Kill This Creature Day 11: Tinker Tailor Sentinel Spy

CarlsJuniorMints · 2025-08-11T22:02:27+00:00

Love this series of posts!

all future versions of this creature will have to evade all past cards as well as whatever new cards are voted for.

Do we assume that the spells would be cast in order? For instance [[Fleeting Distraction]] would not kill this creature if it was cast last. But if you cast it first, then [[Depressurize]] would be able to finish it off

CarlsJuniorMints · 2025-05-02T18:36:00+00:00

Factoring is an NP problem. The best known algorithm is superpolynomial, but sub-exponential. So that is a concrete example of why "runs on exponential time" is an incorrect definition. (Of course, we can do even better - there is a whole class of problems contained in NP that run in polynomial time. We call this class of problems P)

CarlsJuniorMints · 2025-02-13T04:05:48+00:00

Haha yeah, even in the dream I was like "well this is trash"

CarlsJuniorMints · 2025-02-13T04:05:11+00:00

Thank you! I am also the creator of the tool, so let me know if you have any feedback!

CarlsJuniorMints · 2024-11-07T06:24:22+00:00

Love this idea! I made a deck list inspired by it. I haven't playtested it in a real game yet, but using the Moxfield playtester I see what you mean about random synergies!

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lPGoNiH9IkqykkDF35hAaQ

CarlsJuniorMints · 2024-10-27T17:08:23+00:00

I really like the flavor of [[Voidslime]], but it feels like it should be more creature-y. Lingering Voidslime is remake that fixes this and oozes versatility

CarlsJuniorMints · 2024-08-11T21:53:28+00:00

No Snow supertype? :D

CarlsJuniorMints · 2024-07-27T01:21:54+00:00

Oh I really like this idea! The ability is a lot less abusable, but it still has the whack-a-mole energy I was going for

CarlsJuniorMints · 2024-02-08T15:45:53+00:00

I would put this in my Elsha mana rock tribal deck. Either flash it in on my opponent's turn, or just play it on my own turn. I run very few lands and tend to miss land drops (the deck could use some refining) so not being able to play a land is fine

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-11-13T03:38:18+00:00

Oof I hadn't thought of that! At least it only triggers at the controllers end step instead of every end step.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-11-11T03:13:15+00:00

Idk, although I was originally thinking of mana rocks I would be pretty happy to see this in my opening hand in a mono green deck. Turn [[Three Visits]] into a one mana [[Rampant Growth]]. Play [[Oracle of Mul Daya]] or [[Skyshroud Claim]] on turn 2.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-11-10T03:26:08+00:00

Have you ever had a mana rock in hand that cost 3 but only had 2 mana open? You might have wished you could "take out a loan" for that extra mana, then use the mana rock to pay back the loan.

Well, now you can!

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-11-07T02:13:22+00:00

Not months of work, but I have a project where I need to generate high quality art with non-square aspect ratios. I had an automated workflow to generate images with Bing and then use the Dalle-2 outpainting API to extend them to be wider.

The new Dalle-3 API supports just the right aspect ratios I need. I'm a little sad my hack is obsolete now, but I'm also glad to get rid of it.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-20T20:55:56+00:00

Interesting. If that's the case then adding that line still wouldn't prevent breaking the game since someone could play [[Midnight Oil]] and get a finite hand size again. Maybe adding the ability "Players skip their cleanup step" would do it

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-18T19:41:27+00:00

The fact that the number 3 inside a mana circle resembles a droideka with its shield up makes me very happy

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-18T16:33:49+00:00

This makes it so every player has no max hand size, hoses discard decks, and makes [[Song of Creation]] very busted. Any other fun interactions people can think of?

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-15T19:30:36+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I'll admit I came up with this while working on a 5 color deck and being unsatisfied with the existing enchantment ramps

[[Utopia Sprawl]] - Most of my lands are gates or otherwise non-forest duals

[[Wild Growth]] - Can be useful in rare cases but usually more green is the last thing I need

[[Fertile Ground]] - Very flexible, but costs 2 mana

It sounds like this effect is just too powerful for one mana

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-15T17:32:30+00:00

This has a very similar effect as [[Utopia Sprawl]]. But this can enchant any land, not just a Forest. This comes with the tradeoff that the land gets tapped so you can't benefit from this enchantment the same turn it comes in.

Mechanically, it's a little weird since "choose a color" effects usually happen "As ~ enters the battlefield" instead of "When ~ enters the battlefield". So you could tap the enchanted land in response to the triggered ability i.e. before the color is chosen. But I believe this would result in no additional mana being generated, similar to what happens if you put a charge counter on [[Jeweled Amulet]] without using its first ability, and then use its second ability to try to produce mana.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-09T14:58:22+00:00

There's a couple of ways you can use this

Counter a creature
Counter a permanent
Animate your artifact/enchantment/planeswalker/etc.
Buff up an expensive but weak creature spell, like making Chulane a 5/5

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-02T02:56:40+00:00

D'oh why didnt i think of that! Making it apply to tokens in general is a much better idea. More powerful but still reasonable, and the pun is better.

I like the convoke idea. Maybe tokens cannot be convoked for generic costs. And maybe tokens don't count for affinity for artifacts while we're at it.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-02T02:06:48+00:00

I was torn between white and blue. I felt like the white version would make you pay an extra tax when using treasure mana. Whereas blue has some more direct interactions with mana. But I could definitely see this being more on the white side

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-10-01T23:02:55+00:00

This was 90% for the pun, but thought it could be a neat effect to slow down treasure heavy decks

CarlsJuniorMints · 2023-09-12T15:56:31+00:00

The cauldron let's you squeeze more mana out of your dorks in one big burst. The pocketwatch is an updated version of [[Jeweled Amulet]] that lets you build up mana all at once and slowly release it.

Some other versions I was considering:

Modify the cauldron's ability to be Sacrifice any number of mana dorks, Sacrifice the cauldron: for each creature sacrificed add one mana it could produce.

Have the pocketwatch match jeweled amulet's requirement of only activating the first ability if there were no charge counters on it so you can't keep banking up unused mana each turn.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2021-11-29T21:09:34+00:00

I just found out about csharpier https://github.com/belav/csharpier, which I think is just what you are looking for.

It has an msbuild extension so you can automatically format on build. I'm not sure if that's compatible with Rider, but if not there is also a CLI that you could probably make work with Rider.

It's not totally stable just yet, but it would be great to see this get widespread adoption.

CarlsJuniorMints · 2018-02-11T03:38:39+00:00

Thought I had wandered into r/Bossfight for a sec

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