Erdete!!!

It was the worst set of one of best years ever, meaning it would fare well against many other sets from different years.

Aetherdrift tried something, making a set built around Vehicles. It turns out that’s a difficult task, possibly an unattainable one (from a constructed standpoint, I thought the limited was quite fun). But I’m glad we tried.

Part of the magic of Magic is that we keep pushing in new directions and try things we haven’t before, so I never regret trying something new, even if it didn’t succeed as well as we hoped.

I don't know if it was your intention or not, but the above quote makes it seem like you think that players who think they prefer the "old ways" are simply mistaken about what they prefer and will realize that they actually prefer the new ways once they have time to get used to them.

If that was your intent, I strongly disagree. Some of us genuinely like smaller environments, or prefer having both available (such as smaller environments when playing competitively and larger environments when playing casually). Designing for the "new status quo" is fine, but you should also keep supporting players who prefer smaller environments. We already have a big 60-card format (Pioneer), a really big 60-card format (Modern), and a really, really big 60-card format (Legacy). Why can't Standard remain small for the players who prefer smaller environments?

There's not a big enough audience that wants it. Us expanding Standard to three years has proven pretty popular and has been helping Standard grow in size.

As an ongoing theme, we're very responsive to what the larger Magic community wants. If we do something and it makes more people play, we do more of it. If it it doesn't, we try something else.

Overrelying on data? The data is just us getting concrete information about what all of the players want. Isn’t that a good thing? And I should note we have a multiple sections of the company to analyze and make sense of the data. I can’t believe stop listening to the players is the right approach.

I understand it’s frustrating when I quote data I can’t show you, but what are the alternates? I stop telling you about the data? That seems to contradict the whole behind-the-scenes feel people seem to love about the blog. If something drives our decisions, don’t you want to hear about it?

I can try and talk about more things in additional to the data, but if people want a clear understanding of why we’re making the decisions we are, it’s super hard not to reference it.

Look, I know it’s hard to hear “I understand your issue, but we have reasons to not do it the way you prefer.” It’s not that easy to repeat it day after day.

My goal with this blog is to give you access to me, and I’m really trying to be as straight-forward with you as I can. It’s not easy to hear players be upset. I very much take it to heart.

Glory and Gore go hand in hand

Can't wait to revisit this series. to absorb everything i can and incorporate it to my art, to my writing. it was just amazing. Glorious if u will.

U can get prints if u want here:

Additional information and pictures of Dungeon Eater can be found at the producer’s website. A rough translation below for anyone interested in the details of gameplay. Apologies for any errors!