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Battles appreciation thread (mtgzone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just want to recognize the fact that Wizards of the Coast made a new card type and it didn't break anything. No battles have been banned and nobody's talking about banning any battles. Some decks play battles, but you don't have to play battles to compete. Battles function on MTGO and Arena. They're fun and flavorful and they add strategic depth.

Probably the lesson Wizards learned from this is "we need to push battles harder" and they'll come back in a year or two with some broken ones. But for now, I'm appreciating that they tried something new and it went okay.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I love em. My only complaint is we've only had one set of them so far, and while there's a few standouts ([[Invasion of Segovia]] in Locust God is nasty), overall they were obviously designed on the safer side. Excited to see where the design space leads as they get more confident in the card type