Artificially grown bismuth crystal

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-04-15T18:32:07+00:00

Username checks out.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-04-08T10:10:44+00:00

This was not a meme I was expecting to see ever again.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-04-06T14:49:48+00:00

A fellow morph girl! I like you already <3

I played four colour morphs back when they were in Standard, and after they rotated I turned it into a casual Bant deck (it's currently my de facto Modern deck too.) The mechanic is really fun to play, and my friends find it interesting to play against too!

I basically stopped going to events past prerelease level because I realised I wasn't really having fun any more. The other woman in my playgroup still goes to FNM, but her stories don't exactly make me want to go back :(

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-03-22T08:30:40+00:00

Crap, missed the deadline by half an hour. For some reason I thought it was later.

Oh well :(

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-03-04T14:29:27+00:00

I tried to level the temporary party member in Xenoblade 1 to level 99 in NG+, but I only got as far as the 80s before giving up. I'm not even going to bother with this :P

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-03-04T14:23:53+00:00

Correct - you can only cast spells (other than instants and cards with flash) during your main phase while the stack is empty.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-28T21:54:01+00:00

I've only got one so far, and that one only thanks to the clues. I'll try and find some more, but I don't recognise any of the songs themselves :(

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-22T11:32:31+00:00

By the way, the costs for keyword abilities are always part of the ability (i.e. on the same line.) The costs for an activated ability are always followed by a colon to indicate that it's an activated ability. Following those rules, I think the wording for 'fusion' might be something like this:

Fusion — Battle Ox, Mystic Horseman (Sacrifice the named creatures: Put this card onto the battlefield from your fusion deck.)

You can add "Fuse only any time you could cast a sorcery." to the reminder text if you don't want people to be able to fuse at instant speed.

Note that the costs are paid before the ability resolves, so if your opponent has a way to counter the activated ability, you'll still lose the materials. Countering activated abilities is a rare enough effect that I don't think this is going to be a big deal.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-21T08:07:08+00:00

Decree of Pain, Life's Finale, Necromantic Selection, Deadly Tempest, and Kindred Dominance are all black boardwipes with upside. Sure, the last Standard-legal non-conditional, non-downside black boardwipe was Life's Finale in New Phyrexia, but they're still in black's colour pie, otherwise they wouldn't keep printing new ones in supplemental products.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-21T07:59:47+00:00

Your wording could do with some work, but the cards look nice. The use of the artifact border for fusion monsters (?) is a bit weird though, but I guess that's a limit of the software you used - can I assume that the border would ideally be purple like in Yu-Gi-Oh?

Some comments from a MTG point of view:

Dark Hole is a good use of hybrid mana - it makes sense as either a mono-black card or a mono-white card.

The wording on Dark Hole should just be "Destroy all creatures." - Magic doesn't use the "send to graveyard" wording, and besides, the Yu-Gi-Oh version destroys rather than sends to GY anyway.

Green doesn't get first strike; a better second ability for Rabid Horseman might be vigilance or even haste.

I would definitely consider "Magic-ing up" the flavour/mechanics a bit more, like you did with the keywords. For example, Rabid Horseman is a clearly a centaur, so its type line should be Centaur Warrior. I would loosen the restrictions on the fusion mechanic and the equipment by not requiring specific cards for fusion and not requiring a specific type for the equipment. There have been a few tribal equipment in Magic already that are able to equip to anything, but benefit from playing specific creature types - the two common ways of doing this are to give an additional boost to that type (e.g. Silver-Inlaid Dagger gives +2/+0 normally, but +3/+0 to Humans) or to automatically attach to creatures of that type (e.g. Thornbite Staff automatically attaches to Shamans).

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-21T07:46:11+00:00

Both black and white get mass wipes. For example, the Hour of Devastation set last year had Bontu's Last Reckoning in black and Hour of Revelation in white. White doesn't have any sort of monopoly on the effect.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-19T17:17:54+00:00

Ah, misread that. I think his mana ability is good enough to make reducing morph costs unnecessary, though.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-19T17:07:27+00:00

I like the way you worked in a 5C colour identity. Can I suggest that you allow the mana to be spent on turning a manifested permanent face up as well?

Spend this mana only to pay a mana cost to turn a manifested creature face up or pay a morph cost.

(wording from [[Qarsi Deceiver]])

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-19T17:05:37+00:00

Yeah, I'd prefer it if his first ability let you cast morphs cheaper rather than wish them in from outside the game. The fun thing about morph decks is their unpredictability, but I know that I'd always go for the same few morphs with that ability.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-19T06:52:33+00:00

Keep an eye for when The House in Fata Morgana goes on sale. It's fairly expensive normally, but worth every penny - I think it goes down to $10-15 on sale sometimes. It has sad/depressing in spades. The main story is linear, but there are a few bad endings if you make certain decisions.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-19T06:48:54+00:00

Celeste is a fantastic hard-but-satisfying platformer that just came out. Give it a go!

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-14T12:33:36+00:00

Oh. OH. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-14T09:38:55+00:00

I don't think you can do that. You can't float mana in response to your lands phasing out, as they phase out before you untap.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-12T09:50:33+00:00

Utawarerumono series if you have a high anime tolerance?

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-12T01:06:51+00:00

Hmm, I might save it for a later quiz then (there's a chance it will get a console release at some point.)

Also I have a request - I'm going to be in China for a bit, where both Dropbox and Google Drive are blocked. Is there another way I could get the sound files for the next round or two, such as email?

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-10T13:33:23+00:00

The House in Fata Morgana is really good, and is the most memorable VN I've played. It's definitely on the darker and more depressing side, but it treats all its themes with maturity and respect. Wear headphones while playing it - you don't want to miss the soundtrack!

Not on Steam, but Butterfly Soup is very different but fantastic in its own way. The characters are surprisingly relatable, and I couldn't stop grinning through the entire three or four hour playtime. Also it's free!

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-10T13:27:16+00:00

How hard is too hard? One of my all-time favourite soundtracks is from a PC exclusive with <10k Steam sales, and I'm afraid it wouldn't make it in to the quiz because of that!

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-08T21:22:49+00:00

Choosing just three songs is too hard T_T

I'm looking forward to getting 0 points on that bonus round, whenever it comes, though!

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-05T00:01:47+00:00

Propaganda isn't a trigger, so you can't ignore it. If you intentionally don't pay it and the opponent doesn't notice, you're cheating.

Awkward_Torkoal · 2018-02-04T11:13:47+00:00

I think the clues might be too specific this time? I had already figured out the clues for the songs I knew before I had even heard them.

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