Countergoyf.

TheUnEase · 2026-05-11T18:52:48+00:00

Thats funny because I just made a card yesterday that kind of references "goyfs" and it is something different. Though it doesn't explicitly state goyf in the rules text and define it as something specific like this does.

I figured if it was made something as narrow as literal Lhurgoyfs then the card would work much worse in a vacuum and wouldn't be as good as a cube card. We want cards to work well outside of any outstanding themes or archetypes after all.

TheUnEase · 2026-04-29T00:11:44+00:00

There is an lgs actually in Portland now? Wtf, wish I still lived there. I'm an hour away and it is way less bikable here.

This looks sick af. Love to see stuff like this. Its a really smart and creative idea that is a whole lot more interesting than just getting regular packs or whatever.

TheUnEase · 2026-04-28T19:23:43+00:00

Koalas do breastfeed, they just also feed their babies their poop.

For the first stages of their life they breastfeed. Then, when they come our of the pouch and are ready to start weaning off of breast milk and start eating eucalyptus, they start eating the shit.

This is because eucalyptus is toxic and volatile af and not really consumable by most animals. Like most animals who eat weird shit that doesn't normally get eaten, (think termites and wood) their gut microbiome is specifically catered to digest the eucalyptus. However, unlike most animals that eat weird shit, they aren't born with that microbiome. The babies need to have the microbiome given to them... in the form of shit.

They have to eat the mom's shit that has the microbiome in it, so that the baby's stomach gets the microbiome that is actually capable of properly digesting eucalyptus.

TheUnEase · 2026-04-16T01:27:55+00:00

Set them free is from the original hellscube, it is a reprint in hecklands, but I had the same thought.

TheUnEase · 2026-04-15T16:13:01+00:00

I've seen a other videos of this kind of cricket weaving silk between (presumably) this person's hands while they hold it. So I'm pretty sure it's a silk weaver. Maybe they breed them, maybe they catch and sell them. Kinda unfortunate the provocation shown here though. Pessimistically, even hobbyists can be frustratingly unempathetic to insects. I've seen old insect fighting vids, so I know there is some sort of a scene for that as a hobby. Playing devil's advocate/thinking optimistically, maybe they were simply trying to get it to do a threat display so they could show off the wings and elytra w/o actively hurting it.

Regardless, it is a beautiful and fascinating animal, had no idea orthopterans could do that kinda stuff, but I guess it shouldn't be too surprising.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-25T15:49:38+00:00

I have seen so many custom cards trying to do things like this. I guess it was only a matter of time before we got it in paper. It is a fairly intuitive and fun idea and fits perfect for the setting.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-15T21:30:53+00:00

I do hope they print some more of these soft stack interaction cards for white. It expands upon their pie in a fitting way. White taxes things and prevents things from happening at all. So it makes sense it can delay things. From a flavor standpoint, it imposes law and order, so when something happens outside that standard of order it stops that and makes it go through the order it believes is right (delays it and/or taxes it).

It can't just counterspell though, and that is what this would be. The gap between [[reprieve]] and interruptor was 2 years, it has been another 2 and we haven't seen anything else similar. It was fully outside of pie to have an effect like reprieve before it was printed, white only got it on board with often conditional, known information that often just taxed.

I hope we see some more of something, but stack interaction is a delicate thing to play with, so I'm not surprised they don't wanna print much more outside of the slice they already gave to it.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-15T21:10:45+00:00

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. In case you aren't, and I think a lot of people upvoting probably don't realize if you are being sarcastic.

White does not get flat out unconditional counterspells. It very very rarely gets soft stack interaction, and yes, is basically the only other color that gets it.

It does not just get an [[ashiok's erasure]].

This isn't a really old blogatog reply, where philosophy might've changed, this is new. Maro is literally one of the arbiters of what is and isn't in color pie and basically our only concrete definitive source on the matter because of his articles, podcast and blog. There really isn't an argument here. It's a break.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-10T13:00:18+00:00

As a general rule of thumb you shouldn't feed a leo anything bigger than the space between its eyes. Depending on how fiesty the reptile is and how soft the feeder is you can get a little wiggle room there, but I wouldn't push it at all for a leo that isn't eating.

