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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: TheManaDrain.com - New Direction?
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on: March 14, 2016, 04:34:42 pm
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I don't know a lot about twitch streaming, but my vague understanding is that if you have a channel (say a specially created TMD channel) that you can 'host' other peoples streams on there or something. It might be neat to have a schedule of regularly scheduled streams somewhere, but even cooler to have a list of streamers who stream vintage who all get hosted when they stream so you dont have to go see who all is streaming at any given point, just click over to the TMD stream to see a vintage stream if there is one currently running.
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: TheManaDrain.com - New Direction?
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on: February 24, 2016, 05:03:15 pm
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A reddit-ish reputation system would help a lot. There are many terrific and also many worthless contributors on here, so having a simple up/down vote system with some system with kudos for top performers and punishment for consistent detractors would be good. I would bet a lot of off-the-shelf forums software systems come with a feature like this nowadays.
I find these turn problematic pretty quickly - People point to their rating as evidence that they're right rather than actually arguing their point
- All vote carry equal weight so the 5 votes I got on one great post are effectively the same as the single votes you got on 5 crappy posts
- Newer members are at a disadvantage as their rating will not have had as much time to grow. This problem grows as the site ages. Even when a newer member's account ages and gains more reputation, the older members will have gained more reputation, effectively giving them higher reputation for being around longer
- When added late into a forum's life (as would be the case here), older posters who consistently post good content start from the bottom, at the same rank as the worst troll
Some of these problems can be solved by weighing votes or other algorithms. That adds significant complexity and opens up potential for complaints about the algorithm. I think all of these problems can by mod action. At that point, I'd prefer the current system - mod-defined user classes. Perhaps this process could be more codified or replaced with a nomination and/or voting system. We were talking about this kind of thing on TMD IRC yesterday, but that is an interesting idea we didn't come up with. I personally hate the idea of a public rep-based system, but some places use it effectively. Perhaps a +/- rep button should be on posts, but the total value is hidden from all parties, but after some threshold of +rep the mods get a notification to look at a particular poster as a possible candidate to be bumped up to the next class. This would only be necessary if the posting population got much higher than it currently is, but growth of the community is one of the goals, so it may become necessary. |
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Eternal Formats / General Strategy Discussion / Re: Eternal Masters CONFIRMED
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on: February 15, 2016, 07:44:05 pm
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I know this is a little OT, but was curious if Wizards ever debated reprinting dual lands as a legendary land. Seems like it would be all format playable, open up some interesting design space and usage, and maybe help bridge supply gap.
This comes up a lot, and at one point they have stated that a purely legendary dual land is too closed to the spirit of the RL for them to do. |
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Eternal Formats / Eternal Article Discussion / Re: [Free Podcast] So Many Insane Plays Podcast Episode 50: Oath of the Gatewatch
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on: January 27, 2016, 01:09:25 pm
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One bit of analysis I would have considered is Overwhelming Denial in Brian Kelly's Bant/4C mentor control deck. This is more of a hard control deck and has a couple slots that Rich tested with as mana drains on his stream. In my limited experience of playing this deck with mana drains in it, the drains would infrequently resolve in the blue mirror, even if I won the counter war, so gush or some other spell into overwhelming denial to counter a mentor would be huge. In general this card seems most valuable for hard control decks to actually have their counters stick against the pesky delver style countermagic. The real question with Overwhelming Denial I think is what spells can you actually cast on your opponents turn consistently besides gush. I haven't gotten to the part of the podcast yet where they discuss the card, so I don't know if they brought that up, but that seems like the biggest issue with using it defensively in a control list. I suppose you can just pay 4 for it consistently, but that seems too slow to deal with a mentor/delver style list. That said I really like the card, and I will definitely be playing it at least as a one-of. |
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Eternal Formats / General Strategy Discussion / Re: [OGW] Stormchaser Mage
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on: January 25, 2016, 02:07:31 pm
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This guy does do something that earlier vertical or horizontal growth creatures cant: flies over moat. Maybe a Raka build with Moat that punishes the other gro-style decks could be a home? Plus Moat triggers prowess.
Moat is also relatively safe as a card vs the mentor or pyromancer decks, but less safe than it was because the chalice restriction has upped the playability of nature' claim.
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: WotC cracking down on proxies, even in non-sanctioned events
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on: January 13, 2016, 11:50:07 am
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If players wish to play amongst one another in a tournament-like manner at the store, so long as the store has zero involvement (including no use of Event Reporter), this is not a violation.
This is an important quote I believe. Clearly states it is not a violation for people to play against one another with proxies in a "tournament-like manner" at the store. To me, that is code for unsanctioned proxy tournaments where the store is not blatantly involved, using Event Reporter to report as though it were a sanctioned event. That sounds like just about every Vintage tournament I've been to. They can't blatantly come out and say "we will not be enforcing this policy" but it's written between the lines, IMO. The question then becomes does the store offering prizes, and taking in entry fees count as 'involvement'. As a relatively new player in paper vintage I really hope that nothing bad comes of this. I just started playing investing more in paper (luckily I already owned basically everything but power), and was really looking forward to trying to acquire power over the next 2-3 years, but if proxy events are disallowed I don't know if it would be a priority over paying extra into student loan payments/car payments/vacations the way it is for me right now just due to lower player turnout to already small events. |
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Vintage Community Discussion / Community Introductions / Re: Introduce Yourself
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on: December 15, 2015, 02:24:06 pm
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Hello, my name is Steven. I've been playing vintage for a couple years now, but I mostly played Legacy. nedleeds got me into it when he ran a vintage league in Atlanta while I was still in school. I recently moved to upstate New York, and now I'm playing a lot more vintage online since nowhere around here has Legacy or Vintage consistently. I played about a million bad young pyromancer decks until I realized that I actually just want to cast Moat in every deck all the time, so I've just been playing Keeper with Moat for the past four months or so and having a complete blast with it. I top-4'd the most recent Players Guild vintage event, and that made me want to actually get more involved with vintage as a whole, so now I'm here.
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