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  • Night's Whisper and/or Sign in Blood are almost always instant inclusions when I'm making an EDH deck with black. They're not really on theme, but don't underestimate how good turning 1 card into 2 is for just 2 mana. If you have good mana fixing you can also go for Insatiable Avarice which gives 3 cards for 3 and can tutor for extra mana. Cut a Deal and Secret Rendezvous are also quick card advantage but will even out with an opponent, though I think they work out in the user's favor. If you don't like that, Ancient Craving and Ambition's cost are only 1 more mana. Depending on how big your board gets, Minions' Murmurs can net you a lot of cards

    Depending on how often you sacrifice creatures, Midnight Reaper or Morbid Opportunist might be worth it. I find Opportunist draws a lot more than you expect even with the once per turn limit since it triggers off your opponents as well. Welcoming Vampire and Enduring Innocence are also OPT but if you're playing/flickering small creatures a lot the cards will add up quickly.

    People have already mentioned stuff like Deadly Dispute and Village Rites (both great) but since you're in Orzhov and seemingly fairly aggressive you have the chance to try Treacherous Greed, which I can't attest to personally but it seems like it could be worth testing

  • Yeah, they always talk about UBI as a pie in the sky fantasy. Anytime they bring it up the real question they should be asked is how are they working to expand the current systems of welfare such as Medicare or housing assistance. And murderers like Elon Musk that cut life-saving aid for millions of people should not even be part of the conversation

  • Yeah, taxing the average consumer more but refusing to tax billionaires is regressive and dumb as hell. Newsom is a sellout

  • To continue to improve the experience for all players, we are releasing our next iteration of Brawl matchmaking on Tuesday, May 19. This will be an experimental and major change to how Brawl matchmaking works so that it prioritizes finding opponents within similarly matched commander tiers disregarding the skill level of the opponent. We expect this change will increase the number of matches of similarly powered commanders while maintaining reasonable matchmaking times. With stricter commander-based matchmaking, we aim to pair players with similar expectations against each other and allow more space for experimentation. This is an intentional change to make unranked Brawl less competitively focused.

    Interesting tidbit about Brawl, I always liked it for an easier buy-in via singleton and the ability to play Commanders I didn't want to commit to in paper, but there was a very wide range of power levels.

  • Wow, I was expecting no changes so quite a list!

    Gotta read through all of their reasoning before I comment further, but looks like it'll be a shakeup for a few formats

    Edit: I forgot Cori-Steel Cutter was even legal in Pioneer so not surprised it got hit. Not crying over Phlage, was always busted and maybe this will give us more interesting Boros/x decks. Lotus Field is ???, I don't think I know enough about Amulet Titan to weigh in on this ban. Will be interesting to see if the Violent Outburst unban brings back Rhinos as a deck, I can see Living End becoming much more meta now at least. Jitte is really interesting, I don't know what decks want it but it seems like it could bring some new strategies to the front. And Pauper seems good, unsure if Bonder's Ornament will do nothing or need to be rebanned, but it's worth seeing how it shakes out.

  • Was watching this one, glad to hear that they pulled off the mechanics well, but disappointed that it's so buggy. Will probably grab it after they've patched it to be more stable

  • I'm gonna pretend that wasn't a brain fart and leave that up to your imagination

  • Dang, switched from Motorola to OnePlus for my current phone and it looks like I'll have to switch again. Is Nothing phone the new hotness? I just want something with a good battery, a 9mm headphone jack and decent customizability

  • Well damn, now I gotta find out if this exists near me

  • Everything has to be live service now. Can't even blame it solely on the companies themselves, a game will go a few months without updating and I'll see people online calling it a dead game

  • I wish there was a way that they could both somehow lose

  • Six is nothing. When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large

  • One issue with video games now is that there are so many and they all take so much time to play now. And since companies push out games so quickly there's no point buying anything before they push out a patch to fix all the bugs in the initial release, might as well use that time to play some of the games I already have and then pick up what I want on sale.

    I'll happily pay full price for a short, creative indie game, but that's already probably much cheaper than a big budget game anyways

  • Great job Hobbes, really helpful

  • At this point we need to treat AI web scrapers as DDoS attacks and prosecute the companies and people involved the same way we would those

  • As great news that this is, pretty fucked up that all of their very reasonable demands have to actually be negotiated for and aren't just basic rights for workers

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  • At the end of the day it's still a video game designed to be fun to a mass market of consumers, even if it shows the rough parts players aren't actually dealing with everything back then

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  • I'm just saying there's a difference between playing a game designed to provide a fun and rewarding experience and actually going through those harsh realities in real life

    RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago

    Does it? I wasn't alive then, and I doubt any of the devs were either. Even if you're going off first hand sources it can still be hard to know if the perception we have today is actually accurate to how it was back then

  • Exactly what came to mind. It's funny how this show ended up being about 50% dated 2000s pop culture references and 50% extremely accurate social parody

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    Azure Mage by Izzy

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    80-Card Dandân Secret Lair coming

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    CopyCat vs Amalia Combo | Semifinals 1 - Quest for the Best Pioneer Deck Ever

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    CopyCat vs Amalia Combo | Semifinals 1 - Quest for the Best Pioneer Deck Ever

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    New Music Video from MTG Japan featuring the Wanderer

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    Making Magic | The Calm Before the Dragonstorm

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    Explanation of Pauper Bans for March 31, 2025

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    Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths by Jason A. Engle

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    The Power of Pauper: The Wildfires Burneth

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    Weekly Winners: Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm; Deathrite Shaman; Tree of Perdition; Seton, Krosan Protector

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    The Week That Was: The Rumble to the Top

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    Metagame Mentor: Arena Championship 8 Breakdown

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    Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025 - 1.8 Update Coming Soon!

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    Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025 - 1.8 Update Coming Soon!

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    Making Magic | A Dragonstorm Is Brewing, Part 2

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    CASSETTE BEASTS SHOWCASE 2025 is premiering a week from today on March 27th!

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    Eshki Dragonclaw

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    Dracogenesis

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