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Blow this up
maybe I just missed this, but Tumblr doesn’t seem to be blowing up about the planned wildcard pricing for Historic on Arena
it is absolutely ridiculous and forced, contrived scarcity
it’s unnecessary and inexplicable that a digital card would cost more (let alone twice as much) as another digital card
opening packs is predominately how you get wildcards and the fastest, most surefire way to accomplish that is from buying packs with real money, not just earning them from free play. anybody who wants a bunch of them is going to have to buy packs
meanwhile newer players and those who can’t afford to buy a lot of packs with actual cash are punished and dissuaded from hopping into the Historic format for no legitimate reason
there is only one policy we should accept with regard to wildcards
1 wildcard = 1 card, no matter what set it’s from
Arena Historic pricing is unethical and bad business
I recently learned that on top of the 2:1 wildcards for historic card thing, WotC plans on only allowing players to buy packs from rotated sets using gems and then I guess only in large quantities, not a single pack at a time. read the title of this post again. This is BS. The folks responsible for this are trying to fleece us and right now the vibe I’m getting from the community as far as I can see is that it’s probably going to work
digital cards are an unlimited resource
there’s no print cost and while there is a significant cost with regard to design, development, card art, programming them into Arena, and other costs, that’s all up front and done with by the time we get to buying packs/cards on Arena
for cardboard cards, WotC has to plunk down a bunch of money to print millions of cards and put them in packs and ship them all over the world. there are massive logistics and investments to handle on top of the design and development and art and all that. and then you really need to sell most of that product for it to be successful
you (the company) mitigates risk on that by doing a large print run (economy of scale stuff, it costs less per sheet if you’re doing half a million of them as opposed to doing like 100), but only as much as you expect to sell in the first couple of months. then if it’s popular you do another print run and if it’s not popular then you haven’t printed twice as much as you could ever sell
the result of this is that you can’t just go back and print prior sets. there are significant costs and logistics that go into it, new hurdles like convincing big box stores that just redoing a decade old product will still sell (seems like a no-brainer to those of us who are enfranchised but sales folks at Wal-Mart are going to be highly skeptical), not to mention that would be a totally new model with no real world info on it. which in turn leads to a secondary market dictating prices as we seek needed cards after rotation
ALL OF WHICH I SAY BECAUSE
this reinforces just how different the digital card format is from real cardboard cards. if I turn a wildcard into Ajani’s Pridemate with the M19 art, it will cost Wizards nothing more whether I do it today or two years from now
so why would it cost me twice as much to make that card?
but that’s not all. packs of cards are exactly the same. An Ixalan pack on Arena costs Wizards the same today as it will tomorrow as it will next year
so why will I only be able to buy it for real world money (turned into gems) when I can buy standard packs with in game gold?
Arena Historic pricing is an unethical cash grab and it seems like the community is ready to roll over and take it
one wildcard = one card
no matter what set it is from or what the art/frame is
i watched king kong (2005) in theaters and I remember it being long but
3 dang hours?!
you guys know the original did all that in 100 minutes? could we show some more faith to the original in that respect
Anonymous asked:
Why not make MLP cards black border
markrosewater answered:
A fine question. Would you all prefer we’d done the Pony cards in silver border or black border? (If we’d done them in black border, assume we’d have done designs that work within the black border rules.)
Hands down I want more silver border cards like these.
Momir’s Madness Update
Our favorite* game mode is back on Arena!
My old strat guide for this is still pretty relevant, but it’s out of date because they’ve added some cards…
You know how they were talking about adding cards to the Historic format from Magic’s past? Well, they’ve got them programmed in and Momir’s Madness is your first opportunity to play with them. I am having trouble finding a complete list, but here are ones I can confirm:
- Bringer of the Green Dawn (9 CMC)
- Bringer of the Red Dawn (9 CMC)
- (presumably the rest of this cycle though I’ve only seen those two. These are all 9 CMC, which really butchers the chances of hitting Zacama)
- Gigantomancer (8 CMC)
- Blazing Archon (9 CMC)
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (10 CMC)
- (the three new legendary Eldrazi Titans? That would be Emrakul at 13 CMC and Kozilek at 10 CMC)
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Jin-Gitaxis (10 CMC)
- (the cycle of New Phyrexia Preators? That would be Elesh Norn and Sheoldred at 7 CMC, Urabrask at 5 CMC, and Vorinclex at 8 CMC)
- Griselbrand (8 CMC)
- Borborygmos Enraged (8 CMC)
They said they were adding 15-20 cards this way so what I’ve seen accounts for less than half of those new cards either way. If those are complete cycles then we’ve accounted for 17 of those cards.
With this in mind, I’ve got three additional tips:
- Still just play a land the first three turns and make sure you’re hitting at least the 9 CMC area. Blazing Archon is tough to play around and Zacama is still your best, most versatile option at that point in the curve, particularly if you’ve played 3 Mountains and can then dish out 9 damage to anything on their board. Think of this as playing a control deck. You hit your land drops and only play at CMCs that give you the best chance to take control of the game and eliminate threats. Even the bringers are solid 9 CMC drops, some more than others.
- CMC 7 has some special relevance too, especially if your opponent dropped a Blazing Archon. Meteor Golem and Agent of Treachery can deal with it and while your chances of hitting them aren’t the greatest, CMC 7 has other great threats and this should leave you with some mana open which is relevant to the last tip…
- If you hit a Gigantomancer at CMC 8, having even just 1 mana open can really change the game. I had an opponent with Zacama so I made sure to keep at least 1 mana up every turn so any time they wanted to try to use Zacama’s bolt ability to kill something of mine they had to commit to using all their mana on it that turn. I won the game thanks to that as it nearly blanks Zacama’s usefulness in the format.
If you see more of the new Historic cards (or just know of a list somewhere) please update me on it.
