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I love the story about the cat that this card(s) tells. 
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sit on my Facebook posted:I'm not highly confident about it but I think you guys are wrong that Failure to Comply is bad I agree, but I wonder how much of it is my bias towards tempo cards.
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Apr 6, 2017 19:12
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 My cat Shuffle does not want to be a mummy. I tried! But he's still excited about this:  I volunteer for the Long Island Feline Adoption Center, which is a non-profit, no-kill adoption center on Long Island. Every cat there gets a home, no matter how long it takes! We've had cats there for years before they found a loving home. We're cage-free, so the adoption center is set up like a living room: the cats have their own couch, TV that constantly plays cat-friendly DVDs, and they get lots of attention from our volunteers. The previous Cat Drafts didn't feature a set with nearly this many cats, so we're all excited to actually draft cats at the Cat Draft. There'll be a bake sale there to raise even more money for the cats. Brothers Grim is giving us all the packs for the draft at their cost, and all the proceeds go towards getting the cats food, medical checkups, and other essentials. I also make tokens to give out for the occasion every time. I haven't finished any of the Amonkhet tokens yet (and I just found out yesterday and today that there were tokens other than the embalmed creatures) but here's a sample of last year's Shadows over Innistrad tokens:      That last one was done by classic Magic artist Jeff Menges (of Swords to Plowshares and Thawing Glaciers fame), who is unconfirmed but may draw another token and/or show up for the event. I'm friends with the agent of at least one of the artists in Amonkhet, so I'm going to try to get some signed versions of those cards to give away also. If you're in the Long Island area on May 13th, come down and help out cats!
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Apr 6, 2017 21:37
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Walked posted:
That's going to be obnoxious in limited.
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Apr 7, 2017 13:53
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I suppose I can't be mad at people for not RTFCing a card that's not even in English, but drat some of you aren't making it easy.
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Apr 7, 2017 15:19
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702.28a Cycling is an activated ability that functions only while the card with cycling is in a player’s hand. “Cycling [cost]” means “[Cost], Discard this card: Draw a card.” 702.28b Although the cycling ability can be activated only if the card is in a player’s hand, it continues to exist while the object is on the battlefield and in all other zones. Therefore objects with cycling will be affected by effects that depend on objects having one or more activated abilities. 702.28c Some cards with cycling have abilities that trigger when they’re cycled. “When you cycle [this card]” means “When you discard [this card] to pay a cycling cost.” These abilities trigger from whatever zone the card winds up in after it’s cycled. Discarding a card is part of the cost. Play this card, have seven cards including a cycling card in your hand, draw your entire deck for free.
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Apr 7, 2017 18:48
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:Seems like the card's fine as is. Oh, that makes sense, I forgot about the variable cost changing on keywords granting activated abilities that also have static costs that comes up
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Apr 7, 2017 19:08
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ShaneB posted:I can imagine it was probably totally warranted for someone to take someone like Gerry T down a peg in a room full of experienced Magic designers. The cards that even experienced Magic players and armchair designers come up with are universally terrible. It takes a lot of work for R&D to not completely gently caress the game up. As bad as the mistakes they've made in the past and recent history are, they're nothing compared to what could happen to Magic, so I could totally see someone having to tell a Magic pro that their ideas "need some work" so to speak. Update on the Varolz rule - that rule looks like it really was written just to keep someone from putting infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature with a Memnite in the yard and a Varolz on the battlefield. quote:Varolz, the Scar-Striped gives creature cards scavenge and define their scavenge cost. But wait, isn't exiling the card a cost to activate a scavenge ability? Varolz doesn't give it that cost. So if you've got a Memnite in your 'yard… No, just no. This rule defines "scavenge cost" to be only the variable mana component, and the keyword itself provides the cost of exiling the card. There were no other cards this rule was relevant to except Varolz until now. In my eyes, writing a new game rule is more preferable to giving a printed card errata, but it's funny either way.
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Apr 7, 2017 19:44
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What am I supposed to be looking at? It looks like what I imagine BUG Modern decks to look like. I don't play Modern, I should say that.
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Apr 8, 2017 02:03
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mandatory lesbian posted:does the magic website do theme weeks much anymore They do. The themes just aren't as strong as they used to be. But no one reads the site unless it's spoiler season, so no one notices. Speaking of that, somehow MTGS and Reddit find the articles on the main site before they're pushed live. Like I'll go to the site at 11:02 EST and the new articles won't be showing yet, but MTGS has had them since 10:46. That didn't always happen that way, and we'd have to  DailyMTG until the article went up.
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Apr 8, 2017 04:34
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Sickening posted:Just so I can confirm, there is no game rule that requires goyf dice to be used when its in play correct? I had an opponent get into a really heated judge call with me because I refused to update the dice for goyf when his power/toughness changed. My opponent is the one who pulled out the dice and its my opponent who then failed to keep up with it. He would ask me how large goyf was so often it got to a point where I reading the card to him. I don't feel its my job to babysit the dice unless I choose to use the dice myself. At no time did I attempt to misrepresent the gamestate. He lost the match because you lost track of the fact that I use tarfire on a creature of his the turn before and then squeaked by with exactly lethal after he chose not to block my goyf. You shouldn't be putting dice on a card that doesn't have counters on it in the first place. If it was as bad as you said when I watched the match, I'd give him a slow play penalty.
