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"Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as in an infantile piece of science fiction." —Marshall McLuhan after reading contempo flavor text

Ohhhh yeah Jesse. He's a talented writer and an acute cultural observer but! Blinded to his own faults and those of his friends—for that is a side effect, if not the chief purpose, of all this identity stuff, at least as conceptualized by WotC. Check this out. Great hatchet job! Except ...

Here's some more ash barrens edge of autumn grave upheaval ancient excavation migratory route scion of darkness starstorm sylvan reclamation secluded steppe forgotten cave tranquil thicket barren moor lonely sandbar

from a few years ago: (+ cycle lands and w/e else comes out) akroma's vengeance cloud of faeries complicate decree of justice eternal dragon expunge blast from the past krosan tusker miscalculation living death radiant's judgment twisted abomination slice and dice unearth

Don't we have a cycling thread?

Welp I never thought my third-grade Egyptian art project would see the light of day but thanks to Magic...

"If I come into the world again I want to come with your colour," Bobby tells a Zulu man who he tries to proposition. The Zulu spits in his face, and it is as if, symbolically, Bobby has sought to be humiliated in this way. Aygirlay didja see my fanfic on Alesha and wanna play some Magical cards

Well of course Canada has always been about the appearance of cleanliness rather than actual infallibility. It's one of two Western countries to treat their native population worse than the US of A and man how they HATE being judged—it must be the world capital of self-righteousness and passive...

I like these for the same reason I like Patrick Rothfuss, viz. if someone says that they like them I can safely write them off as a human

Ahada: cycles = Vico. Similar to how when you take the deriv of the sine ... My generation is better than boomers but man I don't have much hope of us changing anything. Very quickly we are losing our youthful dopeness and descending into bourgeois norms. The cutoff for people turning from...

Yes, I think of my relatives on my mom's side, working-class (salesman) stock whom I've overheard bitching about "flamers" and "Chinese" but there's no way they'd dare be cruel to anyone's face, they'd just try to sell them some Cokes or an AC unit. Whenever we have it out about these topics we...

AFAIK millennials have little interest in fixing it. I have a lot of faith in the next generation but a lot of this might be the schism between growing up in Seattle and being sheltered by the corporate BS and then being an adult here and living at its whim—accentuated by my job as a tutor and...

Rhymes with "womb soccer"

These would fit super-well in a garbage draft format and given how fun of a format that is we should have more discussion on it Not backdraft but maybe that's fun too?

Storytime? Storytime!

Well, for starters, literally every investment bank ...

Expecting that anything will be solved is delusional, though, and caused a lot of stress in my life, so if I can keep y'all from wasting your hopes and dreams on Wizards of the Coast (or anyone whose living depends on them) then I will feel good about myself Here's what it's like to work...

OK, OK, all of us are pretty privileged here since we play(ed) an expensive-ass conspicuously-consumptive commodity-fetishizing pseudo-investment hobbyist card game. I guess the depressing thing is that a lot of poorer people spend huge amounts of money on it (lol @ the video footage of Reid...

oh COME ON man they suck at what they do and a million people could do it better it's a defensible position when it comes to things like Goldman Sachs where there is no (or negative) social utility to doing it better or when no one naturally wants to do it better but this is MAGICAL CARDS

Yeah those cards are all pretty good Who knows, there were balance issues well before this. No one wanted Skullclamp (or JTMS) to be the face of the franchise ... Big changes in Organized MTG coming up soon