Yeah 100% this. MTG is my favorite TCG game system by miles but inconvenient things like Mark Rosewater, the R&D Team, the Art Department, True & Honest Women (Male), and blue mana make it a struggle to enjoy sometimes.
The people at my LGS are okay, it's been open for like 4 months and the real sickos, degens, and BO warriors haven't shown up yet, but I've been trying to sell some of my expensive cardboard via whatsapp group and it's the most MISERABLE FUCKING EXPERIENCE. So yes I'd agree, it's all retards and autists and I hate (((them))) IN GENERAL, but I do love my silly card game so I gotta take the good with the bad.
It's been pushed back to 2026 (apparently) because spiderman set and avatar set must come out first.
Next year because nobody actually cares about Magic IP
Rest assured, WotC is hard at work taking everything you loved from OG Lorwyn and ruining it for the return set.
How do you ruin thoughtseize
You put it under duress, despise it, subject it to blackmail and inquisition, divest it, force it to dream of blood and oil, and give it a phyrexian mana cost. Or just agree to leave it unmolested and put thoughtsieze into standard and make standard great again.
I think the Final Fantasy set is going to do the opposite because it will be popular for collectors/fans plus the fact that the MSRP is so high standard decks will jump in price massively if any card in there set is meta.
Hol up, you aint badmouthing Inquisition of Kozilek are you? Cause IoK is a great discard effect.
Theros Standard being black-dominated almost purely on the back of Thoughtseize was cancer-aids, and Abzan dominating unchecked afterwards because of that card was even worse.
Yup turns out you don't actually have to play against a deck if you can remove the important parts turn one for B and 2 life. Must suck to get your thoughtseize thoughtseized.
They'll just print Thoughtseize+ that costs 3 life but lets you discard any card from your opponent's hand instead
I am seeing a lot of hype over the FF set locally (south america) but given that we have to pay extra out of the ass because """"import taxes"""" and """"the store's fee"""" it's been a lot more subdued than the soybuddies on rebbit who are just preordering all of the collectors commander decks without even seeing the decklists. I *hope* prices level out because I want to pull the foxy xiv grandpa but if it's too bad I'll just have to skip on it too, I'm not selling a kidney for the hobby no matter how much quick cash hasbro wants out of mtg.
I was more just trying to be cute and name all the thoughtsieze comparable cards I could think of, I actually like almost all of them that I named (divest is shit tho)
I actually liked the cancer aids format, and would love to go back to it. It’s not like people actually play standard anymore, so I’m of the opinion that WOTC should just throw shit at the format until people actually start looking at it again.
Not just yet - first they need to put hymn to tourach in the next modern horizons
Thancred, Urianger, and Louisoix (if they all get cards) will be commander-bait nonsense with a whole bunch of setup for weird effects, so I just don't see them as singles costing much at all.
Paper standard, yeah. But they play arena standard plenty, and given how the wildcard economy works, 95% of the meta is going to jam the 4-of thoughtseize deck
Oh for sure, I'm expecting all of them to be in the scions deck with shtola to begin with, but since they've said that there's gonna be multiple versions of the same chara (like the 8 clouds and 12 sephirots we are FOR SURE getting) it's gonna be fun to see if they make an Estinien broken as fuck for standard and another one that just loots or dodges removal or some other silly shit like that for the commander deck.
Thank you! I really appreciate you putting to words what has been bugging me not just in Magic writing, but writing in general lately. Trying to skip directly to the payoff.