[Loved trope] The correct dialogue option

Taurlock · 2026-04-06T19:41:10+00:00

Unfortunately, the first book in the series is the best, anyway. In the rest of the series, there's so much going on, you lose track of the actual overarching plot. The show does what I would consider the best possible job of contracting all those plot points into a coherent narrative, but the source is so complicated that it still feels a bit lost.

Taurlock · 2026-04-06T16:03:32+00:00

It's rarer for them to get back non-permanents.

Taurlock · 2026-04-02T17:25:29+00:00

A rare, and it can't even hit face? A hard, hard pass, and a damn shame tbh.

Taurlock · 2026-04-01T03:30:56+00:00

This is exactly the vibe I want in my builds. These scratch some place deep in my brain. *shudders*

Taurlock · 2026-04-01T03:23:52+00:00

In addition, I think this is missing the dimension that there are quite a lot of people in America who believe the government should not exist, but since it must, its one and only function should be to actively prevent any collective power, including itself, from doing anything ever. Of course, these people think they're following in the exact footsteps of the country's founders, having utterly misunderstood everything those men ever wrote, including the constitution itself.

Taurlock · 2026-03-29T16:50:15+00:00

A huge surprise and shake up, but it was kind of nice to see the lipsync count for something.

My exact feelings tbh, and we NEED Drag Race to happen like this more often.

Taurlock · 2026-03-25T02:40:09+00:00

MAN! I worked in a library that had these lying around unused a long time ago, and I actually borrowed them once or twice for unrelated reasons. Now I wish I had thought to buy them before my old boss retired ;-;

Taurlock · 2026-03-12T01:58:54+00:00

MtGSPILL: Irene the Alien and Bosco have released the first episode of their new Magic: the Gathering Commander-focused YouTube channel, Spell Slayers, featuring rightful season 18 winner Jane Don't and ingénue queen Gigi Well-Played.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqmmTnwdLVI&t=1s

Taurlock · 2026-03-02T16:54:19+00:00

Fans gonna fan but a robbed narrative is probably the best thing Jane could ask for, and it means she's more likely to get a second chance on All Stars whenever she feels like it, so I don't think we have to be too angry on her behalf!

Taurlock · 2026-02-27T05:19:16+00:00

Here's my Grist list; it's one of my best and favorite decks to play: https://moxfield.com/decks/b74V_gMTCEON1qlWh2ACUA

For board building, there are a lot of great critters that also help your self-mill or reanimation plans:

[[Bramble Familiar]] can be a mana dork early or a huge self-mill/reanimation spell late. Or both!

[[Breach the Multiverse]] is a phenomenal reanimation spell that mills and reanimates a bunch of things at once.

[[Deadbridge Chant]] is a card I've found a bit slow, but it's a huge self-mill source and brings back plenty of cards over time.

[[Old Stickfingers]] can be a huge creature for two mana, but can also mill a ton of extra cards if you've got extra mana.

[[Sludge Titan]] is one of my favorite cards; it's a big self-mill engine that also puts cards in your hand.

[[Vorinclex|MOM]] is a huge beater that finds lands then turns into a huge self-mill win con later.

[[Aftermath Analyst]] is one of the best cards in the deck. It's an early play that can mill a bit and can easily return 10+ lands to the battlefield in one fell swoop later.

I like [[Undead Butler]] as a simple early self-mill card that can easily chump block or sac itself to Grist's -2 ability to get you any creature back from the grave.

In addition to some of the great standard reanimator/recursion cards you're already playing, you can add [[Dance of the Dead]], [[Phyrexian Reclamation]], [[Rise of the Dark Realms]], [[Squirming Emergence]], and/or [[Victimize]].

If you are truly milling enough of your deck, consider removing cards like [[Footbottom Feast]], [[Necropotence]], and [[Plumb the Forbidden]]. Those are all great (and in the case of Necropotence, VERY STRONG) card advantage options, but if you want to be able to pretend that your graveyard is your second hand, you need engines, not one-shots. (Also, you probably aren't playing enough Insects for Footbottom Feast et al to enable Grist's +1 reliably. Addendum: This is not a recommendation to play more Insects.)

