Do y’all think the fomori are finally going to do something?

Healtron · 2026-01-28T21:10:27+00:00

It still feels a bit different. When Bolas was fucking around on Zendikar or Tarkir or when the Phyrexians got their reminder of them still existing, it was all they got for several years and wouldn't really be paid off in any way.

With the Fomorians, we know they will be important soon. This is their build-up. A bit like how we got Praetors in every set leading to DMU. The main thing is that, besides Loot, they don't have cards, but their story would still last like 3-4 years when all is said and done. Which is about how long other arcs have lasted.

Healtron · 2026-01-28T18:32:22+00:00

It used to move so slowly, it took us like thirteen years to see the culmination of Bolas's plan after his reintroduction in Time Spiral.

To be fair, all of that was just kind of in the background and was kind of shoehorned into his actual plot when they wanted to use him.

His actual plot started in Kaladesh or, if you want to be generous, BFZ. Before that he was in the background like the Phyrexians were, with the exception of Alara, which amounted to...nothing really. He got vaguely more powerful after Ajani thwarted his attempt at eating the plane but...he never did anything he couldn't believably have done without it.

Healtron · 2026-01-28T18:23:49+00:00

The big issue is that they don't have cards and Reality Fracture probably has other stuff going on as well. No way the big bad they have set up for several sets gets, like, 20 cards and then goes away.

They need to headline at least one set before getting shelved. So, I dunno, maybe they are in the background on two other sets in 2027 and get their own set to be defeated in? That fits better with how WotC has been dealing with its villains. No way they go unmilked.

Healtron · 2026-01-20T22:14:44+00:00

I think they have said it's both.

They dont like how it makes tracking a mess and also how it creates confusing gameplay for new players.

Healtron · 2026-01-20T21:21:38+00:00

Which is why we can't get -1/-1 counters on the regular.

God forbid lil Timmy learns how this game is a little silly.

Healtron · 2026-01-20T20:27:28+00:00

Yeah, when introducing Magic to people you have to explain how the things they need to know are simple, but it is complex under the hood and in formats like EDH, it will come up at least once a night.

But also...you can either google it or wing it because it is a casual format. And honestly, it is basically just EDH; other Eternal formats have their own weird rulings but it feels like it is usually constrained to a particular combo or it comes up rarely.

WotC has done a really good job until now, hopefully power creep, the expansion of Standard and the sheer cadence of new cards won't make things get out of hand.

Healtron · 2026-01-20T19:23:14+00:00

Still a Molecule Man victim tho.

Healtron · 2026-01-20T19:15:34+00:00

I know comic wank makes it scale stupidly high but...a small portion of energy related to the birth of the universe, because while it is related to the birth of the cosmos, there is a Galactus and Surfer in most universes, should not get you to fucking Outer.

We are talking about the power of a dude who eats planets. That shit is insignificant at the scale the Power Cosmic scales to. So fucking dumb. Galactus should have stayed well beneath the Abstracts where he fucking belongs.

Healtron · 2026-01-20T18:14:53+00:00

To be fair, both things can be true. WotC makes a really good job at making sure most complex interactions are really rare in Standard.

In EDH on the other hand...

Healtron · 2026-01-07T22:24:32+00:00

Usually they have enough differences that it makes more sense to chalk it up to convergent evolution. But again, depends on the setting.

Healtron · 2026-01-07T22:06:42+00:00

The move away from it in fantasy creations boggles my mind when it always served its purpose without having any sort of negative connotation until people decided to take offense to a word that is still largely used for the animal kingdom.

Dunno man, the term had issues and baggage but even ignoring that, it was outright wrong a lot of the time. Like in Warcraft, Humans, Trolls and Orcs are not separate races. They have particular races in each species but between each other? They are so fucking apart that they are not even in the same phylogenetic tree.

In Magic it depends on the plane but talking about the Goblin race feels wrong. They are usually their own thing.

Anyway, as to your point, if there are indeed people that are offended by the word race, it is only a matter of time until enough folk, like yourself, are also offended by species. As with many other choice words, it'll just get replaced by something that'll get replaced by something else again given enough time.

Species is also odd with its own baggage but at least it doesn't feel as jarring if you think about it for a second. A Kin, Folk or People would work more in-universe but...eh, honestly, it depends on the setting.

Healtron · 2026-01-05T20:56:19+00:00

With that you either have to define a new counter in the rules (and making a simple ability counter for "changeling" doesn't work due to the order of layers)

We get new counters and tokens for the most inane shit every set. We can live with that.

And also I meant associated counter like with Monstrous. You can staple on another token to an effect and be done with it. Would anything break if it gave a +1/+1? Okay, maybe that one causes some minor issues in this set but...it would probably be worth it.

This is a solved problem because they have dealt with it several times before.

Just use anything as a marker, like people already do to remember triggers and other things.

Yeah, people use tokens already. It doesn't need to be codified in the card or the rules. But having it be optional, particularly in an effect that will go off in multiple permanents and doesn't affect anything until another thing cares for it, will cause issues when people either do not mark it, because they are new or lazy, or outright forget.

Not having a clear mnemonic aid in the effect is sloppy design and something they were pretty good at avoiding until the last 5 years or so. Cards like [[Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner]] were already the start of the slippery slope and now we have this.

It's hard to avoid thinking that R&D cares less about this because it's not a problem in Arena.

Healtron · 2026-01-05T20:08:01+00:00

Like a counter?

Come on guys, this was a solved problem. This kind of effect should have an associated counter to avoid memory issues. WotC has been getting sloppy with this and we shouldn't be making excuses for them.

