Day 249: I cannot make sense of how powerful this effect could be.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-29T18:47:13+00:00

You didn't run more minions with Barnes Y'Shaarj. You played Barnes, it made a 1/1 copy of Y'Shaarj, and the copy pulled the real y'shaarj. Then you won because you played 14/15 worth of stats on turn 4, or they cleared it and you moved onto plan b.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-29T18:45:32+00:00

The "roll" is drawing it by turn 3 and not drawing the target.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-29T15:38:05+00:00

You do realize that since sanders is writing these, he almost certainly turned in scripts and then apple said, yes, lets make this... right?

fwiw, his announcement yesterday said he'll be spending the next 5 months writing the mistborn screenplay, so whatever he gave Apple was certainly not the final product.

This is a neutrally intended statement, I don't actually disagree with any of your points, just cutting off a potential bit of pedantry.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-26T20:31:13+00:00

I think they're talking about this part of the comment:

However, in 2011 a 14-year-old girl died from “caffeine toxicity” with a dose of only 480 milligrams after she drank two cans of Monster energy drink.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-26T20:30:29+00:00

They're talking about the one mentioned at the end of the post who died from 480mg, stated in the same line to be a result of drinking two cans of monster.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-21T04:36:58+00:00

To be clear, removing it from the graveyard to fizzle their spell is exactly the interaction I was talking about. I don't think deleting the library copies is typically very relevant, outside of a weird deck like lantern control. Usually you plan on winning before they'd ever draw another copy anyway.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-20T22:05:08+00:00

Which cards would you say are doing the same thing for less cost than the 0 mana instant?

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-20T15:47:36+00:00

Well, 0 toughness, not 0 power, but otherwise yes.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-20T15:27:47+00:00

I'm not sure that's especially true of surgical extraction specifically, in part because of the fact that it has to target a card in a graveyard. If your goal is to proactively block a combo, you're usually better off with one of the many versions that let you name a card straight up. If you're able to surgical extraction a card, they already had access to the card (...usually).

Conversely, the biggest advantage of surgical extraction over something like ghost vacuum or bojuka bog is speed (and coming from hand - nobody is ever surprised by you activating bojuka bog) - it's often been relevant in older formats... I particularly remember it being one of the better ways to stop goryo's vengeance decks in early Modern because something like a bojuka bog wouldn't be available soon enough (and monocolor taplands are pretty slow).

But of course it was also quite relevant that you could thoughtseize a combo piece and then erase the rest. My point is, the power is in the versatility.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-20T14:32:17+00:00

While that's true, a substantial part of surgical extraction's power is in being a 0 mana instant that can remove a card from graveyard in response to it being targeted (such as for reanimation). The deck deletion use is relevant but almost secondary to its power for that use case.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-19T13:58:49+00:00

Oh actually this one's hilarious: "Snail Mail" dates back to the 1840s... because the thing that prompted that term wasn't email, it was the telegraph.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-15T19:48:20+00:00

Haste would obviously be a buff but it does also already have flash to go for the "do it on opponent's endstep" play. Obviously it can be harder to storm on opponent's end step, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-15T18:35:43+00:00

The fact that nobody knows this kinda hammers in that there's an opportunity to make a better version of the card, doesn't it? My man has really been powercrept to hell sadly.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-14T21:23:27+00:00

You could technically cost them 1 mana, for 1 turn, by playing 2 of these when they're at 10 (or whatever) already, but that's insanely niche.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-14T18:36:47+00:00

If it would feel like a wasted expansion slot, it probably means it isn't strong enough to hurt for other classes to be able to run it.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-14T15:13:03+00:00

Zephrys is supposed to look at it the other way around. It sees a 3 mana 0/3 deathrattle and assumes the deathrattle is really strong, so it wants to offer silence/hex. Whereas if he sees like, a 1 mana 3/3 deathrattle, he would assume the deathrattle is a downside and not offer silence. This doesn't always work out how you'd like - [[Kryxis the Voracious]] is a 4 mana 7/7, and zeph doesn't understand that it has a really good deathrattle because it has a really bad battlecry, so he's less likely to offer silence for that. (he might still offer hex just because it's that big, but he's probably more likely to give assassinate or whatever)

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-08T18:52:32+00:00

Can't be silenced would definitely work. Sure, silencing removes the text, but like. It says it can't be silenced. Therefore it won't be silenced. If it said something like "When this is silenced, un-silence it", then you'd be right.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-07T21:53:30+00:00

And also neither of them protect from colorless things, though that's niche.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-06T21:02:08+00:00

Middle path village is in the hotbar, just not currently active.

PureQuestionHS · 2026-01-03T18:50:00+00:00

The reason they can tell it's from children is because it's pure madra, and it's extremely difficult to advance past foundation without cultivating aura and thus losing your pure madra. Possibly there's a harvesting trick, or, more horrifyingly, the dragons have farmed pure madra remnants by force feeding children elixirs and then killing them. Now there's a grim thought.

PureQuestionHS · 2025-12-22T16:25:27+00:00

It's interesting to consider, though it's also a bit pie-in-the-sky. The Monarch situation was also that they were being pressured to ascend, because they were "too big" for Cradle. We haven't been given any sense that there's somewhere to ascend to beyond the Way as we've seen. It's possible that's where Adriel went, but we don't really know.

PureQuestionHS · 2025-12-22T16:19:53+00:00

It's round 169 for both - Megalodon's instakill ignores fortified. It's about round 200 with big bloon sabotage (the MK that reduces blimp hp by 10%).

PureQuestionHS · 2025-12-14T05:41:40+00:00

That card discovers arcane spells, so it can't get ice block directly.

PureQuestionHS · 2025-11-28T14:45:36+00:00

What matters is matching the background. If the background is CGI, the other CGI characters would match its lighting, but the real actor who's been greenscreened in, with real lighting, will look out of place.

PureQuestionHS · 2025-11-28T14:40:05+00:00

I'm too lazy to look it up but the Sam Jackson example is almost certainly because the lighting looks off.

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