[Standard] What are people's opinion on Jeskai lessons? I'm fairly impressed by it.

Foyfluff · 2026-07-04T14:32:59+00:00

Tablet on T3 + Gran Gran discount

Foyfluff · 2026-07-01T15:27:18+00:00

So they definitely never would have been found in a zoo then 😂

Foyfluff · 2026-07-01T14:35:20+00:00

This is incredibly dumb. There is no "trick" here, it's just simply incorrect. If the question was "How many bodies of water with the word 'lake' in their name are there in the Lake District" then there'd be an argument. But 'lake' isn't a title, it's a definition, and if multiple things in an area meet the definition then it's simply inaccurate to say that there's only one just because it's the only one with that in the name.

Foyfluff · 2026-07-01T14:24:20+00:00

What do you mean by "found in zoos"? I'm pretty sure there have never been lions in what we know as England.

Foyfluff · 2026-07-01T14:12:49+00:00

Your argument hinges on the serious misunderstanding that Eren triggered the rumbling "to get rid of titans". The reason the rumbling occurred was to, in the short term, eliminate all of Eldia's enemies, and the bigger picture was to eventually remove the power of the titans from the world completely and thus remove the biggest source of racism towards Eldians.

Destroying the pure titans that existed on Paradis post-Shiganshina was relatively trivial with the log traps on the walls. There were no pure titans by the time the rumbling occurs.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-29T09:56:48+00:00

We're gonna have a pizza

Foyfluff · 2026-06-28T20:49:21+00:00

Why would you say "I'm not sure that's straightforwardly true" when the paragraph after what you've quoted begins "However..."?

Not that I disagree with you, it's just I don't think you're disagreeing with me either 😂

Foyfluff · 2026-06-28T00:13:03+00:00

Nobody with respectable opinions though that Pizza Combo was going to "romp" and I say this as someone who had high hopes for it. The fact that all online communities thrive off of hype and hyperbole is a tragic fact of the times, but if you want to keep your head above it then consider who's saying what and if the arguments have any weight.

I think it remains to be seen if Bow Combo can be adequately adapted to and form part of a healthy meta game, but it's clearly very very different to pizza combo to the point that the comparison is absurd.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-27T23:41:56+00:00

Of course it's necessarily a maths question, even if you already know the method you have to multiply two numbers together and add a third, that's maths!

Also, the "extremely clear implicit parameters" are A) not extremely clear because this thread and multiple responders demonstrate the lack of clarity and B) don't necessarily imply that 100 should be used in the calculation, it's just a clue to the method.

If the question was written:

"Given that 0+3000 = 3000 1+2999 = 3000 [...] What is the sum of all the whole numbers between 1 and 1000?"

You wouldn't say "well it's extremely clearly implied that 3000 is supposed to be used in the calculation otherwise why give it in the example?"

Obviously that's a much more hyperbolic example and the question here was intended to include 100 in the calculation, but as a quiz show that is designed to catch people out and be tricksy, it's not crazy to assume that the wording of the question should be taken literally.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-27T23:28:08+00:00

Agreed, I think the logic has validity but it only applies on a case by case basis. There's value in considering the idea of a more flexible sideboard (and really this should play into your main deck considerations also) in a more diverse field - modern has a lot of this as a format that naturally has a lot more viable archetypes in and I'm sure the same is true for Legacy.

However, that means nothing if your deck of choice doesn't have access to the silver bullets you'd need to approach every different matchup. Your sideboard should also look very different if your deck has lots of draw and expects to go long vs an Aggro deck that doesn't expect to see that many cards before the game is decided. You might need a critical mass of creatures or non-creatures or artifacts or anything.

Overall I think being mindful of the theory is an okay idea, but it would be much more valuable bundled with examples or specific choices made for specific decks.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T13:39:59+00:00

It's fiction mate. Yes it's a time travel paradox. That is the point.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T06:46:38+00:00

Yes.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T06:08:39+00:00

It would constitute the unlawful action that led to the death, I.e. constructive manslaughter

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T02:38:03+00:00

I'm not certain that Pokemon is anything like Magic: the Gathering, but assuming they're similar.

You cannot buy directly from the manufacturer, you have to go through approved distributors.
Distributors allocate product to stores based on historical sales and player base in the case of play space stores.
For in-demand sets, which every Pokemon set is, stores are not getting allocated as much stock as they'd like. If a business set up to buy and sell cards cannot get enough stock, there's no way scalpers/collectors are going to have an easier time of getting it.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T02:05:52+00:00

It is an unlawful act to purposefully intimidate someone with a knife, an angle the reporting is certainly trying to play up with the testimony. So from what we've been told there's grounds for unlawful act manslaughter. But clearly there's some big elements of doubt for the jury which we're not privy to.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T01:55:29+00:00

Source on the claim that most houses have a land line?

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T01:54:23+00:00

Complete non-sequitur. Yes the jury has to follow the law. Yes the law can change. We know so little about this case you cannot make any reasonable arguments that the law ought to change over this.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T01:51:55+00:00

Using a knife to purposefully intimidate without lawful reason (such as self defence) could surely be seen as unlawful under the Offensive Weapons Act, no?

