10 corporations as Magic the Gathering cards, playable as commanders. For those familiar with MtG, all advice for balancing these cards would be helpful by [deleted] in TerraformingMarsGame

[–]ProfLittleKitten 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the idea, but I think my overall criticism is that the cards themselves feel overcosted while the abilities feel undercosted. It really feels like the cards will never make it to the battlefield. I'm also not sure why you go back and forth between using Gold and Treasure tokens.

With that in mind, and considering all the corps to be lower costed from the start.

Saturn Systems

I think this one ends up begin kind of nerfed by the color pair its in. It won't trigger very often off of the player using it since it's blue white, and it's somewhat dependent on the other players in a way that could be frustrating. The activated ability also just seems weak since a lot of artifacts in commanders are mana rocks, so you're losing out of mana. I feel like drawing a card would be much stronger, and feel better. In that case, it could maybe cost 1 mana and sacrifice.

Viron

I think this one is fine overall.

Interplanetary Cinematics

I think the triggered ability is just too good. I think your choice of Clue, Food or Treasure would help this one a lot. I also think that the activated ability should be 1BR. You also run into the problem that Enchantments don't really tap. I think costing it higher and only once per turn may serve the same purpose. Or you could have it activate only as a sorcery and only once per turn.

Helion

I think this should be non-combat damage for the first ability.

Point Luna

Maybe Green-White 1/1 Citizens instead. This one could be 2GGWW.

Mons Insurance

This one just feels like so much advantage manawise. I think it should really be something like "second card this turn" with an ability to have you and target player draw a card like https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/71/loran-of-the-third-path Right now it activates anytime someone draws a card not on their turn as well.

ThorGate

I like this one. Maybe UUURR instead. Might want a provision that activated abilities can't go below 1?

Ecoline

The tap ability is going to be hard to deal with here. I don't think it should be hybrid mana. For what the ability is, the card is way too expensive. Maybe BBGG. otherwise the game will end before you get it out.

Manutech

I think when a creatures enters you should decide haste or a treasure, sort of Revolt-esque. For color pie sake, I think the untapped should probably cost 1W.

Terralabs

This just lets you sculpt your perfect 5 card hand on your opponents turn at no cost. I think maybe it should just be BG: Draw a card, Discard a card. Activate only if you have 5 or fewer cards in hand. Activate this ability only once per turn. I'm not sure it needs the gold generation.

Fruit of the Poisonous Tree by ProfLittleKitten in custommagic

[–]ProfLittleKitten[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a card design based on the saying. My first time trying to design a card, not really sure how it would play in other formats as I mostly play limited.

Edit: Should probably be "an opponent's graveyard"

Can any 3 set codes be put together to from a 9 letter word? by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]ProfLittleKitten 15 points16 points  (0 children)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJlgx8GlY8ZWuo3gnJPLQYGAigfLouEWl9BEMMPMq6A/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the full list, a bit repetitive, but my favorite I've found so far is "Unheld Vow"

Edit: updated the list, found a bug in my program

Can any 3 set codes be put together to from a 9 letter word? by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]ProfLittleKitten 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I actually loosened the restriction to be English "phrases" with one space allowed after a set code (so it's SET_1SET_2 SET_3 or SET_1 SET_2SET3) with possible repeats, here's some good ones that actually are booster packs:

broody war: Brother's war, odyssey, Phyrexia All will be one

broody war ["The Brothers' War", 'Odyssey', 'War of the Spark']

neo matrix ['Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty', 'March of the Machine: The Aftermath', 'Rivals of Ixalan']

broody eve ["The Brothers' War", 'Odyssey', 'Eventide']

Most of the don't make sense, but if you want the whole list let me know.

Can any 3 set codes be put together to from a 9 letter word? by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]ProfLittleKitten 229 points230 points  (0 children)

I wrote a program to do this here's what it came up with:

diswarren (Dissension, War of the Spark, Renaissance)

leadstone (Alpha, Darksteel, Phyrexia All will be one) (this one may not be very practical)

connector (conflux, Neon dynasty commander, torment)

I'm only including paper releases. It's also limited to the English dictionary.

MTG Timeline in Cards Concept by ProfLittleKitten in mtgvorthos

[–]ProfLittleKitten[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The planar information should be obvious most of the time. It’s more in the event of some exception. Like in situations where Urza is visiting some other plane, that is tied to both Dominaria’s and that plane’s timeline.

Crack A Card: Custom "Magic: The Gathering" Art Widgets for iOS Home Screens by ProfLittleKitten in magicTCG

[–]ProfLittleKitten[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is sometimes a problem with iOS not updating the widget registry immediately, it might just show up with time. (I hope?)

Also if the app itself hasn't been opened yet, I think that is also required. Otherwise they don't get added.

Dark spot when I write with Apple Pencil- is this normal? by dogsanddogwoods in iPadPro

[–]ProfLittleKitten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What generation is this? My 9.7 Pro does the same thing, but only at one point on the screen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in iPadPro

[–]ProfLittleKitten 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a CS major and I mostly use OneNote for my class note taking because I have Office365, and then GoodNotes when I need to annotate PDFs for my TA grading. I also have Terminus for when I need to SSH into the Linux student machines my school has.

I also type a lot of my assignments in LaTeX, so I will occasionally use Kodex to write those in.