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Being able to concede with a 20/20 lifelink with sword of Feast and Famine attacking you is rubbish. I personally don't conced of that happens. An empty stack/whenever a player could cast a sorcery as a casual implied requirment is necessary I find.

Could the conceding rules change? I've found in multi-player specifically some people who know they're going to lose will do something like board wipe or geberally ruin the game and then concede. I feel you should only be able to before your draw.

Let’s say you’re playing a multiplayer game and an emergency cones up and you gave to leave. You have to wait until the start of your turn to officially concede?

No, players need to be able to drop out when they need to.

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New Commander Rule Hilarity

I cast diluvian primordial and cast akroma's vengeance followed by rise of the dark realms from opponents graveyards. I have mana enough to then cast urabrask...but still my creatures won't be lethal. I play and equip my sword of Feast and Famine to Jori En and crack in with all creatures larger than 4 attack because any less wasn't going to make a dent. When the untap triggers I assess what I have in play, an untapped city of Brass...then I realise that I definitely have formidable. Float green mana, untap lands and with my newly acquired shaman of forgotten ways which has haste AND my opponents have no creatures, I activate and win! In a UR commander deck I win by casting a White spell, a Black spell, then activating a Green ability.

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You are trying very hard to suggest that deadeye navigator is a fair card. Needless to say you've reopened my eyes to how busted it is. Very tempted to run it until it gets boring. Any guesses how many games it will be?

"Path your Deadeye." "Blink it in response." People who run Deadeye generally keep mana open for two blinks, knowing that Deadeye gets a bullseye. Banhammer is justified just based on its combo-enabling.

Nah, bro. What you do is you wait for the creature they blinked to return to the battlefield, then the Soulbond trigger goes on the stack. That’s when you shoot it.Each time they blink something, they break the bond and Deadeye loses the ability to blink. You have a chance to kill Deadeye before the bonds reform.

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Reblog!

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How does this interact with cards like temur ascendancy? Do I draw a card if I wild call for x=2?

Normally, creatures that enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters enter with that power and toughness, right? For Formless Nurturing and Wildcall, does the manifest enter as a 2/2 and then get the counters, or an X/X? The wording seems different on both those cards.

Face down permanents are always 2/2 creatures by default. The counters apply on top of that base power and toughness.

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But are your own worst enemy...

Edh question! Player A hits player B with a Cruel Ultimatum, I jump in and hit the Ultimatum with a radiate, in this situation how many copies are put on the stack, and will I be affected by my own radiate? Thank you in advanced!!

Assuming you’re neither player A nor B, and that this is a 3-player game, then you’ll get a single copy of Cruel Ultimatum targeting A. (If it’s 4+ players and you’re player C, then you’ll also get copies targeting D, E, F, etc.) You don’t get a copy targeting yourself since you’re not your own opponent.

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I think the answer they're looking for is that it takes just as much time to eat a 10/10 as it does a squirrel for an eldrazi.

Please explain how a 13/13 elderazi can be stopped by a lone squirrel?

It can’t. Only thirteen Squirrels working in conjunction can bring down an Eldrazi. : )

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This is so close to my setting that I am working on!

Not sure if I posted this before but here it goes… This was a setting inspired by mad max, cyberpunk, and the last of us. I know is not the most of original ideas but hopefully some of you mind find it entertaining or will provide feedback.

Premise

In the year X an unexpected asteroid entered our solar system bound to impact earth (could be another world entirely). Scientists worked together to find a possible solution and proceeded to attempt to divert or destroy the asteroid in the event diversion failed.

After several attempts to divert the asteroid scientists proceeded to try and destroy the asteroid which caused it to fragment into numerous pieces that fell upon earth. These fragments nearly destroyed civilization but also carried a special mineral within them that once exposed to the environment began to mutate the remaining flora and fauna (accelerated growth), eventually affecting humans as well.

Humans

It is no surprise that humans managed to survive. Most of the population was wiped out but not by direct hit of the fragments but in consequence of what they carried; the shards. Humans exposed to the shards either died, mutated, or were naturally resistant to their effects. Over the course of many decades (from 5 to 10) humans were divided into 3 groups:

Humdrums: Humdrums is the nickname given to those humans who managed to resist the effects of the shards and remained relatively normal (all humdrums possess several tiny pieces of shards encrusted on their skin which appear at birth or during puberty). Although it is a degrading term, it is something normal humans have accepted and embraced. Its better to be a humdrum than a freak or a spyker.

Freaks: *Give them some other name since apparently everyone is a freak*Freaks are humans who appeared to have been severely burnt in several areas of their body revealing what appears to be bone but are actually crystals. Freaks are able to perform feats of strength and agility and even transmute their own bodies to shape hands into claws or enhance their leg muscles to make very high jumps and take long strides.

Psykers: Psykers are feeble humans who possess one or many psychic powers due to the direct exposure to the shards at an early age or inherited the mutation from their parents. There are instances of humans and other creatures who have gained supernatural abilities.

Mocks: Mocks are robots with human appearances and a human brain. It is believed they were constructed before the asteroid fell since mocks are usually found in buried facilities. Something must have gone wrong with mocks since those that have woken up do so with no recollection of their previous lives (if any). Some do claim to remember a past life but their memories are too vague to be taken seriously. Mocks don’t require to breathe, eat, or sleep and can upgrade their own bodies to add utilitarian tools and even weapons.

