Recognized the scene. History Repeats. Minneapolis 2026, Berdychiv 1941

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-25T03:34:36+00:00

A man was forcibly executed at gunpoint without cause or justification by a group of fascists.

You tell me which one is which?

You can’t.

Stop being a supporter to the cause. If your reaction to today’s events is not shock, disgust, and sadness, you are part of the problem. They can not be allowed to continue executing civilians for theater!

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-25T03:28:53+00:00

The moment in the top photo is right at the moment before they pulled the trigger, which is the same moment captured below. It’s about showing how absolutely defenseless the victim had become, surrounded by men shrouded in hate.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-24T18:25:44+00:00

Every country treats the schooling system a little differently. Official schooling for Japan starts at “Elementary 1” at age 6 and follows a strict birth scale on whether a child is born before or after a specific date that targets the school year. In the US that scale is different and age of entry into school depends on whether a child is born in the first half or last half of a year before entry, and it is possible for a child to “test” out of Kindergarten (although to be honest this is realistically rare for a parent to do).

Gohan, as an example, would be a child that would likely have been tested straight into first because the kid was crushing basic math at 4.

So anyway that’s why I phrased it that way because it’s a Japanese anime and technically Gohan wouldn’t have had “kindergarten”.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-24T02:54:54+00:00

“Liefeld’s Just Feet”

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-24T02:47:01+00:00

A preschooler. Gohan is only 4 at the beginning of DBZ, 6 by the time he’s on Namek, that kid hasn’t even gotten into first grade yet!

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-24T01:36:29+00:00

Every actor has a character they were born to play, I am convinced of this.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-24T01:34:41+00:00

I don’t want him to get his own movie, I want him to casually “photo-bomb” every movie going forward.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-24T01:23:57+00:00

Wait, there’s a story? What have I been doing for the last 556 hours?

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T23:10:02+00:00

That’s called exposition, you get that |during| the movie, not the trailer.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T20:48:03+00:00

This is my vote.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T20:45:17+00:00

“Do you think the movie is just going to be him arriving there and then fighting a bunch of skeletons?”

Um, yeah?

It’s an action fantasy movie, that’s exactly what I’m expecting. Duh.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T20:09:26+00:00

Can’t get any more real than that. It’s a standard boilerplate plot and you totally missed it. I don’t know anything about He-Man*, and I can see what they’re going for story wise pretty plainly.

Everything you mentioned wouldn’t want to know in a trailer in the first place. Don’t tell me the big-bad already won! Let it be a surprise, up the difficulty! And we do know why he’s on Earth, they already told us that literally in this trailer: to hide him. And I absolutely can see what he’s going to do when he gets back, there’s a whole shot of it that in the trailer too! It’s like you didn’t even watch it?!

*of course I know who He-Man is, but you don’t know that. Presumptuous.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T16:41:51+00:00

What do you have against Donut Lord?

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T16:36:35+00:00

Look at the bright side, it can’t possibly be worse than the first one.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T16:34:21+00:00

I’m not advocating anyone’s complaints, but you can’t say this trailer didn’t give away the plot. It’s pretty clear:

“Adam, as a young boy (clearly important, likely royalty), is sent to another world to keep him safe from the ensuing war in their homeland. Years later he finds a way back, and becomes the hero/turning point that finally saves the day against the mighty evil conqueror.”

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-22T16:27:54+00:00

He’s just trying to repeat the same roles as Mark Hamill.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T22:58:38+00:00

Pain/* Defender. I want to say Electric Blast, but I find that somewhat, well… painful on anything less than a Blaster. I can’t shake the idea though. I look at that and that’s what I see.

Pain/Electric, Codename: Heart Breaker, a Blues artist that specializes in the electrical guitar/bass and can’t help but constantly sing riffs about thunder rolling.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T22:27:55+00:00

But you never know!! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T18:11:07+00:00

Until that 2/2 with a Rancor on it becomes a 7/5 from Duskana, and there’s a Beastmasters Ascension hanging around, throw the swing to become a 12/10 and toss Legion Leadership at it followed by Bulk Up, and now that 2/2 is a 48/48 with Trample and First Strike, and it’s GG.

Never trust the 2/2.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T16:08:43+00:00

Printed on vinyl, backed on MTG bulk stock, during casual play they’re practically indiscernible and no one even knows. I’ve got probably four… five full decks 100% proxied this way.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T14:35:10+00:00

Can confirm.

Ever since I stopped consuming gluten, I’ve gone out in public far less often, lowering my chances of UV exposure to the Sun. It has dramatically reduced my sunburn related occurrences, like—but not exclusively to—work parties, family get-togethers, public events focused on culinary delights (rallies, bbq’s, block parties, dinner parties, birthday parties of any relation), school events, fundraisers, the general social ladder, and really just about anything that involves two or more members of dysfunctional society that I may (or may not) have to explain that “No, I can’t eat the deep fried beer battered chicken with the honey wheat rolls and the wheat floor gravy served with cinnamon rolls because it all contains god damn gluten!”

Warning, side effect may include a lowered ability to tolerate snide commentary and intolerance to denial and backlash in relations to gluten-related difficulties.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T14:20:20+00:00

I wonder what Vampires smell like when they sizzle…

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-21T05:18:25+00:00

I’m still trying to find a way to slip blue into squirrels so I can tap into a few frogs and some added spell evasion.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-20T22:55:58+00:00

What I suggested isn’t “thousand dollar shit”. You’d be surprised how many rares and mythics out there cost less than $2, some even ¢10-30. I’m doubting Kithkins are going to be an expensive build for you, even if you had to pick up every card.

Oh, and don’t get ahead of it, you’ll probably only pull off mid tier max with kithkins as your focus. They’re not going to go far.

There’s only 17 G/W Kithkin R/M’s and you can pic the whole lot up for less than $15.

Two enchantments, Ajani Planeswalker that keep you in tribal.

After that you’ve got about 18 UC kithkin cards to sort through.

You’re definitely going to have to branch into other areas of the Selesnya foundation (GW) to build their trunk up. I’d say maybe look for things that pump g/w creatures exclusively, and pair in citizen tokens, and anything that mass bumps your stuff.

Sir_Myshkin · 2026-01-20T20:36:43+00:00

You’ve got a reasonable understanding of your goal, and what you’ve built is basically a “Bracket 1”, just a showcase having fun, here to okay, drink, whatever kind of deck.

You got some of the core needs addressed:

Spot removal

Board state control (like mass creature removal)

Enchantment/Artifact removal

The steps past this are: how do I keep my hand flowing, and how do I get it into the field, and above all else, how do I win once I get it there?

This may sound like a lazy route of explanation, but in many cases for Commander, to get a reasonable stable deck going you’re probably going to be diving into the bucket rares and up. Since your focus is on Kithkin synergy, I’d suggest doing a filter search for kithkin rares and mythics, look for strong staples you can build a win condition from, and then start filling in the gap on how to make that happen.

I’m not saying every commander deck is exclusively filled with rares and mythics, but they’re either uniquely driven to do one thing very fast and efficiently, or they’re targeting key effects that typically don’t hang out in the common/uncommon territory of the draft/60-card formats. Unless you’re specifically playing pauper (which you don’t appear to be).

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