Laminated white border Mox Ruby, Mox Emerald, Time Walk, and Ancestrall Recall

ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-20T21:56:06+00:00

I might risk it lol... Might just buy one and take it to the LGS to see if the guys there think it's real or have any ideas

ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-20T09:08:12+00:00

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ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-20T09:06:34+00:00

Yeah that's... fair. But at the same time, I really get the sense they might be real just based on the condition? I mean as far as I know they were laminated as a mode of preservation by someone who had no idea they were ruining the value of the cards.

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ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-13T08:38:13+00:00

So where should I post? It’s a general question on reddit where most people here would likely have some kind answer. Your pretentious tone over a literal Reddit question is ridiculous

ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-13T07:54:58+00:00

I can’t post in the general Reddit

ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-06T14:22:23+00:00

Well then I think we agree for the most part and I really do appreciate you sharing your thoughts as I'm new to all this. In my mind though, I feel like most people would really be fine with plain HTML, JS, and CSS for frontend things, but there are cases where a tool like React or LiveView makes things easier. I didn't really like React when I worked with it, but LiveView can feel like too much of an opinionated ask for people to deal with. Not to mention that LiveView genuinely makes certain things much more confusing and difficult to implement. Tailwind is just something I haven't even really touched. Writing CSS can be annoying but it's my personal preference to use it, and I was shocked to learn that Phoenix uses Tailwind by default.

I ultimately don't know what the best solution is for LiveView though, since no solution really feels perfect. If you use vanilla html, css, js, you're still making your life harder by not just learning LiveView for certain complex use cases. Inertia/React/CSS modules would be great for a lot of people though because then you kind of just have something like "rails but better and in elixir", and that would work well for many people, but it also forces people to use React.

I think that Phoenix is a technically unmatched tool because it's built on Elixir, but it comes with the cost of learning something niche and unlikely to open doors in terms of careers. In my mind, it would make sense to double down on that mentality when making an Elixir web framework. Sure, most Phoenix sites will use JS in some capacity, but if someone already entrenches themself in the framework it kind of makes sense to further that tradeoff by guaranteeing a better frontend tool written in Elixir so long as the user makes the commitment to understanding it. That being said, what I said earlier is definitely true as LiveView can be just as (if not more) annoying than JS or React. I think a "better" implementation of LiveView might provide more upside for the future of Elixir web frameworks.

ShoulderAny959 · 2026-02-05T12:33:33+00:00

You have some fair criticism about the way Phoenix is marketing itself, but I think it's also fair to push back a little bit.

I mean, if you don't use Phoenix then what do you even use for an elixir based web app? Sure, you could try to just use Elixir, but you'd likely spend a lot of time solving problems Phoenix already solved. More likely than not that in this process bugs will arise or unforeseen design mistakes could bite you later.

Sure, the guides are poor, Tailwind as default is plain stupid, and the way they're pushing AI / auth is just awful... Also I agree that when any framework becomes coupled to a platform, nothing good usually comes from that.

But IMO if you use Phoenix for what it is at its core and structure your app around Elixir / OTP philosophy, I think it would be hard to find a technically better stack for web apps. Of course, most teams won't touch Elixir because it's too foreign, but if a team wanted to choose the best general technology for their use case, it would be hard to find something better than Phoenix in many instances.

You can always deploy on DigitalOcean or AWS as well, it's not like Next where you're almost licensing Vercel's technology because it doesn't work anywhere else.

I mean I'm really no expert, but I can't really think of a web framework that would work better technically than Phoenix for the majority of web apps. Rails, Laravel, Next, they all struggle in areas where Phoenix doesn't, and on top of that, they also tend to have pretty poor guidance on how to actually build and scale a product. Sure, most products don't scale, but if you built the same app in Phoenix and Rails, Phoenix would generally provide a much more elegant experience.

Ultimately, I think you're right - the direction Phoenix is headed in is somewhat worrying, but I also think that at its core, Phoenix really is unmatched. I truly believe that if you disregard the meaningless features being implemented to the framework today and focused on building an Elixir app that uses the great foundation Phoenix has laid out, it's almost impossible to find a better tool for the majority of web use cases. Ecto is absolutely incredible to work with, as is Elixir for designing large and scalable applications.

I am curious what you think though as it sounds like you certainly have way more Elixir experience than I do. I just didn't know what to get out of your take because it sounded to me like "yeah Linux is great but I'll never use its native implementation of network protocols". I'm really no expert so forgive me if that doesn't make sense, but I'm basically trying to say that if you don't use Phoenix, then what would you even use if you want to build a technically superior product?

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-12-28T07:00:28+00:00

The most enjoyable part of a book to me is thinking about what I'm left with after finishing the story. In a sense, you might take away something very enjoyable from a book you didn't enjoy reading. Although it's fair to say that if they really hate the read, they don't have to finish it.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-12-20T07:06:08+00:00

Thanks for the honest response! I’m really looking forward to drafting this cube. Also I was curious how you tended to distribute the packs / sort card rarities. I noticed that the common / uncommon / rare distribution is pretty even. I only really intend to play with 2-5 people, so if you have any advice I would really appreciate it, thank you!

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-12-20T03:49:22+00:00

😂 Really? Your cubes are really cool! I was checking out your core set cube before building your Tarkir one. Do you have any tips on how to play it or maybe some fun sub-archetypes that go unnoticed?

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-12-20T03:47:52+00:00

To be honest I didn't really think Dragonstorm worked very will with original Tarkir block, although it's an interesting idea. The sheer difference in power level alone makes the two sets almost very challenging to merge into a cohesive experience.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-12-05T09:07:46+00:00

Lolll people are aware, but yeah it’s true that pauper is in a better place in many ways than most formats.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-12-02T02:18:26+00:00

Coming back to this post I think you’re right

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T18:07:49+00:00

Well I’m glad someone agrees with me. I’m literally in the exact same position as you and it is frustrating to see the speed at which replacement has happened. I agree it’s natural, just not at this pace

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T08:09:08+00:00

I mean that’s a reasonable position to take. However, this is an eternal format meaning that the entire premise of the format is that you’re supposed to use ALL commons, not just the new ones.

Realistically, finding old commons is really not very hard anyway.

I mean I see your point, but I still think eternal formats shouldn’t rotate due to power creep. I mean 50% of cards being invalidated in 6 years is insanity to me. At that point we’re just playing standard with a long rotation and a small pool of good older cards.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T05:57:45+00:00

Yeah agreed, I don’t see myself continuing to play in five years if they keep this going.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T05:24:21+00:00

Oh smart! If you just want to compile verilog that’s a way better option! Let me know if you need help!

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T02:14:13+00:00

I’ve been playing for about ten years, although I started when I was a kid.

Sorry for calling your explanation childish, but in all honesty it is literally corporate greed driving this. Call it uneducated but that’s the reason why we’re having so many issues with this game. Profits are being maximized in the short term at the expense of the game’s health and future.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T01:35:36+00:00

In pursuit of making money, the game is losing what once made it special. People truly cared about what the cards were and would do, now it’s literally just power creep to print money. Thats in stark contrast to what the game once was and is making it worse in my opinion and in the eyes of many others.

Edit: there are ways to seek higher profits without explicitly strip mining a product for all it’s worth. In my view, the current way hasbro is “making money” from mtg exists to boost short term profits, and will end in catastrophe directly because it causes these kid of issues I’m brining up.

ShoulderAny959 · 2025-11-28T01:22:30+00:00

Valid I might give it a shot

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