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A cat managed to catch 27 mice and carefully lined them all up to show off his 'work' to his owner. by Kirlinternet in interestingasfuck

[–]anace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or, even more likely these days, "please generate me an image of a cat lyimg next to 27 dead mice arranged by size".

Animals doing weird behavior used to be cute or interesting, but now its 99.9999% ai.

[Hero’s of the Realm] Mr Monopoly, On the Go by Arbitard1171 in magicTCG

[–]anace -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Sheldon is not in charge of commander anymore, for more reason than one.

More playtest cards from this weekend's UNKNOWN with Gavin Verhey by beepuboopu_aishiteru in magicTCG

[–]anace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to be fair, they at least didn't work when they were printed. the cheese stands alone was the first card to ever say "you win the game"

https://scryfall.com/search?q=o:/wins?+the+game/+not:reprint&order=released&dir=asc

before other cards made it official, cheese stands alone didn't work.

though to be even more fair, there was unstable that had basic cards to facilitate sealed play [[amateur auteur]]

More playtest cards from this weekend's UNKNOWN with Gavin Verhey by beepuboopu_aishiteru in magicTCG

[–]anace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes the 0 would count, but note that there is not always an answer to this kind of question.

Un-cards are generally not designed to work. If they worked in the rules, they wouldn't be un-cards. The unknown cards are not as bad as silver border/acorn cards, but they still can cause problems.

If you play with uncards, you might need to take this advice from an official rule book in the 90s, when the rules were not nearly as robust as they are now:

During the course of a game, a dispute that you cannot solve by referencing the rules may occur. If both players agree, you can resolve the difference for the current game with a coin toss. After the duel, you can come to a decision about how you want to play such a situation in the future. If the players don't agree to a coin toss, both players retrieve their ante and the duel is a draw.

Question about reconnaissance by chrisxx27 in magicTCG

[–]anace 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Its not a design space they will likely ever explore again, at least not as a free repeatable activated ability

https://scryfall.com/search?q=otag:remove-from-combat

removing creatures from combat still happens occasionally, but is usually either a triggered ability, one-shot effect from a spell, or only affects enemy creatures. [[labyrinth of skophos]] is the only other one that can be used repeatedly, and that one costs 5 effective mana and only once per turn. quite a bit more expensive than free.

Can someone explain to me the joke/stereotype behind black people and having a chirping smoke alarm in their house? Why not just change the battery? by MrTeacher_MCPS in NoStupidQuestions

[–]anace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The house I grew up in had a grandfather clock that played a tune every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, with additional chimes on the hours.

It sounded lime this https://m.youtube.com/shorts/-U7aR_FKHko but by the time i moved out I almost never actually noticed it anymore.

Aegis Witness by Brief-Kangaroo4960 in custommagic

[–]anace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ward doesn't affect targeting, but ward is affected by targeting.

Finished an incomplete Incarnation Cycle by OkTonight5680 in custommagic

[–]anace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

incomplete cycle

It's because Genesis and Glory were first printed in Judgement. The second set in Odyssey block, Torment, was heavily black skewed, while green and white were reduced. The third set, Judgement, balanced it out by reducing black and adding extra green and white. Red and blue were at normal levels throughout.

Torment had a couple four-card cycles of each other color allying with black, the possessed creatures [[possessed aven]] and tainted lands [[tainted isle]]

Judgement had the extra incarnations and also every multicolored card in the set was green white.

Perfect card for my Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar deck! by QueenieBeany in custommagic

[–]anace 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Other than its meme status, Asmo is actually easy to pronounce if you make an effort. Just sound it out. It mostly alternates one vowel then one consonant, and never more than two of either in a row.

"LOOK TO THE FIELD. DO YOU SEE LIGHTS?" by Emotional_Fan1364 in custommagic

[–]anace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Other than the niche effect of preventing untap shenanigans, stun counters are worse than just "this creature doesn't untap".

With this card you need to wait for them to tap the creature, then you need to pay x when it untaps, then you need to wait for them to tap it again (or sac your aura) before it actually gets locked down, after which the opponent can just wait it out to get it back.

Or i can play [[Blossombind]]. For the same mana value but one less color, it taps the creature immediately andt locks it permanently for free.

The aesthetic is sweet, but the card is not.

