Na, I've already spent aprox $3K building a new PC this year. My PS days are behind me. The first console I ever owned was a PS1, so PlayStation is dear and close to me, I just have no reason for it anymore. I have a PS4 (that a friend bought for me trying to get me to play Star Wars Battlefield with him) and it's only use for me is to be an over-glorified BluRay player in my living room.
Love Renounce Darkness. My cousin and I made decks with that card and had a rule we couldn't attack each other with warlock cards. Requiring us to renounce before we got to fighting. Was real fun. I put C'Thun and Reno Jackson in there to make it competitive and had fun surprising people on ladder back then. Gotta try it again.
Also Shadow Council has been a fun splash in my Galakrond Warlock. Can get you out of a few matches with luck on your side.
VKLiooon is the current world champion, and lost only a handful of games (not matches) in the championship.
Would like to see some more, but the fact she has a good chance to get to the World Championship again and maybe, just maybe, be the single player ever to win 2 championships in the game's history is quite exciting.
I think they support each other very well: If you play Jungle Giants without a backup win condition, it is hard to find the right balance between pressure and over-committing. And if you run Mecha'thun as your only win condition, the rest of the game is just stalling and drawing, which I find boring after a while.
There have been games where my opponent figured out Mecha'thun was coming, refusing to put anything on the board that I could trade my last minion into. But in the vast majority of games, they just continue to play normally until the very end.
I can see why people have issue with Jihad. However, the KKK reference is confusing because that is very different than the religious christian crusades of european history, which destroyed entire communities of color and termed 'barbarous' white european pagan tribes people.
Cleanse is an absolute projection of social tensions on a card that is not racist whatsoever. Hell, the card art depicts nothing humanoid looking whatsoever, and the black reference is because black is one of the five core colors of the game. People are not "creatures". Black refers to much more than race or skin tone. And the fact that they are cleansing monster illustrated creatures is much more likely it is referring to "cleanse" in a more religous/spiritual sense (ie cleansing demons/devils/monsters) of evil and corruption. Or in other words, think of cleanse like exorcism.
You also missed my point about mental health. I was not saying losing 7 cardstock cards in a card game was what would cause stress and mental health stresses, but that people who enjoy card games might use the card game as a way to take a break from the constant stream of distressing stories bombarding the news constantly about how people are being treated, or constant fighting on both sides of the human rights/police behavior arguments. Trying to make "black creatures"="black humans" in a card game is akin to shoving politics into the card game. Not everybody wants politics shoved into their entertainment when we have more appropriate mediums to support or argue against the recent social tensions.
Hard to believe the same guy reached the shadow isles seeing Elises' true form And got stunned by the sentry And attacked by that huge spider and didn't die in every different occasion.. If you see Elise has spider parts on her you would go visit her with flowers.. Same if a huge spider attacked you on her resident.. Also assuming at that point that you are still alive, I mean people who reach the shadow isles never return (unless you are Lucian and Senna)
My point was simply that those card being removed aren't important at all for the game (they are all pretty bad and old, so they are legal only in few formats).
If they removed them without informing anyone it would take months to someone notice it, if at all. What i mean is that there is no one that is hurt by them being removed, not a trauma. Hell, it shouldn't never be a trauma, even if it changed the entire game, but for a change like this seeing people complaining is just absurd. Like i think racism causes a lot more mental health problems than 7 cards (that no one gave a shit about) being removed in a game with a ridicolous amount of cards, or am i wrong?
Wizard felt that those cards give a bad message, and they just want to dissociate with such messages. Are they doing it because they truly believe it? Are they doing it to make some publicity? Are they doing it just to not have problems in the future? We don't know. Maybe all those reasons togheter, maybe some completely different ones. The important thing is that they are removing them for the reason they stated, people can't be hurt by this choice, no way, it's absurd.
Saying that there isn't a racist component in these card is just being blindfolded (KKK? Cleanse? Jihad?)
I'm reading up on how WotC handles Ownership and Copyright of these Commissions. And I got to say, man... I thought that they're just your usual corporate Criminals, but as it turns out they're way worse! Usually the Artist retains a large Part of the Ownership Rights, and in some Cases the Right to Sell their original Artwork on Merchandise. But apparently WotC got rid of that more than a Decade ago with non-negotiable Contracts.
