Editorial Section:
Every once in a while I'm hit by a confluence of events. Luckily for me, this was one of those weeks. I've been spending a lot of time building decks. Some for my customers, some with my customers, some for my own fun and some for playtesting against my regulars. Meanwhile, on the message boards there's been a lot of words thrown around back and forth about the inability to use one card online in more than one event at a time. As I said, the two items have a lot of overlap for me right now in that I have been spending a lot of time tracking down <version x> of <card y> and figuring out where those cards I just bought were put. If you've played paper Magic, you know the drill inside and out. Having more than four copies of your staple commons and uncommons is life saver of epic proportions. You suddenly don't have to track down, desleeve and transfer cards from one deck to another just to play a quick game or two. As we all know, MTGO removes this huge hassle from the equation, and it's a great thing. There's one rather interesting catch though that has a lot more impact that one might first realize. That catch is that any card that's in one event cannot be used in another event until the first event finishes. But why?
That's what I'm going to speculate about this week!
I'll cover what I'll call the typical "corporate cash-grab" point of view that is usually a pretty popular amongst the players. Quite simply, it means that if you want to play Jund in the 8-Man queue, the Daily Event and a 2 man queue, you'll need 12 copies of each card plus the basics. For anyone who thinks that playing in three events at once is impossible, it's actually not that bad for a very experienced player. But here's the thing... if you really ARE that good you'll have near infinite tickets anyway, which means you can have 3x Jund.dek sitting in your collection screen.
Another possibility is that it is being done as an attempt to limit multiple events. I've actually spoken to some WotC folks about that last year when I had the good fortune of meeting them. Their position at the time was that each player's time was fully reserved for their use. Which boils down to playing in multiple events is okay since, essentially, the time is there to be used. But that mainly applies to sealed, wherein you can very easily join into three or more events at once. However the limits don't stop you from being in two constructed events either, if you have the cards to do it.
A possibly more likely thought is that it is an attempt to limit the highest profit events. Ask the professional level Magic players how to go infinite on MTGO, and they won't likely answer 'sealed' or 'draft'. Unless you're amazing at one of those, or the prizes are ridiculous *cough*MED2 Farewell*cough*, they're usually too hard to stay infinite. However! Many pros will point you towards Constructed. Either Small Set Block Constructed, or some other variant that allows a low buy-in and has a specifically strong deck.
One interesting side note... Leagues, in their previous incarnation would be atrocious for MTGO since any card you opened in League would be locking for FOUR WEEKS!! Nice Baneslayer Angel... too bad I can't use it until this league is over... That would be infuriating, to say the least. So not only can the current system not support leagues, but it also would cause a great deal of anger with people not being able to use cards until the league unlocked them.
Discussion Items:
Mirage Block Sealed event on May 2nd:
AND
Mirage/Visions/Weatherlight Nix Tix drafts start April 28th:
To those of you who are looking to get into some Legacy/Classic decks these two events really need to be on your calendar of choice. Don't miss these! As you'll see shortly, the EV on Mirage block stuff is the best of any set!
Inability to play cards in more than one event:
This week's editorial section shows off some thoughts on this subject. Dig into the catalyst!
Card Price Discussion:
First up, I'd like to discuss the Pack/Draft/Sealed table. Last week it was recommended to change the first column to "Pack EV" or some such, since "Pack Price" was misleading at best. I have done that and hopefully it will be more easily understood what it is you're looking at.
Secondly, HOLY MOLY Mirage Block! I expected it to be high, of course, but um... WOW. I can't recall a format that had nearly even EV for pack contents as costs to enter. Nix Tix/Nix Pax should fire very, very well with such a high Expected Value for the cards themselves. I plan to hop into a few for sure!
Now on to Legacy, Force of Will and Lion's Eye Diamond.... the investor in me wants to sell these bad boys and wait for some carnage of reprinting or promo-ness. But the emotional side is begging me to hold onto the valuable things in the collection. I'm not sure which way I'll go with all this yet but I have to admit that even *I* am getting tempted to sell of chunks of valuable old cards and see what happens. In other Legacy news there's a ridiculous push for those random Green cards and the Dredge deck skeleton. I'm still amazed at this surge and would expect a quick price deflation... except that there's nothing forcing that to happen. Hopefully these prices will help subsidize some extra Mirage block events in the near future... Yikes.
Lastly, the impacts of the very popular Urza's release events are still being felt on the card prices that have been falling, falling, falling from Urza's. It's nice to see that the casual cards have dropped even more lately.
