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Random Thoughts About Random Things

Editor’s Note: While the title ties in to MaRo’s post this week, my post doesn’t. This is not an After MaRo post. Warning: There are non-Magic related items in this post.

– I hope everyone had a good release event for Alara Reborn and pulled some amazing things or amazing plays. I really like how this format is really playing out. Cascade is amazing. There’s a reason you only find them on multi-color cards (besides the fact that it’s only in Alara Reborn): it is too broken of a mechanic if it was mono color. Imagine if Blue had a cascade card reading:

Cascade Spell – 2U
Sorcery
Draw a card. Cascade.

While there are some ideas of having a Cascade/Hypergenesis combo in Extended (you have to have the creature in play for it to work), it would be really broken if you could fit cascade mechanics into any deck. Cascade has to be a multi-color keyword or it’s too degenerate. I hope this is something Wizards will bring back (they sound more open to the possibility to reuse good mechanics).

– I was going to have a post last week before it got all busy on me getting ready for Opening Day of boating season here in Seattle (I was filming it). Of course, you knew that if you were following me in Twitter. Follow me and most likely I will follow you too; a tit for tat kind of thing. I still don’t know what I should tweet (besides new posts going up) and I want to hear your opinions on what I should post there:

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If Alara Reborn Art Were Movie Posters

Summer movie season starts next week with Wolverine, and that’s when Alara Reborn releases. I decided to celebrate my two favorite loves (after my wife): Magic and Movies. Let’s do some Mash-Ups and see what would happen if some art from Alara Reborn were movie posters:

Every Summer seems to have a Horror Film, and this one looks awesome as if Dead Rising, Alara and George A Romero mixed all in one. With Romero directing you know there’s some underhanded political message. It doesn’t matter, it would look awesome.

movie-poster-zombies-reborn

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Restarting, to an Extent…

I’m Starting over.

Just like 11th Edition Magic 2010. I’m going to take posts from my past that I like and create all new content. For a while I was thinking of just leaving this blog but I love the game too much. I want to voice my opinion and luckily there are people who want to read it. Of course some of them come here in search of 11th Edition Spoilers (Hint: Basic Land!), but some of them are legitimate people in search of debate and magic design.

MaRo (Mark Rosewater, he’s kind of a big deal) always said that “restrictions always breeds creativity.” And it’s true, but talking about Magic design when you don’t see any of your cards printed can only go so far. I will still talk about Magic design a good deal of the time, have my conversations with MaRo, and even speculate what could be in Base Sets (Every year now!). Continue reading “Restarting, to an Extent…”

After Maro – Lies! Lies and Slander!

(Editor’s Note: Not all of you get my references to jokes in titles and other areas of my posts. I understand, so I’m helping you out in this one. Watch Futurama, Season 3, The Route of All Evil. That’s as far as I’m going to help you here. Also, there’s spoilers to what Wizards have deemed alright to show on their page. If you don’t want spoilers, come back after the set has been released.)

Hello, Mark Rosewater’s desk.

Mr. Rosewater, it’s me, Robby from M:tGColorpie.

Sigh. What is it this week? Are you going to tell me you don’t like Exalted? Because I just don’t…

No, I do like Exalted.

(Beat) Excuse me?

At first I was like, “Wow, that’s kinda dumb, only one creature attacking. That’s not White, especially White Weenie.” Then I was like, “Wait, this all makes sense. All of the creatures are helping out one creature. That’s like totally White.”

I was waiting for the explosion and the “Bew bew sounds” but it sounds like you like it.

I totally do.

Good. (Beat) I’m sensing a problem.

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After MaRo – The 2008 State of Design Response 2: Electric Boogaloo

: If I mention politics, her pic goes up

Editor’s Note: Other possible titles of this post include: After MaRo – The 2008 State of Design Response 2: Electric Boogaloo or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love WotC, Take 2, and Stop Me If You’ve Heard this Before. If you don’t get this reference to the actual title, see here.

Just like in MaRo’s Type 1, Take 2 article (the Take 2 Link in the above aside) I want another shot at this article. What happened the first time was that I read MaRo’s State of Design and wanted to throw some stuff that I had been thinking about or things that were bothering me, mostly about the number of cards being printed at a time. Sure, I love creating different decks, but I made my point last time and I’m not going to do it this time again. I felt I was a little too political with how things should be handled (though being political got me to put Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin’s picture on this site because we need to beautify it here) and I didn’t really focus on the design of the past year (Note: I’m not supporting any ticket, only that Palin is the most attractive VP in the past 20 years (With apologies to Dan Quayle)).

Keep in mind that with my suggestion (and with the hard working people at Organized Play, alright, mostly their work), States/Champs are coming back. I am excited and now if Wizards would continue to include things that I talk about, maybe then I’ll get an overinflated ego that I think I’m making a difference.

Now, to the bulk of this post (again,a long post, but I’ll make it up to you).

Magic R&D: You guys are doing an awesome job. I like the cards that are seeing print, and except for a few of them, couldn’t be happier. Bringing us back to a tribal block and making it feel different was a great success. Thoug it isn’t being run by Goblins is a great feeling, but only to have them be run by Faeries is meh. When I was gunslinging at PAX last weekend, I played against Aaron Forsythe. He just sat down and played against me: his being a Greater Gargadon while mine was a Zur the Enchanter that just didn’t get going (Yes Aaron, that’s what I was playing). As I sat and looked at his suspended Gargadon while playing a Sower of Temptation to steal one of his tokens, I joked that I wish it had flash in hopes of taking said Gargadon. Aaron looked at me and said, “Well, in testing it did.” Maybe because I was being beaten horribly or just because I was a smart ass, I replied, “Oh, good thing it didn’t, because you didn’t want to make Faeries too good, did you?” Continue reading “After MaRo – The 2008 State of Design Response 2: Electric Boogaloo”