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with pioneer announced, do guys think this is the best time to buy shocks? i'm so tempted to buy a playset rn because i feel like it only becomes more expensive

 

also it’s so hard to keep up with paper standard right now. i feel like oko can get banned any minute

 

They said they're not gonna make any more announcements before November 18th, so I bet he gets the axe then.

Standard is terrible right now, I've been messing around with Brawl on Arena. Even there you can't escape Oko

 

yeah, i was happy with their decision to up the power level but it appears that a few cards were just too powerful over the others. crazy how expensive standard is rn. green especially.

veil of summer is an uncommon and just look at that price oof. reminds me of fatal push a bit, being a card that was playable in a lot of formats

 

wtf is pioneer?

 

Announcing the Pioneer Format

 

interesting. RTR is basically where I stopped playing, so I'm not familiar with much of anything prior to Ixalan.

 

Something is going to have to happen to Oko. This kind of shit shouldn't be possible.

 

Can relate, I auto concede to Oko in Brawl. What's the point in playing if it can just neutralize your Commander right away?

 

Been doing draft having a ton of success doing blue/white fairy. Good to get that early chip in.

 

got a good price for an assassin’s trophy set along with a bunch of other cards

hate that high when you get a good deal

 

it feels like the time between sets is so short right now

 

That Elspeth is so meh

Glad devotion is back tho

 

Lol that Merfolk. It's like they are trolling merfolk players with these cards.

 

Magic is such a goddamn mess right now, it's disheartening.

 

Nah

 

I'm still trying to make sense of that Elspeth. Its just not a good card. I love the idea of the graveyard ability, but it doesn't even feel worth it.

 

As an Arena only player, I pretty much agree. It was bad before the FotD ban and it's even worse now with Oko. Brawl limited to once a week events, Historic being purposefully unsupported, and no plans to bring Frontier to Arena just makes it not fun right now, and I say this as someone who did my daily quests every day for like 5 months

 

The problem with Magic right now is the paper vs. online business. They can’t amend stuff quickly because of how fast one is and how slow the other is. I’ll always be a paper Magic guy because it’s how I unwind with friends or even in a tournament I like the feeling of gamesmanship being with your opponent. I play Arena sometimes but it just moves so fast and paper just can’t adapt the same way. I’m almost in favor of splitting them somehow.

Maybe it’s because I’m almost 30 and paper TCGs were such a big part of growing up, I’m nostalgic for it... but I just think that it’s a problem right now.

Modern is too expensive even for the above-average player and Standard is almost just as expensive with how often the rotation seem to come now. My Bant midrange deck from War of the Spark is useless now unless I change it to an Oko shell. I just built Jeskai fires and I already feel like Sarkhan is too weak, haha. I don’t know where they went wrong, but I get the feeling that it was introducing so many 3-mana planeswalkers and not realizing their power/potential. I just don’t know how you fix it either.

 

as someone who started a few years ago with paper, i prefer that too. sadly i had to move and lost my playgroup so im stuck on arena but i do play paper still but it’s way less fun without friends.

before rotation i had like 2-3 playable decks and now i have ZERO. i mean i was expecting new archetypes to show up but now it’s just simic or simic with splashes and that’s the reason why certain cards are so expensive right now. wish it would change soon

 

I like that I don't need to do a whole lot to make things work online. I can make decks that are effective without spending any money.

 

Some big announcements today. There are gonna be a ton of Commander products next year. I have to work overtime for release weeks and the Ikoria + Commander set that comes with it is gonna be nuts.

Big Things Are Coming for Commander in 2020

Also SCG dropped Standard from their next big event and replaced it with Pioneer. Big middle finger to Wizards lol:

StarCityGames.com - SCG CON Winter Season Two Invitational Updates

 

haha that’s hilarious. at least pioneer looks exciting.

 

Yeah the list of decks from the first Pioneer event is crazy. All kinds of stuff!

Pioneer League

 

i just bought a playset of assassins trophy and i dont know what im doing with my life