New emotes to promote social aspect of MTGA
Emotes I wish WotC would add to MTGA (and that I would buy if they sold them in the shop):
- Uh oh!
- BRB
- I love your deck!
- Cool card sleeves!
- I would like to play with you again sometime, my player id is: <player id>
There just aren't enough options for decent emotes to promote friendly game play or to enhance the social aspect of the game. Since players drop XP or gems on cosmetics, it would be nice to compliment their cosmetics (nice card sleeves!), it would be nice to tell ppl you are impressed with the deck they put together (i love your deck!). It would be nice to give the opp a little warning that you have to be afk for a bit so he isn't left wondering what is going on (BRB).
Most importantly, MTGA makes it far too hard to add new friends. If I play an opponent, and I like his deck and would like to play with him again, too bad for me, I don't know his ID and I'm not offered any way to friend him. So if I had an emote that could display my player ID and let the opp know I would like to play with him again some time, then he can friend me if he wants to.
Finally, one of the fun interactions in face-to-face play is that "uh oh" response or look when your opponent plays a real monster of a card. Would be nice to have an emote like that.
All the emotes in the store seem silly, not useful, or just dumb threats "prepare for destruction".... blah blah blah. Let's have a friendly game, give us the means to make new friends.