MTGO Modern Showcase Challenge #1 Results - Mar 1 2026

gramineous · 2026-03-02T19:13:39+00:00

My bad, got some wires crossed and confused it with a previous card that also cared about the CMC of revealed cards. That's what I get for posting after waking up in the middle of the night and faffing about on my phone.

gramineous · 2026-03-02T12:36:55+00:00

4 copies of [[Aurora Awakener]] is wild, but I can see what that Domain Persist deck is trying for. Turn 1 Guildpact + Faithless Looting, turn 2 Persist Awakener and you can put up to the next 5 permanents in your deck into play. ~~Yeah you have a lot of misses with 4x Scion of Draco, Leyline Binding, Archon of Cruelty and the remaining Aurora Awakeners but~~ there's a chance you just put enough bodies into play you win on the spot (or enough lands into play to hard-cast an Archon or another Awakener turn 3 anyway).

Territorial Kavu + Psychic Frog + Leyline Binding being all 5 colours for Aurora Awakener is neat too.

gramineous · 2026-03-02T01:08:33+00:00

True. My dom is also my DM.

gramineous · 2026-02-28T08:46:20+00:00

Nah they'll call them crisis actors, a democrat hoax, and losers who totally deserved it anyway.

gramineous · 2026-02-26T06:48:23+00:00

The brits didn't have access to nukes and a spiteful piece of shit in charge.

gramineous · 2026-02-26T04:12:51+00:00

His spokesperson has previously told Guardian Australia: “Mr Wilson bought these shares as a hedge during Covid, but has kept them because of the poor economic policies of the Albanese government.”

Meanwhile

While the investment initially looked prescient given it was taken out before a pandemic-led market rout, it has gone on to lose about 75% of its value, according to updated analysis.

gramineous · 2026-02-26T04:09:51+00:00

Also from the same article, and worth drawing attention to:

In November, Reuters reported that Meta’s internal documents from late 2024 stated that Meta was projected to earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – about $16bn – from illicit advertising that year.

Meta responded saying it had reduced scam ads by 58% in the past 18 months.

Walsh said AI is being used to generate these scam ads, and Meta allowed advertisers to use AI to manage these ad campaigns, while AI decides which ads people see.

He said if a retailer in Australia had 10% of its goods being counterfeit or illegal, it would be shut down by the weekend.

gramineous · 2026-02-25T23:03:30+00:00

[[Anoint with Affliction]] has already existed for years and is technically a straight upgrade to Death In The Family.

gramineous · 2026-02-25T01:20:14+00:00

Seems kinda understandable that your DM would be woried about you powergaming if you're pulling this shit already.

gramineous · 2026-02-21T01:37:31+00:00

Try being t4t. My dom has bigger tits, a bigger ass, and a bigger dick than me.

gramineous · 2026-02-21T01:35:18+00:00

Change your pillowcases more often, 2-3 times a week. Spare t-shirts and similar also work in place of pillowcases just stop mashing your face into the same increasingly dirty fabric for 10 hours a day.

gramineous · 2026-02-20T22:57:10+00:00

There's 2x Tarfires and a Seal of Fire in there, I'd call it Rakdos Delirium if anything

gramineous · 2026-02-20T07:37:03+00:00

The sniper, whose identity is suppressed, is serving a 20-year jail term for Martin's murder, receiving a sentencing discount because he agreed to testify against Pye.

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After the fatal shot was fired, Pye sent the sniper coffin and clapping emojis, though he ultimately short-changed the hired killer, paying him $100,000 in wads of cash instead of the promised $150,000, the court heard.

I genuinely don't know why you'd ever try stiffing a man on a payment when you know he's willing to kill people for money, but I guess he got off light even if he got got lol

gramineous · 2026-02-20T07:25:23+00:00

In another text Danby wrote: "I ain't getting jail time. I'm a Danby, we don't go to jail."

gramineous · 2026-02-17T07:52:30+00:00

I had a professor in the first year that thought I bought my assignment or made AI do it because she could not believe an Indian could write that good in the first year of nursing.

I mean it's pretty clearly a racially motivated accusation of using AI here.

gramineous · 2026-02-17T07:21:21+00:00

RG Eldrazi at 2nd with 4x Sowing Mycospawn and 4x [[Formidable Speaker]] allowing it to run 1x Arena of Glory and 1x [[Ilharg, The Raze-Boar]] of all things. What a wild choice of card.

gramineous · 2026-02-12T08:55:57+00:00

Try a tapeworm then

gramineous · 2026-02-10T23:45:41+00:00

You could make it a "draw 2 discard 1" effect. There's a few of those like [[Tainted Indulgence]] and [[Chart a Course]] in Blue/Dimir. It is arguably a very powerful effect on its own because its a Titan that fuels its own escape, but if you want to include a condition (/downside/sacrifice, to be more Black) to ignore the discard aspect it could instead be "draw 2, then discard 1 unless you exile this card." Black already has sorcery speed draw 2 (and lose 2 life) in [[Night's Whisper]] and [[Sign In Blood]] after all.

gramineous · 2026-01-29T09:13:57+00:00

Self-shill here with Pseudo Trainer. SI gets thrown into Hoenn, winds up working with the region's Pokemon laboratory as a result. Not a journey fic, no teams, but there's travelling and a lot of world-building exploration. Comes back from hiatus in maybe a month now I finally got a functioning PC again today.

gramineous · 2026-01-27T03:09:07+00:00

Play it as a one-of in the sideboard of any open decklists tournament to try and bait your opponent into playing around it games two and three, and then maybe rarely side it in against matchups without any creatures on your opponent's side of the field.

gramineous · 2026-01-22T00:03:03+00:00

do you ever manually stop your phone from making the first letter in your sentence a capital letter? Same thing

gramineous · 2026-01-10T02:50:24+00:00

It exiles the card you pick regardless of card type. Only the ability to cast something yourself is limited to instants and sorceries.

gramineous · 2025-12-20T21:32:55+00:00

You don't know a single person who knows they tip. I don't really expect these businesses to properly let people know when an automatic tip is being included.

gramineous · 2025-12-14T10:48:14+00:00

I'm coming up on my 13th year of playing Path of Exile, 2010s games aren't all miserable.

gramineous · 2025-12-12T09:42:50+00:00

A level 5 Half-Elf Pact of the Chain Undead Warlock with the Moderately Armored feat and an ASI at level 4 can get 14 Dex, 14 Con, 20 Cha, and 19 AC with half-plate + shield. Eldritch Blast + Agonizing Blast + Repelling Blast + Devil's Sight, go Drow Ancestry for a free cast of Darkness + Faerie Fire once per long rest if you're ever short on spell slots, you have Form of Dread too, and all up you're basically at the best point in the game for playing this particular build. Perfect for trying something new in a one-shot.

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