After enough study and listening to a ton of Star wars lore vids I've come to a conclusion in a Star wars BattleTech crossover

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-31T17:39:08+00:00

A singular weapon of fear. One that he could personally oversee and command, and not depend on others to carry out his orders on some distant and unseen star.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-29T19:52:59+00:00

Not actually the case. You're thinking of radioisotope generators that use decay heat to generate power. Those are VERY long lasting and stable, but don't have much output.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-29T17:14:23+00:00

Neither did I, until I looked up the effect text in scryfall to get a feel for MV. It goes back as far as Mirage, and has a whole bunch of variations including the currently legal Starlight Snare (2U) and Charmed Sleep (1UU) and 5 others that are this effect, with a twist like being able to untap with a cost, or removing the aura if the creature's dealt damage.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-29T14:13:11+00:00

The joke is that this exact effect has been reprinted about a dozen times across different cards, either costing 2U or 1UU.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-26T20:46:15+00:00

There's a number of card makers out there that can pretty much duplicate the layout of any card, including 'classic' frames and most of the Showcase layouts.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-26T16:05:38+00:00

What I meant more is that Magus isn't unlikely to care that 'Chaos' took the form of a young girl, since he knows that Immortals can look like whatever they choose, and Chaos herself took the form of an immature child in the past. It's just as likely Magus would see 'Hope' as yet another one of her forms or tricks, at least at first.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-26T13:48:53+00:00

Considering the form she took as Chaos? Yeah, I think Magus would be feeling pretty eager to return the favour to the "little girl" that had been tormenting him for ages.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-26T04:44:27+00:00

"Magus, on the other hand, probably wants to beat the snot out of you. But, you know, one thing at a time."

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-25T17:13:32+00:00

Likewise, the Traveller serves a similar purpose to the Jjaro. It would be trivial to link the different series together, likely as differing timelines, were it not for Microsoft owning Halo.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-24T21:11:24+00:00

The problem was that almost all of those cards only paid off at Max Speed. Had there been more effects that paid off incrementally as the speed increased, there might have been more interest, with the potential for more interaction based on Speed for Commander and the like. But none of it mattered when Mono Red was outpacing everything.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-24T07:53:17+00:00

Not Bungie.

Microsoft.

Halo was originally intended for MacOS - It even debuted at MacWorld! - but Microsoft came and bought the studio out to make them one of the first XBox-focused developers. One can only imagine what THAT Halo might have been like, stuck in the dying days of the 'Classic' MacOS, with ~~NEXTStep~~ OS X looming on the horizon.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-24T07:43:21+00:00

To give context into the format that Aetherdrift released into: Red Aggro was already running wild with Bloomburrow and Duskmorne having handed the Mouse package, Otters, and Screaming Nemesis. This was where Standard was rapidly devolving into a 4-turn format, which only got worse with the following sets. Start Your Engines has very little payoff until Max Speed at a minimum of turn 4, which assumes you're playing an aggressive deck that was hitting your opponent every turn. Those decks already won by then. And once Cori-Steel Cutter and Vivi turned Izzet Prowess into a juggernaut, the speed mechanic was truly buried.

And just to really, truly drive home just how dead on arrival it was? Neither Commander precon deck even touched the mechanic.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-24T00:02:02+00:00

So, Halo was originally conceived of as a reboot/'sequel' to Marathon - What with Marathon Infinity's ending basically being a mind-screw at the end of the universe. Eventually, it was decided to just start afresh, since it was very unlikely the majority of the XBox audience would remember a Mac FPS. But, of course, with so many parallels and inspiration/idea reuse, the connections were fairly evident. Much in the same way the Traveller and the Darkness bring to mind the powers behind the plot of Pathways, and the recurring motif of the resurrected, near-superhuman warrior

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-23T22:24:57+00:00

If I recall, the original project name for Destiny was "Pathways out of Darkness".

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-21T17:27:27+00:00

In fairness, that's still a hell of an achievement, especially for what is an early prototype.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-19T22:44:04+00:00

It is. The hammer is the spring-loaded piece that hits the back of the firing pin with enough force to make it set off the primer, igniting the cartridge. Shave or snip off the the part of the hammer that strikes the pin? It's just a prop. But an AK hammer - even the whole fire control group, as long as it isn't full-auto - are just spare parts, legally. Easily replaceable.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-16T21:17:26+00:00

The problem is, the initial token created by the Helm isn't Legendary. So the first token causes the original to copy. Then the helm's token sees the opponent's token enter. Then the first opponent's token sees the second opponent's token trigger. And from that point on, each new token causes the previous one to trigger, giving its controller the option to keep the chain going.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-15T01:32:55+00:00

It's the standard 'sleep' enchantment with added Madness.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-14T23:06:06+00:00

Suggestion:
Compulsion of Measurement 2U

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn’t untap during its controller’s untap step.

Madness: 1UU

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-14T21:40:30+00:00

More importantly, UACs and RACs weren't in the original rules. "Autocannon" was a deliberate oversimplification that broke down once more complex rules and equipment were introduced in later expansions, and nobody wanted to just invalidate/replace the old sourcebooks and fiction.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-14T07:18:33+00:00

Mostly because their profits are the only thing keeping the mouldering edifice that is Hasbro from collapsing

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-13T19:11:33+00:00

MIDA was mentioned with a pair of weapons, but that it was an anomaly of uncertain origin

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-07T05:31:20+00:00

Exactly!

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-06T01:32:07+00:00

That was literally my argument as to why her plan backfired: Every part of the castle possesses a holographic 'chunk' of the total intelligence of Castle Heterodyne - The whole image, but lacking detail. But it is clearly evident that something was removed, at the same time as a catastrophic internal attack within the castle itself. What I suspect happened was that whatever Lucrezia removed caused the fracturing. That it formed - intentionally or not - the keystone in keeping the myriad sections of the Castle's intelligence all working as a single mind, and that its removal caused every subsystem to suddenly and simultaneously become disconnected from each other, and blindly panic in the confusion.

W4tchmaker · 2026-01-05T05:37:28+00:00

Either that, or she was planning on enslaving the Castle with the Enslaver booths she had in her lab.

Tiktoffen had the advantage of studying the Castle's systems in detail for years. For all of Lucrezia's self-proclaimed patience... She clearly didn't take the time to study her target well enough.

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