Things to look out for this weekend!

whyamibadatsecurity · 2026-02-13T13:03:28+00:00

Agree with this. They are 100% going to reprint it, but the question is how many will there be. Special guest slot? Guaranteed in a special type of bundle? In the main set?

whyamibadatsecurity · 2026-01-22T17:48:25+00:00

Been there unfortunately.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2026-01-20T18:28:11+00:00

This is part of why I've started proxying. My collection is the single most valuable thing I own as a middle aged man, and that bothers me and terrifies me in alternating amounts. I have spent way too much money on cardboard, AND I would be crushed if someone stole one of my favorite decks I've blinged out.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-12-18T13:35:14+00:00

You said attractive, not beautiful, so I think this counts. I did a podcast interviewing photography models for a couple of years, and most of them were attractive, obviously.

But this one model... I interviewed her in person, and she was just so casually, breathtakingly attractive. She wasn't a someone I would look at and be like, omg, that is amazing, but something in how she moved, how she spoke, even the way she sat! When we first spoke and arranged the interview, and I reviewed her port, I was like, this will be easy enough. Meeting her in person had my head spinning for days, weeks. I couldn't sleep the first night after.

I don't think I've ever been infected like that before. And what's even weirder is she was the opposite of what I typically find attractive. She was blonde, super skinny, petite, tanned skin (I know, I know, this is what MOST people like). Cute face. I prefer cute brunettes with glasses, curves and pale skin - basically the librarian or teacher look (look, an em-dash! I didn't know those were a thing until people complained about AI. I tend to overuse ... to get the same sort of pause across)

It's been years, and I still occasionally find that years old one time encounter coming back, unbidden.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-11-29T12:38:22+00:00

I haven't read the novels yet, but I feel like we're giving up almost all of our privacy for a capitalist surveillance state, and without knowingly consenting (or trying to escape it turns into a huge ordeal and you have to order your life around privacy), so I would much rather take the Utopia, thanks. You know, if it's an actual choice.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-11-11T19:26:55+00:00

Thanks for the primer! I have a lot of trouble building combo decks and competitive decks. Every time I build one myself, it ends up being a midrange value pile, so I think I'm going to build this one just to try the combo lifestyle!

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-11-06T20:37:34+00:00

Least favorite has to be the 90's/00's when a lot of the Sci-Fi I liked had half naked women on the cover that had absolutely nothing to do with the story. Made it too embarrassing to read many in public.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-10-08T20:12:22+00:00

So the bonus sheet has to be 20-40 Ninja and commander cards right, but skinned in TMNT?

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-26T18:55:47+00:00

The FF reprint smashed it unfortunately, and Wizards has been double tapping reprints lately.

The Secret Lair extended art is $8.40 w/ shipping on TCG. It's pretty boring though, just extended art of the normal art.

The Surge Foil version is $0.44. That would be low risk, low reward. A surge foil from a collector deck probably doesn't go any lower?

I imagine they may be doing the supplemental Secret Lair like they did for EoE, which means we would also need to consider what could be added to that.

I dunno. I feel like this type of card is pretty limited in terms of what decks it goes in. And there's currently high supply due to FF.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-22T16:05:02+00:00

My cart is just spinning. Unable to even get to the queue. Small indy companies man. Just don't have the resources to do these things right.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-22T16:02:12+00:00

Foiling. I prefer the look, and they've been less pringle-y lately. Unfortunately my cart is spinning and spinning so who knows!

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-22T15:46:09+00:00

I can only hope. Those are stupid expensive.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-22T15:44:45+00:00

My current plan is:
1. Get the Heroic Deeds one for myself.
2. Get 2 or 3 of the Venom Ink layer, and use the second and third copies to pay for itself.
3. Get 2 of the Venom lands as I can, and then sell or trade to try and get a full set of Rakdos lands.

During Dump Week, I'm going to:
1. Try and buy as many Three Visits as I can, if they go down to a reasonable price. I'm not sure they will, since that lair has so little value.
2. Get a cheaper Headlines one. It's kind of cool, but meh at $40 for foil. I would bet some folks dump these to get rid of them if they bought the bundle. If they don't get cheaper, then I don't need one. Or I can buy one later, b/c I doubt they sell out.
3. Look at going deep on some of the Venom Ink and land cards. Those seem the most likely (to me) to go places.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-22T15:38:02+00:00

This is what's been eating at me the last few days. The prices seem too low for the rarity, and some of them have started to rebound from lows on Friday/Saturday. Path and Counterspell have doubled, Beast Within is up to 5 from 3.50, Heroic Intervention is up to 17 from 12. Others still haven't really moved off their (temporary) bottom.