Card Price Tables:
First up is the pack EV table for the week:
| Set Name |
Pack EV |
Draft EV |
Sealed EV |
| ALA |
1.668175256 |
6.425300256 |
12.85060051 |
| CON |
2.257625 |
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| ARB |
2.4995 |
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| M10 |
2.133156271 |
6.399468813 |
12.79893763 |
| ME3 |
2.711126984 |
8.133380952 |
16.2667619 |
| ZEN |
2.093695337 |
7.22618234 |
15.39746101 |
| WWK |
3.038791667 |
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| TE |
3.321426573 |
10.52097203 |
21.04194406 |
| ST |
2.357954545 |
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| EX |
4.841590909 |
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| MI |
2.43427972 |
12.56420993 |
25.12841985 |
| VI |
5.483765982 |
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| WL |
4.646164223 |
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Card Price Graphs:
wasteland chart
force of will chart
bridge from below chart
ichorid chart
vindicate chart
taiga chart
entomb chart
lion's eye diamond chart
natural order chart
underground sea chart
tarnished citadel chart
cephalid coliseum chart
eureka chart
ichorid chart
goblin ringleader chart
city of solitude chart
goblin piledriver chart
vigor chart
sapling of colfenor chart
city of brass chart
tolarian academy chart
exploration chart
dark depths chart
gaea's cradle chart
sneak attack chart
noble hierarch chart
knight of the reliquary chart
engineered explosives chart
serra's sanctum chart
show and tell chart
hidden stag chart
sunder chart
pariah chart
crater hellion chart
drifting djinn chart
argothian wurm chart
thran quarry chart
priest of gix chart
child of gaea chart
whetstone chart
Conclusion:
And that wraps up yet another State! I hope you all have a great weekend and good luck to anyone who is attending a Rise of the Eldraze pre-release! Watch out for them Eldrazi's!
57 Comments
I'm against people playing more than one event at once. I think it's rude to make me wait two minutes for you to hit ok in your upkeep. Plus, I can't concentrate on two games at once, so I'm insanely jealous of people who can, and even more so when those people beat me. I just heard something on npr about research on multitasking... they said human brains aren't really built for it. So for those people playing in simultaneous events -- it will catch up to you. And I hope I'm the one who beats you when it does.
that's all a matter of opinion, I'm not sure they're is a real answer because I was readin an article a couple weeks ago that said successful multitasking isn't a myth, just that there are a select few who can do it
Multi-tabling on Magic Online is incredibly rude, and I wish Wizards would impose a cap of one sanctioned event at a time.
"Hey, other people in this event! I'm going to deliberately waste your time and I don't give a crap! Here, stare at this image of an extended middle finger while I play in another game for a bit!"
This Price table seem to be the same one from last week.
Surely the Wasteland price is the highest an uncommon has ever reached on MTGO. I know Fact or Fiction had a very high price once, but 24 has got to be the record.
I'm pretty sure I saw Fact or Fiction at 30 tickets during Kamigawa Block, or perhaps Ravnica Block. Even in the auction room, back when people used it more. Still, 24 for Wasteland is huge for an uncommon. Let's all get in some TSE nix tix next time around.
Yeah I completely agree. It's obvious when people are in multiple events, when they are tapped out and aren't hitting ok through second main phase. I get that maybe some people out there can do it quickly and not make mistakes as a result of it, but it's not a good idea.
When I play online poker, I play in multiple events, but obviously magic is much harder. And don't tell me your computer is 'slow' when you were blazing through game 1 when the sealed event was in between rounds.
Is currently held by Wasteland. Fact or Fiction topped off at 17 back in the day, and the other big nostalgia card like Eternal Witness and Flametongue Kavu never broke 10.
Orim's Chant still holds the record for rare though, neither LED or FoW has broken 125 yet.
i know this has nothing at all to do with the article, but i just gotta say. Having to login or register to make a post? YESSSSS! Thank you for finally implementing this. we may lose some though provoking posts, but at least there will be no more utter garbage from people who feel thay have the freedom to post what ever they want because they could do it anon.
I like playing 2 or even 3 events at once. I don't feel a difference in concentration between 1 and 2 events, though 3 simultanous are really hard work. And yeah, I don't care if people think Im rude as Im usually fast enough to end it in time. Plus, I play fast decks.
In other words you ARE rude and don't care. An interesting admission.
Playing in more than one event at a time is analagous to driving and talking on your cellphone at the same time. You may think you can concentrate on both tasks, but you really cannot fully concentrate on either.
arent rude and not caring fairly redundant??
