it's very startling and very effective (even though the game then never does anything interesting with it imo). it's so rare that it's used intentionally that i don't know if players today even understand that VA isn't background noise

the industry treats voice acting like a tech feature like controller support instead of an avenue of expression. in pyre, everyone "speaks" a couple of lines of a made up language just to give you an idea of what they sound like, and then 20 hours in you suddenly hear a line of english

i bet if you ever play a day/night card in commander the whole table teams up to combo kill you next turn rather than track that shit. i would do that

it's annoying but not even that bad. if there was a single day/night card that matters i would hate it way more. there's graveyard trespasser but that's just good even if it never flips

yorion is just worse as a companion in limited than as a regular maindeck bomb lol. actually that might be most of them. lutri probably still slaps

mercifully the party stuff is pretty low powered iirc so it doesn't come up in competitive games. now, companions on the other hand,

bunny girls will expand indefinitely as long as there is disk space available

the "outlaw" supertype is from a set that is neither universes beyond nor especially mechanically bad, garbage theming and writing aside. initiative and "the ring tempts you" were similarly horrible ideas where you need a cheat sheet for some cards in addition to the normal rules of the game

all of magic's design successes are when you DON'T have to memorize shit. it's fair enough to get got on a rules technicality, everyone has had their moment of not realizing the goyf will have 1 more toughness etc, but this is unacceptable. and it's not even just the fault of spiders georg!

theory: they got a bunch of mail saying 1 was too easy from zork/wizardry type sickos, who would have been 1) used to the most obtuse ass puzzles imaginable and 2) probably the only people who would contact a game dev back then

im so sad for phoenix, everyone likes it but now it's a joke card in the cori treasure cruise deck

it's SO fair... sometimes it swings for 10-12 with haste on turn 4 instead of winning on the spot :)

there is a 3 color spiders aggro deck i see sometimes and im just like man. play what you like but get some taste too. it's full of rares so it's not like it's a budget thing

i treat the game like a game and i try not to get too into my feelings about what anyone is playing but i must note with some pride there isn't a single spider guy card in the 75. multiversal passage doesn't count

i kept trying to play this before with fomo proft but i hated that. that was just the fomo proft deck with sage of the skies instead of a better card that kills faster. this one's for me

probably not for long so im gonna enjoy it while it lasts

not mine obviously

im sure some activision suit was demanding they put this shit in, but also it's call of duty so no one who chose to work on it was too burdened with a love of truth and beauty