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Dies To Removal Episode 3: The State of Modern Dies To Artist Boycott (Patreon)

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2018-12-06 16:28:55
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2022-01

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Dies To Removal Episode 3: The State of Modern Dies To Artist Boycott - Magic: The Gathering Podcast

Dies To Removal is also available on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tolariancommunitycollege Listen on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dies-to-removal/id1444537761?mt=2 Listen on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/diestoremoval/dies-to-removal RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:543883218/sounds.rss Vince from Pleasant Kenobi and The Professor from Tolarian Community College talk about the state of Modern, whether bans or perhaps unbans can help the format, and the MTG artist boycott of MagicFests in this, the reborn Magic: The Gathering (MTG) video podcast! Pleasant Kenobi YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PleasantKenobi Or follow Vince on Twitter: @PleasantKenobi Magic Artist Boycott Article: https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/vorthosmike-11262018-artists-boycott-magic-fests David Palumbo https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/a17fdp/ama_wcfb_events_ask_us_anything/eao6vzf/ Be sure to check out my review of the Best Magic The Gathering Books: Ultimate Collector's Guide, Generation Decks, and Mental Mana here: https://youtu.be/NbHxNtxoy3c TCC Shirts! Playmats! - http://www.tolariancommunitycollege.com/ Or you can support me directly over at Patreon -https://www.patreon.com/tolariancommunitycollege Tolarian Community College is brought to you by Card Kingdom! You can support The Professor just by checking out their store through this link: http://www.cardkingdom.com/TCC Title animation by the amazing Geoffrey Palmer of @livingcardsmtg Title graphic by the illustrious A. Lundell @Ishton Music Courtesy Of: "Vintage Education" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Remember to subscribe to stay up to date on the latest and most reliable Magic: The Gathering information you'll ever need!

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Anonymous

I've been saying for a while that Modern has gotten too fast. I've also been saying for a while that this can be fixed by setting the card limit to 2 for all cards except basic lands. Not only will this slow aggro decks down by about 1 turn and make combo decks have to work for their combo, it will allow players to brew like some kind of brewing wonderland. Usually, the argument against this is that it will neuter some decks. And yes, there are a few decks it can neuter. But most of the decks people name (Burn, Affinity, Tron) are actually just slowed slightly. There is an absolutely massive library of cards for almost every deck archetype that beg to be played but can't be because they just don't have that edge like the meta deck. Greater diversity within each deck archetype and the ability to play with your choice of otherwise subpar options means that the format becomes less predictable, broken cards are less likely to just be there in the opening hand to explode, and people have more fun with unique interactions and intuitive gameplay.

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Steve Argyle

Great show! I of course greatly appreciated your fair coverage of the artist's boycott. It's a complicated issue, in no small part because of how different each artist is, in terms of what they need, what they can make on their own, and what kind of draw they provide to attendance. On the artist's side, spending a few thousand dollars to work for three days is a daunting risk. Especially for new artists. Building a business around attending GPs (sorry, MFs) is no small investment, both in time and cash. Most Magic artists aren't really hurting for job offers, so the motivation for attending is rarely the potential profit. It's going out and being involved in the community. Because of that, the little gestures go a long way. On Channel Fireball's side, the draw of any given artist is hard to quantify into entry fees, which is where they'd make back their investment. How many players go for the artists, or at least the decision was tipped because of them? Because from a strictly business standpoint - that's the budget for bringing artists out. Right now, artists are, for the most part, pure benefit. We cost nothing, but definitely add attendance. And a few of us buy the extra tables. So the balance is in firmly in favor of CFBE at the moment. (I think CFBE could turn a lot of favor by committing that the extra table fee be for directly sponsoring another artist, cosplayer, or content creator.) That being said, artists can do well at events. Some of us sell products that compete with vendors. That does make us, to some degree, vendors ourselves. But selling product is not the purpose, it’s the means. I love the MtG community. When events were not financially viable (even with sponsorship, as you mentioned there’s the better part of a week’s work lost) I worked to make them viable. That took time, trial and error, luck, and the good will and support of the community. That’s harder to do now. The bar for entry is higher. It’s not reasonable to expect that an artist can be RK Post at their first event. It’s easy to point to some heavy hitters and say that it’s easy for artists to make a profit, or at least expenses. But it isn’t. And we do need to make the event environment welcoming if players want to see a variety of artists. We need it to keep a good thing going by getting new artists to take up the mantle. I believe there is a mutually beneficial arrangement to be had between artists and CFBE. We need to get together and figure out exactly what that is.