Forever to be known as the "Get, down, boogie-oogie-woogie" release.The discussion topic was started by deicidemilan at
http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9954Introducing a couple of new mechanics, "Heroic" and "Monstrosity", with a couple of foils (
Sun Titan and
Polukranos, World Eater) thrown in for good measure. See
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/a ... eature/261 for more.
Pretty cool in its own right, we sprinkled some fairy dust around for you this time.
With 83 cards, ordinarily this release would be around 44 MB, but instead it's 160 MB. That's a significant difference wouldn't you say? Like 4 times bigger significance.
And to what do we owe this surfeit of megabyteage? Obviously something big...really big.
XLHQs were designed to fill an HD monitor or TV screen, 1920x1080. But 4K screens are out now, and the resolution of those is in the neighborhood of 3840×2160 for TV and 4096×2160 for cinema. So to view a card on one of those, and fill the screen top to bottom in landscape mode, we need around 2000 pixels.
Our newest processor woogerboy21 apparently had a lot of time on his hands, and simultaneously felt that I had too much. So, I'm proud to release, for the first time ever, something I've only been able to talk about up till now: not Crops, not Fulls, not XLHQs, but 4KHQs!
305x417, 96dpi Crop:OLDNEW 200dpi CropThirdFourth680x480 96dpi Full:OLDNEW 200dpi FullThirdFourth1040x745 300dpi XLHQ:OLDNEWThirdFourth1490x2080 600dpi 4KHQ:You can't handle it, it's much too large for your puny browser and your diminutive, underspecced monitor. But view if you must:
http://postimg.org/image/af049y52h/full/What does this mean for the future? Will we continue to make 4KHQs a part of our releases? They sure take up a lot of hard drive space and bandwidth to transfer.
Do 4KHQs have any practical value whatsoever?
Are we too far ahead of our time?
I know what I think, but let me know what you think. And in the meantime, enjoy this epic release by availing yourselves of the torrent file attached below.
And now, the
CREDITS:Set purchased by woogerboy21.
Set scanned by woogerboy21.
Set processed by woogerboy21. Oh yeah, a one man triple team. True dedication to the cause, the woogster is not messing around. And finally,
Quality assurance and sage guidance by extreme.