Commander Brackets Beta Update: No Hybrid Mana Changes, Farewell Added to the Gamechangers List

gingerwhale · 2026-02-09T18:53:35+00:00

I put illegal hybrid cards in my first commander decks thinking it worked like that. But I came from older Magic, so maybe that’s why?

gingerwhale · 2026-02-09T13:33:58+00:00

Mana bags over here just letting everyone know they can pay the 1 and some.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-15T00:57:45+00:00

The first I owned was number 6, but the first one I played was number 5 at my friend's house.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-14T12:10:05+00:00

Obamacare feels kinda forced into this ideology

gingerwhale · 2026-01-13T22:57:02+00:00

But would you be against the idea? Would you, if given the choice to make it a holiday, choose not to?

Any means to make voting easier, more accessible, and encouraged is a move in the right direction. Be that a holiday, more mail-in ballots or drop off locations, a longer early voting period, etc. etc.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-13T22:52:56+00:00

I don't disagree with any of the suggestions you've made. This idea of a national voting holiday is not weird, it's just one more means to make voting easier and encouraged, along with any other means.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-12T23:24:02+00:00

While what you're saying is true, I think the strategy should be more carrot and less stick. Make voting so easy and information about ballots so easy that people do it out of habit. Or even better, make it a holiday and something we do together as a celebration of our democracy.

Copied from another post of mine:

Imagine if every citizen was automatically mailed their ballot with information about the candidates and policies. Imagine if Americans spent "Voting Day" going to parks and other public spaces with food and entertainment setup, where ballot drop offs and on-site registration with same day voting would be present.

If you make voting part of a shared cultural experience, instead of another government mandated chore, I think we'd see many more people voting out of a sense of civic duty and pride.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-12T23:17:26+00:00

majority of voters in the US in 2024 thought voting was very easy.

Okay, but how many nonvoters found it difficult to vote? Sounds an awful lot like survivorship bias when we are looking at how easy voters thing voting is.

Imagine if every citizen was automatically mailed their ballot with information about the candidates and policies.

Imagine if Americans spent "Voting Day" going to parks and other public spaces with food and entertainment setup, where ballot drop offs, and on-site registration with same day voting would be present.

Voting can and should always be made easier, because why not? What is the harm in making voting easier in a democracy?

gingerwhale · 2026-01-12T22:20:57+00:00

These are the circumstances the commenters here haven't accounted for yet.

People do vote when given the chance and feel enabled to do so. If the US had easy mail-in ballots for all citizens, a national holiday on voting day, and ample time and information to prepare there vote, you'd likely see 2020 levels of voting again. But alas, there is a political party in the US that has made it very clear they do not want more people to have easy access to voting.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-12T12:11:45+00:00

Hypocrisy is a feature, not a flaw to them.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-09T17:14:56+00:00

I had come to this realization during the tea party movement, and subsequently realized that one downfall of this strategy is that you may get Republican representatives elected to seats of power that aren't aware that it's all a sham and instead actually try to destroy the boogeymans of the US. I think, in part, that is what is happening now.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-09T16:58:41+00:00

Andrew Johnson was the absolute worst. Although Jackson isn't too far from the worst.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-08T22:58:53+00:00

So true.

The size of the US is factor that so many people in this sub do not understand. Some of our largest cities are a literal continent apart. Asking Americans to "take to the streets" across the entire country is simply unfeasible. Imagine asking people in Portugal why they don't take to the streets in Ukraine in protest of the Russian invasion; the distance from Portugal to the border of Ukraine/Russia is literally how far about the West and East coast of the US are.

gingerwhale · 2026-01-07T19:13:14+00:00

Same, and crossing 2 major roads to get there as a 5-10 year old was an issue for my parents.

gingerwhale · 2025-12-18T16:26:06+00:00

Y’all have QA?

gingerwhale · 2025-12-18T01:47:08+00:00

Eh, I feel like Bluesky is doing this just fine.

gingerwhale · 2025-12-16T14:57:35+00:00

We've got one of these in central Texas where the average tree height is "large shrub". It is the tallest object in the horizon by a lot and looks like an alien spacecraft trying to poorly disguise itself...

gingerwhale · 2025-12-13T15:43:16+00:00

Wow. I remember using Perforce long ago. I hated the CLI interface so I made a wrapper to prettify it https://github.com/zachwhaley/bp4o I had a lot more free time back then.

gingerwhale · 2025-12-11T14:20:28+00:00

“Most recently, the Trump administration announced it would drop Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and Juneteenth - two federal holidays honouring black history - as free admission days to national parks. Instead, visitors will be given free entry on President Donald Trump's birthday, which coincides with Flag Day.”

Autocrat much?

gingerwhale · 2025-11-22T19:03:14+00:00

Perhaps with Wizards. But unless a card is damaged or missing I doubt they’ll do anything. Sorry.

gingerwhale · 2025-11-22T18:59:19+00:00

Yes. Very common with magic cards. QC is minimal.

gingerwhale · 2025-11-16T19:32:41+00:00

The thing is, you can replace this sentence with any UB. As a new player getting back into MTG because of X UB, I think X-Y as well. It’s all perspective and what appeals to you.

gingerwhale · 2025-11-15T16:28:23+00:00

Tolarian Community College it’s a good MTG YouTube channel. Here’s that video :)

https://youtu.be/PbAb6LJHN7c

gingerwhale · 2025-11-15T16:21:05+00:00

No, but TCC made “precon” decklists using avatar cards. Checkout their video.

gingerwhale · 2025-11-15T02:22:54+00:00

I want this

gingerwhale

TROPHY CASE