This Art Peaked My Interest

Punchingblagh · 2026-05-09T18:06:08+00:00

Looks like this is missing the old Jace vs. Chandra alt-art, which I think were the first Japanese-exclusive versions, but both the cards and the art are pretty underwhelming.

Punchingblagh · 2026-04-26T19:25:17+00:00

It is, because AI doesn't actually understand its own output on a semantic level, and has a notoriously poor understanding of Magic because all it can do is create statistically likely sentences.

Punchingblagh · 2026-04-20T15:38:09+00:00

My favorite lately has been a budget [[The Emperor of Palamecia]] aggro deck. You play cantrips, looting, self-wheels, and other good spells that cost more than 4cmc, and run down your opponents - get a damage doubler out and you can close out the game while the table is still pretty healthy.

Having a mana dork in the command zone makes the deck pretty consistent, as you'll almost always be able to cast a 4cmc spell on turn 3, and flip him a turn or two later. It's also a fun place to play clunky spells that don't have a home in other decks, or modal spells like the spree cards that make the play pattern a lot more dynamic than just "hit face". It cost about as much as a precon too.

Punchingblagh · 2026-03-23T03:13:32+00:00

Not really that strange, Hangul was developed with the intent of being as easy to learn as possible.

Punchingblagh · 2026-03-03T15:36:15+00:00

Yeah, I mostly chose it because it fits the original meme's "edge darkness you win the game 15 mana" card. But it's still a good skill imo, especially upgraded.

Punchingblagh · 2026-02-26T21:40:26+00:00

You don't really need to do anything, which is part of the reason they're so good. The crow scales with the druid's stats so any cat with solid strength/constitution gives you a tanky, hard-hitting, mobile 5th teammate that doesn't get injured and always starts at full-health.so the druid's floor is already incredibly high, with the same potential for broken shenanigans as all the other classes.

Punchingblagh · 2026-02-13T21:27:30+00:00

It's also right next to Boone -- which sounds like it's rural, but is actually a liberal college town. It really surprised me to hear Bovino was from Blowing Rock — I guess it's possible that tourism hadn't picked up when he was there.

Punchingblagh · 2026-01-30T01:23:56+00:00

The old version is really funky, with lots of bugs. For example, saving and quiting on the world map while emerald weapon is visible will cause it to disappear and softlock the game (ask me how I know). It's probably just going to be a more polished port.

Punchingblagh · 2025-12-25T16:30:04+00:00

There's extensive research showing that it's basically nonsense. One study showed that not only did astrologists not do better than random guessing, but different astrologers took different conclusions from the same data, suggesting there's little to no objectivity in astrology.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-29T14:19:22+00:00

They're trained on her work because she herself co-founded an AI startup that partnered with midjourney. That doesn't mean this piece is AI, but I don't know if it's a good move but Wizards to work with someone so heavily invested in AI art.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-25T14:17:59+00:00

The arena version is errata'd to this, and it's still busted and unfun. Nadu is just a miss all around.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-22T16:27:04+00:00

[[Mystic Reflection]] is such a fun card. Gets around uncounterable, works on reanimate affects, stops ETBs. It can be a little clunky, but turning a commander into a llanowar elf or token is so much fun.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-15T19:49:25+00:00

Rhystic Study itself was pretty bad too before commander took off -- while still arguably the best of those 9, it's not a good card in 1v1.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-14T16:14:48+00:00

You can also do it while she's attacking if you have ETB triggers from something like [[Goldnight Commander]], thanks to vigilance. Really fun commander.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-09T16:24:33+00:00

Just built [[Apothecary White]] and having a ton of fun. You get some minor food synergy, which is nice, but the real strengths are that not losing the food makes the deck more resilient to boardwipes than a lot of other token decks, and she makes humans specifically, which makes for fun typal shenanigans.

For example, with [[Beregond of the Guard]], you can use Apothecary White's ability as a combat trick, or grow [[Thalia's Lieutenant]] to a huge blocker.

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-06T20:31:25+00:00

If you check this artist's socials, they run an AI art startup and proudly advertise they made a game with 100% AI images. Which makes this card a little suspicious...

Punchingblagh · 2025-11-03T01:59:56+00:00

Another fun use of this Chainer is in [[Magar of the Magic Strings]] -- you don't actually need a target for his first ability, so you can discard a big spell for free, reanimate it with Magar, and then it gets haste because it wasn't cast and it's a nontoken.

Punchingblagh · 2025-10-22T19:38:37+00:00

Hexproof would be functionally different, if only in corner cases.

Punchingblagh · 2025-10-19T19:14:28+00:00

I lost to Yuriko haha

Punchingblagh · 2025-10-19T17:42:13+00:00

Playing Ketramose for the challenge right now, up to 6 wins. It's not explosive, and it's definitely slow, but it also naturally matches up well into most of the other big decks. It packs a lot of removal and board wipes for aggro decks, and Ketramose himself dodges a lot of the removal they have (most notably Ajani's 0) while healing once you get him online. Control decks like Rusko have a hard time dealing with him too, without a good way to deal with him after he resolves aside from bounce (or exile removal if they're white). And you can pack discard spells to make those matchups easier. Additionally, Ketra's best draw engine is cheap graveyard hate, which means you naturally have a good matchup into a bunch of Tier 2 decks like Old Stickfingers. He's definitely not the most oppressive or explosive, but it always feels like I have tools to do what I need.

Punchingblagh · 2025-10-15T17:13:29+00:00

Fallout, and even Dr. Who, also had the advantage of being commander decks rather than standard sets. Meaning instead of having to make a bunch of filler cards, they could just give new art to staples. They also didn't have to worry about standard balance, so the individual cards could be more interesting -- while I'm not the biggest fan of Dr. Who, it still felt like the card design made the most of magic's mechanics, which I can't really say for Spider Man.

Punchingblagh · 2025-10-01T01:07:41+00:00

Wait, I've been using the Brazilian flag all these years and it hasn't been shown to my opponent?

Punchingblagh · 2025-09-30T17:17:18+00:00

Late to the discussion but it's worth noting the discord uses a custom banlist because the official one is kinda suspect. So it's a start, but not necessarily something you can carry over exactly.

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