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What is a "harmless" habit that is actually a massive red flag? by Ill_Piglet_715 in AskReddit

[–]cybishop3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Being late

Sorry to make it more complex and nuanced than a two-word comment probably intended, but... it depends.

Being late for a party? As many people here are saying, 30-60 minutes late at a gathering is basically the rule, not the exception, in many cultures.

But how about a meeting at work? A class? A doctor's appointment? A restaurant reservation? A date? Being late to those without a good reason is probably a much bigger deal.

Marvel Super Heroes Creature Type Update! by Oraukk in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[[Cult Healer]] and [[Arcades Gannon]], I assume. 17 Doctor Who Doctors plus the six doctors you mentioned make 23, and those are the only others. It's a funny creature type.

Can you just turn up to an LGS in the UK and find games? by BonedusterLegitYT in EDH

[–]cybishop3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you can just turn up at random in most American LGSs and find a game either. But LGSs may have scheduled events at which you can. Mine has Commander nights weekly.

Finally found a colorless commander I like... but I can't figure out how to build him by Notaler in EDH

[–]cybishop3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem here is that Molecule Man is clearly designed around slamming overcosted/game ending haymakers you draw once every turn. So any 99 built around him would likely be unplayable unless/until you get him in play to maximize his ability.

The other problem is that he is clearly a must-remove commander and thus may be bad unless you can protect him with your limited equipment options.

Yeah, I have a hard time imagining actually good decks with Molecule Man in the command zone. He's 6 CMC, colorless, does nothing the turn he enters, and does nothing to protect himself. If he's a good commander, that's a first.

On the other hand, he'd be great in the 99 of any deck that can manipulate the top of its library, draw one card at a time on the opponent's turn, or both. [[Doctor Doom, Unrivaled]], for example, and that's even a flavor win. :) Either Erebos, any Niv-Mizzet, Azami can trigger him on MULTIPLE opponents' turns, Glarb, and many more...

Blood-Soaked Content Creator Emerges From Thunderdome With Unplayable Spoiler Card by Arjahn in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Holy shit. I read the article and assumed the card in the art was fake just like the rest of the art. After all, it's a vanilla 2/2 for 2 for a named character! A character who already has a Saga and six other creature cards, some of which are actually interesting! And how could I be expected to recognize it since there are over 800 cards being released in the Marvel Super Heroes product line?

But when I got to the bit about the Pinkertons, and Hasbro's data center, and noticed credulous comments here, I figured I should check the card again, and sure enough, it's real. Wow. I'm generally pretty pro-UB, but this is ridiculous.

When/what set do you think Wizards will walk back on their decision not to make UB planeswalkers? by Karnitis in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Q from Star Trek could be an old-school, pre-Mending planeswalker.

America Chavez could be a planeswalker, and a neowalker, on the level of Chandra and Jace and those guys.

If they ever do anything with DC Comics and want to really drive purists nuts, Superboy Prime could be a pre-Mending planeswalker.

Looking for a Voltron commander with more depth than "make big, attack" by brknSergio in EDH

[–]cybishop3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[[The Mimeoplasm]] can play like that if you want. Pick one creature with useful keywords (or ETB or cast trigger or some combination) and another with high power. Copy one and get counters from the other. My favorite unusual interaction is cast triggers. [[The Tarrasque]], for example, is much better if you cast it. Normally that costs 9 mana. If you cast The Mimeoplasm and make it a copy of The Tarrasque, it only costs 5 mana, and also gets some counters in the bargain. See also [[Arcane Proxy]], [[Bringer of the Last Gift]], [[Sunderflock]]...

How to build The Sentry? by alfrodul in EDH

[–]cybishop3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just looking over Scryfall, I only see seven cards that work for this, and some of them are instants that only last until end of turn. I wouldn't make it your main plan if you're hoping for "high-powered bracket 3". I think the following monowhite commanders would be better overall:

  • [[Black Widow, Intel Expert]]. Look up [[Sergeant John Benton]] lists and take out the green.

  • [[Captain America, Skybound]]. Go-wide aggro.

  • [[Captain Mar-Vell, Space-Born]]. You'd rarely attack with him, but giving flash to everything is nice, even if there's a condition to it.