And from what I've read, you don't even get Royalties from Character/Artwork that you literally created!
Here's a Blogpost I found by Peter Mohrbacher, an Artist who used to work for MtG:
I don't have an opinion on whether the cards are usable or not since I'm not a MtG player.
What I really don't like is politics being shoved into what I'm sure many actual MtG players use for enjoyment, and maybe even for destressing/deescalating from the distressing news about what is being done to people.
I feel it is essential to stand up for injustices against human beings, but at some point you need a breather where you can say "Stop. I need a little time to disengage from the intense emotional and social back-and-forth", and do this in a way that is positive, productive, and/or enjoyable.
When you start shoving politics into something that wasn't advocating to be political (ie the MtG card game) it just puts it back in to people's faces at a time when maybe they've grown tired of depressing news stories, fights back and forth between people, etc. It isn't healthy to continually stay engaged and charged up by everything going wrong in the world (this is not to say don't care about it or advocate for it, but mental health is a real thing and there are times and places for everything).
If Wizards, as a company and apart from the cards in their game, wants to advocate for human and racial rights such as by donating to important groups, or another worthwhile means of support then I think that is a positive thing, but trying to connect dots of racism where the dots don't even exist? That is something that bothers me.
Hey all, wanted to share a new tournament brought to you by The Meta: Gaming & eSports, GenGame, and AON Gaming.
Welcome to Voyagers: Summer 2020! Voyagers is a new seasonal Legends of Runeterra online tournament featuring competitive and exciting gameplay from players all over the NA region.
Tournament page has all the info. Voyagers: Summer 2020
EDIT: There is a discount code to use when signing up to get $5 of entry! CODE: voyagers
ty <3
-Christopher
I'll be here to answer questions!
**You are allowed to participate if you're not in NA - but the account must be on the NA server.**
Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon but an awful lot of this looks like style over substance. I completely skipped last generation just one game on any platform grabbed me. I realised this when the only game that grabbed my attention was the Rare Collection on Xbox One. I damn near bought a second hand Xbox One just for that.
I'll stick with my PS3 for now. Unless something comes along that I can get my teeth into I'll skip the PS5 as well.
Wait aren't those 5 different people? I mean in every card art I see a coffin dance meme.
The guy in 2, 3, and 7 definitely is the same guy. 8 is hard to tell, but given the flowers I'd say so. 1 looks like someone else.
Side note: this guy also seems to appear in Warden's Prey and Frenzied Skitterer. The latter is a little hard to make out through the cocoon, but you can see the roses falling off the alter.
An Early Preview of Hearthstone's New Demon Hunter Hero - Aranna Starseeker
Didn't know you were on Youtube! If this is new then congrats!
An Early Preview of Hearthstone's New Demon Hunter Hero - Aranna Starseeker
Early access?! Youtube channel?!
Awesome!
Anyone else hyped about the ps5 presentation happening in a few minutes?
Na, I've already spent aprox $3K building a new PC this year. My PS days are behind me. The first console I ever owned was a PS1, so PlayStation is dear and close to me, I just have no reason for it anymore. I have a PS4 (that a friend bought for me trying to get me to play Star Wars Battlefield with him) and it's only use for me is to be an over-glorified BluRay player in my living room.
Patches the Pirate
I (almost) regret disenchanting this guy when he was nerfed. I think I will regret it if he ever gets a reversion.
Exodia (OTK) Paladin featuring bananas!
I used to love doing an Exodia Paladin. So much so, that I don't regret actually crafting Beardo to do it. I should try it again.
How critical would you say Crystalsmith Kangor is here? I think that's the only card I don't have.
A Wild Hearthstone Weekend Featuring Spell Druid, Egglock, Exodia Paladin, and More!
Love Renounce Darkness. My cousin and I made decks with that card and had a rule we couldn't attack each other with warlock cards. Requiring us to renounce before we got to fighting. Was real fun. I put C'Thun and Reno Jackson in there to make it competitive and had fun surprising people on ladder back then. Gotta try it again.
