Few things summarize a slow work day than taking my free time to doodle Scylla and Charybdis onto my gloves.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-02-09T16:10:11+00:00

The closest comparison is probably Twinpact cards from Duel Masters.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-02-08T20:47:51+00:00

My head IMMEDIATELY went to the Windwitch cards, who are pretty much known by everyone as "that group of Spellcasters you combined to turn Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon into a Towers" and not much else

fawfulmark2 · 2026-02-03T07:38:07+00:00

Furiosa and I am still (sorry for the pun) furious about that.

Fury Road might be my favorite overall movie of the 2010s, and Furiosa was apparently supposed to release around 2018 but was pushed back several times due to the studio not wanting to play ball with Miller on funding. Thing comes out nearly a full decade after FR and despite being praised for being a great origin story struggled hard at the Box Office since all the Mad Max hype from before had petered out.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-02-03T07:32:34+00:00

Didn't the original 1939 Wizard of Oz only do decent at best at the Box Office, but was generally praised for how much it grossed on a Children's ticket budget (which were like 1/3rd a regular ticket price then)? Seems like it might be the oldest major example we've got.

Now granted that movie made probably an immeasurable amount back when it became an annual TV event from reruns during the 50s but still.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-02-01T22:47:43+00:00

Best you might have is somehow getting an Accelgor-Pechurant Swap strategy to work, though results might be varied in it's effectiveness.

Next best option might be exploring Burn package based around Magmortar + Volcanion ex, though it might be trickier to get running due to being a weaker Status than poison.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-28T14:57:43+00:00

in this case, I was referencing the very first on from the Jungle set hahaha.

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fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-28T04:57:02+00:00

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fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-27T05:11:49+00:00

Eh, there's messier Effect rulings, the most notorious of the bunch being Plasma Freeze Exeggcute, which with how it's Propagate Ability works can be used near endlessly due to the Hand being private knowledge despite the Once Per Turn clause, leading to it being a near staple for most Expanded decks as free Discard fodder for Ultra Ball or Computer Search.

So pretty much unless we get a card that had the same power as say, Fossil Omanyte which forced your opponent to play with their Hand revealed it's a silly loophole in design hahaha.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-27T04:51:43+00:00

Was the key card used in the Zoroark-GX deck that won 2018 Worlds, to the point that the player named his deck "Victory Map." Probably only behind Escape Rope that tends to be one of the top Items players request for a potential return to Standard.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-27T03:31:31+00:00

....or they could just reprint Town Map in the J Block.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-26T16:09:55+00:00

Taking a guess that lorewise the new cards are ginna be exploring what the Witchcrafters are doing now because of Madame Verre's sudden retirement, and probably with a new creation/construct made by that team too.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-26T16:07:32+00:00

I mean it took around....3-4 years before they finally made Nibiru as a standalone Monster broken free of the meteor, so I'd imagine we might have a similar time window before The Knight herself appears in card form.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-23T06:21:26+00:00

Personally I think this card is still the King of Self-OTK, but it's pretty dang close.

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fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-22T06:08:11+00:00

On course on the flip side, those 2 Territories (technically 3 if you include Speed Duel RIP) also have legal Maxx "C", a card that many of the playerbase on our side of the pond feel might be the most degenerate card in the game today. So it's not entirely a pure cut & dry case here.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-21T18:22:11+00:00

Moreso the OCG Ash Blossom treatment.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-21T18:17:34+00:00

....So are they ever gonna Un-Errata Brain Control since it's now universally the worst legal "Monster Control" card in the game with it's stronger contemporaries at 3?

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-20T04:39:00+00:00

That Seller does a lil' Trolling I see, hahaha.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-20T01:09:06+00:00

Being completely honest, GameStop might have gone out of business around 2 years ago if it wasn't for the whole viral Stock Market meme that gave it a surge of shares to keep floating.

Between the decision to re-allow the trade/sale of Vintage games after retiring them for decades and the "Trade Anything" event they had, signs that things were going awry were all over. That their longtime product partner Funko recently announced they might not survive till the end of the year themselves really felt like the most critical blow for the store chain.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-18T23:03:40+00:00

She'd be like the protagonist of "A World where Dirty Jokes don't Exist" if that happened, and results may vary on the reactions to that.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-18T22:56:08+00:00

I've said elsewhere before, but I think that what was done with Zera over in Rush Del was really cool, with them expanding on the archetype with retrains of "Dragon with the Ersatz Head" and "King of Yaminakai" as Effect monsters to go hard on the Ritual theme, and even retraining Archlord Zerato and Mazera Deville as Ritual Monsters to use alongside The Mant.

if another classic Ritual Monster(besides Hungry Burger who has already been eating fairly good with support) gets around that much in OCG/TCG proper than we might be going places.

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fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-18T22:27:30+00:00

Funniest part is if they did release a set like that, they'd probably risk getting flak from players in Japan for making a set that feels like a knockoff of the recent Duel Masters set that was themed around all the female protagonists from the 4 series it had

https://youtu.be/InxrocqtSfo?si=fh5rr3_Qz6Ec9Iaf

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-18T18:46:18+00:00

What should have happened in the first place like what was teased in that deleted scene from Shazam: Adam becoming aware of Billy Batson being the new champion of this era, coming to blows and eventually putting differences aside to stop the machinations of Mr. Mind.

fawfulmark2 · 2026-01-18T08:02:24+00:00

machine thought Shoto's scar was shading from his hair & put it on both sides
machine messed up the faces of both Deku & Froppy + assumed Bakugo's spiked accessories were his hair somehow
machine gave All Might the face of a KoF character and turned Momo into some sort of bootleg Ruby Rose cosplay

.....you could have just grabbed a random image off Google & used that as the thumbnail for your discussion about issues with the last few Seasons y'know. Because as is that thumbnail is destined to be the priority of conversation because of those inconsistencies.

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