[Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

[BlackbirdPlaysMTG]

Yo, you live in Spain, right? The founding people of Classic Legacy folk do their thing in Barcelona. I dunno if that is a massive hike or not, but if you want a taste of that pure Magic, I think you're the closest.

If you ever do go check it, please do tell how green is that grass.

I have been in Barcelona about a decade ago. Not exactly around the corner though, as I am Dutch .

Been looking at the website for Classic Legacy, looks pretty cool. I have picked up Duel Commander with some friends after I asked them if they would be interested in something like that. Couple of us have been brewing and proxy'ing decks, quite a lot of fun.

[Toshi]

Um, is this new theme gonna stay? 'cause um....

[Lifeless]

Huh I kinda like it but it's definitely different

[TheAmericanSpirit]

Yo, you live in Spain, right? The founding people of Classic Legacy folk do their thing in Barcelona. I dunno if that is a massive hike or not, but if you want a taste of that pure Magic, I think you're the closest.

If you ever do go check it, please do tell how green is that grass.

I have been in Barcelona about a decade ago. Not exactly around the corner though, as I am Dutch .

Been looking at the website for Classic Legacy, looks pretty cool. I have picked up Duel Commander with some friends after I asked them if they would be interested in something like that. Couple of us have been brewing and proxy'ing decks, quite a lot of fun.

Ah, so sorry. I knew you were European, not sure why I thought you were spanish.

[BlackbirdPlaysMTG]

Um, is this new theme gonna stay? 'cause um....

You can give your feedback in this thread . I kinda like the new theme personally.

[BlackbirdPlaysMTG]

Ah, so sorry. I knew you were European, not sure why I thought you were spanish.

Nah, the Spanish are our mortal enemies .

[TheAmericanSpirit]

Ah, so sorry. I knew you were European, not sure why I thought you were spanish.

Nah, the Spanish are our mortal enemies .

Oh god. Do forgive my confusion, I had no idea about the level of emnity at play here 😧 I swear, European conflicts of a certain era are on another level of misgivings. Wars going on for 30, 50, 80, 100 years and all of which being exceptionally brutal, all along the course of a 2000+ year history. Then again, Russia and US haven't been on good terms for like 100 years now, so maybe we're developing our own eternal feuds as nations of a certain age do.

[TheGildedGoose]

I really dislike the new theme.

[Moxnix]

The theme feels like the tried to get star wars IP and Disney said no and they were like well we already have all these cards designed. That or its a stepping stone to the actual star wars IP since it was sold to fortnight i cant see why they wouldn't sell it here but perhaps since they have their own card games?

[TheAmericanSpirit]

They can't take away my Jackal Pups or my Bolts or the fine folks at my local premodern monthly or the people with whom I play Old School, etc, etc. I have found new confidence in that I can find places to play Magic, real Magic, without having to dance to WotC maddening tune. Feels liberating, man.

Going to quote myself here for context and posterity. I got booted from my Premodern/Old School group yesterday because I said PM has balance issues exacerbated by RL staples, i.e. the best 4 decks are Stiflenought, Oath, Enchantress, and Replenish combo and the rest of the field isn't close. I was then, in sequential order, called a grinder, then a commie, and then too poor to play magic "if stiflenought and Survival are big money decks". It got really personal really quickly and I still don't know exactly what I said to incur that extreme of a dogpile.

My word of advice: stay far away from these fixed formats. Their people are pretty entrenched and they respond to criticism or questioning with the fury of religious zealotry. So sorry if anyone tried it on my recommendation, I was so very wrong.

[TheGildedGoose]

They can't take away my Jackal Pups or my Bolts or the fine folks at my local premodern monthly or the people with whom I play Old School, etc, etc. I have found new confidence in that I can find places to play Magic, real Magic, without having to dance to WotC maddening tune. Feels liberating, man.

Going to quote myself here for context and posterity. I got booted from my Premodern/Old School group yesterday because I said PM has balance issues exacerbated by RL staples, i.e. the best 4 decks are Stiflenought, Oath, Enchantress, and Replenish combo and the rest of the field isn't close. I was then, in sequential order, called a grinder, then a commie, and then too poor to play magic "if stiflenought and Survival are big money decks". It got really personal really quickly and I still don't know exactly what I said to incur that extreme of a dogpile.

My word of advice: stay far away from these fixed formats. Their people are pretty entrenched and they respond to criticism or questioning with the fury of religious zealotry. So sorry if anyone tried it on my recommendation, I was so very wrong.

As much as I love Old Magic, the only thing I like less is Old Magic Players. Sorry you had to deal with a dipshit brigade.

[TheAmericanSpirit]

They can't take away my Jackal Pups or my Bolts or the fine folks at my local premodern monthly or the people with whom I play Old School, etc, etc. I have found new confidence in that I can find places to play Magic, real Magic, without having to dance to WotC maddening tune. Feels liberating, man.

Going to quote myself here for context and posterity. I got booted from my Premodern/Old School group yesterday because I said PM has balance issues exacerbated by RL staples, i.e. the best 4 decks are Stiflenought, Oath, Enchantress, and Replenish combo and the rest of the field isn't close. I was then, in sequential order, called a grinder, then a commie, and then too poor to play magic "if stiflenought and Survival are big money decks". It got really personal really quickly and I still don't know exactly what I said to incur that extreme of a dogpile.

My word of advice: stay far away from these fixed formats. Their people are pretty entrenched and they respond to criticism or questioning with the fury of religious zealotry. So sorry if anyone tried it on my recommendation, I was so very wrong.

As much as I love Old Magic, the only thing I like less is Old Magic Players. Sorry you had to deal with a dipshit brigade.