Also Shadow Council has been a fun splash in my Galakrond Warlock. Can get you out of a few matches with luck on your side.
This Week's Friday Night Magic Features the Momir Emblem!
This was certainly a frustrating one. Oh did your opponent back to back flyers early on? RIP. Not once did I see a creature with Flying =(
Hearthstone Masters Tour Jönköping Survival Guide
VKLiooon is the current world champion, and lost only a handful of games (not matches) in the championship.
Would like to see some more, but the fact she has a good chance to get to the World Championship again and maybe, just maybe, be the single player ever to win 2 championships in the game's history is quite exciting.
Hearthstone Masters Tour Jönköping Survival Guide
There was never a "choose your champion" for Masters tours, only when there were seasonal championships.
Lasers in the Jungle
I think they support each other very well: If you play Jungle Giants without a backup win condition, it is hard to find the right balance between pressure and over-committing. And if you run Mecha'thun as your only win condition, the rest of the game is just stalling and drawing, which I find boring after a while.
There have been games where my opponent figured out Mecha'thun was coming, refusing to put anything on the board that I could trade my last minion into. But in the vast majority of games, they just continue to play normally until the very end.
Hearthstone Masters Tour Jönköping Survival Guide
and again no ‚choose your champion and win some packs‘ - why blizz?
7 Magic the Gathering Cards Banned From Play Due to Racial Depictions
I can see why people have issue with Jihad. However, the KKK reference is confusing because that is very different than the religious christian crusades of european history, which destroyed entire communities of color and termed 'barbarous' white european pagan tribes people.
Cleanse is an absolute projection of social tensions on a card that is not racist whatsoever. Hell, the card art depicts nothing humanoid looking whatsoever, and the black reference is because black is one of the five core colors of the game. People are not "creatures". Black refers to much more than race or skin tone. And the fact that they are cleansing monster illustrated creatures is much more likely it is referring to "cleanse" in a more religous/spiritual sense (ie cleansing demons/devils/monsters) of evil and corruption. Or in other words, think of cleanse like exorcism.
You also missed my point about mental health. I was not saying losing 7 cardstock cards in a card game was what would cause stress and mental health stresses, but that people who enjoy card games might use the card game as a way to take a break from the constant stream of distressing stories bombarding the news constantly about how people are being treated, or constant fighting on both sides of the human rights/police behavior arguments. Trying to make "black creatures"="black humans" in a card game is akin to shoving politics into the card game. Not everybody wants politics shoved into their entertainment when we have more appropriate mediums to support or argue against the recent social tensions.
Hearthstone Masters Tour Jönköping Survival Guide
Stream Schedule is much appreciated for some of us...lazy enough to find it elsewhere :P
A Love Letter to a Spider
Hard to believe the same guy reached the shadow isles seeing Elises' true form And got stunned by the sentry And attacked by that huge spider and didn't die in every different occasion.. If you see Elise has spider parts on her you would go visit her with flowers.. Same if a huge spider attacked you on her resident.. Also assuming at that point that you are still alive, I mean people who reach the shadow isles never return (unless you are Lucian and Senna)
A Love Letter to a Spider
The artwork in this game is magnificent.
7 Magic the Gathering Cards Banned From Play Due to Racial Depictions
I agree with everything you said.
It's unbelievable you are being downvoted, and sad too
7 Magic the Gathering Cards Banned From Play Due to Racial Depictions
My point was simply that those card being removed aren't important at all for the game (they are all pretty bad and old, so they are legal only in few formats).
If they removed them without informing anyone it would take months to someone notice it, if at all. What i mean is that there is no one that is hurt by them being removed, not a trauma. Hell, it shouldn't never be a trauma, even if it changed the entire game, but for a change like this seeing people complaining is just absurd. Like i think racism causes a lot more mental health problems than 7 cards (that no one gave a shit about) being removed in a game with a ridicolous amount of cards, or am i wrong?
Wizard felt that those cards give a bad message, and they just want to dissociate with such messages. Are they doing it because they truly believe it? Are they doing it to make some publicity? Are they doing it just to not have problems in the future? We don't know. Maybe all those reasons togheter, maybe some completely different ones. The important thing is that they are removing them for the reason they stated, people can't be hurt by this choice, no way, it's absurd.
