calvinball

This was a really well-explained hack, I loved reading this, well done! So fascinating to see that bot logic runs client-side, that the code just creates two 'seats' for players to connect to, and you exploited all that info in a masterful way. Bravo!

I am HYPED for Amsterdam, this is close enough to my home that I'll be able to go! At the same time it's disappointing that the EU Magiccon will feature the modern pro tour two years in a row, I hope they switch it up for the coming years.

I like this one much better than the original colour pie that was posted here, this one's much easier to read and more intuitive <3

I find it counter intuitive that the two colour pairings are on the inside and the three colour pairings are on the outside.

the big negative point is, of course, that this is a sneaky increase in booster cost, a quite significant one at that.

wow, in practice the changes to Limited might not be very big with this new type of booster, but in the history of MtG this is a humongous change. For the first time since 1993 Draft boosters will have 14 playable cards instead of 15. This changes the fabric of MtG. I feel that in the long run this is a very good shift, all of the problems highlighted in the article are very real, and it seems like they've addressed them well with the Play Booster. Fascinating stuff, I can't wait to hear the Limited podcasts analysing how this changes the game.

Well that's why I said it was only good if you have an online collection tracker where you catalog all your cards . I know exactly where all my copies of The Doctor are because I have recorded which versions I have. I can then build my decks online, and once I'm ready to play them I just go to my collection with a list of set and collector numbers and I can pull out exactly what I need

Very fair! I would posit that for a large collection where you keep every single card you open, and for which you have an online collection tracker such as deckbox.org, using the organising system I mentioned is still the best. There will always be one single place that a card you're looking for would be, and nowhere else.

as your collection grows, so must your storage solutions change. Here are the phases my collection went through:

phase 1: everything stored randomly in prerelease and bundle boxes

phase 2: buying a few empty bundle boxes online so I have 5 bundle boxes, storing per colour and in ascending mana value

phase 3: getting a longbox (google 'tcg longbox') that holds 1000 cards and storing my cards in there. At this point I switched to ordering in the objectively best way for big collections: per set, from oldest set to newest set, in ascending collection number (the number on the bottom left of the card). Ordering per collection number will also automatically order your cards per colour and alphabetically for every set.

phase 4: getting multiple longboxes to accommodate the ever expanding collection, continuing with the collection method of phase 3

trades are still in a binder though!

I'm glad you learned early not to buy boxes then :D

You're right about the premium treatments and the pricing. I don't think the fact that 4 out of 10 tier decks are under 200 bucks will bring more people to standard though: if you're on a budget you look at the standard metagame and see that you can sleeve up mono red aggro for under 100$. But at the same time you see that you'll never be able to afford other tier decks like golgari or esper midrange, which are about 500$. If you don't have access to the option of creating the tier deck you want, only the tier deck you can afford, it creates a feeling of being locked out of (part of) the format, and creates resentment toward those that càn afford a golgari midrange deck.

I'm really happy with the interface to be honest, I was using Voyager up until now but Boost is my new go to!