Some people are rude but would prefer not to openly admit it or be called on it.
Where all the Polymorphs at? Almost like someone's been buying a lot of them, more than one would ever need, with the idea that it would suddenly shoot up in price.
Anyone, uh...know anything about that?
Dunno...I got 4. On the advice of Mr Impy I might add. There are plenty in the story though. 38 or so between 3 sets. It was just the way cheap ones that disappeared I think.
there was an article on starcity about how polymorph could be a much better deck in std once RoE is online, I'm sure people probably saw that as an opportunity, tho a stupid one since it's reprinted in so many sets I can't imagine it ever being a money card
Playing in multiple events is rude???
You guys serious? Who the F$%# are you to tell me what i may do in events with timers? Like really i wish WotC would impose a cap on some of the ideas poeple spew out of their mouths. You have your TIMER i have mine. There is no rule,clause,law etc stating that i must click the "ok" button. If i do not then i lose and you lost some time(heaven forbid an extra 10 mins)-you guys need some RL problems, This is a joke-
If the timer does not expire, i am within my rights to play in as many as i damm well please. And if my timer does expire, well you just won a round! Gross topic.
The person whom compared driving while on the phone to playing in many events at once, is not the same at all. One is a dangerous task which can not be, in most cases performed by say an 8 year old. That and It is not the talking, rather it is the handling of the moblie device hence hands free phones-headsets- are legal while driving.
Polymorph and Summoning Trap.dek does look promising in RoE that and Jund has to rotate sometime.
Oh and Dunkle is not rude(actually one of the nicest people online whom is also a really good card slinger), Pual, you are;p.
Your whole reply could be taken as rude. :) That said what we are referencing is not how you use your time but how you make people wait who came to have fun and play. If you can manage 3 games at once without being rude more power to you. On the other hand 99.9% of people can not. I only object to being left hanging while the superior player isn't even thinking about the move but merely playing other moves in other games. I agree you are within your rights to do so, but that doesn't make it RIGHT. :) If you see the difference. As a consumer we are entitled to do whatever it is we pay for but as civilians (those who are civil) it is incumbent on us to be courteous to those we play with.
I don't know Dunkle so I will take your word for his character though I bet since you do know him you are biased. ;p But he admitted he is rude...did he mean to say he isn't rude but others mistakenly think so? That sounds odd. I do know he is a damned fine player and has posted some interesting comments here so this isn't a knock on him. I just find it interesting that he admits to being rude and then says "I don't care." which reinforces this idea which you say is erroneous.
As for myself I try to extend courtesy to all, but I will speak my mind. If you think that is rude so be it. I will say this: People can be 'nice' and have evil agendas and people can be nasty and still be of a benevolent mindset, so rudeness is not the be all indicator of good and evil. (Thank goodness.) On the other hand if rude behavior is because of poor values then well may be it is a symptom of a larger problem.
Also I would say your perspective is a bit funny. If someone complains about someone else's behavior in a game (such as magic online) this does not indicate that they don't know what real problems are. I mean I don't know a single person irl who doesn't have real problems. That is the nature of life. Saying that rude behavior in a game should be tolerated because it isn't on the same scale as say losing a best friend, family member to cancer/accidents etc is just silly.
My whole reply was rude. I am an avid voice for all the mulit event players;p and we say "hell no we won't go"! One should not expect someone to consider his opponent's time constraints or impatience in a timed structured game, esp so when both parties have seperate needs,wants and interests.
Take Dunkle for example, he needs to accumulate as many points as he can(his desire and purpose of participating) and i just want my list posted. Does it not make me rude to impose my belief of rude on him, when the guy is just a squirrle trying to get as many nuts? What is so rude about having him take 9 mins to start the match and 5 mins to make a play-what if it were a young child or a retard-? There are times when this does get annoying and takes you out of your flow, but mostly it does not get to me.
I do not play in multi events due to mostly my dimwittedness, I however do take long pauses before starts of matches to watch all the replays. What else can you gripe of next? Maybe demand that the player HAS to MUST or DIE, macro "Hello and good luck" and " Good Game"?
Actually I was just saying you could be called on for being rude here which is an irony. Despite that you made some points.
1) Not sure discussing rudeness equates to imposing beliefs. If it did then we would live in a fascist world, and last I checked we don't, despite the media.
2) IMHO the replays are quasi* unethical and I really have trouble with the fact that WOTC not only allowed them to be used in tourney (Scouting) but seems to encourage them. But that is a different issue unrelated to player behavior.
