@snooggums @The_Picard_Maneuver this is in fact correct. Sesame Street started in the 60s

@The_Picard_Maneuver except they literally mention bees.

“Then Aragorn laid his hand on Merry’s head, and passing his hand gently through the brown curls, he touched the eyelids, and called him by name. And when the fragrance of athelas stole through the room, like the scent of orchards, and of heather in the sunshine full of bees, suddenly Merry awoke, and he said:
‘I am hungry. What is the time?”

@The_Picard_Maneuver that man needs to occasionally do leg day when he goes to the gym.
Always funny to see how many big buff guys with chicken legs there are

@troyunrau hmm. They look to me like wild rocks that have been fed enough to acclimatize them to people. Look how they're happy sitting on the porch near a high-traffic area waiting. That's probably where they get fed

@andrew ugh. I hate capitalism.
We gotta have artificial scarcity, so let's print a ton, then tell people they only have a short time to order, then burn everything that wasn't sold in a week.

@mike perhaps WOTC is overworked and understaffed because they're going through layoffs while also having to push out 7 sets a year.
Maybe they barely even glanced at the final result because it's Dan Frasier and they know he does good work. Or maybe it got lost in the shuffle.

@UnPassive well, yeah. I'm not particularly surprised that WOTC is marking stuff up to stupid levels on their own store. But I also don't particularly care because it's cosmetic items.
And it'll only get more drastic as the paper lands become more available and thus cheaper.
*Shrugs*

@MysticKetchup ah yes. Trot out the tired "we believe a direct relationship is best" line to say "no we don't want to listen to the person you choose to speak for you"

@Postmortal_Pop @mike
It recently came out that Dan Frasier's art in The One Ring box toppers poorly copied a previous One Ring artist.
You can see in the left that the ring is blobby and the script hasn't entirely been blurred out

Frasier admitted to copying it in as reference art and then not properly painting over it, and apologized to everyone including the original artist.
WOTC apologized for not catching it, and is now paying the other artist and crediting her work in the digital version

@mike @blubfisch
I feel the same, though I do think it's correct for them to step in to create a shield if the community is going to be garbage like this. *sigh* This is why we can't have nice things

@MysticKetchup did Post Malone buy it?

@The_Picard_Maneuver in my household
#mtg #magicthegathering

@luxyr42 @mike Obviously we haven't seen this enacted yet, but I wonder if it'll end up being similar to the Arena Historic Brawl ranking system.
I know Amazonian has run into issues where including a high-power card in a low-power deck bumps her up to a high-power tier despite playing a pile of durdle cards.
I guess that's what the conversation is for.
But also, there's never been a good way to rank commander deck power so *shrug* can't be worse than what we already have

@lorty so you know how Magic is Dying (for the last 15 years)?
I'm afeared for the game. Not because people aren't interested. Because Final Fantasy was the best selling set of all time.
No, I'm worried that Magic has turned into Fortnite.
I'm not interested in playing Fortnite.

@TheMagicer I don't have recommendations for good ones, but I'd recommend avoiding anyone who makes the cards look like the real thing, so as to not feed the counterfeit market.

@mike @Stern I expect air would be white and Spirit would be black

@UnPassive only if you have double strike. Otherwise the "or more" text limits it no matter the number of creatures hitting

@rubythulhu @TheOneCurly
Probably both. Finance person I follow expects about 20% of CB price is Ring speculation.
The rest is probably the licensing fee passed directly to customers

@frank @MysticKetchup

Wow. In Q2 "WOTC and Digital Gaming" was $242 M of $247 M total profits.
And that's before FF?

@rigatti @MysticKetchup I agree with the article, except for the start point. I think the first sign of that big change was when they got rid of the block structure. I think there are a lot of problems with that structure being rigidly enforced, but I don't think that 4+ new planes a year is correct. It really does feel like they're frantically hopping from one place to the next in the hopes that "ooh shiney" will keep people invested