Ixalan reveals and what to expect so far

While I get that being overly positive about one thing could lead to a greater sense of disappointment if everything fell through on release times. But the amount of negativity spewing out  in regards to the new devs ability to deliver isn't much better. We are all part of this transition; new devs, D3, and us players as a whole. Show me a long list of where these new guys have consistently dropped the ball and I'll show you a list of speculations. In short, while I agree the past Devs have left us disgruntled many a time... I'm not about to judge the successor on the sins of the predecessor. Willing to give these guys a chance to prove themselves rather than tossing them to the wolves prematurely

@Gunmix25 I'm certainly hopeful that the new devs will be great. But every day without fixes or even communication dims my hope a bit more. 

Corn Noodles said:

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Gunmix25 said:

Show me a long list of where these new guys have consistently dropped the ball and I'll show you a list of speculations.

The people in charge haven't changed. The developer only does what D3 dictates they do.

Never said that the people in charge have changed, but they are part of the transition regardless and are going to have some growing pains associated to that transition phase. I was referring to the new devs taking over the reins from Hibernium as they've a long ways to go to understand what was left behind and what they can do with that information to provide the finished product that "D3 dictates they do."   D3 is about Production which takes place after Development which is responsible for creating whatever is up on the development board in putting it into action. D3 just has to maintain it once it's been integrated. 

Here is a great statement explaining the difference:

"The main workflow for online work is: development -> staging -> production. The reason for the separation is based on the knowledge that you're working on a code-base with a team.

Developers work on bugs and features, these get committed and pushed to a stable development branch. All of these changes get merged into staging which undergoes testing and quality assurance. After this, development is rebased using staging. Then development merges into production when you're ready to deploy.

The development branch contains new code from your dev team that have not been tested yet on a mock server that imitates your production server. Your production server is actually production and usually runs with different error logging and warning message suppression. Development is allowed to fail, production is often not."

shteev said:

Dinosaur based planeswalkers which are useless when dinosaurs drop out of Standard.

at least they roar

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Furordraco said:

shteev said:

Dinosaur based planeswalkers which are useless when dinosaurs drop out of Standard.

at least they roar

-6: Roar* once/twice/thrice/four times at your opponent 
-12: Search your library for a dinosaur, reveal it to your opponent, then roar a number of times equal to its power. Put it into your graveyard afterwards.
-18: Sing-along "Dinosaur" with your opponent. (D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R a dinosaur )

(to roar, shake the board - doesn't affect gameplay but it looks cool)

Best Ultimate ever

Tilwin90 said:

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Furordraco said:

shteev said:

Dinosaur based planeswalkers which are useless when dinosaurs drop out of Standard.

at least they roar

-6: Roar* once/twice/thrice/four times at your opponent 
-12: Search your library for a dinosaur, reveal it to your opponent, then roar a number of times equal to its power. Put it into your graveyard afterwards.
-18: Sing-along "Dinosaur" with your opponent. (D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R a dinosaur )

(to roar, shake the board - doesn't affect gameplay but it looks cool)

Must be Purple with a silly grin. 

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blacklotus said:

Must be Purple with a silly grin. 

Sounds a little more like Blonde, White trashy and Talentless to me.

Don't mock the Dino-Roar

Rhasget said:

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Dave808 said:

Anyone have an eta on the new set?

Ixalan is released sep 29th in paper but with a new development team coming in the usual 2-3 weeks delay for MTGPQ might be off.

Has it even been officially confirmed we are getting Ixalan? We still don't even know who the new team is, and @Brigby seemed vague on the issue of Ixalan right after the closure was announced.

Gunmix25 said:

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naphomci said:

Rhasget said:

Dave808 said:

Anyone have an eta on the new set?

Ixalan is released sep 29th in paper but with a new development team coming in the usual 2-3 weeks delay for MTGPQ might be off.

Has it even been officially confirmed we are getting Ixalan? We still don't even know who the new team is, and @Brigby seemed vague on the issue of Ixalan right after the closure was announced.

Because he has repeatedly said that he does not have that information to convey to the public and would once he had something concrete. He did say that Ixalan was not off the table but knew nothing more than that.

I wouldn't be opposed to the release being postponed, there are enough stability issues and, of course, the pending crafting system to forgive a delay. I guess it depends on the new studio's priorities.

Every time I read about the crafting system I think about the original puzzle quest item forging game. It was way fun.

Imagine being able to cash in a mythic at a chance at a crafting mini game that would improve the card. Like, if you pull a dupe Tyrant of Valakut, you get an attempt at the crafting game (like a cooldown, once every hour or something) that would up it's abilities damage by +1 permanently. Once you successfully complete it, the dupe is gone. The upgrade would only be present when you pilot your deck, not the AI. Then we'd have all these fun mini games for the mountain of dupes we've collected. That, and my heap of Soul Swallowers would become viable.