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Apr 10, 2017 03:20
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C-Euro posted:IMO this is the key detail here. If he's the one who put the die down to help himself and then failed to keep up, then it sucks for him but he's at fault. If you had been the one putting the die down then it would've been on you to keep up. At an FNM-level event I might have helped him keep up but at a larger tourney, and with him asking you about it a bunch, he should be able to take care of himself. Yeah those are cool, but I wouldn't use them at anything but FNM/casual. Even then, you're adding a new element to the game, where it's suddenly the dice's "fault" for being wrong because someone forgot to update the dice, rather than a player just thinking "it was a 3/4 last turn, then he played and cracked a fetch". It's a similar problem to people who insist on putting a die on 1 to indicate that their Chandra that they just played used her +1. What are we going to do when she goes below her starting loyalty?
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Apr 10, 2017 04:43
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BizarroAzrael posted:There are worse things to be than not as good as an almost busted card. At 11 EST, or more like 10:45 EST when MTGS and/or Reddit find the made-live-but-not-published articles on the Magic website. I'm disappointed the Cat God doesn't make Cat tokens.  Cat tokens have lifelink, so I guess having a repeatable source of 1/1 lifelinkers was too good.
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Apr 10, 2017 15:29
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quote:Desert appeared in Magic's first expansion, Arabian Nights. The card saw some play in tournaments, but was greatly hampered by the fact that so many of the early decks were completely (or almost completely) creatureless. We actually had Desert in early design files but it proved to be a little too powerful to bring back. Looking forward to sand mana
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Apr 10, 2017 15:53
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Magic players think cards are garbage unless they consistently show up in GP and PT top 8 lists. A card can't show up once in a top 8 list and then only have spotty results in tournaments after, then it was a failure and wasn't "an Important Card". Cards can be somewhere between unplayable trash and format staple, but you'd never know it from listening to Magic players talk.
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Apr 12, 2017 00:07
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mcmagic posted:Where is the fun in not being hyperbolic? Being able to talk about Magic the card game without people acting like you're trash for thinking a previewed card isn't just draft fodder?
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Apr 12, 2017 00:11
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AlternateNu posted:Nissa is the first "lead character" walker we've seen get a gold version outside Ajani, isn't she? Does Garruk count? He's got two!
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Apr 12, 2017 00:16
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A clone with flashback is cool for EDH.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:54
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ShaneB posted:Can anyone help me understand why they had to add all the "except if...." text to the non-token Vizier of Many Faces? Magic rules are based on a 20+ legacy system and sort of operates like a computer system that you manually plug logic into. I'm not sure that makes sense. Copy effects are strange. An embalmed token is a complete copy of the original card, except it's white instead of its original colors and is a Zombie in addition to its types. Everything else is the identical, so its token text that's printed on the token is more of reminder text - its actual text isn't really different from the text box on the original card. If anyone's wondering why this particular token has a different text box than the printed card, keep in mind they all do. All embalmed version tokens should technically have the embalm ability printed on them, since they're exact copies. It's just that embalm can never work on a token because it only works from the graveyard and they can never be in the graveyard, so they just leave it off. Edit: Also, copy effects copy other copy effects.
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Apr 12, 2017 22:11
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Rinkles posted:Some new cards semi-spoiled in the tokens article There are way more regular tokens than I expected; I thought all the "token slots" would be taken up by embalm. More tokens to draw for my Cat Draft charity event!
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Apr 13, 2017 16:09
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I just realized the number crunch rules out a Nicol Bolas planeswalker in this set. Poor Dark Intimations.
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Apr 13, 2017 17:02
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Ein Sexmonster posted:
I'll happily play all three of these cards in draft at some point and also really regret not hate-drafting them at some point.
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Apr 14, 2017 00:23
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Edit: Yeah, the CDN thing must be it. Kind of annoying since this is the only site I know of with this kind of delay.
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Apr 14, 2017 15:55
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I'd play that in limited even without the cost reduction ability.
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Apr 14, 2017 16:32
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Sickening posted:FYI, if you want some of these you better get them right now. Foils are either gone or jacked up already. I snagged a set of non-foils from eBay for $2.50 though.
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Apr 14, 2017 17:19
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St0rmD posted:What happens if you have Vizier of Remedies and Winding Constrictor both on the Battlefield and one of your creatures gets a -1/-1 counter? The owner of the affected object (or just the player, if it's affecting them) gets to choose the order in which two replacement effects apply. quote:616.1. If two or more replacement and/or prevention effects are attempting to modify the way an event affects an object or player, the affected object’s controller (or its owner if it has no controller) or the affected player chooses one to apply, following the steps listed below. If two or more players have to make these choices at the same time, choices are made in APNAP order (see rule 101.4).
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ThePeavstenator posted:considering we've had posts with links to old spoiler predictions as an attempt to own people i have to agree https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3817553 New thread, where I finally remove that reference to Extended in the FNM section! How long has that been there? Dang. Edit: SoftNum posted:Magic: The Gathering - I CAST MOUTH poo poo, that is way better.
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