Feels like a more timing-flexible Case to me

What were the best games you played this year?

Something like this, roughly!

Yeah, I would have tried a Day of Judgment treatment here.

I enjoyed customizing/upgrading mechs in Armored Core formula front, then seeing the AI pilot take them for a spin.

100% my favorite thing in games, found here, Elden Ring and Dark Souls, and even Outer Wilds. Worlds that don't really care that you're the hero, that are indifferent to your presence.

They don't just "sound the same" — they represent a fundamen...oh god i'm already so tired

As always

we love a downside

Dawnsire for the easy Station? The Wall's power remains at 0 though, despite the "assigns combat damage with its toughness". What am I missing here?

Hasbro/WotC: "Don't like it? Don't buy it"

Also Hasbro/WotC: "Like it? Can't buy it."

Yeah, and it's the little bevel giving it dimension too. It feels like I could hear a deep rumble/scrape of stone when I tap this for mana.

Full art lands are so often pretty but weightless.

They look like game pieces. There's an attempt at physicality there, and the retro frames look especially tactile.

I'm not a Magic boomer, but Odyssey has some A+ basics.

rebuilt this city on rock and rollll

I'd definitely love to learn more about it. Like do they have the budget to pay more artists but the same (or less) amount of time to actually manage those resources, do revisions? I know the Spongebob SLs were repainted (the right move, IMO!) so I wonder why the shortcut here.

Not seeing a lot of people talk about the product-overload issue of having to do more with less. Same crew of designers, more cards to design. Faster art pipeline, less time to commission and get revisions on art.

MtG players aren't just getting *more*, they're getting *more and worse*.

The other major (under-discussed) downside of six, seven sets per year. Where does the budget go? Take your art budget for five sets and split it, and split it, and split it...

Wayfarer's Bauble:
"So, taking your whole second turn off simply to ramp isn't really acceptable now."

Can we get an example or two of what lower power or precon decks *should* be doing on Turn 2 instead?

Where is the bar, if a Signet on 2 isn't good enough?

Yeah if you're riffling through a mono white deck and you catch a glimpse of literally *half a green border* it feels immediately like something's gone wrong. Some other player's card has gotten shuffled in by accident.