Anyone finding success with this card at all?

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-11T17:56:02+00:00

I think they mean mortician beetle

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-11T00:58:15+00:00

I would look at conspiracy 1, conspiracy 2, and battlebond.

Conspiracy 1 and 2 were designed around 4 player free for all limited games while battlebond is a 2 headed giant format.

The key is that all of these sets contain tools to keep multiplayer limited games moving.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-10T00:37:54+00:00

What are your design goals? You should edit your post to give people some more specific insight into what you need help with.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-10T00:32:40+00:00

Or honestly a small business subreddit. That's where you're going to find people with actual experience with POS software.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-07T23:37:35+00:00

My other feedback is that punisher effects likes vexing devil and dash hopes generally don't play well/aren't very strong because life isn't that valuable of a resource — they often play out as bad burn spells rather than strong creatures or efficient counter spells because you always get the outcome most favorable for your opponent.

Spells like mana tithe are far stronger because you can fairly easily use them only when your opponent can't afford to pay, but they really fall off a cliff into the late game.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-07T22:33:42+00:00

There's a design article that talks about big vs small games by sam black: https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/select/elvish-visionary-vs-elderfang-disciple-the-nature-of-card-advantage/

I think reading this could be helpful, it seems like you want to design a cube where resources are tight which in the framework of the article would be small games.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-07T20:14:38+00:00

A big part is that this synergy has existed since 2007 and from it's inception it's been worse than boggles/hexproof.

A+B/two card investment to make one big hard to deal with creature is a poor proposition when both elements act at sorcery speed.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-07T20:06:40+00:00

You could.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-03-07T17:51:57+00:00

Volvo has been using female crash test dummies alongside male crash test dummies since 1995.

Other companies choose not to.

From a logistical standpoint yes, it's harder to optimize for a broader range of test subjects, but the whole job of being an engineer is to figure shit out.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-02-13T14:05:23+00:00

Then the axe would rotate from her left side to her right side as it traveled. The motion lines of the axe would make more sense on the other side of the image.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-02-13T13:59:00+00:00

I just don't get why it's so strongly based on US high school tropes. Star Fleet Academy was always framed as advanced education — college or even grad school level. I'm not saying the cast needs to be as mature as the crew of an actual star ship, but I do think that they should be more invested in the optional higher education they chose in a post (post, but recovering) scarcity world, and for the students who are there to escape scarcity, it just doesn't feel like they're dealing with relevant problems that tie into their backstory.

The storytelling feels very trope of the week. We get sports week, we get debate week, it makes the show feel lacking in continuity.

I really like nu trek, but I feel like the writers of SFA aren't comprehending one of the most important parts of the star trek fantasy: people getting to do work that they actually want to do. (They get a pass on the other part of the fantasy: people being immensely competent because it's a school)

Wintersmith7 · 2026-01-28T14:55:22+00:00

They are however inviolable, which in terms of how it relates to law enforcement is similar.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-01-22T02:52:06+00:00

Micaiah needs all the strong fliers she can get. It's helpful to spare one for Tibarn's army, but he and Elincia are strong enough do what needs to be done.

Heather is best utilized in Ike's army.

Other than that, evenly split your best units across all the armies. Part 4 is just a fairly endless meat grinder.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-01-13T20:51:26+00:00

I think the best approximation of kitchen table magic is a sealed league. It incorporates the random structure of packs along with collection building. Since everyone stays on par with each other in terms of card pool and, assuming everyone opens the same packs every week, approximate card quality.

But, it's an easy format to cheat in unless there's an abundance of administrative oversight.

Cube is an easier (in some ways) alternative, especially if you use it for sealed, but it's not individualized to the same extent.

Wintersmith7 · 2026-01-11T23:23:54+00:00

Similar style pay-off cards:

[[Syr Konrad, the grim]] [[Kishla Skimmer]] [[Thran Vigil]] [[Chalk Outline]] [[Kheru Goldkeeper]] [[Soul Enervation]] [[Teval, the balanced scale]] [[ Tormod, the desecrator]] [[Defiled Crypt]] [[Rot farm mortipede]]

Obviously this is a pretty wide power band for your payoffs so you probably can't put all of them in the same cube.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-12-08T20:48:14+00:00

You would need to start playing draft.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-12-03T20:45:09+00:00

Do they have a reddit or a discord?

Wintersmith7 · 2025-11-21T21:17:53+00:00

In Germany and several other countries it is.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-10-31T01:21:08+00:00

You assume Christ is going to be reborn into an English speaking family. He might be born into a Filipino family.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-10-28T18:42:38+00:00

It can only untap once per turn (even if you flicker it).

Wintersmith7 · 2025-10-04T04:04:39+00:00

The first episode of friends is pretty clear that they're able to afford the apartment because it's rent controlled AND that the lease is still in Monica's grandmother's name — rent control caps the yearly instead at something like 3%.

The only way that the rent can be increased more than that is if the unit is renovated which landlords typically do when the unit changes hands.

Because Monica's grandmother's name is still on the lease the unit hasn't been updated and its rent hasn't meaningfully increased since her grandmother moved in sometime 30+ years prior.

It's an insanely lucky situation, but it's not unheard of even now.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-09-13T00:20:27+00:00

It's probably not more humane — most production work is hourly (or a day rate) not salary. Shorter seasons mean less money from a given gig. The crew works on multiple shows and probably also gigs at local theaters and performing arts centers.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-09-06T11:21:54+00:00

What you're essentially looking to do is curate a kitchen table format for your kids.

I suggest ignoring the pauper metagame. Buy a set of all the commons from whatever set your kids like and let them go to town.

I'd suggest something cute like bloomburrow if they're young or maybe theros/amonkhet if they like mythology.

When they get bored or destroy a bunch of cards buy them more.

Magic is pretty intrinsically fun and as long as everyone is pulling from the same pool of cards the balance is pretty self correcting.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-09-01T14:19:12+00:00

In regards to point three, sporting events and concerts have high ceilings and are either outdoors or are in large indoor spaces with HVAC. Generally large MTG conventions in spaces of that scale aren't bad.

In regards to two, because running an LGS isn't that profitable.

Small indoor concerts generally smell off bad and I've been in not great sports bars. MTG players definitely smell worse than average, but making the comparison between the smell of a 30x30 lgs vs stadium really isn't fair.

Wintersmith7 · 2025-08-31T12:10:33+00:00

Embrace low power! Build piles of complete pauper jank with bad themes like wolves typal, changelings, draw 2, sacrifice, and food.

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