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I am bored this Thanksgiving, so I felt like giving to the people of Magic.
I already bothered Rasko:
http://www.casualplayers.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12786
So now it was time to bother the good people over at MagictheGathering.com:
I already bothered Rasko:
http://www.casualplayers.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12786
So now it was time to bother the good people over at MagictheGathering.com:
makingmagic@wizards.com
Hey Maro!
You're the dude who always explains the reasons why this is that way and that is this way in Magic. There's one thing, which I check your articles for every time, that I still have not seen and I'm starting to get disappointed. It's such a fundamental thing, I worry about what secrets WotC is forcing you to keep when it never appears.
I mean, come on. Let the public know for once: Why are Magic cards printed on cardboard?
Yes, cardboard cards work better than dice (just look at that failed Collectible Dice Game market--though that Roseanne game by TSR was pretty fun).
But I mean, seriously man, other media would work so much better. Why not print the cards on the side of milk cartons? Yes, still pretty much cardboard, but there's also a lot of wax/plastic content, so you kill a few bees instead of a lotta trees. See what I'm saying here? The benefits of milk carton cards are so many I can't even start (easier accessability to the game for mainstream consumers is one place to begin, I guess). Though, I don't need to mention the benefits, because you guys at WotC have probably had some pretty heated debates over this paradigm shift already.
Then there's the possiblity of gold. You guys changed the face of the game, by making it look a lot more scifi. Then you take the storyline to Mirrodin, a world of scifi metallic goodness. What the hell!? How could you miss the obvious decision to make the cards metal, too? In case you need market research, Burger King did this a couple years ago with some gold-plated Pokemon cards. They had to give them away one at a time in kid's meals, but it worked. I think they even held a world championship with the cards (which strangely enough weren't gaming cards.) The only people who showed up were me and my dog, but that's besides the point (freakin dog won--that power fiend!). They're a little harder to shuffle, and binders kind get heavy, but the production cost would be less and you'd get a lot more of those speculating collectors you guys loved so much back in the days of Legends. Its good for the overall health of the game, man.
Please give it some thought. Not too late. You're altering those Fifth Dawn artifacts. Why not rectify that whole cardboard thing and bring us, your loyal players and buyers, some fresh new content?
I spend about 10 bucks a year on your products, and I'm not afraid to say I WILL spend my money elsewhere if you don't stop using cardboard. I normally don't resort to threats like that, but think about it--That 10 bucks lost means you guys go without coffee in the office FOR A WHOLE DAY! I'm sorry if I made you scared for your caffine. Please don't sue me. I just want a better game.
PS: That wasn't a topdeck, my dog was a blatant cheater at Burger King!
latestdevelopments@wizards.com
Hey Randy!
Your latest article, "Flight of Fancy," was an interesting read, but I had a few problems with it. For a guy who has a really annoying gold-bordered World Champ deck, you sure were confusing in some places. Let me address them:
1) Vampires do not inherently have flying. Though they are rumored to come from Eastern Europe, they like to have British accents. This is well-presented on the cards with their keyword ability, "Superiority Complex," but for some reason you went off on a tangent about FLYING!?
B) Nobody I know is able to identify Troll Ascetic by the artwork alone. In fact, it looks like a person who comes into my card shop every once in a while, and I get asked about it. You suckers better be paying my mom royalties for using her likeness!
VI) We all know Whippoorwill does not have flying. You guys keep cramming that down our throats all over the site like we'll forget it if it isn't featured every day in some form or another. Look, the problem isn't the flying, the problem is that Oracle ruling where you guys decided to give it "Banding with Whippoorwills." What the hell? THAT is what confuses all of us who see it. Sheesh, get your facts straight next time!
PS: I know I refer to you as "Randy Bull-head" in my writings, but that's not a reference to you being the PR person who spouts B.S. It's just because after about seventeen years of reading your writing, I still can't figure out how to spell your name. I'm sorry. I'll learn to spell it as soon as I can. Maybe in another seventeen years my grammar skills will improve.
seriousfun@wizards.com
Hey Anthony!
I am not emperor of Japan, but if I was I'd order you to clear up some confusion in that latest article of yours.
If you wanted to do something positive for Magic, you could have at least covered the "Bloody Mary" format, or the "Drinking Game Magic" format, where you actually stab your opponent with direct damage spells or take a drink anytime anything is tapped (respectively). Both of these highly-supported formats are even featured on MTGO, but Bloody Mary has been delayed along with other features until they get it working right. You could have covered these, which beginners are a bit too shy to take a risk at without coaxing.
But no, you covered Emperor. Shameful!
Mr. Alongi, while the people at WotC are blamed for spreading disinformation at times, I know at heart you people are really trying to make the game better. That still does not help the fact that you wrote about the Emperor format in Magic.
For your information, Emperor format is not played with six players. Its played with two opposing armies of seventy people each. And you further messed up in saying this was for Magic. Dude, it's played with cardboard tubes. Each side starts on an opposite side of the field with their tubes, held like swords (ala Penny Arcade's Cardboard Tube Samurai--ironically enough, Tycho and Gabe invented the Emperor format).
Please make sure to cover actual MAGIC formats when you write next time. And, if you do happen to stray off-topic, please remember to get things right. April 1st isn't for another two months, man.
