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  1. Onderzeeboot

    Sets Amonkhet (AKH) Spoilers

    All of this is what I think is amazing about this design. Of course it doesn't make the card any more readable :)
  2. Onderzeeboot

    Sets Amonkhet (AKH) Spoilers

    I like that they updated the creature type of Loyal Retainers to Woman Advisor! Ok, that font is pretty miserable indeed...
  3. Onderzeeboot

    Sets Amonkhet (AKH) Spoilers

    Love it! They're really pushing the limits on these designs. Bet the foils look gorgeous :)
  4. Onderzeeboot

    Sets Amonkhet (AKH) Spoilers

    It's explained in the preview article actually (emphasis mine). "To activate an embalm ability, simply pay the embalm cost and exile the card. You do this any time you could cast a sorcery, meaning during your main phase when nothing else is happening. When the ability resolves, you create a...
  5. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    The problem with electoral reforms is that the ruling party is disincentivized to push for them, knowing they wouldn't have been the ruling party if these reforms had been pushed by the previous ruling party. It's a pity ruling parties can't see the revelatory paradox in that truth.
  6. Onderzeeboot

    General Fight Club

    Here, let me help you. Probe There's a proper kicker cost! I'm not even kidding by the way. Probe is probably better then both of your options if you can kick it.
  7. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    My apologies. It's easy for an outsider to critique the US political system. Please don't think of my opinion on US politics as anything but that, an opinion on US politics. My dislike of the FPTP system and gerrymandering doesn't mean I dislike the US in general, and it's a critique that is...
  8. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    From my Dutch point of view, the real problem in US politics is that the first pass the post voting system and gerrymandering both reinforce the status quo of a two party system. It's very hard for a person like Sanders to rise through the ranks of the big parties, in part because those parties...
  9. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    Uhm... I'm turning 36 this year, my childhood was awesome, I totally have nostalgia for the past at times, and that still didn't turn me into a conservative? I don't think you can reduce the whole progressive / conservative leanings to people's childhoods.
  10. Onderzeeboot

    Sets Amonkhet (AKH) Spoilers

    Actually, WotC stopped adding cards to the Reserved List after Urza's block. Anything from Mercadian Masques forward is guaranteed to *not* be on the Reserved List. Astral Slide (or anything from Onslaught) couldn't be possibly on it.
  11. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    Actually we will. Well... Humankind will. I'm not convinced any "world" war will actually go global, so there's bound to be places where we, humankind, can and will survive. In any case, I think it's far more likely guerilla terrorism will continue to dominate "warfare" for the forseeable...
  12. Onderzeeboot

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    I've got a long-term project for a cube where every player starts with an emblem that reads "Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast." I'm (very) slowly populating it with all manner of commons, uncommons, and even rares, that would be awesome at one mana less, though never (blatantly) breaking...
  13. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    in 50 years some hacker will dig up a copy of Shadowrun and wonder how they were able to so accurately predict the future (he said with a half-smile) Either that or humanity learns that profit is not the holy grail.
  14. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    Yeah, it's been a while they made a Skullclamp-like glaring gaffe :)
  15. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    Sam Stoddard was uncharacteristically frank in his mothership article today, basically admitting Standard is not where they want it to be. Apparently they were unsure though if further banning would have had a net positive effect on Standard, which is why they did nothing instead. That is to...
  16. Onderzeeboot

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    The champion a Demon idea is awesome! They won't always have the Fire//Ice, and if you know they have it, you just keep on making more demons (which should be pretty good against a deck running Fire//Ice I reckon) until you have too many to burn away in response. Go for it! Edit: Except, have...
  17. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    Flipped Chandra is so awesome for the red deck though. It's just more of a puzzle to flip her than the others, save perhaps Liliana (because timing is important there). I really like the sequencing puzzle, trying to trap your opponent into not leaving behind enough defenses, attacking with her...
  18. Onderzeeboot

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    My top 3 so far has been 1. Looter Scooter 2. Cultivator's Caravan 3. Sky Skiff 4. Fleetwheel Cruiser Skysovereign is stupidly pushed and annoying to play against. Renegade Freighter and Untethered Express can run away with Kaladesh block limited games if they want to, but I'ld rather have...
  19. Onderzeeboot

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    I love the concept, but am not in love with the execution. 8/8 trample, flying, haste seems a smidge too good, especially since it can get itself into the graveyard if you're lacking an enabler and actually does something relevant while it resides in said graveyard.
  20. Onderzeeboot

    General Oh god it's my two least favorite topics in magic

    All of them are good enough for the main if the archetype of your deck fits, but I Gideon and Chandra probably see a little less maindeck play than the other three. I've seen all of them flip, but Jace and Nissa are the easiest in a generic deck to trigger. All of them, however, are awesome to...
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