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Trying to keep up with MTG eternal formats, Chess, AI, life, and other interesting stuff I don't understand.

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@BrianMork Vel talt.

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@bundeskanzler X translates 'Deutchland' to 'Denmark' in my feed. Fortunately that statement is also true.

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@straczynski If that were the case it could wipe out humanity except a few slaves, kept in cages for the sole purpose of maintaining the system.

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@Tim_T_Rex @mtgbanding Haha, amazing

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@robertskmiles Because while it's possible, it's rather difficult to get everything right. It requires work, skills, ux wisdom, knowledge management, etc. The problem is that every company manager wants to believe it's easy, and smart salesmen capitalize on that.

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🏆with GR madness survival. Warchiefs are good, but decklist is very much work in progress.

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They fixed Bösium Strip with Fire/Ice after I reported it. Nice to know that they sometimes also make time for older niche cards, with the raging stream of new stuff.

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@oresundsbaron "en eller anden" trækker et vældigt stort læs i denne meningstilkendegivelse.

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@MagicOnline Seems like fine combo improvements. However, by focusing on "choosing a target" specifically, an opportunity was missed to improve combos that chooses (not targets) an object, e.g. Cavern Harpy. A basic function to "repeat this loop" seems like it would be more generally useful.

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@saintjavelin You don't have to be a psychologist to see that everyone in this clip is afraid. Putin's fear might be of peace, but the general impression from the others is fear of Putin.

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@khodorkovsky_en You don't have to be a psychologist to see that everyone in this clip is afraid. Putin's fear might be of peace, but the general impression from the others is fear of Putin.

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@oresundsbaron @btdk Hvis man straks tænker det der ligner et "nazi-emblem", så er man muligvis blevet ansporet til at tænkte i retning af, at Ukrainere er nazister.

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@otb33291187 Yes, I had the same thought and tried it with Psychatog. The problem is mana and other costs have to be paid. But you can do some crazy things, for sure. Especially with Dark Ritual.

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@CanijaDk At reducere danskhed til et spørgmål om biologi falder sammen ved første analyse og er utrolig nemt at angribe for de hyper-tolerante.

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@CanijaDk @cyrus_razavi Hvis man ikke noget pænt eller konstruktivt at sige, er det ofte bedre ikke at sige noget.

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@cyrus_razavi "DF" leder straks tanken hen på Dansk Folkeparti. Er det en bevidst kampagnestrategi?

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@CanijaDk @cyrus_razavi Sikke noget vrøvl.

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I think one thing that doesn't get discussed enough is how much Magic's gameplay has changed in recent years. The effort to make the game more accessible seems good on its face, but the end result seems to be much less strategic gameplay and less player agency (i.e. your decision matter less today than in the past).

One thing doing the Best Standard bracket has reinforced to me is that the current version of Magic really is an aberration historically. The play pattern of two decks snowballing into each other and seeing who gets the better draw isn't how Magic was for most of its life.

Rather than being about Universes Beyond or the number of sets, I think this is actually a product of Wizards spending the last decade or two trying to remove "feel bads" from the game to make it more accessible or appealing to new players. Stax has mostly been eliminated, land destruction too, counterspells minimized.

As we've seen repeatedly on the Bracket, these "feel bad" cards actually do a ton of work balancing the game. Janky white weenie decks can compete thanks to Rishadan Port or Armageddon disrupting the opponent's resources. Sideboard hosers and color hate cards can swing matchups. This leads to, at least in my opinion, a lot of really interesting matches where you have to think about playing around sideboard cards, sequence plays to avoid the hate, sandbag lands to play around destruction, etc.

I feel like this strategic depth is often missing today.

When you add the elimination or minimization of "feel bads" to the spiraling power of creatures, you end up with a game that heavily incentivizes maximizing your gameplay rather than stopping your opponent's gameplan.

We've also seen a lot of steps taken to minimize variance - mulligan rule changes, card designs (like MDFCs), everything generating card advantage to make sure you rarely run out of cards (because being empty handed feels bad...) - which I think compounds the problem. Less variance also pushes you to maximize your gameplan rather than stopping your opponent's gameplan, since you'll execute your gameplan optimally more often.

The end result is an era of Magic that, at least to me, feels far less strategic than in the past. I still appreciate the game for what it is today, I still have fun playing it, but it's wild how good 1v1 Magic gameplay used to be. I wish there was a way more newer players could experience it, because it really is a lifechanging gaming experience and its super addicting.

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@npravn Det er fascinerende at iagttage, hvordan personerne både skammer sig over egen etnicitet, men på samme tid er overbeviste om, at de med deres baggrund og hvidhed har unikke forudsætninger for at "løfte" området, som de andre beboere ikke har.