For real though. All they do is %$#% about current magic, pine for glory days of yore, and then %$#% on everyone who thinks differently. I would rather play UB:The Gathering against cockroaches for 10 years in a third world torture pit than deal with that again.

[materpillar]

They can't take away my Jackal Pups or my Bolts or the fine folks at my local premodern monthly or the people with whom I play Old School, etc, etc. I have found new confidence in that I can find places to play Magic, real Magic, without having to dance to WotC maddening tune. Feels liberating, man.

Going to quote myself here for context and posterity. I got booted from my Premodern/Old School group yesterday because I said PM has balance issues exacerbated by RL staples, i.e. the best 4 decks are Stiflenought, Oath, Enchantress, and Replenish combo and the rest of the field isn't close. I was then, in sequential order, called a grinder, then a commie, and then too poor to play magic "if stiflenought and Survival are big money decks". It got really personal really quickly and I still don't know exactly what I said to incur that extreme of a dogpile.

My word of advice: stay far away from these fixed formats. Their people are pretty entrenched and they respond to criticism or questioning with the fury of religious zealotry. So sorry if anyone tried it on my recommendation, I was so very wrong.

Yikes. My experience with premodern was purely online and I didn't bump into any of this. My main issue with premodern was that it was a constructed format and I've never played any constructed 60 card format that I didn't think massively sucked.

Sorry you got piled on by a bunch of jerks.

[Lifeless]

Very unfortunate, sorry that happened. It does make me wonder if fixed formats are prone to this kind of behavior because they appeal to people who are unhappy with the state of the game. So the baseline attitude is unhappiness.

At any rate if I could pick a format to play forever it would be 2005ish Legacy or old Extended before they killed it. Maybe it's just because I was young but those formats were pretty healthy and allowed for a good bit of innovative deck building.

[Moxnix]

They can't take away my Jackal Pups or my Bolts or the fine folks at my local premodern monthly or the people with whom I play Old School, etc, etc. I have found new confidence in that I can find places to play Magic, real Magic, without having to dance to WotC maddening tune. Feels liberating, man.

Going to quote myself here for context and posterity. I got booted from my Premodern/Old School group yesterday because I said PM has balance issues exacerbated by RL staples, i.e. the best 4 decks are Stiflenought, Oath, Enchantress, and Replenish combo and the rest of the field isn't close. I was then, in sequential order, called a grinder, then a commie, and then too poor to play magic "if stiflenought and Survival are big money decks". It got really personal really quickly and I still don't know exactly what I said to incur that extreme of a dogpile.

My word of advice: stay far away from these fixed formats. Their people are pretty entrenched and they respond to criticism or questioning with the fury of religious zealotry. So sorry if anyone tried it on my recommendation, I was so very wrong.

I think i find these types in every single game I play so i dont think its special to one kind of magic and i find when people invest themselves emotionally so much into a card game or video game or something that doesnt really have any relevance in their life i find that's to avoid facing whatever things they dont want to in their real life. By challenging their small hideaway from their troubles you have poked that bear in a way. Any person I've known who got this personal over things like magic cards needed real life therapy so i would not pin it on the format as much as realize magic and all games like this will bring in people who escape into them and breaking their immersion makes them grumpy to say the least but when they speak this way it only reveals their ugly nature so i wouldn't be too bothered. Like those Reponses are the kind i expect from a child who just got very hurt by something that was said to them.

[materpillar]

Very unfortunate, sorry that happened. It does make me wonder if fixed formats are prone to this kind of behavior because they appeal to people who are unhappy with the state of the game. So the baseline attitude is unhappiness.

At any rate if I could pick a format to play forever it would be 2005ish Legacy or old Extended before they killed it. Maybe it's just because I was young but those formats were pretty healthy and allowed for a good bit of innovative deck building.

I'd pick EDH, probably around original Theros. Maybe a few years later.

[Moxnix]

2011 edh was god tier stuff that was a great time to be playing edh i think theros is around when i took a break for rl stuffs but it was a good run

[5colorsrainbow]

I don't really wanna bring back up the topic of planeswalkers as commanders here, but;
https://www.tumblr.com/markrosewater/78 ... urce=share

If you feel strongly about it one way or another and you use tumblr, Maro does use his blog as player data (with one such result was feeling that Kamigawa had enough fans to try a do over) so this would be a good place to voice your thoughts,

[cryogen]

I swear to god, this game is like cigarettes... you can quit for years but the itch never goes away. Two people messages me to show me a spoiler card and here I am a day later sitting down to brew a commander deck.

[Hermes_]

I swear to god, this game is like cigarettes... you can quit for years but the itch never goes away. Two people messages me to show me a spoiler card and here I am a day later sitting down to brew a commander deck.

Welcome back

[TheGildedGoose]

[Lifeless]

I would rather simply not know something than use Gatherer.

[Shabbaman]

I swear to god, this game is like cigarettes... you can quit for years but the itch never goes away. Two people messages me to show me a spoiler card and here I am a day later sitting down to brew a commander deck.

Just take a look at the Spongebob Squarepants cards and you'll be running away screaming

[cryogen]

I swear to god, this game is like cigarettes... you can quit for years but the itch never goes away. Two people messages me to show me a spoiler card and here I am a day later sitting down to brew a commander deck.

Just take a look at the Spongebob Squarepants cards and you'll be running away screaming

I'll pass, thank you very much. But hey, they finally listened to me and unbanned Gifts, so there's that.

[TheGildedGoose]

I'll pass, thank you very much. But hey, they finally listened to me and unbanned Gifts, so there's that.

Technically, it was a group other than the RC that unbanned Gifts.