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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 9:48AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 17, 2012
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Making Magic, which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 07, 2012 - 9:18PM
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Splice onto instant would have been so awesome.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 07, 2012 - 9:38PM
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The rule for me is that I enjoy reading Maro's articles. However, this week's was a little stale I think. Quite a lot of very overlapping questions and many things he has already answered in the past few weeks. There's not really that much new I learned today 
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9 months ago ::
Oct 07, 2012 - 9:46PM
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If you can ever take the oppurtunity, please do Splice onto Instants and/or Affinity for Creatures. I can understand if you wish to avoid the latter for balance reasons though. But there is design space that I would love to see used, and you guys have just left sitting there...
Also, Populate doesn't really work with oldschool Selesnya. I keep wondering why a token-producing version of Reinforce wasn't used... (i.e. Token Army cost - number (cost, discard this card: Put number 1/1 saproling tokens onto the battlefield.)
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9 months ago ::
Oct 07, 2012 - 11:11PM
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I find it an interesting coincidence that both Ravnica blocks were following blocks with some spirit tribal component and as such, were obliged to include elements that supported this theme (among others). As a result, spirits are now kinda entrenched in Ravnica's flavor (Ghost Quarter and all), and the next Ravnica block will probably have spirits regardless of the block previous to it.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 08, 2012 - 3:30AM
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It would be nice to have splice back in a way that allowed it to work with the rest of the game. Also, Populate doesn't really work with oldschool Selesnya. I keep wondering why a token-producing version of Reinforce wasn't used... (i.e. Token Army cost - number (cost, discard this card: Put number 1/1 saproling tokens onto the battlefield.)
Yes it does, though your only choice would primarily be a saproling token.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 08, 2012 - 5:30AM
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- Jawsome UnCon Prizewinner
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Point of order - for it to be a "mailbag" column, don't you have to go through your actual mailbox?
I think you need a different metaphor for "I trawled Twitter".
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9 months ago ::
Oct 08, 2012 - 5:34AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2004
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Point of order - for it to be a "mailbag" column, don't you have to go through your actual mailbox?
I think you need a different metaphor for "I trawled Twitter".
MaRo, to my knowledge, has never acknowledge the existence of the forums to which he invites readers; instead, he offers people send him email, comment on Twitter, or Tumbler, which I guess is him trying to force multimedia communication, but it decentralizes commentary. You apparently must be versed in all four to get a good sense of community interaction, and frankly I got annoyed with Mark's ego (akia, "MaRo") to unfollow him on Twitter. Better to read his ego where it can be contained ... on his column.
"Possibilities abound, too numerous to count."
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)
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9 months ago ::
Oct 08, 2012 - 8:50AM
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Point of order - for it to be a "mailbag" column, don't you have to go through your actual mailbox?
I think you need a different metaphor for "I trawled Twitter".
I feel sorry for you. Your life must be absolutely and completely miserable if you take everything in the most literal sense. Language is about communication, and he used a term that communicates the essence of the column extremely clearly. Instead of physical mail it's short, to the point electronic mail - the idea is the exact same.
MaRo, to my knowledge, has never acknowledge the existence of the forums to which he invites readers; instead, he offers people send him email, comment on Twitter, or Tumbler, which I guess is him trying to force multimedia communication, but it decentralizes commentary. You apparently must be versed in all four to get a good sense of community interaction, and frankly I got annoyed with Mark's ego (akia, "MaRo") to unfollow him on Twitter. Better to read his ego where it can be contained ... on his column.
I have no idea what's even going on in this post. It has absolutely no relation to the post it quoted, and seems to be rambling in an incoherent fashion. He has indeed acknowledged the existence of the forums and reads them just like he reads everything else. I don't see how you came up with the idea that Maro has a huge ego, or how it is somehow tied to the nickname that everybody calls him. He isn't forcing anything by being on various social networks - on the contrary, he has made himself the most accessible lead designer of any large published game in existence. Maro provides almost complete transparency into R&D, actively engages in conversation with the community, directly hears feedback and accounts for it, and even answers our questions - to date, he has answered over 10,000 questions on his Tumblr. What he is doing for Magic is incredible.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 08, 2012 - 12:36PM
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Aug 21, 2011
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Point of order - for it to be a "mailbag" column, don't you have to go through your actual mailbox?
I think you need a different metaphor for "I trawled Twitter".
I feel sorry for you. Your life must be absolutely and completely miserable if you take everything in the most literal sense. Language is about communication, and he used a term that communicates the essence of the column extremely clearly. Instead of physical mail it's short, to the point electronic mail - the idea is the exact same.
MaRo, to my knowledge, has never acknowledge the existence of the forums to which he invites readers; instead, he offers people send him email, comment on Twitter, or Tumbler, which I guess is him trying to force multimedia communication, but it decentralizes commentary. You apparently must be versed in all four to get a good sense of community interaction, and frankly I got annoyed with Mark's ego (akia, "MaRo") to unfollow him on Twitter. Better to read his ego where it can be contained ... on his column.
I have no idea what's even going on in this post. It has absolutely no relation to the post it quoted, and seems to be rambling in an incoherent fashion. He has indeed acknowledged the existence of the forums and reads them just like he reads everything else. I don't see how you came up with the idea that Maro has a huge ego, or how it is somehow tied to the nickname that everybody calls him. He isn't forcing anything by being on various social networks - on the contrary, he has made himself the most accessible lead designer of any large published game in existence. Maro provides almost complete transparency into R&D, actively engages in conversation with the community, directly hears feedback and accounts for it, and even answers our questions - to date, he has answered over 10,000 questions on his Tumblr. What he is doing for Magic is incredible.
Couldn't agree more. No other game as this much access to it's designers.
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