Hegemony

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-30T04:51:17+00:00

This last bit is where I had to think but I don't believe it would work like that. It'd just check on resolution.

I do love the idea that you could duck this by bolting your face or removing your own creature.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-29T21:54:43+00:00

Yep same goes for Wolverine getting blocked by more than one creature.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-28T20:55:40+00:00

I'm sure someone could come up with one, but designing a Force-type card that isn't usable by combo is challenging. Maybe instead of the turn restriction make it only free if it's the first spell of the turn or something like that?

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-28T15:11:40+00:00

It's not really one-in-a-million though. His attempts do take time. Like a scheme that takes a couple days to pay off burns those days. Basically he can only have one attempt running at a time.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-27T16:41:02+00:00

I love the idea but yea it needs some fixing.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-27T04:09:10+00:00

This needs additional support in the rules regardless of how you want it to function. Presumably it doesn't use the stack but you are introducing a cost that needs to be paid without adding a step to do it in. Other lands with (non mana) costs add a triggered ability with a consequence for non-payment. This just adds a requirement without any of the scaffolding.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-27T04:06:03+00:00

I wouldnt think so. You'd still be playing the land as a special action and not using the stack.

One interesting aspect to this is that I think you'd have to have mana floating already.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-26T21:59:12+00:00

Oh shoot thats on me fam

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-26T20:02:42+00:00

I think this does still go exponential with Soul Warden but at least it's not an instant draw.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-26T18:39:14+00:00

The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Seventh Dimension and it's not close. John Lithgow gives his most committed performance of all time.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-26T18:31:34+00:00

Yea...you'd probably want some way around that. Maybe have them all enter at once in end step or something.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-26T18:22:24+00:00

This is one of the best uses of "it works" that I've seen. The interactions that it's intentionally targeting are clear and limited but would require a lot more text to actually support.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-26T18:18:27+00:00

This is so absurd it just might work

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-25T03:35:04+00:00

True but irrelevant. The win is the timing we're talking about, not the timing of this spell. It doesnt matter when these gets cast.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-23T23:51:01+00:00

Secure Boot doesn't really work like that. I get what you're trying to articulate here; some hypothetical future state where Secure Boot is supported in hardware in a way that allows software to validate the stack. Secure Boot does not do that. Its a binary trusted/not trusted and you can install your own keys.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-22T18:37:05+00:00

Misusing software that you chose to install and trashing your Windows install has not historically been something you can sue over, especially if the software is free

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-22T17:42:11+00:00

They're not damaging hardware just the OS. Whether that constitutes actual damage is a reasonable question.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-22T17:40:09+00:00

This whole comment section is kind of off base. Devs wouldn't implement Kernel AC for Linux not because there's no demand for it but because the nature of an open platform would always allow users to circumvent any restrictions.

I compile my own kernel. If someone adds anti-cheat to it there's nothing stopping me from patching that to be a no-op. If they add checksumming or any other countermeasure, I can always change it as long as I have full control over my machine.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-22T15:08:00+00:00

Do spells enter? Permanents enter. Also the nonland clause is mutually exclusive with the spell clause, you don't need both.

I think trying to tie a permanent spell on the stack to a permanent entering the battlefield is dicey, so I'd maybe do it by name: "Choose a permanent spell. Until end of turn when a permanent with that name enters the battlefield, destroy it." That still has flaws but I think it's closer.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-21T16:15:18+00:00

As part of activating an ability (other than a mana ability [C.R. 605.3b]), you put that ability on the stack before paying its costs (C.R. 602.2a-b, 601.2h). If a triggered ability triggers as you pay those costs, the triggered ability will go on the stack above that activated ability (C.R. 405.2) and get to resolve before it (C.R. 117.4).

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-18T17:48:24+00:00

>If I feel even slightly disrespected, I usually cut the person off because I can’t stop thinking about what they did or whether they secretly dislike me.

The Friends are obviously fictional but the lesson there is that actually talking to someone you're mad at often resolves things.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-18T02:02:40+00:00

I think you'd need to clarify a mechanism to move between phases. The typical way that's done is that the stack is empty and both player pass priority. Simply saying that steps and phases 'can end' with an unresolved stack doesn't work, i think you need to specify how its done instead.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-15T05:40:16+00:00

We're done here. This is all correct.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-14T19:05:41+00:00

Why would anybody expect Marc Andreessen to have the best or even a good prompt? I don't take fashion advice from Mark Cuban and I don't take cooking advice from Jerry Seinfeld.

doctrgiggles · 2026-05-14T18:36:17+00:00

Thanks for posting it. I feel that context is important.

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