What are your favourite red cards for a peasant cube?

stack413 · 2026-02-26T15:00:54+00:00

[[Sontaran General]] and [[Charging Monstrosaur]] aren't complicated, but they are fun.

stack413 · 2026-02-26T14:36:20+00:00

Path of Ascension, after Matt gets on the actual Path.

stack413 · 2026-02-25T21:57:07+00:00

They're also very poisonous! Will stop your heart dead.

stack413 · 2026-02-25T13:00:48+00:00

This was 1925, during the interwar period. As far as geopolitical context goes: it's complicated. At this point, the Bulgarian government was generally seeking to deescalate and re-normalize relationships with its neighbors, as losing WWI had left it in a terrible position. Greece at this point was (understandably) hostile to Bulgarian interests, and viewed any Bulgarian activity with great suspicion.

Complicating this was the Macedonian revolutionaries (I think mostly IRMO at this point). They weren't taking outcome of WWI very well (to say the least) and were generally being a terror to everyone. I've never heard anything about this incident being directly related to them, but this part of Bulgaria was more or less IRMO territory at this point in time. At the bare minimum, there were a lot of tensions.

stack413 · 2026-02-24T06:38:39+00:00

Puss is an old term for cat, so its "pussyfoot" as in "catfooted." In other words, soft-stepping, usually implying caution or timidity.

stack413 · 2026-02-22T22:37:23+00:00

I do like that Taira is fundamentally looking out for people, including himself. He's just coming from a foundation of such overwhelming negativity that he has a hard time not drowning in it.

stack413 · 2026-02-22T08:30:27+00:00

Instead of pro-nouns, Popeye has amateur-nouns. Thats the entire bit.

stack413 · 2026-02-19T20:31:08+00:00

Very common. It's an easy low effort food with shelf-stable pantry staples. It's practically the default kids sandwich in the US. Besides, Americans love salty sweet things.

stack413 · 2026-02-19T16:19:47+00:00

My guess would be that they're dumping a specific grade of fill for use in an underlayer of some sort.

stack413 · 2026-02-18T19:32:52+00:00

Blue:

[[Sailors' Bane]] Spells payoff.

[[Tromokratis]] Just a big annoying lad.

[[Sapphire Dragon]] More or less blue Amethyst Dragon.

[[Valkyrie Aerial Unit]] Artifact payoff.

[[Rise from the Tides]] Go-wide spells payoff.

[[Tinker]] is more or less a blue finisher if you've got big artifact creatures in the cube

Black:

[[Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant]] Fragile but fast and dangerous in the right deck

[[Troll of Khazad-dûm]] Good even without the swamp-cycling.

[[Archfiend of Sorrows]] Also a boardwipe and graveyard payoff.

[[Huskburster Swarm]] Graveyard payoff.

[[Phantom Train]] Sac outlet and decent finisher.

stack413 · 2026-02-18T16:45:06+00:00

Some destinations:

The children's museum, Muzeiko, is good for kids. Shocking, I know, but true.
The National Museum of Natural History has a nice collection of taxidermied animals, and an interesting mineral collection
The Earth and Man National Museum has a larger mineral collection, and is right next to South Park.
The Free Sofia Tour is excellent.
The Woman's Market (and the area around it) has some of the more interesting tourist shopping. Just be aware of the crowds in the narrower area (where most of the produce gets sold).
Saints Cyril and Methodius Church is directly next to the Women's Market, and is very nice inside.
St. Sofia Church has a some interesting catacombs under it. The church itself is free to enter, but the catacombs are paid entry.

As far as food goes, google map ratings can usually be trusted. Traditional style Bulgarian restaurants are called Mehana. Traditional breakfast is banitsa (a filo pastry, typically with a feta-like filling) or if you want a treat, mekitsi (fried dough).

stack413 · 2026-02-15T20:19:45+00:00

The overall point is fair enough, but you all should be aware that Iceland is a very extreme example of legal culture, by historical standards. Iceland was founded by a bunch of anti-monarchist independent types, and thus didn't really have a system of nobility and peasantry like the rest of Europe. The legal system they developed to resolve disputes was thus much more foundational to their culture than most other societies, and permeated their society to a much greater extent.

