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I guess if your deck can't prevent or get rid of a 2/2, thief of sanity sucks.

I enjoyed that era of standard, so I must have been running a deck that countered it

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True!

Getting one card isn't too bad. it's definitely fair to say it is personal preference. Neither is crazy offensive

You were mentioning the card instantly winning games so I thought you thought it was very powerful.

Why did you pick gonti instead of hostage taker if not for power reasons?

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Also, they should've said how many people charmed wrex and how many intimidated him

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Bioware games used to have classes that were explicitly worse at combat. They had more utility outside of combat (unlocking doors, opening treasure cheats, and hacking computers, most commonly) but you typically didn't need more than one

When playing a long-form game I'd typically pick a combat class so I could carry whatever team I wanted on adventures

Using spells is fun, but in the end I just want to get to the plot as efficiently as possible

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this isn't crying, this is enforcing contracts

it's the perfect thing for the legal system to take care of

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LordoftheMorons posted...

How did people actually verify that decks followed the relevant restrictions?

i understand the fear, but... probably the same way that people actually verify you don't have 5 or more copies of a card in your deck

masterplum posted...

The bigger problem was that in other formats you could build decks around companions like [Gyruda] which played basically nothing but even costed clone effects to keep spinning the wheels over and over again.

Gyruda was such a funny, stupid deck. It wasn't even good- it was a giant rock-paper-scissors extravaganza that automatically lost to like 80% of the metagame. I'm glad it fell out of favor quickly, because the 20% of the decks it automatically beat were fun and important to the metagame.

TomNook posted...

Companion was such a mess that Wizards changed the rules on how it works. Lutri was also banned in EDH a few minutes after the card got spoiled, which was unprecedented.

Poor Lutri! It has a genuinely restrictive condition in every normal format. I'm actually kind of proud of wotc for printing it. I know EDH is the cash cow, but I don't want it dictating what can or cannot appear in standard, modern, etc.

masterplum posted...

Gonti

Another proof of diversity of opinions! I'm a fan of 'steal yo card' effects. I'm not a huge fan of gonti because it's an unstoppable ETB effect. Stuff like robber of the rich, hostage taker, and thief of sanity all give your opponent some ability to play around it. Gonti is 'have counterspells or get lucky'

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the game's a really neat puzzle box

my only real complaint is that in order to fully beat the game without cheating by looking up hints online, you'd have to spend a LOT, LOT, LOT of time searching through areas that might be red herrings or dead ends

once the game actually starts (after about 30 minutes of playing), the next, i dunno, 8 to 10 hours are really neat. you can kind of explore anywhere and expect to learn something new/find a new clue. once that starts drying up it becomes more frustrating

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i have no idea but i'll throw in some horrible guesses. there's absolutely no way i'd be able to guess a nostalgia pick

2 White Cards - Elesh Norn, Savannah Lion (?)
1 Black Card - Dark Ritual (runners up, Yawgmoth's Will, Phage the Untouchable)
2 Blue Cards - Fact or Fiction, Thassa
5 Gold Cards - Athreos, Hydroid Krasis, Sphinx's Revelation, Supreme Verdict and..... Ach, Hans, Run.


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good luck my man.

sounds like you have the right attitude- let's see where this goes!

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and yeah, when i can't immediately remove my opponent's crystalline giant- and i have to wait one or two turns- it's such a butt-clenching experience. even when i know hexproof is only a 10% chance (and i will happily consider myself to have at least average luck) it still puts the fear of death in ya

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i'm happily surprised to see chub toad on the list- it's absolutely on mine. i don't know why, but this garbage common from ice age/5th edition (aka right when the cards stop being valuable) is disproportionately memorable

everything about it is funny to me. the implications of the art and flavor text rhyme really seal the deal

bushido toad in neon dynasty or riot

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in their defense, that word is somewhere is in my own personal "top 5 most difficult to remember how to spell words" in the english language


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Underleveled posted...

stereotypically ugly names like Bertha, Felicia is the big one I just can't explain

bye felicia

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any feelings i have about names are pretty much directly based on the people i know with that name. they immediately change when i meet a new person

however, i think you can gauge the society-rated relative "attractiveness" of a name based on whether the name's popularity for children is growing or sinking.

