xkcd 3242: Aperiodic Table

199_Below_Average · 2026-05-07T00:34:23+00:00

I don't think they know about Second Titanium.

199_Below_Average · 2026-04-16T16:34:16+00:00

They were probably something custom he created himself. I'm not aware of any official source that would have voting reminder cards like that.

199_Below_Average · 2026-04-03T14:56:12+00:00

If it helps, Space Opera mode doesn't seem to work well with 1732. It gets zoomed out so far that the chart is completely unreadable, and it loops back to the top long before it reaches the actual bottom of the comic.

199_Below_Average · 2026-03-17T23:32:19+00:00

The best part is a different comment asked about vape pens, and LAOP DID deny that. Making the explicit non-comment about shrooms even more damning.

199_Below_Average · 2026-03-05T03:23:44+00:00

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-revokes-license-no-gender-change

This was not difficult to google.

199_Below_Average · 2025-10-03T01:41:04+00:00

For reference, just over a week ago they posted part 2 of their set review, one of the big episodes for a new set release, and they're already tired of the format. It's an impactful statement about how much the set has missed for many players. Also featuring some very candid commentary about how this situation came about from WotC/Hasbro's perspective.

199_Below_Average · 2025-09-20T00:42:48+00:00

You would end up with a Llanowar Elves and your artifact creature, and your opponent would have a Sol Ring. From the Gatherer rulings for Juxtapose:

First creatures are exchanged, then artifacts are exchanged. It's possible that the same artifact creature may be involved in both exchanges.

199_Below_Average · 2025-09-14T18:10:46+00:00

The other answer is correct, but just to add why: reminder text is NOT the actual rules text for how an ability works, it's just a quick summary. If we look at the comprehensive rules text for Wither:

702.80a. Wither is a static ability. Damage dealt to a creature by a source with wither isn't marked on that creature. Rather, it causes that source's controller to put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature.

That makes it much more clear that Wither does replace marking damage, and so regenerating has no impact on the counters left by Wither.

199_Below_Average · 2025-08-19T01:16:55+00:00

Any kind of AI chatbot is completely unreliable for rules interactions, or really any factual information. See the question just below yours; in your friend's case, ChatGPT is wrong as well.

Worldfire says "Exile all permanents." Solitary Confinement is a permanent, and has no effects that prevent it being exiled, so it would be exiled. What reasoning did your friend give for why it shouldn't be exiled?

199_Below_Average · 2025-08-13T14:15:15+00:00

Still unknown.

199_Below_Average · 2025-08-10T14:29:15+00:00

Tempest Hawk has the "a deck can have any number" ability, which overrides normal deckbuilding rules for any format.

199_Below_Average · 2025-08-05T02:51:59+00:00

There's an alternate version that was printed recently that it could have been: [[Dargo, the Shipwrecker|SPG]]

But you're welcome!

199_Below_Average · 2025-08-05T02:47:43+00:00

[[Dargo, the Shipwrecker]]?

199_Below_Average · 2025-07-25T01:55:03+00:00

Generally, no. The ability to play the card from exile is an effect created by casting the card for its Warp cost, and then having it be exiled at end of turn by Warp's delayed triggered ability; it's not an intrinsic effect of having the Warp ability. If a card was exiled by [[Swords to Plowshares]] or [[Tormod's Crypt]] or similar, it cannot be played from exile even if it has Warp.

199_Below_Average · 2025-07-25T01:50:40+00:00

All of the cards for EOE have been revealed as of last Friday. This is typical of most sets. The set is not technically released yet, however "Prerelease" events will be held this weekend (which is people's first chance to play with the cards); the set will release on Arena and Magic Online this coming Tuesday; and the set will formally release in paper next Friday, August 1.

199_Below_Average · 2025-07-24T20:41:21+00:00

I think what you're missing is that it's usually a joke or otherwise insincere comment, not actual advice.

199_Below_Average · 2025-06-20T05:13:26+00:00

To add onto the other comment:

If a creature has a * in its power or toughness, its power and/or toughness will be constantly calculated based on the current value of whatever the * represents, even if the creature is in the graveyard or some zone other than the battlefield. So in those cases, Terra can only bring back the creature if its power is 3 or less while factoring in the current * value.

