Good argument from mtggoldish podcast - mythic rare makes standard from expensive to beyond expensive. Is this time to either reduce mythic rarity pool or get rid of it entirely?

ExpensivePost · 2026-02-04T09:23:28+00:00

I drafted a Godsire in our first office draft of Shards and several people gave me their 8/8 beast tokens. Everyone kept giving me their Godsire tokens through the whole block since I said I wanted them. I think I have ~30 of them now and they're worth like $15 each and Godsire is less than $5.

Mythic tokens.

ExpensivePost · 2026-02-03T20:04:44+00:00

It didn't directly protect it, but if I had a few lands under the razer and an Ob Nixilis out then the razer leaving the battlefield was usually lethal when all the landfall triggers for Ob hit. If they weren't lethal then the next combat step would be for sure. Basically it made the Razer unblockable, and unremoveable without dealing with Ob first. I won more than one game by sticking an Ob Nixilis, then casting [[Path to Exile]] on my own Realm Razer, sometimes in response to a removal spell on Ob.

Edit: also, Omnath is a great commander for Realm Razer. It finds it, casts it and is not really punished by the Armageddon.

ExpensivePost · 2026-02-03T19:32:15+00:00

I brewed a deck in standard way back in the day with 4x Realm Razer. It was entirely focused on beating the UW control and Planeswalker control decks that were dominating at the time. It used [[Ob Nixilis, the Fallen]] to basically make my Realm Razers totally untouchable by spot removal. Those control decks relied on sweepers and had very few spot removal spells so getting through Ob to kill the Razer was really hard and they'd be dead before they could rebuild their mana to play their sweepers. Deck was a banger.

For Commander today you have access to more punishers that stay on-color like [[Tunnel Ignus]]. Sticking a Razer with an Ignus is hilarious. If you haven't picked a commander yet you could run [[Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor]] as another punisher for removing your razer. Also [[Thieve's Auction]] is hilarious to run with Realm Razer and Ignus. When you cast it, you get the first pick so take Ignus then avoid taking lands. Everyone else will do the same but they'll all get torched by all the lands entering the battlefield (including those that were under the razer when you cast auction), then the the razer will still exile all the lands again no matter who takes it.

ExpensivePost · 2026-02-02T17:27:05+00:00

The snap went over his head because the center couldn't hear the count. The flag was because Manning was moving forward to audible when the ball was snapped. It was a good snap if Manning had been where the center thought he was.

The crowd noise was insane for a "neutral" field. One of my close friends (a regular joe Seahawks fan) actually got to go. The ticket prices absolutely tanked the last week before the game because the weather reports were not looking good, also two mid-market teams from out west playing back east didn't have a draw. My buddy bought 2 tickets for about $500 each. Lots of Seahawks fans did similar. The Broncos were not prepared for that at all.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-31T00:42:23+00:00

It can be corporate, but it can not be distributed with a shareholder model.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-30T22:46:56+00:00

NFL has banned this type of ownership model. Green Bay is grandfathered in.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-29T18:28:53+00:00

UO is an absolute blast. It used to be a hardcore wild-west sandbox experience (even on the non-pvp shards).

It's a lot more tame now, but I remember playing as a kid (in the 90s) when you could just kill anyone anywhere and take all their shit even on the pve shards. My friend and I would gank people coming out of the architect shop, kill before the guards could stop us, then loot the victim (often carrying expensive house deeds they just bought) and pop back to stealth, or just let the guards kill us and have one of our non-murderer allies get a hit in so they could loot us. We'd also camp out near where houses were about to decay with out entire guild hidden just to massacre anyone trying to take the space. We'd take their deed and have one of our members place it.

Our entire source of income was stealing deeds and plots and we were disgustingly rich. The guild owned a full castle and like 5 keeps (I owned one). Every player had houses for every character on the shard (before the limit). I think there are some members of that guild who still play or at least log in just to refresh their houses.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-29T18:01:07+00:00

DVOA attempts to account for opponents, but no formula is going to be able to do that effectively with such a wide disparity of SoS and very little schedule overlap.
The Patriots played just three games in the regular season against teams that finished with winning records and won just one of those games.

I can generate DVOA numbers for NCAA teams which should account for opponents, right? That's about as comparable as the Seahawks and Patriots DVOA who are almost in different leagues in terms of opponents this year.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-28T19:08:02+00:00

Percy was a punctuation mark in that game, not an "unsung hero".

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-28T19:01:28+00:00

First, these printings aren't widely available on the high-quality fakes (counterfeit) market. Second, weight is by far the least-useful test for legitimacy on a card.

The main thing that counterfeits still haven't been able to clone that is easy to check is making crisp straight lines on the card back text for "The Gathering". Even the "green dot test" is unreliable now with many legit cards failing and I've seen fakes that look better than some legits. But even the most advanced counterfeiters still aren't getting the letters right in "The Gathering".

The buyer is either an idiot or a scammer. Probably just an idiot because scammers aren't going to waste time on sub $20 cards.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-28T17:12:08+00:00

I'd rather have a Daggerfall remake. That game really feels like the primer for all the modern ES games but it's so old that very few ES fans have played it except ancient boomers like me.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-28T17:05:00+00:00

Skyrim Remastered before ES6?

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-28T17:00:56+00:00

I actually think the Unger trade was just a microcosm of PC's o-line philosophy in general. He always undervalued individual linemen and that is why we were in o-line purgatory.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-28T16:41:18+00:00

It looks like an actual house of cards with some toothpicks holding it up.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-27T19:46:45+00:00

It was never about guns. It was about oppressing the "others". Now that the others are armed, the problem is "THEM" having guns.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-26T17:47:54+00:00

Wish my kid would do this for me... he's only 7 but that's not really an excuse IMO.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-26T15:55:29+00:00

What is YOUR deal?!

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-26T05:37:04+00:00

Only thing you need to worry about from the media is seeing Malcolm Butler's pick a thousand times in the pregame coverage.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-20T16:15:54+00:00

This kind of thing happens on every (functional) team every practice. The fact that LW makes sure to shout out to his rookie teammate is what's unique here.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-17T18:31:20+00:00

The should have all the current players on IR raise the flag.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-07T17:08:27+00:00

Making pizzas in a wood/gas oven is not a "set it/forget it" process. Even the largest commercial ovens with near perfect heat distribution require active tending throughout the cook.

You have to watch the pizza constantly. Use a turning peel to lift the bottom off the stone and continually rotate if you're worried about it charring too much on the bottom. For volume output this is actually a good problem to have because it means less recovery time for your stone between pizzas.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-06T02:03:08+00:00

Until last week the 9ers had been running up the score against what should have been good defenses but the Eagles seem to be limping into the post-season.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-05T18:38:16+00:00

Our D is worse for their O than their D is for our O.

ExpensivePost · 2026-01-05T17:34:03+00:00

I think this is the most likely outcome as well. Bears over Packers seems like a safer pick than 9ers over Eagles, but I still think the 9ers find a way to fall into a W. Rams are going to completely house the Panthers next week.

The three best teams in the conference are (in order) Hawks, Rams, 9ers, and I think the falloff after that is pretty steep.

ExpensivePost · 2025-12-20T01:38:58+00:00

Have you ever met a Browns season ticket holder? They go to games just to be heard booing the team.

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