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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Pompeii
Plane — Earth
When you planeswalk to Pompeii and at the beginning of your upkeep, put an eruption counter on it.
Whenever you roll a blank on the planar die, scry 2. Then put an eruption counter on Pompeii. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on top or bottom of your library in any order.)
Whenever you roll chaos on the planar die, Pompeii deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of eruption counters on Pompeii. Each player sacrifices a land. Then planeswalk.
legendofa on Is Universe Beyond good or …
8 months ago
capwner M:tG is, essentially, a luxury entertainment product. If a luxury entertainment product doesn't build broad interest, it won't get a consumer base. If it doesn't have a consumer base, it doesn't sell. If it doesn't sell, it doesn't make money. If it doesn't make money, it gets canceled. WotC has canceled or hugely reduced tons of M:tG products because they weren't selling: Duel Decks, Planeswalker Decks, Archenemy Schemes, Planechase Planes, the block structure, core sets, and that's just off the top of my head. People spoke with their wallets; the didn't want those. People are speaking with their wallets now; they do want UB.
The integrity of the game is their profit, as I see it. They can't force people to buy Magic cards. Nobody relies on Magic cards to physically survive another day. They don't provide shelter, transportation, or nutrition. If it's bad product, people won't buy it in enough numbers to be sustainable, and profit falls. If it's good product, people will buy it, and profit rises. Corporate greed is absolutely a thing, but in this case, profits are driven directly by demand. How many people are buying cards only because it has That Guy/Thing (apologies to KamSandwich) on it, with no regard to quality? I don't think Final Fantasy and LotR became the best selling sets ever on the strength of basement dwellers alone, and I don't think Assassin's Creed was forced into the hands of anyone who didn't want it.
I don't really welcome UB. I don't know enough about the franchises they tend to pick to get super excited about them, and they haven't yet hit anything I would get super excited about. But I can appreciate them as game pieces, and as representatives of a world I haven't taken the time to learn about. Further, I dislike UB when it references actual, real-world specific people and places like Leonardo da Vinci or Pompeii. So I'm far from a diehard UB freak. I'm a UB accepter.
For why they look awful, that's an art problem, not a UB problem. There's plenty of subpar, poorly made, off-putting, and controversial art in the M:tG IP. For the mechanics, there are people who want every counterspell and every discard effect banned everywhere, because they make the game impossible to play. What's the point of even starting a game when the control player's just going to say no to everything? How is that any fun?
And for one detail that I haven't been able to find anywhere, could you please provide the percentage of UB sales that greedy collectors and waifu-hunting baby players provide, compared to the number of real players? Or, more directly, could you please provide a breakdown of UB sales metrics? I've legitimately, if casually, been looking for soemthing publicly available for a while.
legendofa on Assassin's Creed? Ugh, fine.
2 years ago
I was pretty skeptical of the historical figures as cards at first, but I realized I spent a good amount of time murdering historical people and razing historical cities in the Age of Empires and Civilization series, so there's not really a difference for me there. Plus, Portal Three Kingdoms covers a lot of the same ground. I think the flavor's fine, at least no worse than some of the planes from the Doctor Who Planechase set--Pompeii, Besieged Viking Village, Prime Minister's Cabinet Room...
For me, this is simply another kinda interesting-looking Universes Beyond where I don't know the source material enough to talk about it. I'm expecting Mari, the Killing Quill + Etrata, the Silencer + Ramses, Assassin Lord to come out of the woodworks. Dimir, Esper, or Grixis Assassins. (That's not exactly a hot take, people have been talking about this for months, but it's pretty clear with the full set reveal.)