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• Simplicity: The rules are extremely easy to understand. Get your opponent out of the ring or knock them down. Don't grab the topknot or hit with a closed fist. That's pretty much it. (There are a few corner case things, but those aren't important in 98% of bouts)
• Stakes: There are no points. Every match is best-of-one. Win or lose, it's over quick, and there's no runback. The matches are fast, too; it can be over in 3 seconds. Every fraction of a second matters.
• Athleticism: Don't let their size fool you. These guys are strong, limber, and fast. It makes things all the more exhilarating when you see guys outright lift or throw another. Some of the smaller rikishi like Asakoryu are sculpted like statues.
• Personality and Style: Like in "pro" wrestling, each rikishi has a distinct personality to attach to, and their styles are signature. Unlike pro wrestling, there's no script. It's real. A few of them even have quick intros they get into before they step into the ring. It's easy to get attached to a favorite or three.
• Injuries: It's a combat sport, and people get hurt -- but it's extremely rare for someone to outright get knocked out or get concussions. This keeps stakes high without any feelings of guilt in cheering for brain damage.
• Frequency: Barring a big injury, you'll be seeing your favorite guy compete all 15 days. No waiting for months on end for the next fight!

Ah shit

here we go again

tagging

I love undertale and love seeing others play through it

I really want that card but can't justify the price for it.

Does rule zero just not happen?

• Fetchlands
• Black Lotus
• Trample
• Kamigawa
• This combo that deals infinite damage only if the twin prime conjecture is true
• Future Sight Borders
• Chains of Mephistopheles
• Shandalar (video game)
• Yawgmoth's Will
• Sagas
• Unstable
• Stifle
• FF X Magic crossover -- They NAILED it! The draft format's an all-timer and perhaps the most balanced ever, and the cards had tons of care put into them to be evocative of the source material while still mechanically sound. You can Suplex the Phantom Train! It needed to be around for longer! Yes, Vivi is a problem, but one ding doesn't ruin a wonderful thing. (I'm counting Ulti's here too)
• Getting rid of mana burn -- I was skeptical at the time, but it opened a lot of design space previously locked away, and it rarely came up anyway. It did nerf some neat niche cards in older sets, but the upside is worth it.

• Shard Phoenix
• Timmy, Johnny and Spike archetypes
• Azorius
• Artist alters
• Rancor
• Ixalan (the setting)
• Oracle of the Alpha
• Slivers
• trying to play anything when your opponent has two open blue mana
• Mono-green stompy
• Pro Tour
• Booster Tutor
• Goyfs
• Bloomburrow
• Damage redirection
• Duress -- Rock solid staple, constantly in Standard as it should be.

• Splitskin Doll
• Universes Beyond
• 3-mana 4/3s
• Beebles
• Authority of the Consuls
• Mystic Remora
• Exodia
• Ponies: The Galloping
• Stax
• Vivi
• How cards' visuals have changed
• Force spike
• Red deck wins
• Planeswalkers (card type)
• Arclight Phoenix -- It seemed really cool at the time, but Arclight mirrors in Pioneer were such a drag to watch and to play. It's too easy to make work. Newbies to the deck forget that the trigger happens during combat, not when you cast the third spell.
• Oran-Rief Ooze -- It's fine. There are cooler things to do with +1/+1 counters, but it's not embarrassing.
• ETB Effects -- They were cooler when you didn't see them everywhere. Now they just exist.

• Every crossover ever
• Nicol Bolas
• -1/-1 counters
• Sacrificeable artifact tokens
• Little Girl (card)
• Mirrodin
• Gotcha
• 2-card infinite combos
• Wizards of the Coast
• The Jacetice League (term) -- That's pretty much what they were, but it still made me cringe sometimes hearing it.

• Damage on the stack
• How quickly sets come out now
• "Booster Fun"
• Field of the Dead
• Phyrexian Mana
• Snow
• Karn, the Great Creator
• Look at Me, I'm the DCI -- The joke didn't land for me then, and it doesn't land now. I guess it was the prototype for Cranial Extraction, so that's neat.

Damn, 36 hours is rough.

I don't know if I can offer and real suggestions that haven't been said. I use melatonin occasionally, and that's been helpful (though I've been explicitly careful not to use it too frequently).

Do you have any sort of exercise routine during the week? Running has helped me a lot with sleeping (and also helps mitigate back pain too).

• I use caffeine maybe once every two years, since it doesn't make me feel "less tired" but instead like I have electricity constantly shocking me. I've also never had alcohol in my life, nor any other "drug" one might think of, even marijuana.
• Since I got my new job last year, I have been able to maintain a consistent "waking up" schedule.
• I hate short-form content, but I definitely am talking on Discord up until bedtime, so that might give a little help.

the Luocha Cone for....Ghalagher, I assume (Luocha is locked to the Castorice Team and that Cone doesn't do much there, meanwhile it could be wild for Ghalagher I think?)

ugh why cant people just say tribal? You arent even using the replacement term Kindred correctly.

• Fetchlands
• Black Lotus
• Trample
• Kamigawa
• This combo that deals infinite damage only if the twin prime conjecture is true
• Future Sight Borders
• Chains of Mephistopheles
• Shandalar (video game)
• Yawgmoth's Will
• Sagas
• Unstable
• Stifle -- Complete trdl bias, this card was my jam. I've done so many tricky things with this unassuming "narrow" card: countered fetchlands and wasteland, stopped Stoneforge triggers, even saved myself from a "lose the game" Pact trigger that remains my coolest play ever.

