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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:59PM
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This thread is for discussion of magicthegathering.com's Magic Arcana, Card of the Day, and Ask Wizards features for the month of July, 2008.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2008 - 9:55PM
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Or you could just use the spoiler generator at starcitygames.com so you can exclude the cards that cost more than $20
And which gives more accurate results.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2008 - 9:58PM
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Well, the Gatherer news is nice, although it's still hard to compete with magiccards.info.
Hint: take off the ads.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2008 - 11:02PM
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I guess this will be the first and the last we'll see of Chroma. Why did they even invent it? The text looks fine without the chroma (although, it's easier to estimate your board position for an opponent. "Oh, Chroma. The thing is useless now in your 2nd turn")...
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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2008 - 11:23PM
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- Celestial Teapots are broken!
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Which of these is easier to say, "Chroma" or "one of those cards that cares about the number of colored mana symbols in mana costs"? Ability words are relatively unobtrusive (they're italicized, and in Magic italicized words are never crucial), and they give a concise and consistent way to refer to that set of related cards.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 01, 2008 - 12:39AM
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And again the German butchering of card text sucks beyond belief. "Farbwert" for crying out loud! As if "Chroma" was a native English word that needed translation!
And again this nonsense will keep me from attending a prerelease 'cause I will never sink any money into these abominable germanized pieces of cardboard.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 01, 2008 - 1:01AM
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I'm very glad to hear about this update to Gatherer--the capabilities seem to be far more in line with what other search engines are capable of, and that part about being able to use CARDNAME as a stand-in for whatever that particular card's name happens to be seems like an especially useful and innovative feature. I'm looking forward to seeing what you've come up with. Almost anything you can give us would be better, but I hope it'll be amazingly so. 
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real.
--Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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2 years ago ::
Jul 01, 2008 - 4:24AM
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CARDNAME? What's wrog with the tilde? "When ~ comes into play" is faster and far more fun 
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2 years ago ::
Jul 01, 2008 - 6:26AM
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Okay, is there "Set" Videos for Lorwyn and Morningtide? Did they start these in Shadowmoor block? Where could the Lorwyn and Morningtide Videos be found. I really like the Videos (Shadowmoor and Eventides) Even though I understand the abilities when reading them, it is good to have these little blurbs to know if I'm actually using them correctly or not, I just want to know if there is a Morningtide or Lorwyn set.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 01, 2008 - 6:37AM
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Okay, is there "Set" Videos for Lorwyn and Morningtide? Did they start these in Shadowmoor block? Where could the Lorwyn and Morningtide Videos be found. I really like the Videos (Shadowmoor and Eventides) Even though I understand the abilities when reading them, it is good to have these little blurbs to know if I'm actually using them correctly or not, I just want to know if there is a Morningtide or Lorwyn set.
No. They only started to do those kinds of videos in Shadowmoor.
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