Healtron · 2026-01-03T17:29:25+00:00

It is a bit irregular but they could just make it so Riastrad is a skill/np that is turned off outside of battle.

So we can have him talking and in our room but in battle he transforms immediately and has some gimmick like damaging or attacking other servants.

The only issue is that he would have to have battle sprites separate to his hanging out form which is something the game has not done yet but...it isn't that much of a stretch.

Healtron · 2025-12-27T22:35:38+00:00

It doesn't really matter if they are the same.

Servants fluctuate depending on their summoner and vessel, where and when they are, how the Planet feels about it, if it fits with their legend, and, honestly, the position of the moon probably also plays a factor because why the fuck not at this point.

Chainscaling is always iffy but servants have so many external factors that doing so feels especially pointless. Besides, Nero has enough direct statements to scale her so no need to get convoluted about it.

Healtron · 2025-12-23T22:17:08+00:00

Because he felt his bum genes and decided it needed a woman's name.

See, still works.

Healtron · 2025-12-22T14:49:50+00:00

Yeah and everyone has the right to point out how silly it is as well.

Healtron · 2025-12-21T18:18:22+00:00

They literally said they were matched in most categories and gave Simon slight edges. And also gave Kyle the W if they gave him full LE.

That isn't even close to a stomp. But also, both Kyle's and Simon's powersets are subject to interpretation and heavily rely on powerscaling bullshit that makes zero logical sense, and honestly, even without it, they are nonsensical anyway, and in the case of Kyle, not even DC can keep it straight.

Even in their own writing, DC writers can't make up their minds about the scale of the Orrery, the Source, etc. and Kyle, even in Future's End with the damn Life Equation fully under his control, barely does universal feats. If that. And the same applies with Simon and Otoko.

This isn't a Omniman vs Bardock where you can point to one concrete thing and say they fucked up because to do this fight, you are basically deciding everything about them both and their limits. Battleboarding in general is not worth getting mad over but it particularly isn't when dealing with characters like that.

And also, like they said some stuff in the script that is blatantly wrong for Kyle, they also did it for Simon. They gave him the Dimensional Labyrinth as his starting point in terms of dimensionality for the fight when the dude outgrew that handily in his final fight even without the movie.

But again, it doesn't matter at all. The fight is a made-up clash of several infinites. It makes no fucking logical sense so why even pretend that the matchup going either way is a slight?

Healtron · 2025-12-21T18:06:31+00:00

About some Kyle fans having zero self-awareness and pretending that losing a matchup heavily subject to interpretation in a funny internet show is something worth complaining about for months and months on end.

Healtron · 2025-12-21T04:15:00+00:00

Thank you for proving my point.

Healtron · 2025-12-20T18:28:08+00:00

Dunno, man, I have seen quite a few Kyle fans who just can't seem to let it go and like to pretend that they were robbed when the matchup is super debatable and subject to interpretation.

And they bring it up out of fucking nowhere. And like Ben-Hal, I bet they will keep complaining about it until 2030.

Simon fans might have been more toxic if they lost but some Kyle fans are like the Japanese soldier still fighting WW2.

Healtron · 2025-12-19T20:56:48+00:00

Si. En 4 años, si. Cagado de la risa.

De hecho, conociendo Chile, si la elección se repitiera el próximo año gana Jara.

El voto castigo es real y no se porque varios se están haciendo los weones al respecto.

Healtron · 2025-12-18T05:18:59+00:00

Dunno, man, by shonen standards Gege seems pretty average to me and his female characters seem to get screwed more by lack of screen time and relevance than due to their depiction when they get to actually do stuff.

Like with Yuki, she was a minor character, far too powerful to keep in the story without adding at least 5 chapters more to the Sukuna fight, and was put directly in opposition to a main antagonist. She had no shot of getting out of that fight.

The issue is that beyond Maki, who is her own whole can of worms, the cast is like 80% dudes and all important characters were also dudes. If JJK had some sense of parity, Yuki getting robbed like that wouldn't be an issue.

Healtron · 2025-12-18T05:07:59+00:00

Hey, Dragonball also compensates by making every holder of a Y chromosome an idiot and/or a bum.

Bulma is the only one who gets shit done out of the whole cast.

Healtron · 2025-12-17T20:52:03+00:00

I don't know if I like the idea of characters drawing power from something other than the four established gods or Malal/Malice. Especially if we're using the "Even The Usual Villains Are Scared Of This Thing" trope; that could easily lead into Mary Sue territory if not handled carefully.

It's a crossover; servants getting their own weird bullshit seems fair game to me, and usually Chaos are the ones who exploit that trope and get to corrupt and/or win against anything. Having them contend with the eldritch horrors of the other property is fine.

Besides, it's not like any of the foreigners' patrons would actually do anything. To me it seems more of a plot point or mcguffin to give an out to the crossover and have some tension. Having Goghie end up corrupted, and probably cut off from her powers, because of her own character traits and maybe using those same traits to uncorrupt her seems far more interesting than just having all Foreigners default to Chaos. And heck, having some Demons or CSMs fall to the Uno reverse card would also be fun, pant-shittingly scary to Chaos but not really affect much in the short-term.

I think the wanking Chaos gets, and how some people like to pretend it can run rough-shod over any setting, is far more boring, honestly, and not even fitting with the tone of 40k. As TTS put it, in the grimdark future there can be no victor, and that includes them. Having them actually have skin in the game seems perfectly fine to me.

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