Are the two chicks doing the interviewing in that clip streamers or mega-fans or something? Hasbro has to have someone semi-competent at marketing who's actually been on film or conducted an interview before they could have used instead.
That was below junior college quality level. And not the junior college for smart kids either.
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when lorwyn was standard legal:
bitterblossom was around 30 dollars roughly at its max. (unless if you were quoting 80/playset, then i apologize)
30 dollars was the price of a badlands, seas were about 60ish. (revised)
kithkin was a deck as well, B/G rock was also a great deck.
-rob
I think the Lorwyn environment benefited massively from being at the intersection of many different things - Lorwyn/Shadowmoor had a high power level, the format itself was absurdly huge (~+30% extra card count), the design directions of Time Spiral and Lorwyn were very different - it was the border of old spells and new creatures without WotC having gotten into their heads that removal had to suck. Mana was good, but not too good, and there was good actual LD. Like, if you go through the CSnap-TS/PC/FS-Lor/Mor-Sha/Eve-10th card pool, it's absurd just how many things were good back then. Seriously, just name any one thing you want to do and go look through the card pool. It's nuts.
Spot removal? Great.
Sweepers? Yes.
Aggro beaters? Yup.
Raw draw? Hell yes.
Grindy value? You haven't lived until you've cast a Blink that reads "kill your creature / dodge your removal spell, I get two flying bears and draw 4". Or you could just drown them in Bitterblossom/Sacred Mesa tokens.
Countermagic? An embarassment of riches.
Want to play combo? You actually have options. Plural.
The format even had Trickbind for goodness' sake.
Manlands? Can do.
Utility lands in general? Mouth. Of. Ronom.
Mana ramp? Yup, plus interesting things to do with it.
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Originally Posted by Lemnear
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Magic the Amateuring is a show on...Twitch, I think? So they're sort of streamers.
WotC has picked up Magic content producers to do things for them in the past - Numot and Gaby Spartz have done coverage, I think, and I want to say they've had The Professor from TCC do something too. It makes way more sense to hire fans to do stuff than to hire professionals or use in-house assets because fans are an inexhaustible resource, can be hired and fired at will, and will be enthusiastic about your product without needing to act.
Yet they are unprofessional. It's not that being a NE Patriots fan qualifies fans to Interview players for a news station or such either.
If WotC opts to make MTG an eSports brand, you can't let amateurs do your quintessential PR tasks but hire professional commentators and interviewers.
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Considering the 3rd RtRtR expansion is considered the climax of the Bolas arc, what else are they going to do? They can't lose one of their most popular planes (in the same way they ruined Zendikar with the Eldrazi war), so the Gatewatch has to win. I expect Bolas to be beaten, with a potential chance to bring him back many years later. IIRC, only his body was destroyed by Umezawa back then, while Bolas spirit was still around before he was brought back via time rift shenanigans. And Ravnica has this weird ghost thing going for it.
Maria Bartholdi is a professional TV producer. I suspect she was just playing along with Meghan, who just sounds like Maro to me in her mannerisms so who cares.
I also would assume the directive was to be kitschy, based on Wizards' past dalliances like Walking the Planes. They seem to want to appear as though they are not taking themselves too seriously.
In my humble opinion, I think that is a big part of the problem at WotC. It should be natural, not forced and scripted. We will say I'm not a fan. Just my 2 cents.They seem to want to appear as though they are not taking themselves too seriously.
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To be taken seriously, you need to have a certain level of professionality. Since WotC doesn't have that, they go for the wacky approach instead. E.g. when they did the Dominaria history review during one of the PT/GP (?) streams, all inconsistencies could be brushed off as "we're just joking". I'm pretty sure they don't even know their own lore anymore expect for rough details.
And nobody who cares about the image of the company on a professional level would allow Maro's cringe-worthy, hyperactive rampages about new sets to air.
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