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Malcolm in The Middle was such a good show

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WIP peek at the hugging werewolves ♥

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"I laugh when I look at this shot - one in a million chance of capturing the precise moment when these birds are locked in eye to eye!

Out in my boat fishing one morning, I noticed that an eagle was being harassed by a blue jay on the shoreline next to my cabin. The blue jay’s relentless attacks were only mildly irritating to the eagle. The big bird’s facial expression was one of pure disdain. Jays are fiercely territorial - the eagle had perched near the jay’s nest and the jay was determined to protect its young.

My boat floated closer and closer to the skirmish and I knew that I might be able to capture a special moment if I just kept shooting. I love the image for so many reasons. The eagle is protecting its most valuable secret weapon - its eyes - by sliding a thin membrane over its eye just as the jay flies by. The jay is executing a ninja move as it makes its escape. And I love the way the image illustrates the sheer contrast in size between the enormity of the eagle’s body and the small silhouette of the blue jay.

I’ll always be thankful that I was in the right spot at the right time."

📸Ken Wiele

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Commish of my boy Osrin I got from @venusmage Something has him disgruntled.

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its hard to explain why but this post is so funny to me. like someone is...permitting raccoons to eat grapes, and preventing dogs from doing it out of like, spite

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justa chill dude with a tiny secret [commission]

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I'm pretty much always cold to "repeat a funny(sic) phrase into the ground" style humor, come back when they need to show deference to the rooster king.

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Derek Penix, Peaches, Oil

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This headline. I can't believe we live in this godforsaken timeline.

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Decklists are in and Honest Rutstein is seeing some play in four color legends where he is both an incremental value piece as well as part of a recursive infinite loop involving Rona, Relic of Legends, 2x Honest Rutstein and Vial Smasher to combo your opponent out.

Pushed Gravedigger

Something I've thought about from time to time when it comes to card design is Gravedigger - a creature that, when it comes into play, returns another creature from your graveyard to your hand. Lots of sets have a card like this and its always costed to be incremental card advantage for limited play.

The thing that interests me is that this is an effect that could be playable in constructed at the right cost, but for whatever reason they've never tried to make Gravedigger that crossed that line. (Eternal Witness sort of counts I guess, but she's so much more than a Gravedigger. Order of Midnight also saw some play in standard too, I think, so it also sort of counts.)

The standard rate for this effect is 4 mana - would a Grizzly Bear Gravedigger be too good? Even playable?

The platonic ideal would be one that plays similar to how it does in limited - a bit of incremental card advantage stapled to a useful body. The trouble is that a lot of the times recursion effects are good when they enable you to use them to loop the same cards over and over - something that Wizards is careful with in the same way that they're careful about tutors.

They're printing a card along these lines in Outlaws of Thunder Junction that's the closest I've seen to my long theorized pushed Gravedigger, so I'm curious to see if it goes anywhere.

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Latest OC comm! He's a Dwarf Monk :)

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Postcard from the National Reno Gay Rodeo, 1981

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Canonical Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine power.

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raider werewolf [oc]