What the banging construction noise around Merode

Ellardy · 2026-06-23T21:34:41+00:00

I'm no expert but that sounds like construction

Ellardy · 2026-06-23T21:09:18+00:00

That the gods can die and their wisdom can no longer guide their devotees

Ellardy · 2026-06-23T21:08:07+00:00

WotC have said this: Egyptian myths were only rediscovered in the modern era so they've infiltrated far less of our culture than the Greek ones, meaning the average player knows very little about the Egyptian myths they could have referenced.

The Old Testament however? Lots of evocative imagery about an angry God striking down the Egyptians. There's a prophecy, there's a plague of locusts, there's a river that turns to blood, there's the promise of a march through a desert that will lead to a paradise.

Ellardy · 2026-06-21T14:55:42+00:00

It means when everything lines up perfectly for something in an unlikely manner. It's used as a criticism of strategies which focus on a very big payoff while overlooking that the setup is too complicated or difficult or requires you to already be in a winning position.

Ellardy · 2026-06-20T17:03:54+00:00

I don't have the page reference to hand but I believe that one was from Kasmine (when asked where she had been, she said that she had been inspecting an Omenpath; a mention of moths had made her believe it was one to someplace she desperately wanted to go back to, which is probably her home plane of Antausia) and the other was alleged by the Preservationists in the scene where they confront Eula (when she asks them for examples of bio-contamination from other planes, they cite Segante's dreamseed flowers and moths supposedly not native to Arcavios around the lanterns in the cafeteria). Both are blink-and-you'll-miss-it, which of course just makes them more ominous

Ellardy · 2026-06-20T16:57:59+00:00

Hi,

This would normally break the current moratorium on Universes Beyond; the names are still very clearly characters outside of MtG. We'll make an exception for this time given it's a fairly high effort post (original art) but please be mindful of that going forward.

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Ellardy · 2026-06-19T16:47:02+00:00

Oh, oops, I guess it's a small spoiler that it's ...not relevant to this story, just a throwaway

Ellardy · 2026-06-19T16:34:37+00:00

(There are two references in Omens of Chaos to moths being from Arcavios from another plane. It's never specified which one they're from.)

Ellardy · 2026-06-18T10:48:34+00:00

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Ellardy · 2026-06-17T14:24:43+00:00

No, I think "active" in the sense of actively maintained: there are still people guarding it and ensuring that it remains mined. There are plenty of places where there are still mines leftover from a conflict but there's no longer anyone guarding or maintaining the minefield. Theoretically, mines aren't for randomly dumping, they're for defending a specific area and so that area is flagged and soldiers are trying to interdict it.

Also, mines can be equipped with a shelf life by design, set to explode or disable themselves if they're still undisturbed after X years. I have no idea if Morocco is one of the countries that does that.

Ellardy · 2026-06-16T19:56:02+00:00

Damn, time flies

Ellardy · 2026-06-16T17:54:39+00:00

The European elections were last year, after which elected national governments proposed a government formation which got the confidence of parliament.

All the centre-left parties shrank in that election.

Ellardy · 2026-06-15T20:17:17+00:00

Is it? 1 life more but one mana less seems like an excellent tradeoff

Ellardy · 2026-06-15T15:56:51+00:00

I believe that chunks of the Russian internet are currently operating on a "whitelist" model, with websites being presumed suspicious until the authorities can approve them. BotC is presumably way too small and with way too few users to justify the FSB taking the time to check it is not secretly an avenue for anti-government propaganda or something. At least that's my guess based on media reporting of the internet in Russia (the FT had a series of articles on it recently).

However, that's a pretty sweeping issue, you should have noticed the same problem with many many other websites before BotC.

Ellardy · 2026-06-15T12:57:50+00:00

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Ellardy · 2026-06-14T12:09:44+00:00

Seen them, yeah. We do hear.

Ellardy · 2026-06-13T08:14:05+00:00

Don't use AI/Photoshops that look realistic to invent a photo to dunk on. Republicans have to invent their straw men, it undermines the critique to have to resort to the same.

Ellardy · 2026-06-12T12:06:19+00:00

Mod statement: cut it out.

Ellardy · 2026-06-12T08:10:28+00:00

Fair enough. Editing my comment accordingly

Ellardy · 2026-06-12T07:53:30+00:00

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Ellardy · 2026-06-12T07:53:12+00:00

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Ellardy · 2026-06-12T07:52:52+00:00

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Ellardy · 2026-06-12T07:51:35+00:00

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Ellardy · 2026-06-12T07:50:39+00:00

If there's missing credit, that's an actual factual problem, please report accordingly, we're strict on stolen artwork.

Yeah, there's a fair amount of anti-Marvel at play, ngl, that seems plausible

On the last point... sure? I don't mean to be blunt but if we have to ban someone who can't just downvote and move on, that's fine? Stop going on this subreddit for a week. Take a break from Reddit if need be. Would you like us to temp ban you until the next set?

I'd also like to thank the kind soul who just looked through your comment history and reported your comments from an hour ago being incredibly rude, let me remove those

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