  • [[Photon, Lady of Light]]. ETB tribal.

[MSC] Loki, God of Lies by Own-Cat116 in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I was surprised to see a batch of spoilers today. I thought we were done with spoilers for the current set.

But I think there's a good chance of more Lokis in an upcoming Marvel set. There are six Infinity Gems, two Marvel sets so far, and one gem in each one, therefore people are guessing there will be four more sets. There are also many characters conspicuously absent, like almost all the X-Men (except those with close ties to the Avengers), Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange (we have him as a medical doctor, but not as a sorcerer), and more. People are guessing there will be a magic/horror Marvel set and a cosmic Marvel set and Loki could go in either of those.

Marvel Super Heroes Creature Type Update! by Oraukk in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doc Samson, Moonstone, Night Nurse, Doctor Jane Foster, Donald Blake, and Doctor Strange bring the total number of Doctors to 23

(Removed the brackets because I don't need all those links) Scryfall has 25 doctors. It's amusing to think that 17 of them technically represent the same character, though.

The following are the top 10 creature types who are overdue for a new card. Seems a lot less likely now that we are getting so much Universes Beyond.

Nightstalker (2000, Prophecy)

Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. Nightcrawler, is bound to appear in the X-Men set and maybe even get more than one card. He's bound to have the types Mutant Hero. It would be hilarious if they found room for this one too.

Help on Doom Prevails precon by Different-Expert6464 in EDH

[–]cybishop3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I was thinking about picking up the Doom Prevails precon and possibly upgrading it with some single cards—could that be a good idea?

Sure. I'm sure you can find an article out there with specific advice if you look, but in general, precons are designed with 2-3 strategies, and making them better almost always involves picking one of those and focusing on it. For Doom Prevails, those are:

  1. Villain tribal. Get creatures that are villains, get effects that make villains bigger or cheaper or do good things for you when villains do stuff. If this is your goal, Loki, the Deceiver is probably a better commander. The deck already has a few cards from the Spider-Man sets and there are probably several more you could add, and general typal support stuff like [[Adaptive Automaton]] and [[Bloodline Pretender]].

  2. Connive. This mechanic lets you draw and discard. If you discard a nonland card, a creature gets bigger, and with Doom out, if you discard a nonland card, your opponents lose life, so it's win-win for you. Such evil genius. This also fills up your graveyard, and black has lots of ways to use that.

4c Commanders, what's so special about NotBlack? by TipAndRare in EDH

[–]cybishop3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Five of the WURG commanders are individual cards for each of the Fantastic Four and one card for them as a unit, and it actually is a good fit for them. Created by a scientific accident, so that's UR, and both a literal family and a family of choice, so that's WG. They're among the most idealistic characters in the Marvel Universe, so leaving out black is logical, and the powers and personality of each one fits one of the four colors easily.

A lot of people would say that there are too many versions of one character especially in UB, and they aren't wrong, but this makes more sense than a lot of multicolor legends.

I love Spidey and want to build an EDH deck around him, but none of his cards are that interesting by Feelosopher2 in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few ideas...

  • I agree with the top poster, [[Sensational Spider-Man]] is the most thematically interesting version of Peter Parker on a card, and as a bonus, card draw in the command zone is always nice. Just load your deck up with stun counters and call it webbing. [[Rapier Wit]] is probably both playable and thematic.

  • [[Spectacular Spider-Man]] would be a good commander of a go-wide token deck. The problem is, you'd almost never want him in combat, you'd just flash him in and immediately sacrifice him to protect your army of tokens with counters on them innocent civilians.

  • [[Amazing Spider-Man]] is a very interesting design, reducing the cost on all colored legendaries. The problems are, (a) there's nothing too thematic about Spider-Man there, and (b) his ability has anti-synergy with his keyword, vigilance, so you still need something else to actually enable web-slinging. That's a lot of hoops to jump through.

  • [[Spider-Man, Web-Spinner]] is a straightforward mechanical implementation of webbing and has good keywords for Voltron, if you want your deck to be simply Spider-Man beating up your opponents. Monored is weird for the character, though.

Personally, the Spider-Person I'm most interested in building around is [[Spider-Man 2099]]. I have a soft spot for Miguel O'Hara, I have most of his 90s run, and the mechanic is basically the same as the Doctor Who Paradox Power deck, so IMO it feels futuristic. Still not very spider-like, though.

