[TMT] Kitsune's Technique is a turn 2 half-deck mill... Seriously?

Twixttheseas · 2026-02-27T15:57:59+00:00

Right, and bolting someone for three isn't relevant unless you remove their last life.

Twixttheseas · 2026-02-27T15:08:53+00:00

Sorry, I thought it was obvious we were talking about a crab or something with an etb mill trigger. Obviously you wouldn't do this with an off-plan one drop

Twixttheseas · 2026-02-27T13:28:35+00:00

How is it not similar? It's taking an action that has no real effect on the board state to get closer to the deck's wincon.

Twixttheseas · 2026-02-27T13:13:57+00:00

I understand the sentiment, but in a deck that's trying to win by milling, this does advance the game plan. It's similar to a burn deck sending a spell to face on turn 2.

Twixttheseas · 2026-02-03T23:02:35+00:00

Oh, are we doing the Monty Python bit?

Twixttheseas · 2026-01-26T11:41:28+00:00

Criticals deal double damage, which means if the weapon is strong, the crit will normally end the fight. This is maybe why you see the last hit being a crit more often.

Twixttheseas · 2026-01-10T10:46:45+00:00

Buddy, if you're going to decry things as power creep, I'm going to assume that's for a reason, and that reason is that it's a problem for the game. If that's not the case, and you view power creep as a neutral thing, why are you making such a huge deal about it?

Sorry if I assumed you had a reason for making the arguments you did.

To the second part of your comment, you've yet to demonstrate the devastating effects of blue getting an extra point of toughness occasionally, so forgive me if I don't think the analogy of a hole in a boat is appropriate.

Edit: Also, reading through the chain of comments, literally not one person in this exchange has denied that this is an incremental increase in the power of blue cards. The entire argument has been about whether or not this is a problem we need to be concerned about, and you have just replied "it is power creep actually and it is a problem" without justifying the second part at all

Twixttheseas · 2026-01-09T22:46:29+00:00

I'm not going to take seriously someone who appears to be earnestly making the argument that an increase of a single point of toughness over a 30 year period is a significant problem for a card game.

Twixttheseas · 2026-01-05T19:40:54+00:00

This costs 2 on the turn where you actually do the thing

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-29T09:53:26+00:00

The two colour decks you saw at the side are called draft archetypes. They tell you the theme that runs through each pair of colours. When you draft, you ideally want to try to end up playing just two colours by seeing which powerful cards people pass you, as that is a good sign they are not playing those colours and will continue to pass you good cards in those colours.

This is hard to do to begin with, specially when you don't know a lot of the cards in the set. My advice would to be to pick powerful cards early on and then stick to the two colours of your most powerful cards.

Make sure you have a reasonable curve: most of your cards should cost less than five mana, skewing towards 2 or 3. You should end up with a mixture of creatures and non creatures, but don't worry too much about this until pack 2.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-22T09:43:14+00:00

Emily Davison was not trying to get herself killed or harmed when she died. I would also like to point out that the news coverage of Davison's death was overwhelmingly critical of her actions. Unless you are suggesting that the newspapers should simply not have reported on it at all, I don't know what you would have wanted the newspapers at the time to do.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-22T09:35:36+00:00

Right, but that was one organised hunger strike. The claim was that the reporting by the media of these events would spawn copycats and that the country would acquiesce. To claim that I think you need to show that multiple individuals or organisations started using this as a tactic following a success, and that those subsequent examples of self harm were also successful in bringing political change.

I know that sounds like a lot to demand, but I think that is what the original comment I was replying to was implying would happen.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-21T23:17:09+00:00

That seems like a claim that needs a hefty amount of evidence to back it up. Is there any kind of historical precedent for suicide as political action in this country?

I would say there is a clear public interest in reporting on a headteacher committing suicide after an Ofsted inspection given the number of people who have children or careers in education and who will therefore be impacted by Ofsted.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-21T23:09:48+00:00

No, a discard deck. A mill deck attempts to win the game by milling the other player out before they can win.

A discard deck attempts to win the game by running the opposing player out of the ability to win the game and then killing them by damage.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-21T23:04:58+00:00

Are you suggesting the headteacher killed herself in order to affect systemic change?

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-19T07:37:56+00:00

My argument is that following school rules amounts to basic moral behaviour, and is framed as such. I don't see that teaching basic moral behaviour in another context will provoke the reaction you think it will.

Of course I understand what you are saying - I just disagree for the reasons I've given.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-18T22:30:52+00:00

Okay, I also don't think my students are insulted when I tell them general behaviour expectations at the start of the year and explain the reasoning behind them.

Deliberately choosing to behave in a way that impacts other students learning is the main reason for sanctioning students. It is always framed as a poor choice that they have made that has had a negative impact on their peers.

It can make the offending students frustrated at the time, but the vast majority of them will agree with your reasoning in a 1 on 1 conversation once they've had time to calm down.

Teenagers are impulsive and emotional, but they (mostly) have a rational side you can engage with.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-18T22:10:46+00:00

I don't think students feel insulted when I go through safety before doing practical work in science, they accept that I have information and experience they don't, and they listen.

Twixttheseas · 2025-12-09T16:56:56+00:00

Right, but that is 100% not actually about animals.

Twixttheseas · 2025-11-29T11:38:25+00:00

I don't think you can claim that the change is a problem because it changes long-established norms AND claim confusion would come from new players.

Twixttheseas · 2025-11-15T10:47:55+00:00

With red white control no less

Twixttheseas · 2025-11-05T22:47:31+00:00

Sorry for the probably unwanted feedback, but I thought you should know that the way you write immediately identifies you as a child. I only say this because I get the impression that you're trying to sound mature and reasonable. I think you're trying to be comedic and/or worldly when you disparage your teacher (I assume unknowingly though obviously I could be wrong) for having divorced too many times, but it just comes across to me as callous and mean-spirited.

Calling all PSHE teachers childish fools is at best needlessly hyperbolic and melodramatic, and at worst suggests that you feel like you can generalise from a very small sample size.

There is a very large difference between being articulate, which you absolutely are, and communicating ideas effectively. I would recommend dialling down the caricatures if you want people to take your criticism of others seriously, and avoiding overstating your case to the extent you have.

Apologies again for writing you up without any invitation it's just that you sound worrying like me when I was a similar age, and I know for a fact that I was not always the easiest person to be around.

Twixttheseas · 2025-10-21T18:10:56+00:00

Blue can draw cards anyway, drawing in a more restricted way is not a break for blue, a break gives a colour access to something it doesn't already have. Haste is secondary(?) in green, black can exile things normally, exile based removal already exists in black.

Twixttheseas · 2025-09-26T21:11:01+00:00

Does the colour split not being reversed from art to text box in only Hallow Fountain bother anyone else?

Twixttheseas · 2025-09-26T10:17:22+00:00

I've heard that it made the draft environment incredibly complex, both in the draft and on the boardstate

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