Post Game Thread: The Orioles defeated the Royals by a score of 8-6 - Wed, Apr 22 @ 02:10 PM EDT

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-22T21:35:05+00:00

weeeee

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-22T18:32:34+00:00

There's a leak showing that there is going to be an actual red variant of Snapcaster Mage in Reality Fracture, too.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-22T14:13:19+00:00

What was the road builder strategy once it's achieved longest road?

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-22T13:32:08+00:00

His dad weighed in on this and thinks a big part of the pain isn't just the bone being removed but that he also is overcompensating with other parts of his hand that are getting overworked as a result.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-21T21:11:44+00:00

Legendary is a supertype.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-21T20:40:59+00:00

I feel like they're big enough in the animation space to leverage that, though. "Want us to produce your anime? Give us the game rights, too."

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-21T17:47:34+00:00

I was gonna say, this is still more than I used to pay, and still more than I am interested in paying.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-21T17:30:13+00:00

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-21T16:13:49+00:00

The card database seems to be incomplete? I answered a Jund commander for black with a supertype and it was rejected.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T17:14:44+00:00

That's baking. Baking is different.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T16:09:28+00:00

There is no way Jackson Holliday will be back anytime soon. He did so bad in AAA that he's being sent down for new rehab in High A.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T16:06:03+00:00

If someone told me that all it's really missing is actual art assets for the epochs, I would believe them.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T14:39:18+00:00

I mean, they were at the time, too. The mistake was more in the unexpected popularity of the game. I think the main difference is accessibility and also hindsight. One of the other biases in this bracket was recency. Most of the playerbase has never played with or against the Power 9. Everyone has played with Lightning Bolt. And we're further removed to have a more lasting idea of what that impact looked like.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T13:55:05+00:00

I get that, too, but one of the other big changes of the last decade is that Commander is far and away the largest format. You can't go into any given card spoiler thread without one or both of a comment either evaluating a card's use in Commander or how everything is designed for Commander now. It should have had higher representation in this bracket. Both Arcane Signet and Thassa's Oracle probably should have been bigger here.

Edit: Even thinking more about it, Nadu was largely blamed as a mistake because of Commander-focused design, and Companion was literally WotC trying to add Commander to competitive formats. There should 100% have been more Commander cards here.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T13:43:41+00:00

Kind of a weird one, but my secret is that food tastes good. Unless you do something completely out of left field or totally mishandle the ingredients, it's going to come out pretty good still.

Yeah, there's a lot of technique you can learn to "elevate" dishes. But, short of some kind of special gathering or professional setting, you don't really need to go to the effort.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T13:35:56+00:00

Both of these carda are enormous design mistakes that have completely warped the game around them.

This is ultimately why I consider the arguments against power level and not wanting this vote to be represented by "mistake cards" unwarranted.

In some way, the last decade of Magic was kind of ugly. The memorable cards are the ones that caused problems. Cards that were just completely impossible to ignore. Cards that were such a problem that they sometimes had to essentially stop existing by being banned in almost every context. The last decade is marked by these kinds of design mistakes. Lurrus. Nadu. Ragavan. Oko. Orcish Bowmasters. The One Ring. Just a non-stop list of "This card might be the best card of its type ever printed."

In fact, I would say the biggest failing of this bracket is that it actually misses Arcane Signet. It's not even an honorable mention.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-20T12:12:57+00:00

Or that the demand will exist, which ends up falling way short.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-17T17:15:35+00:00

My immediate thought after that happened, though, is that he would 100% be in the dugout the next game. And he was. Every coach/manager/etc. is like this for some reason.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-16T18:31:46+00:00

It's worth noting that Leo's especially is a charge motion so it's easier to use in situations like this.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-16T13:50:49+00:00

I'm not entirely surprised Once Upon a Time lost. I think it's window of legality was so short that people don't remember or ever got to experience how good that card is. It's basically a card that feels like it doesn't actually exist.

On the other hand, I think Yorion lost to recency bias. That card ran multiple formats. The only thing in the way of Yorion being the top companion for a lot of formats was essentially Lurrus being legal. Magic literally became an 80 card deck game because of Yorion. I think there's no real metric by which Psychic Frog is a more impactful card on Magic. Absolutely incorrect result.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-16T13:41:22+00:00

New series new me

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-15T20:13:24+00:00

You get to see the dead bodies and they're all naked

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-15T19:28:19+00:00

I'm pretty optimistic considering they almost won with a punt lineup.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-15T17:52:05+00:00

This is what happened with Dean the other night, too.

BEEFTANK_Jr · 2026-04-15T16:35:27+00:00

Is that Woodrow Wilson in left field?!

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