#MTG Standard musings:
I really wish Tarkir and Avatar were rotating next year in Standard, especially the latter.
Its density of format defining block decks (+cub) is just too much, and I feel like we're not really going to notice the rotation all that much as a result.
Has anyone found a good (testing vs tier 1 meta, not just early access vibes) Affinity list in Standard yet? So far seen nothing from mtgo.
I'd love to be casting cranial plating in Richmond. Save me from playing Dimir Mid.
This has a profound effect on the archetype diversity in metagame results.
Over 25% of archetypes would disappear from the public record entirely, never appearing in published results under this new system.
This will also mean ~40% fewer archetypes are published each week.
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God forbid they look inward and take into account all the self inflicted problems with recent design philosophy. Instead we get silence and data being hidden from players.
@kurt13warner@Panthers I was wondering if he keeps his feet close and leans forward to help him see over the line at the start of his drop - if he steps back feet wide and back-planted immediately, I imagine he loses some critical height?
@RossHunneds I hated PWs forever because it just felt impossible to come back some games where you couldn't remove them in a turn cycle. Now, you don't even get a turn sometimes!
As much as I enjoy nerding out about math, I hope WotC cools it with cards that scale superlinearly. Harmonizer and Hydra are exponential. Cub, Ouroboroid, and Hoof are higher order polynomials. These aren't snowballs rolling down a hill; they're snowballs shot out of a cannon.
Here's a screenshot of Tremble getting his head taken off. What I didn't realize is that there's a Bucs player w/ illegal hands to the face at the bottom in the same damn frame lmao. Just awful.
@alexzietlow05@gregauman When you've got an officiating lead that's so far gone that he can't even admit a miss - "could" have replayed the down as if they aren't the ones accountable - you've got to make a change.
@josephperson I hate posts like this - they only needed 19 yards to win a fairly called ball game. Most games have questionable calls on both sides, but today was absolutely egregious and needs a magnifying glass on it. Even the pool report language is wierd AF.
Moderately insane chain of events.
Bryce Young throws obvious backward pass to Dowdle, who picks it up with room to run but it’s whistled dead immediately by an official who ruled it a forward pass. Referee Brad Allen then announces it’s a backward pass “that went out of bounds” and loss of 6. Panthers end up missing a 54-yard field goal.
Atrocious officiating.