This was a really well-explained hack, I loved reading this, well done! So fascinating to see that bot logic runs client-side, that the code just creates two ‘seats’ for players to connect to, and you exploited all that info in a masterful way. Bravo!

There will not only be bans for pioneer, but also unbans! I have no clue what they’re thinking of unbanning, it’ll be an interesting b&r for sure

I like this one much better than the original colour pie that was posted here, this one’s much easier to read and more intuitive <3

I find it counter intuitive that the two colour pairings are on the inside and the three colour pairings are on the outside.

yes!

5-colour is just called 5 colour or WUBRG, and colorless is also just called colorless, they don’t have specific names

the big negative point is, of course, that this is a sneaky increase in booster cost, a quite significant one at that.

wow, in practice the changes to Limited might not be very big with this new type of booster, but in the history of MtG this is a humongous change. For the first time since 1993 Draft boosters will have 14 playable cards instead of 15. This changes the fabric of MtG. I feel that in the long run this is a very good shift, all of the problems highlighted in the article are very real, and it seems like they’ve addressed them well with the Play Booster. Fascinating stuff, I can’t wait to hear the Limited podcasts analysing how this changes the game.

Well that’s why I said it was only good if you have an online collection tracker where you catalog all your cards . I know exactly where all my copies of The Doctor are because I have recorded which versions I have. I can then build my decks online, and once I’m ready to play them I just go to my collection with a list of set and collector numbers and I can pull out exactly what I need

Very fair! I would posit that for a large collection where you keep every single card you open, and for which you have an online collection tracker such as deckbox.org, using the organising system I mentioned is still the best. There will always be one single place that a card you’re looking for would be, and nowhere else.

as your collection grows, so must your storage solutions change. Here are the phases my collection went through:

phase 1: everything stored randomly in prerelease and bundle boxes

phase 2: buying a few empty bundle boxes online so I have 5 bundle boxes, storing per colour and in ascending mana value

phase 3: getting a longbox (google ‘tcg longbox’) that holds 1000 cards and storing my cards in there. At this point I switched to ordering in the objectively best way for big collections: per set, from oldest set to newest set, in ascending collection number (the number on the bottom left of the card). Ordering per collection number will also automatically order your cards per colour and alphabetically for every set.

phase 4: getting multiple longboxes to accommodate the ever expanding collection, continuing with the collection method of phase 3

trades are still in a binder though!

Um omg this is amazing news haha! I should have followed the mastodon updates more closely it seems, I had no idea we could do this now. Thanks so much for bringing that to my attention 😀

100% better migration options. I want to take my posts with me, I want people going to my old profile to redirect to my new profile. I feel like I’ve been stuck on my Mastodon instance, which is very small and is not tended to by the admins a lot, because of the lacking migration functionality.

I’m glad you learned early not to buy boxes then :D

You’re right about the premium treatments and the pricing. I don’t think the fact that 4 out of 10 tier decks are under 200 bucks will bring more people to standard though: if you’re on a budget you look at the standard metagame and see that you can sleeve up mono red aggro for under 100$. But at the same time you see that you’ll never be able to afford other tier decks like golgari or esper midrange, which are about 500$. If you don’t have access to the option of creating the tier deck you want, only the tier deck you can afford, it creates a feeling of being locked out of (part of) the format, and creates resentment toward those that càn afford a golgari midrange deck.

I agree! To continue the argument: DOS2 was, at the time, a big hit for Larian. Its one of the main reasons why they could expand the way they did. I think that the way Larian does development is not very conducive to creating DLC. If they do, I suspect it will only be released at the end of 2024 at the earliest.

If the way they supported their previous games is anything to go by, I wouldn’t expect any DLC. there was no DLC for divinity original sin or D:OS 2. This is the game, if you want more of it you start a new run, maybe on tactician mode, with new builds.

I’m really happy with the interface to be honest, I was using Voyager up until now but Boost is my new go to!

Until they do something to make standard more affordable I don’t think they’ll succeed in this revitalisation. Either you print new standard challenger decks every year that actually contain all the game pieces needed for a Tier standard deck, or people will continue to play non rotating formats where the decks are as expensive as standard but will last them a lot more years than standard decks

As someone who lives in Antwerp and works fully remote , but sometimes needs to go to the office in The Hague, this is great news!