Mara, Hugger of Gods @DialMforMara@wubrg.social

I propose that the official capitalization for the name of our instance is the same as for xkcd: All caps at the beginning of the sentence ("WUBRG is a Mastodon instance"), all lower case everywhere else ("On wubrg, we put new card reveals behind content warnings"), never title case. Any objections?

"Lukka awoke in a swamp."

If that's not a color identity shift I don't know what is.

Also still don't know who screwed him up, and that's gonna bug me now.

Ikoria isn’t the Godzilla plane.

It’s the Pokemon plane.

Honestly this makes me wonder whether Ikoria has non-monster animals that they’re basing their descriptions on (yes I know there were sheep in chapter 1, but they could easily be just as pokemon as anything else)

In lighter news, I found Durdle Turtle:

“Directly opposite the bastion was a true giant, a monstrous elemental-clade thing like a turtle, on whose back was a rocky mountain peak, somehow white with snow. Its craggy top rose nearly as high as the wall itself, and smaller monsters clung to it like swarming ants.”

Update: I am so mad at Lukka right now

But I am orders of magnitude madder that I cannot personally strangle whoever gave him control of the Ozolith

“From an ecological point of view, your country is impossible. Too many predators, not enough prey, and each hunter different from the rest. This is why I wished to study it more closely.”

Vivien Reid, D&D Skeptic

“And what would you want in return for this assistance?”

“Merely to accompany you for a time,” she said. “And, I suspect, irritate you with questions on matters you consider obvious.”

Turns out I like Vivien

the flavor text on this one
https://twitter.com/dogdog/status/1247237430912135169

https://twitter.com/bmkibler/status/1247190331969294338

Twitter, Ikoria previews: the best love story you'll read this year

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/ikoria-lair-behemoths-story-cards-2020-04-03

Again, of two minds on the lore blurbs. Last time they were a disaster, but the field notes thing actually works.

Also excited about baby cat dinosaurs.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/ikoria-commander-2020-04-03

Here's how they're doing the Ikoria Commander decks.

I don't know if I should be angry they're reprinting Arcane Signet because it means they're repeating the mistake they made with the Eldraine Brawl decks, or happy they've finally chosen to reduce the resale price of a Commander staple.

also really excited about the 3-color mana rocks

This is going straight into Ariel's deck

https://scryfall.com/card/iko/200/primal-empathy

https://scryfall.com/card/iko/211/sprite-dragon

found the card that's literally me