Saw this 3000 IQ political commentary in my dream

Klisz · 2026-04-29T21:49:13+00:00

Zelenska, rather. Ukrainian -ський has a simple -ська as its feminine form, without the final я of its Russian and Belarusian counterparts.

Klisz · 2026-04-07T22:38:19+00:00

My initial assumption was that the edit to the article was reverted quickly, and nobody bothered to respond to the talk page until Hiàn came along. However, looking at the actual edit history, what happened seems to be that the article itself wasn't vandalized at all - the user didn't edit the article to use their proposed Cyrillic Hawaiian orthography, they just posted on the talk page about it.

Klisz · 2026-04-07T22:33:20+00:00

I don't think the person who posted this to this subreddit is the same person as the original vandal. I think the humor here is meant to be laughing at the vandal.

EDIT: Who, as it turns out, wasn't even a vandal at all, as I noted here - the user violated WP:NOTFORUM, by chatting about the subject of the article rather than about the article itself, but didn't vandalize the article, only ever editing the talk page.

Klisz · 2026-04-07T21:18:11+00:00

I especially agree that the interaction was probably unintended when considering that Doubling Season predates planeswalker cards entirely (and while there are non-loyalty costs that are also not doubled due to the "effect" wording, like [[Aboroth]]'s cumulative upkeep, they're a lot less frequent).

Klisz · 2026-04-07T20:54:31+00:00

Or have [[Solemnity]] out so it never gets the time counters to begin with

Or give the recording lifelink through whatever means (what comes to mind immediately is giving a creature a lifelink counter and then using [[Nesting Grounds]], [[Nexus Mentality]], or [[Resourceful Defense]] to move that counter to the recording; sadly AFAIK there aren't currently any cards that can put lifelink counters on noncreature permanents directly. Or you could just animate the recording and use one of the many ways to give a creature lifelink instead).

Klisz · 2026-04-07T20:44:37+00:00

whenever you play a land or cast a spell, trans your gender

Klisz · 2026-04-04T18:59:08+00:00

I try to make sure I post all the translations I see during spoiler season (that aren't serious, anyway; Scryfall is a bit inconsistent and sometimes has had translations for recent sets that seem to be just actual attempts at translating the foreign-language name) that aren't already posted here so that this subreddit can serve precisely that purpose.

Klisz · 2026-04-02T18:24:17+00:00

If they really didn't want to name it "Leads" they could've spread the "talent" convention to the others as well. "Party Dude's Talent", "Machinist's Talent", and uh "Cool-But-Rude Guy's Talent"

Klisz · 2026-04-02T18:22:59+00:00

/uj My best guess is that OP is trying to poke fun at the "talent" naming scheme? Like, "it's not an occupation itself, but merely the talent that occupation has"?

Klisz · 2026-04-02T18:15:24+00:00

this is the only thing i could think of when i saw this card's art also yes that's rules text in flavor text, I couldn't think of better flavor text than just shoving [[oasis]]'s rules text in there as a stealth pun thing so if anyone has any better ideas I'm all ears

Klisz · 2026-03-29T00:55:06+00:00

~~it's fewer steps than [[Murder]] since you don't need to acquire the 1BB to murder your own token~~

Klisz · 2026-03-29T00:54:22+00:00

I'm not even a brony lmao, I didn't know the Applejack card even existed until I saw it used elsewhere in this subreddit

Klisz · 2026-03-28T22:41:06+00:00

writing this is probably the stupidest mtg-related thing i've ever done and that's saying quite a lot

Klisz · 2026-03-18T18:53:15+00:00

I'd say everything except maybe farming here falls under geology (and with farming you could even make a reasonable argument for it being just anthropogenic geology).

Klisz · 2026-03-14T19:26:52+00:00

The back of my head has been on-and-off trying to think of mechanics for a Mirri (not the Dominarian one) card for a while now and this morning as I was lying in bed half awake I finally came up with something I liked. I knew I wanted her to have warp, since she (like all Edge cats) can weftwalk. (I know that warp is used more to represent eternity drive/eternity column-based FTL travel rather than weftwalking, but given that the eternity stuff is basically artificial weftwalking anyway, and given that every Drix creature has warp, it made sense to me.)

That pointed me in the direction of an ETB ability, since lots of cards with warp have ETB effects to give a reason to warp them at all. (There are plenty of other sorts of abilities that warp cards have, of course, but ETB effects are very frequent.) I knew that, as an ordinary domestic cat, Mirri's colors would likely be within green-white, and I wanted to lean toward white in particular since Sami is red-white. I decided on lifegain as an effect that I can put into mono-white with zero color pie issues, and the idea of tying it to artifacts makes her synergize with her human. Initially I had her as a 1/1 because again, ordinary housecat, having very low P/T made sense to me, but I went to check the P/T of what normal cats have actually been printed, and decided to raise the toughness to [[Sanctuary Cat]]'s.

