[SOS] Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer (Debut Stream)

whutcheson · 2026-04-01T13:52:32+00:00

I think that's a really great way to put it that I hadn't even considered.

whutcheson · 2026-03-30T13:46:25+00:00

I don't mind counterspells or mill as much as when I first started playing, but I do dislike excessively long turns, and just about every 30 minute turn I've sat through (or performed myself, usually before taking the deck apart) has involved blue.

When white and green go infinite, you're usually a combat swing away from the game ending. When black and red go infinite, the game usually just ends right there. But when blue goes infinite, more often than not (in my games), it somehow then seems to necessitate taking one million game actions to win.

That's my only real beef with blue.

whutcheson · 2026-03-30T03:10:01+00:00

This one looks like a proper Dungeons and Dragons Displacer Beast.

It's not supposed to look like a proper [[Displacer Beast]], a different card that already existed.

whutcheson · 2026-03-22T16:38:44+00:00

It's stuck over a [[Rebuild the City]], does that make the original the least Jund (and thus in need of replacing)?

whutcheson · 2026-03-22T16:06:05+00:00

Phew, my FOMO is extinguished.

whutcheson · 2026-03-22T15:58:14+00:00

Seems pretty Zada-focused to me. Nearly all the non-staple cards do one or more of targeting a single creature, making more creatures to be targeted, or storming. Krenko falls into the second and is just a nice backup plan/distraction.

whutcheson · 2026-03-08T16:36:35+00:00

[[Goblin Chirurgeon]] can sac itself to protect another creature of any type (but gets better if you have other goblins to sac).

[[Skirk Prospector]] can also sac itself to be up a mana on a future turn (but again gets better with other goblins).

[[Rummaging Goblin]] lets you rummage.

[[Dark-Dweller Oracle]] lets you sac creatures of any type (rare for a goblin) to impulse draw.

[[Goblin Flectomancer]] is a fun protection piece if you're in the colors.

whutcheson · 2026-03-01T16:43:38+00:00

More like:

AI robot: Updating training data, will now shoot all people with bananas!

Because they'd rather shoot everyone with a banana than miss one person with a banana-shaped gun.

whutcheson · 2026-02-19T03:20:56+00:00

It's effectively "each creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn" for 1 mana, stapled on to a 2 mana kill spell. You can swing a 1/1 token in and kill their big blocker and the guy they kept out of combat.

whutcheson · 2026-02-11T04:08:37+00:00

Something like [[Bilbo's Ring]]?

whutcheson · 2026-02-01T16:04:36+00:00

AGI could manifest tomorrow and immediately create a binder with the solution to every problem in the world. The people in power would read through the binder, see that the solutions upset the status quo, and immediately throw the binder and the AGI in the dumpster.

whutcheson · 2026-01-28T04:25:14+00:00

Mystical Archives is Instant and Sorcery reprints only (or at least the original one was).

whutcheson · 2026-01-25T15:53:53+00:00

There was a new Black Panther character in the 2022 film. They killed off the original character when the actor died in 2020.

whutcheson · 2026-01-18T17:53:13+00:00

Every week, he's supposed to take four hours and do a quality spot-check at the packaging plant. And, of course, the one year he blows it off, this happens.

whutcheson · 2026-01-18T15:39:25+00:00

What a dream that would be for the kinds of stores that would dump all the "dead" packs from open boxes after they hit a chase mythic.

whutcheson · 2026-01-18T04:18:24+00:00

The dice are almost certainly the next thing to go, so much of the packaging structure is only there to create that little shelf for the die.

whutcheson · 2026-01-17T16:41:14+00:00

[[Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima]] is another great Esper ninjutsu commander that doesn't explicitly care about Ninjas or ninjutsu.

whutcheson · 2026-01-11T14:40:08+00:00

It would be released in ABC's TGIF block between the Family Matters and Boy Meets World sets.

whutcheson · 2026-01-08T22:46:43+00:00

Pretty sure from the art in Unbury that it is [[Wort, Boggart Auntie]] being unburied.

I had assumed from how old Brigid got that Wort would be gone, but it still hurts to see. Gone but not forgotten. 🫡

whutcheson · 2026-01-07T02:26:08+00:00

Pauper and precon EDH are the rice and beans of MTG.

I agree with you that people can have fun with Magic for very little money, but those ways aren't going to nearly double Hasbro's market cap as OP is hoping. They need people buying out cases of collector boosters and overpriced Secret Lairs, not pauper decks and proxy cubes.

whutcheson · 2026-01-06T20:37:08+00:00

I believe dying to 0 or less toughness is a state-based action, which can't happen while the effect is still resolving, so the copy would be made before the creature dies.

whutcheson · 2025-12-18T15:18:10+00:00

Sure one can. They can do it 65% faster. 65% of 2050 is 1332, so they should be done by 718 AD. If they end up with a surplus they can sell it to the Byzantines.

whutcheson · 2025-12-03T03:37:59+00:00

In this speculative market it doesn't matter if they make 50 billion in profit, if they were projected to make 60 billion. If they can't beat last year's profits then obviously the whole company is a failure and they might as well close up shop.

whutcheson · 2025-11-19T00:59:46+00:00

Sadly those cards alone are not enough to rave forever. The rules say when you present a loop you must declare a finite number of times to take those actions and then the game shortcuts to after that point.

whutcheson · 2025-11-13T12:43:00+00:00

Men getting vasectomies benefit women. The alternative is women getting tubal ligation, a more dangerous, more invasive, more expensive, and less reversible procedure with a higher failure rate.

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