J-E Depraz
@jedepraz.bsky.social
Dreamer, (planes)walker, professional Magic player. 2018 team world champion, 2023 world champion. Je streame en français ici : https://www.twitch.tv/jirock
Well, I appreciate it and wish you the best in other, future endeavours!
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Well, I appreciate it and wish you the best in other, future endeavours!
I haven’t, not really, why?
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I haven’t, not really, why?
I’m sure DocFX is experiencing his own personal difficulties and is taking no pleasure in that whole situation, so this is by no means a call to attack or harass him (don’t). The best thing DC players and instances can do right now imo is to collectively ignore him.
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m sure DocFX is experiencing his own personal difficulties and is taking no pleasure in that whole situation, so this is by no means a call to attack or harass him (don’t). The best thing DC players and instances can do right now imo is to collectively ignore him.
I should say that I don’t know DocFX personnally, but I do know several people involved on the other side, and feeling that they have to fight to communicate what should be obvious to everyone is weighing heavily on them (as well as the grave, bullshit accusations he is waving to discredit them).
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I should say that I don’t know DocFX personnally, but I do know several people involved on the other side, and feeling that they have to fight to communicate what should be obvious to everyone is weighing heavily on them (as well as the grave, bullshit accusations he is waving to discredit them).
leave everyone else on the sidelines and hope to be considered the new face of that project. This is blatantly disrespectful to his colleagues, WotC and the community as a whole and should not be regarded as anything else than an individual resignation.
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
leave everyone else on the sidelines and hope to be considered the new face of that project. This is blatantly disrespectful to his colleagues, WotC and the community as a whole and should not be regarded as anything else than an individual resignation.
You’ll notice that I haven’t even touched on how utterly deranged some posts from that person read or on their banlist ideas, because I think that detracts from the main point: regardless of how right you are, when you work with others on a project, you can’t just decide to take control of it,
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You’ll notice that I haven’t even touched on how utterly deranged some posts from that person read or on their banlist ideas, because I think that detracts from the main point: regardless of how right you are, when you work with others on a project, you can’t just decide to take control of it,
This is a very asymetric affair between one guy who is claiming power that he was never given and a whole group of people doing their best to restore things to a stable state.
Let’s help those people - and the DC community as a whole - achieve that!
Let’s help those people - and the DC community as a whole - achieve that!
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is a very asymetric affair between one guy who is claiming power that he was never given and a whole group of people doing their best to restore things to a stable state.
Let’s help those people - and the DC community as a whole - achieve that!
Let’s help those people - and the DC community as a whole - achieve that!
One guy (DocFX) blowing a fuse should not create confusion as to whom WotC should listen to, even though that guy is doing his best to control the narrative. This is not some internal dispute that, as a WotC official, you should watch from afar and wait to see the end of.
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
One guy (DocFX) blowing a fuse should not create confusion as to whom WotC should listen to, even though that guy is doing his best to control the narrative. This is not some internal dispute that, as a WotC official, you should watch from afar and wait to see the end of.
I feel like explicitly taking a side in this conflict can help others, more invested parties do the same and speed up its resolution.
For months now, DC has been a WotC-supported format on MTGO, and the committee was an essential relay between them and the community.
For months now, DC has been a WotC-supported format on MTGO, and the committee was an essential relay between them and the community.
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I feel like explicitly taking a side in this conflict can help others, more invested parties do the same and speed up its resolution.
For months now, DC has been a WotC-supported format on MTGO, and the committee was an essential relay between them and the community.
For months now, DC has been a WotC-supported format on MTGO, and the committee was an essential relay between them and the community.
This power grab is the culmination of a lot of internal tensions over the years that I am in no position to talk about. But yes, the act itself is as ridiculous as it reads.
However, it is unfortunately not entirely futile, and despite my compulsion to watch things unfold while eating popcorn,
However, it is unfortunately not entirely futile, and despite my compulsion to watch things unfold while eating popcorn,
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This power grab is the culmination of a lot of internal tensions over the years that I am in no position to talk about. But yes, the act itself is as ridiculous as it reads.
However, it is unfortunately not entirely futile, and despite my compulsion to watch things unfold while eating popcorn,
However, it is unfortunately not entirely futile, and despite my compulsion to watch things unfold while eating popcorn,
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Il y a enfin la clarté (et là je parle tant au socedem qu’à LFI) : Israël commet un génocide, la Russie est un État voyou qui n’a aucun droit d’envahir l’Ukraine, les vaccins doivent être obligatoires pour les soignants, et l’immigration n’a jamais été un problème.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Il y a enfin la clarté (et là je parle tant au socedem qu’à LFI) : Israël commet un génocide, la Russie est un État voyou qui n’a aucun droit d’envahir l’Ukraine, les vaccins doivent être obligatoires pour les soignants, et l’immigration n’a jamais été un problème.
C’est aussi irrelevant, on s’en fout des motivations ou du patrimoine de Zucman si sa taxe représente un pas (même petit) vers plus de justice sociale.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
C’est aussi irrelevant, on s’en fout des motivations ou du patrimoine de Zucman si sa taxe représente un pas (même petit) vers plus de justice sociale.
That’s good to hear, I hope it holds for other judges :)
It still feels weird to request action from someone who is watching the same game you’re playing with less bias, but I’ll try to do it more when something feels very wrong.
