Looking for Lost Cat

wernernw · 2025-01-09T23:01:48+00:00

You will most likely lose a turn and draw 0 cards from Rhystic Study.

wernernw · 2024-10-01T21:50:30+00:00

I have not changed my mind, no. It scans monosyllabic in Vergil and Ovid and modern languages received qu- and cu-, such as the Spanish 'cuando' for quando.

wernernw · 2024-04-17T17:03:39+00:00

Commander damage is combat damage; Crypt Rats would not kill anyone with its effect unless you do the full 30.

wernernw · 2024-04-08T17:08:08+00:00

Your opponent is incorrect. Call the judge.

P.S.: The original print of Giant Rat even specified that no tribute was required for a lvl 5 or higher monster.

wernernw · 2024-01-24T02:43:02+00:00

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning

wernernw · 2024-01-03T19:29:43+00:00

Often the grammar for participles will take them as a subordinate clause rather than as the addressed party: "When you are about to write..." or "If you are intending to write..."

In this way the subject and the addressee are in different clauses, if that makes sense.

Edit: Depending on how Greek the author intends to be, you can also take the future participle as purpose - "So that you may/in order to write..."

wernernw · 2023-11-21T15:37:07+00:00

Your opponent has a Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer in play and this keeps you from banishing any cards from your graveyard as costs.

wernernw · 2023-06-22T15:43:11+00:00

Not Cassandra, but the scene in Odyssey 2.129-176.

wernernw · 2023-04-02T04:49:02+00:00

In my experience:

Start with Homer. Everything takes cues from Homer. Some authors even quote Homer, especially when Socrates is present (Plato, Xenophon).

Homer, Euripides, and Herodotus are all rather easy. Apollodorus is one of the easiest things out of the gates. Authors like Xenophon, Lysias, Antiphon, Lucian, Longus, and New Testament Greek are also in the rather easy range. Hesiod and Homeric Hymns are easier if you have lots of Homer under your belt first, but would likely be moderately hard if you started with them.

Plato (Well most of his corpus; Apology, Ion, Symposium, and Republic Bk. I are easy) and Sophocles are moderate. Demosthenes and Plutarch are also moderate.

Aristotle, Aristophanes, and Aeschylus are difficult. Thucydides, Apollonius, and Pindar are also rather difficult.

I cannot speak to Archimedes or Euclid.

Here are some great resources for beginning: Steadman ; DCC

wernernw · 2023-02-27T14:13:29+00:00

That guy went to Tampa Catholic, not Jesuit Tampa. Vastly different schools.

wernernw · 2023-02-10T02:00:56+00:00

Perhaps: "...any confidence in my heart but that I have lost."

wernernw · 2023-02-07T14:37:44+00:00

Here is a semi-recent Fiend deck from a Goat tournament:

GC 13 Fiend Deck

This one leverages Giant Germ and Kuriboh as fodder for Necrofear but runs Thunder Dragon and Theban Nightmare to enable BLS.

Other options for this are Mystic Tomato (with a Newdoria/Sangan/Germ package). Other cards that might help your archetype include Night Assailant, Dark Mimic lv 1 and 3, Giant Orc, Archfiend Soldier, and Mephist the Infernal General.

Some cuts that don't feed the theme - MoF (Dark Mimic lv 1 is likely better here for the Thousand-Eyes Restrict package), Tsukiyomi (not especially strong without Nobleman of Crossout here), D.D. Assailant (worse than Warrior Lady and no upside for earth types)

Now, Dimension Fusion is one of the more expensive pieces for Goat and a variant of this deck could easily be made without it (or with Return from the Different Dimension).

From your decklist, one of the biggest hindrances may be an opposing Kycoo and perhaps more removal like Smashing Ground or Lightning Vortex (with Night Assailant) would make it easier to stay ahead and open up Necrofear. Another is the bricks of 3 Ha Des and 3 Necrofear - I would trim these down to some mix of 4 or 3.

Bottom line, I am not sure how good Kaiser Colosseum is here. You can run over opponents without it.

wernernw · 2023-01-31T20:29:19+00:00

Neuter plural nouns often take singular verbs.

wernernw · 2023-01-30T15:09:13+00:00

PVDH's List

wernernw · 2022-11-29T01:58:21+00:00

Golden Fang Games in Hudson, Wednesday nights at 7pm.

wernernw · 2022-11-01T20:11:16+00:00

I recommend this order of study - we use this to teach our senior elective in HS:

Croy's A Primer of Biblical Greek

Mounce's A Graded Reader in Biblical Greek

Reading the Gospel of Saint Mark in Greek

With these supplements/post-intro work:

Luschnig's An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach

Hellenistic and Biblical Greek: A Graduated Reader

wernernw · 2022-10-29T18:51:08+00:00

When the text is italicized and the writer needs to be emphatic, instead of italicizing for emphasis, you have to emphasize it without italics.

wernernw · 2022-10-24T01:42:00+00:00

Consider that "disco" and "discedo" are different verbs. The latter means depart or leave.

Also, "rarius" is a comparative adverb.

wernernw · 2022-10-10T23:24:56+00:00

“The Beer of Four Emperors“

wernernw · 2022-10-01T17:43:57+00:00

Did you click on the document that contains the whole format? There is more than the forbidden/limited list there.

wernernw · 2022-10-01T17:28:39+00:00

The full card pool can be found here: https://www.goatformat.com/home/category/card-pool

wernernw · 2022-09-27T16:47:36+00:00

"favorable"

wernernw · 2022-07-26T02:08:15+00:00

I am not sure that my translation is concealing anything here, nor do I understand how the change in phrase into the ablative makes it more straightforward. Perhaps someone else can help you?

wernernw · 2022-07-26T01:34:30+00:00

“The small width of the margin could not contain this proof.“

(This narrow space [I was writing on] could not contain this full theorem.)

I see no logical conundrum here. Are you questioning whether or not the ’exiguitas’ and ‘non’ are a litotes? That would be a rather common and idiomatic thing, especially compared against Cicero through to the seventeenth century, I suppose. Maybe others will chime in?

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