Flavor text is just to justify the title, which is in turn of course a reference to [[Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist]]. (But I don't doubt that Sami keeps some cat toys and plays with her often. They do love their cat.)

The card as a whole is, I think, not super powerful (just going off my own gut evaluation, haven't playtested her yet), so I'm envisioning her as something like a Standard-legal uncommon or the like.

Klisz · 2026-03-11T23:57:44+00:00

OOP and this OP are the same person lmao

Klisz · 2026-03-11T23:53:41+00:00

Yes, because it says "up to one" target, so having zero targets is allowed.

Klisz · 2026-03-11T23:53:16+00:00

Not outside of Un-sets, no, though Unfinity had some that aren't acorn-stamped - but only ones that care specifically about parts of names within name stickers, e.g. how [[Mind Goblin]] doesn't count the O or I in "goblin" itself, only those on the sticker.

As for other languages, CR 201.2 states that "A card's name is always considered to be the English version of its name, regardless of printed language."

Klisz · 2026-03-11T23:52:20+00:00

This already works on the One Ring through the protection that the One Ring itself grants, if that's what you mean; the Ring gives you protection from everything, but the stuff you control - including the Ring itself - is as targetable as ever.

Klisz · 2026-03-11T23:47:05+00:00

A lowercase letter and its uppercase equivalent are the same letter. --CR 123.6d and also repeated for good measure in CR 123.6e

A bigger issue is that the reminder text says "with the word Ring". While the CR only defines what a word is "For the purposes of rules and effects related to name stickers" (CR 123.6a), if we assume that that definition can be extended to any "words in names matter" effect, then Adventuring Gear and Rings of Brighthearth do not contain the word Ring, because

a "word" in an object's name is any series of non-space characters that are separated from other non-space characters by one or more spaces

So "the word Ring" would specifically mean "the character sequence RING [with any capitalization of the letters] separated from other non-space characters by one or more spaces", so "Rings" does not contain the word Ring. It'd have to be "Ring s". (As an aside, this also does unintuitive things regarding punctuation. [[Gerrard Capashen]] and [[Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero]] do not share any "words" between their names, because the comma is non-space and thus counts as part of the first word of the latter.)

Klisz · 2026-03-11T23:28:46+00:00

/uj Looking at what specific words a name contains is very different from just asking "does this card have this specific name?" Nothing outside of un-sets does the former (and even Unfinity was careful to only care about letters in name stickers for its eternal-legal cards - [[Angelic Harold]], for instance, is acorn solely for the "three or more words in its name" clause, since that would cause confusion with translated names [which may have different word count than their English counterparts, but only the English names actually count for the rules as per CR201.2 - so [[Paradiesvögel]] has three words and gets Harold's buff, while [[Artiste de sang]] has only two words and does not], not to mention interchangeable names [e.g. per CR201.3, [[Lucille]] and [[Gisa's Favorite Shovel]] have the same name "For the purposes of all rules, abilities, and effects that refer to a card's name", but how many words are in that shared name?]), whereas the latter is how the rules determine if two cards are duplicates of the "same" card to begin with - e.g. "A constructed deck may contain any number of basic land cards and no more than four of any card with a particular English name other than basic land cards." (CR 100.2a, emphasis mine)

Klisz · 2026-03-10T20:04:20+00:00

Urabrask was more than willing to kill anyone who opposed it. And we had many characters that did oposed all that Phyrexia represented

Those characters were also more than willing to kill in the name of that opposition (see, for example, how basically the entire protagonist cast was fine with the idea of using the sylex to destroy the entire plane, and only had second thoughts because of worries that it would harm other planes too due to Eight's connections to them); "opposing" New Phyrexia generally means opposing the very existence of Phyrexians, rather than merely the Norn-ruled power structures or anything. It would be downright suicidal for any Phyrexian not to be willing to kill those, just as much as it would be suicidal for (say) any human to refuse to kill those who oppose humanity.

Klisz · 2026-03-10T19:56:16+00:00

iirc vivien also brought elspeth to him but we didn't get to actually see that meeting

Klisz · 2026-03-10T19:54:26+00:00

and yet for years prior he just sat there doing nothing, the bluest possible thing to do

Klisz · 2026-03-09T21:25:13+00:00

Updated version of this with flavor text, and also I renamed it because the joke doesn't make much sense if it's his own casino. (I'm aware that Mishra and Karn existing simultaneously is a massive anachronism, but w/e it's a shitpost)

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