Comments on: Insider: The Great Machine

By: Dylan Beckham

Dylan Beckham — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:55:54 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful comments, folks. I like where this piece went too, and this message has a strong case to be brought up again in the future. We’re on an island way too often, and it just really isn’t the reality of the situation.

Much appreciated. And please, keep the feedback coming!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:34:16 +0000

In reply to Jamie. Er, second*

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:33:32 +0000

I love this piece. I’m pleased to report that for time eternal [or at least, the six years I’ve been playing competitively] my LGS has run a Magic event almost every night of the week, and at least one each weekend, usually catered to younger/newer players. The Constructed events fire at 6:30 and go for 4 rounds, with payout by record. The drafts usually end around 9, since players will mostly split in the finals of each pod and fire a seconds side draft or three.

Another thing I’d love to see more of is the abolition of non-top-8 prize support reliant on tiebreakers. At a local PTQ this season, the organizer paid out packs to everyone that X-2’d or better. It’s an excellent way to eliminate the “lost out on breakers” feel-bads common [understandably] in the playerbase.

By: David Schumann

David Schumann — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:16:46 +0000

I like where you’ve gone with this one. I know I’ve had people come up to me and ask me straight up “are there any cards you’re speculating on but not telling us?” and I always answer the same “no”. Everyone on here is still one small/medium fish in a very large sea and alerting people of the next big thing might limit how many you can purchase yourself (assuming you don’t buy your copies prior to the article posting anyways), there are usually enough copies to go around. As for the store owners comment, I think you’re dead on, it amazes me how many store owners (or really people in general) will cling to a bad idea simply because that’s “how it’s always been done”. You often see this sort of mentality in the corporate world as well (so at least it’s not MTG specific) but it always boggles my mind that people would prefer inefficiencies simply because they are habit.