4mo ago

feeling like starting a struggle session this morning

do i have to CW this for transphobia or is it detached enough from the original?

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Counterpoint: Commander on tabletop sim is really fun. Why yes my deck does cost 800 dollars on mtg goldfish because I put all the prettiest cards in it. How much did I pay? 5 dollars for tabletop sim on sale
- i rly should try tabletop sim for this! i have a krenko (mob boss) deck that i tinkered w/ for quite a while before actually building it, but it turns out getting games can be kind of a nightmare. tried w/ internet randoms over spelltable, never again
  altho! we might eventually be able to start a pod w/ commune folks & that'd honestly be kinda incredible :3
  
  Arena has mob boss and loads of goblin support.

for real struggle session hours I'll say Cube is the only good format.
- I've got a box of bulk I got off ebay and I kinda want to make it into a cube, get more value out of it than just throwing it at a store
  
  Do it! I'd play whatever cube you make if I lived near you. I'm sure you can convince your local gamers of the glory of Cube.

Fyi they make very good Chinese counterfeits. But also pauper and Penny are both very fun. Idk I don't play anymore

With the advent of cheap Chinese high quality cardstock printers, anyone can have a proper Vintage cube for like $150.

Limited is the only real format(s?)
- Bloomburrow draft is very good. Presumably other drafts are good too but I only play the cute Redwall game.

Good take. I've recently been invited to play in a (proxy friendly) Premodern tournament which is a format I've actually never heard about before, and I've also never heard of most of the cards in the big decks. @EstraDoll@hexbear.net do you think premodern is kosher?
- bold of you to assume i know what a premodern is
  
  Yeah I think if someone's inviting me to play a format not mentioned on scryfall it's like wtf
- Just built two Pre-Modern decks (Mono-Blue Storm and Sewer Sl*** Black) and plan on building two more. It's amazing how many unique brews there are with a fixed card pool that's 20 years old.

It took me a while to figure out this is referring to Magic: The Gathering formats

Limited is superior to all of the above
- I had so much more fun with magic when I decided that all constructed formats are bourgeoisie decadence and shitty day trading disguised as a game and that I would only play limited
- alright alright, that's fair

Pauper EDH is pretty cool too.
- 1v1 only, the lack of sweepers @ common means multiplayer traffic jams will be slowly decided by a 2/1 bird token

Vintage and Legacy are real formats. Probably the most real because you can fetch + Brainstorm into Force of Will against someone casting turn 1 Trinisphere.

Is there so many MtG formats nowadays? I feel schadenfreude looking at that. But i'm not surprised, nobody would survived that crunching pace.
- idk but all these formats just make me think of that one XKCD comic. It's probably a similar story to how all the MTG formats developed
  
  Fun but not really, open (iirc it was called extended or something like that) format always existed and everyone could play it, but at the same time nobody should because decks were wild even 20 years ago, i actually quit after witnessing open format tournament with two guys with 1st turn win decks (otherwise entirely obsolete) which both predictably met in finale, ruining quite some fun in the progress, and basically entire match was decided who won the coin toss to start first.
  This above formatbloat is effect of opposite direction, to facilitate most possible players who were utterly lost between cutting edge but ultra whale standard and monstrous extended. After all the pillar of MtG success was that they managed to sell that to the wide audience and under that success there are hundreds of already forgotten card games.

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