Saying that there isn't a racist component in these card is just being blindfolded (KKK? Cleanse? Jihad?)
7 Magic the Gathering Cards Banned From Play Due to Racial Depictions
I'm reading up on how WotC handles Ownership and Copyright of these Commissions. And I got to say, man... I thought that they're just your usual corporate Criminals, but as it turns out they're way worse! Usually the Artist retains a large Part of the Ownership Rights, and in some Cases the Right to Sell their original Artwork on Merchandise. But apparently WotC got rid of that more than a Decade ago with non-negotiable Contracts.
And from what I've read, you don't even get Royalties from Character/Artwork that you literally created!
Here's a Blogpost I found by Peter Mohrbacher, an Artist who used to work for MtG:
https://www.vandalhigh.com/blog/2015/7/3/the-problems-with-artist-pay-on-magic
I thought I was gonna write something about Censorship here. Did not expect it to turn into something about Slavery.
7 Magic the Gathering Cards Banned From Play Due to Racial Depictions
I don't have an opinion on whether the cards are usable or not since I'm not a MtG player.
What I really don't like is politics being shoved into what I'm sure many actual MtG players use for enjoyment, and maybe even for destressing/deescalating from the distressing news about what is being done to people.
I feel it is essential to stand up for injustices against human beings, but at some point you need a breather where you can say "Stop. I need a little time to disengage from the intense emotional and social back-and-forth", and do this in a way that is positive, productive, and/or enjoyable.
When you start shoving politics into something that wasn't advocating to be political (ie the MtG card game) it just puts it back in to people's faces at a time when maybe they've grown tired of depressing news stories, fights back and forth between people, etc. It isn't healthy to continually stay engaged and charged up by everything going wrong in the world (this is not to say don't care about it or advocate for it, but mental health is a real thing and there are times and places for everything).
If Wizards, as a company and apart from the cards in their game, wants to advocate for human and racial rights such as by donating to important groups, or another worthwhile means of support then I think that is a positive thing, but trying to connect dots of racism where the dots don't even exist? That is something that bothers me.
I Miss My X - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
You have less than 24 hours left to submit your card! Get those ideas in before it's too late.
Voyagers: Summer 2020 - Online Runeterra Tournament
Hey all, wanted to share a new tournament brought to you by The Meta: Gaming & eSports, GenGame, and AON Gaming.
Welcome to Voyagers: Summer 2020! Voyagers is a new seasonal Legends of Runeterra online tournament featuring competitive and exciting gameplay from players all over the NA region.
Tournament page has all the info. Voyagers: Summer 2020
EDIT: There is a discount code to use when signing up to get $5 of entry! CODE: voyagers
ty <3
-Christopher
I'll be here to answer questions!
**You are allowed to participate if you're not in NA - but the account must be on the NA server.**
Anyone else hyped about the ps5 presentation happening in a few minutes?
Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon but an awful lot of this looks like style over substance. I completely skipped last generation just one game on any platform grabbed me. I realised this when the only game that grabbed my attention was the Rare Collection on Xbox One. I damn near bought a second hand Xbox One just for that.
I'll stick with my PS3 for now. Unless something comes along that I can get my teeth into I'll skip the PS5 as well.
A Love Letter to a Spider
The guy in 2, 3, and 7 definitely is the same guy. 8 is hard to tell, but given the flowers I'd say so. 1 looks like someone else.
Side note: this guy also seems to appear in Warden's Prey and Frenzied Skitterer. The latter is a little hard to make out through the cocoon, but you can see the roses falling off the alter.
Anyone know of any good online Runeterra Tournaments!?
Hey there! Sorry that this response is 4 months late, but my LAN Center hosting an online LoR tournament July 11th!
You can find all the info at Voyagers: Summer 2020
From there you can hop on our discord and talk to us directly!
- Christopher
Fun Decks
A controlly-combo deck with an OTK they never see coming:
Fun with vulnerability:
Why attack your opponent's nexus health when you can attack their deck?