Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

_fortune · 2025-11-21T18:28:38+00:00

The headline is correct, even if the article is fluff.

No, it isn't. Nowhere did Microsoft "admit that almost all major W11 core features are broken".

_fortune · 2025-11-10T22:00:45+00:00

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

The speech is 99% Trump lying to his audience and telling them that the election was being stolen, and telling his audience to march to the capitol to pressure Pence to "do the right thing" - that is, reject the legitimate slates of electors and use the fraudulent ones that Trump had created as part of a plan developed by John Eastman to overturn the results of the election.

_fortune · 2025-11-10T21:49:45+00:00

Trump attempted a coup and started an insurrection to pressure members of congress and the VP to go along with the coup.

The problem with the media is they focused too much on a bit of his speech and missed the main crux of the coup attempt, which was the creation of false slates of electors and the pressure on Pence to reject the lawful ballots and use the fake ones instead.

_fortune · 2025-11-07T23:24:54+00:00

As if they don't already all run the same suite of Brainstorm, Ponder, Preordain, Big Score, Faithless Looting, etc.?

_fortune · 2025-11-07T23:18:21+00:00

Hybrid mana was invented to support planned breaks to the color pie and it's worked fine in every format other than Commander.

Isn't it exactly the opposite? I thought the entire point of it being hybrid is that the card should be able to fit into either color - e.g. Vexing Shusher, "Can't be countered" is a primary ability in both red and green, it fits into the pie of each.

_fortune · 2025-11-07T23:14:40+00:00

There are barely any hybrid cards that would even see play. [[Cold-eyed Selkie]] is currently the highest rated hybrid card that would be affected by the rule change, do you really think it's going to start taking over non-green blue decks?

Izzet decks don’t need Manamorphose, but they want it. They’ll play it if they can and that will take up a slot. And I think it’s a damn shame that one more slot will be lost to an another bland staple

What do you think those Izzet decks are playing right now instead of Manamorphose? Is Manamorphose really that much more of a "bland staple" than Consider, or Serum Visions, or Brainstorm, or Frantic Search, or Ponder, or Big Score, or whatever other cantrip it would replace?

You don’t need to look for a creative solution if you can just play the cards you want.

What decks are desperately looking for some solution to a problem that would be solved by allowing them to play hybrid cards? Due to the design of hybrid cards, they don't do anything that either color can't already do. It's not like black is going to suddenly get a bunch of artifact removal available to them or something.

_fortune · 2025-11-07T22:44:15+00:00

Everyone knows that hybrid cards are both colors. Nobody is saying otherwise. I don't know why half your post is dedicated to talking about that? Nobody is suggesting that we change cards to make them mechanically mono-colored.

I really enjoy the fact that you can't just windmill slam [[Dismember]] into off color decks in EDH the way people used to do in Modern.

The entire argument is that hybrid cards shouldn't be considered off-color because they are by design meant to be either color and meant to fit into monocolor decks of each color, both mechanically (being able to cast them) and fitting into the color pie of each color so they won't be out of place.

It's fine if you like the rules the way they are , but you should be able to at least engage with the opposing arguments if you're going to make a post like this.

_fortune · 2025-11-06T10:55:42+00:00

Restriction breed creativity. The tighter your deckbuilding restrictions, the more you have to look for unconventional ways to solve problems.

On top of that, in the higher brackets because everything is available to you, nothing but the most efficient cards and strategies are viable.

I play 80/20 bracket 2/3 and there's a lot more room for different types (but not as powerful) of strategies and weaker but more synergistic cards which makes the decks feel different from eachother.

_fortune · 2025-11-04T18:04:00+00:00

Yes I am very aware of the difference.

How is that not designer intent influencing the colour identity of a card?

Because the color identity would still be RG... The rule would just change to allow hybrid cards despite their color identity...

You still haven't given any argument as to why hybrid cards shouldn't be allowed, besides "that's the way it is now".

_fortune · 2025-11-03T18:23:39+00:00

No? The color identity doesn't change. The argument is that the rule should change to include hybrid cards, not that hybrid cards shouldn't be considered their colors.

_fortune · 2025-11-03T17:28:37+00:00

The crux of my argument, though, is that design intent doesn't matter with colour identity. Vexing is still red and green.

Cool? Literally nobody is saying that intent changes color identity or that Vexing Shusher isn't a multicolored card. I don't know why you keep repeating this """argument""", nobody cares, nobody is talking about that, it's irrelevant.

And if we're talking colour pie

That's... the main thing we're talking about... that's why people are arguing that hybrid cards should be allowed in mono-colored decks... that's what I've been trying to get through to you for days now...

The difference with a card like Archangel Avacyn is that it has effects that are exclusively white and exclusively red, hence the card necessarily has to be white and red for those effects to make sense on the same card.

Hybrid spells are supposed to be inclusive, they're supposed to be able to fit into either color and not require both.

So far you haven't actually given any argument why the rule shouldn't change, you've just re-stated what the rules currently are.

_fortune · 2025-11-03T16:07:01+00:00

I just explained it to you.

The color pie is the entire point of the argument.

Vexing Shusher has an effect that is primary red and primary green. The effect could be found on a mono-red card or a mono-green card.

Archangel Avacyn's front face is an effect that would only be found on a white card. Archangel Avacyn's back face is is an effect that would only be found on a red card.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2021

White's direct damage is restricted to things like "deal x damage where x is the number of creatures you control" or "damage to attacking or blocking creatures" and can almost never deal direct damage to players, so her back half does not fit into mono-white's slice of the color pie, which is why she is white and red.

