@MacNCheezus I'm not denying this, just figured I'd bring up that there's a lot that can go towards failing you, privacy-wise.
Apple has it's own host of problems (third-party repair lockouts being high on the list of them when I think about it) but if privacy is the primary concern they seem pretty good.
@MacNCheezus @Interstellar_1 Earnest question - do you read the ToS on the apps on your phone? I know Apple recently has gotten on a pseudo-privacy kick as of late (they were having a bit of a public-facing slapfight with Facebook over it) but the apps may be collecting usage data and using the ToS to say they can. Apps like Spotify and GMaps are *bad about this*.
@MysticKetchup I've just had a thought. This "Fortnite-ification" of Magic (alongside many other games like, well, Fortnite but also Call of Duty, Minecraft Bedrock & Destiny 2 as of late) with the intense focus on crossover IPs to make quick easy cash with barely-relevant products that are really just tie-ins...
Does anyone else remember the tie-in shovelware platformers of the early 2000s? Not the good ones, the unforgivably *bad* ones.
Magic is becoming a vector for that same market.
@andrew Why play paper Standard at a shop when you can play Arena Standard in your pajamas? That's the question in need of an answer.
@MysticKetchup A not-insignificant chunk of this problem is the fact that all of those decks are powered primarily *from* Standard, or at least would-be-Standard-if-not-Banned-ard *cough* Fable *cough*. MH2 doesn't help what with the Beans deck but 5C Beans still plays cards from current Standard to facilitate major parts of the engine (Binding and Beans itself).
So I dunno. I just find the idea of having a format where the fun ideas of Commander deck cards can run free without FoW sometimes.
@MysticKetchup I continue to mentally entertain "Chaos Standard" as a format. 60-card, 4-of, constant rotation (ie if a card was released Nov 13, 2020 it wouldn't be legal in this hypothetical format, or date\>=2020-11-14 / today's date as this is read on Scryfall) but any printing with the real card back puts the card into legality again.
Biggest problem with this would be attempting to onboard people to a 60-card format that's currently just the obnoxious bits of present Modern.
@Nurgle @Evu For Singleton, there's always #CanadianHighlander - it's a lot closer to singleton Vintage than 1v1 Commander though.
@lovestha @Evu @skele_tron Modern "checklist" cards end up looking like this (from ONE) which makes them good for both being checklist cards and also for being sharpie proxies.
@silverchase @Evu Imagine if it's Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle.
It's *not*. But imagine if it *was*.