opponent's library but happens for both you and your opponent.
@@atk9989 tell me what card you are the one casting that refers to yourself as an opponent? I just went on Scryfall and I can't find a single one. But y'all can keep dreaming about a 4 player mode if y'all want to... A card that refers to you will say "you", not "your opponent's opponent" or "that player's opponent" lol...
The example crim gave of missing reminders text actually happened with cryptic coat which lead to funny moments on the aspiring spike stream as he figured out how every aspect of the card worked
Thank you so much for the timestamps in recent videos
I remember hearing Maro (can't remember where, sorry, likely his blog though) talk about how R&D does explicitly consider digital when they design. The example I remember him using was something like Quick Study: In the past, they would've had target player draw 2, but R&D didn't want digital players to accidentally input the wrong target when you're going to pick yourself 99.9% of the time anyway, so now it's "you draw 2 cards" instead. I don't think this practice is ruining Magic, it's nice that they're doing things for Arena players, but I am concerned that it constricts designers from making cool cards just because they'd be a nightmare for digital. Would we see something like Emrakul today when it was such an epic effort to make it work on Arena back then?
Another subtle example is putting small numbers of cards on the bottom of your library. Before Kaladesh, pretty much every effect like Collected Company, Goblin Ringleader, or Ancient Stirrings would default to putting the cards you didn't choose on the bottom in any order, which is easier in paper. While it hasn't vanished entirely, most newer cards have you put them on the bottom of your library in a random order instead because it's easier for digital magic.
Good example@@Marenth - the number of times where "random order" vs. (essentially) "an order of your choosing" for a few cards to the bottom would be meaningful is probably nearly zero; the bottom of your library is a pretty hard zone to interact with! I know there's a couple cards that care about it, but I think that's mostly a Commander thing. Like, if you scry a card to the bottom, you're almost certainly not seeing it again unless you tutor for it or shuffle again and draw it from somewhere else, in which case the order placed doesn't matter.
The "target player draws 2" vs "you draw 2" is another good example - I can support eliminating this choice where players would like 90% do the obviously correct thing to target themselves with it, 0.1% choose the other to finish someone off by decking, and 9.9% frustrating misplays.
I once saw a game on MTGO where Seth was playing against Amulet Titan, and watching all those triggers tick by was a drag. Might as well try to shave down a lot of more-or-less useless clicks where you are essentially confirming a really obvious game action.
@@Marenth The 'in any order' variants definitely had another subtle downside as well. That being that people were spending a lot of time deciding the order to put the cards in. A choice that very likely did not matter but at the same time could be rather complex. Easier to just give them a quick shuffle and pop them on the bottom.
Just to highlight, for people that don’t know, the reason foils curl is because they aren’t foiled on both sides. You see the same thing with woodworking. If you paint one side of a board the different sides will absorb moisture from the air at different rates (and expand/contract at different rates) and cause the board to warp.
Foiling both sides would fix the problem but presents an obvious challenge when it comes to people playing without sleeves.
Making foil patterns with lots of alternating, small foiled and unfoiled regions would help mitigate curling to an extent as well.
I was thinking about this - I wonder if they could foil the opposite side, but then cover it with something opaque so you can't tell it's foil. Then you get a standard magic back that also acts like the foiled side with its moisture absorption.
Alt and textless versions of cards can definitely be annoying, but unless you're going to also mandate all cards in a tournament be in a single language it's hard to say it's a new or unique problem. The solution to both is having your phone ready.
My solution is to play a different game 😅
I can see an argument for textless cards. Originally they were smart enough to do it only to cards with like, a sentence of rules... but these days they'll turn anything into a textless card... no matter the textbook of rules it might have. I do have sympathy for any tournament lost because someone might play a textless card and nobody remembers EXACTLY what it does... I don't see ANY argument at all for alt art cards... they still say what the cards do on the cards.
YO did not expect to hear the Card Art shoutout. They still got edh on Wednesdays, absolutely amazing store and lucky its my LGS
One easy space-saving keyword option would be to make “Investigate” equivalents for the other artifact tokens, like “Cook” instead of “create a Food token
I'm here for all the memes about "Let him cook" that this would create.
Shortcut red card Exile: Impulse 2 until end of turn, or Impulse 3 until the end of your next turn. Instead of having to say: Exile x cards from the top of your library. You may play them this turn
Problen is some cards are play vs cast until end of turn. Add on until end of next turn/next end step/your next end step and they would need at least 2 keywords or more to do this.
