mtgDAO

Original mtgDAO whitepaper:

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@elonmusk @ianmiles 👀

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@AndyWilson22 Why?

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@MTGCritic It should be owned by the Magic community and prioritized to making the best games and not just extracting the most profit from them.

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@UGGnetwork @wizards_magic Better than the Vice article. Thanks for actually discussing the gameplay. You misunderstood a few things though.

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@elsdoerfer DM’d you.

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@Halimain Islands cost double :) jk. I assumed basic lands would not be tracked and would therefore be “free” as far as the MTG cost goes.

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Wizards of the Coast sent a very polite email saying they consider our use of NFTs, as described in the mtgDAO whitepaper, to be unlawful IP infringement.

They hint at their own NFT plans and ask that we don’t launch mtgDAO.

Here’s why WotC is ngmi.

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@mikeisgo DM’d you

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3/ It’s like the difference between making a copy of a book vs giving someone an invite to bring a book to a book club. I never would have thought you would need to get permission from the author before doing the latter.

But I’m certainly not an expert.

*mutes thread*

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1/ I don’t know shit about copyright law, so I’m trying not to discuss it much, but I’ll tell you that mtgDAO NFTs being IP infringement is not intuitive to me.

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2/ Making a copy of a magic card and selling it as an NFT would be copyright infringement. mtgDAO NFTs are just a protocol tool to track who’s allowed to use the card in our Magic tournaments.

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Well to be fair I did kind of promise a shit show 😂

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In case it’s not obvious to anyone reading this, I’m so excited about this project but I definitely have NO IDEA what I’m doing. Join the shitshow and maybe we can make something cool together!

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@stupidestMirror @AndyWilson22 @SciCommForYou I also wish I had phrased the $50 part differently. When the project launched the tokens would obviously be worthless. I meant it more that if the project become popular that cheap decks were costing $50 or more I would personally vote to tweak the scarcity formula.

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@stupidestMirror @AndyWilson22 @SciCommForYou These are fair critiques. Thanks for not being a troll. :)

I’ve since proposed a “season” system similar to penny dreadful where total deck value would be capped to be legally played. You’d still get the meta diversity but a max cost.

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@AndyWilson22 @SciCommForYou Thanks for reading :)

I haven’t played YGO so I might be missing something but due to the scarcity formula for NFT mints the best cards would quickly be outpriced from the capped leagues. So they wouldn’t be able to play that card in their deck. Players would need to dig deep.

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@AndyWilson22 @SciCommForYou I just realized what I’m saying wouldn’t make any sense if you haven’t read the white paper in my bio. No pressure but if you’re intrigued you should check it out.

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@AndyWilson22 @SciCommForYou Maybe I don’t fully understand scicom’s reasoning but the NFT cost formula make it prohibitively expensive if more than a few players try to use the same card. So you’re just not going to have players with the same cards no matter what. Players must get creative with unused cards

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@AndyWilson22 @SciCommForYou I guess I’m fascinated by the prospect of a non-convergent meta so I still think it would be fun. What about the idea of leagues similar to penny dreadful but with capped deck cost limits.

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@SciCommForYou Genuine thanks for reading the white paper and giving actual feedback. I’ll take responses like yours all day.

I agree the pay to win aspects of the format make it not as fun for spike players. One improvement would be leagues similar to Penny Dreadful with capped deck values.

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@BrydonRobert I did not know that. Do you have more info about that?

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@hahn116 I would love to learn more. DM me!