Again like rudeness you are allowed the choice and no one else can tell you (and make it stick) that it is wrong to do so.
It is also not against the rules to be rude tacitly (being actively rude is a CoC violation of course). No one (sane) is saying you can't do either.
If you want to talk opinions: Mine is that if you are rude people will respond accordingly. Anyone can be an asshat if they have the desire and know how.
And what is wrong with someone at least showing minimal courtesy with a canned macro that takes a split second to do if you have the presence of mind? Again no one forces anyone to do anything they don't want to but the water is there if the horse wants to drink it. And why wouldn't the horse want to drink it? Because someone else told them to? That's just rebelliousness without a cause.
In the casual room, I respond to the lack of a hello (particularly as a response to "hello :)" as a sign that the person IS an asshat and generally block them at the end of the game (assuming no chat at all from them) so I don't end up running into them again. MY choice.
Sometimes I am wrong and if I see that I change my view point.
In limited play my take is a little different. People who play limited tend to by and large concentrate and focus only on play and avoid the social interactions possible in the game. I don't expect much at all from limited players though some are extremely nice. Many aren't. Some are actively rude and deserve whatever the ORCs throw at them. That again is a different story.
As far as what else can be griped about? Are you serious? People gripe about EVERYTHING. Including complaining. Calling complainers whiners for example is a common sport in casual chat. Whatever it takes to belittle and degrade those who disagree, right? Win at all costs!
*(Quasi only because good players will take any advantage regardless of ethical considerations and because of that WOTC should know better. And Since they do presumably know better I must be at least partially wrong here since it is not only condoned but encouraged.)
Just had to comment on the "hello" bit of your post. I use a similar litmus test in the casual room: starting off with "hi there, best of luck to ya" or something similar. It's really astounding how well the response can peg the other player - silence is often (but not always) a bad sign; a macro response is neutral-positive; someone who takes the time to respond is usually a pretty nice player. What amazes me is the number of hostile responses: I've had 4 people in the last couple of months respond (verbatim) with "Why say something you don't mean?" (even though "good luck" doesn't mean, "please beat me", but rather, "let's have a good matchup with no manascrews and may the best deck win") and then launch into troll statements. I've started thinking lately that talking first in matches may actually provoke the bad behavior - but still, being the leader of a clan, I'd rather strike up conversations in an effort to find and recruit new friendly people, than do the usual silence thing. I don't go extreme on blocking nonresponders - although those who respond with anger, definitely get blocked (as do the many people who type "..." and deliberately slow down the first time I play an MED dual...it's not that scary if I'm just using it to cast {Cerebral Vortex}, folks!!).
One thing I've found in talking with my clan members is, many refuse to block people they hate thinking that "the jerks win" if they actually do block. My view is similar to yours - by blocking them, I win by not wasting more of my time. It narrows the player pool just slightly, so that my next matchup is more likely to have a nice person and long-term opponent in it!
Yeah. The people who don't block have it half right of course. Blocking jerks means you don't get to one up them. And being competitive, some magic players would rather trade trash talk than block the ignorant. I am of the mind that I'd rather not be bothered. Also it depends on the quality of the rudeness. People who stream nonsensical insults like spam are autoblocks. People who merely say things to provoke a response are sometimes blocked if they turn out to be doing it just to get a rise.
Windgrace is a fellow like that. During the Momir tourney in January, he spent our entire match berated me because I dared comment on the luck factor in the format. I am certain it wasn't his first time doing that to a player but now I don't care since he is blocked. But I have had people say provocative things only to turn around with something interesting to say when I responded like an adult. So not all rudeness equates to jerkiness.
One thing that really rankles is that with the 300 person limit on the blocked list you run out of space eventually. (I just cleared off some old blocked names because of that.) I tend to fill the blocked list mostly with Bots that attempt to scam (take too many tickets, take a card in addition to tickets when selling cards and not in trade mode, offer 5% on the ticket value of cards, etc). There are enough of those that I wish there was a separate way to deal with bots.
Extremely well said, as usual.
Actually it has been proven that even with a hands-free device, your reaction times are significantly reduced while trying to do both tasks at the same time...
In New Jersey you still will get pulled over even with a bluetooth headset on.