@@themrrental2509or just standardize on one. If it was just always "play" and "until the end of your next turn". It wouldn't help the old nonstandard versions, but it could help some.and all new cards.
@@themrrental2509I see no problem moving forward just being able to use the wording for playing cards moving forward . since playing cards still lets you cast spells ; it just let's you play lands in addition
Edit: impulse x until end of turn
Or impulse x until end your next turn
And that would eliminate " exile cards from the top of your library you may play them"
Though you would need a new keyword for exiling opponents cards from top of their library so maybe something like "plunder"
Plunder x from target opponent
Plunder x from each opponent
Don't know why my comment got muted. But I was going to say that I like impulse as a keyword and it should be about playing cards since you still get to cast spells for cards that care about casting from exile.
But there would have to be one for doing the same with your opponents library why not call it "plunder"
Plunder x from target opponent
Plunder x from each opponent
And can add until end of turn/ or until end of your next turn/ or as long as they remain in exile
In Yu-Gi searching your library always implies shuffling it afterwards, trimming down the need to add "shuffles their library" after any search effect. Would trim down ramp cards and tutors at the same time.
This is a good point, I don't think there's a single effect that permits a player to search WITHOUT shuffling afterwards; while I'm sure an overwhelming majority of players wouldn't even try, no doubt someone trying to spike a tournament would try to search then note down their top few cards (or all, why not).
There are cards that tell you to search graveyards and/or hand. Finale of Devastation, Invasion of Arcavios, and lobotomy effects are examples of this. However, the instruction to search a graveyard or hand only happens when the card also instructs you to search a library.
"Ramp" could work as a shorthand. "Ramp a basic land tapped" works for Rampant Growth. "Ramp a forest land" works for Nature's Lore. "Ramp X basic lands tapped where X is the number of lands you control" works for Boundless Realms. Not sure if ramp is worth shortening in general tho.
Big agree on removing reminder text! Especially in PreCons
People keep asking how explore works in ixalan decks for example
1v1 Commander has a seperate ban list.
this was my first question. are all his "too good" cards banned in 1v1? I don't know the 1v1 ban list, but I know it exists
Yes. It’s called Duel Commander. People can google it and see that the individual was not following that format specific ban list.
22:07 The problem with this is that they're reducing text not for making things simpler, it's so they can add even more conditions, restrictions, bonuses or other effects to a card to increase it's complexity and add as legitimately make cards even more wordy and complex than they have already become in the last 4+ years. I wouldn't be surprised if 2 years from now ETB will just be added to replace enters.
Based on the number of tokens used these days, it would seem that they are designing for digital, even if specific cards aren't.
i think the term "fetch" would work for any searching of the library for lands fetch 3 basics put 2 onto the battlefield, fetch up to 2 forests and put them onto the battlefield, etc.
“Fetch” for onto the battlefield, and “tutor” for into your hand
I like the exile land idea kind of... but I think a better design would to make it an exile fetch basically. you can't do recur shenanigans since you exile it but otherwise it's exactly the same as a fetchland. that'd be a really excellent land to have printed.
I personally think a force-of-landfall card (pitch a land, go get a basic) would be a nice answer to Blood Moon.
Cool seeing the crossover between Crim and Travis Gafford lol. That man talks about MTG almost as much as League! I am sure he would love to be a guest on a Commander Clash or something!
That would be amazing
as to the last fishmail question: a land that tap and sac-ed that created a basic land token would solve the sideboard issue.
Isn't this basically prismatic vista without the deck thinning? Well I guess it negates the need to run any basics but that sounds more like a deckbuilding problem. (Is this just a roundabout way to complain about having to run basics?)
part 2 arena card list we need: kird ape, the original signets,high tide,wild cantor, simian spirit guide,storm herd,eye of the storm, skred, BIRDS OF PARADISE, vampiric tutor cycle,fire//ice,undermine,noble hierarch, ignoble hierarch, path to exile,thorn of amethyst,reflecting pool, progenitus.
My LGS hosts a point-based Commander tournament, its been going on for a year and everyone who attends seems to enjoy it. Avg of 16 ppl each weekend and it goes well. The point system we have encourages casual play. Every once in a while we have a player who plays a deck that verges cedh but loses anyway because they dont get enough points in the end.
What is the point system??