The Shards

Shards is the common name used for the crystal shards that came along with with the fragments of the asteroid that hit earth. No one knows exactly what the shards are nor where they came from but some scientists believe they were the vessel for an alien bacteria which causes it’s host to rapidly mutate. After decades of voraciously changing everything around them, the shards stopped glowing which allowed humans to finally get near them and study them. It was discovered that these shards could be used as a form of battery/fuel and many of the technology today revolves around these shards and the energy they produce.

Recent studies have revealed that the shards appear to be semiconscious and perhaps have their own agendas. The shards have progressively been burying themselves deep within the earth and slowly expanding. Some theories suggest that the shards absorb minerals and other elements from our soil in order to process such elements and increase their own mass, other theories suggests that the shards can turn to jelly-like state in order to expand its own mass and perhaps even take new shapes.

The Crystal Plague

The first to benefit from the shards were mining companies who dedicated themselves to unearth them and control their distribution. After a few years of mining, miners began to feel rigidness on some parts of their bodies, later the affected area would begin to crystallize, that part eventually becoming a small shard. This was later known as the crystal plague and it has been slowly spreading around areas that have been mining the shards. Creepy stories abound of mining companies kidnapping people and forcing them to work at the mines in the hopes they would become infected with the crystal plague to later use the crystallized parts. Engineers and scientists began to study the robotic anatomy of Mocks —through reverse engineering mainly— in order to develop prosthetics for those who have lost limbs due to the plague.

Mining Companies

Mining companies have monopolistic control over the resources of most communities, specially shards since they are the only ones with the equipment and manpower to extract the strange mineral. Mining companies offered jobs in exchange of sustenance and protection, people began to form settlements around the mines of these companies working mainly as miners. Mining companies protect the settlements who have agreed to join them with their own police force dubbed sentinels but are colloquially called babysitters, chaperones, and watchdogs. The latter being the most common even among the sentinels themselves. Competition between mining companies is fierce sometimes leading to all out wars, however mining companies usually try to avoid open war and often send spies to observe their rivals and sabotage them if necessary.

Society

People live in the few areas nature has not reclaimed. Settlements are usually formed around mines where mining companies rule  with their own police forces. gangs and bandits run rampant through the wilderness usually on customized buggies, cars, and SUVs, others move through the more swampy areas through airboats and rarely, with hybrid buggies. Some groups have shown resistance to the corrupting nature of the mining companies and have settled elsewhere where they sustain their communities with alternate sources of energy such as by moving near an old petroleum plant or installing solar panels. These alternate communities are constantly harassed by the mining companies to have them integrated into their own circles and often sabotage and even destroy the resources of such communities to force them to trade with them.

Most communities rely on agriculture for sustenance which is the easiest form of food production since the world has become such a lush place after the shards began to mutate the vegetation. Still, food is runned through makeshift purifiers to make them more suitable for consumption for humdrums and psykers, freaks tend to be immune to the effects of shards.

Besides settlements, mining companies, mercenaries, gangs, bandits, and raiders, there are rumors of an organization called the Fallout Coalition. They began operation shortly after all gubernamental structures collapsed as an attempt to maintain order but after resources were depleted, the organization fell into chaos setting the stage for mining companies to flourish.

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Isochron is an instant only? :-/ awkward

combo of the day; lots of tokens.

because of the way strive is worded, you can target any number of creatures if you exile a strive card to an isochron scepter and still only pay 2 colorless mana. So, every turn you can get a number of 1/1 soldiers equal to the number of creatures you control for just 2 mana. Furthermore you can add a voltaic key for even more tokens!

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Ruben Sanchez - Dubai

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Dualcaster mage and Twineflame is enough for me!

When Someone Pulls Off A Super Complex Combo

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An idea for a new card game. Floating as opposed to foil or Shiny :-)

Floating border extension of some birds as birthday present for my friend Manu.

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I call absolute bull shit and nonsensical bollocks at this argument of trivial nonsense. If you drew this, how would you draw a gradation. Please don't read more into things that is actually there!!!

Racialized representations of evolution.

By Lisa Wade, PhD

Paul M. sent along the image below, from an NPR story, commenting on the way skin color is used in the portrayal of evolution. There’s one obvious way to read this graphic: lighter-skinned people are more evolved (dare we say, “civilized”) than darker-skinned people. (The portrayal of fatness and its relevance to evolutionary fitness is another story in this particular graphic, as is the use of men and not women to represent humanity).

It seemed worthy to make a point of Paul’s observation, because this racialized presentation of evolution is really common. A search for the word on Google Images quickly turns up several more. In fact, almost every single illustration of evolution of this type, unless it’s in black and white, follows this pattern. (See also our post on representations of modern man.)

This is important stuff. It reinforces the idea that darker-skinned people are more animalistic than the lighter-skinned. It also normalizes light-skinned people as people and darker-skinned peoples as Black or Brown people, in the same way that we use the word “American” to mean White-American, but various hyphenated phrases (African-American, Asian-American, etc) to refer to everyone else. So, though this may seem like a trivial matter, the patterns add up to a consistent centering and applauding of Whiteness.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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DZIA - Wavre, Belgium

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Read this!

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So smash a mirror. Focus on the mirror take picture. Sweet!

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When will you finish the alphabet of counterspells? We need K (if you don't count Kheru Spellsnatcher), W (in black border), X, Y, and Z. Some completely non-serious suggestions: "Keep Trying," "What, Me Worry?," "X-Out," "Yeah, No." and "Zzyxas's Counter"

I wasn’t aware we were so close. Can we fill in the whole alphabet, starting with A and working in order, in the comments?