OMG WTF?

[entropyjim]

Well, I haven't played Magic for a little while now but, for some reason, I decided to have a look at Wizards' web-site today.

Its unrecognisable. I had to look up EVERY card apart from Lightning Bolt which, somehow, is back in the basic set!

Don't get me started on PlaneswalkersThey've even changed the rules so a Mogg fanatic can't kill two 1/1

Comments

[tails_redux]

Something about the way you've written that reminds me of reformed alcoholics/smokers/etc ;)

[entropyjim]

Heh. I always said that Magic was like crack but more expensive to keep up with.

[zenithed]

Phew, that reduces my chances of sliding back into it as well - I've done a couple of sealed deck tournaments in the last few years but only on the proviso that I don't keep the cards afterwards.

[boryon]

Heh, that was the proviso I used last time I turned up to a prerelease.

[thespirit3]

I've not played Magic since 1994 ... I think I'd struggle somewhat :)

[hennes]

I have not played MTG in year, and staring to parse the lingo is getting harder. Swinging bears? Why not just attack with them?

As to the planes walker: I am still enough into the game to read the card and think. "Steal one of the oppenents creatures (-2 tokens), boost all creates (+1 token), boost all creatures (+1 token). Repeat until you have all creatures and charge? Br0ken? Or just without all the rules on the page I read :)

[entropyjim]

It must be some kind of ability you can only use once per turn or, as you said, you cast him followed by some untargetable haste critter and attack for the win.

But hey: Who knows????

[graquette]

MtG has always been like this. Perhaps you are seeing it more clearly now that you have gained some distance :)

Planeswalkers are not new. They have had Legends and the like before.

I would probably still enjoy playing the game if the cards were free. That's why I liked that old PC game. Every now and then I ponder on the the idea of starting up another club, but I'm not convinced it has the same following as it use to.

[entropyjim]

Well, something that was happening even when you were running the club in Bath has really come to fruition now: If you're not a Magic selling shop they really don't want to support you.

A number of 'independant' tourneys have closed down because of lack of support and repeated lobbying from Wizards' booster-selling base that people like us were undercutting them. The single exception (of course) is Jason running the London events. They're too big for Wizrds to ignore really.

Whilst the do show a nod to the 'serious' player they are most interested in the people who really buy Magic, and most of those never ever go to a tourney, not even a Pre-release.