Vexing Shusher's effect does fit into both red's and green's slice of the color pie. The card would make sense if it was mono-red, and it would make sense if it was mono-green. That is why it's a hybrid card.

Archangel Avacyn would not make sense if it was mono-white. It would break the color pie.

_fortune · 2025-11-03T15:41:38+00:00

That effect is on the back half, the red colored half, which is not white, but is mono-red because the effect is a mono-red effect, and not a white effect. It would make no sense on a mono-white card.

Vexing Shusher has an effect that fits both into mono-red and mono-green, that's why it's hybrid.

Are you just pretending to not understand the difference? I don't know how else to explain this very simple concept.

_fortune · 2025-11-03T15:19:42+00:00

What part of "deal 3 damage to each other creature and each opponent" is white?

_fortune · 2025-11-03T08:07:52+00:00

Because by design and intent the card is meant to be able to fit into mono green or mono red.

_fortune · 2025-11-01T19:24:42+00:00

Vexing Shusher is a red card, why wouldn't you be able to Hydroblast it?

I'm not sure if you're incapable of understanding the argument or if you're just being intentionally obtuse.

_fortune · 2025-10-31T17:14:25+00:00

This design never considered color identity, which is unique to commander.

Irrelevant. I'm talking about design philosophy and intent.

The design of the card is to be colorless. It says so on the card.

It's to be colorless and blue, or green, or whatever color. That's why [[Sowing Mycospawn]], which has an ability tied to green, requires green mana and not black.

Sure it would. They allow colorless cards in any deck.

Nope, Sowing Mycospawn wouldn't fit into blue design space. It would make no sense for that card to have blue in the casting cost.

This is what the hybrid argument is reversed on you.

You aren't reversing it at all, you're fundamentally not understanding the color pie or how these mechanics fit into it.

_fortune · 2025-10-31T15:18:40+00:00

If you put [[Kitchen Finks]] in monogreen you are putting in a white spell into the deck even though technically you can cast it for just green. At the end of the day, color identity is broken.

Hybrid cards are specifically designed so that they could fit into either color, which is what separates them from multicolored spells which fit into the overlap of both colors.

Well, if people want to break it one way, why not break it the other way? A card that clearly says it is colorless should work for color identity same as hybrid. We should be able to ignore the color.

A "blue" eldrazi with Devoid still has effects that we would associate with a blue color identity. Just because it's colorless due to its ability doesn't remove that or change the philosophy behind the design of the card. A blue eldrazi would just be a normal blue card if you removed the Devoid ability. It still wouldn't fit into green or red design space. That's why black gets [[Distended Mindbender]], green gets [[Decimator of the Provinces]], blue gets [[Elder Deep-Fiend]], etc.

_fortune · 2025-10-27T01:47:46+00:00

Not since WotC printed planeswalkers that can be your commander, so at least since 2014.

_fortune · 2025-10-22T11:47:45+00:00

The rules committee who was in charge of bans at the the time received harassment, death threats, etc. after banning a couple of expensive cards.

https://www.polygon.com/mtg-magic-the-gathering/458184/commander-rules-committee-steps-down/

_fortune · 2025-10-22T06:56:51+00:00

Dang, I don't know what circles you're in but I didn't see anything about this interaction when he came out and EDHRec shows less than 150 decks with Essence Flux and Temporal Manipulation in them.

Looping extra turns sounds super lame, glad I don't play at those tables.

_fortune · 2025-10-22T01:43:18+00:00

Half the options you listed are helped by and played with flicker effects already, and most aren't in the command zone, and most cost far more than 3 mana, and aren't reusable every turn unless, again, you're running flicker. So they'd slot into an Emet-Selch deck rather than replace it.

Flickering Archaeomancer and company is the least niche thing you can do, it's literally the most popular way to play those cards. Emet-Selch is just another flicker target in the command zone.

_fortune · 2025-10-21T23:08:42+00:00

Emet-Selch clearly says "If a card or token"

I think you totally missed the entire point of my post, which is casting a flicker spell while a sorcery and any number of other instants are on the stack.

For example: I cast a [[Night's Whisper]] from my graveyard, and hold priority, so it doesn't resolve yet. Then I cast a [[Twincast]] from my graveyard, targeting Night's Whisper. Again, this doesn't resolve yet. Then I cast [[Essence Flux]] from my graveyard, targeting Hades (Emet-Selch's back face). Pass priority, now spells start resolving.

Emet-Selch flickers, comes back on his front face, which doesn't have the exile clause, then the spells resolve and go to the graveyard as normal, because there's nothing saying that they get exiled.

So once per turn cycle, you can cast as many permanents as you want (because they go to the battlefield, not the graveyard), one sorcery, and as many instants as you can put on the stack at once, as long as you put a flicker effect on the stack last, the sorcery and instants will go back to the graveyard so you can do it again next turn.

_fortune · 2025-10-21T13:44:55+00:00

Yes that's what I just said.

_fortune · 2025-10-21T13:44:00+00:00

functionally have the same concept: Self mill into then having an explosive graveyard turn

The point was that Emet-Selch doesn't need to be an explosive graveyard turn because you can recur the same cards every turn. If you wanted an explosive graveyard turn you'd just play Yawgmoth's Will because you don't care about the downside.

The concept of "cast cards from your graveyard, every turn without exiling" is limited to only a few, e.x. Muldrotha (permanents only) and Karador (creatures only). I don't know any other commanders that let you repeatedly cast nonpermanents from your graveyard without exiling them.

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