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Feb 9, 2014melkor7 posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite card is Goblin Welder. There is just so much interesting stuff that you can do with that guy.Posted in: Announcements
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Apr 25, 2011melkor7 posted a message on Merieke Ri Berit - All she wants is more.I think you should upgrade Puppeteer to Fatestitcher.Posted in: trancer99 Blog
Reasoning: It is slightly more expensive to cast, but the tap/untap ability is 1 mana cheaper. Also, it can hit permanents besides creatures, which may come in useful. Finally, it can recur itself if need be. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
I agree with the other posters, in that I don't see what black has to offer besides tutors (remember that Izzet can have a tough time dealing with some permanents enchantments mainly [black doesn't really help with that], and creatures [black of course helps there].)
Theme: Mono-Black big mana
Win-Cons: Mana doublers and Coffers for big mill/faerie beatdown or huge Exsanguinate
General: Nin, the Pain Artist
Theme: Artifacts!
Win-cons: Mycosynth Lattice + Vandalblast. Mycosynth Lattice + Darksteel Forge + Sweeper. Empyrial Plate Beatdown. Psychosis Crawler + Nin. Goblin Welder shenanigans.
General: Omnath, Locus of Mana
Theme: Elves!
Win-cons: Gaea's Cradle. Genesis Wave. Overrun effects.
I haven't played it yet but Space Alert looks like an awesome co-op game.
Descent is almost co-op (1 DM player vs the heroes).
Last Night on Earth - kind of co-op (you play on teams)
Momir-Vig with Color hacking cards. Anything with color-hacking cards really. Like, Tibor and Lumia combined with Gravity Sphere and can trips. Add in stuff like Repercussion or Charisma and go nuts.
Also, Izzet spellslinging can be a lot of fun, check out Bob's Tibor and Lumia thread for some ideas. Also, Riku spell splinger can be quite insane.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-mccutcheon-and-the-future-of-campaign-finance-regulation/#more-207528
From NYT editorial board:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/opinion/the-campaign-finance-ruling-helps-big-donors.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0
From NYT's David Brooks:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/opinion/brooks-party-all-the-time.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
So what do you guys and gals think? I, in typical me fashion, was skeptical of this decision at first, but Brooks' op-ed piece made me question my assumptions. I agree with some of Brooks' premises, but disagree that this decision helps. In my opinion, as long as financial contributions are considered "speech", we will have problems with out democracy. Not necessarily extreme problems, just that, at the very least our democratic process would be more democratic if campaign donations were not considered "speech".
Thoughts?
A public figure made a donation to a public and controversial cause, it created bad press, therefore his company (who he represents) pressured him to resign.
Would you be comfortable with Fox canning O'Reilly for making anti-Semitic donations because of the bad press that said donations generated? Probably not.
Would you be comfortable with Viacom canning Colbert for making anti-Semitic donations because of the bad press that said donations generated? Probably not.
If according to the SCOTUS, political donations are a manifestation of speech, then what is the issue here? Free speech doesn't guarantee the absence of negative consequences. If I tell the woman interviewing me that she is an idiot, I don't get the job. If I make public donations to a controversial cause, I may lose my job due to the backlash.
It is not the state, or the "thought police", or even massive corporations out to get you, just cultural opinion manifesting itself.
Edit: And furthermore, I think that arguing about the cultural thought police makes evident your conservatism (I want things to stay the same!), as in: "My opinion is unpopular, so I invoke Orwell to scare people about questioning things that I see as self-evident".
Also: I don't really see what's up for debate here: Mozilla's actions towards it's CEO or the public's outcry at CEO's political "speech"? Remember that free speech goes both ways, and that people really like to whip out the Malleus Maleficarum when something bothers them.
Some of my favorite red cards:
Winds of Change on turn 1. Can really wreck people who rely too much on generous mulligan rules to sculpt perfect opening hands. You can make enemies really easily with this.
Wheel of Fortune, who said that red can't draw?
Mana Echoes can get really insane, note that it triggers for any creature entering the battlefield (can be useful at times).
Braid of Fire Free mana!
Mycosynth Lattice and/or Liquimetal Coating - so great with stuff like Vandalblast, Shattering Spree, Viashino Heretic, Shattering Pulse, etc.
Goblin Welder - amazing card, can target opponents' stuff (to screw them over or politics) or recur crazy stuff like Memory Jar. Especially awesome with Liquimetal Coating to get rid of pesky permanents.
So yea, Red is fun.
It seems like you get into things like crazy. A word of caution about thinking of something like the guitar as a harmless side hobby which will replace a destructive/waste of time hobby/non-social with the family hobby like MTG. You can get crazy with the guitar (I've seen it with my dad): buying more and more equipment to get "the perfect tone" or practicing scales and songs over and over and over and over until you get them just right. Trust me on this one, it is not a very social hobby, nobody practices an instrument with other people. It is something you do alone (no distractions) and often. So don't think that MTG, being an ultra competitive game, is necessarily the source of your trouble, it could be your competitive nature, and replacing one hobby for another may not fix what you're looking at fixing (from what I gather: more time with the fam, less time feeling bad about what you're doing). I'm not saying don't get into learning the guitar, but that it can be competitive for some people.
PS: Please build a cube (even if its Peasant or Pauper), then you can treat MTG as a board game. Something with a high level of variance and strategy, that you play for a night with friends or family and then shelve it until the next "board game night".