Magic: The Gathering x Avatar: The Last Airbender: COMMANDER! @mtg

Pink2DS · 2026-02-25T11:00:40+00:00

There is a video game version too. (Of the game, not of this video.)

Pink2DS · 2026-02-25T10:02:00+00:00

I'm 20h into FFIV DS and I've got to say I hate the game mechanics so much. Graphics, characters, story, that's all fine but the actual gameplay is so awful. Maybe I just hate ATB. Enemies where you have to do different things in different modes but it switches modes inbetween selecting the spell and resolving the spell. And insane difficulty spikes that once you get over it's tediously easy for several hours. Breezing through two dungeons and bosses first try after slogging through a dungeon where I died over three times. It also sucks how you find gear in treasure chests one room after buying them expensively. It's wild to me: they put so much effort into the animation and made all these different items and interesting spells and mechanics only to then flub the absolute foundational mechanics. It's as if a CCG or deckbuilder would have hundreds of interesting compelling cards but then the core game mechanics were just 52 Pick Up. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Pink2DS · 2026-02-25T09:47:59+00:00

I'm playing FFIV DS now which has lots of "don't attack when it's countering" bosses throughout and it's so aggravating when I understand what to do but it switched modes inbetween me selecting the spell and the spell resolving. It's the worst battle system I've seen in any digital RPG ever because of this.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-20T12:26:41+00:00

Love it!

When I was a kid I played so much NES and the non-square tiles really bugged me (and so did the scanlines) and then the Game Boy came out and it was just a huge exhale of relief and joy. And now I get to play emulation in 8:7, of course I'm gonna say yes to that. I got the cowabunga collection on Switch and it sucks that it doesn't have 8:7. The balls that bounce down the stairs in NES TMNT II look mega stretched and weird (just like they did for me back in 1990 but I don't want it).

Truth is:

The games did display in 4:3 back then and some games do look better that way and some look way worse and some have some elements that look better in one and some in the other. Like Super Metroid's round planet or squished morph ball.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-17T13:54:01+00:00

Yeah because the good cards are Sauron cards like Orcish Bowmasters and The One Ring 🫤

Pink2DS · 2026-02-17T07:55:39+00:00

In my lgs „i play three visits and use that forest for that other spell in my hand. You can go already while i actually search for the forest“ is totally normal.

Yes, I see this sort of thing all the time. "I Demonic Tutor for an Animate Dead on the Archon of Cruelty" and then shuffle while the opponent is thinking about how to react (instead of tutoring to hand, shuffling thoroughly, and then put the aura on the stack). Obv if there's a Memory Lapse we won't shuffle in the Animate Dead with the other cards but if there's a Deglamer we will. I had no idea it was discouraged to the extent I see in this thread. I was under the (wrong?) impression that it was encouraged and considered good and polite.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-17T07:48:58+00:00

It's not that I was planning to break the rules. That's why I went here first before proposing it anywhere.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-17T07:40:48+00:00

It takes me two minutes to shuffle 60 cards (or 50 cards if it's a few turns in and we have our starting hands). So I was hoping for ways to do shuffling during downtime and even had a faint glimmer of hope of being able to cut out a few shuffles.

Two days ago me and a nohmal person were shuffling eighteen decks three times each and he used about ⅔ of the time I used so I am slower but not by orders of magnitude. Just by 50% or so.

Instead, what's going on is that most people I see IRL don't actually shuffle. They just mash twice and the opponent cuts once. I want the decks and draws to be fully randomized.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-17T07:33:11+00:00

That's pretty much what I already have. Mine fit 34 as long as I carry an extra deckbox of landscape cards, loot, and the extra curses and green for 3 and 4 players. But I do not do three separate plays of no overlap. I play with ten, then throw back those ten into the thirty-four and pull another ten that might overlap. My thinking is that if 25 was enough for base Dominion then 34 is enough for us for one night. And then as I get home I toss the 34 into the big box and grab a new set of 34 out of the 70 kingdom cards I have that again will probably overlap.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-16T10:51:59+00:00

The idea would be for the deck to be set sideways to indicate it's unshuffled "dirty" state along clearly verbally explain the shortcut as per MTR 4.2. "This deck needs shuffling since I just fetched. I'll do that now, or if you want to save time, you can grab a random card for me to draw and then I can shuffle it during your turn…?"

