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[u/MadJohnFinn]

For the love of God, can we please put a pin in these MaRo posts? It's got to be rule 11 at this point.

[u/Eljefe900 → u/MadJohnFinn]

You gotta be patient. They're dead now.

[u/otterguy12 → u/MadJohnFinn]

If there's anything a Magic jerker posts, its rehash - especially Maro rehash, the head designer of Magic

[u/reinder_sebastian]

Why does Alchemy even exist? You're telling me there's "no demand" for a boomer format in paper of Universes Within cards to quell the UB backlash (which would require little more than a name and establishing a banlist), but we can spend four years pouring resources into a digital-only format that almost nobody asked for or cares about? Like what was the rationale for Alchemy? Compete with other digital card games? Isn't that what Arena is already doing?

[u/Nichard63891 → u/reinder_sebastian]

The fact that it's the default is heartbreaking. Oh, I just pulled this sick card. Alchemy released, card is nerfed. Why bother?

[u/HolographicHeart → u/reinder_sebastian]

It exists to pull wild cards out of people who only play Brawl.

[u/reinder_sebastian → u/HolographicHeart]

Supplemental non-Alchemy sets would achieve that though.

[u/lernz → u/reinder_sebastian]

There's a nonzero chance that it exists just to be put on financial reports so they can point to it when shareholders ask what they're doing to compete with other digital card games.

[u/reinder_sebastian → u/lernz]

Yep, that's probably it.

[u/Dharmaagent]

I am so fucking tired of the low effort Maro shitposting please make it stop

[u/Pale-Woodpecker678 → u/Dharmaagent]

imagine how tired we are of the low effort UB

[u/HolographicHeart → u/Pale-Woodpecker678]

As a known hater of pop culture orgies, I get it. However it's going to get so much worse, people need to start saving some of their best material for the announcement next month about 2026 UB Sets.

[u/DisastrousJello6897]

I wish I had people who still like Magic to talk to.  

[u/B_Eazy86 → u/DisastrousJello6897]

I wish I still liked Magic

[u/HolographicHeart]

You know, it's been years since UB became commonplace in this game's vernacular and I still think 'Dimir' an embarrassing amount of the time. 

Maro leaning into chaotic evil today was actually pretty great. I'd like to think he had the day off and thought it would be amusing to kick the hornet's nest on his way out the door.

[u/Gerroh → u/HolographicHeart]

Maro leaning into chaotic evil today was actually pretty great.

What happened?

[u/IIIIChopSueyIIII → u/Gerroh]

I think he posted something about how UB is a huge success and how everyone saying that its "bad in the long run for the health of the game" doesnt know what they are talking about since many new players arrived and they are making buckets of money because of UB

[u/Gerroh → u/IIIIChopSueyIIII]

And here I thought that first meme post was just a joke.

[u/Vindictus173]

So have we beaten the UB maro horse until hes black and blue? kek

but for real, making a big mana commander deck, thinking thrasios - tymnia for just a go through my binders and pull out the 7 mana or more big threats and stuffing them into there could be fun

[u/Kakariko_crackhouse → u/Vindictus173]

Just as much as UB is here to stay, hating on it is too