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I'm going to post the part of the original video where Mark Rosewater and Mike Turian are discussing complexity for newer players here. I think this is really important for Cube designers to watch. I think Mark says it best: "We've spent years and years trying to figure out how to make a good...

I'm going to post this here because I accidentally made the discussion about words and complexity spill over into two threads (sorry everyone, I was just trying to link back to the original conversation), but I want everyone to hear what Mark Rosewater and Mike Turian have to say about the...

There were several other cards for popular characters in those starter decks, such as Aragorn and Arwen, Gandalf, and Sauron, the Lidless Eye, all of which were better than Gollum. In fact, I think he's probably the second worst of the eight new legendary creatures in the product! The only thing...

Is one thing every month really crammed from a release standpoint? I feel like most Magic products can be safely ignored except for Standard sets and Horizons sets if they're not interesting to a given person.

The Cheeky Token Deck gets another new toy!

Wake up babes, it's spoiler time! I'm a big fan of this Junk Token mechanic. Mothman? Mothman. I like the Radiation mechanic as well.

I mean, there are a couple of vanilla creatures that are "interesting" because they have unique or pushed stat lines (Isamaru, Hound of Konda, Gigantosaurus, Catacomb Crocodile, Yargle and Multani, and so on), but they are the exceptions that prove the rule. Most vanilla creatures are...

I think this is a fair point. When I was saying this change is a "win-win," I was talking about a gameplay perspective. I think this will have an overwhelmingly positive effect compared to the status quo on that front, provided the information WOTC is providing is accurate. However, from the...

Gollum, Scheming Guide being the prime example of what is wrong with Magic in 2023 is the single hottest take I've heard in a while...

The primary solution

Turns out, people like that now!

Interestingly, one of the cards that pushed the design team over the edge on this point was Gollum, Scheming Guide. This card was designed for the LOTR starter decks. Product architect and pro-tour hall of famer Mark Turian thought the card was too complex for new players and tried to get it cut...

I think given the way Magic has historically been designed, you actually can have both, at least in relation to what we used to get. A huge portion of Magic packs have effectively been duds by design essentially since the game's conception. For the longest time, a normal draft booster...

I really appreciate your posts but I have no idea what you’re talking about half the time.

We have some more information about Play Boosters from Weekly MTG: - Limited play has been consistently on the upswing, both digitally and in paper, for the last three years. On Arena especially, Limited play is huge. - Some markets had stopped ordering draft boosters from WotC, which caused...

I also enjoy Decadent Dragon, it's a very fun card.

I think this is a pretty cool change. Basically since set boosters were released, I always preferred prereleases at my LGS to any other type of event because the prizes were set boosters instead of draft boosters. Set boosters are better than draft boosters in basically every way except for the...

You know what I hate about this card? It’s a Gray Ogre and it doesn’t work with Changeling Outcast.

Does it even need updated flavor? It’s literally just an Angel statue standing in a cemetery.

What? You don't want to read Hill Giant with a novel's worth of useless text?