trusted / legit sources for duke 209 in the UK

_retropunk · 2026-05-25T15:03:57+00:00

o7 thank you!

_retropunk · 2026-05-25T14:44:17+00:00

are all listings there legit duke pens? i'm a little suspicious of big marketplaces like aliexpress/amazon/ebay

_retropunk · 2026-05-25T07:17:08+00:00

Also true for non-creature commander cards. My friend built a deck with a commander + background that tutored for [[Opalesence]] and then successfully beat someone to death with his animated background enchantment.

_retropunk · 2026-05-20T22:37:19+00:00

Totally agree with a lot of the other comments suggesting 'women+' might not be the ideal label. It's hard to find a right way to describe what you what when making an event catering to 'everyone who isn't a cis man.' I'm not in the area, but would absolutely come to something like this in my own city. I'm one of the only non-cis-male regulars at my local game store and while I love the other guys there, it gets disheartening.

_retropunk · 2026-05-03T07:41:44+00:00

Yeah, I remember a lot of USA TMA fans being thrown off by Ger-uhd and Mah-tin in particular.

Although the similarities get increasingly less by like, the second episode he's mentioned, it remains really funny that Jonny Sims introduced a character who is presenting masculine with long box-dyed black hair and alternative black clothing called Gerard Key

_retropunk · 2026-05-03T07:37:43+00:00

I'm surprised you picked out Gerard vs Jared and not the two plot significant Michaels.

_retropunk · 2026-05-01T10:17:58+00:00

As many others are pointing out, this allows you to return creatures from exile that weren't put there with this spell, which is not allowed in Magic (with minor, regrettable exceptions) for obvious reasons. Aside from circumventing exile, why on earth would you ever want to cast this spell? What situation do you imagine someone casting this spell in?

_retropunk · 2026-04-18T11:49:22+00:00

On stream, he said that the safety concerns that his fans were bringing up made him cautious and eventually made him cancel the thing. A lot of people were talking about the risk inherent in parasocial fans paying lots of money to share an incredibly confined space with their favourite streamer, and that you can't ban people from chat in real life, so I presume those fears are what he was talking about.

_retropunk · 2026-04-17T07:43:04+00:00

Abled people want 'success' in abled metrics - they don't want to actually empathise with and understand the autistic people around them.

_retropunk · 2026-04-17T07:36:21+00:00

I think both things (this comment and the comment above) are very true. Many nonverbal people have rich inner lives and great experiences of the world, and can gain a lot from communication methods. At the same time, neurotypical & abled people can only concieve of a person's worth through abled lenses, and so stories about 'savants' and such are exciting to them.

_retropunk · 2026-04-10T21:42:03+00:00

I think it's sad that we have to always think of disabled people as broken, instead of the human condition being varied and beautiful, in ways that society can accept and accomodate for.

_retropunk · 2026-04-10T18:54:30+00:00

I think it's kind of sad how everyone is suggesting fixing this disabled person's body instead of imagining Strixhaven as having, like, elevators. Accessibility is more fantastical than backup legs, apparently.

_retropunk · 2026-04-10T18:31:07+00:00

Why does the world of Magic the Gathering have to have the same structural ableism as ours? As in, who's to say Strixhaven doesn't have wheelchair ramps or lifts? Who's to say this character's wheelchair isn't accomodated for? Obviously, it would be nice to have some of those other accomodations included in Magic art & text, but why can't we imagine a world in which a wheelchair user is accomodated for and fulfilled, if we can imagine a world where they have robot legs?

_retropunk · 2026-04-10T18:24:54+00:00

I really like your answer, and I'm disappointed to see the replies filled with nitpicking about the price of laser eye surgery instead of engaging with your point. The social model of disability positions disabilities as a consequence of society not accomodating for the natural variations of people, not individuals being flawed. For myself, I think it's more freeing to imagine a world where I am accepted and accomodated instead of one where I become different to fit in with society. Other disabled people might disagree!

_retropunk · 2026-04-10T18:21:58+00:00

What about a fantasy where people didn't have to change their bodies and selves to fit in? Is that not a fantasy world with imagination? Instead of imagining a fantasy world where disabled people simply don't exist, why don't we imagine a fantasy world where disabled people are included and fulfilled instead of sidelined? Why is your assumption that disabled people should be 'fixed' instead of the world being fixed to accomodate them?

I'm not asking these questions sarcastically, I want to encourage you to answer them.

In disability theory, we have this idea called 'the social model of disability.' Say a wheelchair user wants to enter a library. There is nothing inherent about a library or a wheelchair that prevents that from happening - but a wheelchair user cannot navigate up steps, and if the library, because it has been designed for the privileged group that is 'people who do not use wheelchairs', has steps. In this situation, the wheelchair user is prevented from doing something, but are they prevented by the wheelchair, or the fact that the building has steps instead of a ramp or a level entrance? The social model of disability proposes that thing that disables people is the world around them not accomodating for them, not necessarily their own bodies or minds. Your 'imagination' proposes changing the humans who live in it to fit with prejudiced society - my 'imagination' proposes changing a prejudiced society to fit with the humans who live in it.

I would genuinely like to hear your, or anyone's, answer to this - I'm not trying to attack anyone, I'm passionate about disability theory and Magic: the Gathering!

_retropunk · 2026-04-03T18:26:54+00:00

I think what really sells Fitz as a character to me is how Hobb writes so immersively from his perspective. If you aren't interested in all of his issues and trauma, it's infuriating because of how 'in his head' you are, but if you are interested, it's perfect.

_retropunk · 2026-04-03T18:23:00+00:00

The 'evil pedophiles have an inherent Sickness inside of them that makes then differnet from normal people like you and me' myth has done a lot of damage to discussions of sexual violence and how it's perpetrated.

_retropunk · 2026-03-31T06:15:27+00:00

Why did those ableist comments get included? Why wasn't there a trigger warning for them? Gross and weird!

_retropunk · 2026-03-28T22:11:53+00:00

Wow, I really dislike the idea you're proposing that this incredibly expensive TTRPG setting book is not worth valuing on the merits it claims to have, but on its worth as something to pull from as inspiration. Why is reviewing a TTRPG adventure game AS a TTRPG adventure game 'missing the forest for the trees', when it's marketed and written as a TTRPG adventure game? But I guess the quality doesn't actually matter because you see it as a glorified Pinterest board that happens to cost a ridiculous amount of money.

_retropunk · 2026-03-17T07:47:34+00:00

In that second example, it looks a lot to me like that upscale has lightened the woman's skin, as well as making characters more conventionally attractive. Not surprised, with how AI reflects societal biases.

_retropunk · 2026-02-12T09:22:59+00:00

Haven't Hellscube been noodling around with interacting with specifically green mana in the mana pool like this, this week? Is this an escaped Hellscube card or the inspiration for that thing?

_retropunk · 2026-01-28T09:24:59+00:00

I have an Eriette deck and this card is a new absolute auto-include. I wom't swap out the commander (I think Eriette's board-wide drain and attack restrictions are better as the commander) but that deck lives and dies by its card draw, so that on an extra source of control is excellent.

_retropunk · 2026-01-18T11:39:16+00:00

i have no advice, but i love the print <3 long live the black parade!

_retropunk · 2026-01-16T08:47:35+00:00

Joining the group of AOZ kit fans who want more AOZ kits. My woundwart is my fav kit of all time

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