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Sep 17, 2012 -- 1:29AM, Alsadius wrote:

You botched your trivia question. A non-charm with charm in the name? How could you possibly have forgotten about Charm School?

There's also Charm Peddler . Maybe he was referring to spells with the word "Charm" in their names that also represent charm objects?   

Sep 17, 2012 -- 8:29AM, Dragon_Bloodthirsty wrote:

I am skeptical about how the gate lands aren't "strictly worse" than the shock lands.  While I can follow your argument, changing a card's type doesn't carry a lot of weight unless it's something you do a lot.  Being a Goblin matters a lot; being "Arcane" did not matter as much as you seemed to think it did at the time.

The signets did a lot of heavy lifting for the original block; they shouldn't be forgotten.  Telling me that the commons had "more power than intended" is disheartening too.  I'm convinced that one of the reasons Ravnica was popular was because of the powerful common mana-fixers.  The signets (like Boros Signet ) were both common and perfectly matched to the set's theme.

I think the common lands ought to have been farther removed from the rare lands.  It's too easy to look at the two cards side by side and say "Oh, that's what playing rares buys me".  I think it was also great that the commons showed up in tournaments in good decks.

Why are so many people so rebelious about the term "strictly worse"?

Arcane did matter a lot in limited, and that was its purpose.

They didn't like how the signets shaped constructed, whether they were common or rare.  

Sep 17, 2012 -- 9:42AM, milo_bloom wrote:

So I followed this game for many years. I initially got into as Revised was getting hard to find. My buying and playing ebbed and flowed, and over the years the game kept moving in directions that just weren't for me. Now I didn't expect WOTC to change the game just for me, but I wasn't alone in many of my criticisms. Last year, my issues with the game came to a head with the one two punch of Command Tower (a narrowly designed card only playable in one format) and then the dual faced cards that basically broke the game for me.

And I quit.  

A card only usable in one format and only purchable in products that were designed for the same format caused you to quit?  What a sad reaction.  If you don't play commander, don't buy those cards.

Maybe if this guildgate cycle had come sooner, I would have been able to weather the storm of the dual faced cards and would still be a customer, but unfortunately it's too little, too late. I am glad though that all the kitchen table players, the cube groups, the pauper groups, will all now have a good mana fixing solution, I don't think the game is for me anymore.

I agree this cycle was needed, but the Karro cycle was actually more powerful.  There is also a common set of three color lands that come into play tapped.  I was able to build an playable five color EDH deck without rare or expensive lands.  Good, cheap lands exist.  More expensive lands would be better, obviously, but not needed.