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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2009, 04:57:11 pm » |
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You know, I think I must have accessed tomorrow's articles today. I wondered why Latest Developments was live on Thursday and talked about "Mana Fixing Week" being over. Strange. Incidently, the winner of last week's poll was 2 colors at around 38%, though 5 color got over 10% if I remember right and if anyone cares.  Let's see if the link works tomorrow. That's really strange. Peace, -Troy |
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2009, 05:02:55 pm » |
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Troy, did you discover a time machine?
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2009, 05:09:09 pm » |
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Troy, did you discover a time machine?
Didn't you ever think about what happens if you just fly west in an airplane. You can go back in time forever..... |
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2009, 05:18:48 pm » |
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Traveling into the future sounds much more interesting, which is what troy did.
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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2009, 05:22:11 pm » |
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Traveling into the future sounds much more interesting, which is what troy did.
I managed to jump through the time rift hyperlink also and vote. Maybe I'll get to vote again today.. I mean... er.... tommorrow. |
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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2009, 05:28:20 pm » |
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Troy, did you discover a time machine?
LOL, I don't know. The article wasn't that good anyway, IMO. It really just built on MaRo's article from Monday and talked about 3 other ways of mana fixing. I got bored after the third paragraph and scrolled down to vote. Their polls can sometimes telegraph where they're going with design, so I always try to check them out. I wish now that I had jotted down a few more things about the article. I would be kinda neat to spoil it a day ahead. Traveling into the future sounds much more interesting, which is what troy did.
I managed to jump through the time rift hyperlink also and vote. Maybe I'll get to vote again today.. I mean... er.... tommorrow. So it worked for you too? Cool! |
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2009, 05:42:25 pm » |
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I voted but couldnt see the results. Maybe the votes are just going into the abyss.
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2009, 06:01:24 pm » |
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I voted but couldnt see the results. Maybe the votes are just going into the abyss.
They don't release the results intil a week later. A lot of voting goes on over the weekend, especially for Asians and Europeans, so they want to give folks the greatest amount of time possible to vote. RnD really does pay attention to what these polls say. |
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« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2009, 03:16:59 am » |
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I managed to vote aswell, cool. Anyways i hope vintage wins!, we did pretty well last time.
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« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2009, 10:33:33 am » |
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I did my part.
I'm also glad the space time continuum has been restored.
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« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2009, 10:35:45 am » |
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I did my part. Twice! Vote early and vote often, I say.
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« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2009, 11:10:45 am » |
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Vote Vintage '09!
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« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2009, 12:15:37 am » |
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Their polls can sometimes telegraph where they're going with design, so I always try to check them out.
Thanx Troy, I haven't been to the site as much since the change. Good look'n out, I would have missed this. Polls are a marketing tool, so yes, we should all vote to voice the direction we would like to see. Go Vintage! Dr.KnowMaD |
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« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2009, 11:34:58 pm » |
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Ouch! Vintage only received 8.6% of the total votes coming in 2nd-to-last in front of "Other" by less than 300 votes. Legacy squeaked out 2nd behind Standard. Tom LaPille's article had a nice explanation reguarding last June's B&R changes. Here's the link. |
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« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2009, 12:24:19 am » |
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« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2009, 01:04:45 am » |
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I guess on the one hand I'm not surprised where Vintage ended up. On the other hand, I am sort of surprised that there were some six hundred people who voted for Vintage who probably have nothing to do with this site. I guess that's a good sign, especially considering only 3500 voted for Standard.
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« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2009, 09:54:31 am » |
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Very sad to see Vintage so far down... But I think it does show a huge Legacy bounce only a few weeks after the GP. Imagine what a Vintage GP would do for the format! Although I appreciate that Wizards do support one Eternal format well, it does sort of worry me that maybe they will completely cut Vintage adrift at some point. The new From The Vaults seems like another really big Legacy push.. perhaps leaving Vintage definitively in the dust... :/ |
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« Reply #19 on: April 03, 2009, 10:04:26 am » |
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Does anyone have the link to last year's poll results? I was curious what the total votes count looked like. It seemed like total polling numbers were down overall. Still it is sad to see Vintage so low. I guess I'm not surprised, though. Edit: Found last year's results - http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/dl43Standard 3629 31.0%
Vintage 3105 26.6%
Legacy 1613 13.8%
Extended 1415 12.1%
Block Constructed 1205 10.3%
Something else 724 6.2%
Total 11691 100.0% Not as big a difference in voter turnout as I expected (about 2,500, perhaps because of their site redesign, which is still poop). The biggest difference probably came from the addition of the "I don't worry about formats" option. If I were a kitchen table gamer and didn't worry about formats, playing most cards freely, Vintage might look like the closest option to me, especially if I had ever Channel'd out a Darksteel Colossus on turn three or something like that. Vintage as we know it probably was never the actual second most popular format. If you add this year's "Vintage" total to "I don't worry about formats," we're in a solid (though inaccurate) second place. |
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« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2009, 11:23:36 am » |
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So, as I said before, EDH is more popular than Vintage. Where's our EDH box set?
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« Reply #21 on: April 03, 2009, 11:47:32 am » |
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I voted for vintage, but legacy is a way better format to me. I think vintage is the worst its ever been since I started playing.
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« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2009, 03:26:12 pm » |
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I voted for vintage, but legacy is a way better format to me. I think vintage is the worst its ever been since I started playing.
They're both dominated by one deck (please don't get into semantics about my verb choice), and Limited is my favorite. But I chose Vintage to try to help it out. |
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« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2009, 04:13:20 am » |
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Did anyone vote on the next one? The concept of the last one is cool and I voted for it.
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« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2009, 04:23:56 am » |
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thats a shame for vintage Though I don't think a single Vintage player I know in real life would ever check the WOTC site. If I hadn't seen this thread, I wouldn't have voted either. Its not really a fair poll in my opinion. |
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« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2009, 11:05:49 am » |
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So, as I said before, EDH is more popular than Vintage. Where's our EDH box set?
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thats a shame for vintage Though I don't think a single Vintage player I know in real life would ever check the WOTC site. If I hadn't seen this thread, I wouldn't have voted either. Its not really a fair poll in my opinion. I'm pretty sure that they realize that the site does have a heavy kitchen-table bias. |
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« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2009, 09:47:50 am » |
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thats a shame for vintage Though I don't think a single Vintage player I know in real life would ever check the WOTC site. If I hadn't seen this thread, I wouldn't have voted either. Its not really a fair poll in my opinion. I'm pretty sure that they realize that the site does have a heavy kitchen-table bias. MAGIC has a heavy kitchen-table bias. The vast majority of all players have never played in a sanctioned (or proxy, for that matter) tournament. I think the numbers quoted by MTG.com were 90-10. |
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