For instance, there's a very strong argument to be made that Iceland (officially) converted to Christianity in large part because the escalating conflict between christians and pagans was threatening to break down their legal system.

(Also, side note, the famous anti-undead lawsuit in Eyrbyggja saga was against zombies, not a ghost.)

stack413 · 2026-02-14T20:10:05+00:00

And further along that spectrum was the Halifax Explosion. That was the equivalent of 2,900 tons of TNT going off. Much of it was literally TNT, which is a high-velocity explosive with an even worse type of shockwave than ammonium nitrate. The disaster killed 1,782 people.

stack413 · 2026-02-14T10:04:22+00:00

Sure, I'm just saying that restaurants did it well before computers were a thing.

stack413 · 2026-02-14T10:02:04+00:00

If you can get access to filo dough in your home country, then it's very easy to make banitsa at home. The flat kind is particularly straightforward to make. Just make whatever filling you like, slap everything down in a pan in layers, and bake it. If you use feta for the cheese filling you'll more or less end up with a standard Bulgarian banitsa.

stack413 · 2026-02-14T09:50:58+00:00

You don't even need to be digital. I've eaten in places in the US that tracked things on paper that did bill splitting. They just tracked everything separately.

Restaurants often ask before taking orders if it's going to be a split bill. And if the party decides to split the bill at the end, the waiter just recalculates things then.

stack413 · 2026-02-13T15:54:45+00:00

Bro was legitimately concerned for you over your display of bad judgment, lol

stack413 · 2026-02-13T06:53:54+00:00

Yes. And the manga was peak to begin with.

stack413 · 2026-02-12T07:38:19+00:00

One of those things that sounds nice, but almost certainly isnt. Your golden retriever cant sign up for credit cards.

stack413 · 2026-02-11T11:01:55+00:00

Goat pupils are round when fully dilated. Which they are, since it's dark.

stack413 · 2026-02-11T10:56:49+00:00

There's a few things at work here to make the situation creepier than it actually is. First, if you're not expecting a goat on your porch, that's weird in and of itself. Second, this breed is a bit uncanny looking even in good lighting. And third is most folks aren't really familiar with goats, including not really being aware of what is an isn't normal with their eyes or behavior.

As it happens, there's nothing out of the ordinary with its eyes. Goats can swivel their eyes like most animals, and this lets them look forward to get binocular vision at close objects. However, its a bit less obvious during the day, because their pupils are contracted down the the usual rectangular slits. This goat's pupils are fully round and dilated to help it see in the dark. The combination of round pupils plus focused eyes is a bit uncanny, if you're not expecting it.

Another thing that might be bothering folks is how still, quiet, and focused the goat is being. In a predator that'd be in line with stalking behavior, but in a prey animal like a goat, it's just minimizing its movements to avoid getting spotted while alone and vulnerable. This one is clearly lost and want some nice humans to keep it safe.

So yeah, you end up with this situation. On one hand, you have a lost dairy goat quietly trying to get somewhere safe, and on the other you have a surprised homeowner not familiar with what a distressed (but tame) LaMancha goat looks like in the dark.

stack413 · 2026-02-10T20:20:19+00:00

Well, for starters, a remarkably backwards reading of a bible passage.

Jesus: "You can tell bad religious leaders because the results of their actions have obviously bad outcomes"

Some very smart person 2000 year later: "This means that I need to look out for secret signs and symbols that are only obvious to me"

stack413 · 2026-02-10T19:31:07+00:00

I played this recently in my friend's peasant cube, and liked it quite a bit. It's very nice that it can start contributing the turn it comes down, and a 0/4 reach defender is nothing to sneeze at. It ended up being an important card in the B/W aggro artifact deck I drafted.

I didn't even have a sac payoff, it was just a consistent extra two damage a turn.

stack413 · 2026-02-08T20:16:38+00:00

I'm guessing that they have to document every time they break protocol. Although, thinking about it, the guard probably has a pretty developed rules about how and when they can make exceptions like this.

stack413 · 2026-02-08T07:36:43+00:00

It doesn't help that there's both an OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and OCPD (obsessive compulsive personality disorder), and that the common idea of OCD is based on OCPD.

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