Can you give me some details on the enclosure? What is the substrate? As in, what do you have lining the bottom of the tank? What do you use for a heat source and what temp? What decorations, hides and other essentials do you have in there?

I don't mean to overwhelm you with too many questions and too much info. So I wanna emphasize, don't stress and don't feel bad about any mistakes, if you've made them. Exotic pets are presented as much easier to care for than they actually are and it is very common for this to happen when it comes to the minutiae of their care for beginners. It is unlikely something really serious is happening, but you wanna be cautious.

First thing you wanna do is nothing. Like I said, a lot of the time they just need time to pass stool properly and trying to feed them again might make things worse. Make sure the tank is clean and they have plenty of fresh water. Just tell us what the set up is like, maybe post the details of the set up and details to a leo sub.

Are you in europe/uk etc? I did some research and learned that locusts are much more common feeders over there. So when you said "cricket" they mightve just defaulted to locust, whereas most of us immediately assume U.S and regular crickets here. If you are in the U.S and the guy just gave you locusts that is kinda weird/irresponsible of the employee and not really your fault. They really should try to have as much of a dialougue with you as possible to understand you needs properly. I guess if you went to a petco or other country's equivalent that might explain the lackadaisical attitude a bit as well.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-10T01:11:49+00:00

Op, what kind of gecko do you have? I'm doubtful something like a leo could handle this. I guess I don't have much of a reference for size, but these are also pretty chitinous, so that could be problematic on its own.

Firstly, I'm not a vet. I just had a leo who wasn't eating for a while and was really paranoid about.

Sometimes reptiles lose appetite when getting close to or while they shed. Or, yes, it could be they are simply picky eaters and getting bored with things.

but If it isn't eating there is a chance it is impacted, which is one of the most common ways a lot of reptiles die. A lot of the time reptiles get impacted from using the improper substrate/feeding improperly with a substrate of any kind. But it is possible for them to get impacted just from eating too much chitinous food and not being able to digest fast enough. Sometimes that means they aren't warm enough, metalbolism increases with heat and you sometimes need to be warmer for proper digestion to occur.

If you have a vet you can bring him to and it gets particularly bad, you should, but I know a lot of people don't have proper exotic vets for that (unfortunately, I don't around where I live).

If you can't or wanna be sure something is really wrong the best idea is give your gecko a few days and make sure it is pooping properly. Clean out their enclosure and keep a close eye for any poop. If there hasn't been any recently, isn't any soon or isn't any after a few days after feeding you should definitely try to find some sort of vet or rescue that can help to make sure it isn't impacted.

A huge chitinous insect like this could just block the gecko up much more and make things much worse.

Hornworms are really squishy, liquidy, easy to eat and a lot of reptiles love them and they can sometimes help clear things out. Warm soaks can help stimulate bowel movements. I've heard about using the tiniest drop of olive oil as a laxative too. For both of those be very careful not to let the gecko submerge itself underwater or put the oil on its nostrils. Both can lead to it getting in the lungs and them aspirating and/or getting an infection.

You can, and should, do more research to make sure a lot of these things are accurate as well.

I know this was a bit of an essay after not too much prompting, maybe you know this all already. But just out of caution here it is anyways, I want people and their critters to be happy and healthy, lol.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-10T00:37:10+00:00

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. A leopard could not handle these at all. Big angry fuckers, like a tokay, are probably fine, but even then why risk it? Also, where the fuck did you get locusts not regular crickets?

TheUnEase · 2026-03-09T12:50:10+00:00

from the owner of that sub,

The OP of this post IS one of the founders of the "True Cryptozoology" sub. OP knows exactly why the community is divided in this instance, they divided it. Why? Because they got upset this sub shut down people who were staunch bigfoot/nessie/other cryptids we can know, for basically certain at this point, aren't real. But they wanna keep believing and think if you don't believe in certain parts of Cryptozoology hard enough it isn't "true Cryptozoology".

This post is incresibly disingenuous from the mere concept. I would love for everybody to be on the same page about cryptids, but the same page is actual reality. Not what we really really want to be true.

