MTG Duel of the Planeswalkers 2013

[Jonathan Meer]

"Magic would be boring as fuck if there weren't an element of luck."

If you didn't mean what that sentence says, your posts are irrational and stupid. You're ignoring it altogether just to accuse me of doing what you're doing. It doesn't matter how optimal someone makes their deck? I'm pretty sure you know that's not true.

The post is indirectly targeted to you (as made plain by the complete lack of any quoted post). It summarizes my basic stance on the game, and the discussion: A certain type/portion (this element was implicit in my original sentence) of luck has value in the game. You do, of course, ignore the follow-up sentence that provides the bounds to the quoted sentence, as it doesn't fit into your schema. I'll quote it here: "The way you lessen luck to emphasize skill is to have more games, not to fundamentally change mechanics."

Lessen luck. Why did Meer switch from speaking of a Magic game without luck, then talk about lessening luck? The proper reader (that is, one lacking in neither honesty/charity, or intelligence; I don't presume to know which it is you're missing) would recognize this shift as an indication that the post as a whole is merely a semi-targeted, rapidfire set of assertions related to the discussion itself.

But if you insist on misunderstanding that post even after this explanation (due to, say, some grasp for blind literalism to defend your desperate ad hominems), then I'll probably keep on discussing this with you (since it's absolutely hilarious to watch you spin around in fluster-circles), but you will have at that point completely divorced yourself with reality with respect to this conversation.