My MTG money is now getting funneled into more Nintendo Switch games.

I have a Cube which will never contain UB cards, and I’m now in the process of converting all my existing decks for different formats into a “Modern Pre-Horizons” Battle Box since that was my favorite format ever.

Will probably spend some money in this, but after that I’ll never upgrade those decks again, and with more focus on UB there will be even less things I care about to put on the Cube.

This way I can keep good memories from those times, have ways to play the game with friends, and never again bother with WOTC’s bullshit.

Unfortunately I think this is too little too late. Format was starting to recover but it got two big kicks to the nuts in the last few weeks:

• No Pioneer RCQ season next year is going to hurt a lot Pioneer competitive play,
• Yesterday’s announcement is probably going to do some damage to the playerbase, most players I know were into at least partially to avoid UB sets. The likelihood that more sets per year with half of them being UB is going to increase deck prices is going to be another issue for player retention.

One lesson from recent years is that the slope is always slippery with WOTC.

Definitely a little discouraging. I mean it’s fine for fun, but they should just continue to build off their own universe.

I don’t expect Magic universe to continue existing after a few more years.

Fortunately I had mostly dropped of competitive play already (though I was considering going back because Pioneer looks good right now), this announcement just pushes me even harder on other hobbies.

Crossover sets like Marvel, Final Fantasy or Assassin’s Creed.

A lot of people dislike those sets, but so far you could ignore them depending on the format you played. From now onwards it’ll likely be impossible to stay away from those if you want to play competitively.

Besides the overall dislike of this new “Fortnite the Gathering” world, there’s also concerns of pricing, these sets so far have been more expensive than regular sets, and also even more product burnout - we’re up to 6 major sets/year from the 4 we used to have not too long ago.

This is awesome news.

If you want to know what the series is about (and why I’m hyped for it), you can check the first chapter for free here: https://www.alpha-manga.com/manga/665000279/201

The manga for this one is surprisingly solid despite the overused premise. There’s a lot of work involved into building Elma (and Luce) into powerhouses, so a lot of battles are very close with them barely scraping by due to good team work.

If the production is solid this will definitely be a fun watch.

Favorites for this season are Pseudo Harem ED, Oshi no Ko S2 OP and Tower of God S2 OP.

Honorable mention to the Nokotan OP for the memes, and for the evolving credits for Tower of God S2, really like how they are a “season so far” summary.

Are they twins? just very close in age?

The commentary was great.

And apparently, so is Nadu. 😀 If I’m doing my math correctly it’s getting Hogaak-level meta percentage and conversion rates.

I really missed this series, glad to see it back even though the first half of S2 was kinda of a mess (in particular in pacing).

And this episode felt much better paced and directed than the previous cour, so I’m hopeful it’ll be a fun ride.

“S2 please” is my overall opinion of this season. In no particular order, I want more of:

• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
• The Apothecary Diaries (S2 announced!)
• The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
• Villainess Level 99
• 7th Time Loop
• The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

Honestly one of the best seasons I’ve followed.

Besides the ones mentioned above I’d like to give a mention to “Brave Bang Bravern”, a completely crazy and amazing mecha series by Masami Obari that more people need to watch.

The VNs go like this:

Original Trilogy:

The Fruit of Grisaia -> The Labyrinth of Grisaia -> The Eden of Grisaia

They all got anime adaptations with the same names. I hear they are a fun watch but cut a LOT of content, in particular from the first game (12 episodes for a VN with an average length of 75h on VNDB).

Phantom Trigger:

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger Vol. 1 -> Vol. 2 -> Vol. 3 -> Vol. 4 -> Vol. 5 -> Vol. 5.5 -> Vol. 6 -> Vol. 7 -> Vol. 8

Takes place in the same universe but it’s an indepentent story, it only contains a few references to the original trilogy.

From the descriptions on Anilist, I believe the first movie adapted the first two volumes of the VN, and the second movie adapted the third volume.

Brave Bang Bravern! ED - Souen no Shouzou - After highly recommending the OP earlier, the ED threw me for a total loop. I thought that this show was an action-oriented super robot story. Instead, the ED is like a fever dream in which the ship between Ice Man and Maverick set sail.

A little late but I finally sat down to watch the show and you hit bullseye there - there’s some pretty obvious Top Gun inspiration/parody in the series itself.

After seeing the opening I’ll need to find time for that one too.

Edit: Wait, that’s an Obari series? Change of plans, need to see that TODAY.

Tsukimichi 2nd Season ED1 - Aa Jinsei ni Namida Ari - Some rare, baritone male CV singing!

This is also a throwback to the first season, the same song was used in two occasions there.

These were also sung by the VAs, the first one is by Makoto’s (Natsuki Hanae), the second by Tomoe’s (Ayane Sakura) and Mio’s (Akari Kitou).

Favorites are easily the two from Mashle S2:

• Mashle S2 Opening “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born”
• Mashle S2 Ending “Tokyo’s Way”

Honorable mentions:

• Bucchigiri?! OP “Sesame”
• Classroom of the Elite S3 Opening “Minor Piece”

This is getting a sequence? Damn, that’s some good news, the original was a very fun Mecha/Action movie.

Also means we may get Angela again in future SRW games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMMKc3v0ck

That one was so good.

Haven’t played this game in decades but instantly started hearing the song in my head when I saw your post.