It still feels weird to request action from someone who is watching the same game you’re playing with less bias, but I’ll try to do it more when something feels very wrong.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
That’s good to hear, I hope it holds for other judges :)
It still feels weird to request action from someone who is watching the same game you’re playing with less bias, but I’ll try to do it more when something feels very wrong.
It still feels weird to request action from someone who is watching the same game you’re playing with less bias, but I’ll try to do it more when something feels very wrong.
Yeah, in other cases the rules can help shape the culture but regarding slowplay it feels like any real change is going to happen bottom-up.
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yeah, in other cases the rules can help shape the culture but regarding slowplay it feels like any real change is going to happen bottom-up.
And as competitive players, it's also our responsability to train so we can make good plays without spending hours on them. I'm currently thinking about ways to train to process the most complex turns faster, and I just need to be able to trust that my opponents will be held to the same standard.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
And as competitive players, it's also our responsability to train so we can make good plays without spending hours on them. I'm currently thinking about ways to train to process the most complex turns faster, and I just need to be able to trust that my opponents will be held to the same standard.
Anyway, to sum it up, my request to judges is "please, don't be afraid to take responsability and when in doubt, speed us up". We might not like it in the heat of the moment, but it's best for everyone involved.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Anyway, to sum it up, my request to judges is "please, don't be afraid to take responsability and when in doubt, speed us up". We might not like it in the heat of the moment, but it's best for everyone involved.
It was FINE that I messed up! I wasn't able to find the right play in an appropriate amount of time. But I wish the judge would have told me to speed up earlier and/or I wish they would have told that brazen spectator that they were on the slowplay case and that it wasn't his place to speak.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It was FINE that I messed up! I wasn't able to find the right play in an appropriate amount of time. But I wish the judge would have told me to speed up earlier and/or I wish they would have told that brazen spectator that they were on the slowplay case and that it wasn't his place to speak.
What ended up happening was that a spectator openly asked the judge to intervene, which I didn't find acceptable, but noone (including the judge) reacted to it!
Confused and not knowing what to do, I sped up, messed up my line and got lucky that my opp didn't find Flood Maw for lethal on turn 5.
Confused and not knowing what to do, I sped up, messed up my line and got lucky that my opp didn't find Flood Maw for lethal on turn 5.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What ended up happening was that a spectator openly asked the judge to intervene, which I didn't find acceptable, but noone (including the judge) reacted to it!
Confused and not knowing what to do, I sped up, messed up my line and got lucky that my opp didn't find Flood Maw for lethal on turn 5.
Confused and not knowing what to do, I sped up, messed up my line and got lucky that my opp didn't find Flood Maw for lethal on turn 5.
I'll end this thread with a third, different and very recent example. This w-e, in day 2 of Spotlight Series Liverpool, I was playing a Vivi mirror. Time was called, and on my turns 2 and 4, I had very hard calculations to make.
Did I take too long? Probably.
Did I take too long? Probably.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'll end this thread with a third, different and very recent example. This w-e, in day 2 of Spotlight Series Liverpool, I was playing a Vivi mirror. Time was called, and on my turns 2 and 4, I had very hard calculations to make.
Did I take too long? Probably.
Did I take too long? Probably.
I'm not always comfortable making plays under time pressure, and I don't believe anyone is, we want to feel in control of what we're doing and not have regrets afterwards. But that's why we have judges and slowplay rules. I'm grateful that the judge rushed me there and I thanked him after the game.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'm not always comfortable making plays under time pressure, and I don't believe anyone is, we want to feel in control of what we're doing and not have regrets afterwards. But that's why we have judges and slowplay rules. I'm grateful that the judge rushed me there and I thanked him after the game.
And that's ok. And we need to collectively learn to be ok with it. And it MUST, MUST apply in feature matches too, where the will to let the spectacle unfold often leads to moments of slowplay that would never be tolerated elsewhere.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
And that's ok. And we need to collectively learn to be ok with it. And it MUST, MUST apply in feature matches too, where the will to let the spectacle unfold often leads to moments of slowplay that would never be tolerated elsewhere.
Was I happy about it? Ofc not! In the moment, I knew I was able to find the perfect line given 10-15 more seconds. All the data was there before my eyes, I just needed to compute it. But that's the deal in competitive Magic! Sometimes you have to make imperfect, not fully thought-out plays.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Was I happy about it? Ofc not! In the moment, I knew I was able to find the perfect line given 10-15 more seconds. All the data was there before my eyes, I just needed to compute it. But that's the deal in competitive Magic! Sometimes you have to make imperfect, not fully thought-out plays.
As is often the case in the m-u, our libraries were almost empty and I wanted to count copies of a few cards in both graveyards to make a safe, winning attack.
So I started going through graveyards and counting, and at some point the judge watching the match told me I was taking too long.
So I started going through graveyards and counting, and at some point the judge watching the match told me I was taking too long.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As is often the case in the m-u, our libraries were almost empty and I wanted to count copies of a few cards in both graveyards to make a safe, winning attack.
So I started going through graveyards and counting, and at some point the judge watching the match told me I was taking too long.
So I started going through graveyards and counting, and at some point the judge watching the match told me I was taking too long.