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Mustafa, I know you're a person on the other side of this computer (unless you live inside my computer, ... do you?), so I am biting my tongue and not saying really mean things to you. No one is 'unimpressed' by AI. Yes, it is profoundly impressive. The problem is you're injecting a solution into a "problem" that doesn't exist. You (or your organization, whoever is in charge of decisions on products) keeps inserting AI into anything. People do NOT want that. We do NOT want AI in applications, the taskbar, our filesystem, our browser, etc. I don't understand what you don't understand about this. Understandably, you and your cohorts are trying to make money, or something, but by injecting an AI solution into a non-existent problem all you're doing is pushing consumers away. AI is resource intensive, introduces additional security concerns, introduces potential privacy concerns, introduces additional layers of abstraction, etc. If you want to sell AI you have to sell it right. You can't just slap an AI sticker onto everything and expect cheers and celebration. I'm not gonna lie to you, big dawg. I think you and your big buddies over there at Microsoft are surrounded by sycophants. You're in some sort of distorted AI bubble, these people are doing this so they can either justify their existence or grab more money. There is no other logical explanation as to why you continue doing this... unless you're doing this to unironically harvest MORE data which then makes you a terrible human being. I sincerely hope you read this.

Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

@golgariguy You can play a lite verion of the pokemon tcg as well (guaranteed energy per turn, half life totals, smaller decks) But yes it is kinda wild that theyre not even pretending its a game first and foremost. It does play in portrait though, and for me thats a huge selling point

@IntraHikari @jgrimesey Yeah that's made more sense as I've played more online less against bots

@Rattulator @jgrimesey If your opponent goes first, draws 5 cards + an extra for turn, and then put 1 in the active slot and 1 on the bench. They have decent odds to have a Prof's Research to draw 2 more. If they do they'll have 7 cards in hand on turn 3. Red Card makes sure they'll only have 4 in hand

Pocket deck of the day: Primeape The new Mankey promo sets up Primeape to deal 100 as early as turn two, while dealing 30 - enough to kill the legendary birds! Deck is good

@PleasantKenobi Im having a good time Pokémon tcg Pocket, it's even more streamlined and has a hearthstone style energy system, but it's good fun and plays in portrait (its definitely intended as a pack opening app with a side battle mode though)

What is your go to DIGITAL card game, besides Magic? What do you play on the toilet, on the train, in bed? What keeps you coming back and why?

@Slick_Jagger_ @PleasantKenobi I just got into Pokémon tcg pocket and I'm having fun, I got put off from Live by the 1.7stars rating and the many comments saying it's a buggy mess. Is it worth trying?

@PleasantKenobi Pokemon TCG live is the best mobile TCG imo (not the new Pocket game), there are no microtransactions, you can play with your phone vertical, and the meta is fun and diverse

@PleasantKenobi Its the set im most sad to have missed out on and most want a modern revisting. The aesthetic of that world is unmatched

Shards of Alara is an INSANE set when you look back on it. I've been thinking a lot about Magic's derivative aesthetics, worlds, themes - and Alara is just so wild and interesting. Take me back.

@MTGSecretLair It make sense to wait and see what cards require reprints before blanket promising all of them, but it is a shame, the Universe-within nature of the reprints is often the most compelling part! I guess the special guest slot would work for thematic matches?

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@NarukamiKnight Common Kristen W, many good takes, well articulated 🙏

@NarukamiKnight Yooo i didnt see this! I'm so keen for tarkir again, i'm hoping it'll be like how older magic players felt about returning to Dominaria, all the coolness you remember but playable in 2024... Also, horizontal art = New Battles??

@PleasantKenobi DUNE secret lair finally??

Tezzeret, in Space, looks PHENOMENAL.

@NarukamiKnight You invented the Bulk Commander event format too?? I love those, theyre so much fun!

@RobinIsabellaX It's been fun since I started playing 12 years ago. I've never even felt the need to take a break, for a week or month or just an evening, I'll play all weekend and be just as keen to go again come monday. It's the best game ever made and nothing comes close

quick question do any of y'all actually like playing magic y/n

@NarukamiKnight Any excuse to mention My King and My Queen - Those text boxes look long and complicated, but they both actually just say draw 2-5 extra cards per turn!

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@duck_gk @Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight 3 mana vs 6 mana changes the dynamic entirely, thats before you even get on to the rest of the deck moxfield.com/decks/zgiv8sjl… Myriad tokens/cheat from exile moxfield.com/decks/H_hHpRNm… Gnomes and pings moxfield.com/decks/iCqtl9qr… Etb/Dragons

@Rattulator @Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight I can't see Ulder and Pakal playing that differently in a meaningful way unless you're focusing on combos in one of them.

@Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight The secret is Boros charm, don't need to wipe the board, just survive it when other people do!

@Rattulator @NarukamiKnight Fair enough! I think those decks are still viable, if you play enough board wipes

@duck_gk @Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight Duke Ulder, Anim Pakal and Commander Liara are the main three and the experience is distinct for each one. There's remarkably little overlap with the non land cards, they all play very differently

@Rattulator @Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight At that point it is very likely that you have 1 deck seven times, instead of 7 decks.

@Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight I think I would've agreed with you 10 years ago, when decks took longer to do their thing, but these days I have too many decks and not enough time to play them to let games go on that long! I do have 7 Boros decks so I might be biased...

@Rattulator @NarukamiKnight My sweet spot is 1.5 to 2.5 hrs

@Magical__Hacker @NarukamiKnight Four short games is infinitely better than one four hour slog! And an hour long game can have plenty of back and forth? I hate to use the phrase, but play more interaction if your games are that one sided!

@NarukamiKnight "Wipes add an hour to the game." Yes, I need that hour to win, that's what they're for. It's just misguided. I think people view an evening of four short games where everyone wins once as better to one long, tooth and nail struggle of a game.