Casual Card Hall of Fame Discussion
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Mooseman
Isengar Tussle
Who nominated a card is not important (unless it's Ransac), but the fact that 2+ people nominated a card should be taken into consideration. Is that card more likely to be choosen, maybe, maybe not, but to exclude that information is as bad as making it too important.
The committee is to decide on their own and to be influenced by the arguments of the nominators and other posters. We all have championed our cards, is that a useless endeavor?
I would like to see more debate over the nominations in the thread and then let the committee decide.
The committee is to decide on their own and to be influenced by the arguments of the nominators and other posters. We all have championed our cards, is that a useless endeavor?
I would like to see more debate over the nominations in the thread and then let the committee decide.
Killer Joe
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I read the arguments for all cards when posted but never gave much thought into its popularity because it was given a second "nod" of approval.
Mooseman
Isengar Tussle
That's fine for you, but others may and can see it differently.Spiderman said:
Sometimes I just nominate a card to make the pool bigger (and it's been picked), but usually it's because the card I wanted has been nominated already. Do we want quantity over quality? Well, supposed quality.... but still.....
Oversoul
The Tentacled One
I'm generalizing, of course. But the reason for the lack of white cards in the hall of fame thus far is simple...
White is boring.
There are some obvious exceptions. Shaharazad is a good one. But overall, white just doesn't have as many fun and exciting cards as the other colors.
Green makes big or numerous creatures. People like smashing your face in with a 17/18 Lhurgoyf. People like running you over with a bunch of 1/1 squirrels.
Red, for some reason, has a ton of oddball tricks and can usually play a pretty fast-paced, destructive game. People will usually like at least one of those.
Blue might be the most infamous color, but it is the king of those oddball tricks. It makes available cards that do things not available to other colors.
Black kills stuff and brings stuff back from the dead. People like doing those too.
What does white do? Gain life? Stall? Stop attackers? Protect its own cards? That's hard to get excited about.
White is boring.
There are some obvious exceptions. Shaharazad is a good one. But overall, white just doesn't have as many fun and exciting cards as the other colors.
Green makes big or numerous creatures. People like smashing your face in with a 17/18 Lhurgoyf. People like running you over with a bunch of 1/1 squirrels.
Red, for some reason, has a ton of oddball tricks and can usually play a pretty fast-paced, destructive game. People will usually like at least one of those.
Blue might be the most infamous color, but it is the king of those oddball tricks. It makes available cards that do things not available to other colors.
Black kills stuff and brings stuff back from the dead. People like doing those too.
What does white do? Gain life? Stall? Stop attackers? Protect its own cards? That's hard to get excited about.
Killer Joe
New member
Creatures: 11
Enchantments: 4
Sorceries: 4
Instants: 2
Others were artifacts.
But here's an interesting fact: Of the last 10 cards making into the CCHOF 9 of them have been non-creature cards.
Enchantments: 4
Sorceries: 4
Instants: 2
Others were artifacts.
But here's an interesting fact: Of the last 10 cards making into the CCHOF 9 of them have been non-creature cards.
Killer Joe
New member
Correct, we all sorta had the same top 3 but Phage averaged out higher.
Oversoul
The Tentacled One
I've never liked Pemmin's Aura. If I want to play Morphling, I play Morphling. If I want to go around enchanting creatures, I play Armadillo Cloak or something. It seems like some dream one of the designers had (what if we made a card that could turn any creature into a morphling?) and for some reason nobody pointed out that it was too corny to go in an actual set. What next? "Aura of the Pheldagriff"? And the name doesn't help either. If I wanted to play with anagrams, I'd play some sort of game that's supposed to, I don't know, maybe involve anagrams.
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DarthFerret
Guest
I might as well stop nominating...I don't think a single pick of mine has ever won...
L
Limited
Guest
I would totally play that card!Oversoul said:
You know, I'm actually okay with the winner. Sure, I'd have liked MINE (the best one) to win, but their rationalization is solid. If is wasn't for things like that, then the Two-headed Giant of Foriys wouldn't have had as much pull when it won. I'm not a big Magic novel reader, but who was Pemmin?
Ransac, cpa trash man
Ransac, cpa trash man