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I will once again go on record to say it's dumb that blood moon even works as printed. If you make my creature a zombie it doesn't lose first strike. Why would making my land a mountain fuck it up so bad

I think a final fantasy set done properly should communicate the joy & discovery of playing those games. But every card just feels like this, some hyper-specific reference, an inside joke impossible to get unless you're already on the inside of it. Completely inaccessible as a standalone piece.

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The final fantasy set may be cool for big FF fans but as a magic player I am STRUGGLING to find anything to talk about with this set. Just feels a mess aesthetically and structurally and every card feels like a rehash of a card that already exists

One c-suite dipshit sent an email from his iPhone saying "don't commission a new frame, use the one we already have" and now every universes beyond card gets Warhammer 40k aesthetics no matter what it is or how stupid it looks

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Yo that Billie Eilish song makes me cry even when a character I love who has grown over three seasons and is finally allowing himself to be earnest and experience happiness and receive love didn't just sacrifice himself to save his friends

So on twitter in a thread about Mahmoud Khalil getting disappeared by homeland security there are a bunch of replies saying he deserved to get disappeared because of his political beliefs 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

In Thursday night modern testing culture we don't say "I love you" we say "I'm gonna go grab a bunch of coke zeros for everyone" and I think that's beautiful

People have asked me for a sideboard guide, so here is ~20 minutes worth of effort towards that. In the grindier matchups especially I do a good bit of adjusting based on what my opponent is doing. My biggest piece of advice is you should play as many games as you can before the tournament.

1 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Gilded Goose
2 Marsh Flats
2 Temple Garden
1 Underground Mortuary
4 Windswept Heath
4 Chord of Calling
4 Cauldron Familiar
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Birthing Ritual
1 Collector Ouphe
4 Samwise Gamgee
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Enduring Innocence
1 Insidious Fungus
4 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
1 Lush Portico
1 Blooming Marsh
4 Carrion Feeder
1 Godless Shrine
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide

1 Drannith Magistrate
2 Prismatic Ending
2 Force of Vigor
1 Crystal Barricade
4 Thoughtseize
1 Suncleanser
1 Endurance
2 Enduring Innocence
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide

Breach: -1 sheep, -1 grist, -4 bowmaster, -1 feeder, -1 varolz, +3 thoughtseize, +2 force of vigor, +1 drannith magistrate, +1 crystal barricade, +1 endurance
Eldrazi: -1 sheep, -1 grist, -4 bowmasters, +4 thoughtseize, +1 crystal barricade, +1 force of vigor (maybe this should stay the grist)
BW: -1 valrolz, -1 sam, -1 ouphe, -1 fungus, -1 feeder, -1 GSZ, -1 bowmaster, +4 thoughtseize, +1 grist, +2 sheep (if they have a bunch of wraths maybe you want suncleanser but probably not)
RW: -2 feeder, -1 ouphe, -1 grist, -1 GSZ +2 prismatic ending, +1 endurance, +1 crystal barricade, +1 force of vigor
Frog: -2 feeder, -1 ouphe, -1 fungus, -1 boseiju, -1 sam, -1 GSZ, +4 thoughtseize, +1 grist, +2 sheep (if they have hard gy hate like leyline leave in fungus and cut a bowmaster)
Amulet: -1 ouphe, -4 bowmaster, -1 sheep, -1 grist, +4 thoughtseize, +2 force of vigor, +1 crystal barricade
Storm: -1 ouphe, -4 bowmaster, -1 grist, -1 sheep, +4 thoughtseize, +1 crystal barricade, +1 drannith magistrate, +1 endurance
Belcher: -4 bowmaster, -1 sheep, -1 grist, +4 thoughtseize, +1 drannith magistrate, +1 force of vigor

I guess it's not technically illegal to put the entire power budget of fifteen years worth of orzhov cards into a single indestructible card advantage engine but, like, I probably wouldn't have done it that way