@@ryanstuck4292 We have 2 sets of ways to score points, 1 is Play Points and to get them they vary. The community put in their suggestions i.e Get first blood with a commander, non commander and non combat, each being a different point. We have Deck points as well i.e Does your deck have the least amount of lands or the most sorceries. We post these points a half a week ahead so ppl can prepare. There are few points that are set in stone as they are recurring each week but we have like 12 of each to score on and as well as voting at the end who had the coolest deck and who was the most fun.
the thing with the text removal, there is a big difference between keywording and text simplification that still fits within the rules and templating. ex: we could keyword the "ramp idea" though not using the word ramp and it would be narrow but useful. changing search tho does not function like a mechanic of its own and reducign its wording to just search would limit design space of using the word search or searching other zones in the future.
Whenever I start a EDH sessions I keep it as bring whatever you got since worrying about power level is just a hassle. Then if its about testing the deck then my group usually talks about whether they want to test it against average prebuilt edh or try against maximum risk.
It needs to be legible... I'm colorblind and some of the Secret Lairs are impossible to read. As a self imposed rule I bring a printout of any foreign language card or secret lair that I can lay over the original at my opponents request.
RE the Reddit post -
The only time I’ve played Commander for prizes was Commander Legends Draft where I built a Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant deck that only cared about wiping the board and playing my commander in the same turn for 2/2s. The rest of the deck was nothing but counter spells, removal, discard effects, etc. and it’s the only Esper commander I’ve ever built/played in over 10 years of Commander. So while the post may not tell the whole story, the idea of being kicked out because the store doesn’t like your deck when in a tournament/prize setting is insane. You’re asking people to sweat when you put prizes on the line.
My LGS does EDH tournaments sometimes that he specifically lists as high powered, but people join with casual decks and get frustrated with the power of other peoples decks and drop. I think it should be labeled cEDH, because that is the crowd he wants to draw in but I can't imagine that would actually fill an entry since there aren't many people that do cEDH at my lgs maybe only 4-6 at most
Anyone joining a tournament with a casual deck is the problem. It's a tournament the opposite of casual play
19:00 I like Crim's move here, to keep texted versions on hand of all their deck's textless cards. I hope he does the same with the full text basic lands :P All joke aside, I do the same with all my double-faced cards, with an extra copy on hand flipped around in a different color sleeve, since I hate de-sleeving and re-sleeving my double-sleeved cards.
I can understand banning foils, including the masterpieces and such. Just because of the curling. When i was foiling my abzan deck, back with rhinos and lotv, i made sure to shuffle before looking to see what foils id be ordering this time, took all nonfoils shuffled them and ordered whatever i "drew" led to no issues at all
I know duel commander has a different ban list with a lot of fast mana pieces banned. Not 100% sure but he may have run banned cards
Is this just because in 1v1 it could be "whoever drew their Sol Ring or Mana Crypt wins"?
@@51gunner yea, without 3 opponent's to punish a fast start, you would just run away with games. But it's a super fun format.
Juggle the performance is just flavor for juggling. You pass the ball from your right hand to the left. Honestly pretty insensitive for left handed jugglers
I personally think a force-of-landfall card (pitch a land, go get a basic) would be a nice answer to Blood Moon.
48:00 minute mark - impending Corgi rollovers. Adorable content, gentlemen.
I get the sense that WotC is not designing cards for digital but rather the digital designs are influencing how the card designs are thought of in general.
Kind of like a feedback loop of "what can we do with digital only" > "hey that's a pretty cool design, what would it take to do this in paper"
My issue with the foils conversation is that some cards ONLY exist in foil or (as Crim pointed out) the cheapest version of that card only exists in foil (eg bundle version on The One Ring) so while the rest of your deck is non-foil you are forced to have to play foils because that is all that exists.
You cannot force someone to foil their deck because WOTC made a busted foil only (before secret lair) Buy-A-Box promo card (Nexus of Fate) when they show up to a tournament.
This tournament story shows why interaction is called committing a crime.
Heyyy i love the travis gafford shoutout at the start! He's such a staple in my life from Lol! Glad to see he's making cool friends in the mtg scene
There is absolutely no way that reddit post is honest.
never in the history of the internet has anyone ever lied on reddit. shame on you for suggesting otherwise. the internet is the paragon of truth and reddit one of its purest safe-havens!
i think another motivation for arena wording stuff as “target opponent” and “to your right” is to let players play them with proxies if they wanna put in the elbow grease to make alchemy work in paper. now, in reality I don’t think anyone wants to do that but I do still think wizards cares
Step 1: put text on the back of full-art cards.
