Why does Wizards hate fun?

ah yes, a non infinite combo that requires 4 cards of different types, legal in a total of 2? 3? formats - in which you get 2 card infinites that arent often good enough, requires emergency errata... The One Ring wasn't banned in Modern for 1.5 years btw

after reading the announcement i remembered... im a mtg player i dont read the cards so i will not read the oracle, im still gonna do the interaction.

It would be better off if they left it alone and stuck with their normal design philosophy:

you're 100% valid. not only is that the fun of magic, it was the saving grace UB had for players who hated it like, "look wat ur old pet card can do now in this new set u werent interested in!" its also a very bad prescendent to just change the core function of a card...

Absolutely not overreacting. This was entirely unnecessary and their explanation is silly. A player is expected to understand the intricacies of artificial evolution but can’t be arsed to guesstimate the number of creature types?

Based as always Seth! That is a silly change.

If commander still had a rules committee I would be asking them to un-errata this because what the heck. Truly. Pack leader isn't even standard legal.

Wizards doesn’t hate fun. It hates the four minutes of judge calls after someone explains why Starfleet Academy just made 300 mana. The fun was apparently acceptable; the rules meeting afterward wasn’t.

No one is going to pull this off in any format with judges, it's tough to pull off in a casual commander game.

“It’d be funnier to watch everyone waste $20 on garbage cards for their bracket 3 decks THEN errata it ‘for clarity’” -brain dead game designers who fail to realize information is literal seconds away in the big 26’

Real question. When I’m playing magic I don’t look up errata’s and I’m sure 99%’of players don’t as well. So doesn’t this only apply to tournaments and competitive magic?

Its extremely lame. Anybody setting this combo up will have the number of creature types on hand! This combo is the only mtg star trek thing ive seen anybody gaf about and its gonna hurt the pr further on this set

It's so much mana to even do, too. Let us have fun, Wizards

This all started when they "fixed" fiend hunter. Its been a slog down hill since.

I agree, I don’t like card changes like this

Well... glad I bought these a week ago. Artifical evolution photo i took i cant find but I was working on a deck that would accompany this... not anymore I suppose. Lame af, thats 8 bucks I could spent on any other mtg stuff

Over reacting. I don’t agree with the change but definitely thinking to deeply about it

I completely agree and I hope they revert it since it's such an unnecessary change

never seen you this heated lol and you're not wrong....

Yo, you’re looking good can tell you’ve lost weight

Thanks! I down 40 pounds last I checked, still have a ways to go though.

Yeah this is completely ridiculous. Sucks all the fun out of it

Wizards hating the fun, ans still hating the brazilians on their twitch chat -.o.-

Hard agree. 110%

They update the list of creature types every set anyway so no idea why they can't just have a "there's X amount of creature types" in the rules somewhere and have it increase every time a new one is made

Time for a change in leadership and the entire staff of wizards

This seems like something out of konami's playbook, yugioh has had some errata changes similar to this

Not an overreaction. This is the third (fourth, if you count the reverted Neheb change) functional errata that I can think of, and the second in the space of two years - none of which have added to the game, and have only made it less fun. I'm getting really tired of this.

No one is going to care in a week anyways

This reminds me of League of Legends taking all the Janky unoptimal combos out of the game to standardize builds. No you can't build AP Tristana or 6 tiamat Shyvana. You must play the game one specific way.

How likely would you actually be to build around that combo? Kinda feels like you're just worked up over Wizards deciding to streamline the logic. Erratas are suggestions just like ban lists. "If someone wants to play 4 or 5 bad cards together" sounds like a Rule 0 conversation.

I appreciate your passion on this Seth, this is a bad precedent set by wizards since who’s to say they won’t keep doing this in the future? Like why change something just to change something? Who was complaining about this combo! LOL

Nothing in Magic requires 300 mana

I hope they’re watching this