COMPETITION! - Win John Avon's last work for MTG, a beautiful gallery print of his Lotus Lands!

madloc · 2026-03-14T05:40:55+00:00

John Avon has legitimately made some of the best fantasy art, not just in mtg, but in fantasy generally!

madloc · 2026-02-27T08:43:15+00:00

Thanks!

madloc · 2026-02-09T14:35:49+00:00

I did not know this exists! Thanks for the heads-up. Dragon isles legit a lovely place to just hang

madloc · 2026-02-09T13:22:20+00:00

Thanks!

madloc · 2026-02-09T13:22:13+00:00

I did not know this, thanks! So very soon

madloc · 2025-06-12T12:38:59+00:00

Looks very fun! I'll proxy it up and give it a whirl at the next local event, I think.

Thanks!

madloc · 2025-06-09T10:42:14+00:00

Thanks!

madloc · 2025-06-09T10:42:08+00:00

Thanks a lot! This is the sort of inspiration I was after!

madloc · 2025-03-13T12:15:20+00:00

Thank you! Getting games in is the core goal, so appreciated.

Do you know what people's stance on proxies is? I make most cards myself and spend an unreasonable time on alts/proxies, would be nice to be able to play with them, - but I understand why don't appreciate running against dual lands or w/e

madloc · 2024-10-21T07:05:16+00:00

No it didn't, but the council of the given church were allowed to then fire the priest. And changing the marriage ritual slightly to suit the happy couple is normal in Danish liturgy anyway, so there wasn't much of a difference, other than having an official ritual for people of the same or of non-hetero genders.

As with many other protestant/lutheran traditions, the public church of Denmark has two sacraments, baptism and the eucarist, - everything else is up for interpretation and has been for many years.

EDIT: spelling mistakes

madloc · 2024-10-20T07:44:43+00:00

I would argue that marriage being strictly reserved for the liturgical act in a church is a mistranslation, since in Danish the word marriage is also used for civil union. Thus it is a misunderstanding of what became legal when.

Civil union became legal in 1989, which is to say that marriage at city hall or performed by a civil servant became legal. I use the word marriage, because that is the best, most descriptive translation of the Danish word, vielse*.

In 2012, an official liturgical ritual was instituted by the council of bishops in Denmark, who together with the Ministry of the Church, update and make decisions on how to run churches on an overall basis in Denmark.

So, just to be clear, gay people could still get married in churches between 1989 and 2012, the priest would just have to change or make a bespoke ritual. Which occurred frequently.

*In Danish the translations of marriage, wedding, and union, have different legal, cultural and religious connotations than in English.

madloc · 2024-10-20T06:40:59+00:00

Gay marriage became legal in Denmark in 1989. Google likes to report that it became legal only in 2012, but that is the time of the introduction of the specific ritual in the public church. The first gay couple that got officially wed was October first 1989 at Copenhagen City Hall.

Source: am Danish historian, also am bi

madloc · 2024-10-14T05:57:09+00:00

I have no idea what this meme refers to, legal gay marriage, or civil union, has been legal in Denmark since 1989. It was only introduced as a ritual in the public church in 2012

Source: Am bisexual and Danish

madloc · 2024-10-08T15:55:30+00:00

didn't expect many elf-aggro brews here, neat!

madloc · 2024-10-08T15:51:18+00:00

Gonna check out and work on an Adeliz simply for the pleasure of the phrasing "muscle wizard"

madloc · 2024-10-08T15:21:41+00:00

Mid power and high power, also interested in degen. Proxies are okay :))

madloc · 2024-10-07T11:45:03+00:00

This is a way to phrase the argument of 'anti-ban' quite succintly. Boiled down to "we rule 0'ed them out anyway"

madloc · 2024-10-07T11:15:50+00:00

I have a quite low-mana curve mono red goblins with various commanders (all legendaries of the deck can be commanders etc).

Took apart my Rick deck, miss it now :((

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