Step 2: realize that you can put "some" reminder text on the back of normal cards.
Step 3: "Questing Dragon Beast" with 5 keywords, 3 activated abilities, 2 ETBs and couple of lines of flavor text, because why not, we have ALL that space on the back, LET'S USE IT FULLY!
I've found that Commander is fine for things like Point or PreCon Leagues but if people want to 1v1 compete, pick a competitive format or define the power level in a way that's easily understandable. Pauper EDH is a thing if you're trying to keep the power levels within a certain threshold and budget consideration. French/Duel have their own ban list(s) and whatnot I'm pretty sure. There's a reason WOTC barely supports like a dozen formats. You can't just keep shoving a social format into a competitive structure based on however Judge Hank feels that night.
I don't mind the change of "enters the battlefield" to just "enters", and it's way better than the alternative of printing "ETB" on the card. But I hate that Magic cards are getting so wordy that WotC needs to do this sort of thing to save space in text boxes.
So cool to hear Crimes one of the guys playing with Travis! Been running watching him get into magic on HLL
I think the unreadable cards are a huge problem for competitive magic. I shouldn't have to pull up scryfall on my phone to know what my opponent's card does. I don't care if they're "legal game pieces", WotC decides what is and is not legal. If they can print non-standard legal cards in packs of standard sets, they can declare that only some versions of a card are tournament legal.
They absolutely should ban textless and phyrexian versions of cards, and any versions that don't have standard text boxes (like the secret lair poster versions of cards).
I don't think they need to go so far as to ban alternate art versions, but there should be some expectation of legibility. It's the most basic part of playing the game - the ability to read the cards to know what they do.
57:00 You might put a token of that basic land, it would be like “As this card enters the battlefield and if you control three or less land types among lands you control exile it and create a token that is a basic land card of any type”
That tournament story reminded me of the fact that selling my collection and never looking back was the best decision I’ve ever made. Save for the rare individuals or content creators (like Seth or Crim), everyone else, from WOTC to players to LGSs to Content Creators, they all seem hellbent on making the MTG community (and general experiencie of playing MTG) THE ABSOLUTE WORST…
Recently, I came to the conclusion that it would be best for the future of competitive play to not allow showcase treatment, secret lair, or textless cards.
Competitive tournaments should only focus on the basics of playing the game, leaving no room for guessing as to what a card says.
I think if they are having to remove "the battlefield" from cards it's a problem in card design at this point where cards are just getting too wordy and a word and a half isn't gonna change that
it kinda removes the theme a bit where now they enter whatever place instead of a battlefield where my creatures battle and cast spells
One I think should be keyworded/shortened is the stuff where you look at the top X of your library and do something. Similar story with impulse draw.
Interesting card design I just thought of that would allow a counterspell to be used to stop a combo but not also funstion as a way of protecting the combo at the same time.
Shut Down 2UU
You may dicard a blue card instead of paying this cards mana cost. If you do it cannot target a spell, if that spell also targets a spell.
Counter Target Spell.
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Effectively it can do the free shutdown a combo thing for free, but cannot counter someone elses counter spell on the stack unless they actually pay the overcosted counter spell.
Mechanic that made paper worse and designed for digital: Day/Night cycle
55:35 The Day/Night mechanic
About the “put the text on the back of the textless card idea” they already did that with the cereal box cards
They banned show and tell a day after this, *YOU HAVE THE POWER* !!
Now onto making videos about removing shelly, the one ring, mono red, etc., etc.!
There’s a lot of things they could improve on with Keywords like instead of exile target whatever and return it to the battlefield they could just start using “blink”
When EDH started our stored adopted it very quickly. A lot of long time players with huge collections we couldn't' play with. LGS decided to hold a tournament. 4 player pods. Winner of each pod would move on to next round. 40 players showed up. The top 4 players get put into the same pod first round. Claimed pods were random.....yeah right. I'm playing Animar, Soul of Elements. The precons were rather new at this time. I keep my hand. I can win on turn 3 or 4. I'm last to act. Player 1 sol rings. Player 2 land mana dork. Player 3 don't remember. Me Turn 1 land > birds of paradise. Player 1 kills my birds of paradise. Player 2 ramps, Player 3 don't remember. My turn 2 play land go. Player 1 Plow Under my 2 lands to the top of my deck. I spend the next 2 turns replaying my lands from the top of my deck and nothing else. Player 2 Plow Under my 2 land to the top of my deck. Another 2 turns playing my lands from top of my deck. Player 3 Plow Under my 2 land. During all of this time the entire table is attacking me with everything they have while I have nothing in play. I paid $25 to enter that tournament. NEVER AGAIN!!!!
