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** The announcement that Jace, The Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic would be banned on July 1st, 2011 caused this among large portions of people. This has been true of most big bans throughout history...and they've also caused just as much consternation as they watch the banned cards plummet in secondary market price.
** Ravnica, City of Guilds was one of the more popular blocks when it rolled out in 2005. Then in April of 2012, they announced that the [http://n4g.com/news/975662/magic-the-gathering-will-return-to-ravnica-in-october-2012 next block would be a return to Ravnica.]
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* [[Broken Base]]: Different people like and hate different things about Magic. They argue endlessly about it on the Internet.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: ''[[Self
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* [[Complete Monster]]:
** Yawgmoth started out as a blend of all the worst parts of [[Adolf Hitler]] and Josef Mengele. This was when he was still human. After gaining control of Phyrexia, he ended up as the multiverse's equivalent of [[Satan]].
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* [[Fan Dumb]]: Concerning any number of things, but the color pie itself seems to be the most frequent source. Some people have too simple a view of the colors and others just don't have any clue what's really going on.
* [[Foe Yay]]:
** The lesser planeswalkers [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Chandra and Jace]] are implied to have this sort of relationship, judging by the flavor text of many of their respective cards. [[Expanded Universe|The tie-in works]] seem to confirm this: they often [[Enemy Mine|unite to defeat a common foe]] and even [[Friendly Enemy|save each other's lives]] from time to time, but still chase each other around a lot. In honor of this, Wizards has released [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/11 a pair of preconstructed decks reflecting the two].
** Even more so, [[Fiery Redhead|Chandra]] and [[Knight Templar|Gideon Jura]] had even more build up, including a implied romantic subplot in the novel, The Purifying Fire. It makes for an interesting relationship, as they seem to like each other, but openly despise what the other one stands for; Chandra being all about personal freedom, and Gideon about the importance of law and serving the greater good.
** Garruk and Liliana: [[Freud Was Right|"I like your axe. Very manly."]]
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** Cards that require a coin flip have consistently been among the least popular cards in their respective sets, according to Wizards of the Coasts's market research. [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/37 Head Designer Mark Rosewater explains.]
** Countering. This is a big reason the scrubs mentioned below say "no blue". Countering is something you must expect against a blue deck, but the counter to counterspells is, paradoxically, to play as many spells as possible and hope one sticks.
* [[Scrub]]: As always, in contrast to the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: any card that the Scrub's deck can't deal with is "cheap", and anyone using it is trying to ruin the game for everyone who wants to play ''real'' Magic. It's common for people seeking casual games in ''Magic Online'' to put something similar to the following in the description:
{{quote| No blue, no land destruction, no goblins, no elves, no nonbasic lands...}}
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: New players may be mystified as to why certain famous/infamous cards have such a reputation. Sometimes this is because of their still immature grasp of the game, but other times it's because those cards were simply good in their particular metagame, making their dominance a matter of context. Or even that the rules of Magic have changed so that whatever made them good in the first place doesn't work anymore.
* [[So Bad
* [[Squick]]: [http://magiccards.info/uh/en/115.html Uktabi Kong], a card (tap two apes to produce an ape token) which invokes a number of sex tropes, but especially:
** [[Everyone Is Bi]] (the only non-squick trope here)
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: The M13 set's Mark Of The Vampire. [[Magic the Gathering (Tabletop Game)/Characters|Markov]], the vampire.
* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: One of the oldest ongoing disputes amongst competitive Magic players is whether netdecking or not is more "pure". Netdecking is the concept of taking a well perforing decklist, and fine tuning it to your meta. The alternative being to develop a rogue strategy specific for the anticipated metagame.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Too many times to count. The most recent example (as of mid-2009) are the rules changes introduced [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/42a here], but the game has to tweak itself a little every year, and each year brings a plethora of complaining, along with the beeping of cash registers to drown them out.
** The major rules overhaul with ''Sixth Edition'' caused a massive outcry among players at the time.
** Perhaps the biggest [[Internet Backdraft]] occurred in 2003, when they made some rather drastic changes to the cosmetic layout of the cards.
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* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Yawgmoth's rational, scientific and analytic mindset is in open contrast with any kind of mysticism, romaniticism and/or devotion towards "magic" typical of the biggest part of characters. Needless to say, he's the [[Big Bad]].
* [[The Untwist]]: In the ''Scars of Mirrodin'' storyline, Phyrexia has ''vastly'' superior forces, the element of surprise, and is the bad guy. Any [[Genre Savvy]] player worth his salt would think [[The Good Guys Win]] against overwhelming odds, right? Nope. Welcome to New Phyrexia, folks.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: From the Mirrodin blocks, Glissa Sunseeker. Can they do anything to make the poor elf's existence any more outright soul-crushing? {{spoiler|Her family is violently murdered by little automated thresher machines. She endures a great many difficulties in collecting the Macguffins of Power only to have them turned on her almost immediately by the [[Big Bad]]. Her [[Heroic Sacrifice]] allows Slobad to save the people of the world, transporting those who were abducted from other planes back to their original planes... including every one of Glissa's friends (except Slobad) and her only surviving family member, but not her, ensuring her heroism is totally forgotten by everyone else. When she gets back, she's blamed for everything bad that happened in the last several years before being corrupted by Phyrexian oil and turned into a powerful enemy of the same world she'd worked so hard to save.}}
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