gaming has clearly angling towards skinner box design since mmos got big. you’re not a customer, just an atm to be looted for every penny.

“dedicated fan”. play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/banned-and-restricted-announcement-2015-01-19

exactly. but you can’t just keep farming UB forever. you need to onboard them into the ecosystem and keep them hooked in. time will tell if these people only cared about their specific media or if enough latch on to mtg the game.

so i sold out of mtg around covid and they started committing to “universe beyond”. but all signs point to their stupid shit being profitable for the time being. and the new UB stuff will now be going through standard will help their new player onboarding a bit.

they’ve unbanned cards in the past. most recently(not in this ban/unbanning) mox opal and splinter twin in modern. SFM and mind sculptor were also unbanned years ago. unbanning cards is not unheard of.

“close to the game” doesn’t know that this is definitely not the first time they’ve done this.

modern mind sculptor unbanned years ago and saw little play. SFM. more recently mox opal and splinter twin.

unbannings are just admitting that power creep has surpassed the level those cards were at previously.

Ah, “rules” that can’t be really learned from because you removed the comment from even my own comment history. You’re obviously insinuating something with that last sentence but, frankly, i can’t recall what i wrote at the moment.

These people LITERALLY want to dehuman and take rights from trans folk, but i’m required to tolerate that without calling them names?

and before any miserable “bothsides” fuck cries “you’re doing the same”. i didn’t start this shit. i’m not taking womens rights away. i’m not also trying to ship people off to foreign prisons.

make nazis dead again.

i have a comment elsewhere in this thread saying to do that, lmao. i also have mean enough comments that the mod removed them.

and yet, there’s plenty of dogshit apologists in this thread arguing to “just let people play games” because they have zero self control. this place is literally no different than the other.

concernedape is working on haunted chocolatier