"You hate Richard Garfield yet are the commander in-charge?!"

I do, and I'm tired of pretending like you all don't either.

When Magic: The Gathering was made in like, 1992. You gotta remember we had JUST gotten out of the Satanic-panic, and this nigger was out here deriving an entirely new marketing concept that wasn't miniature wargaming, wasn't roleplaying, but was some combination of baseball cards, with heavy occult symbolism. Sure, you could play the wholly "good guy" magic color of white. Which I'm sure didn't go over well with the Christians of the time either where it lumped them, with Islam, (but somehow Hinduism and Buddhism were more blueish?) and Black was all about demons and stuff you'd see on a death-metal album. (Well, when it wasn't busy being Red...)

This guy knew what cancel-culture looked like, and meanwhile he's radio silent when it comes too what his game has become. Another thing that urks me, is that when Richard Garfield conceived magic, he said something along the lines of "I don't believe in secondary-markets. No card should cost more than three dollars." So regardless of inflation, of demand because of it's mechanical advantages or rarity, Richard Garfield believed in gross reprinting, and yet the company that holds control over Magic has the reserved list, which they sweat at the mere discussion of, because it's not only caving to the demands of a union of Karens, but requires them to admit on some level, that Magic isn't just some card game you buy booster packs of and shit on at gaming tables with friends and beers. It's some kind of gambling. But they refuse to say it's gambling, because gambling is bound to very rigorous regulations. Which I don't blame them. You ever tried to open a casino? Just... pool together a kickstarter and make scratchoffs? There's a reason it doesn't happen. So if it's not gambling, why have the reserve list? ESPECIALLY when you go on and on about how "toxic" people are. People are so "toxic" because they don't want retundas sheboon planeswalkers waddling throughout their poorly written fanfic multiverses.

But it's not toxic that the hobby is gatekept by just awful people, who lord over you the fact they can afford a Mox, or a Yawgmoth's Bargain, or a Grim Monolith. Or not even that, just if you're a relatively simple guy, and wanna play your silly little green deck, and get curb stomped everytime, because modern has basically relegated ramp too red. Big creatures don't win games. Never did, yet ironically creatures are more busted out of the gate than they ever have been, and they make excuses for their poor design choices. Every week, some shill writes an article about how "here's why one mana drop snowball effects are a good thing". No apologies, no self-reflection, no sense, and just outright lies. Because I never expected there to be a group of guys, playtesting every card, for every major format. Even if Magic only released one set per year that would be a tall order.

But they're out here releasing sets like every two months. And they're gonna tell you that the state of the game is fine and gaslight you with you're just salty and need to get good. Or rather, they let their disgusting, fat, golems do it for them. Comment sections filled with praise and worship for anything they do, you won't see that here and I'll be the first to admit, if someone is riding my dick or I'm riding theirs, one of us is either paying the other, or we're just good friends. You deserve that much. You deserve to be respected as a human being and treated like an adult. Richard Garfield doesn't. And that was made plainly clear to me not by even Magic, but by the other abortions he was involved with. Which you don't hear too much about the other works he was involved with, because they're all bad. He captured lightning in a bottle with Magic. He was at the right place, at the right time, and brought something brand new to the table. I don't even think Pogs were out yet, so he didn't even have to compete with that. God how I wish Pogs had overlapped Magic, and right now we'd be flipping ten cent bottlecaps with effects like "the player with the most Red pogs in their pool loses 12 life, unless he has at least 2 Blue pogs in his pool also." That's actually something I may consider doing a kickstarter for to reinvigorate Pogs. A game that actually rewards hand-eye-coordination, patience, (just smashing your pogs isn't really gonna do a flip...) and just does not carry the same weight that cards with mythic rarity so insert soyjack WOW meme here does.

Even Mark Rosewater is a better human being than Richard Garfield. I don't think Mark Rosewater is a bad guy. I think he's a bad game-designer. But he seems like he genuinely believes the crap he says. And that's what angers the fanbase so much, and you know what? They should be angry. They should stop buying product, and if they really wish to consume product, consume product from some Chinese distrubutor. It costs you a fraction of the money, and it puts a meal in some third-world child's belly. You're literally making the world a better place by getting your shitty card game from China. Sorry not sorry, that's just the way it is my guy.