Hate isn't a strong enough word. I loathe it. I despise it. I detest it. I resort to violent gestures in midair when trying to articulate my hatred of it because the words that would be necessary to properly communicate the full extent of my antipathy do not exist. I'm grinding my teeth in anger while writing this very post.
Hate isn't a strong enough word. I loathe it. I despise it. I detest it. I resort to violent gestures in midair when trying to articulate my hatred of it because the words that would be necessary to properly communicate the full extent of my antipathy do not exist. I'm grinding my teeth in anger while writing this very post.
God! So, say, if the Phyrexians win, you won't even check the resulting set? (provided of course that in this case it's 100% Phyrexian)
I don't know how I feel about Phyrexians. I used to hate them back in the day, but the design revamp that they've received and the way they are acting now feels a lot more interesting for me. Seriously, they looked like puke in the past. Now they look more like Phyrexians should look, I think. Like the "compleated" clerics we've seen already. Maybe I should convert. Or not. I started 100% Mirran. Now I'm 60% Mirran, I'd say.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
I don't know how I feel about Phyrexians. I used to hate them back in the day, but the design revamp that they've received and the way they are acting now feels a lot more interesting for me. Seriously, they looked like puke in the past. Now they look more like Phyrexians should look, I think. Like the "compleated" clerics we've seen already. Maybe I should convert. Or not. I started 100% Mirran. Now I'm 60% Mirran, I'd say.
I don't think they are likely to give you any choice about converting.
Hate isn't a strong enough word. I loathe it. I despise it. I detest it. I resort to violent gestures in midair when trying to articulate my hatred of it because the words that would be necessary to properly communicate the full extent of my antipathy do not exist. I'm grinding my teeth in anger while writing this very post.
...why?
Because they are absolutely everything I hate in speculative fiction; they pervert everything I believe in about the relationship between technology, society, and humanity, and exalt the result.
Metaphorically speaking, if I was a militant vegan, the Phyrexians would be a society of people that only eat fruits and vegetables...that are made of meat. Fruits and vegetables created by the systematic torture and painful mutilation of both animals and people into unnatural shapes and forms in a twisted mockery of plant life. A society which takes immense pride and satisfaction in the fact that it does this, and constantly strives to find ways to make the process more painful for the creatures involved.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
For the best game of chicken ever cast Mirrorweave in your upkeep! Also possibly the worst time ever to properly keep track of triggers.
Depends on how many creatures there are in play, and how many players. If just one opponent and just one creature besides the Sphinx, it's probably manageable. Because remember, each draw is triggered by the other one, so after every person draws a card, the other person puts a trigger on the stack, and they get to choose whether to draw or not. If they choose to not draw, the minigame ends, and if they choose to draw, they draw and then the other person chooses. So to summarize the way it works, the person whose turn it is draws their card for the turn, and the second player chooses to draw zero or two cards, and if he chose to draw two then the first player chooses to draw zero or two cards, and it goes back and forth until someone runs out of cards or both people choose not to draw.
But wait, that neglected all the triggers from people drawing the second card. So after someone chooses not to draw, everyone goes back down the stack and gets to choose again? And if anyone does, then other people get to choose again? Or something? And everyone would have a chance to cast any instants they've drawn in between draws, right? And that's just the simplest possible case. Screw it, you're right, this is more complicated than a Coat of Arms on the battlefield with two overlapping tribes playing against each other.
Hate isn't a strong enough word. I loathe it. I despise it. I detest it. I resort to violent gestures in midair when trying to articulate my hatred of it because the words that would be necessary to properly communicate the full extent of my antipathy do not exist. I'm grinding my teeth in anger while writing this very post.
...why?
Because they are absolutely everything I hate in speculative fiction; they pervert everything I believe in about the relationship between technology, society, and humanity, and exalt the result. Metaphorically speaking, if I was a militant vegan, the Phyrexians would be a society of people that only eat fruits and vegetables...that are made of meat. Fruits and vegetables created by the systematic torture and painful mutilation of both animals and people into unnatural shapes and forms in a twisted mockery of plant life. A society which takes immense pride and satisfaction in the fact that it does this, and constantly strives to find ways to make the process more painful for the creatures involved.
I think I see what you're saying, but that metaphor is almost causing me physical pain. If I understand you correctly, why not just say "I believe that a technological singularity is both possible and good, and Phyrexia perverts that utterly."? Or if you absolutely must use a figure of speech, how about "like a Vogon to Shakespeare?"
Hate isn't a strong enough word. I loathe it. I despise it. I detest it. I resort to violent gestures in midair when trying to articulate my hatred of it because the words that would be necessary to properly communicate the full extent of my antipathy do not exist. I'm grinding my teeth in anger while writing this very post.
...why?
Because they are absolutely everything I hate in speculative fiction; they pervert everything I believe in about the relationship between technology, society, and humanity, and exalt the result.
Metaphorically speaking, if I was a militant vegan, the Phyrexians would be a society of people that only eat fruits and vegetables...that are made of meat. Fruits and vegetables created by the systematic torture and painful mutilation of both animals and people into unnatural shapes and forms in a twisted mockery of plant life. A society which takes immense pride and satisfaction in the fact that it does this, and constantly strives to find ways to make the process more painful for the creatures involved.
I'm going to leave aside my certainly flame-inducing feelings about transhumanism and just point out that you're describing the exact plot of Troll 2.
Metaphorically speaking, if I was a militant vegan, the Phyrexians would be a society of people that only eat fruits and vegetables...that are made of meat. Fruits and vegetables created by the systematic torture and painful mutilation of both animals and people into unnatural shapes and forms in a twisted mockery of plant life. A society which takes immense pride and satisfaction in the fact that it does this, and constantly strives to find ways to make the process more painful for the creatures involved.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Kicker Aggro (Invasion Block)
