• backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish
    32·
    14 hours ago

    Due to ill-advised tie-ins, in MTG you can now pit Dwight Schrute against Bebop & Rocksteady with help from Ian Malcolm and SpongeBob, who has the One Ring. Don’t worry, here comes Godzilla and Hatsune Miku to save the day, just tap your Bob Ross lands to play.

      • backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        53 minutes ago

        Yeah… yeah. They’ve taken what have might been a niche one-off for collectors here and there and turned it into the driving force of their game. Lord of the Rings was well received as a full set expansion because it’s Lord of the fucking Rings and the Tolkien realm translates well into the established game. But Spiderman? Ninja Turtles? Avatar? The Office? Soon Star Trek? I’m so tired of rushed to market expansions, having to learn all sorts of new rules to justify other IPs doing what they do (and probably breaking the game along the way), and artwork that looks like ass. It’s just not fun anymore.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          33 minutes ago

          It’s just not fun anymore.

          I’ve said it before, but the game is pure ass these days.

          https://lemmy.world/post/40381588/21086078

          Every fucking card is either bullshit removal, or “When you resolve this spell turn a land into a 0/0 creature and put a +1/+1 counter on each land that turned into a creature this turn and draw a card if your land creatures have five enchantments”.

      • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
        17·
        10 hours ago

        It isn’t a joke. They didn’t even bring up real life people that are in cards, or SpongeBob, mylitttle pony, Fortnite, or furby.

          • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
            7·
            8 hours ago

            Hasbro relies on MTG to make them profitable, so there’s been a lot of selling out.

            Even if you ignore the Universes beyond, the price of packs is way too high now, and they’ve made some blatant cash grabs.

            “30th anniversary” was a secial set with a different back, making them basically the same as the old gold-boarded decks, not tournament legal. This results in them being considered proxies, but made by WoTC… For $1000 for 4 boosters.

          • backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish
            9·
            10 hours ago

            There’s still zombies, but now you can fight them with the cast of the Walking Dead! Also, if you left 30yrs ago you’d be sorely disappointed to see how shit the art has gotten. So much AI or “AI enhanced” slop.