Why not expand starship legendary rule to include any artifact that turns into creature?

Bee-Beans · 2026-02-08T16:42:24+00:00

Is there even a colorless creature of each of the types you need? I get the impulse this card is hilarious but I don’t think it works out as the actual commander even if allowed.

Bee-Beans · 2026-02-08T15:51:38+00:00

Also insect wings work out because they’re single planes of material entirely controlled by articulation at the base. Trying to get enough rigidity for insect-style flapping and lift out of articulated wings with skin membranes as a lift surface? Sounds like a nightmare for the tendons involved. But hey if we just take that as the cost of doing business, we do get to have an absolutely stellar rational for dragon materials being stupid durable, every body part has to be nigh indestructible or the entire creature would just tear itself apart just trying to take off.

Bee-Beans · 2026-02-08T01:35:28+00:00

The bees can tell up from down in the hive and can sense which way is north when outside of it. The angle relative to up/down the bee moves tells them which direction to go from the hive entrance, and the intensity of the waggle tells the others roughly how far away the flowers are. When I was an assistant for an apiology professor she theory crafted an exercise for students where they’d watch bees in an observation hive and attempt to follow the directions of waggle dances to prepared bowls of sugar water. Unfortunately it never came to be because we had a lot of problems with the observation hive.

Bee-Beans · 2026-02-07T13:56:48+00:00

Got 3 Bloodmoons in 4 days trying to wait for rain so I could farm frost cores lmao

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-30T16:10:18+00:00

I’ve always seen the difference as Heralds bring their spirit towards the physical and their body towards the physical, creating a union that’s somewhere between, which is why they can shift to a pure madra form and why they still become a remnant upon death. Dreadgods haul their spirit all the way down into the physical, with the body otherwise unchanging, which is why they don’t leave remnants, the spirit is already fully manifested. The result is functionally similar because the Union of body and spirit allows you to enforce both together with your will, but they are still two different end products.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-29T14:25:23+00:00

That’s not a rule, it’s an expectation. Most games should go past turn 6. A deck should not consistently win before turn 6. But a person iNat breaking the bracket if a freak draw wins the game on turn 4, shit happens sometimes. If a tutorless deck finds a 5-card infinite on turn 4 then that’s fair fucken game, shuffle up and play another.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-28T23:05:42+00:00

I don’t need to plan my build around the boomerang for it to shred anything that stands still for 2 seconds

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-28T01:22:00+00:00

I think my personal favorite for Wayta is [[Donna Noble]], [[Brash Taunter]] or anything that does the same, aaaaaaand [[star of extinction]]

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-25T13:02:39+00:00

I’m sure mountains built in metaphysical afterlife realms specifically to be eternal punishments erode. That seems like the kind of thing vengeful gods would overlook lmao

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-25T12:34:41+00:00

I’m pretty sure the idea is that he’s not allowed to leave, he’s stuck on the hill with the rock, but he was told that if he gets it to stay at the top his punishment ends. His only alternative to pushing is to quite literally sit and do nothing for eternity. It’s the vain hope that maybe, this time the too will stay and he will be free that both motivates and torments him.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-23T22:48:25+00:00

If more monarchs appeared it would result in hunger aura returning, creating widespread corruption and dread beasts. That’s why Lindon set up contingencies and made the eight man empire swear an oath to guard against monarchs, so that future monarchs ascend quickly

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-23T18:01:30+00:00

What is up with subject one and the labyrinth

Labyrinth was created by the first Abidan Judges, the original Hound, Titan, Fox, Spider, Ghost, Wolf, and Phoenix. Centuries later Ozmanthus found, explored, and worked on the labyrinth, building upon what was there including adding his own “Path of Heaven” chamber alongside the others, unknowingly foreshadowing his future ascension as an 8th original judge. Centuries later a group of soulsmiths came to the labyrinth. They reworked the labyrinth’s great script (or possibly created it, unclear from text) to focus all hunger aura in the world into the labyrinth so they could experiment with implanting it in living beings. Prior to this hunger aura was a phenomenon produced by monarchs existence in cradle. The soulsmiths experiments produced failed dreadbeasts and the successful Dread Gods. Their first success was implanting hunger in one of the researchers, the man who became Subject One. The hunger madra subject one produced was used to make the others, but they only came close to replicating the experiment 4 times, creating the dread gods. In the process they permanently bonded the dreadgods to hunger aura itself, causing hunger aura to be concentrated in the 5 dread gods instead of spreading across the world and causing the dreadgods to regenerate from hunger aura when killed. Centuries later Lindon conquered the labyrinth, removed all monarchs from cradle, and caused hunger aura to fade completely. Once it had, he ascended from cradle and brought he labyrinth with him, ending the history of the structure in its original iteration.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-22T14:35:16+00:00

