Sorry for that godawful image. But it was easy to do on my phone, and i had some inspiration to post something.
Somehow they have 250 cards with penned signatures for Sir Patrick Stewart.
The worst part about all these Universes Beyond sets is the incessant whining from people who enjoy being snobs more than they enjoy awesome card games.
Call me a party pooper or a gatekeeper, but as an MTG player and Star Trek enjoyer, I really dislike the Star Trek MTG set.
These two worlds just don’t vibe together, the artwork is weird to ugly in many cases and overall it just doesn’t feel right to me.
Also I don’t like how Universes Beyond has been taking over MTG lately. It was nice when it was an extra commander edition or two per year, but now every other main release is UB and the MTG multiverse has taken a backseat. Plus it doesn’t accomplish what it was et out to do, draw fans of other franchises to MTG. While it is true that many non-MTG fans buy something from these sets, they mostly don’t stay for other MTG stuff. The people coming to prerelease events are never seen again to play or buy at the LGS.
I feel you on that. But its been some years now, magic will never be what it once was. Im done being pissed about racetracks and dr who. Im gonna enjoy this one more than I did the stranger things set. (Eleven and Coop are fucking busted together)
I firmly believe that the people complaining about the art made their judgment before actually looking at the set, because it’s awesome.
If Pattern Buffer Preservation doesn’t make you feel something, then you’re just being obtuse. That’s some good fucking art.
The set overall is totally working for me. Universes Beyond isn’t taking the place of any original Magic storylines. And even if it were, it’s not like they’ve ever managed to stick the landing on their original storylines.
It’s cards like this I’m complaining about. I recognise the scene where Picard strikes this pose. It’s on the Enterprise’s bridge, it’s bridge lighting, the lighting is different from the background this is set upon, it looks like they took a screenshot of the scene, cut Picard out, laid a filter over him and pasted him onto the background.
Agreed that one is a little awkward, but I’m sure I could find something in SOS or FRA that’s equally awkward.
One weak piece from a commander deck doesn’t make it a bad set, art-wise. A bad set would be one with a dearth of good art, and there are so many great pieces in the main set.
While I agree with you in principle, in all fairness, that ship has sailed years ago.
If I could make it so
Marjorie Taylor GreeneMagic The Gathering never stepped outside Tolkien-esque fantasy, I would do it in a heartbeat; but they added tons of all manner of bizarre out-of-theme stuff over the years, so this addition doesn’t sting much.I mean, some of that bizarre out-of-theme stuff weirdly works. And not everything needs to be tolkienesque. Innistrad, Ravnica, Ixalan, Kaladesh/Avishkar, Amonkhet, etc, all those themes can work together. And some other franchises fit that vibe, too, like Middle Earth, Avatar or even Warhammer 40k (surprisingly, idk how. Shouldn’t work but somehow does IMHO), and I could see some others not yet scrammed into MTG that could work (Witcher?). Star Trek, Marvel, TMNT doesn’t though. Maybe it’s just because those are set in our real world (real places and names do something).
100%
mtg has been powercrept into hell, and all those crossovers are just moneygrabbing slob
If universes beyond has 1000 haters I’m one of them. If it has one hater I’m them. If there are 0 haters in dead. I’ve thought it was a bad idea since walking dead. I also don’t buy secret lairs because they cut out the stores.
You mean a trading card game is just doing things to make money???
No, that is not my criticism. My criticism is how they try to make money and that they chose a strategy that is not respecting existing customers nor seems to be aimed at sustainably maintaining and growing the community.
Businesses exploit customers, not respect them.
Okay, you can just say that you don’t want to interact, that’s fine.
I am interacting. You just don’t like what I’m saying.
You just want to have a different discussion. I don’t count that as interaction.
I also don’t like what you’re saying because you’re being a jerk.
Fair.
I guess we could combine star trek with that other space set they released this year but yeah. Star Trek in MtG feels weird, and this is coming from someone with a Ninja Turtles deck.
On the other hand, we have this comedy gold:
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