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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Zoglin should put these on a site like batoto where everyone can see them and enjoy Zoglin's wonderful work, rather than just hoarding it to ourselves.

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Blhue posted:

Well, they were some group that had nothing else up on batoto, so who knows if they'll actually continue. Apparently they mostly translate porn according to the blog linked in their batoto profile thing.

Yup, they're mostly a doujinshi group. No idea if this is a one off or if they'll do the volume/series. Also no idea if they're doing it because they like it or because the author/artist also makes doujinshi

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Wizard's Soul seems to be up too.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Would utterly fail at working out with and later get sloshed.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Gyra_Solune posted:

i like the core of the story that is following a nice person having to be a relentless jerk because of circumstances. she hates it, everyone hates it, except her boyfriend who is now fantasizing about her brutally stepping on his face, but she has to do it because her dad is thousands of dollars in debt

plus I like the moments where she plays some sort of useless scrub tier common card to seize victory, like it's neat that iirc she hasn't played so much as a modestly heavy monster card

It's seems more like she's playing seemingly "oddball" cards, but only because no one is playing permission control like she is so cards that only work for that strategy don't show up in the meta. It's a strange meta tbh since that sort of control is just really good in general unless a very fast aggro exists (and then the rock-paper-scissors thing in meta archetypes shows up).

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Twiddy posted:

Like if we want to get into discussions about lovely, scummy behavior that exists in card games (that I will admit that I see a lot more of in MtG than in Netrunner) we can talk about misleading the other player like the infamous, "I use Profane Command to give fear to all my legal targets" implying that the player gave Chameleon Colossus fear so that the other player would misplay. THAT'S scummy and is manipulating information around the actual gameplay in order to obfuscate the game state and create a bad feeling (also technically within the rules of the game, because I guess WotC doesn't want to go down the road of enforcing moral behavior, or even trying to set that standard of morality around it).

Choosing to play a permission deck, playing it well, and being somewhat stone-faced about it is nothing like that.

It's basically like Poker. Being stonefaced isn't scummy or bad. It's just making sure the opponent can't read your plays.

As for the control cards, from what I can tell, it's not a completely Blue control. To do stuff like she did, it'd probably be UBR (Grixis, Blue, Black, Red) since both Red and Blue "steal" creatures, but Blue doesn't give them back unlike Red (Red also gives Haste to creatures it's stolen) so at first glance, it's clearly a control that's predominantly Blue, but there's definitely a splash of Red and Black in there. Likely more Black than Red given that Blue doesn't have a destructive board wipe (there's board wipe via bounce however). Black and White can do that sort of wipe though and Black is also in the realm of Milling while White is also in the realm of Permission Control. Obviously it's not clear how the color pie in this game is divided up, but in MtG terms, it'd likely be UB (Blue/Black) with a bit of Red.

Yasser Arafatwa posted:

Yeah I don't think her deck itself is scummy or her attitude or w/e in our world where it's literally just a childrens game but it makes more sense in the context of the established world

She's p much playing a heels deck and would be the antagonist in the typical sports genre

For whatever reason, the meta in that world and region doesn't use that sort of control. It's bizarre.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

DoubleDonut posted:

There's nothing stopping everyone else from also playing permission decks. It's not Manaka's fault if no one else knows how to deal with a legitimate strategy.

See also: Fighting games

Permission control is a legit strategy that falls apart to super fast aggro. i.e. getting out more threats and more damage, more often than the opponent can handle them or stop them. Of course, it's an archetype that loses to any sort of deck that can stall or put up a sufficient defense such that the aggro deck just runs out of steam. It's the type of deck the hot-blooded character in a shonen card game series might use.

See also: Hearthstone

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

chumbler posted:

Red/green with big stompy critters is the only honorable way to play MtG.

Goblins are also acceptable.

The best way is Midrange. Enough firepower to make creatures unignorable, enough removal to deny them a board.

The only thing more infuriating than Permission control is Permission control with Land destruction.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Twiddy posted:

Know what hasn't been updated at all for months and months? Wizard's Soul. I want some more cardboard crack sometime.

There's an MTG manga from pixiv that's on batoto. http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/mtg-girls-r17715

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
The 10 minute \(・ω・\)SAN値!(/・ω・)/ピンチ! (Sanchi! pinch!) video
The 30 minute version!

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
It's not in season now (at least in Japan), but if you have a hankering for mikans, look for satsumas or mandarins which are the same

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Sonata Mused posted:

Hmm, not sure if this is new or not, but it looks like another group started doing Wotaku.

They're called Kumomori and they're up to chapter 10

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Great Dragon combo seems to be a bit better than Exodia in that the pieces can actually do something. Otoh, lol the Dragonballs.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Those beef tariffs are vicious. Holy crap.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

z0glin Warchief posted:

Oh apparently this is a thing:



I guess you just say "can't activate abilities" :downs:

Well there are Activated abilities which are easily identifiable with a colon. the exception to that are Mana abilities which all lands have and are essentially "Tap: Add X to your mana pool." Finally there are triggered abilities which are basically "Whenever X, Y." As a secondary thing, there are activated abilities on permanents you control that can be activated by opponents (they usually indicate as such). Mana abilities can not be responded to iirc and can't typically be stopped except for end the turn spells. Thing that stop triggered abilities are rarer than things that stop activated abilities, but they exist.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Matoi Ryuko posted:

Ah, so it's different now, then? Slivers were always so crazy to use in conjunction. Crystalline sliver was sort of my backup plan in case I ever needed a defensive play.

Slivers are still crazy.
In the MTG Girls manga, there's a modern Sliver deck that's run. It's still crazy.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Control is a deck of answers to the problem of your opponent doing anything. IRL, they have the problem of relative slowness to aggro or even midrange (mix of aggro and control) which will pump out a faster rate of problems than the control deck has solutions. The only caveat is that eventually aggro decks run out of steam. There's a fixed amount of problems an aggro deck can ever generate and the larger the range of problems, the fewer at each turn they could possibly generate. Basically, an aggro deck needs to race the opposing deck down before it runs out of steam or the opponent can generate enough answers.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Tsugumomo's author also live streams his process on YouTube which is pretty cool

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Truga posted:

who the gently caress plays with sleeves lol

People who want to retain the value of their cards for the secondary market

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