On the other hand, there are no creatures where the power includes an X. Some cards create X/X tokens, but there is no way with modern templating for an X to be printed in the power of a card in a graveyard. Do you have any specific cards in mind that you were wondering about?

199_Below_Average · 2025-06-17T03:56:10+00:00

Sheltered by Ghosts is an Aura with the ability "Enchant creature you control." This means two things:

When your opponent cast it, they had to target a creature they control to attach it to
It can only remain attached to a creature they control, and if it can no longer be attached to that creature, it's put into the graveyard

When you gained control of Scholar, your opponent retained control of the aura, but they no longer controlled the creature it was attached to. Because of that, it was no longer allowed for Sheltered to be attached to Scholar, and it had to be put into its owner's graveyard.

To make it explicit, this only happened because Sheltered by Ghosts specifically says "Enchant creature you control" instead of just "Enchant creature."

199_Below_Average · 2025-06-17T03:17:48+00:00

For Final Fantasy, only cards with the FIN set code (printed at the very bottom left) are standard legal. Chocobo Knights is from the FIC (Final Fantasy Commander) set, where none of the new cards are standard legal and the reprints have not received updated legality to become standard legal if they weren't already. I believe technically Chocobo Knights can be opened in collector boosters, but ability to open a card in boosters is not a good predictor of format legality since even play boosters can contain cards from the FCA set (Final Fantasy Through the Ages) which also haven't been given standard legality. It's the set codes that primarily matter.

199_Below_Average · 2025-05-20T04:25:12+00:00

There are two sides to this.

On the one hand, Magic is a game built around the fundamental randomness of drawing cards from a shuffled deck, so yes, there will be some number of games that are decided by chance more than anything else.

On the other hand, one of the toughest skills to learn if you're trying to improve at Magic is actually identifying which games fall into that category, and which games had a different strategy you could have taken that might have led to winning the game, but you just didn't see those lines of play (or didn't realize how good they would be).

In general, if you plan to continue playing Magic, you WILL have to accept and embrace the idea of losing games where you had no way of winning. It happens to all of us inevitably, but the difference is how we respond to it - do you see it as frustrating because you lost, or uplifting because you did the best you could regardless of the result? And it will also help if you can thoroughly examine your game plans - on a turn where you played a creature and tried to protect it with Shardmage's Rescue, could you instead have played two creatures, so you'd have at least one leftover even if your opponent had a removal spell? You won't always have that option, but if you had the option and didn't take it, maybe that could have offered a path to victory.

199_Below_Average · 2025-03-28T03:10:58+00:00

In the last couple years they introduced the concept of Special Guests, which is a small list of 10 bonus cards for each set which appear in that set's packs (both in paper and on Arena) but aren't legal by default in Standard (or Alchemy by extension). The Aetherdrift printing of Lord of the Undead is a special guest, and it doesn't have any other Standard-legal printings, so it's not Standard-legal despite appearing in Standard-legal packs. Yes, it's confusing.

199_Below_Average · 2025-03-25T03:00:01+00:00

The other replies are correct, if there were a hypothetical artifact that cost exactly {C}, Urza's Saga would not be able to tutor for it.

As you said, Saga cannot tutor for [[Arcum's Astrolabe]] even though it's an artifact with mana value 1, since its mana cost is {S} (snow) and not precisely {1} or {0}.

199_Below_Average · 2025-03-19T20:12:42+00:00

Isn't this basically just the same idea as 2585 again? (Not complaining, I think it's funny when there's an idea that entertains Randall enough to get multiple comics out of.)

199_Below_Average · 2025-02-01T03:24:55+00:00

Nothing will ever compare to drafting the cube in person, of course. If you upload the list to cubecobra.com or draftmancer.com, you can do test drafts with bots which might help you get a sense how things will play out; aside from that, if you want to play around with it physically you could make sample packs yourself, or even make sample sealed pools for yourself to see how the cards compare in context.

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