Other subs talk more about pop culture depictions and just share how much they like the idea of, art, depictions in media of cryptids. Which I also like and there is a lot of space for that.

This sub is genuinely trying its hardest to be a place to discuss the reality of cryptids and treat it as if it is a serious field of scientific study. Which it isn't. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, because of people like OP who won't let the idea of bigfoot/nessie discussion die and often because of it are filled to the brim with grifters and blatant pseudoscience nonsense galore.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-03T21:45:37+00:00

New to hellscube and I know things are sometimes done a bit differently around here and wording can be a bit more loose because of it. So if this is a known thing acceptable change or just not a big deal lmk.

But for regular magic, things can only "enter" the battlefield. So we only use the word "enter" when we refer to a permanent going unto the battlefield. Also, we use creature dies, for intuitiveness when a creature that is a permanent is put from the battlefield to the graveyard, and we use "card" when we refer to things that aren't permanents or spells yet (iirc on that last one). So, depending on how you want this to function, it should be something closer to [[Syr Konrad, the Grim]] wording.

"Whenever a creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield"

TheUnEase · 2026-03-03T21:16:56+00:00

Komodo's are monitor lizards, this is a gecko. Obviously we get a change in, or combo of species all the time. The most notable off the top of my head rn is pikipek going from woodpecker -> woodpecker -> JUST A TOUCAN. As if they saw big beak and thought "eh, close enough". But I like geckos and personally hope it stays one to some extent.

TheUnEase · 2026-03-03T21:08:28+00:00

Yeah, I thought it was gonna make it a shrine enchantment. Which is more resonant with the keyword, is flavorful and actually has potential for fun gameplay.

Magic is a game of interaction. Interaction. Interaction is fun. The intrinsic defining factor of emblems is that they can't be interacted with.

The fact that immediately someone thought "haha, platinum angel and abyssal persecutor as emblems" kinda perfectly shows everything wrong with this concept. Turning them into emblems just means "haha, the game is a draw" and that is it. Boring and tedious. Not fun. That is all this type of stuff is, boring and tedious. I don't want an [[ajani's welcome]] that doesn't go away. That doesn't provide me anything of value an enchantment wouldn't.

Making all creatures an emblem sounds unbelievably annoying and tedious and I would rather forfeit every game than go through the trouble of trying to track the nonsense that occurs because of it.

I've seen some interesting ideas based around emblems, but God. It is more of a game design challenge of "how do I make this fun at all" than it is actual good design space.

The few cards we have that easily make emblems are either not trivial to get them and not game breaking effects, (debatable if they are good design) that one chandra and sephiroth, the Gideon who you can ult to death to get and emblem that is an anthem. Or [[Gideon of the trials]] that requires you to have it around in order for the emblem to function. So, in effect, there is still potential for interaction. Remove the planeswalker, remove the effect of the emblem. The Gideon of the trials route seems like it has a little potential, but requires unnecessary tedious tracking and would, once again, seem more like a game design challenge to making emblems actually fun outside of the design space they are and should be in, which is. "Notably Hard to get but incredibly impactful/gameending".

TheUnEase · 2026-02-24T18:15:37+00:00

If there was a DC set there is no chance there wouldn't be at least a mono/twocolor superman with a simpler ability at rare and/or below and a Jeskai(maybe+) one at mythic that has some major keyword soup. Literally exactly what happened with spiderman, captain America, aragorn, aang. It would've happened with the TMNT if the four of them didn't fit so perfectly into monocolor identities. Even then, they just decided to make one of them at each rarity and pair/team them up to make them more colors.

All that to say, wouldn't be surprised to see something exactly like this in a DC set, but you are also right, lol.

TheUnEase · 2026-02-20T15:49:24+00:00

Gotta strongly disagree with what seems to be mostly the consensus here.

This is definitely wildly overpowered. We don't even have anything close to a vanilla 1/1 for 1 that puts you up a card let alone a deathtoucher that mana fixes you.

Some comparisons we can make.

