G'day Voltie, I have one broad question about 7PH that I'd love to hear you respond to in detail: how would you personally like to see the points list managed in the medium to long term? In answering that question, I'd love to hear you touch on the following: 1) If Wizards continues to power creep sets, particularly Modern Horizons sets, should the committee respond by increasing the rate of pointings, or by de-pointing older combo cards to power up the format (given it's likely that Wizards prints more Broadside Bombadiers but not more Doomsdays), or a balance (or third option)? 2) Do you think it's more important that each card is at a points level where it has the potential to see play, or that the play experience remains "fun" (obviously fun is subjective to some degree). E.g. Would you support depointing powerful cards that don't see much play, such as Ancestral Recall, Time Vault, or Channel, even if it meant the possibility that the decision would need to be reversed? How much risk should the committee be prepared to take for depointings? 3) Do you think the current rate that cards are pointed at is reasonable, or would you like to see cards pointed earlier, or conversely given more time at 0 for players to fit them in their decks for free? For example, cards like Psychic Frog and Phlage that were watch listed before being pointed. Should "fair" cards ever be pointed on release? 4) Do you think any radical changes to the points list are necessary or forthcoming? Not in terms of specific cards, but larger changes in the sense of the accessibility rule giving an 8th point to non-RL decks. Do you have any "big picture" ideas that could be worth community discussion? 5) Any other aspects to managing the points list/format in the long term that aren't covered above. I also have one question about Magic in general: what do you think about the state of the game? Specifically with regards to power creep and Universes Beyond (now being half of all Magic sets)?
I would also love to know what you think we could do to encourage more people playing highlander. I recognise that you have puts hours and hours and hours into trying to do this yourself and believe your resources are invaluable and great, and have noticed a large surge in more highlander players in the last year or so, but that being said, what behaviors from consistent players would you like to see to help grow the community? Are there things you think stores could do to help? How would you go about pitching 7pt to commander players? Is that worth doing for newer players (that seem like the might enjoy 1v1 semi-competitive magic), even if they are from the completely different world of commander?
Hi there I noticed in the RL cards to avoid using in 8 point decks video you mentioned a few decks were not working as expected and went to the cutting room floor. I was wondering how many decks tech videos for highlander are you planning to make per month. I wonder if you could do a video further explaining the good decks designs that sadly went to the cutting room floor. I am asking this question because I had a few interesting ideas for decks for highlander but ended up getting to the cutting room floor. Keep up the good work!
Hey Voltie, are there any archetypes or cards you would like to see get more support in the future? I personally dream of the day that cloudpost is a real build around in singleton, thanks for all the great work with making the format more accessible to new players.
Not a very exciting question, but I was wondering about your personal watchlist, is the list ordered in any particular way? For example by priority of which pointings you think should happen first or are most reasonable changes? Are there pointings on that list you think are much more mandatory than others?
G'day Voltie, I have one broad question about 7PH that I'd love to hear you respond to in detail: how would you personally like to see the points list managed in the medium to long term? In answering that question, I'd love to hear you touch on the following:
1) If Wizards continues to power creep sets, particularly Modern Horizons sets, should the committee respond by increasing the rate of pointings, or by de-pointing older combo cards to power up the format (given it's likely that Wizards prints more Broadside Bombadiers but not more Doomsdays), or a balance (or third option)?
2) Do you think it's more important that each card is at a points level where it has the potential to see play, or that the play experience remains "fun" (obviously fun is subjective to some degree). E.g. Would you support depointing powerful cards that don't see much play, such as Ancestral Recall, Time Vault, or Channel, even if it meant the possibility that the decision would need to be reversed? How much risk should the committee be prepared to take for depointings?
3) Do you think the current rate that cards are pointed at is reasonable, or would you like to see cards pointed earlier, or conversely given more time at 0 for players to fit them in their decks for free? For example, cards like Psychic Frog and Phlage that were watch listed before being pointed. Should "fair" cards ever be pointed on release?
4) Do you think any radical changes to the points list are necessary or forthcoming? Not in terms of specific cards, but larger changes in the sense of the accessibility rule giving an 8th point to non-RL decks. Do you have any "big picture" ideas that could be worth community discussion?
5) Any other aspects to managing the points list/format in the long term that aren't covered above.
I also have one question about Magic in general: what do you think about the state of the game? Specifically with regards to power creep and Universes Beyond (now being half of all Magic sets)?
I would also love to know what you think we could do to encourage more people playing highlander. I recognise that you have puts hours and hours and hours into trying to do this yourself and believe your resources are invaluable and great, and have noticed a large surge in more highlander players in the last year or so, but that being said, what behaviors from consistent players would you like to see to help grow the community? Are there things you think stores could do to help? How would you go about pitching 7pt to commander players? Is that worth doing for newer players (that seem like the might enjoy 1v1 semi-competitive magic), even if they are from the completely different world of commander?
Hi there I noticed in the RL cards to avoid using in 8 point decks video you mentioned a few decks were not working as expected and went to the cutting room floor. I was wondering how many decks tech videos for highlander are you planning to make per month. I wonder if you could do a video further explaining the good decks designs that sadly went to the cutting room floor. I am asking this question because I had a few interesting ideas for decks for highlander but ended up getting to the cutting room floor. Keep up the good work!
Hey Voltie, are there any archetypes or cards you would like to see get more support in the future? I personally dream of the day that cloudpost is a real build around in singleton, thanks for all the great work with making the format more accessible to new players.
Not a very exciting question, but I was wondering about your personal watchlist, is the list ordered in any particular way? For example by priority of which pointings you think should happen first or are most reasonable changes? Are there pointings on that list you think are much more mandatory than others?