It's more that the original work is still preserved and you can maybe delay the original game's impending doom with new information/status/etc....look, I know this is a loose justification/reasoning, I'm making a stretch no doubt, and one that probably isn't even acceptable justification as is lol
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It's more that the original work is still preserved and you can maybe delay the original game's impending doom with new information/status/etc....look, I know this is a loose justification/reasoning, I'm making a stretch no doubt, and one that probably isn't even acceptable justification as is lol
This makes me optimistic about Unstable:
"Unstable is not designed as a set to read once, chuckle at and never play again. It’s us exploring play spaces on the edge of what’s currently allowed."
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/163329591428/contraptions-in-unstable-sounds-like-possibly-the
Unglued and Unhinged were great sets to read the spoilers, but not necessarily great fun gameplay or too replayable. Unhinged is, though, a set release in 2004 during Kamigawa block. Look at how far design has come since then - especially in limited - and think of how drastically better Unstable could be! I believe it will play more like Magic with a twist, and as such we might get cool silver-bordered content for our cubes. Contraptions are confirmed, for example.
"Unstable is not designed as a set to read once, chuckle at and never play again. It’s us exploring play spaces on the edge of what’s currently allowed."
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/163329591428/contraptions-in-unstable-sounds-like-possibly-the
Unglued and Unhinged were great sets to read the spoilers, but not necessarily great fun gameplay or too replayable. Unhinged is, though, a set release in 2004 during Kamigawa block. Look at how far design has come since then - especially in limited - and think of how drastically better Unstable could be! I believe it will play more like Magic with a twist, and as such we might get cool silver-bordered content for our cubes. Contraptions are confirmed, for example.
Un-sets have had a lot of gems: Blast From the Past, Symbol Status, Magical Hacker (the true god). Topsy Turvy, City of Ass, Old Fogey, Booster Tutor. We're undoubtedly going to get some silly shit since it's MaRo and he can't help himself, but I'm excited since the precedence has already been set.
Chris Taylor
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Well mark, thank you for assuage great my biggest fear about the set, but I'll believe it when I see it 
Chris Taylor
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God damnit maro you asshole you're defeating the whole reason this card exists!
Steamflogger boss is an example of how absurd magic can sound, and how we don't realize because we've been with it the whole time. Steamflogger boss is as insane and meaningless to us as flying, lifelink, and T: Add
to your mana pool are to normal people. That's the whole reason it existsBut no, you want to explain the joke. You want to kill the goose to get idiots to shut up about the golden eggs it'll someday lay. AND APPARENTLY YOUVE BEEN TRYING FOR 10 FUCKING YEARS:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/latest-developments/are-you-future-2007-05-04 said:
God damnit maro.
Onderzeeboot
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Eh... Is that really worth getting this mad about? Like any card from Future Sight, it was a possible preprint from a future set, we just didn't know which one. Now we do!
Chris Taylor
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Eh... Is that really worth getting this mad about? Like any card from Future Sight, it was a possible preprint from a future set, we just didn't know which one. Now we do!
This was the one card there that was effective because couldn't be reprinted. Not without missing the point.
I hate steamflogger boss
Onderzeeboot
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I literally don't understand what you're saying here.
I guess what you're saying is that Steamflogger Boss was the only card that didn't make sense on its own, but saying that the card couldn't be reprinted because of that is poppycock. Just because you don't know how it's supposed to work and it doesn't make sense in the current multiverse doesn't mean it thus can't work and won't make sense ever. Furthermore, it's probably one of the most requested reprints from the set precisely because people want to see what contraptions are about, so it shouldn't even come as a surprise that they've been trying to make it work for years. At the very least it isn't worth cussing and slinging profanities at MaRo's head over. He's just doing his job, and I'm pretty that job doesn't include "chivalrously defending the integrity of the game by making sure Steamflogger Boss never gets a reprint and contraptions don't ever see the light of day". Anyway, that's my opinion.
Chris Taylor
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Sure, if it's reprinted and there's still no meaning behind assembling contraptions it's fine, but that's not the aim is it? The aim is to make assembling contraptions make sense.
The only card in magic defined by not making sense. Like sure, you can puzzle a bit over whatever the hell ice cauldron does or is supposed to do, or try and figure out what the wording of animate dead should be in current magic, or puzzle out overwhelming splendor corner cases, but this card only exists because there are no answers.
Now he's just another lord.
The only card in magic defined by not making sense. Like sure, you can puzzle a bit over whatever the hell ice cauldron does or is supposed to do, or try and figure out what the wording of animate dead should be in current magic, or puzzle out overwhelming splendor corner cases, but this card only exists because there are no answers.
Now he's just another lord.
Grillo_Parlante
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Steamflogger boss...when you're really reaching for reasons to be mad at WOTC.
I was going to respond with a jab at how surprising it is to me that people always come to the defense of WOTC no matter what they do. And then I realized it's just as easy to reverse that and say how surprising it is that people always want to attack WOTC regardless of what they do (like me for example).
And I guess what that means is that WOTC elicits a very strong emotional response from people invested in the game. Which is our Captain Obvious moment of the day I suppose.
And I guess what that means is that WOTC elicits a very strong emotional response from people invested in the game. Which is our Captain Obvious moment of the day I suppose.
The only thing that confuses me is that Steamflogger Boss is a black bordered card. It is going to be confusing if it is the only black bordered card in the set (minus basic lands). They can't print it with a silver border, as then people might be confused when some plays a silver bordered Steamflogger in Modern for example.
What they should do is make the whole set black bordered. If nothing else just to let some people troll Legacy tournaments with their 'put shoes on the table'-esque cards.
What they should do is make the whole set black bordered. If nothing else just to let some people troll Legacy tournaments with their 'put shoes on the table'-esque cards.
They shouldn't reprint Steamflogger Boss itself but print ten different cards that assemble contraptions and on each one of those 'assembling a contraption' should be something completely different.
Onderzeeboot
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Shit... The credit card on my Patreon account expired and I forgot to update it in time. Now all the custom card images on my cubetutor account are gone
Shit... The credit card on my Patreon account expired and I forgot to update it in time. Now all the custom card images on my cubetutor account are gone
Maybe if you contact Ben he can sort it out for you?
Onderzeeboot
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Yeah, I sent him a mail yesterday. No reply yet, but I'll wait. I don't run that many customs anymore (only 16 in the current iteration) so uploading the customs for my current cube won't cost me a lot of time, but there's a lot of history lost with all of the customs I tried out over the years.