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Batterypowered7 posted:Battlebond Duals (didn't screenshot) I wanna put that Brain and Wand in my Prosper deck cause I want all that treasure.  That Brass Dragon is going to be super gross in an Ur-Dragon deck.
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Ur-Dragon and Prosper getting some sweet tech is very nice. Minsc and Boo feels like it belongs in Changeling tribal.
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Battlebond dual reprint is all I needed to get hype. Those lands kick rear end.
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Mar 24, 2022 23:13
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Brass Dragon needs to immediately go into my mono-black reanimator deck.
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Reflecting Pool reprint! A portion of the set will also be coming to Arena for Alchemy.
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If y’all want updates from those Wizards events but can’t watch live you can follow me on Twitter, I live tweet them every time. @CMDRMechanic
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Balon posted:If y’all want updates from those Wizards events but can’t watch live you can follow me on Twitter, I live tweet them every time. @CMDRMechanic Oh hey I noticed you're in the latest Mind Sculptors podcast. Nice.
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Framboise posted:Oh hey I noticed you're in the latest Mind Sculptors podcast. Nice. Ye Cal and I are tight. I’m doing more analysis stuff for the MLC like I did last year.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Battlebond Duals (didn't screenshot) Cool card but how is a Brass Dragon or any of the metallic dragons a black card?
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I figure even metallic dragons are pretty selfish, self absorbed, and greedy.
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Bugsy posted:Cool card but how is a Brass Dragon or any of the metallic dragons a black card? Conversely, why was there a chromatic dragon in white in TFR? I think it's just stretching the color themes a bit for the sake of balancing a cycle. 
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Aranan posted:I figure even metallic dragons are pretty selfish, self absorbed, and greedy. Heliod is white, for what it's worth
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https://youtu.be/IpI53U57rpo Hilariously fun Playing with Power episode with Kyle Hill. And under 20 minutes
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This is, uh, extremely cool and weird and dorky and progressive all at once https://twitter.com/forestsolringgo/status/1499771228768382978?s=21 TLDR: lots of trans players and allies doing a Phyrexian charity commander stream to support trans advocacy groups in Texas. Apparently members of the MtG trans community have… identified with Phyrexian Compleation as an analog for their transgender journies, hence the theme of this gigantic charity stream. Honestly, I am not trans, but as a queer nerd this seems insanely funny and cool to me, like hosting a Legion of Doom panel on recycling ocean plastic into killer robots, but goddam if it isn’t a great cause either way!
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Bust Rodd posted:This is, uh, extremely cool and weird and dorky and progressive all at once That’s a really cool idea for the community, thanks for sharing!
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Railing Kill posted:Conversely, why was there a chromatic dragon in white in TFR? I think it's just stretching the color themes a bit for the sake of balancing a cycle. They make a decent cycle is the thing. 5 chromatic, 5 metallic, 5 colors. I woulda probably picked Copper instead of Brass for black, but there's enough unique stuff about each type to come up with more pie matches beyond just "Black is bad guys".
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theironjef posted:They make a decent cycle is the thing. 5 chromatic, 5 metallic, 5 colors. I woulda probably picked Copper instead of Brass for black, but there's enough unique stuff about each type to come up with more pie matches beyond just "Black is bad guys". also they already did Gold... and it was a gold card.
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This is cool but also very weird. Why the hell did they use compleation as a metaphor for transitioning? Compleation is FORCED upon people. EDIT: also, IIRC, the majority of Phyrexians have no gender at all. Seriously they could not have picked a worse metaphor. Gynovore fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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Yeah as a trans person myself that's really offputting in ways I can't quite put a finger on
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The Shortest Path posted:Yeah as a trans person myself that's really offputting in ways I can't quite put a finger on Because compleation is assimilation, and as a metaphor for transitioning it makes it sound like the kind of thing conservatives accuse transgender people of doing (recruiting or outright brainwashing people to turn them into soldiers for the cause) I also had the thought that it seemed very ill-advised for that reason but I'm not trans so
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New Capenna commander hints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSjce9ltGg #1: There's a creature with an activated ability that can only be activated in a creature fought this turn #2: A card with the clue subtype #3: A legendary creature of a type that people have been asking about for years #4: A card that fits in mechanically with a cycle from Invasion block #5: A new twist on a cycle that first appeared in a previous Commander product #6: A non-creature card with three instances of the word "three" and three instances of the number 3 #7: A card which begins "At the beginning of your upkeep each opponent chooses money, friends, or secrets..." #8: A legendary creature which cares about three creature types that have never been batched together before #9: A sorcery that only has 8 lines of rule text #10: Tons of returning one-off mechanics, including one that Gavin never thought he'd see again And, five card names, one for each color: In Too Deep Jailbreak Dodgy Jalopy Misfortune Teller Life of the Party
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People who don’t have the luxury of a wide selection of role models or identities take what they can get, whatever clicks with them, good or bad. It’s why a lot of queer folks in the 90’s became so enamored with Disney and comic book villains, they were all queer coded and it was either that or the drag queen alligator from All Dogs Go to Heaven, we didn’t have any other gay characters to look up to. Not saying that makes it less weird, but I can understand how they arrived where they are. And obviously anything that combats the transphobia taking place in Texas right now is good. Also, coordinating that large of stream is no small feat, seems like a lot of people are involved.
