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Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

sure you can write pi as a fraction.

tau/2

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Shadow225
Jan 2, 2007




Pi is literally derived from a fraction.

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

dragon enthusiast posted:

pi is a transcendental number you phillistine

:thejoke:

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Shadow225 posted:

Pi is literally derived from a fraction.

a fraction is a ratio of two integers

the circumfrence and diameter cannot both be integers, so pi is not a fraction, despite being defined as the ratio of two values

Eela6
May 25, 2007
Shredded Hen
Strangely, this is the most rational argument we've had in this thread.

Emptyquoter
Feb 26, 2014

dragon enthusiast posted:

pi is a transcendental number you phillistine

THE BLACK NINJA
Mar 9, 2010

Eela6 posted:

Strangely, this is the most rational argument we've had in this thread.

:zoid: Nice.

Angry Grimace
Jul 29, 2010

ACTUALLY IT IS VERY GOOD THAT THE SHOW IS BAD AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE WHY THAT'S GOOD IS AN IDIOT. JUST ENJOY THE BAD SHOW INSTEAD OF THINKING.

cheetah7071 posted:

The decimal part of pi is only about 1% higher than 1/7. You will basically never have a scenario where tracking it as 3 and 1/7 damage instead of as pi makes a difference

Though since apparently a bunch of magic players can't figure out how X works without someone telling them, 3 and 1/7 might be too much math anyways

What if you gain 2 life, then take π damage seven times?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
e: never mind, I thought pi was slightly higher than 22/7, it's actually slightly lower

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010

LifeLynx
Feb 27, 2001

Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time
Grimey Drawer

For those of you who don't read Maro's Twitter past the actual spoiler, this is the vanilla mythic he's been teasing for a few sets now. I'm somewhere between apathetic and disappointed that we can't speculate on what the black-bordered vanilla mythic could be anymore.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

BJPaskoff posted:

For those of you who don't read Maro's Twitter past the actual spoiler, this is the vanilla mythic he's been teasing for a few sets now. I'm somewhere between apathetic and disappointed that we can't speculate on what the black-bordered vanilla mythic could be anymore.

A vanilla 20/20 would be a plausible if unexciting mythic imo

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice
An artifact that flips into a 20/20 flying, indestructible land

Count Bleck
Apr 5, 2010

DISPEL MAGIC!

myDad posted:

An artifact that flips into a 20/20 flying, indestructible land

Marit's Lag(e)oon

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
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cheetah7071 posted:

a fraction is a ratio of two integers

the circumfrence and diameter cannot both be integers, so pi is not a fraction, despite being defined as the ratio of two values

That's a rational number. Fractions can involve all sorts of numbers, not just integers.

is that good
Apr 14, 2012

Dr. Stab posted:

That's a rational number. Fractions can involve all sorts of numbers, not just integers.
This is a useless definition for a class given that literally any number can be expressed as a numerator of itself and a denominator of one. Just because you can have ratios of all sorts of numbers doesn't mean rational numbers don't specify integers.

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice

Count Bleck posted:

Marit's Lag(e)oon

:haw:

Pharohman777
Jan 14, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
Quietus lagspike

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice
Sunbird's Invocation casted every spell it revealed in this EDH game just now

Some Numbers
Sep 28, 2006

"LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"
Seems fair!

President Ark
May 16, 2010

:iiam:

this is basically a phage the untouchable that can be cheated out and has some weird interactions with cards that care about creature's power

in particular, if you gain life based on its power, your health becomes infinite at which point the only thing that can kill you is this thing hitting you/being flung at you/etc - infinity minus infinity is an undefinable number and MTG rules state undefinable numbers are 0

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

President Ark posted:

this is basically a phage the untouchable that can be cheated out and has some weird interactions with cards that care about creature's power

in particular, if you gain life based on its power, your health becomes infinite at which point the only thing that can kill you is this thing hitting you/being flung at you/etc - infinity minus infinity is an undefinable number and MTG rules state undefinable numbers are 0

Lol I didn't even think about that, and Dogsnail Engine was literally the first card spoiled from the set

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.
The full art for Urza is so sick

mbt
Aug 13, 2012

with three books

"managing clutter"
"living in the now"
"sibling rivalry:
:allears:

Katana Gomai
Jan 14, 2007

"Thus," concluded Miyamoto, "you must give up everything you have to be my disciple."


me, getting out of bed in the morning

President Ark
May 16, 2010

:iiam:

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

with three books

"managing clutter"
"living in the now"
"sibling rivalry:
:allears:

he's also got that inner tube he was using in urza's hot tub hanging from something in the back

e: maro mentioned just desserts and "maybe a fraction" on tumblr - http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/167758940608/before-spoilers-someone-asked-if-there-would-be

quote:

zwomally asked: Before spoilers, someone asked if there would be fraction cards in Unstable. You said there is one that could be interpreted as such. Is that referencing Just Desserts?

