Erdete!!!

Shepherd of the Worm-Dragon. Mario/Erdete. 22. He/Him

[markrosewater]

Mark I saw that aetherdrift was one of the worst sets by your guy’s metrics this year. Is there anything you’d have done differently with hindsight?

It was the worst set of one of best years ever, meaning it would fare well against many other sets from different years.

Aetherdrift tried something, making a set built around Vehicles. It turns out that’s a difficult task, possibly an unattainable one (from a constructed standpoint, I thought the limited was quite fun). But I’m glad we tried.

Part of the magic of Magic is that we keep pushing in new directions and try things we haven’t before, so I never regret trying something new, even if it didn’t succeed as well as we hoped.

The design lesson? You probably don’t want quite so many Vehicles. : )

[markrosewater]

"The challenge is there are players who are accustomed to the old ways, who are used to being able to grok everything at once, and this new system does not make that easy. In fact, it's near impossible. I get that this change over is a bit disorienting, but we believe once people get used to the new status quo, to the idea that no one person is supposed to absorb everything, that it will lead to a richer, more enjoyable means of interacting with the game."

I don't know if it was your intention or not, but the above quote makes it seem like you think that players who think they prefer the "old ways" are simply mistaken about what they prefer and will realize that they actually prefer the new ways once they have time to get used to them.

If that was your intent, I strongly disagree. Some of us genuinely like smaller environments, or prefer having both available (such as smaller environments when playing competitively and larger environments when playing casually). Designing for the "new status quo" is fine, but you should also keep supporting players who prefer smaller environments. We already have a big 60-card format (Pioneer), a really big 60-card format (Modern), and a really, really big 60-card format (Legacy). Why can't Standard remain small for the players who prefer smaller environments?

There's not a big enough audience that wants it. Us expanding Standard to three years has proven pretty popular and has been helping Standard grow in size.

As an ongoing theme, we're very responsive to what the larger Magic community wants. If we do something and it makes more people play, we do more of it. If it it doesn't, we try something else.

You might not be personally happy to hear that larger Standard is working, but numbers are up.

[markrosewater]

Just to add my own two cents about the overwhelming spoiler season topic, I feel that many users have poor reception to your responses because of how often you cite data. To an extent, I understand that the data has a lot of useful information that is relevant to offering context behind a lot of the decisions made for Magic. However, that data is also information only Wizards has access to, and it makes it difficult for a lot of people to accept it as counterpoints to decisions they disagree with. I don't expect you to show off confidential information, but I think not overrelying on data we can't see could go a long way in improving the reception from certain Blog viewers.

Overrelying on data? The data is just us getting concrete information about what all of the players want. Isn’t that a good thing? And I should note we have a multiple sections of the company to analyze and make sense of the data. I can’t believe stop listening to the players is the right approach.

I understand it’s frustrating when I quote data I can’t show you, but what are the alternates? I stop telling you about the data? That seems to contradict the whole behind-the-scenes feel people seem to love about the blog. If something drives our decisions, don’t you want to hear about it?

I can try and talk about more things in additional to the data, but if people want a clear understanding of why we’re making the decisions we are, it’s super hard not to reference it.

Look, I know it’s hard to hear “I understand your issue, but we have reasons to not do it the way you prefer.” It’s not that easy to repeat it day after day.

My goal with this blog is to give you access to me, and I’m really trying to be as straight-forward with you as I can. It’s not easy to hear players be upset. I very much take it to heart.

I learned long ago, it’s not my job on this blog to make every poster happy. I can though make them feel heard, and do my best to honestly answer their questions.

[annelidist]

When someone has watched you in the past, when it's light that's betrayed your presence, you made a friend of the darkness. You pulled your hat brim low over your eyes. You stepped behind the cover of a thatched wall. But those who watch you now watch in spite of such simple obstructions. Their sight isn't mediated by the rays of a gleaming star or torch but by something much older. If there are ways to conceal yourself from these seeing eyes, if there are new kinds of darknesses to befriend, you know nothing of them.

[erdeteot]

hello...

i used tumblr once a couple years ago to post TWO pieces of fanart that get a handful of likes every month. and i abandoned it after that hahahaha.

i might be back. sort of. these are the things i'm doing nowadays.

[inkeyjay]

Glory and Gore go hand in hand

Can't wait to revisit this series. to absorb everything i can and incorporate it to my art, to my writing. it was just amazing. Glorious if u will.

U can get prints if u want here:

Glorious Evolution, an art print by Aitor Sebastián

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

If you were to want the tarot card version just tell me in the comments and i will upload it for you :)

[thankonomics]

Dungeon Meshi board game to release September 15, 2022

[raeii]

From information originally in the website,  ‘Dungeon Eater’ is a board game based on the 1987 game Monster Maker, which is popular game in Japan.

Additional information and pictures of Dungeon Eater can be found at the producer’s website. A rough translation below for anyone interested in the details of gameplay. Apologies for any errors!

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[altrnvte]

Destiny 2 + Starfield

[thatadhdfeel]

surely i will not be consumed by my interests this time

[thatadhdfeel]

by talos this cant be happening

[ondoinganevildeedblues]

[electricxmayhem]

i’m not gonna start posting youtuber clips i’m not a youtuber stan i just watch a lot of videos as background noise and i thought this was funny

[1-800-horrorfilms]

[doccywhomst]

i love the term "joshing." it's slang, meaning to joke or tease playfully. "i'm just joshing you." who is this notorious josh. who joshed so much that the whole concept got named after him

[rubykgrant]

the one true Josh

[kipplekipple]

Whenever this photo turns up I remember that all the Joshes came and fought and then they made that little Josh's entire life by declaring him the winner and I get a little choked up.

[crazy-brazilian]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[funkywhitebouy]

[yuirhapsody]

[shyriadracnoir-deactivated20181]

How much damage does this do if I hit someone with it

[segadreamcatcher]

they beat Jesus with that

[roach-works]

congratulations to promethazines for making a phrase so good that years later i still remark ‘they beat jesus with that’ upon seeing any kind of lumpy mess

[lokisuggestion]

who’s ur BTS bias?

[dkc-quotes]

what is going on what is happening