Jon Stern

[Jon Stern @JonSternMTL]

@haralabob It's all fun and games until someone loses their life playing "is it a cake?"

[Jon Stern @JonSternMTL]

@FaceToFaceGames "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

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@JasonVorthos Reading this tournament report made me miss Magic more than anything that's happened in the last 4 years.

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@NotDuinIt I decided to just play 25-minute games, even though I mostly still played at a pace to finish in 10 minutes. It helped me think about positions when necessary since I don't have the muscle memory, endgame technique, or opening theory.

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@Smdster @BenS_MTG @lsv What if someone admits to cheating in the past because they felt that WotC was soft on cheaters, didn't try to catch them, and kept introducing exploitable rules. Admit they mainly regret getting caught but compensated the victims and decided to play straight after their ban.

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@tirentu Finally an OP decision I can get behind. I've been wanting them to do some variation of this for years.

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@MightyLinguine Congratulations!

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@Jaawls I think a lot of people feel this way because it has been that way for a long time. That's what people are used to. However, it is exploitable and, unfortunately, is often exploited.

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This is how I think it should work: mandatory triggers are treated as optional triggers that anyone can put on the stack. If you want it to happen, it's your job. No penalties for forgetting and no rewinds. It must be communicated before other effects are allowed to resolve.

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@Jaawls The argument is that the priority should be on unexploitable fair play. Ideally, all triggers always are remembered. That's not realistic. So, make all mandatory triggers optional. That's fair. If you want it to happen, it's your job (in premiere events).

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@Jaawls I don't think that's a problem. You can read the card, then it's up to you to remember, at least in high level competitive play. The alternatives are exploitable.

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Tournament rules need to accommodate hardcore tryhards while also protecting those who *care less* or *don't want to win that way*. Incentives need to be aligned with fair play as a priority. This has not been the philosophy of the rules committee for a long time.

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@Smdster @Ajelenbogen Ya I'm not claiming a tournament result defines the better player. You could say that engagement/investment are part of what make a player good at magic. The ability to try your best at something without making excuses is something that a lot of ppl are not capable of.

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Better at magic is nonsensical without context. Better at what? Deckbuilding? Playing with no prep? Tournament results after a month of prep? Thinking in general? Thinking quickly? If everything averages out into results, you can easily compare stats.

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@Smdster @Ajelenbogen Are they not? Run properly, they should be objective. And skill certainly plays a significant factor. Do you mean that a single tournament result doesn't automatically mean the best player won? That's obvious. It's not a perfect measure of course

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@Ajelenbogen @JasonILTG A tournament tomorrow with no prep or a tournament that they have a month to prepare for with a team? A limited format for a new set or an eternal format where they've played the same archetype for 10 years? Why a tournament and not a head-to-head match? Average it all?

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@Ajelenbogen Movies don't have an objective measure of quality like tournament results. Box office and awards don't really cut it. Maybe I'm just not seeing why "who's better at magic" isn't just "who's done better at magic"...lots of rankings I've seen have tried to measure something else

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@PascalMaynard I think that most people ranking themselves are considering how they would fare in some imaginary test of true skill without outside assistance. And probably have very different ideas about what true skill means

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@PascalMaynard Would you consider networking or finding the right person to help you at the parts you are bad at as part of "being good at magic"?

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