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But there are explicitly trans, nonbinary and queer characters in Magic. Why identify with the horrifying cenobites and their process of of corrupting people? Like given what queer people are often accused of and hated for, and then looking at the monsters who forcibly impose their will on others, and are the literal world-ending embodiment of evil, go around destroying societies, and are basically parasitically imperialist, and going "yeah, this is queer coded" seems ... Wrong? It seems like becoming un-compleated would be a better metaphor, since you could break away from the people imposing their vision on you and be yourself again.
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Heath posted:But there are explicitly trans, nonbinary and queer characters in Magic. Why identify with the horrifying cenobites and their process of of corrupting people? Part of the problem is that media frequently only depicts members of marginalized groups in villainous ways. People find comfort and inspiration where they find it, and many fandoms engage in a lot of picking and choosing what they like or identify with about something.
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Also, to my knowledge, Magic had one openly trans character and she was from Tarkir, so it’s unclear if she even exists anymore, and anyone who started playing within the last TEN YEARS might not even know she exists.
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Trans Lives, who Smile at Death has kind of an awkward ring to it as well, sadly.
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Yeah, that event does kinda read weird to me, but I'm not LGBTQ so my opinion doesn't really matter much. If they're doing good and having fun with it, gently caress it, they could identify with Nazis for all I care (please do not identify with Nazis even if you are doing [legitimate] good for the world).
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imagine dungeons posted:Maybe not that. You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to ‘em.”
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serefin99 posted:Yeah, that event does kinda read weird to me, but I'm not LGBTQ so my opinion doesn't really matter much. If they're doing good and having fun with it, gently caress it, they could identify with Nazis for all I care (please do not identify with Nazis even if you are doing [legitimate] good for the world). Uhm, about that... quote:Phyrexia has at its core a very gritty and mentally enticing philosophy. The ideas themselves are collectively called 'Phyresis', a phrase coined by Yawgmoth himself. This system is largely based upon the will to survive and the concept of controlled evolution. The key idea of the Phyrexians is comparable to social Darwinism; evolution by removal of all the foes of the favorable species, the Phyrexians. This is applied socially, by way of eugenics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6LnVOV1SX8 (Also, I hope their event does gangbusters, and they raise a ton of money for this very worthy cause, even if I think their metaphor isn't the best thought out)
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I think it also bears mentioning that the overlap between “people who know what Phyrexia is” and “people who are anti-trans” is honestly pretty small in the grand scheme of things, so really the only people who might get the “wrong message” are the people who would be the most likely to understand what they were going for anyway. I doubt their is some mythical conservative, anti-trans magic player who sees this flyer and goes “a ha, I knew it! The TRANS agenda, that is EXACTLY how they spread it!” and if someone is literally that stupid then no one has to care what they think, IMO.
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Sorry for Double but: https://twitter.com/competitiveedh/status/1507457557493092354?s=21 https://twitter.com/nickrhammond/status/1507706661107949571?s=21&t=o0cRGUfTUwT3zBHeRsWj8A Biggest NA cEDH conference is popping off today! Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Bust Rodd posted:I think it also bears mentioning that the overlap between “people who know what Phyrexia is” and “people who are anti-trans” is honestly pretty small in the grand scheme of things, so really the only people who might get the “wrong message” are the people who would be the most likely to understand what they were going for anyway. I doubt their is some mythical conservative, anti-trans magic player who sees this flyer and goes “a ha, I knew it! The TRANS agenda, that is EXACTLY how they spread it!” and if someone is literally that stupid then no one has to care what they think, IMO. I guess you haven't seen thr newest RemyMTG video then
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I'm taking a shot at building a Greasefang vehicles/reanimator deck. Does anyone have any insight into what the ratio of vehicles to critters should be? I've got around 20 relatively low-powered creatures, with plenty of ways to recur them and cheat them into play, and 15 vehicles.
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LachlanJ posted:I'm taking a shot at building a Greasefang vehicles/reanimator deck. Does anyone have any insight into what the ratio of vehicles to critters should be? I've got around 20 relatively low-powered creatures, with plenty of ways to recur them and cheat them into play, and 15 vehicles. Looking at Scryfall, the only high-impact vehicles with crew 4 or less seem to be Parhelion, Weatherlight, and Skysovereign. There's half a dozen more that are fat but don't do much else. EDIT: Also Surgehacker Mech is decent. Gynovore fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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LachlanJ posted:I'm taking a shot at building a Greasefang vehicles/reanimator deck. Does anyone have any insight into what the ratio of vehicles to critters should be? I've got around 20 relatively low-powered creatures, with plenty of ways to recur them and cheat them into play, and 15 vehicles. Here are 3 lists from people who are really good at building decks: Callahan of the Mindsculptors Mons of CEDH TV DeathMagic of Veil of Death
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LachlanJ posted:I'm taking a shot at building a Greasefang vehicles/reanimator deck. Does anyone have any insight into what the ratio of vehicles to critters should be? I've got around 20 relatively low-powered creatures, with plenty of ways to recur them and cheat them into play, and 15 vehicles. I have a list & deck tech up on my channel. Search CommanderMechanic on YouTube
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Stupid question about The Professor's Academic Kickstarter deck box: I would like to purchase the standard deckbox, the sizemorph divider in kickstarter white, then the kickstarter special tokens. I don't really want the life counter thingy. Am I reading the kickstarter correctly, that if I change my pledge amount to those individual items total ($49+$5+$18) then I'm good to go? I've backed uhh one thing on kickstarter and have no idea what I'm doing, lol
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