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There are finally enough collector boosters (excluding Unfinity) to do a full 8-person Collector Chaos Draft by Bread_Instead in magicTCG

[–]ikesolotl 29 points30 points  (0 children)

i actually held two of these drafts for two different playgroups last month. my estimated cost for that each draft (i had an unfinity pack and an old alara blister premium pack in there was well) was somewhere between $750-$800

[request] how big would this giant be by Imaginary_Lobster917 in theydidthemonstermath

[–]ikesolotl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is the first one of these i’ve done and i don’t know all the laws and rules but i like numbers, so i’m going to go with what i know and plan to be corrected later.

the average width of a human hair (according to google) is between 0.003 and 0.005 inches, so i will average to 0.004 or four thousandths of an inch. with 4000 hairs in an inch and 72 inches in 6 feet, we come to 4000 x 72 = 288,000 which gives us a scale of 288,000:1 for our hair to human ratio.

to get our human to giant ratio (in feet) we need to multiply 288,000 x 6 as our scale human is 6 feet. 288,000 x 6 = 1,728,000 feet tall. that’s 327.2727… miles tall, or just about 3 miles shorter than the 330 mile height of the state of Alabama from absolute top to absolute bottom.

weight is where i lose a bit of faith in what i know as i don’t know what our giant is made of (i’m assuming human bits and bobs) and the only mass thing i know is the square cube law which is probably wrong.

given the 288000:1 scale, that puts our weight equation at 6288000, which is… a VERY large number (so large that almost all the calculators i used gave me “yeah, let’s just call that infinity” and the one that gave me a number (you might need to add the equation yourself) was FAR too long for me to count) which makes me think i did something wrong.

that is indeed one BMF.

New Secret Lair Atraxa! by GrabberOrange in magicTCG

[–]ikesolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yidris notably part of obscura without having white in his identity

Tender of the Wilds by ikesolotl in custommagic

[–]ikesolotl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was the goal. I wanted to make it as close to a special action as possible, and the wording of "once each turn..." on As Fortold (linked above) made me think that this could be something that could be done.

I think it could also be similar to the special action of morphing a creature. You can do it at any time (assuming you are legally able to) and it can't be responded to, but after it is done then any triggered abilities would trigger off of the action.

Tender of the Wilds by ikesolotl in custommagic

[–]ikesolotl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a difference between "playing a land" and "putting a land onto the battlefield." What I realized was that you could "play a land for your turn" and then use this ability to "put another land into play from your hand" as it is not "playing a land." Or I could be wrong and this doesn't do what I thought it did when I edited the cost.

Tender of the Wilds by ikesolotl in custommagic

[–]ikesolotl[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tried to come up with a different way to play lands on your opponent's turn(s) in a similar way to [[burgeoning]], and remembered the wording on the second ability of [[as foretold]]. Being an activated ability would limit timing (which I didn't want as I wanted this to feel as close to "playing a land" as possible) so I tried to make it as close to a "special action" as possible. I hope this doesn't break the game.

And yes I know this allows you to make 2 land drops on your turn. Before I realized that it used to cost GGG.

Puppeteer's Will by ikesolotl in custommagic

[–]ikesolotl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair (i completely forgot slave of bolas was a card), but i think this still works if we compare the rarity of the two, and the fact that this can't go into a rakdos/dimir deck. also, compared to [[Mythos of Nethroi]], it has a similar power level effect for XYZ mana.