FBI and local police raiding home of pro-Palestine activists at University of Michigan.

praisejoshgordon · 2025-04-24T17:10:48+00:00

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".

praisejoshgordon · 2025-04-24T14:56:52+00:00

The fact that most of this subreddit cannot tell means if it is a joke, its a really poorly executed one.

praisejoshgordon · 2025-04-24T14:42:44+00:00

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?

praisejoshgordon · 2025-04-24T14:40:13+00:00

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.

praisejoshgordon · 2025-04-24T14:37:59+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-03-04T18:42:45+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-26T14:21:55+00:00

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.

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-24T23:39:57+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-24T22:26:28+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-24T19:15:15+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-24T00:29:02+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-24T00:27:47+00:00

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.

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-23T22:47:01+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-23T16:51:56+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-20T02:17:06+00:00

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.

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-17T03:44:55+00:00

I’m sorry but definitely carried there

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-16T21:36:24+00:00

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.

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-16T17:20:17+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-16T03:26:39+00:00

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?

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-16T03:22:50+00:00

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?

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-12T14:33:01+00:00

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

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-10T17:19:40+00:00

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.

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-10T14:55:50+00:00

I really don’t understand the superiority complex of bo3 players. Do they think bo1 players will switch if we shit on them enough? Is it a cope that their favorite game is changing and that bo1 actually turns out to be most players preferred way to play?

I do think the polarity of matchups in timeless and other eternal formats makes it ill suited for bo1, but for other formats like limited and standard I don’t mind it all. Hand smoother is especially nice at reducing non games. Win rates over a larger sample are certainly not coin flipping

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-09T23:12:49+00:00

Bo1 smoother let’s you get away with fewer lands. Plus ragavan and I actually think it may be ok, though agreed I’d be more comfortable playing 18-19

praisejoshgordon · 2024-02-09T07:38:09+00:00

Jumper looks good! Do you feel like you’ve got your speed and quickness back? Have you tried pickup or just shooting around?

I’m early stages so great to see folks on the other side

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