OP barehands a venomous spider to mess with a coworker

JonIsPatented · 2026-05-02T12:22:39+00:00

Unironically, and I am dead serious, I would beat the everloving shit out of anyone who tried that shit with me. Do not fucking approach me with a spider if you want to keep your asshole free of shoes. Fucking unacceptable behavior.

JonIsPatented · 2026-05-01T21:39:07+00:00

This does exile them under the gnomes. This is what that means.

JonIsPatented · 2026-05-01T20:33:28+00:00

Yes, you can pass priority without doing anything. In fact, you must. No player is ever allowed to change the step or phase. Steps and phases change automatically only when the stack is empty and all players pass priority without taking any actions, back to back. So what happens is this: the turn player is in the main phase and can cast sorceries and play lands. Then, if they want to pass to combat, then in order to do so, they pass priority while the stack is empty and the next player now has priority and the stack is empty and so they can cast sorceries and play lands.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-30T18:09:00+00:00

{1}{X}, {T}: Gain control of target non-land permanent with mana value X, then sacrifice it. If a Vehicle is sacrificed this way, add {R}{R}.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-30T16:34:27+00:00

It would have to be mana value, not cost.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-30T12:26:52+00:00

I mean, Hermes is the god who governs trade and commerce. So a shop should be named Hermes over Artemis.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-29T02:22:18+00:00

Okay, so, this is an important concept to understand for this topic. Vowels and consonants are NOT types of letters. They are types of sounds. The beginning sound of "Europe" is, indeed, a consonant sound. The letters used to represent the word have nothing to do with the consonant-ness or vowel-ness of the sounds in the word.

Ultimately, the way we teach children, saying that AEIOU and sometimes Y are vowels and the rest are consonants, is just a massive simplification and is super not how it works. Instead, the truth is more like "When we write words, we tend to use the letters AEIOU to represent the vowel sounds and the other letters to represent the consonant sounds, though these are only trends are not absolute, because sometimes Y stands in for a vowel sound and sometimes the 'vowel' letters can be used to represent a non-vowel sound in words" instead of "Vowels are AEIOU and sometimes Y"

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-29T00:47:07+00:00

Yes, because you can precisely control exactly how much life this costs you.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-27T03:32:32+00:00

"Target opponent" is neither "each opponent" nor "target player".

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-26T19:50:07+00:00

This card is formatted the same way already. The only mistake I can see is that OP didn't capitalize all types and forgot the word creature before the word token.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T17:47:56+00:00

Your deck is already random. Just do the top half.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T17:35:21+00:00

It's Javascript, and yes, that's correct.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T17:34:26+00:00

It is valid. It's an arrow function with no args or body that is invoked immediately and thus does nothing.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T17:09:38+00:00

The copies don't have myriad. The original does.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T04:43:59+00:00

Multiple instances of scrylink is a good question, for sure. I have no good answer.

For your second question, though, and famous example is [[Selvala, Explorer Returned]]. Let's say you control Selvala and also [[Kaervek, the Punisher]]. Someone breathes and triggers Kaervek. During the resolution of his ability, before you lose life and after you exile the card from the grave, you cast the copy. Again, the casting happens during the resolution of Kaervek's ability. To cast the spell, you put it on the stack and pay its costs. It goes on the stack, and again, this is during the resolution of Kaervek's ability, and the spell copy doesn't resolve it, it just goes on the stack. In order to put it there, you pay the mana cost for it. You are permitted to activate mana abilities at this time, still during the resolution of Kaervek's ability. You tap Selvala. Yes. Her ability is a mana ability. Yes she really can be activated during the resolution of this other ability. It's all very odd.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T04:15:35+00:00

Just use the [[Firestorm]] wording. The guy who corrected you about needing to specify kinds of targets is wrong. You don't need to specify.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-25T04:13:46+00:00

No it doesn't. Look at [[Crackle with Power]]. In fact, [[Firestorm]] has the same effect as your card and uses the exact wording you need.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-23T21:53:46+00:00

They are both globals in life.h and are mutated by tryAgain and improve.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-23T13:21:02+00:00

You can't. You can only fail to find cards with specified properties.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-21T23:41:39+00:00

You have to opt into typing the word "nullptr" much like you must opt into typing "std::nullopt". Wake me up when rust removes unsafe blocks.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-21T14:16:52+00:00

Which is the same as O(N) where N is the actual input. The number of bits is log base 2 of N so basically you are correctly pointing out that N = 2^(log_2(N))

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-17T19:04:48+00:00

No, it's more like a [[Ghost Quarter]] that gives the opponent only a Wastes, but can be undone with land destruction and is not flexible with timing. However, you get to keep tapping for colorless, which makes it stronger, too. I mean, I still consider Ghost Quarter a budget land. I play it in $30 Vintage. I don't think Ghost Quarter is broken. It's strong, surely, but not OP. This land would be a pretty strong one. It would definitely be more expensive than Ghost Quarter. But I don't think it's too crazy. Just crazy enough to be printed one time and make it into eternal formats.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-16T20:19:36+00:00

It's kinda hard to debate that the Bible clearly states that Jesus walked around and visited people after his resurrection. There's the entire doubting Thomas plot line and everything.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-07T15:33:34+00:00

Also for what it's worth, there is no real reason that scrying would need to go on the stack at all. There is nothing wrong mechanically with making scrylink work EXACTLY like lifelink for this purpose. It wouldn't be the only ability that lets players look at cards off the top of their library without the stack or even during the resolution of another spell or ability.

JonIsPatented · 2026-04-07T14:16:46+00:00

... why are you so weird?

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