# Which cards would you play more if the animations weren't sooooooo sloooooow **URL:** \ **Category:** MtGPQ General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125 "2024-07-16T16:14:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/1 "2024-07-16T16:14:45Z")
I’ll start: Tainted Adversary Ooh, and Kylox’s Voltstrider, too ---
**Author:** ![khurram](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/khurram/32/3750_2.png) [@khurram](https://forums.505go.com/u/khurram)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/2 "2024-07-16T16:38:23Z")
Healer of the Pride. I don’t have it but i hate facing it because of the stupid animations and slow conversion. ---
**Author:** ![khurram](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/khurram/32/3750_2.png) [@khurram](https://forums.505go.com/u/khurram)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/3 "2024-07-16T16:42:10Z")
Jetmir, Nexus of Revels. Cemetery Protector. ---
**Author:** ![khurram](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/khurram/32/3750_2.png) [@khurram](https://forums.505go.com/u/khurram)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/4 "2024-07-16T16:43:18Z")
Fear of Death. Oh god, how i hate the animations for that card. Debuff animation is applied for every single card in the graveyard. So unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![khurram](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/khurram/32/3750_2.png) [@khurram](https://forums.505go.com/u/khurram)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/5 "2024-07-16T16:48:13Z")
I’ll also take this moment to mention the unnecessary discard like animations for Days Undoing before all cards are shuffled back into players’ libraries. It wastes your time and it doesn’t make sense since the cards aren’t being discarded. Bring back the original animation, which was cards in both hands just disappearing all at once and then each player drew fresh cards. ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/6 "2024-07-16T20:38:48Z")
Ooh, Implicit Maze reminded me of this one: Walking Archive ---
**Author:** ![Sarah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/sarah/32/9261_2.png) [@Sarah](https://forums.505go.com/u/Sarah)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/7 "2024-07-17T15:41:36Z")
I dread opening packs because the animation gives me a headache. I hate that they’ve randomized the order new cards are displayed. ---
**Author:** ![Abracadavers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/abracadavers/32/8164_2.png) [@Abracadavers](https://forums.505go.com/u/Abracadavers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/8 "2024-07-18T14:15:41Z")
Valor in Akros, Path of Discovery, and March of the Multitudes. ---
**Author:** ![Keyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Keyler](https://forums.505go.com/u/Keyler)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/9 "2024-07-26T23:36:20Z")
> [@Sarah](#): > > I dread opening packs because the animation gives me a headache. I hate that they’ve randomized the order new cards are displayed. It will be more interesting if we could skip the animations and watch directly the result, almost always points from dupe cards. ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/10 "2024-07-31T19:17:42Z")
Notice now that whenever Greg shoots your creatures with a kill spell, _two_ graphical streamers crawl across the screen towards the creature, instead of one. Wrong way, guys!!! ---
**Author:** ![ambrosio191](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@ambrosio191](https://forums.505go.com/u/ambrosio191)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/11 "2024-08-01T15:59:12Z")
Pretty much every card that makes more than 1 token is borderline unplayable. Anything that reapplies buffs/debuffs based on number of reinforcements is unplayable, especially when dealing with tokens. Since I’m currently using him in a match, Koth1s 3rd ability takes forever to apply it’s buffs every time 3 red gems are matched. Commodore Guffs 2nd ability takes forever to resolve, even when nothing else is triggering off the tokens. I never use B/G Garruks 3rd because of the tokens and the buff animations. There are so many PWs that are either unplayable or cant be fully utilized because of the slow animations. Honestly now a days I cant handle any form of loop deck either because it takes so long to cycle through all the animations. ---
**Author:** ![Firstofhisname419](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Firstofhisname419](https://forums.505go.com/u/Firstofhisname419)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/12 "2024-08-04T22:21:47Z")
I’ll say any card that makes multiple tokens. We’ve been begging for years to turn off token animations! ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/13 "2024-09-06T16:36:30Z")
I starting to get annoyed waiting for all the tokens to spawn off the vanguard Archangel Elspeth > [@Sarah](#): > > I dread opening packs because the animation gives me a headache. I hate that they’ve randomized the order new cards are displayed. I usually open packs while I’m watching TV and just ignore the screen 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/14 "2024-09-13T12:50:56Z")
Chalk Outline is another slow token animation card in Standard… > [@Firstofhisname419](#): > > I’ll say any card that makes multiple tokens. We’ve been begging for years to turn off token animations! Hear hear! Speeding up token animations would be an excellent QoL improvement, and one which would be very popular with the players! I’m not sure they could turn these animations off completely? There are other effects in the game which trigger when creatures come into play. But you could certainly speed up these animations a _lot_. Perhaps they are concerned that new players to the game won’t be able to understand what’s happening if the animations are too fast? This issue could be solved by including fast animations as an option in the settings menu. The Card Visual Aid option, already in the settings menu, was introduced as an early attempt to speed the game up… _altho The Card Visual Aid is a less successful one, since playing with the Card Visual Aid off actually withholds information from the player during play, since it no longer shows the players the supports which Greg puts into play… many a player has unwittingly walked into an Insidious Will since then!_ ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/15 "2024-09-28T14:57:56Z")
Here’s the game taking so long to play all the zombie tokens from a single casting of Tainted Adversary that the loop timer kicks in thinking the game must have gotten stuck in an infinite loop… this is not a hard thing to achieve ![image.jpg](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/original/2X/e/e8607a0fc74ec23c6c0114da2d6a056db2eeecb8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/16 "2024-10-16T17:12:53Z")
Waiting for Grist’s ultimate takes a looooooong tiiiiiiiime Today I had to wait for Greg to play 66 Insect tokens with his ultimate; and then at the end of the turn [he shot his own insects with an **Unfortunate Accident**](https://forums.505go.com/discussion/90717/greg-still-killing-his-own-creatures-and-pumping-his-opponents-2024/) ---
**Author:** ![ambrosio191](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@ambrosio191](https://forums.505go.com/u/ambrosio191)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/17 "2024-10-16T17:55:06Z")
Grist’s 3rd is particularly bad because it summons the insect tokens first, then deals the damage. It’s pointless building to use his 3rd as a finisher when you have to wait an eternity to spawn the tokens. ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/18 "2024-11-06T13:47:08Z")
Duelist of the Mind ![image.jpg](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/original/2X/d/dc86f99e504ee237b1591944271e653d7cf3ee48.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Janosik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/janosik/32/5129_2.png) [@Janosik](https://forums.505go.com/u/Janosik)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/19 "2025-01-28T10:14:39Z")
I’ve been mastering Selvala, Eager Trailblazer during RevP but I had to take her out of the deck before I finished because I just couldn’t stand how long her animations took. Powerful card, too! ![image.jpg](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/original/2X/d/d26d75a93e643399e89c2eb87f1d1fb43a2b0726.jpeg) A quick reminder that this thread isn’t just about grousing, but to illustrate the point that the slow animations, which we’ve been asking for an improvement to for _years_, have a real effect on limiting the cards that we play, even really good ones! ---
**Author:** ![Asylamb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forums.505go.com/asylamb/32/8886_2.png) [@Asylamb](https://forums.505go.com/u/Asylamb)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.505go.com/t/which-cards-would-you-play-more-if-the-animations-werent-sooooooo-sloooooow/61125/20 "2025-01-29T17:34:12Z")
This card is already in Legacy, but “Nadier, Agent of Duskenel” I used to pair with “Liliana, Death’s Majesty”'s A1 would give me some coffee breaks.