Dies to Removal

i was disappointed to reread the card enough times to realize that there was no interaction with scavenging ooze.

alternately, having a deck with doom blade, ultimate price, far/away, devour flesh, thoughtseize, essence scatter, physic strike, syncopate, cancel, and dimir charm available at baseline is good enough to keep ashiok from getting overrun by watchwolf into loxodon smiter into wurm token into level up watchwolf

it only affects creatures it exiles, meaning it needs to never die or the creatures you're milling are lost forever. against control decks it's nephalia drownyard with a one-time activation cost at sorcery speed with upside and a complete lack of graveyard interaction from your opponents (ooze et al). so it's definitely a card that will see constructed play assuming sideboard slots are necessary for a control deck in standard over the course of its legality, but there are a good many creature beatdown deck shells that are ported over from standard and block that are not going to let it do its thing until the meta isn't just a bunch of people mashing duct-taped old decks against each other.

all of them are not particularly great.

it's great.

and all of them are so on the fringes of playability no one can be happy about them

they made three planeswalkers this set that's so many more than two

real talk: they should have downgraded shivan dragon to uncommon like serra angel and sengir vampire.

also i'm turbo excited they finally spoiled a mythic dragon that may or may not have abilities in its text box i've been waiting for one of those since SHIVAN DRAGON got printed i haven't had a single opportunity to really savor the fantasy flavor native to this fantasy card game.

i really feel like they were scared to death of these bestow cards being undercosted and/or we're not going to see a realistic bestow creature until at least next set when they try to push the envelope of abilities from the first set in any way. 6 mana to give a creature +2/+2 and first strike and leave a 2/2 first strike behind that can be naturalized give me a break

this set has me very excited for limited, which is something i felt with innistrad.

I
was arguing with some users about Theros. Is Theros more like Innistrad or Kamigawa?

Worse than Innistrad by a meter, better than Kamigawa by a mile.

>>worse then innistrad

>>we only seen 33.333333333333333333333333333% of the set

So what? All of the mechanics have already been spoiled. Might as well be 100%.

just wait and see. dont be a tard bro.

They'd have to go pretty overboard to make the mechanics push the envelope. I'm not arguing for flavor. Greek mythology isn't my thing but I think that's likely because college ruined it for me. I don't have any issue with it, but it just isn't my favorite.

they brought back scry what are you sad about

innistrad's flavor is better imo so far.

thrillo what do you th ink abotu the new walker?

i'm sad because we got another "RG this should be the only creature card in your deck" planeswalker

i honestly think it's a "we have to see" even if my gut is screaming that this card is absolute trash and will never see play anywhere.

in an empty room it looks pretty boring and doesn't compare well with domri, who essentially does all of the things you want to get out of a GR planeswalker and for the cost of 3 mana and with an ultimate you actually get something out of once active. it doesn't generate card advantage outside of being a 2/2 generator, and its +1 is blank unless you already have creatures in play, and generally if you
have a bunch of creatures in play when you're casting a 4cc planeswalker that has two mana-generating abilities, most of those 1-3cc creatures likely add mana as well, since this isn't really doing anything for the decks domri fits best into.

but outside of an empty room, it's a card with a +1 ability that adds mana, that creates haste creatures that can block at no cost, but has an ultimate that's all rolling dice and doesn't really mesh with the first two abilities.

gotta get those wisened sage creatures to impart knowledge on young boys if you know what i'm saying

so when do we get the child sodomy cards?

but you take an extra turn every other turn.

it's probably not worse by much if it is worse, but it may not see as much play because there's no restoration angel interaction

White still kind of seems like garbage so far, blue seems pretty awesome, black seems like we're gearing up for something really awesome if these aren't all the good black cards, red has Magma Jet so that's a thing, and I'm not entirely sure Green is a color.

i'm kind of not entirely sure how i feel about this set or if i'm soaking in the flavor i got out of innistrad. it feels a lot more like a rehash of kamigawa than a shot at a second innistrad, in that regard.

i'm kind of excited for a lot of not very interesting cards and/or pretty much all of these cards i like have scry.

i'm a fan of thassa, her bident, gray merchant of asphodel, karametra's acolyte (in limited... it reminds me of a more-explosive rampant growth titan from ROE), gods willing, read the bones, artisan of forms, omenspeaker, thoughtseize and curse of swine. witch's eye and the UW legends also seem pretty cool.

read the bones and omenspeaker are definitely my top two non-reprint favorites, though thassa giving you a 1/3 of phyrexian arena plus other things is pretty cool, especially considering she only costs 3.

plus the new Elspeth might be the best six mana walker yet.

a card that is unlikely to see play is way better than two that have.

if your name isn't on the bill of sale it wasn't sold to you.

every day, a new and interesting development occurs that somehow adds work to moving into this new apartment because why would any of this
very straightforward process actually follow that single straight path

Shit. Try buying and owning a house.

