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l33tminion) wrote2022-02-19 03:50 pm
l33tminion) wrote2022-02-19 03:50 pm
Kamigawa in COVID-Land
Since my last post, kid's feeling better (but antigen test says maybe still infectious). Julie and I are feeling sick. Could be worse. Appreciating the vaccines.
I've decided to demonstrate good culture fit by taking that COVID time off and completely disappearing from work for two weeks. (Except for doing some stuff for the annual performance review cycle, which is going to be confusing enough as is this time around without introducing extra delays.)
I've been playing a fair amount of Magic Arena. The new set is a cyberpunk-anime inspired return to a fan-favorite setting. Magic has dipped its toes into sci-fi tropes before with things like the steampunk-ish Kaladesh and various takes on mad-science tropes like Ravnica's Izzet League or Innistrad's Stitchers. But this is coming at that ground a little more directly. I'm for it, if magic has shied away from being "too sci-fi" in the past, that just leaves a lot of creative ground untrod in that direction, too rich to ignore.
The set is really interested in limited, makes for very complex tactical gameplay. It really shakes things up in constructed, too, but that's been a bit of a mixed bag for me. In recent sets I felt I could make minor tweaks to my existing decks, but in this one I feel like it's shaken up the meta so completely that I want to do completely new things, without the wildcards to try everything and with no idea where to go first. There are worse problems to have.
I was enjoying playing W/G humans and werewolves before the set rotation, and I've been dipping my toe into playing this. (Yeah, netdecking CGB desks, might as well learn from the best.)
I've decided to demonstrate good culture fit by taking that COVID time off and completely disappearing from work for two weeks. (Except for doing some stuff for the annual performance review cycle, which is going to be confusing enough as is this time around without introducing extra delays.)
I've been playing a fair amount of Magic Arena. The new set is a cyberpunk-anime inspired return to a fan-favorite setting. Magic has dipped its toes into sci-fi tropes before with things like the steampunk-ish Kaladesh and various takes on mad-science tropes like Ravnica's Izzet League or Innistrad's Stitchers. But this is coming at that ground a little more directly. I'm for it, if magic has shied away from being "too sci-fi" in the past, that just leaves a lot of creative ground untrod in that direction, too rich to ignore.
The set is really interested in limited, makes for very complex tactical gameplay. It really shakes things up in constructed, too, but that's been a bit of a mixed bag for me. In recent sets I felt I could make minor tweaks to my existing decks, but in this one I feel like it's shaken up the meta so completely that I want to do completely new things, without the wildcards to try everything and with no idea where to go first. There are worse problems to have.
I was enjoying playing W/G humans and werewolves before the set rotation, and I've been dipping my toe into playing this. (Yeah, netdecking CGB desks, might as well learn from the best.)