EDH is a flawed tournament format.
Ah, the sing-song drone of Saffron Olive. Like nails on chalkboard, only without the charm.
I did the exactly same thing with my Kwain, Initerant Meddler Deck. I love the japanese Secret Lair really much, so I got one of those to lead the Deck and also a base english one for those who want to know what he does.
I’ve had discussions about card games and referred to 3 and up as multiplayer as a “common” way to express this but people keep correcting me that 1v1 is “multiplayer” as if I didn’t know that. I just don’t think it should be considered multiplayer since all tcgs are at base level 1v1. What do you think?
Okay, but some of the various printings have been legitimately a problem. I'm not saying we should ban them outright, but things like the textless cryptic command and phyrexian cards have made it feel like you have to play with a gatherer page open.
Also sucks the the cheapest version of any card is typically it's phyrexian version so you're a lot more likely to see them.
You know, after the cmc and shuffle change, that particular set was the start to this whole “too many words on cards” era, right? The change is 100% implemented because design wants more words, not to reduce them, this is an omen.
arena card list we need: dream halls, intuituion, syvlan library, the big boy jace, stoneforge mystic, the evoke creatures ,urza saga,goryo's vengeance, off colored fetch lands, gaddock teeg, sensei's divining top, counterbalance, tron lands, big old karn planeswalker,wasteland, ponder, daze,gush, chrome mox, aether vial,karakas, tabernacle,forces cycle, trinket mage(i like this card leave me alone!),life from the loam, bridge from below,lion's eye diamond , urza's saga lands(tolarian academy and stuff), imperial recruiter, recruiter of the guard,batterskull, past in flames,ancestral visions,carpet of flowers, oath of druids,yawgmoth's will,tithe,puresteel paladin, paladin en-vec, dragonstorm,glimpse of nature, umezawa's jitte,flash, summoner's pact...
I didn't fully read the Commander Tournament piece, and like Seth said, it's one-sided. But I could see the store using the french commander banlist and the poster not knowing.
When people say "too much text on cards", what they really mean is too much information to process. When wizards does something like this it's probably in order to cram more information onto cards.
I like the Ramp keyword. Examples: Ramp Basic 2, or Ramp Any 1
In here we have commander tournaments that works. It is 2v2 (not two headed) and have limits with the price of the deck. The deck must have $150 or $250.
I wish there was a way to shorten the whole " If you cast it from your hand" modifier to cast or etb effects.
Agree 100% with crim that the answers need to get better in timeless. At least give us force of negation.
There’s the day and night mechanic and mutate which work infinitely better online than on paper.
12:47 nah, I agree about banning them because of accessibility issues. Some of these cards are extremely hard to read, especially the latest secret lair cards. The tournaments should allow proxies in this case.
Specifically talking about banning from tournament play
Seriously, the LTR ones are utterly illegible. Saruman of Many Colors takes like three rereads to have a guess at what it does even BEFORE the words are smeared all over half the card. Pro players like LSV looked at that in their set review and were like ".... what?"
regarding juggle the performance, I feel inclined to believe that they are hinting towards multiplayer in MTGA. Magic has a history of teasing future keywords on cards (goyf for planeswalkers, atraxa for battles), which this sort of announcement would be similar to imo. also, regarding why use an Alchemy card for this “sneak peak,” I could see them wanting to create buzz and conversation around a format that they are trying to sell to enfranchised players.
Your "commander on Arena" discussion made me think maybe Wizards could make a new commander online client that you need an Arena account to log in to, that way you could use your Arena cards on this new client. I doubt they're working on it at the moment tho, it's most likely just formating an online only card's text as if it could have worked in paper or maybe they thought about multiplayer on Arena as a concept and this is future proofing just in case they actually manage to make it work in the future.
You CANNOT have a land that exiles itself to pull a basic from outside the game. Even if it takes up a card slot in your side board. It makes 5 color piles have no draw back at all. De building restrictions are the heart of the game. If you are missing a color you built your deck wrong.
