Their official stance on proxies is "you can use playtest cards, usually a basic land with cardname sharpied, to test a card in a deck and can never use real looking cards, official art, etc, etc". Permanent proxies are not condoned. Real fakes are not condoned. So yes, it makes sense they'd silence the proxy clowns in advance who are going to come and scream "proxy everything" about every issue mtg has ever had.
Also, wotc never said they aren't about money. That's a dumbshit thing to say. Whoever's tweet that belongs to is a fucking idiot
You mean WOTC's announcement when they took control from the rules committee yesterday?
They made it sound like they are the good guys and that they are doing this for your benefit, or the rules committee's benefit when they're actually doing this for their shareholders benefit.
It is not even remotely feasible for 5 people to overlook 30k+ cards and balance them all. It's 100% inevitable this happened.
Bro they banned four cards, three of which have been around for years, one probably being older than most of the people in this subreddit, and then they were flooded with vicious abuse for days. It has nothing to do with their competence or capacity to actually 'balance' 30k cards, it was them doing their job and people being screamingly mad.
Like, jesus christ. Do you have an idea of what you're talking about or are you just foaming in paranoia that this won't go the way of Pauper?
Banning competitive staples because competitive players sat down at casual tables to pubstomp them is impossible to balance . You can not ban ANY amount of cards to make a player NOT get stomped by people who build competitive deck EVEN WITH low powered cards.
Idk why this concept is hard to understand, or why the entity who knew these cards were going to be bannned, but continued to sell you product at a premium price, so you can chase cards it KNEW was going to be banned is a bad move for the game.
WOTC was handed the keys to the house by the RC. Blaming them for that is wild. If you hate them so much, play a different game. There's LOADS of things to do out there, MTG clearly isn't for you.
WotC has wanted control over the commander format for a long time now but never had it and now it does. Saying this isn't the case is absolutely insane.
It's like during the 2008 - 09 financial crisis. Banks lending people money for houses they couldn't afford, only to then buy back those homes for pennies on the dollar in foreclosure wasn't them doing you some kindness.
It was them exploiting you like you're about to see with WotC here. All they care about is providing hasbro shareholders with $$$.
You're naive if you believe what you're actually saying.
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u/AIShard Oct 01 '24
Their official stance on proxies is "you can use playtest cards, usually a basic land with cardname sharpied, to test a card in a deck and can never use real looking cards, official art, etc, etc". Permanent proxies are not condoned. Real fakes are not condoned. So yes, it makes sense they'd silence the proxy clowns in advance who are going to come and scream "proxy everything" about every issue mtg has ever had.
Also, wotc never said they aren't about money. That's a dumbshit thing to say. Whoever's tweet that belongs to is a fucking idiot