Won my first MTGO game with this deck yesterday. WOuld love some insight from all you pro's! THinking treasure cruise and dig through time could possible be replaced...
What makes American hegemony better than Russian hegemony? Human rights violations? Like our backing of Central American death squads in the 80's? Our backing of Saddam Hussien during his atrocities? Our backing of Columbian cartels during fumigation campaigns? I just don't see the moral authority we have. Every single campaign we have waged since world war 2 has been shady at best.
Dude. Have you been paying any attention at all to what Russia is doing? Not in the 1980s, but right freaking now?
Yes and it's very concerning. But we need to learn from our past mistakes unless we want to continue making them. If we want to lead the world we need to emulate what we preach, otherwise, we have no moral claim to righteousness. If we want to disregard the our allies in our quest for power, then we are no better than the Russians. If we instigate in response to Russia instigating than we are just going to get sucked back into a Cold War. I feel we need new ideas when it comes to foriegn policy.
What do we make of the whole "Russia" angle present in this election?
Things to know about russia first...
They've become expansionist, aggresively so, in the last few decades. (Georgia, Ukraine)
They idolize Putin, a former high ranking USSR official, who is down right authoritarian
They are basically a state run oil company, and they're hurting from the oil crash right now.
GW Bush stepped up tensions by deploying new missile defense systems in NATO countries closer to Russia
Obama has done little to earn Russian respect or block Russian aggression; it's not the kind of man that he is.
Russia's main block to hegemony is and has been the U.S. to the point of cold war and the threat of nuclear Armageddon.
So, when we talk about relations between the U.S. and Russia, it's the kind of serious business that you can't sneeze at. It's a yard stick to measure the response of people who wish to lead our country. Now, were the Russian stance right now not so aggressive, I wouldn't say that. But, they commonly violate the borders of their neighboring countries, they aren't pro democracy, and they aren't extremely picky about the freedoms or rights of individuals. The thing is, they're not the kind of country that would "join the Federation," if you take my meaning. But, there's certainly a worldview, a non-interventionist one, that says let Russia be Russia, it's not our problem if they aren't messing with us.
Then you look at our presidential race and you have wonder. Trump has made several positive statements about Putin, about letting Russia be Russia, about how we'll be great friends with Russia when he's president. And that might be ok for the U.S. but it wouldn't necessarily be ok in the long run or ok for the nations that border Russia. Having Russia as an ally is good, potentially, but at the cost of many human rights concerns; and is a potential security risk. Is Russia's aggression limited to just reacquiring former USSR states? Is this just practice for a larger event?
And now there are rumblings that the hacking of the DNC, and leaking of DNC e-mails is something the Russians are directly responsible for, that they are meddling in our election to get Drump into the presidency who will be friendly to them. It's clear they have an interest in it. Trump has recently refused to say that he'll back up NATO countries if they are attacked by Russia; which is something that was previously unquestioned. This is something the hawkish Russians most desperately want if they are to increase their scope of power.
So, basically, on top of this whole Trump is an awful candidate for president thing that's going on, we now also have global political intrigue to deal with. That's to say, that if you didn't think the presidency mattered, you may learn why, this year, that it does as the president leads on foreign policy and ultimately determines who is and is not our friend in the world.
You have to remember. Whoever you vote for, you are giving him or her the codes to our nukes. That person is responsible, ultimeatly for keeping you safe and not dooming us all to hell. My views on Trump are clear. Everything about the man is unfit for leadership in my eyes. But on this issue alone, could we even pretend to risk it? Have we come this far that we'd be willing to vote on Roulette wheel for whether we make it another decade? Russian roulette, no less.
The gun is loaded. And it's not clear at all if any of the chambers are empty.
What makes American hegemony better than Russian hegemony? Human rights violations? Like our backing of Central American death squads in the 80's? Our backing of Saddam Hussien during his atrocities? Our backing of Columbian cartels during fumigation campaigns? I just don't see the moral authority we have. Every single campaign we have waged since world war 2 has been shady at best.
Trying to build a mid range multiplayer for when a couple friends visit from hawaii. They run creature decks. My friends like to talk up there decks but truth be told they don't know the rules to well. So Im wanting to build an aggro'ish control deck that shows cool interaction with the stack but doesn't just completely crush them with a turn 3 combo.
There is far to much homosexuality (incoming ban) in this thread. People dont like women in magic?!?! <Gayyyyyy...> i hands down lose to a pair of nice tits. Our lgs in Santa Cruz has some good looking girls that play Magic. I throw away every game. I have a beautiful girl i go home to every night... but... i always make a girl happy by losing (if she does not win on her own anyways) , just for the chan e that she bounces up and down in glee.