I have a Japanese Kamigawa Patron of the Moon for my Moonfolk typal deck in a clear case and the other side is the mystery booster English one. My Giada deck has the JP anime version on one side and English on the other. I think most people with textless or foreign commanders do something similar.
The issue with the many card variants has been a frustration of mine for ages. I understand the people like having art for card that suits their style/interests, but I was watching a round of pioneer during the recent pro tour, and halfway through the match, I look over at their lands and every single land on the table looked like it was from a different card game. It just looked really ugly from a viewer's perspective and I couldn't tell what lands were in play. That didn't used to be the case, but now it feels very alienating. Definitely turns me off from watching coverage when someone plays a card I know, but don't recognize the art.
Other card games keyword actions like entering & leaving the battlefield and such and honestly this would do a lot to declutter text boxes imo. Imagine, you could have a Wood Elves' text box be as simple as "Fanfare - Ramp 1 basic forest, Shuffle"
They really need to key word or shorten the phrase “you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color”
The first red flag was it being a commander "tournament"
1v1 are you kidding me? of course its going to end up being singleton vintage.
30:46 I don’t see how the wording is more convenient. It could’ve just been “of the other players hand” which seems more straightforward. I don’t know if that means we’re getting multiple player but the wording seems way more convoluted than it should be
Just a correction, the foil case file Vein Ripper wasn't cheaper because of the foiling. It's those god awful case file frames that nobody wants
Also kind of sad how Alchemy card replaced the experiment ground silver boarder used to be.
Sounds like that LGS needs to implement a price point then, cause clearly they took issue with the OP using strong staple cards, well those cards are expensive. The best way to limit the use of them is likely a price ceiling. Because if the argument was that his deck was 1000s of dollars more than the rest of the casual store, then limit him into a similar price bracket
Unfortunately, search probably couldn't be shortcutted. I believe Finale of Devastation searches your graveyard, and they mentioned Surgical Extraction.
As a different aside: puppo napping while Dad works is the best.
Duel commander bans almost all fast mana and a hand full of commanders. Also people dont chop top cuts and a clear winner can be determined.
With the availability of the internet, I don't see a problem with them all the time. It does help everyone to have the actual text on the card
The removal of reminder text was especially infuriating lately because it mainly affected the alt art cards, so if you pulled the card with the cool art like one of the cool dossier frames from Murders and it was one of the new keywords you were kinda SOL on what it did unless you also happened to get one with the default frame too (or decided to look it up via phone). It's like cool card art but what does it *do* again? It's not a matter that it doesn't fit because the default printings still have them so... why WotC?
Crim is truly a Dimir player: Just say nope to everything.
i always hated the debate about textless cards, because for a majority of the people I've played with, foreign cards are just as unhelpful, and I don't see people going around trying to get people to not play foreign cards.
27:24 i think the best way this would work is if ramp meant "search your library for a land and put it into play" and the specifics for the type of land and it entering tapped were appended to the end so a card would read "Ramp a forest" "ramp a basic" "ramp any land tapped"
While that’s a nice idea, you have to consider that ‘ramp’ as a term also includes mana dorks and artifacts. So I don’t think it’s possible to just print it like that on a card, as much as I want that to happen just to reduce the amount of words on some cards 😅
"Landfetch" "Basic Landfetch". There's already "Landcycling", so that should be easy to implement.
@@lVideoWatcherlI agree with this, there is precedent for keyword + number formatting as well, such as backup 1.
Basic Land Fetch 2, put one in your hand and the other on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land Fetch 1, put it on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sacrifice any number of lands. Land Fetch X, where X is the number of Lands sacrificed this way, put them on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Just some examples off the top of my head that might work here.
You can massage foils flat. it only takes a few minutes. the foils I play with are as flat as any other card in my deck. You don't have to risk DQ for playing foils. just prepare your cards so they aren't marked. no need to ban foils.
If you're at an RCQ and someone has foils in their deck, feel for curling. If there is any, call a judge. Even if the entire deck is foiled, differing levels of curling could still count as a marked deck.
On the land that exiles for a basic land from outside the game, what about one that just creates a token of a basic land of your choice?
"At the beginning of " could be shortened to "In " ("In your upkeep") and they just clarify it in the rules. That shaves off 17 characters from a ton of abilities.
They'll never do this, but also replace "instant or sorcery" with "nonpermanent".
@SmashPortal Permanent spells, theoretically, are also 'nonpermanents' until they hit the board, no?