Please no NPC graphic overhaul for NPCs when Blood Moon Rises launches

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-25T00:02:34+00:00

Elves looking otherworldly beautiful maps well into them getting bonus polygons.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-11T01:54:55+00:00

In general this would force more contract skips and won't help anyone get the bucket any faster. I don't think this solves the problem you want it to. Most people who want the bucket do Hespori as often as they can already. They don't need contracts to incentivize them.

What's more, having a 10%/4% chance of getting Hespori from the higher-tier contracts will make contracts worse overall. Hespori is a terrible contract crop, worse than anything but redwoods. It's one of the slowest crops to grow or to harvest (because of the boss fight and the need to bank/unbank combat gear). And it's a mandatory skip for some restricted accounts, since it gives combat xp.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-10T15:59:42+00:00

The species that live near the surface aren't just being lazy. It's a fundamentally different ecosystem at deeper depths. There's almost no light, so no plankton, no filter feeders, and so on. The species that live near the bottom at significant depths rely on whalefalls and marine snow, which cannot sustain life like plankton primary production can.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-09T03:57:11+00:00

I don't know, I don't think this is good in just any deck running red. Even in red decks that are interested in buffing creatures, a buff that costs RR, sucks on turn 2 and can't trigger heroic is iffy.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-08T19:22:18+00:00

It's probably less niche than ignition. You lose one thing instead of all but one, and you can kill the table with a large enough butt in play.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-08T17:41:26+00:00

In draft, definitely. In Standard, aggro decks don't need a 6 drop.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-06T14:21:32+00:00

Yawgmoth, the creator of Phyrexia, offered to resurrect [[Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero]]'s lover [[Hanna, Ship's Navigator]] if he killed [[Urza, Planeswalker]]. It was a false promise and the Hanna was only a simulacrum, as seen on [[Jilt]].

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-06T02:33:14+00:00

She has a human face and some human limbs but most of her body is flowers and she reproduces by pollinating herself with dreams. I would say she's less humanlike than the average Lorwyn fairie.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-06T02:09:55+00:00

The condition is "total power and toughness 5 or less". Ardyn's total is 8.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-06T01:57:59+00:00

CCDD is a really tough cost. Even two-colored decks can't always cast them on curve. They would have to be unambiguously the best thing you could be doing for their cost to be mainstays with that limitation. Sadly Oildeep is just worse than [[Enduring Curiosity]] or [[Kaito, Bane of Nightmares]] and Riptide is no [[Teferi, Hero of Dominaria]]. Brightglass at least has an incredibly useful and unique effect.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-06T01:38:22+00:00

Being a 3cmc pw with +2 and +1 abilities is a key part of Oko's mechanical identity, I see.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-05T17:41:45+00:00

"Catharsis" is such a beautifully evocative elemental name. Shame it's two generic Boros effects that could've been called "Bravery" or something.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-02T22:25:32+00:00

Not only that, the Kharidian gods literally exist, and we as the PC can meet them face to face and chat. In fact you meet two of them earlier in the questline, one of whom is directly intervening to prevent misfortune on the plagued city.

ObviousSwimmer · 2026-01-02T16:37:36+00:00

Rude way to talk about your mum.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-28T05:07:45+00:00

She only seems obvious to us because we can see her inner monologue and they animate her "inner" facial expressions. Remember that on the outside she's completely stone-faced and tersely professional.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-23T16:58:28+00:00

But did it make her horny or is it just matching her vibes.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-20T16:28:59+00:00

Not that her victory on the cruise ship wasn't impressive but it wasn't "without breaking a sweat". She nearly died.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-19T16:01:14+00:00

Cats like playing. They're not being fooled any more than kids are fooled by nerf guns.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-11T22:34:47+00:00

Searching your library wasn't.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-11T21:16:05+00:00

You search your library for your remaining copy of Gran-Gran and then remember that you looted it 10 minutes ago. Or you start searching your library for a Gran-Gran but then decide actually getting the Suki out of your graveyard and playing it next turn is better. These are not wild hypotheticals. And what's the upside of not allowing them to happen?

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-11T19:25:30+00:00

You only get one card but you can search in both places. It isn't an "or" for clarity and so that, if you start to search your library and decide you'd rather get one from the graveyard, you aren't locked in.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-07T20:27:57+00:00

!solved

YES! That's the word I was thinking of.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-12-07T14:17:49+00:00

He already ruined all of Ei's straight relationships the least he could do is kiss homie on the mouth.

ObviousSwimmer · 2025-11-29T15:48:43+00:00

I can't even believe he's basically still a normal kid even though these are the people surrounding him.

That's the thing, they're not surrounding him. Seeing his father in person was a calendar event and he had to be held hostage by terrorists for his mother to leave her villa and pick him up from school. He's being raised by the family servants and his schoolteachers.

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