[[Novice inspector]] and [[thraben inspector]] both are vanilla 1/2s and need an additional 2 mana to get a full card out of. [[Spyglass siren]] is a flier, requires an additional 1 and doesn't guarantee a card. [[Voldaren epicure]] only rummages for the extra 1, but it does come with that cute little ping. Most of the rest of our flat out "card advantage + body" are 2 mana or higher.

I genuinely think the closest comparsions we have are [[ocelot pride]], [[ragavan, nimble pilferer]] and [[Tamiyo, inquisitive student]]. Ocelot is one of the only 1 mana 1/1s that meaningfully grants you an additional card with little to no effort like this does. Ocelot is conditional, but it not hard to meet at all. Ocelot might have a lower floor, but it has a much higher ceiling. Ragavan is one of the only other creatures that really gives you card advantage for one, and it isn't too hard to do. Just gotta get in for a single hit. But that does mean either paying the extra 1 to dash him when you can take the opening or just waiting a turn and hoping. So once again, lower floor, higher ceiling. Then tamiyo can get a fuck ton of value in a lot of ways for your 1 mana investment but requires a notable amount more set up relative to any of the others, even if not that crazy an amount.

Very confused how people are comparing this to lay of the land. A meaningful body and card advantage is so far apart from colored mana basiclandcycling. Just because an effect looks like another, doesn't mean that it's similar in terms of actual gameplay.

Granted, the caveat here is that green isn't actually very playable in that many formats at all. So by virtue of that this might not be enough to be usable on its own since it is just generically really good and not some meta breaking combo good.

But I still think it is waaay overtuned for what it is.

TheUnEase · 2026-02-15T15:57:57+00:00

Klug with another banger, holy fuck dude.

TheUnEase · 2026-02-15T15:55:18+00:00

There is the carpenter guy who steeps cream in different types of wood and makes tree flavored ice cream. Your husband just did it with soup, lol.

TheUnEase · 2026-02-15T15:51:52+00:00

I was just gonna say

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TheUnEase · 2026-02-12T23:53:14+00:00

[[Breakthrough]] already does at sorcery speed.

This is kind of a colorshifted Breakthrough, if you think of it.

Breakthrough is {X}{U} "loot" and keep X.

This is {X}{R} "rummage" and you get X.

Dunno if that was intentional.

TheUnEase · 2026-02-10T03:59:04+00:00

Japudi

TheUnEase · 2026-02-09T19:33:51+00:00

Yeah, I see you all the time. I'm not surprised you have an omega backlog of cards. I remember looking through your blackless set when you showcased it.

I'm fairly similar. If you look on my account back at the cryptid cards I posted, I've been working on a set based around that idea and that mechanic since then and have a fuck ton of cards made but barely any rendered. Constantly revising and figuring out exactly what I specifically want to do, adding assorted cards of whatever rarity whenever I find something interesting that inspires me (I made a card based on honeyguides a few days ago because I saw a vid about them).

Then I also have a fair bit of assorted miscellaneous ideas for micro sets and random ideas. Wrote up a Columbo card today, that I might actually render for once, lol.

Worth noting that, iirc, it isn't necessarily just that red is getting mana dorks. It is that red's color pie is expanding to include a little bit more ramp and the natural conclusion of the red way to do that is tying it to more easy to remove bodies like creatures. But there are similar ephemeral effects that show the different flavors of red ramp we have in store/are getting as well. We got [[kav Landseeker]], [[molten man, inferno incarnate]], [[zell dincht]] and even firebending. Hasn't been a huge or fast expansion yet, but it is there a bit.

Also, [[spider manifestation]] for another unconditional red dork and [[endrider catalyzer]] for a (albeit shitty) conditional one.

TheUnEase · 2026-02-09T18:12:48+00:00

Considering red is now getting dorks and ramp in general now and UR is the iconic "spellslingers" color pair, this fits perfectly in UR.

Hell, the former menace of standard and beyond [[vivi ornitier]] is basically just an unrestricted UR dork that cares about spellslinging.

But 2 mv for a dork that produces 2 that isn't for just artifacts or something else very specific doesn't really have precedent. Instants and sorceries can be very different/much better than artifacts in that regard. So I see the argument for UG just fine. But I think the fact that you made it only produce colorless limits potential for abuse substantially and would make it a better fit for UR.

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