/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>>201049
Why do people not get that Tezzeret wasn't working for the Phyrexians?

>>201057
>Super Best Friends Gate Watch
I like the name /tg/ has for them: Jacetice League

>Tezzeret was trying to take over the Phyrexians at the end of New Phyrexia
As far as I remember NB told him not to mess with them.

Elesh Norn is currently in the lead having bumped off Urabrask and Sheoldred.

Tezzeret's mission was to destabilize the Phyrexians to keep them from uniting under a single leader. A lot of people thought he was clearly going to betray his mission and install himself as leader, but that was never likely. Bolas rebuilt his mind after Jace put it in a blender. I am dead certain that included commands to insure he couldn't disobey.

But in other news, damn Kaladesh looks exciting. Can't wait to make a car drive another car.

>>201087
Honestly not very good news. Any card you see on that? Not very likely to be reprinted at a non-premium rarity any time soon, if ever.

From a collectible stand point, it's complete horse shit.

I need to find my old collection of Visions and Mirage. Yea I've been out of the game a long time.

//youtube.com/watch?v=uH3rF9GdBv0

The fact that the comments for this review are filled with "I pulled Such and Such masterpiece so that made it worth it!" and "You should have opened those boosters and seen if you pulled a masterpiece!" just go to show how absolutely disgusting this game has gotten and how poor people's reasoning skills are. It's really disturbing.

>>201146
His dismissal of any merit beyond what is tournament playable is equally disgusting as well. Casual exists. It runs roughshod over the amount of those doing competitive events.

>>201181
But he's not doing an analysis on the "fun factor" of the product. He's focusing entirely on monetary value. That's his shtick. And tournament playable cards are the cards that are actually worth shit. I don't like the dude and his videos either, but criticizing the video for not being what it never set out to be in the first place is a bit petulant.

>>201181
>>201182

He was probably harder on those Planeswalker Intro packs because they came right on the heels of Card Kingdom's Battle Decks, and are worse decks than what Card Kingdom was offering for a lower price point. //youtube.com/watch?v=8vYRylzo5gM

>>201182
If he examines the decks for not being what they were never meant to be to begin with, I don't see the folly of applying the same metric to his video.

Kinda boils down to the fact he should focus his reviews on things he is actually examining things for.

>Pro Tour
>Chandra, Torch of Defiance only shows up as a one-of in the sideboard in one standard deck
>Looter Scooters everywhere

RIP people who bought her based on pre-release hype.

>>201237
Kinda sad I already sold the Copter I opened in the last FNM draft because it's sure to rise even more in price, but on the other hand it paid for the draft, so it's not like I lost money.

Everyone losing their shit about an infinite combo being in Standard now. At least I got my Saheeli before it happened.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-9-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-01-09


>Standard:

>Emrakul, the Promised End is banned.

>Smuggler's Copter is banned.

>Reflector Mage is banned.

>Modern:

>Gitaxian Probe is banned.

>Golgari Grave-Troll is banned.

Good heavens.

>>201512
They're trying really hard to get people to play Standard again.

>>201513
>>201512

The last time this many cards have been banned from Standard was March 2005, when they gutted Affinity from Mirrodin.

Legacy continues to be the Best Girl of formats.

The whole deal with Frontier is so fucking retarded and that people are lapping it up so rabidly just fits the overall direction all of society is moving towards as a whole.

Holy balls, MM17 is shaping up to have an absolutely insane amount of value at the Rare, Uncommon, and Mythic slots. Some pretty damn good Commons like Burning Tree Emissary too. I'm still not crazy about $10 packs, but this is certainly considerably better than the last Modern Masters.

I'm so burned out on card games right now. They all release their major expansion in short succession of each other and I just can't be arsed to keep up anymore. Gonna take a break from Magic and Shadowverse. Hearthstone I'm just gonna stop playing altogether. It stopped being feasible to play that game as f2p.

So there's going to be a Magic MMORPG. That seems... weird. And kinda out of touch.

>>202106
>Ixalan will have Vraska as a pirate and dinosaurs ridden as mounts
>New Un-set comes out in december
>Next year's spring set returns to Dominaria, and Richard Garfield worked on the design team

What a time to be alive!

>>202132
Each individual mode is well worth 1U so making it cost 1 more for flexibility is good balancing. The problem is that at that point those modes becomes overcosted. Paying 3 for a soft counter or drawing a card is just terrible.

The Commander 2017 seem kinda lackluster, honestly. Mostly due to the tribal support thing. There's just not a lot of cards that are universally useful for any kind of deck, so if you don't want to play any of the four supported tribes you might as well skip this one.

Man, not even fucking Magic can stay drama free these days. I wish I didn't have to know about this pathetic fucking "man" and his shitty Youtube channel.

So rivals of Ixalan is out this week.
It kinda cements the fact this was a real grab bag setting.

>>423448
Geeze that's an old one.

>>423535
>There will be 15 Transformers cards in total but each one is available in two different styles. One depicts the G1 1980s-style characters, and the other depicts the latest Shattered Glass comics in which Autobots are evil and Decepticons are good.
Honestly that Shattered Glass concept sounds extremely lame.

>>423535
>>423535
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/magic-the-gathering-game/news/magic-the-gathering-final-fantasy-assassins-creed-universes-beyond
This is just some ridiculous levels of fanboy pandering.

BIGGEST MAGIC FAILURE IN HISTORY - ONLY 1,936 BOXES SOLD

>>424756
Fuck wizards of the coast

https://www.dicebreaker.com/topics/layoffs/news/wizards-of-the-coast-owner-hasbro-lays-off-1100-staff-before-christmas

>>423535
Final Fantasy is next.