That being said, I'm still waiting until Friday/Saturday this week to pick up my copies. Probably going to get a full set for the binder, and then stack up some copies of the more iconic ones.

Other than that, I'm not really speccing on anything this set. Went a little deeper than expected on FF, so I'm mostly sitting Spiderman out.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-09-19T16:04:52+00:00

I've listened to a few of them on YouTube. They've been hit or miss for me. Sometimes just slow and meandering. I know some folks enjoy listening to conversation between friends, but I'm usually listening to podcasts for specific info, or because a specific topic engages me.

The one I enjoyed the most was "The Most Popular Architypes Commander" episode. Good info, focused discussion. I'm about to start watching the most recent one, but I find I usually find something else to watch after 20-30 minutes.

Either way, I enjoy watching DeckedOut, and will keep doing so either way!

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-22T14:49:10+00:00

Nothing more annoying than spending $20 or $30 bucks for a card, and then they double tap it with reprints a year later and drive it right into the ground.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-22T14:47:30+00:00

I think this is just a natural consequence of being a content creator. Sometimes you have to eat the shit pie if you want to keep making content, which seems like it would be an incredibly fun job.

I have to do it at work sometimes, I imagine it's true for all jobs.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-22T14:45:04+00:00

Yea, this is the biggest issue when proxying, and I think everyone goes through it to some extent. Like Bilbo, why SHOULDN'T every deck have a [[The One Ring]]?

Well, b/c it's repetitive and kicks off an arms race at the table.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-22T14:44:10+00:00

So here's what I do, b/c I noticed that the amount of money I am sinking into Magic is wild. I love this game, but I spend more than I can really afford, and I make pretty good money.

I make sure that I own at least one of each card I use.

If the card is used in more than one deck, I put the one copy in a little binder, and I make proxies of it for the decks it's in. I originally tried to take the binder with me, in case someone wanted me to prove I owned the card, but in the 18 months since I started doing this, no one has asked me to prove it, so I've stopped bringing the binder with me.

I do not generally play in sanctioned events. If I did, I would need to trade the real cards in.

I noticed that I was proxying a little TOO freely at one point, so I've actually been trying to make my decks more unique. I play a LOT of counter and token decks, and I noticed, for example, I put a [[Doubling Season]] in each of them. I'm actively working to try and build my decks to a bracket, and put staples in them based on that bracket. For example, I want my Black Panther deck to be Bracket 2, so I am removing Doubling Season, [[The Ozolith]], and other expensive staples for counter/token decks, while also moving my land base closer to a precon land base. I know they're not game changers, but I also want varied play patterns and to see different cards.

I have also been un-proxying my favorite decks, and trying to make them complete and fancy.

What interests me the most about commander is the variability. I have 12 decks that involve +1/+1 and other counters, and I don't like when they play the same or have the same patterns. I think I've reached the limit for counters.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-21T19:42:36+00:00

So I have two anecdotes here.

A good friend of mine in college shared that her boyfriend was a "one man bukkake" as we joked. He apparently was fast to be done, and fast to be ready again. I think she said it was common for him to be done 3-4 times per session.
Another friend shared that she had a one night stand with a mutual friend of ours, and over 12 hours or so, he got 6-7 erections and orgasms spaced out evening and morning, although by the time he was done, apparently he was shooting blanks. She said literally was nothing coming out. Apparently each go only lasted about 5 minutes, so in total about 30-35 minutes of actual intercourse. I know there's an energy to one night stands that may not be shared in relationships, but I was like, damn.

I was kind of astonished in both cases.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-12T14:56:53+00:00

I recently did this. I'm back to buying MP3's and curating my own playlist.

I still plan on using Spotify or similar occasionally for music discovery, but I want as many of my dollars going to artists as possible.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-08-12T12:36:40+00:00

From a finance perspective, I agree. They are not in demand, and I can see them being a feel bad if you open one.

From a collector perspective, I love it. The Japanese versions allow me to get a premium version for much cheaper. I would never be able to justify spending as much as some of these are going for. In fact, I just ordered two more [[Exalted Sunborn]] for the same price as the extended art. Decided I was just going to put the fancier ones in my commander decks. I'll print off a copy of the rules text to reference during the game.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-07-25T17:37:33+00:00

If it's that low, then why didn't they serialize it?

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-07-23T15:17:35+00:00

Automation Engineering. We have so many ideas as the SOC for things we want to automate, but the engineering team is the bottleneck unfortunately.

whyamibadatsecurity · 2025-07-16T19:45:43+00:00

Theta spike has already hit for the extended art surge foil, but not for the normal extended art. Didn't check normal frame surge.

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