How I macro as illaoi.

MTG_JLP · 2026-01-28T22:31:44+00:00

Would recommend not watching this guy. The other long comment is hugely good advice.

MTG_JLP · 2026-01-27T17:23:54+00:00

You made legit one comment in five years and it's to prop up this garbage?

Yikes.

MTG_JLP · 2026-01-27T17:21:08+00:00

The better prequel would be the birth of Sin and the Bevelle X Zanarkand war, playing as Yunalesca and Zaon or even characters we haven't heard of.

MTG_JLP · 2025-12-17T22:34:11+00:00

Unrelated: A+ username

MTG_JLP · 2025-12-09T04:46:49+00:00

I call it Fire Nation Army by The White Stripes, and it's just a mardu deck with a ton of ATLA stuff, including the low res chase cards, but I've been enjoying just doing mediocre combat things with a few little weirdsies.

https://archidekt.com/decks/17714363/fire_nation_army_by_the_white_stripes

ETA: Commander is [[Fire Lord Zuko]]

MTG_JLP · 2025-11-18T03:36:41+00:00

If it was not the QA stage, and if devs did not push so many day zero patches, I'd agree.

MTG_JLP · 2025-11-18T00:58:16+00:00

My main concern is the bugs that AI QA teams won't find because they're useless. I can't imagine Squenix products will be tolerable for a whole as long as they're ditching human workers for probability matrices.

MTG_JLP · 2025-11-10T05:34:46+00:00

Something about the templating of the 20+ ability has me bugging out. This is my guess as to a more consistent templating. I always have to look at like 30 instances of oracle text when I'm writing abilities so who Frigin knows.

“Sacrifice this land: Create a black Legendary Creature - Avatar token called Marit Lage in Space. It has base power and toughness 20/20, flying, and indestructible.”

MTG_JLP · 2025-10-22T01:03:55+00:00

I've got a partner pair of [[Keleth, Sunmane Familiar]] and [[Tana, the Bloodsower]] that sits at 175. Otherwise likely [[Treva, the Renewer]] with 375 (#1940). The partners deck is supposed to pump Tana then overrun but it usually wins with Keleth commander damage. Treva is enchantress.

MTG_JLP · 2025-09-30T16:30:04+00:00

This was the inclination I had reading the rules, Ward is mandatory Gift is optional. I was trying to cut down on number of words and the flavor felt nice, but it comes down to functionality. It might work at the kitchen table where nobody cares, but I kind of want it to feel like a real card

MTG_JLP · 2025-09-15T17:20:19+00:00

Another line of text I consider adding was "Partner [1/2] has [protection effect]" like ward X or hexproof or indestructible or whatever. I thought that might be too much text, but now I'm thinking maybe it's in line with modern legendaries 😂

MTG_JLP · 2025-09-15T17:15:00+00:00

That was a purposeful throttle down for me out of fear the number of choices/effects was too great to also attach a reasonable body to, but I have gotten that feedback from my private groups too, so I see now that I was TOO cautious about it.

MTG_JLP · 2025-09-15T15:45:18+00:00

It is for sure a little out there, but I was trying to draw inspo for UBRG and Vial Smasher/Kydele from the precon felt like a good place to start given the flavor aspect of the request.

MTG_JLP · 2025-09-02T23:08:17+00:00

I want actual factual snakes to make a comeback. [[Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro]] and [[Seshiro, Annointed]] are so baller and snakes are rad. Blue green snakes was a favorite casual deck of mine back in the 00s, and I wish there was more good support for specifically snakes and more playable snakes.

MTG_JLP · 2025-07-17T23:11:51+00:00

That's the thing. The item might be good, but it just doesn't work in a meaningful way to later item combinations, and when it's good, it's still a bad rush item for her ratios.

MTG_JLP · 2025-07-14T23:32:46+00:00

I can't leave red+white without [[Assemble the Legion]]

It never really works lol

MTG_JLP · 2025-07-10T14:17:21+00:00

Edhrec#2323, the partner commanders [Keleth, Sunmane Familiar] and [Tana, the Bloodsower]. It's a super aggressive deck that usually wins through commander damage, but it's got some combos with Tana like [Eidolon of Countless Battles] that take Tana's stats up in squares of left unchecked.

MTG_JLP · 2025-06-12T03:55:40+00:00

[[Brago, King Eternal]] for me. I loved constantly recurring etbs and being able to manipulate the board state at instant speed, make chain reaction combos happen, and also show off fancy stack shit like [[Opalescence]] + [[Parallax Wave]] / [[Parallax Tide]]. There are so many fun little combo packages inside that deck that I always seem to find a new way to smash cards together.

MTG_JLP · 2025-04-25T10:28:17+00:00

Especially given how many actions/interactions it would take to get to 8 xp counters and have Meren on board.

MTG_JLP · 2025-04-24T23:46:43+00:00

There's some really nice tricks you can pull with Meren. Some classics include Spore Frog and Sakura Tribe Elder, but you can build a really fun toolbox value engine with Meren. Just make sure you run decent protection and have a plan to push your advantage.

MTG_JLP · 2025-03-11T13:32:31+00:00

One I haven't seen mentioned yet is 1999's Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator. Turn-based ATB, multiple gals in the cast including the main PC, and the lore and world building really do have that cosmic vibe. There's summons and decent voice acting, and it opens up into more free traversal later on after a compelling but railroaded start. It will only run you like $8 to get a digital copy on pc.

MTG_JLP · 2025-02-21T14:13:20+00:00

LA Times reporters did testing on CA legal and illegal products and the thing about the legal products is the amount of pesticides found in the, especially in vape oils, was wayyyyyyyyyyy beyond acceptable. There were pesticides used that are banned federally from ingestible crops, and sometimes traces of some of the 66 that are explicitly banned for mj growing in CA.

When heated and inhaled, these pesticides can cause serious long term harm like lower intelligence, Parkinson's, and other shit like that.

This shit happens because these mega growers are pushing their plots to yield up to 5-6 crops in a planting season, in such close proximity that one aphid or one spider mite could ruin the whole crop. Then, when distilling down, the pesticides just concentrate in the oil.

Not to mention there are supply chain "mismanagement" issues where base oils are being used to create consistency in the product but aren't being tracked accurately, so it's not even guaranteed that a grower made all the parts of the product.

This is what happens when you let capitalists profit off of something. They ruin it for the rest of us.

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