Rudeness is a societal concept. If you show up a half-hour late to dinner in one society it might be considered rude, whereas in another it might be considered polite. Rudeness is not intrinsic to the act, but rather the cultural expectations. So, for now, if (big 'if') a majority of the MTGO people consider an action rude, that kind of makes it rude by definition. It doesn't matter if you consider yourself enlightened and above a seemingly stupid expectation. Of course, as things stand, their only power is to shun what they consider rude players, meanwhile lobbying to WotC for further action. In the meantime, the activity in question and the labelling of the activity as rude will persist.
One other aspect of good manners though. Even if you know an activity will strike some people as rude, but you think it is not, if you can reasonably get by without doing that activity, it would be considerate of others to avoid it. Consideration of others is a fine quality of a gentleman, and even sacrificing truth to this aspect of charity is often worthwhile. I hold that up as an ideal, although I know not everyone will do so.
Anyways, please forgive my slow play - it's not due to playing multiple events, but rather that I am slow and stupid in coming up with my decisions for a given play sequence.
Me too. Thinking is not overrated. And well said.
Would it be safe to say the majority of the magic community finds land destruction/discard/counters to be rude? We all know the casual room does. Does this necessarily make them right (Devil's advocate here).
I agree that playing in multiple event is probably not common courtesy. The problem is that often times ppl playing in multiple events still come in well below the timeclock, when in fact playing against a CB/Top lock might find it's clock at the same time when that player isn't playing in multiple events.
While this isn't paper magic, I think playing in multiple events online shouldn't be allowed because it's physically impossible in Magic:Pants. You simply can't be two places at once.
I don't play in multiple events because 1) I find I make mistakes 2)I think it does venture into the gray area of having courtesy for other peoples' time.
The only time I usually play multiple is when I am finishing up a 2man and my draft starts. That is usually only for a short time though.
I think LD/Counters/Inevitable decks tend to be seen as not casual by those who dislike them. (cf: "There is no casual" debate) That isn't necessarily the same thing as deliberate rudeness. People know it is pot luck in casual. On the other hand if someone objects to a deck I have built because of a few disruptive or unfun cards I will switch decks.
I wouldn't say I'm rude ( even if that sounded so ). My point of view is just that you should plan some time for your match, usually approx 30 minutes. If I play multiple games and still end it in that time anything should be cool, otherwise yeah, might be annoying. But games aren't really that intense and fast most of the time. And never forget, multitabling makes me more likely to time out ( not that this ever happened to me, sometimes I'm still faster than my opp who obv just plays 1 match ).
Ok your initial post seemed very out there and in our faces. "Im rude and I don't care!" but if what you meant is people think you are being rude that is a different take. I don't agree with your position, though I imagine you are a fast enough player that YOU usually aren't being rude to your opponent you stand as a role model for lesser players who will not plan out their multitasking with such ease and rapidity. Yes the downside is sometimes that the multieventer loses on time or just from broken concentration, but I suspect people who think they are good enough to multievent probably are better than the average player.
Really it doesn't bother me if I know what is going on. What does bother me is dead silence for 9 mins then a flurry of activity. Completely breaks the whole flow as Menace mentioned above and makes the games unfun.
C'mon guys, do we need to exhume Mr. Rodgers and all get matching sweaters? Paul this isn't a couch! Who the F#$% cares how many events people enter, as D.S. said, it's the opps advantage as he's more likely to time out. Is it irritating? - duh...so is getting mana screwed and about a kazillion other things. Game on and lets all stop kibitzing.
"WE" Don't have to do anything. I don't care how many events people enter as I stated several times above. I do care if you waste my time however. What I can do about it on the other hand is extremely limited. Also this isn't kibitzing, this is kvetching. When I watch your matches and tell you what you are doing wrong while you do them, that's kibitzing.
I believe the number of people who avoid playing an event because it might mean playing against a multi-player are very few. In addition, I believe there are many reasons an event round might go long that have nothing to do with people playing in multi-events. And the multi-players probably outnumber them
Therefore it's actually in the best interest of WoTC (who get more money with more participation) and especially those formats who struggle to get nubmer to have multi-play available.
