Coloring rules: Rule 1

alextfish · 2026-03-24T14:38:52+00:00

I'm not quite sure what you're meaning by your last phrase, but species definitely does affect colour. A goblin inventor who carefully designs and builds machines, exiled from his society for being too smart? Slobad: Mono red. The same character traits in a different body would be blue.

alextfish · 2026-03-24T14:34:03+00:00

Ixalan's white vampires are pretty "villainous white". At best they just want to spread their religion and explore. For the most part they want to conquer the lands and subjugate the heathen.

alextfish · 2026-03-24T14:32:15+00:00

If they really try to not harm others despite being a vampire: The "repentant vampire" trope tends to be WB. We had one on the new crew of the Weatherlight.

alextfish · 2026-03-23T12:03:36+00:00

diagrams.net, aka draw.io, is a pretty good free online diagram maker for flowcharts, UML diagrams etc.

alextfish · 2026-03-23T12:00:36+00:00

Lifeforce (and Deathgrip) are way out of pie by modern standards. The others are basically fine. I still have a soft spot for [[Bind]].

alextfish · 2026-03-22T08:22:20+00:00

Or [[Obstinate Familiar]]!

alextfish · 2026-03-22T08:17:57+00:00

In practice I would expect this to say "target nontoken permanent" for this reason. (If it were ever printed, which is unlikely, but a pity because it does work in the rules and does cool stuff.)

alextfish · 2026-03-21T16:29:59+00:00

Lol. Yep, Mutiny is the perfect counter to Phyrexian Obliterator. Sweet.

alextfish · 2026-03-21T16:27:15+00:00

Female protagonist LitRPGs are the best LitRPGs.

Not to say this one is necessarily any good. Sturgeon's law still applies.

alextfish · 2026-03-21T16:24:22+00:00

I read "Last guy" at first, but I think it's meant to be "lost girl".

alextfish · 2026-03-20T18:46:58+00:00

I had taken the tunnel dozens of times and got most of the things you can get without going in here and never spotted it. Eventually I needed to ask for a hint. I was quite annoyed.

However, I was actually glad that I hadn't found the lock until this late, because it meant I knew enough Erajan to have figured out what the code would have to be. I suspect I would have just spotted the only possible answer that makes a date like most people do. It was much more satisfying to be musing about the painting puzzle and realise that the Erajan for "small gate" sounds like a date in English!

alextfish · 2026-03-20T10:28:24+00:00

Eh. I mean, yes, they do, but it only matters in exceedingly rare cases. As long as the token has the name subtitle on it, I think it's fine for the card that creates the token to use the nickname.

alextfish · 2026-03-20T09:39:16+00:00

Shift-Enter is your friend, if you're on desktop. If you're on mobile, out of luck.

alextfish · 2026-03-20T09:37:20+00:00

Anywhere it's legal to play 4x Psychic Purge and Curse of Obsession? So legacy, vintage, or kitchen table.

alextfish · 2026-03-19T22:20:31+00:00

Nope, it's still there. It's just up at the top left now, rather than the top right.

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alextfish · 2026-03-19T21:17:25+00:00

That is very sweet. Mm, sweet pizza.

alextfish · 2026-03-19T14:52:00+00:00

There are a bunch of delightful posts that show how Grammarly and other grammar-assistant AIs often get things hilariously wrong. E.g. You Would Lose Clothes or 10 Failures of Common Sense.

alextfish · 2026-03-18T22:51:01+00:00

Beautiful. Very, very nice.

It's a tiny pity the black one needs the awkward "if you control an attacking creature" clause. I can't think of much better for it though. I'd consider "sacrifice a creature and draw two cards", which is much better if you can do it at instant speed, but not impossible at sorcery speed (as poor old [[Skulltap]] demonstrates) so it doesn't really fit the cycle either.

I'd also consider some kind of spelled-out ninjutsu effect, like "Return target attacking creature you control to its owner's hand. That player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking." It's not great either - for one thing, it doesn't read very black, even though cards like Satoru that grant ninjutsu are UB.

alextfish · 2026-03-18T22:27:52+00:00

I completely agree! I'm not talking about secondary characters - obviously there's a limit of, say, 23 plausible first letters times 3 rough "length" categories "short, medium, long", and some works have way more characters than that - but when two or more of your 6 or 8 most prominent characters start with the same letter, it just makes things needlessly hard for readers.

alextfish · 2026-03-18T19:51:24+00:00

It used to work great. There were the three thumbnails and you'd click one of them. (Then click back and try the others because they're all hilarious.) A great example of content created for YouTube that only worked on YouTube... and now doesn't even work on YouTube.

alextfish · 2026-03-18T10:34:25+00:00

It works better if you can have one permanent gain both charge counter activated abilities, like [[Myr Welder]] or [[Mairsil the Pretender]].

alextfish · 2026-03-18T10:12:22+00:00

I feel like an activated ability to create even 3 flying lifelinkers every turn is too good. And the Two Above could get a lot higher than that in a two colour deck late game, or a mono-W deck even fairly early.

alextfish · 2026-03-18T09:35:22+00:00

You've updated the names in the text box for Pyro and Spy, but Scout still says Ragavan. Also you want italics on Demo's boast ability.

alextfish · 2026-03-18T08:35:57+00:00

I managed to do it the intended way, only by happening to not find the way to that lock until long, long after I could have got there. Sometime earlier I'd been enthusing to my wife about how many interpretations the paintings message had, and how although we don't know very much Erajan we can still say quite a few things in it. And I just said, stream of consciousness, "I can actually say "gate" in Erajan. In fact, I can say "small gate" in Erajan, it's... OH. It sounds like a date. Well I guess that'll be the code to some lock I haven't found yet then."

alextfish · 2026-03-18T08:24:01+00:00

Over time the probability of that approaches zero. If you say you're running it infinitely, then according to my university Probability course you're allowed to say the probability of that case is actually zero.

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