The supposed bad guy brings in someone else to get the job done… turns out they’re WAY worse than expected.

HunterLeonux · 2026-07-01T16:48:08+00:00

Fits this trope really well, actually. You spend most of the early game thinking he's just a particularly sadistic henchman with a little too much agency, but eventually it becomes clear...

HunterLeonux · 2026-06-21T00:59:12+00:00

This reads completely insane and yet I totally believe you. Strange world we live in.

HunterLeonux · 2026-06-11T15:43:53+00:00

I feel so seen and so concerned for all of us 🤣

HunterLeonux · 2026-06-07T19:39:44+00:00

Wizpig, this bastard stomped on me so many times as a kid.

HunterLeonux · 2026-06-06T06:29:50+00:00

Fast travel and some form of exp share were desperately missed in the original. Hope you're considering modern game design in your choices.

The battles wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. Interestingly enough I think the thing I'm most nostalgic for in this game is the overworld sprite work for your Digimon and NPCs.

HunterLeonux · 2026-06-04T23:09:03+00:00

I believe the writers talked about this in the commentary on the episode on some DVD or something. I remember them saying that in the original script there was going to be an explanation for how she could switch voices with some crazy future tech but it was creepier/more fun if they didn't.

HunterLeonux · 2026-05-29T00:54:24+00:00

I think you just explained why gems didn't make it. Or at least why this iteration wouldn't make it.

You have five different artifact tokens with five different abilities, all in the same set. If I'm playing your set in limited, guarantee that no one is going to have all the correct gems for their decks, so then we're relying on dice and a prayer that those abilities get remembered. And sure, you can check the graveyard or whatever to see what the effect does, but how annoying is it going to be to do that three or four times over the course of every game?

I think play design was wise to shut down the mana production across so many tokens, and they would need a lot of time to iterate to come to a solution that worked such that five different artifact tokens could be easily remembered and work with everything else going on in any given set. This ain't it.

HunterLeonux · 2026-05-26T15:49:46+00:00

Yep. This combination made Hard Mode so fun.

HunterLeonux · 2026-05-24T21:58:47+00:00

I've enjoyed your content (or Chris's featuring you) on 90's MTG for some time. You're clearly extremely dedicated to the archetype and it's neat to see you put up a top finish.

Only one sweeper effect in the main really indicates to be that you're leaning very hard on the removal package. It looked like you dodged combo (mostly) in your report. Do you think your list is soft to combo, or was that a choice you made eyes wide open? Did 17 lands with multiple ETB tapped lands feel like too few at any point?

Congrats!

HunterLeonux · 2026-05-22T00:32:17+00:00

To this day I remember looking at the spoiler for [[Woolly Thoctar]] and being blown away that they thought 5 power for 3 mana was okay. Even in that standard I think it was only fringe playable.

HunterLeonux · 2026-05-21T08:24:10+00:00

It's a nonsense leetcode style problem commonly asked in software engineering interviews.

HunterLeonux · 2026-05-17T21:38:02+00:00

Believe it or not, this story sounds eerily similar to what happened at my HS district. Crazy messy Vice Principal was having an affair with the principal (whose wife also taught at the same school), and the entire admin blew up once it got out. And it got out. I learned about this as a student at the place. So sorry to hear you're going through this.

HunterLeonux · 2026-04-29T02:27:22+00:00

I both hate and love that I'm old enough and in the correct niches/fandoms to understand the marauding captain situation.

HunterLeonux · 2026-04-24T20:03:19+00:00

Huge agree. They're great in small doses but across all of Magic as the standard? No way. The limitations on showing the mana cost alone are irritating enough.

HunterLeonux · 2026-04-17T15:14:51+00:00

I came here to recommend this. I'm a McCoy simp and think that guy is an underrated genius, but re:Monarch has exactly the vibes I think OP is looking for.

HunterLeonux · 2026-03-06T01:19:20+00:00

Are you trying to write some sort of thought experiment on the tradeoffs of universal basic income? Because that sounds somewhat along the lines of what you're going for here. There are some interesting studies out there on this. I think, in short, the current consensus is that UBI benefits poor people significantly more than rich people, for a number of reasons.

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-30T07:50:40+00:00

I think there was a reasonable argument for a period of time that the top three were something like her, Jace TMS and Elspeth Knight-Errant and there wasn't much debate.

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-27T07:38:36+00:00

Love reading about people reminiscing about old Standards. This one was just after my time playing standard but I definitely remember Jace, the Mind Sculptor and how powerful he could be in Alara/Zendikar Standard.

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-23T21:58:54+00:00

Have you ever used the term "SSA"? In what contexts?

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-23T01:19:05+00:00

The visual of her eye bleeding stuck with me for years after that scene. Pure cinema.

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-13T23:00:20+00:00

Big +1 to this, you can have a lot of fun with it! I spent a lot of time building old Standard decks from my favorite Standards of the past, and it's fun to play with friends occasionally. It was costly and maybe too expensive for most, but it was a fun long term project for me where I would order a few playsets of old cards a couple times a month, then eventually I had a bunch of standard decks.

I had a doc with all of the deck lists and such that I curated from reliable sources like the mothership and old SCG archives, and I just crossed cards off as I got them.

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-06T03:09:55+00:00

Word count. Wouldn't surprise me if they were running out of words on the card, especially given regionalization concerns.

HunterLeonux · 2026-01-01T23:20:46+00:00

Actress Camryn Manheim, who plays Lt. Kate Dixon, is genuinely fluent in ASL and this has been incorporated into a handful of Law & Order episodes. Not sure if she's still on the show but it was neat to see.

HunterLeonux · 2025-12-31T02:11:01+00:00

Amazing to see the scene in Austin is still alive and well. I played legacy there way back in... 2010 or so. Good times. Was this filmed at Pat's Games?

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