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!

Hahaha omg I hadn’t even thought of the alternatives! Not using Timeless Lotus is absolutely wild, how was this decision made???

is it just me or does merfolk tunnel-guide look like it was dreamed up by an AI?

I find this an absolutely hilarious include. They put in a completely useless bulk rare card, because it has ‘Timeless’ in the name.

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

Lovely drop indeed! I’m betting on a mana confluence as the bonus card, although that may be wishful thinking

I am HYPED for Amsterdam, this is close enough to my home that I’ll be able to go! At the same time it’s disappointing that the EU Magiccon will feature the modern pro tour two years in a row, I hope they switch it up for the coming years.

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

seems very meh. a 3/2 flyer for 4 is a C to C+ in Limited. The colorless Gnome artifact could be good for Crafting, I guess.

that’s the face of cold blooded murder right there: He’s sitting on a goddamn lower jaw bone. I love this frog. Seems really good in limited.

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 😀

I’m a big fan of how transparent they’ve been about mtga development over the past few months, from the dev writeups to the clear messaging when things go wrong.