I also like that even if your deck will never animate a land, its still a *mostly* a better Rogues Passage but not *strictly* better since you cant make another players creature unblockable.

Really good design all round

Everytime i rewatch avatar im always surprised by how long it takes before Toph is introduced.

Like, nearly half the show doesnt have Toph in it.

Sure makes path to exile feel great if youve got both on board.

I hope its something like Steven, and it holds no significance except for the fact that its his fuckin dead name and people keep trying to figure it out.

And frankly, regardless of colour pie: "blue cant do that" is demonstrably untrue if a mono blue deck can do the thing with blue mana produced entirely.

Im not a proponent of... fundamentalist colourpie-ism, I guess

Right but im arguing that doesnt actually matter: colour pie has always been a design philosophy and not a game system rule.

Its entirely true that black couldnt destroy enchantments, its entirely true that was a deliberate part of the colour pie and its entirely true that neither is true anymore.

Yeah: im laughing.

the Dragula doesnt even HAVE a back seat.

*That* motherfucker was in the Munster Koach.

In commander, not only can you not splash for a 15c disenchant, but theres 3 times as many opponents who can turn your deck off with a single rest in piece.

In 2025 the colour pie really needs to be approached as the thing colours excel at, not what they're totally restricted by.

To be fair, in commander, it literally doesnt.

The design functionality of the colour pie has, baked into it, the assumption that anyone can splash for other colours.

So like, in 60 card formats its perfectly okay if mono black gets wrecked by a popular enchantment, they can splash for an answer

World Championships of Warhammer has lost me due to them still being held in the US, and I hoped more people had joined the boycott, due to how the current US regime makes travelling to WCW risky for players representing marginalised groups. Though I've heard some murmurs about 2026 changing venues.

I mean even ignoring the fact that theyre all from a subgenre that peaked in the first half of the decade, theres... uh...

theres no women in any of those bands.

Oh, you actually cant: they lack the higher conciousness to understand the complexities of human speech, reasoning, conceptualisation of cause and effect, long term planning, those kinda things.

They cant even beat pokemon on a game boy, a thing our children can do.

He sure can

I miss the creepy uncle Delaques

(And the Barbecue dad Van Saars)

Im not sure anyone is, but frankly if a lot of it looks like *this* in the future, that might be great.

I... just dont understand how the other part also got in there? The people curating *these results* should not be *able* to look at the screenshot treatment and find them acceptable?

Im not sure anyone is, but frankly if a lot of it looks like *this* in the future, that might be great.

I... just dont understand how the other part also got in there? The people curating *these results* should not be *able* to look at the screenshot treatment and find them acceptable?

Its gorgeously presented, lovingly rendered, the characters are given great respect and reverance, the card mechanics are fun on the ONE actual card, which itself is flavourful and characterful....

How can the two things be SO FAR apart

It gets worse! Here's another card, which they also made a whole presentation scene for.

Only ONE of these is a usable card, the other FIVE CARDS are *just* window dressing for it when its on display.

Theres FIVE FULL CARDS worth of art that ARE NOT CARDS for *each* of the display box editions!

No! That's the weird part! They reprinted a handful of cards they already had on file as a screenshots, then made a whole set of original cards, and then gave THOSE cards special treatments, that get to look like this:

It looks *unexplainably* bad.

They knocked everything else out of the park, and then reprints look *so* much worse that i find it hard to believe the same art/creative directors could have made them that bad.

Even their lowest possible effort *should* be better.

Good lord... if they did that they could... print powerful chase cards at mythic, something the current hybrid rules is... I guess... preventing... somehow?

(Which is weird because I swear I saw a mythic monoblack mana rock recently, with 5 more to come... )

Especially since... surely the way it could possibly hurt new players is... the same way extort does at the moment, where people dont realise they can play a handful of cards.

And... then... they... find out they can? The worst possible scenario is they... get to consider some more cards?

Honestly, phantom drafts on arena in general might just be kinda gross?

Like... the cards arent real, theres no secondary market to fuck with, how many formats are they even usable in on arena?

I mean... the good news is you can stop wondering!

it *absolutely* is.