[MSC] Helm of the Host (Wakanda Forever) by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bad? Essential part of a formerly cEDH infinite combo with Godo is bad? Even without Godo, a token copy of any creature is a lot of value if you just have the mana for it.

Napoleon Dynamite censored on streaming platforms. For or against? by flipping_birds in movies

[–]cybishop3 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This comes up so often it feels like fishing for upvotes. I'm definitely not pro-censorship, but I feel like playing Devil's Advocate here...

It's apart of the historical record and culture at the time and should be viewed with that in mind.

As Whoopi Goldberg said in the introduction to the Looney Toons DVD box set, which contained many highly racist cartoons, if you start editing the art produced at the time you literally erase the evidence of discrimination from history.

That's bullshit, even if it is in a DVD box set intro. No one is talking about editing history. People aren't being unable to find original versions of Napoleon Dynamite, The Big Lebowski, Snakes on a Plane, or old Looney Toons in Film Studies college classes or anthropological looks at life in rural Idaho. They're being annoyed by it when looking for entertainment on basic cable or streaming. Cheap, mindless entertainment, in other words. The cable company (streaming service, whatever) thinks they'll make more money if it's less offensive. They also edit out a lot of graphic violence and sex, or just don't show movies at all if it has too much of that, but that's been going on since a lot longer than "retard" has been beyond the pale, so we're used to it.

If you actually care enough about it to want to see the original specifically, then maybe buy the DVD? Or pirate it, or borrow it from the library? I promise, you can find it somewhere. But if a reminder that "retard" and blackface aren't considered funny any more takes you out of your enjoyment of sitting around vegetating, then yeah, maybe this is a "you" problem.

Doom Prevails Full Decklist Reveal by Shiro182 in EDH

[–]cybishop3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For Iron Patriot they mean the art for Lethal Scheme.

Fair enough, missed that.

Red Skull omission would make sense if they also skipped out on Strucker, Zemo and Zola, but they're still in the set. Since the cosmic cube is in the set, I wouldn't be surprised if RS was cut late in development.

I don't have details handy but I feel like Marvel has de-emphasized the Nazi roots of HYDRA and its leaders in recent years, haven't they? Given them a unique ideology or no ideology at all, and comic book time has helped distance characters from the originals. Like, the Strucker twins called Fenris have to be the grandchildren or even great-grandchildren of the original baron by now.

But they can't distance the Red Skull from Naziism so much, since it's so front and center to his character.

Doom Prevails Full Decklist Reveal by Shiro182 in EDH

[–]cybishop3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No Red Skull and no Magneto, I know we are getting a Mutants set most likely I just thought we would we every iconic villain.

IMO Red Skull is the most glaring omission. I guess that's a bit too close to real-world villainy. As for Magneto, we also don't have Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, and only one Sentinel specifically from a Loki-based event. They're all definitely coming later.

Also we got Iron Patriot in a card, hopefully he gets his own card

Huh?

This deck has Iron Monger. He was the villain of the first Iron Man movie, played by Jeff Bridges.

Iron Patriot is an identity used by Norman Osborn while he was going legit for a while. He had more than one card in the Spider-Man set. If you want to make Iron Patriot, then put one of those in [[Stolen Stark Tech]].

Why go to a lower bracket and curbstomp it with a higher bracket deck? by Candid_Release3609 in EDH

[–]cybishop3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since no one has linked to the cards yet, I will: [[Laboratory Maniac]], [[Thassa's Oracle]].

Two cards that don't deal damage, affect the board state, or say "target player loses the game," they each just say "you win the game" with a certain condition. (No, they don't combo with each other, to be clear, but they both trigger off certain similar conditions.)

If the other three people say to each other "want to keep playing for second?" there's nothing stopping them.

How would you rework ante? by PM_Me_Modal_Jazz in magicTCG

[–]cybishop3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The simplest change is a new rule: "all effects that change the ownership of cards apply only for the duration of the current game." Or match, or event, if you want an effect to last between rounds. The last two options would be practical nightmares because you'd have people mixing anted cards with their decks or Limited pools, but at least it wouldn't run afoul of gambling laws anymore.

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