(Maro's response:) Yep.

President Ark fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Nov 22, 2017

Sit on my Jace
Sep 9, 2016

Ohhhhhh

Headmaster

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

is this terese nielsen's first planeswalker art?

Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


Tainen posted:



Seems ok but it's pretty slow

I thought I would never say no to a longboi but here we are

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
So this week's puzzle is 'mythic' and SO was talking up the difficulty but it seemed pretty straightforward to me?



You really want to get blockers out of the way for your gpg zombies. So,

Play skymarcher, opp goes to 14
-3 huatli, 3 creatures can't block
go to combat, stack all four gpg triggers
in response, sac the 4 gpgs to pia, targetting 4 more blockers
resolve gpg triggers, opp to 22, stack storm sculptor etbs
return pia and skymarcher for storm sculptor
swing 32
opponent either blocks 8 or blocks 4 and gains 4 depending on what you didn't target
opponent goes to -2
3 mana to spare
fin? Am I missing something?


bleh Temmet's legendary nvm

Fuzzy Mammal fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Nov 22, 2017

Tom Clancy is Dead
Jul 13, 2011

Archenteron posted:

Dies to Heroes Downfall

Oh boy you get to kill the thing that still makes you instantly lose the game. It can activate the make token copies ability before you ever get priority.

You need a stifle effect + planeswalker removal to answer it.

Tom Clancy is Dead fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Nov 22, 2017

Elyv
Jun 14, 2013



cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

I wonder what you're supposed to do for cards printed in Asian languages

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Tom Clancy is Dead posted:

Oh boy you get to kill the thing that still makes you instantly lose the game. It can trigger the make token copies ability before you ever get priority.

You need a stifle effect + planeswalker removal to answer it.

Or just something that triggers when he enters the battlefield!

Laopooh
Jul 15, 2000

How much do you guys think wotc “influences” streamers to open chests on stream?

Play points/tix/chests/phantom...it’s like a blasted hellscape of predatory marketing :rant:

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

STONE COLD 64 posted:

is this terese nielsen's first planeswalker art?

She did the alt art Garruk and Lilis in the duel deck.

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

So this week's puzzle is 'mythic' and SO was talking up the difficulty but it seemed pretty straightforward to me?



You really want to get blockers out of the way for your gpg zombies. So,

Play skymarcher, opp goes to 14
-3 huatli, 3 creatures can't block
go to combat, stack all four gpg triggers
in response, sac the 4 gpgs to pia, targetting 4 more blockers
resolve gpg triggers, opp to 22, stack storm sculptor etbs
return pia and skymarcher for storm sculptor
swing 32
opponent either blocks 8 or blocks 4 and gains 4 depending on what you didn't target
opponent goes to -2
3 mana to spare
fin? Am I missing something?


bleh Temmet's legendary nvm

i think you just want to play javelenier, pay 2 to discard alpha, and revive alpha to create mad dinosaur tokens and go ham with trample

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

STONE COLD 64 posted:

i think you just want to play javelenier, pay 2 to discard alpha, and revive alpha to create mad dinosaur tokens and go ham with trample

that's a great way to get drained out by that curse

Niton
Oct 21, 2010

Your Lord and Savior has finally arrived!

..got any kibble?

cheetah7071 posted:

I wonder what you're supposed to do for cards printed in Asian languages

All cards are considered to have their English oracle name :eng101:

This is because translations are not 100% accurate, and occasionally you get things like Falkenrath Noble / Falkenrath Aristocrat having the same name, or Descend upon the Fishermen.

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Sarmhan
Nov 1, 2011


There's also the case of sturmgeist (the english one) and sturmgeist (the german one).

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