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Yes well, I wasn't actually making an argument one way or the other, and was just looking for clarification from him, so I think we're ok here. :p

Basically, you look at the card and you say to yourself "it costs 3 mana, so it is intended to be played on turn 3" when in actuality you're supposed to hold it, and the card looks and plays worse than it should. The 3cc slot is super competitive, and the point where a lot of important cards...

It might be fine than. If you're hitting a bounce, 5 mana to blow up (effectively) two lands and gain 4 life is good. Its also costed high enough where it doesn't wreak people's game. What was the thought process behind night terrors? I ruled it out on the basis that at 3cc, players would...

Night terrors just looks bad, though maw of the mire I could see being reasonable. You would want to run only one copy of such an effect in your black section, as its kind of narrow. Really more for a midrange match, where the lifegain can be relevant, and the game pace is slow enough that mana...

Its 2.7 stars on glassdoor with 106 reviews. The link he provided dosen't function, but if you google search it you'll find it. Amazon has 3.5, with roughly a million reviews. The complaints look about what I would expect for a small cap company selling a product to a niche market that...

You could probably do it in your spare time as a hobby though. Take it around some game shops, if it starts to look like people want to play it, than you could decide whether you want to go further. You know, take the pressure out of it, keep it pure. Pressure and that fear of failure (ah, ah...

Why are you working in corporate if you hate it? Why not just start your own game company: be that indie guy (but more stable than you outlined).

I suppose that ones perspective. On the other hand, they've managed to take a small fringe card game developed in the 1990s, and somehow managed to not only keep it alive, but grow it into a successful company, while creating an entire sub-culture and competitive scene out of nothing. They've...

As an entrepreneur, its kind of encouraging watching this. Its nice to see them so human, learning on the job, stumbling, making mistakes, and having to reinvent themselves in real time. A lot of people will get negative, call them idiots, but this is what its like in the real world. You never...

In GOW, they use the term "core" rather than "casual" which sidesteps a lot of the semantics issues going on here, but I was reluctant to use it as it would be an unfamiliar term. I would say that you represent the type of environment that the vast majority of mtg players would enjoy--the "core...

The main problem with WOTC's design right now is that they don't know what they want for the game--other than to create really easy reasons for people to buy packs, and I think some people are starting to get frustrated with it. They don't know if they want the game to be a real...

I also think it kind of shifts the focus away from what I was responding too: that this card doesn't really need specialized builds in cube, and is just about providing a raw, powerful effect, for small creature decks. I have no doubt there are lots of lists that can come up with reasons not...

For cube? You'll just jam it in literally any white aggro list. This is a good stuff bomb for aggro decks, which is amazing.

lol...you're a lingering souls away from being that format's perfect deck. 6-0 so sick. Thats basically a penny deck on steroids. I can just imagine little melvin and dewey getting excited about their G/W populate decks right before their dreams got crushed by that monster.

You have 8 out of 10 guilds displayed with that draft, very nice, and a good reference to people struggling for guild identity at these power levels.

Honestly, numbers is just something I've developed a feel for over time. I'm very comfortable with density at 360, but something like a 540 feels awkward for me to design for. In practical terms, this is something you get informed of just by doing drafts. You'll probably go with a gut feel for...

DP is a very strong casual card, but a very weak competitive card.

Yup, we could brainstorm a UB deck off of them right now if we wanted. Toss in skeletal vampire, maybe rise the tides, shrine of loyal legions, bident...boom, UB deck.

Thats pretty good. A few things I might add: 1. Its fine to just populate an initial list with cards you feel good about. Take a little bit of time to think of sort of broad format concepts: power level, intent behind the format etc. Often times its overwhelming to sit down and carefully map...

You also have a broad power band, which makes GG very loamish I really do feel like their has to be a UB plan for it to clearly fold into, and that GG should be running the crest of the format's power band to justify a slot. But opinions are opinions. Instinct says controlish, and maybe...