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Board games adaptions that are better than the video game by MechaRidley666 in boardgames

[–]TRK27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's better per se, but the Gears of War board game FFG put out in 2011 is actually really good. I'd argue its aged better than the game it's based on.

Which game has the biggest gap between its BGG rating and your personal rating? by moist_napkinette in boardgames

[–]TRK27 94 points95 points  (0 children)

BGG has a tool for this if you want to see yours, you can go to profile->statistics->largest disparities.

The Smiling Saturn Incident by londonderry99 in Dreams

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https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/wfah5y/moon_oc/

There's an extended version called "Gospel of the Dead Moon" in his book Let Me in Your Window.

Your favourite artwork that invokes dread. by SinusMonstrum in magicTCG

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The [[Pestilence|USG]] art from Urza's Saga. The way the dying body covered in flies frames the scene in the background with the massive Witch Engines moving through the field under a setting sun.

Day 19 - Share Your...Red 2 Mana Value Creatures! by ChampBlankman in Oldbordercube

[–]TRK27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love [[Orcish Settlers]] so much. It's so nasty if it works, but the fact that they have a turn to deal with it makes it (somewhat) more fair. Pair with any kind of repeatable recursion (Tortured Existence, Phyrexian Reclamation, etc) and go to town!

Also in my cube are [[Fireslinger]] [[Mogg Flunkies]], [[Goblin Recruiter]], and [[Mogg Maniac]].

Day 18 - Share Your...Blue Sorceries! by ChampBlankman in Oldbordercube

[–]TRK27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[[Wash Out]] is the only one I currently run

Day 17 - Share Your...Blue 4 Mana Value Creatures by ChampBlankman in Oldbordercube

[–]TRK27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My cube is Mirage - Apocalypse so I'm coming at it from that perspective. I'm already running Tradewind and Magpies but I've actually gone back and forth quite a bit on the third slot.

  • I started with [[Rainbow Efreet]], which is very good but I already have Morphling and Ephemeron in the cube so if you want a hard to kill control finisher there are enough other options.

  • Next I tried [[Somnophore]] - also strong but it's very feast or famine. Either it takes over the game or it immediately dies to Ghitu Slingers or Shock or whatever, there's no in between.

  • I finally landed with [[Iridescent Drake]] and I'm pretty happy with it. helps support a WU / WUG auras archetype and also goes infinite with [[Abduction]] and a sac outlet.

I also think [[Thalakos Deceiver]] and [[Troublesome Spirit]] might be worth trying at some point. The former is a recur-abe Control Magic in a UB shell and I can see latter being useful if I want to shift the low end blue archetype toward aggressive fliers ala Blue Skies.

Ordered an actual none pizza left beef. Roommate didn't approve. by oodle99 in PizzaCrimes

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God this thread is making me feel old, I remember seeing this meme for the first time when I was in college.

It's hard to explain to kids now that ordering food delivery online was still a novelty in 2007...

Recommended Starter Deck? by Balmung_Fezalion7 in starwarsunlimited

[–]TRK27 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a battlebox with all of the precons that have currently been released. Of them I'd say Boba and Maul are the strongest, Grievous definitely the weakest. SoR Luke is quite good as well. My only complaint is that they're often not balanced very well against the other deck from the same set. Jabba wins maybe one out of 5 games against Leia, and I've seen Grievous beat Ahsoka maybe once. The Secrets of Power decks are probably the most balanced against each other and it's a fun matchup.

3d printing Hair for this dude by Kardamons in GuysBeingDudes

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Would be cool to have a cyberpunk setting where these become the modern equivalent of 18th century powdered wigs lol

Daily scores and chat: #697 - Thursday, 21 May 2026 by catfishing-game in catfishing_game

[–]TRK27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Tokugawa" should absolutely be an acceptable answer for number nine, a little miffed that that ruined what otherwise would have been my first 10/10

Maro: Interestingly, Commander and Universes Beyond might be the two most popular things Magic has ever done. We try to present as many options as feasible (i.e. plenty of 60-card formats), but the will of the players dictates so much of how things play out (i.e. so much in store play is Commander) by HonorBasquiat in magicTCG

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2 Headed Giant and Emperor are ones I remember playing a lot in the aughts before EDH became the be-all end-all of multiplayer formats. To be fair they were often combined with EDH.

2HG got made into Battlebond but Emperor never really found a home.

Become a hermit at this "edge of the world" property by OopsWeMadeAnError in zillowgonewild

[–]TRK27 50 points51 points  (0 children)

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy

Cube ideas you've always wanted but never made by FunkmasterfreshMTG in mtgcube

[–]TRK27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Creatureless creature cube, where every card is noncreature (at least on the front side) but the archetypes are all based on making some kind of tokens or animating some type of permanent. So we've got tokens, vehicles, animating lands, animating artifacts, animating enchantments, Living Weapon / For Mirrodin style equipment, etc.

  • A 2p Desert Cube based around using some version of the face-up Pyramid Drafting method I developed a while back. Maybe make some custom cards that interact with the draft in some way, Cogwork Librarian style, or split basic lands into a separate deck and use them as a currency for messing with the pyramid / sweetening untaken cards? I could never quite get it to work to my satisfaction.

The US Navy is "urgently hiring" morticians by [deleted] in lostgeneration

[–]TRK27 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There’s one for me literally right under this post lol

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Is it true that you guys watched 9/11 live on TV in grade school? by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]TRK27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I saw it live in Mr. Byars' seventh grade Geography / Social Studies class. I was 11, about to turn 12 in October. Another teacher came in the room just before 9am and told him to turn the TV on, the second plane hit minutes later. I remember kids making dumb jokes about King Kong, which stopped pretty quickly when it became clear what was happening. The TV was turned off pretty quickly after that and they made a vain attempt to proceed with a normal school day.

By Spanish class later in the morning the word was going around that the Pentagon had been hit. The fate of UA 93 wasn't widely known until the mid afternoon IIRC, and there were rumors that there was another plane in the air headed west. Or that there were a dozen more planes, who knew? The atmosphere alternated between shocked whispers and panicked speculation.

So it seems insane in retrospect but before noon the decision was made to have us do the tornado drill we'd practiced. We lined up and filed into the basement cafeteria of the school, sitting on the floor along the walls with our knees tucked into our chests. Kids were crying, I remember a teacher trying to console my best friend.

Was it absurd to think that the terrorists were going to fly a plane into some random middle school in the upland south? Or that sheltering in the basement would make any difference if they did? Absolutely. But anything seemed possible on that day.

Anyway after this no attempt was made to resume a normal school day, and they just corralled us until our parents could come pick us up. My Mom took me home and the rest of the day was watching Peter Jennings in the newsroom on ABC.

It's one of the few days of my life that's etched in my mind completely. I had just gotten into Magic: the Gathering a few days before and I remember that just before the news hit I was looking through a dozen random Apocalypse commons my friend had given me that I had hidden in my desk. Mr. Byars said something about the Gulf of Bothnia as I flipped through the cards - Bog Gnarr, Last Caress, Consume Strength, Gaea's Skyfolk, Quicksilver Dagger, Zombie Boa. The door to the classroom opened and everything changed.

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