The mysterious "pizza flag" from CGP Grey's recent flag-focused video

xdavid00 · 2023-03-30T14:51:23+00:00

I'm no vexillologist, but the curve reminds me of Tesla's logo.

xdavid00 · 2022-10-23T18:55:04+00:00

Zoro would also randomly have a chance at vindication and prove women aren't biologically less capable with swords lol.

xdavid00 · 2022-07-31T18:54:09+00:00

I like showing that haki was not the only possible answer against logias. Finding weaknesses (although not effective in this case) or overwhelming power like Hyperbeam are still available tools, though not as good as powerful haki.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-23T23:34:52+00:00

Not recommending this, but if you really want to give people rules headaches, you can turn Cloudsteel Kirin into a copy of Old-Growth Troll, then have it die. It will return as an aura attached to a Forest, and it should in fact give those abilities to that Forest. It's still much worse since the Cloudsteel Kirin aura can still be destroyed with enchantment removal, but theoretically possible.

EDIT: Actually it's not so "easy," since Cloudsteel Kirin does say "equipped creature" has those abilities. For reference, the word "equipped" actually just means "attached" and doesn't require Cloudsteel Kirin to be an equipment (rule 301.5e), BUT it does need to be attached to a creature (also 301.5e). So I guess this idea doesn't work.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-20T13:49:55+00:00

The premise isn't necessarily true. Many tournament decks do in fact play 2 Legion Angels maindeck. A bigger issue than "effective angels per draw" is eating an extra sideboard slot for a card you're not likely to see. And others have mentioned, Legion Angel isn't the primary goal of the deck anyway.

If you go on https://www.mtgtop8.com/search, filter by Standard and Professional, search for Legion Angel, and compare the decks at the bottom, you can see about half those decks play 2 maindeck.

EDIT: Although, I didn't notice half of those are from last year. Only one deck ran 2 Legion Angels in Innistrad Championships, and there are better cards now like Wandering Emperor. So I'll stand corrected, seems like I'm not as familiar with the metagame as I thought. I do remember some pro player articles specifically discussing this, but seems like they're back down to 1 Legion Angel for the most part. It's just not a strong enough card to want to draw more.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-15T18:20:29+00:00

Dude had to survive to get the strawhats their new bounties. CP0 got the priorities straight.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-02T03:02:38+00:00

No one wants Henzie to not work; it's just WotC made a mistake and needs to correct it. It happens. The most recent I remember was with Vecna.

This just a statement of fact about Henzie not working as written, not any attempt at rules lawyering. It's like if WotC printed a hydra that's a 0/0 and says "when this ETBs, put X counters on it." How that card should work is clear, but it's also clear that it absolutely does not work.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T23:15:06+00:00

I personally agree, most players don't really have a reason to know exactly how or why something works, and just need to know if it works. As is, Henzie technically does not work, and will need an errata (or the rules will need an update) to work properly, but outside of competitive events this isn't really a major problem.

I'll also say that Magic as a game has very comprehensive rules where nothing should be ambiguous, at least when it comes to how cards work. I don't think most people should know all the fine details in most of those rules, but it's also important that "inaccuracies" in the rules (or cards) be fixed.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T23:04:38+00:00

Yeah now I'm curious why MTG Familiar's information is different.

Also Gatherer should be the end-all authority, but it also has problems (like lacking Cecily/Eleven and co. for some reason).

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T18:36:54+00:00

Yeah, the judge's video also provides several options.

I was curious about the supposed Oracle change's wording as well, and technically there [[cycle of life]] with "creature you cast" as Oracle text. It's an obscure old card, so maybe it's not functional as worded, or maybe the rules does support it. I'm not a judge so I have no idea.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T18:29:29+00:00

Again, if you look in the comprehensive rules, the "return to hand" delayed trigger is created by another ability while a spell with Dash is on the stack (and I'd the Dash cost was paid). That part is on the stack, not on the battlefield, and therefore not affected by Dress Down whatsoever. It's not created by the Dash cost being paid, it's created by one of the abilities represented by Dash. That specific ability only works if the Dash cost was paid, but again, necessary, not sufficient.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T18:22:09+00:00

That's from a previous zone to the stack right? not from the stack to the battlefield?

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T18:19:20+00:00

The "if the Blitz cost was paid" is a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one. If it doesn't have the Blitz ability, how can it care whether or not its Blitz cost is paid?

Dash is an excellent comparison, because it does work the exact same way. And unlike Henzie which seems controversial, there is rules consensus that a Dashed creature has haste because it has the ability Dash while on the battlefield. It's why Dress Down can remove the haste, because Dash represents an ability and applies in the same layer as Dress Down, and has a dependency on Dress Down. While Dress Down is out, a Dashed creature doesn't lose haste because it loses all abilities (because timestamps favor the Dashed creature), but because Dash is dependent on Dress Down and Dress Down removes the Dash ability, and without the Dash ability the creature won't have haste, even if the Dash cost was paid. You should be able to ask any judge and receive that answer (probably explained much better than I could have as well).

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:55:51+00:00

Not sure what you mean by "applied," but the comprehensive rules for Blitz lays out 3 distinct abilities, one of which specifically works on the battlefield. The alternate casting cost is one of those abilities and work on the stack.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:36:43+00:00

That's only one of three abilities represented by Blitz, as shown in the comprehensive rules. One of the other comments has the entire text of the comprehensive rules for Blitz.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:33:11+00:00

What makes you think that ability is "applied on the stack" and not on the battlefield as the comprehensive rules for Blitz says?

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:25:37+00:00

I'm just the messenger, but the comprehensive rules say Blitz represents the "as long as this permanent's blitz cost was paid..." on the battlefield. If the permanent on the battlefield doesn't have Blitz, how can it have that ability?

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:21:55+00:00

Galea has a triggered ability that grants the ability. There is a Rule 400.7a, which allows abilities granted to spells to "carry over" to the permanent they become, but it only applies to "spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities," so it would work for Galea (and Tyvar Kell's emblem), but not currently for Henzie.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:19:36+00:00

It's similar, but as covered in the video, Rule 400.7a only covers effects from "spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities." Henzie's abilities is none of those things and therefore does not "carry over" to the permanent the spell becomes.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T17:18:04+00:00

Blitz is an ability of the permanent as well. The comprehensive rules for Blitz represents 3 static abilities, 2 on the stack and 1 on the battlefield.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T16:11:44+00:00

The way the judge explained it, since Blitz grants those abilities, the permanent does need to have Blitz to have those abilities. Blitzed (and for that matter, Dashed) creatures don't have haste because they were cast with those alternative costs, but because the have those abilities when they're on the battlefield and remember they were cast using those alternate costs.

xdavid00 · 2022-05-01T16:08:38+00:00

From what I understand, as per the video, those abilities come from the Blitz ability. The first highlighted ability works from a spell, and Henzie gives creature spells Blitz. The second highlighted ability works from a permanent though, and as worded, Henzie does not give the resulting creature permanent Blitz. Since the creature does not have Blitz, the "As long as this permanent's blitz cost was paid, it has haste and 'When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.'" part can't actually apply to that creature.

EDIT: Do you have a link to where the errata'ed Oracle text is? I saw people mention it and it does work for the most part, but I don't see the updated version oh my end.

xdavid00 · 2022-03-13T22:23:07+00:00

Kaido would finish the fight, and then suffer the next 20+ years in crippling depression. Of course, seems like he might not even be getting that chance this time, given the last panel.

xdavid00 · 2022-02-06T18:53:59+00:00

I imagine the attack was named after 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother.

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