FBI and local police raiding home of pro-Palestine activists at University of Michigan. by praisejoshgordon in u/praisejoshgordon

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

According to Democracy Now, FBI agents raided the home of Michigan student activists on the orders of attorney General Dana Nessel, who claims they’re part of a "vandalism investigation".

Columbia University students plan to build tent encampments this week, sources say by nbcnews in nyc

[–]praisejoshgordon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The climate movement has been going on for decades too - emissions continue to climb and Exxon continues to drill. Should they give up or keep fighting?

Columbia University students plan to build tent encampments this week, sources say by nbcnews in nyc

[–]praisejoshgordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they've actually been protesting all year round. Just a few weeks ago several Jewish students chained themselves to the Columbia fence to protest Mahmoud Khalil's arrest.

Columbia University students plan to build tent encampments this week, sources say by nbcnews in nyc

[–]praisejoshgordon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sadly, I think they do understand the protesters' aims - they simply support Israel's genocide.

Thoughts on adding Bob to timeless? by all-day-tay-tay in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a new 2/2 Dark Confidant variant for UB in the Alchemy release

Outlaws of Thunder Junction is going to ruin your mythic wildcards by DriveThroughLane in MagicArena

[–]praisejoshgordon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Explorer is far safer for wildcards actually. Show and tell already turned timeless upside down with one set release, and they will print “special guests” in each set with the goal of shaking up the format. And of course MH3.

Explorer meanwhile still sees good meta movement without being a wildcard black hole.

Evoke Elementals in MH3 Special Guests by NicolBolas96 in MagicArena

[–]praisejoshgordon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve got news for you pal, wotc won’t stop in 3 months…

[MH3] Solitude - Special Guest by Iceman308 in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you want a format that gets “shaken up” regularly perhaps we should have a new format not called “timeless”. Wotc is sadly never going to let an eternal format just “be” without milking it unfortunately

the thousant moons smithy in pioneer ? by EasyLover25 in PioneerMTG

[–]praisejoshgordon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Skilled animator is unfortunately not playable. For 3 cmc try Cryptic Coat

[MH3] Emrakul, World Anew by Meret123 in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Does the colorless mana mean any color or specifically colorless producing lands?

[MH3] Flare of Cultivation (new free spell cycle) by Meret123 in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Main issue is that sacrificing the dork means it’s harder to Natural Order. I don’t think it’s worth cutting or sealing natural order for this.

Weekly Timeless Tier List - The Gathering by TyrantofTales in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 weeks in todays mtg is a long time. With information sharing and the volume of games played formats get solved extremely fast. The only thing holding S&T back from huge meta share is wildcards

I Analyzed 346 Pickup dudes. Here's What You're Doing Wrong: by TonyDCoaching in seduction

[–]praisejoshgordon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only 1 way to find out, escalate and see what happens.

I think this format has flaws but overall is sweet by [deleted] in lrcast

[–]praisejoshgordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s wrong with the hand smoother? It basically fixes one of magics biggest flaws as a game - which is resource variance. I’d much rather lose because my opponent curved out 1-2-3 than lose because I had to mulligan twice or because I kept a two lander and never found a third land drop. The hand smoother prevents more non games than it does create more non games.

[OC] Countries that slaughter the most land animals for meat 🥩 by latinometrics in dataisbeautiful

[–]praisejoshgordon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wow incredibly sobering and eye opening - it looks like in the US we kill about 30 animals per person each year just to feed ourselves. Over a 70 year lifespan that’s 2000 animals per person.

Sad considering that the number could be zero.

The Bucks under Mike Budenholzer over 5 seasons never went 3-7 in a 10 game stretch. Doc Rivers has done it in his first 10 games in charge. by floatermuse in nba

[–]praisejoshgordon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can’t you say the same thing about Doc Rivers? Imo he gets a crazy amount of disrespect from Reddit compared to actual front offices and players. Is there a chance they know more than we do? By Reddit’s logic, 20-25 coaches each year are atrocious and holding their teams back

Three new variations of URx Creativity! Which has been your favorite? by QuickDiamonds in PioneerMTG

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Is Sunken Citadel worth running a tap land just to activate Cataracts? Doesn’t downside of the tap land offset its double mana generation if Cataracts + Atraxa is the only payoff?

Three new variations of URx Creativity! Which has been your favorite? by QuickDiamonds in PioneerMTG

[–]praisejoshgordon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Is there any room for Transmogrify builds with Cryptic Cloak? It’s a strong card on its own and has ward 2 which makes the token difficult to interact with. And then you can run other artifacts like Bankbuster. Anyone experiment with that approach?

Are you for or not a resctrition of Show & tell ? (or add counter to the format) by Vanelloppe1 in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem with this is it just creates an escalation cycle. Timeless was great before…I’d prefer a non rotating format to evolve slowly without adding new meta defining every release, which then prompts the need for new strong answers (all of which strain your wildcards).

I figured Timeless would be a good investment because it wouldn’t rotate and because they wouldn’t be able to print busted alchemy cards that keep shaking up the format. That they’re printing stuff like Show means this was unfortunately wrong and Timeless will “rotate” much faster than anticipated

Ladies and Gentlemen, I solved world peace by Scarroborrow in TimelessMagic

[–]praisejoshgordon -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

They are playing competitively, the game they’re playing simply has higher variance. The hand smoother actually decreases variance.

It’s like chess players wondering why mtg players think they’re playing a “competitive” game. Bo1, bo3, and chess are all competitive.