• Shard Phoenix
• Timmy, Johnny and Spike archetypes
• Azorius
• Artist alters
• Rancor
• Ixalan (the setting)
• Oracle of the Alpha
• Slivers
• trying to play anything when your opponent has two open blue mana
• Mono-green stompy
• Pro Tour
• Booster Tutor -- It's a super cool gimmick! Unfortunately, it quickly gets out of control if you're playing 1v1 3-game matches, as you run out of packs and/or money fast. Even in Cube, it's easy to exhaust spare packs without some house rules. Use sparingly!
• Goyfs -- For some reason, they always put a smile on my face. Probably because I played Tarmogoyf so many times in my life.
• Bloomburrow -- I've never cared for kindred sets, but this is the best one ever. The art is wonderful, the story is locally concentrated (as the best MTG stories are), and the mechanics... yeah, like most kindred sets, we had some problems in Constructed. Not Bitterblossom-level, but it still required bans. Side note, I've never been able to draft kindred sets well; Bloomburrow remains the only format in which I've never trophied on Arena.
• Damage redirection -- I understand why this is made so rarely, but I adore the silliness that can result. Harm's Way is one of my favorite cards.

• Splitskin Doll
• Universes Beyond
• 3-mana 4/3s
• Beebles
• Authority of the Consuls
• Mystic Remora
• Exodia
• Ponies: The Galloping
• Stax
• Vivi
• How cards' visuals have changed
• Force spike
• Red deck wins
• Planeswalkers (card type) -- They started out bad, but they've gotten more clever over time. I disagree with Emeraldegg in that I think WotS planeswalkers were horrible; their static abilities were either useless or horribly overtuned. I'm glad we see far fewer of them now. There just isn't as much design space there as with most other card types.

• Every crossover ever
• Nicol Bolas
• -1/-1 counters
• Sacrificeable artifact tokens
• Little Girl (card)
• Mirrodin
• Gotcha
• 2-card infinite combos
• Wizards of the Coast -- A hollow shell of what was. A friend of mine from grad school worked there after graduation and left after less than two years because the management is awful. Just like Blizzard is actually Activision, WotC is just Hasbro now. There are a lot of passionate people there who are making good designs despite the awful demands, so I can't send them to the dungeon in good conscience.

• Damage on the stack
• How quickly sets come out now
• "Booster Fun"
• Field of the Dead
• Phyrexian Mana
• Snow -- It's mildly interesting as part of a draft format by making people value drafting basics, but it's a shitshow for Constructed. There should NOT be strictly better versions of basics. smh my head.
• Karn, the Great Creator -- More artifact bs, recursive tutoring, who could've possibly seen this snapping a format in half. Shocked pikachu face. It's not even an inspired design like Phyrexian mana arguably was.

• Fetchlands
• Black Lotus
• Trample
• Kamigawa
• This combo that deals infinite damage only if the twin prime conjecture is true
• Future Sight Borders
• Chains of Mephistopheles
• Shandalar (video game)
• Yawgmoth's Will
• Sagas -- One of the best flavorful and mechanical wins ever. Employing them as part of FF summons was genius.
• Unstable -- A masterpiece of a set. A phenomenal draft format, silly-yet-cohesive faction identities -- it's a Magic set that happens to have funny jokes, not vice versa. I'd love to draft it again someday.

• Shard Phoenix
• Timmy, Johnny and Spike archetypes
• Azorius
• Artist alters
• Rancor
• Ixalan (the setting)
• Oracle of the Alpha
• Slivers
• trying to play anything when your opponent has two open blue mana -- Actually fun. Sometimes, you have to make them have it. Sometimes you can play around it. Control mirrors are boring as hell to watch but super fun to play. The most common issue is when people try to hold back for too long.
• Mono-green stompy -- It's a fun deck to just play big idiots and smash. I'd love to see it come back in Standard.
• Pro Tour -- It's nice to have it back. I don't follow it like I used to on account of having a job and a dog, but it's awesome to see the best players square off and cheer for favorites. It helps that I actually know some of them IRL. Coverage has gotten good since its return, too. It needs better marketing.

• Splitskin Doll
• Universes Beyond
• 3-mana 4/3s
• Beebles
• Authority of the Consuls
• Mystic Remora
• Exodia
• Ponies: The Galloping
• Stax
• Vivi
• How cards' visuals have changed
• Force spike -- It always feels bad to get hit by it, but you probably deserved it.
• Red deck wins -- A staple of Standard and Pauper formats. When RDW is good, it's the sign of a healthy meta. When it's TOO good, though, it's extremely oppressive and annoying. That said, taking RDW to a tough event takes way more skill than most people realize.

• Every crossover ever
• Nicol Bolas
• -1/-1 counters
• Sacrificeable artifact tokens
• Little Girl (card)
• Mirrodin
• Gotcha -- It's fun one time. After that it's annoying. Carnivorous Death-Parrot having its ability force you to say all five "Gotcha" names in a cycle was clever.
• 2-card infinite combos -- They're so boring nowadays. Actually, they've been boring since Splinter Twin. I find Rube Goldberg machine combos fun, but every time some Commanderpilled jackass tutors for Splinter Twin or Exquisite Blood, I just wonder why they bothered playing and wasting everyone's time. They're unhealthy for 1v1, too, imo.

• Damage on the stack
• How quickly sets come out now
• "Booster Fun" -- Vomit-inducing name that feels dystopian. Call them anything else. They don't make boosters more fun than they otherwise would be.
• Field of the Dead -- "Surely this can't be broken, let's make it non-legendary" -- statements by the utterly deranged, probably. Turns out the deck's pretty easy to make when nonbasics are already good, and it's incredibly low-effort.
• Phyrexian Mana -- I've begrudgingly accepted it being on abilities that otherwise have large mana costs or spells that still require colors, but considering how it's destroyed multiple formats for multiple years, into the dungeon it goes.