I hardly think that was necessary. Warning issued.
-Memnarch
Mythic Games in Santa Cruz!
1. Fair deals on cards. TCG mid is what's used.
2. Rueban the owner is an awesome guy who is always happy to see you. He runs a clean shop that is just a fun place to hang out. T.V. and coaches. He goes to the YMCA to teach kids how to play magic and even has a females night.
3. ... I don't know
I have not had a game like that. The worst I got was the whole ”you mad bro" thing. Which i reply with "...?" And that usually ends there failed attempt at being clever.
Hi Im 28 and play a card game designed for young adults. I refuse to have strong opinions on anything to do with said game... That's because I'd rather not be deemed as "the weirdo that is 28 and gets emotional about a card game that's designed for young adults"
Net deck or don't, but for the sake of all of us more socially "comfortable" people, don't put weirdo energy into it... It makes the rest of us look bad.
1 Arcanis, the Omnipotent
Creatures
1 Gilded Drake
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Trinket Mage
1 Echo Mage
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Archaeomancer
1 Clever Impersonator
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Body Double
1 Mulldrifter
1 Ixodron
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Palinchron
1 Ulamog, the infinite Gyre
Artifacts
1 TOrmod's Crypt
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Extraplanar Len's
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Temple Bell
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Caged Sun
1 Propaganda
1 Rhystic Study
1 Pemmin's Aura
1 Mind Over Matter
Planeswalker's
1 Jace, the Mind Sculpter
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
Instants
1 Pact of Negation
1 Brainstorm
1 High Tide
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Swan Song
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 COunterspell
1 Mana Drain
1 Twincast
1 Long Term Plans
1 Capsize
1 Dissipate
1 Forbid
1 Hinder
1 Spell crumple
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Cryptic Command
1 Evacuation
1 Force of Will
1 Dig through Time
1 Stroke of Genius
1 BLue Sun's Zenith
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Rite of Replication
1 Bribery
1 Capture of Jingzhou
1 Temporal Manipulation
1 Time Warp
1 Treasure Cruise
Lands
23 Islands
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Academy Ruins
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Minamo, school at waters edge
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Seat of Synod
1 Strip Mine
Won my first MTGO game with this deck yesterday. WOuld love some insight from all you pro's! THinking treasure cruise and dig through time could possible be replaced...
Cards Im looking into
1 Grim Monolith
1 Bassalt Monolith
1 Power Artifact
1 Ethereal Usher
1 Maze of Ith
1 Tolaria West
1 Intuition
1 Misdirection
Yes and it's very concerning. But we need to learn from our past mistakes unless we want to continue making them. If we want to lead the world we need to emulate what we preach, otherwise, we have no moral claim to righteousness. If we want to disregard the our allies in our quest for power, then we are no better than the Russians. If we instigate in response to Russia instigating than we are just going to get sucked back into a Cold War. I feel we need new ideas when it comes to foriegn policy.
What makes American hegemony better than Russian hegemony? Human rights violations? Like our backing of Central American death squads in the 80's? Our backing of Saddam Hussien during his atrocities? Our backing of Columbian cartels during fumigation campaigns? I just don't see the moral authority we have. Every single campaign we have waged since world war 2 has been shady at best.
04 Coiling Oracle
02 Qasali Pridemage
04 Nulltread Gargantuan
04 Eternal Witness
04 Fiend Hunter
02 Acidic Slime
01 Mystic Snake
01 Magus of the Disk
01 Consecrated Sphinx
01 Sun Titan
04 Swords to Plowshares
04 Mana Leak
04 Beast Within
Trying to build a mid range multiplayer for when a couple friends visit from hawaii. They run creature decks. My friends like to talk up there decks but truth be told they don't know the rules to well. So Im wanting to build an aggro'ish control deck that shows cool interaction with the stack but doesn't just completely crush them with a turn 3 combo.
thinking of adding reviellark
please shoot me some ideas!
I hardly think that was necessary. Warning issued.
-Memnarch
1. Fair deals on cards. TCG mid is what's used.
2. Rueban the owner is an awesome guy who is always happy to see you. He runs a clean shop that is just a fun place to hang out. T.V. and coaches. He goes to the YMCA to teach kids how to play magic and even has a females night.
3. ... I don't know
Deck: 2533fuhu
OK let me be more to the point.
You = weirdo... Stop it.
Better?
Flame/troll warning issued.
-Memnarch
Net deck or don't, but for the sake of all of us more socially "comfortable" people, don't put weirdo energy into it... It makes the rest of us look bad.