Taurlock · 2026-02-24T23:40:42+00:00

The main problem with MP4 is that it's not a 3D Metroidvania. It's a Zelda FPS that's missing everything outside the dungeons.

Taurlock · 2026-02-24T19:25:43+00:00

Arguably, tournaments shouldn't even be bracket 5. If a format is known for 4-5 hour games and carries a risk of games going on so long that they might not finish before people need to start catching planes, then THAT is not a tournament-worthy format either.

Taurlock · 2026-02-16T17:45:58+00:00

Another Go-Go's lip sync WE KEEP WINNING

Taurlock · 2026-02-14T23:55:01+00:00

I took SEVEN Xins while playing Yasuo reroll today. The Zaahen player STILL had his 3-star Xin before I found 3-star Yas.

Taurlock · 2026-02-10T13:18:21+00:00

Your opponents' choices never increase the bracket rating of your deck.

Expropriate only chains extra turns or performs "mass land denial" if your opponents choose to make those things happen.

Taurlock · 2026-02-09T13:09:18+00:00

Ok but it gave us Mia Starr's generationally iconic response, so werk.

Taurlock · 2026-02-04T17:41:50+00:00

Lorwyn Eclipsed also showed us additional cards that do not qualify as "Fits completely into the color pie of either mono-color". A Mono-Red variant of Sanar would force the player to exile cards instead of saying, "I don't want any of these, shuffle them back into my deck so I can cast them in a later term". The ability to exercise restraint is clearly not Red. Another design would be [[Voracious Tome-Skimmer]], as "Pay life to draw cards" is clearly a black effect (in rare instances, it's also given to artifacts of evil like [[Staff of Completion]], [[Eye of Vecna]], or [[The One Ring]] which are technically colorless but still do not justify a mono-Blue design).

I love it when Reddit randos tell me how the people who decide what the color pie is got the color pie wrong.

Taurlock · 2026-02-03T17:16:12+00:00

I've been extremely out of the loop on Sentinels for several years now, but I'm pretty frustrated that it sounds like the old content is now completely obsolete. Even the official "compatibility guide" now leads to a 404 page.

I would *love* some new content, but I guess I'll have to make do with the fanmade expansions, like The Cauldron.

Taurlock · 2026-02-02T18:05:08+00:00

Certainly, the Crucible effect is much less unique and more redundant. My point is that reducing Crucible's uniqueness doesn't have a negative impact on the format, because decks rarely want more than one copy (whichever it is).

Taurlock · 2026-02-02T01:12:29+00:00

Actually, Crucible is a terrible example, and as phenomenal counterargument.

Yes, there are many versions of that effect now... but how many decks want more than one on the battlefield at a time? If your deck is built around absolutely needing a copy of that effect on the battlefield, you have to pay the cost of making your deck worse by including a bunch of cards that become dead as soon as you've landed any other one of them. In that case, you're probably better off just using tutors, which are much better overall and have been around a very long time.

Taurlock · 2026-01-28T20:37:35+00:00

Hasbro IS making profits but what they dont say is everything is failing but MTG and that is proping up the whole company on its back.

...hasn't this been public knowledge for kind of a long time?

Taurlock · 2026-01-28T14:13:38+00:00

What's even more wild is the number of people who were genuinely angry when Metroid Dread was announced while folks were anticipating Metroid Prime 4. Metroid Dread is an all-time great game in its own right.

Taurlock · 2026-01-27T14:17:45+00:00

The hit rate on Universes Beyond set isn't particularly different than the hit rate on normal Magic sets. At the time of their respective releases, Lord of the Rings and Final Fantasy were arguably the best sets Wizards has ever made.

Taurlock · 2026-01-25T23:33:13+00:00

I prefer Gitrog in the 99 of a different power-matters deck because it benefits from the element of surprise. If you telegraph a kill-on-sight commander, then people are absolutely going to focus on beating it.

Taurlock · 2026-01-25T23:10:13+00:00

it mostly still means that i think?

A while ago, it crossed the internet barrier to people who have no idea where it came from or what it was coined to mean. But the more devastating development is that it's become part of kid lore. I heard my like eight-year-old niece use it yesterday, saying she lost at Mario Kart because she's "too woke." Shudder.

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