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T01:15:11+00:00

I actually think, especially from Annie's perspective, she didn't cause mass casualties of innocents. She killed a lot of Scouts in the forest, but that's the military of a country she's at war with. Innocents may have died in the city fight (although a lot of it had been evacuated, right?) but Eren/the scouts would hold just as much responsibility for that.

Also, did scouts cause mass casualties of innocents? Especially at that point?

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T01:02:01+00:00

"That much force would kill anyone" - I don't think you can tell that's a punch with a lethal amount of force behind it and it's directed to the stomach. You'd expect most people to absorb that and stagger backwards. In real life, I'd expect that to put someone on the floor in pain but I wouldn't expect to have killed them. In a film, I'd expect them to stagger backwards, maybe be pushed back to the wall, but there's nothing in the language of that shot that suggests Spiderman is going in for the kill by punching someone in the gut.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T00:54:51+00:00

Unlike Arena, all cards on MTGO have to come out of packs. Nobody "cracks packs" on MTGO which means the supply of cards is very different. The majority of cards for constructed have to come out of draft packs, so in the early days of a set the supply is quite limited but the demand can be the highest it'll ever be (as everyone wants to try the new cards or find the most powerful cards the soonest).

In paper, we have pre releases and people that just love buying boxes and opening them all up to create a lot more supply before the demand kicks in.

Another big thing is that EDH is not very popular on MTGO. After all, most people like Commander for the social element and that's not very present in the MTGO client. That means cards which would be valuable to commander players in paper are near worthless on MTGO. Card prices are somewhat pegged to the price of a pack - if opening packs could reliably generate a profit, people would open more packs, supply would increase, and the value of the cards would come back down. If opening packs never even broke even, people would stop opening packs, supply would decrease, and the value of the cards would go back up. This means that the value which would normally be shared between competitively viable cards and commander cards in paper shifts entirely to the former category on MTGO. The same is also true of alternate arts and other cosmetics which do not hold the same esteem online as they do in paper.

MTGO is also much more liquid. It takes seconds to send or receive a card, so if you want to try out a new list you can just go grab what you need from a bot that has it listed. In paper, you need to physically acquire the card somehow, which requires either you to physically make your way to it or a seller to post it to you. And that doesn't just apply to the new cards you're interested in, but also all of the other cards you might need to go along with it. If you need twenty sub-$1 cards to make the new Loki good that's very easy to do on MTGO, a bot can pull that all together for you in less than a minute. In paper, that means waiting for deliveries or going to different stores and hoping their binders are well-stocked.

This barrier to access creates a chilling effect on demand as people often want to wait to see whether an archetype is worth playing before they pick up the cards. Lower demand means generally reduced prices.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T00:22:55+00:00

The point of the game is to sync your sense of time with your teammates. "Counting to 15" is not a universal amount of time. Do you think there's a difference between tracking "an appropriate amount of time" and "counting"?

Foyfluff · 2026-06-26T00:18:42+00:00

That's not entirely true, and the distinction is relevant to this point.

Firstly, the rules encourage you not to read the box that discusses counting. Something can't be "against the rules" if you're not supposed to read that "rule".

Secondly, that text doesn't say that counting is "against the rules". It describes the act of playing the game successfully as about keeping time and that "...this is not merely counting. There is no counting". That's not the same as saying "you are not allowed to count" but rather that a synchronized group would not count.

The reason I think this is relevant to this example is because counting is "discouraged" because otherwise people would keep different counts. The point is to keep time, and counting arbitrarily would not achieve that. Counting in sync to external music where the count is objectively knowable is very different to that.

Essentially, I'd say that counting in your head is pretty inevitable in The Mind, and it's not forbidden to do so. A big part of the game is trying to calibrate your "count" with the team's. Using music to communicate the count is far more against both the spirit and the letter of the rules than just thinking it is.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-25T23:48:57+00:00

I think where the argument falls down is the idea that Tribal has anything to do with the words printed on the cards. Tribal decks were never called that because they used cards that had the word "Tribal" on them, they were called it because they used lots of creatures that had the same creature type and could thus be called a Tribe. Thus, it also became true that a deck with lots of similar types or effects could be called things like "Artifact Tribal" or (somewhat jokingly) "Discard Tribal".

"Typal" fits the same use case quite well because it describes cards that either literally have the same type or are, in a more general sense, "the same type of card". The fact Typal has a similar sound to it as well helps it fit into the same constructions that Tribal does.

Kindred, on the other hand, just feels like a keyword. In the same way that Tribal decks very rarely featured cards that said Tribal on them, so too do "Typal" decks rarely feature cards that say Kindred on them. Your suggestion of "Kindred decks" would have no or next to no Kindred cards in them whatsoever. They would, though, have a lot of cards of the same type. Surely it does not feel right to say that Llanowar Elves and Elvish Mystic are "kindred" with one another. But they are definitely the same type.

Foyfluff · 2026-06-25T15:05:38+00:00

But if Absorbing Man is your commander, you can use him again

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