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I still play MTG:O and Arena sometimes... Back in the day, I started Playing in the Odyssey block and left the game by the Kamigawa block, nothing personal, jus
by pelagicAustral 1y ago
I still play MTG:O and Arena sometimes... Back in the day, I started Playing in the Odyssey block and left the game by the Kamigawa block, nothing personal, just life and time to move on...
Right now it is like what happens when a product has been around for long enough, has reach popularity, and had had to reinvent itself and remain relevant by branching into way to many timelines. Something like what happened to WWE (nee WWF), in the early 90's it was just the one show, and remained stable during the Attitude era, after that they came up with crossovers, branching shows like Smackdown, repurposing wrestlers, increasingly crazier storylines, and more and more artifacts to remain relevant and squeeze as much revenue as it was possible...
MTG is just about the same, they are currently doing what started as parallel blocks with Universes Beyond but that are now merged into the traditional Standard storyline and it makes no sense, abilities are all over the place and they are now being rebranded and sprinkled with some "whatever helps the block" narrative that is just tiresome... Murders at Karlov Manor, for example, introduced some ridiculous mechanics about "suspecting" creatures... I mean, come on!
On the other hand they have caved for politics and at least 20% of the art doesn’t even make sense any more, in a card game... a fantasy card game... things don't make sense any more.
It's tiresome, and it's impossible to grasp the game any more...
- UncleMeat 1y agoBeing mad about a game that you haven't played for 21 years is a wild choice.
- pelagicAustral 1y agoI'm not mad at all, in the end, it's just entropy at play, that's all. Besides, I still play MTG. I just don't play physical cards any more because of practicality... but most people that play the game knows what I'm trying to say.
- wredcoll 1y agoWe absolutely do not know what you think you meant by bringing up politics.
- UncleMeat 1y agoAragorn was black in the art for the lotr set. That's the only case of "politics" in art that I can think of in recent history. Maybe it is something different but given the particular tenor of people complaining about "politics" in mtg, I'm not confident.
- mathgeek 1y agoMagic is one of those hobbies that defines many folks’ personalities from their youth. We identify with it long after we stop living the lifestyle.