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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 10:55AM #21
TherealphatMatt
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Nov 16, 2012 -- 10:43AM, GM_Champion wrote:

When I can honestly say that your content lives up to mine Matt, then I'll accept your judgement. 




I can honestly say that little would terrify me more than if you said you liked the cards I'd made.

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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 11:04AM #22
GM_Champion
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Nov 16, 2012 -- 10:55AM, TherealphatMatt wrote:

Nov 16, 2012 -- 10:43AM, GM_Champion wrote:

When I can honestly say that your content lives up to mine Matt, then I'll accept your judgement. 




I can honestly say that little would terrify me more than if you said you liked the cards I'd made.




I never said that I don't like them, but your logic is flawed as far as I can tell (at least when it comes to certain specifics).

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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 11:19AM #23
bay_falconer
Date Joined: Oct 12, 2010
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*Doing things that only work at instant speed on a planeswalker.
*"PERMANENT has ABILITY WORD.", for instance, giving a creature landfall, when not saying what the landfall ability is.
*Ignoring the tribal pie. What I mean is, giving a sliver an ability that it doesn't share with all slivers.
*Putting colored and hybrid together, not like , but like . A hybrid would be something like

Better Strobe 

Sorcery

Target creature gains double strike until EOT.

The only reason to make it red/white is so that any deck using red can use it, but so can any deck using white, but not a deck solely using a combination of green, blue, and black.

A traditional multicolor card is:

Protected Growth

Instant

Until EOT, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains hexproof.

(I could, of course, create a monogreen Growth that gave hexproof, but I'm looking at maybe for that. But blue doesn't usually get Giant Growth .)

Personally, my biggest one is that sometimes I have an idea but I either undercost it or overcost it, such as a quadratic Propaganda I was working on. It would make you pay for each creature attacking, where X was the total number of attacking creatures. (That is, if you wanted to attack with three creatures, you'd pay .) I somewhat undercosted it at .

Jun 27, 2012 -- 12:04AM, GM_Champion wrote:

Clever deduction Watson! Maybe you can explain why Supergirl is trying to kill me.


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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 1:58PM #24
ChaosLight
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Listening to or communicating with bankai
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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 4:38PM #25
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Nov 16, 2012 -- 1:58PM, ChaosLight wrote:

Listening to or communicating with bankai




Preach on, sister. Preach on.

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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 4:53PM #26
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every once in a while... a thread like this comes up. And everyone sounds all righteous speaking up here.
funny thing is,
people who needs to hear it don't come here
people who say something here believe they dont need help here, and finally
people who actually read this thread realize it's all old news.

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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 5:29PM #27
Artsy_Wumpus
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- Not explaining a weird/complicated design. If you have an idea, give folks a little background on that idea.
- Assuming people know as much/the same things about Magic as you do, this goes both ways
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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 6:12PM #28
ChaosLight
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Nov 16, 2012 -- 4:53PM, theatog wrote:

every once in a while... a thread like this comes up. And everyone sounds all righteous speaking up here.
funny thing is,
people who needs to hear it don't come here
people who say something here believe they dont need help here, and finally
people who actually read this thread realize it's all old news.




Which one are you :P

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8 months ago  ::  Nov 16, 2012 - 7:04PM #29
TPmanW
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I think the intention of the thread was to make a resource to point amateurs towards.
Ideally I guess what we suggest here could become part of a sticky thread (which is a really weird souding term) but I beleive the original poster just wanted notes to copy/paste into discussions.
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8 months ago  ::  Nov 17, 2012 - 4:11AM #30
Mown
Date Joined: Apr 28, 2008
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Nov 16, 2012 -- 7:22AM, Fenix. wrote:


Doing cute things just for the sake of it, with no real application in a game of Magic.



Nov 16, 2012 -- 10:26AM, TherealphatMatt wrote:

Elegance for the sake of elegance.



You guys are the absolute worst.

Jan 18, 2012 -- 3:34AM, Imidazoline wrote:

Everything Mown does is elegant.


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