That being said, if I play a person whom I can tell is multi-playing, I immediately try and figure out who & where they are playing and make every effort to make it hard for them to do so. In the future I think I'll contact whomever they are playing in the other tournament (if possible) and simply make life miserable for them by coordinated effort - because there is nothting wrong with using your clock, right? :)
Of course playing in multiple events at once is rude. Just because you are allotted 30 mins each round does not mean its your unalienable right to use every second of it. Anyone who thinks that just because they CAN do something, that they SHOULD needs to grow up, because this is the type of logic a 5-year-old without a sense of "other people" uses. Am I allowed to drive 20 miles per hour everywhere I go? Sure, but doing so would make me a jackass. When you go close to time every round because you feel the need to play in multiple events you are not only being rude to the person on the other end who has to wait 2 mins between game actions, but you are also holding up the entire tourney, which cannot progress until you finish up. I'm sorry, but your time is not more valuable than the other 60 people's. Would you go to a RL tournament and take a lunch break in the middle of your round? Even if you knew you would be back and finish in time? Of course not. Just because you cannot see the other person whose time you are unnecessarily wasting does not mean they don't exist. I cannot believe we are even having a debate on this issue...the internet really brings out the worst in people.
i completely agree though no one here will change their minds. The ones that don't do it can't win thanks to wizards. And the ones that do, do it are far too conceited with overblown ego's thinking they are all that matter. So its lose/lose as far as Im concerned. People with still Multi-Table and still be dickbags
So, talking about something other than playing more than one game at once...
Does anyone know what the Store 0 tab is? A Store tab, obviously, but I got it to come up after mistyping for the white mana symbol. I have both Store 0 and a Store tab up. I asked the ORCs, but those I talked to never heard of it. Also, the layout is much nicer than the current store, imo.
Never seen it. That sounds quite odd. When did you see this?
Just today. In fact, I still have it up. Would a screenshot help?
I figured people would want a screenshot, so I did one anyways. http://i40.tinypic.com/2qsp6kz.jpg
For some context, I went Support and asked if Store 0 was a prototype store layout or something. ORC_Slaver told me to run the Repair on the Kicker. I'm guess that's just their standard response to any sort of "What the hell is this on my client" questions.
On Store 0 itself, I like the layout. Got two columns, a nice account area at the bottom of the sets, and it's not in eye-gouging orange. Also, of note, the Conflux button is broken and sends you back to the Store 0 home page, which looks like this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/hx7zh2.jpg
Again, I got into this by hitting a series of buttons what was going to be the white mana symbol. Seems like a really odd way of getting into this sort of thing.
I dunno...guess you have a super secret version. lol. I tried all the various potential keys and nothing. I wouldn't worry about it. Seems like you stumbled into a beta version.
Paul, when I went to type the white mana symbol my hands kind of floundered and I ended up hitting a bunch of buttons. I think one was the Enter key... maybe? I can't really say which ones or how many I hit, because I don't know. If I did, I'd like to replicate the results or at least see if anyone else can do the same. So while I'm sure you tried a lot of variations, I'm not sure if it even is possible to try all the combinations (ok, fine, it is, but it would be a lot of them). All I know is that I started with Ctrl+q.
Two other bits of info: I couldn't close out of Store 0 and right-clicking it flashed the red circle-with-a-diagonal-line symbol, just like the regular Store, and when I closed MTGO, Store 0 went with it. So long Store 0, hope to see you soon.
I think that the part that people don't get is that WTC has said that it IS users unalienable right to use up all 30 min. Barring stalling facing lethal, they have very little problem with it. Possible solutions: Tower defence while you wait, or multitable yourself.
we understand it is an unalienable right...you cant argue that. But i hope you get caught behind a bunch of people going 3o in a 45 with no way to go around them next time your in a hurry...see how you feel about people abusing unalienable rights then
One solution that seems downright obvious to me is to simply make the match timer shorter. People who delay the game by playing in multiple events will face greater timeout risk, which benefits the "it's rude" crowd. And tournaments will end sooner so those who want to play a lot will benefit.
It's win/win and to me clearly obvious. So Wizards will never do it.
(To be more precise, here's what I'd do. Mark tournaments either "high competition" or "low competition" (have marketing come up with terms). High Competitive events are 15 or 20 minutes long rounds, no restriction on entering. Low Competitive events are limited to 1 at a time but have the full 30 minutes available. And that 15-20 minute time could even vary by format as they learn what constitutes a reasonable expectation.
They had a 'low competition' tournament. They're called Leagues. You got 45 minutes on your clock for the match instead of 30 minutes.
Reducing the time in a match is a total non starter. Players with bad connections, crappy computers, and other sources of irl interruptions will be hurt just as much as the players you want to restrict. There is no 'good' way to discern between the two types.
Being rude/noncaring is easy on the internet :)
Why did noble and knight of the reliquary drop their prices? With the arrival of T2 PTQs they should have encreased, not dropped.
i think it's due to the fact that they were nuts in extended and now with ptqs gone they are relegating to serving their duties in standard - aka employed only by the dwindling appearance of naya, with some mythic action