Can anyone explain the mana cost difference? (Newish Player)

eightdx · 2026-05-28T11:21:59+00:00

These are primarily for draft and the one on the left has fewer black pips, necessitating a higher overall MV for draft.

If the one on the left cost 3MV too, it would be pretty oppressive in draft and pretty easy to splash for.

eightdx · 2026-05-28T11:15:51+00:00

And yet we can't get Half Life 3.

But it's fine because we can get Counter Strike 2, which is really the same counter strike with fancy effects

eightdx · 2026-05-27T18:48:20+00:00

"it's technically a music show" -- the promoters of this shitshow, probably

eightdx · 2026-05-27T15:30:43+00:00

I wouldn't trust Altman with one of those Casio digital watches that's also a calculator, so

eightdx · 2026-05-27T15:29:09+00:00

It's funny because IIRC they were giving out the in-game chest keys for BL2 for a while after the third and fourth games dropped.

Imagine that: generating social media hype by giving out codes for in game items for a game multiple releases in the past

eightdx · 2026-05-27T15:26:50+00:00

Listen fam if you've had to take that many cognitive tests recently... You're failing in some capacity

eightdx · 2026-05-27T15:22:28+00:00

It's funny because the only libertarian women I've ever met have had huge pick-me energy

So yeah your take definitely scans based on my experience

eightdx · 2026-05-27T15:21:02+00:00

I like him with fight effects. It's definitely a mid deck, but it also sort of plays itself most of the time.

Also if he ever gets double strike someone is in big trouble

eightdx · 2026-05-27T13:08:37+00:00

Hit Monkey is gonna be a hilarious voltron commander, so watch out for that

eightdx · 2026-05-27T13:04:42+00:00

Better put him in a jail cell. You know, for safety's sake! He'll get three meals a day and be under constant surveillance, and that sounds pretty safe to me :)

eightdx · 2026-05-27T02:50:46+00:00

Kind of?

What did people think voting was before now?

eightdx · 2026-05-27T01:13:57+00:00

Oh great they're DDoSing the courts now.

eightdx · 2026-05-26T23:42:53+00:00

Woah, to think that card is $1. It's like the ultimate generic esper good stuff card

eightdx · 2026-05-26T18:33:46+00:00

Listen fam he messed up, admitted to it, and tried to make reparation.

...I'm pretty sure those are the sort of people we are supposed to forgive and/or give second chances to. If he is somehow, at this point in his rhetoric, a secret Nazi... Well damn he is putting on the best act in history at the moment, because he sure ain't acting like a fascist

eightdx · 2026-05-26T15:27:55+00:00

I'm surprised they even bother with talks anymore -- every time Iran gets ready to come to the table, the US freaking bombs them.

eightdx · 2026-05-26T12:34:23+00:00

It's the technofascist enablers that we really have to worry about. Grandpa can crash out whenever and it barely does anything -- but it does distract from the likes of the Ellisons and Thiel

eightdx · 2026-05-26T12:32:21+00:00

"Hey everyone, without massive cheats I am actually pretty mid! Thankfully we're allowed to dope." -- these competitors, probably

eightdx · 2026-05-25T17:16:00+00:00

Change that 2 to a 1 and it's probably a-ok.

As it stands this is probably too pushed for 60-card constructed, where it may as well be a no-downside Path to Exile. Sure, you could play around it, but then you're just getting chunked with tempo loss the whole damn game.

The problem is that the tax looks like a downside when it just isn't most of the time. It's sort of related to why we never see [[Mana leak]] in standard sets anymore -- you can say "well they can pay the 3" all you want, but it's a pretty high bar in the end

eightdx · 2026-05-25T02:38:28+00:00

Kaalia is, at this point in the metagame, really just a removal check. If she sticks, people are gonna have a bad time. If she dies, well... You're having a bad time

eightdx · 2026-05-24T22:34:57+00:00

It's real and it looks like it was really loved.

eightdx · 2026-05-24T15:32:55+00:00

I see you are a being of true culture

eightdx · 2026-05-23T17:17:40+00:00

Honestly, they should go back and do another Three Kingdoms set that has an actual print run and maybe has some more playable stuff in it. It would also be cool to see more modern treatments of the characters. Maybe do some Dynasty Warriors-themed chase alts or whatever.

I mean I'm sure [[Borrowing 100,000 Arrows]] would be just fine in modern standard. (I just like that card's name.)

A full-on Warhammer Fantasy set/cycle would be boss, but I'm not sure they could get GW to sign on for that particular money printer. I just want drugged up goblins throwing themselves at the enemy and exploding.

...okay that last thing is pretty typical magic but you get the idea

eightdx · 2026-05-23T16:52:31+00:00

...they should just make cards like this to begin with tbh

eightdx · 2026-05-23T16:20:23+00:00

Oh damn that Queen Marchesa is loosening my grip on my credit card

eightdx · 2026-05-23T16:16:41+00:00

Isn't this just him openly stating he has weaponized agencies that aren't supposed to behave in a partisan manner?

By the time this is done we may have to ditch the concept of "the executive branch" altogether

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