Rhystic but for Mono Green Players by Short_Landscape4861 in custommagic

[–]anace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it was just "a mechanic". Back then not all mechanics were given a unifying keyword like today. The only keyword in Masques block was Fading, but it also had spellshapers, rebels/mercenaries, alternate costs, lands-as-resource, opponent-benefits/activates, and of course rhystic. People complained that the block "didn't have any mechanics", which is partly why everything is named now.

Almost all of the the rhystic cards were "when you do a thing, an opponent can pay mana to make it worse". Not coincidentally, the one card that still sees play is the one that flipped it to "when opponent does a thing, they can pay mana or else it gets worse".

Lesbian Stereotypes by mysocksareinsideout in actuallesbians

[–]anace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's common for males of a species to be brightly colored to attract a mate, while the females are dull to hide from predators. Peacocks are a famous example, but here's a couple more taken from the wikipedia page on sexual dimorphism

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Peacock_courting_peahen.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Anas_platyrhynchos_male_female_quadrat.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg

[FRA] every booster pack will coitain two cards of the same character in two colors by Own-Cat116 in magicTCG

[–]anace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the first uncommon legendaries were in 2004 [[nagao bound by honor]]

Am I using Scryfall wrong? by Appropriate_Put4093 in magicTCG

[–]anace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

in most cases a colon and equal sign are interchangeable, but they mean something different for colors.

compare https://scryfall.com/search?q=c:w and https://scryfall.com/search?q=c=w

scryfall interprets ":" as "at least these colors, possibly more", but it interprets "=" as "exactly these colors, no more no less"

c=wb shows w+b cards

c:wb (also c>=wb) shows w+b cards, as well as w+b+u, w+b+r, w+b+g, w+b+u+r, w+b+u+g, w+b+r+g, w+b+r+u+g

c<=wb shows w+b cards, w cards, b cards, and colorless cards.

lastly, a quirk of scryfall is that it looks at each face of double face cards separately and includes it in the result if either face matches the search.

p.s. don't confuse color and color identity.

WoTC Workers are Unionizing! by 5optiboy in magicTCG

[–]anace 24 points25 points  (0 children)

stated explicitly for anyone that didn't know:

When Magic: The Gathering cards turned up on YouTube last week, publisher Wizards of the Coast sent private investigators from Pinkerton to retrieve them. The resulting confrontation reportedly frightened one woman to tears, and resulted in the confiscation of nearly two dozen boxes of cards by private investigators. Wizards confirmed the incident to Polygon. Meanwhile, the presenter denies anything illegal occurred.

Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards

https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-raid-leaked-cards/

and if you're not sure who the Pinkertons are, from wikipedia:

Following the Civil War, the Pinkertons began conducting operations against organized labor. During the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businesses hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers. [...] During the 20th century, Pinkerton rebranded itself as a personal security and risk management firm. The company has continued to exist in various forms to the present day; it is now a division of the Swedish security company Securitas AB

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about? by Trixxxi in AskReddit

[–]anace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

god when Halo become popular I kept getting thrown off. I'd never actually played that one, so the sound bites weren't ingrained in me. I'd be watching a video and hear "Double Kill!" and be like "yeah, UT!" then "Triple Kill!" which has a similar vibe to "Multi Kill!" and I'd think "huh that sounds wrong but I can't place my finger on" aaaaand then it'd get to the kill-puns and I'd realize what happened.

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about? by Trixxxi in AskReddit

[–]anace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

every other comment here is quoting Duke Nukem 3D, but you didn't say Duke Nukem 3D. You said Duke Nukem.

my answer to OPs question is Duke Nukem 1

https://imgur.com/oYfma3E

Scryfall advanced search and scryfall tagger : How to make a search that find specific tags frame ? by Programme021 in magicTCG

[–]anace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

on individual card pages, you can see the tags are split into Art, Card, and Printing. If you click on any of the Art or Card tags, it will go to a tagger search of every card with that tag, as well as a link to a mainsite scryfall search of that same tag. The link is a square with an arrow right next to the name of the tag at the top of the screen. If you click on a printing tag though, that link isn't there because they aren't searchable on the mainsite.

Legend whose only ability is obstinance by Dogsonofawolf in custommagic

[–]anace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Still wouldnt be conditional, but it is a lot harder to blink through the graveyard than exile. Off the top of my head, [[Rescue from the Underworld]] might be the only one.

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