This list has a lot of the less attractive girl's names (YMMV, some are only dipping because of celebrity gossip and may recover): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girls-names-that-plummeted-in-popularity_n_5b5a010be4b0b15aba969773

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tbh minor league teams know where it's at when it comes to names

They have the

Isotopes
Yard Goats
Chihuahuas
Jumbo Shrimp
Wahoos
Rumble Ponies

etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball#Major_League_affiliations

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magic is so great and has such a history.

i feel like every mtg player on the board could make their own top 50 list and there would be practically zero overlap

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Hmm. Given that historic is already an 'arena only' format, and the cards presumably won't be legal in standard, i don't think i have any issues with that

trying to think of how it'll bite us down the road

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no shit. i don't think anyone with half a brain expects corporations to be people.

the point is to make enough progress that corporations are pressured into doing the right thing when possible, even if it's for the wrong reasons

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This has me curious- what's the greatest number of times that you've bought a game, counting all platforms and remasters?

I think these pixel remasters are cool, but i don't really need to play all of these again...

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i mean, this was low-key the worst thing about what trump did as president.

he damaged or gutted so many internal institutions and international relationships irreparably, to the point that whoever came next was not going to be able to fully recover.

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i replayed ff9 recently on steam. impossible to get it working with a controller. it wanted left and right to be bound to the left thumbstick, and up and down to be bound to the right thumbstick. i normally use DS4Windows to remap things like that, but ff9 in particular had its own system that interfered and would cause double/multiple presses.

once i resigned myself to using the keyboard it was fine. the only mechanical downside was that i no longer had "360 degrees" of movement, there were now only 8.

apparently, on the switch version, you can't toggle 3x speed in battle, it has to be in the menu. on steam, you are able to toggle 3x speed whenever you want. i don't think i could make it through the game without that ability.

the game and story itself are not remarkable. i think the main purpose was to prove that they could write a main character that wasn't depressed or messed up, after backlash over 8, and overbought their own hype in how emotionally involved people had been in their past few games.

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

I never understood the drama behind WC3 reforged, it was a perfectly cromulent remake. I guess I'm not at the l33t g0su level to notice minor engine differences, but it was great to have that game be accessible in 2021, like the BW remaster.

from what i can tell, the main complaint is that they completely broke ranked online play, like the ladders just don't exist anymore. not just in the remake, but for the original game as well

i think they introduced a bunch of random other bugs? i didn't super follow it, i'm more of a brood war/sc2 guy

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"allowed"

Who's talking about allowed? People are allowed to question whatever they want.

Are people confused about what it means to be wrong?


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The book IT had me scurrying past the sewer grate on my walk to school for years

From movies, that scene from the sixth sense when the ghost with slit wrists runs up to him from the hallway while he was peeing at night probably got me the most

But my imagination was always annoyingly "active", so any schlock horror movie with jump scares would have me on edge for days.


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i watched the show for the first time earlier this year

i thought stannis was very believable and an important character to have in order to fill out the world, even if he didn't really carry the heavy charisma normally required of a main character/winner

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good lord this topic is depressing

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I think it depends on the state.

I'd get on the phone with a human at the right number and hash it out. If you missed your court date you might be boned

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you know, somehow that ability never registered in my brain! i think i had only seen the menace clause used

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kateee posted...

and from a single glance at the card text, you can instantly tell it was because my puny child mind didnt understand how the card actually worked

As someone who played mtg as a kid, YGO cards always looked like they had horribly mangled English all over them, like the localization team didn't even care.

What does that effect mean for real? Do you have to give that creature to your opponent to get the life gain?

Also, I can already tell I'm going to want to make my own mtg copycat topic

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duckbear, are you getting medical advice from gamefaqs?

i've read that the way bites present themselves has more to do with your own immune system than the particular bug

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a mobile-only moba?

i've never played a game but it's hard to imagine the controls being excellent. maybe on the switch

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I think it's possible to make fun of Kaitlin jenner without being transphobic, and possible to make fun of people who aren't genuinely making an effort to be trans, but still want the recognition

"Heather" isn't a person that could exist in the Olympics because they have strict scientific rules

But other competitions may or may not

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I'm not concerned because my work is entirely remote.

I could hole up another year to wait for another vaccine

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good to hear you're vibing in the sweet spot!

remember to drink water

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

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also, no matter how many times this happens, every single time an opponent casts my mutate card, i get super confused. it's usually good- it's still confusing

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i know i shouldn't hate other players- it's just a game- but for whatever reason, players who fake GG on arena really get to me

if i had any emote to essentially say "i know you're faking/i don't believe you" i wouldn't get tilted

but as it stands, i just imagine them smugly thinking about how clever they are, when i see right through it and lose anyway

it's always some white/azorius/jeskai control player, too.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Don't forget the big dumb idiot 6 mana Beholder!

i did feel pretty dumb when i didn't have a removal spell saved, and my opponent top-decked a xanathar

it's a huge bomb, but it feels less offensive than all of the typical "ETB, spin in a circle and do 500 stuff" offenders

it gives you an entire turn to remove it before it completely ruins your life

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Leonhart4 posted...

