Alex, Who Embraces the World @storycircle@wubrg.social
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We appear to be back
@Tayatranscendent to be fair, that three hours includes dinner
@Tayatranscendent and so the final attack was @ajanionthespot 's low-key Witherbloom "okay, this little tramply thing has 30 +1/+1 counters; what's your life total?"
Also an absolute flavor win.
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I had such a massive board, I could have just passed turn and easily won next turn. Instead, I deck myself with my own storm card. Out in a fiery blaze of glory. A+ from Dean Nassari.
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It was very late in the game at this point and all five players were still in, so I got 40 mana off the geyser and just started going off. By the end of combat phase I had about twenty cards in hand, killed two of my opponents, and had a storm count of 28, which I built up to cast Fiery Encore thinking I’m about to kill the other two players. Then I read the card to the table and realized I misread it as “creature or player” in my excitement over my turn and it already having been a long game.
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I did the most red mage thing ever last night. Got to play first in person commander game since last February. Since there were 5 of us, we each played a C21 deck, I was on Prismari.
We’d already been playing about three hours. I spent most of the game doing nothing because I didn’t draw a land until turn 15 or so and someone blew up my mana rocks. I finally managed to get out Charmbreaker Devils and next upkeep got back Mana geyser.
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The showcase cards have parts of the art brief as flavortext
@ajanionthespot dreadmaw cycle when
@ajanionthespot where the fuck did it get those snow symbols
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I genuinely expected a lot more trouble getting Google Translate to change "#Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar" to, well, anything at all...
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I’m going to be part of a mental health awareness month charity stream tomorrow and giving away a full Daretti commander deck. https://twitter.com/goblinlorepod/status/1398289447763025924?s=21
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/challenge-accepted-2021-05-26
A legendary creature designed around the fact that its name is too long to leave room for a casting cost
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@SliverQueen https://scryfall.com/search?q=%28t%3Aooze+or+o%3Achangeling%29+id%3Aug
yeah, with changelings Kraj even has options
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@SliverQueen I want to build this deck
...sadly not enough green oozes, but I think a Kraj deck would work.
Also want to point out that the Scryfall nickname for this card is "Ooze the Boss"
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@SliverQueen wow
What card?
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So Garth One-Eye is getting a card
I hope that makes other parts of Arena canon too. Like how Dominaria used to have "a card game that represents wizards' duels."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf
Bringing back this paper that shows that Magic the Gathering is at least as complex as a Turing machine, and that determining who wins a game can be represented by the halting problem
https://twitter.com/cubeapril/status/1396459827929526272?s=21
Twitter convo about Wastes/glass mana
The upshot: good idea, needs to show up more to actually be worth something
I think we need non-Eldrazi implementations for that to happen. Like a Thran set, or somewhere else where tech is taking over from magic. Include it in pseudo-multicolored costs, like
Frost-Resistant Tomato 1GC
Creature -- Plant
Defender
Ward 1
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uncounterable spells are an edge case I'm happy to leave out of my mental quick reference
update: in response to being reminded that menace is equally confusing, I'm trying to reframe Ward the way I think about menace
Menace reminder text: this creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures
How I remember menace: if this creature is blocked, it must be multiblocked
Ward reminder text: When this becomes the target of a spell/ability, counter it unless its controller pays X
How I'll remember ward: anything that targets this creature costs X more.
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