Shit. Try buying and owning a house and getting kicked out of it.

/obligitoryselfloathingpost

you said the house was in her name and paid for by her dad.

You don't read well.

The house was in her and her father's names but he paid nothing. He was just there to sign stuff because we were too young to buy a house at the time.
She always said she'd put the house under my name too when we married but she "never got around to it."
Turns out though she had no legal right to kick me out, but it's a moot point now since I'm gone.

It might be lawyer time soon if I feel spiteful enough.

ok well i got the important part right: the house was in her and her father's name, you didn't buy or own anything

wait you're trying to tell me bikers can't be bronies woah my mind is blown

if you owned the house it would not be in her name and you would not be kicked out of it

every day, a new and interesting development occurs that somehow adds work to moving into this new apartment because why would any of this very straightforward process actually follow that single straight path

Shit. Try buying and owning a house.

Shit. Try buying and owning a house and getting kicked out of it.

/obligitoryselfloathingpost

you said the house was in her name and paid for by her dad.

my roommate tried to use a personal check to cover his part of the rent and although it is often the case that personal checks cannot be used to pay for things like rent, no one laid out for us that this was the case. we had to go to the bank, get him a money order, bring it back, and presumably we were done.

today because the money order was from him instead of me, who is the sole name on the lease, it's being returned so we can put in another money order that has my name on it because for reasons.

every day, a new and interesting development occurs that somehow adds work to moving into this new apartment because why would any of this very straightforward process actually follow that single straight path

Shit. Try buying and owning a house.

have you ever had your money returned to you despite there being no chance for your payment of "bouncing" due to some arbitrary reason and three days before you're supposed to move after having to spend an hour getting that money in order because of another arbitrary distinction

no one knows where the money for this comes from as none of them have jobs and none of them leave the apartment.

they pay upwards of $1900 monthly for this privilege

all of the 2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments house a single person who sits in the middle of the living room with one of those new years horns you blow into with the streamers on the end sitting quietly and blowing into the horn on the hour every hour

it's almost like this realtor and building manager has never had someone rent an apartment with a roommate before

it apparently took 16 hours short of a full week to tell me that the second rent deposit money order needed to be made out in my name instead of my roommate's and that we have to pick up the money order and make a new one out in my name.

every day, a new and interesting development occurs that somehow adds work to moving into this new apartment because why would any of this very straightforward process actually follow that single straight path

I just saw You're Next, movie was awesome

last night i got trashed with friends and watched DC Cab, same.

in fact, if you want to watch the whole mr. t, gary busey escapade, watch it right here!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKf7_UJEFU

like if you have a foreskin i don't judge you for having it and cool on you if sex is better for you because of it (sex is pretty awesome without it so i have no frame of reference) but for people asking people to be more open minded about foreskin they sure don't leave a lot of room for people to be open minded about not having it.

I think we had this discussion and the conclusion was that unless you live in Africa and then everyone should be circumcised at young age you shouldn't do that to your infants, let them choose when they turn up 18.

the data i wound up linking to
was all from rawandan trials and my point insertion into the discussion was that there are populations where it's a potential life saver, so yeah.

I just saw You're Next, movie was awesome

last night i got trashed with friends and watched DC Cab, same.

it's hard to debate someone when you've literally watched doctors present on their findings saying that circumcision has saved lives when the person trying to debate you has no data and tells you that even if what they were claiming wasn't true that it doesn't matter because it feels better.

like if you have a foreskin i don't judge you for having it and cool on you if sex is better for you because of it (sex is pretty awesome without it so i have no frame of reference) but for people asking people to be more open minded about foreskin they sure don't leave a lot of room for people to be open minded about not having it.

i tweeted a friend who was going on an anti-circumcision tangent that lack of a foreskin helps protect against the spread of STDs and was immediately barraged by no fewer than 3 tweets back from both my friend and some person i have no idea who they are about how sad my life must be without a foreskin when all i was trying to say was that having a zealous anti-circumcision attitude can kill people

rude