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It's very weird to me seeing how adamant these cards are about mixing flavor text and rules effect text. With expectations set by stuff like MTG where flavor text is in an italic font at the bottom of a card or Hearthstone where it's not even on the card itself, the format of stuff like Alaskan Wolf...

Oh, I think that makes sense, thanks.

Wouldn't you get eight satyrs? Since each one gets a "Whenever Anax...dies" trigger for two tokens, and also each one gets a "Whenever...another nontoken creature you control dies" trigger for two tokens?

Wait, when you say "the herd immunity hypothesis" do you mean the existence of herd immunity generally, or specifically that relying on herd immunity would lead to a merely tolerable amount of pandemic deaths? Or some of the people saying that actually COVID has been so undertested that th...

I haven't actually seen DBZ, what was the mechanism by which Trunks travelled through time?

It's very different. "Mundane fighters can't keep up with magically powered characters, so at a certain level mundanity gets retired and magical stuff keeps going" is one thing. It implies there's no such thing as a level 20 Fighter. "Mundane fighters can't keep up with magically powe...

The Stormlight Archive genuinely takes a tremendously long time to get rolling. Normally Brandon Sanderson is a lot better about being punchy, but with The Way of Kings he simply isn't. At all. Multiple kilopage bricks of prologue is basically accurate. I happened to end up liking it, but someone re...

Why do people keep responding to silva threads? He's even resumed his old habit of filling the board with a billion barely-distinguishable Grand Theory topics. It's just that he's now a bit more circumspect about calling TGD favorites the worst-designed RPGs ever and hailing PBTA as the system that ...

7 is the first Fire Emblem released in the United States, on Game Boy Advance, just called Fire Emblem. 8 is the next GBA one, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones.

IIRC 5e actually does have Wizards work that way. I think Pathfinder released a class that worked a lot like that, but I don't remember what it was. I thought it was the Magus but it looks like that just has regular 3e Wizard style preparation.

20 Steves? 45 + 45 + 20 + 20 = 130. That leaves 15 Luminaries who can be Animates, Transhumans, and Steves. Do we wanna bump down the Vampires and Witches to 40 each to leave room for more Miscellaneous?

If you slice it up so that not every subgroup is meaningfully present in every location, what's the strategy to avoid the trap option situation you identified here ? Or is the idea something like this geographical heterogeneity of distribution only really applies to NPC factions, and since there's a...

Vehicle skills...? Like, horses?

The US may have seven million drug addicts, but the churn isn't seven million drug addicts per year. I don't see how you can criticize Frank for napkin map when making a blatant deficit/debt error.

Why do you not think that's a corroboration of Kaelik's claim, instead of a refutation? Kaelik gave an example right there of a CoD game where, because the politics deviated enough from "Rah US military badass high-tech heroes", people got upset about it. The point isn't that literally eve...

At a glance, it seems like PBTA evangelists have really good experiences where their particular MC is a great storyteller and has cool ideas for scenes, and then they attribute that to the system Unshackling Them From Petty Rules. It's obviously not impossible to have a great actual-play experience ...

5e's non-combat rules are even more shockingly nonexistent than 4e's. Everything is "the DM may allow you to make a roll, at a DC they pull out of their ass. they may not." So you need to make massive revisions to 5e combat plus create an entire non-combat system from scratch. I don't real...

Huh. Just missed a chance to check out an interaction I'd never considered before. What happens if Seraph Lapis, Glory Be is destroyed on the opponent's turn? I assumed that the card text is that the owner wins the game, but maybe it's the current player? I should've tried to play Bahamut to see if ...

I'm trying a Jabberwock deck, which right now is basically just a Ramp Dragon deck with a slightly funky curve. Instead of 2-cost followers, I have Goblins and Ivory Dragons, I ditched Israfils to free up a cost slot, and I dropped Grimnir for Goblin Leader. It seems to work okay, although since I o...

Yeah, I think Shaggro getting hit is a much bigger deal. The thing is that LB is already an incredibly slow response to Nephthys, so if things have reached that state the deck is probably fine. Getting better inevitability on turns 8+ is fine, but actually surviving to recovery turns like 6-8 in the...

It seems like Nephthys is back, and capable of really amazing recoveries. I'm still figuring out what works best against them. Ouroboros turns out to be a star player against Khawy, since unlike most of the rest of your threats Ouro dies outright during the combat. So Khawy's Last Words gets directe...

Ramp Dragon mirrors are really fun for me to play, I love seeing multiple big threats hit the table and deal with each other and I love trying to calculate "What's the most threatening position I can create without leaving myself open to dying next turn?"

I'm not sure how worthwhile Lightning Blast is now when Odin's right there. For two mana more, you get a 4/3 body. I guess Lightning Blast is still nice for when you want to combo it with a 3- or 4-drop. Lightning Blast + Rahab or Lightning Blast + Dragoon Scyther could be pretty sweet and you can't...

Dragon and Shadow nerfs were announced. Prince Catacomb costs 4, Zell costs 4 but becomes a 3/4 body, Lightning Blast loses the Enhance effect entirely. My bet is that Catacomb and Zell will be fairly useful, but Lightning Blast will probably just be ignored entirely once the nerf hits.

I got to the low As with Daria and Ramp Dragon, but I do a lot of unranked stuff for quests and whatnot. I'm trying out a budget Aggro Shadow deck, since I happened to already have 3x Reaper and 3x Orthrus. So far it seems Pretty Good.