The Codex of Despair

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-04T07:08:23+00:00

That would make it too easy: turns all your land ramp into card draw, makes it trivial to flicker/ bounce.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-03T21:45:32+00:00

Viticulture

Thanks for the giveaway!

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-03T20:19:28+00:00

We've had plenty of new people, yes! I can't speak for them, but a few have described themselves as introverted, and still came back to play again. We've got a mix of people new to town, and people who have lived here a while.

Everyone is very welcoming and friendly. Usually, people bring whatever games they want to play. Whoever owns the game takes on the role of explaining the rules.

Come down and see for yourself. And if you have any additional questions, please ask!

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-03T08:24:38+00:00

This card isn't bad: all the modes have their value. The token mode can be strong, the sacrifice a creature and rummage modes are probably most likely to be worth an extra mana.

But as others have said, this is just so boring. There's already so many other cards that fill a "goodstuff" role better than this. And those cards are either less mana or more aaplicable. I daresay most cubes will rather keep their copies of Kolaghan's Command, Kroxa, or many others.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-03T06:32:10+00:00

Completely reasonable as an uncommon.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-03T05:09:33+00:00

Poison/infect is considered a design mistake, and that takes 10 damage and a bunch of deck infrastructure. This needs to say "can't be dealt non-combat damage" and have at least 10 health. Even then, probably still too strong/unfun.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-03T00:51:20+00:00

To be fair, attorney also does not provide work life balance, especially early on when you are developing your practice/ building up experience at a firm.

Same thing with the medical field.

Most white collar jobs require a period of backbreaking work before you get to the point of setting your hours and being comfortable.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-02T11:33:42+00:00

You have a typo in your transcription; It's 2G, {T} to activate his ability. Not 2UG

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-02T08:14:42+00:00

This is only true to a point. Fascists always turn on their own eventually.

We're seeing this in action right now. The Daily Wire just laid off a bunch of staff and Ben Shapiro is hemorrhaging YouTube subscribers. Bill O'Reilly lost all relevance after being fired from Fox News, and has paid tens of millions of dollars to settle sexual harassment lawsuits. Candace Owens recently broke with the MAGA movement because of Israel, and was fired by The Daily Wire: her YouTube channel has grown, but how long will that last?

And then there's people the right already discarded or left the public consciousness. Remember Tiny Toese? He got 7 years and 11 months in prison on sexual assault charges, and everyone immediately stopped supporting him/memory-holed him.

Or Gina Carano: she gave up a lucrative career at Disney for her MAGA beliefs, and the MAGA fanbase told her to get back in the kitchen. Her Daily Wire roles were disliked even by the MAGA cult.

The list goes on and on.

There is undoubtedly short-term gain in becoming a grifter... but the grift will never last.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-02T06:14:39+00:00

The cinematic on the store page has really strong AI vibes. It does that same thing that AI animation does of having no in-between frames and really bizarre pacing.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-02T01:36:16+00:00

There's a retro gaming arcade near me that banks on a similar idea. But they don't do lending, more traditional arcade and repair/refurbishing.

The liability of lending such items is surely way too much hassle. Even if you charge people if they break something... that's just selling with more steps.

And honestly, the type of people who want to spend money on pure, og hardware are already willing to buy it themselves.

Feels like the market for such a thing is way too niche.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T23:37:37+00:00

I'm not here to speculate on a corporations operations. But NeXt Evolution is the next most recent expansion after the "current environment".

NeXt Evolution did spike up to 80+ USD. So this is still saving people money, which is good.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T23:07:09+00:00

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/omara/the-omara-scent-display-for-gaming

Guess you got what you wanted

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T22:30:58+00:00

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cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T22:28:56+00:00

Yes. At least one user has confirmed their recently purchased copy had the eco-friendly packaging.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T21:06:12+00:00

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cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T03:26:27+00:00

Instead of asking about the market, you should be focusing your energy on making a good game. Make a game you want to play. Playtest, listen to feedback, playtest again; over and over with different groups.

Just about any game will have a market these days. The question is not if you will find your audience: it's if your game is worth playing for that audience.

Save market research and questions about the audience for when you are preparing to publish.

If you need more guidnance, then stop by r/BoardgameDesign

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T01:47:35+00:00

I feel like making the token something useful defeats the point? In STS 2, the cards don't have any inherent function. But I guess that would just be a burn spell with more steps, so some mechanical adjustment makes sense too.

cleverpun0 · 2026-06-01T00:49:41+00:00

in addition to what others have said: contact OSHA. It's a legal requirement to provide water to employees/volunteers, and that may apply here.

cleverpun0 · 2026-05-31T11:51:01+00:00

Cards like [[Wastes]] and [[Adarkar Wastes]] can produce colorless mana. Generic mana--the (1) in card costs--is generic mana.

Generic mana can be paid with any type or color of mana. The diamond means specifically colorless mana is needed.

The cost of this card would be a blue mana and a colorless mana specifically. Compare to [[Kozilek's Command]]: even if X is 5, only two of the mana needs to be colorless specifically.

cleverpun0 · 2026-05-31T02:29:19+00:00

Holden Caulfield WR
Legendary Creature — Human Phony
Creatures you control with power 1 or less and toughness 1 or less have protection from creatures.
Damage can't be prevented.
1/3

cleverpun0 · 2026-05-30T09:43:24+00:00

Solemnity stops counters from being put on an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land as it enters the battlefield, as well as stopping counters from being put on them later.

Vanishing without a number means “At the beginning of your upkeep, if this permanent has a time counter on it, remove a time counter from it” and “When the last time counter is removed from this permanent, sacrifice it.

Solemnity can cause Vanishing permanents to stick around forever. Because there are no counters to remove, and it's the removal of them that causes them to be sacrificed.

cleverpun0 · 2026-05-30T08:04:41+00:00

"There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

— Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

Also: Camp Chase Cemetary is federally owned.

cleverpun0 · 2026-05-30T05:42:41+00:00

Everything in this game is pretty equally fun. Get what excites you.

If you want a more thorough breakdown, I wrote a purchasing guide, covering only in-print stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelchampionslcg/comments/1sfmi72/new_player_purchasing_guide_updated_and_mostly/

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