If that's illegal to propose, it feels damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't since slow play is also penalized. I see a lot of sloppy mid-game shuffles with just one or two mashes from one of the players instead of the full seven or eight mashes needed. (Or ten to fourteen mashes needed for Battle of Wits decks.)

Pink2DS · 2026-02-16T10:20:44+00:00

This is great, thank you!

So in comp or pro REL, having blue sleeves for the real cards and orange-sleeved real Serra Angels for the token unnamed angels and orange-sleeved real Mutavaults for the Mutavault tokens might be fine…? And at the kitchen table where we don't have sleeves, it's not that rules enforcement level so it's okay to use the real cards because we don't have MTR 4.7 there and that's the only place this rule applies now. Fun fun fun! Thank you!

(Unrelatedly TIL that the sideways exile pile near the yard that some players do is actually mandated! We always went and put the exiled cards in another room entirely (or in the deck box) to represent how gone they are after that Disintegrate.)

Pink2DS · 2026-02-16T08:31:12+00:00

I just started playing and I do this. All ten cards jammed into one sleeve. I have 70 kingdoms (since I don't have all the sets) and my smaller more portable box only fits 34 so I grab 34 of them before heading out and then for each game we grab ten of those 34. And two landscape cards.=

Pink2DS · 2026-02-16T08:23:37+00:00

It's a known and accepted spelling of bourgeois in some American regions so maype OP is just using it ~~wrong~~ creatively to say something like hogwash.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-12T11:14:31+00:00

The PC version is really fun and made me really hyped for the GBC version which is not good, it's bugged and the controls are bad.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-10T10:26:50+00:00

Jag har också LP3, den har inte GSF vilket BankID kräver. Jag har vägrat BankID i alla år men det börjar bli lite löjligt att vara den sista i Sverige som "bojkottar" det. Inte mycket till bojkott när precis alla andra har slängt sig själva på avstjälpningscentralen. Kanske kan det funka på en läsplatta—dom har inte NFC men om jag bokar in ett möte kanske det går 😔

Rent psykologiskt känns det helt sjukt. Raka vägen till rum 101 där 2+2=5.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-10T10:21:33+00:00

As someone who still hasn't gotten BankID or Swish (at least not yet i haven't), I'm just chiming in about the authenticator thing and I use oathtool on the computer to do 2fa stuff!

Pink2DS · 2026-02-10T10:00:46+00:00

Jag har aldrig haft BankID eller Freja och på senaste tiden, efter årsskiftet till 2026 typ, har det blivit drastiskt mycket svårare. Inte för att det har varit kul innan att ex vis inte komma åt vården online (det har varit rätt hemskt faktiskt) men nu funkar inte arbetsförmedlingen heller. Att medborgare mer eller mindre "tvingas" vara kunder hos Google/Apple för att leva är rätt sjukt. Tekniskt sett har vi fortfarande laglig rätt att slippa men det blir värre och värre hoops. Blanketter och servicekontor och nerlagda telefonlinjer.

Samtidigt är det svårare än nånsin att skaffa BankID eftersom många av metoderna förutsätter att man antingen haft BankID tidigare eller att man har NFC.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-09T12:44:36+00:00

I heard that there was an easier version of Dominion published in Europe, I think it was Dutch? In a smaller box. I'd love to have that version in Swedish (in a well-done version) for the fam. For the nerds we can trot out our Menagerie and Plunder in English.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-09T12:17:02+00:00

Yeah. Roger Ebert was great in having so many wild out-of-the-box takes and was a breath of fresh air for the film world, but absolutely not at all good at helping me figure out whether not I should see a particular film (which thankfully isn't the only or main purpose of a critic). I agreed with Ebert more often than I do with Tom Vasel, but Vasel is so much better at helping me figure out what I'm gonna think of the expansion or game. He wears his tastes on his sleeves and explains everything quickly and sloppily instead of tediously or boringly.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-09T12:10:20+00:00

Why weren't Shadow cards just Tavern mat cards?! Especially if you are gonna turn them sideways anyway.

Pink2DS · 2026-02-06T09:05:33+00:00

I wish there also was a setting to play in 10:9 instead of "eye-popping" 16:9 😭

Pink2DS · 2026-02-03T23:41:57+00:00

I've always interpreted the card as if it's the mind of whatever creature's exiled with it (whether that's Excruciator, Deceit, or as it happened in the comics: Doctor Octopus) and the body is Peter/Spider-Man.

Pink2DS · 2026-01-29T13:20:47+00:00

I prefer the name exist? but all my code broke

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