It's the closest Mario 64 gets to feeling like a real platformer, so it's easily the best.

to me, this reads as "TTC is the mario 64 level that feels the least like mario"

which to me doesn't make it a good mario level

but i appreciate the genuine answer!

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if an aggressive human worked as hard and strategically as possible for 100 years, starting from nothing, with average luck, they'd earn 50 million dollars over the course of their life

this number is clearly designed for punishment rather than restitution

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yes

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jcgamer107 posted...

Whomp's shoulda been the 2nd finalist

Whomp's > BoB > CCM > TTC > BBH > HMC > THI > TTM > SSL > JRB > LLL > SML > WDW > DDD > RR

Something like that

i agree almost perfectly with the top 40% of this ranking, but can someone explain the appeal of TTC?

it's dull, grey, and small

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why'd you have to get my hopes up like this

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fair warning, this is going to be super pointless and petty

my prerelease promos are the only cards in my collection i will never trade, sell, or give away. why? they bookmark my memories- it's great having an instant reminder of when & hopefully where i was and who i was with when i experienced the event.

as of strixhaven and moving forward, they don't have the prerelease date on them, only the year. it's such a minor downgrade but for some reason it's bothering me in a sentimental way. i was gearing up to go to a physical AFR prerelease, but now i'm not super sure if i'm going to go

source: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Prerelease_card#Strixhaven:_School_of_Mages_onwards

for contrast:

old: https://www.cardkingdom.com/mtg/promotional/torgaar-famine-incarnate-prerelease-foil

new: https://www.cardkingdom.com/mtg/promotional/confront-the-past-prerelease-foil


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BetrayedTangy posted...

I was honestly ready to vote yes, then saw the gold dust. Like there's no way it actually makes the food taste better and exists just to hike up the price.

i felt the exact same way.

if i were rich i'd absolutely pay for something that tasted great/different, but the gold dust part is just embarrassing

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that being said, it might be fun developing a small game targeted for the platform just as a passion project

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UF8 posted...

likely more than steam consoles (and the unofficial handheld one) were but probably still nowhere near a hit since valve has historically demonstrated they don't have the means to market anything along these lines

this sounds about about right.

i struggle to think of a "system seller" game for the Deck. the switch is cheaper and has more exclusives, so i don't see casuals buying in

it also seems like most games will require at least some fiddling and configuration of programmable buttons to get set up comfortably

i truly like the idea but we'll see how it goes.

this costs as much as the current VR oculus quest 2

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It's so hard to imagine pc games being optimized for a handheld screen, let alone handheld controls

I'm just imagining weird UI scaling and microscopic text

This would probably have to have a certain level of adoption before developers really devote any time to targeting the platform

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pyresword posted...

I hate Companion because it reminds me of Commander.

It is honestly a miracle that I ever picked up the game when the way my friends tried to introduce me to Magic was via a 4-player game of EDH. (In their defense, I had played similar card games so I didn't really need time to learn the basic rules of the game. I was more or less fine to jump straight into a game it's just that they played a format I thought was kind of dumb >.>)

i'm with you. not a huge fan of commander, especially to teach new players with. i think it's the most complicated and difficult to keep track of format. twice as many players, most complicated board states, most diverse set of cards, etc etc

it's also lost a little bit of its original appeal, as a "play whatever garbage cards you have and you'll be fine" format, since wizards is constantly pushing out products with ridiculously good commander-targeted cards. it's become the game's primary money maker

it's also the most political format, filled with "feel-bad" moments. i was never a huge fan of the board/card game "munchkin", and that's what commander feels like to me.

it's fine as a purely social experience if you are already good at magic and just want to drink with your friends

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pyresword posted...

Book of Exalted Deeds feels to me like it could have been solved with an errata rather than a ban since there's clearly a real card there and this one particular interaction just slipped through the cracks. I guess this is only a ban for the current Standard 2022 queue on Magic Arena though, which is also a pretty small step in the grand scheme of things.

book of exalted deeds is only an issue on arena because wizards has failed to implement any form of a draw system

there's no problem in paper

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