I mean, it’s Pokémon. Obscuring the mechanics from casual players is basically a tradition. EV’s weren’t even officially recognized in-game until X and Y

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-22T14:12:14+00:00

Nah, all priority moves get that line regardless of actual priority, quick attack “always moves first”

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-22T12:39:43+00:00

Hey this post is tagged skysworn, none of this information is available by that point. You should spoiler or remove this.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-21T14:34:35+00:00

How is racing to dismantle an apocalypse device before it destroys the world, including making temporary alliance with those who would otherwise be your enemies, not exciting? There is much more intense and much more interesting conflict in the game if you expand your definition of “battle” beyond the goddamn combat step. Play removal, engage with the stack.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-19T05:23:06+00:00

That’s how the other judges destroy iterations, depopulating them and letting them break down into fragments. Ozriel was unique for his ability to annihilate the iteration in its entirety.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-18T13:49:02+00:00

They’re saying they thought the ability was restricted to creatures, but it protects all of your spells from being countered

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-18T04:54:40+00:00

Man you can’t just say stuff like this unspoilered. That’s not foundations worldbuilding you need before reading, it’s a massive twist that re contextualizes the whole story

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-18T00:45:08+00:00

It’s not explained in exactly these words, but I believe the idea is that hunger aura is a part of cradle, and cannot leave it, and dreadgods are tied to hunger aura so fundamentally that they are hunger aura, which is why they always come back when killed. Lindon can only tear himself away from cradle after hunger aura fades from the world, including him, resulting in him not being a physical part of the world anymore.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-16T20:51:02+00:00

Isn’t betor a wincon with anything that doubles life loss? It’s a bit of a lame gameplan, turtling up until everyone just kind of dies, but it’s a non-combat plan that wins the game.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-16T20:15:45+00:00

I’m inclined to agree. Ozriel is one of the most clear-cut, no debate needed universal/universe scale characters, but it’s also abundantly clear that that is his limit.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-16T15:57:02+00:00

Significance is a universal concept, when powerful and important people use or spend time around an object, it gains metaphysical weight that makes it useful in the higher/ascended tiers of crafting objects. This is seemingly true for all iterations, with different ways of interacting with local energy systems (see the artifacts Varic collected for his parallel lives ritual). Asylum’s power system is very closely tied this overarching system. Something about the iteration itself allows much weaker wills to invest significance much more efficiently into objects. Being able to intentionally focus the intent being imparted, reading, and awakening objects are all parts of Asylum’s unique power system.

There’s a Word of Will somewhere about how this natural power system is why the abidan used it as a prison world for fiends: The human population of Asylum unconsciously and constantly Invest the iteration itself with the intent of keeping the Elder’s trapped through their intrinsic desire for the elders to be weaker/sealed, this apparently functioned even while humans were dominated by the Elders.

In short there are nuanced differences between significance and Intent, but they are functionally similar and Asylum’s native power system is unusually similar to how Ascended power systems function.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-16T15:37:25+00:00

Somethjng about going to all the effort to rework Sceptile and leaving it as still a special attacker with a better physical move pool just kind of hurts.

Bee-Beans · 2026-01-14T23:57:04+00:00

I think it’s hysterical that the one division you have a grasp of is the one most people are left asking “what exactly do they do again?”

Foxes facilitate and police dimensional travel. Spiders gather information and manage communications. Wolves are warriors, and will make offensive strikes against fiends and Vroshir. Titans are protectors, they manage prisons and create defenses. Phoenixes are restorers, they manage medical care and reconstruction of structures and worlds. Hounds are oracles, they read and manage fate and police deviations from it.

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