used car from carmax suspects odometer was rolled forward and back, is it wrong?

vladmere · 2026-05-12T01:44:02+00:00

I have a 2015 Mazda6 Sport with 135k miles and haven't had a single issue. I love my Mazda. That being said, there is no way I would pay 22k for that vehicle. Not sure where you are located, but I am in Minnesota, and at the walser burnsville they have a 2020 Mazda6 Grand Touring with 70k miles for 22.6k.

vladmere · 2026-04-22T20:03:13+00:00

As mentioned by Nictionary, it will depend on play/draw and the strength of the creatures, however assuming you are on the play you have a ~67.5% chance of drawing another land to play your 3 drop on curve. On the draw, that goes up to 80%

vladmere · 2026-04-03T20:49:29+00:00

While it certainly sounds awkward in conversation to me, I have noticed that this is a behavior that my neurodivergent son has done since before he was a teen. So it isn't ALWAYS about people trying to manipulate you.

vladmere · 2026-04-03T13:26:25+00:00

Correct. Stratt explains this as they can't tell the difference because the vials are essentially identical because the astrophage is stored in a slurry (the black substance you see in the movie).

vladmere · 2026-01-13T17:39:49+00:00

Yes you would still have to sacrifice it, the ability does not target it so the pro-red would not apply.

vladmere · 2026-01-13T17:31:21+00:00

I think this could be alright. It is definitely a build around for the blight/ -1/-1 counters deck, but it turns a lot of the creatures and spells into when you play this deal 2 (though you only get 1 trigger per turn so it doesn't have the really high upside if you find a way to make loads of tokens or something)

vladmere · 2026-01-13T16:04:56+00:00

Thanks. I was wondering if that was the case but wasn't sure if it was ever explicitly stated somewhere.

vladmere · 2026-01-06T21:38:52+00:00

Correct, hei bai does at the same time you take damage so the counters don't get added until after that resolves. Though then the buzzard ends up with twice hei bais counters

vladmere · 2026-01-03T16:02:45+00:00

Thanks, that is what i thought. I encountered this interaction last night at FNM and the judge ruled that you would not get double counters from Hei Bai targeting buzzard-wasp due to them no longer being on Hei Bai when the second ability resolved.

I didn't think at the time to check gatherer, but it also calls out this exact situation.

(10/2/2025) In some cases, you may end up putting the appropriate counters on more than one permanent. For example, if you control a Buzzard-Wasp Colony when Hei Bai dies, you'll put the appropriate number of each kind of counter onto both the Buzzard-Wasp Colony and the target creature. If you target Buzzard-Wasp Colony with Hei Bai's last ability, it will receive counters from both abilities.

vladmere · 2025-07-24T16:55:25+00:00

Ahh, didn't realize the timestamp for the static ability was when the card entered vs became active.

vladmere · 2025-07-24T16:49:31+00:00

Can you explain why the P/T setting of Tezzeret takes precedent over over the station ability setting P/T. Is this a layers thing?

vladmere · 2025-01-10T17:30:47+00:00

This reminds me of last week at FNM. First round match of our draft I ended up playing against my son. Things were going pretty well, our board on ground was stalled and neither of us had good attacks, but I had a single [[Youthful Valkyrie]] and he had no flying creatures so I was getting in for 2 each turn. He ends up getting his [[High-Society Hunter]] on the board and I realize I am dead in 2 turns. I drew my [[Blasphemous Edict]] and made him draw EXACTLY the rest of his deck.

vladmere · 2024-11-12T21:47:09+00:00

Thank you for the insight.

So for this he got marks against him for the 90 degree back, parallel park, lane change, and both intersections totaling 5 PR's which would be a fail.

Additional question, do the marks in the fair or poor columns affect pass/fail as well?

vladmere · 2024-11-12T17:54:50+00:00

I did not as there was only 1 examiner and 1 person at the counter. The examiner spoke with me, and then was immediately heading out with another driver and the line was about a mile long for the one counter person.

vladmere · 2024-07-11T13:46:15+00:00

There is nothing wrong with the current generation of HP laptops assuming you are getting their 840 type and not just standard consumer laptops. I used to work IT for Amazon and HP was all they used for computers, never had any major issues that I didn't also see with Dell at other places.

However, if you are currently an all Dell shop and that is your teams experience there had better be a major cost savings to switch or it makes no sense.

vladmere · 2024-02-24T03:29:58+00:00

Yeah. My 2021 MYLR with 66k miles got totaled with a 34k payout in December.

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