#cheatyface

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Cheatyface

Artist: Doug Chaffee TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[mtgtips]

Magic the Gathering tip: always be on the lookout for cheatyface

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA for sending the guy who my ex-fiance cheated on me with a constant stream of MTG cards? Okay so clarification here. As of this year my (29M) several year long relationship with my ex fiancé (31M) at the hands of my now ex best friend (32M) had ended. This occurred over a dispute concerning my rather unaccepting parents & the stressors my job had put on me. Everything had picked up & the ex friend feigned sympathy while he closed the gap between him & my now ex while I was busy & sorting my life out.

It was a really ugly falling out about two weeks after I had mailed the ring off to my ex's country. As we were long distance.

But before all of this this ex friend pressured me to buy him an 80+ something USD deck for MTG off of Amazon. Since we shared the same hobby. Him & I would buy each other stuff all the time so this was fairly normal but one thing to note was that I forgot to clear his information off of my Amazon.

Months passed & I got an idea seeing it again as I updated my information. See, there's a card called "Cheatyface" & I am sure you all can see what I was trying to get at here. But I know the ex friend ordered off of this one cardgame website & the card itself is like a dollar at most. & I know for a fact that if I were to put in his address & name it would be as if he ordered it without my name attached.

Now normally I would write this off as something juvenile but it had come to my attention by a mutual friend that my ex & my ex best friend had been touting around a recording of me that was taken & shared without my consent or knowledge. There are some legal ramifications here & I do in fact have proof but being in the financial situation I am in, I cannot pursue this at this time. On top of this both of them have been following my every move across social media. Something that my ex has a history with & has been a source of squabbling between us in the past as I have had a history of being stalked & it made me very uneasy.

But the idea has been sounding more & more appealing as my ex & my ex friend have been consistently finding me across different websites even under different names & usernames. I am heavily considering just buying a "Cheatyface" every two or so weeks for a little while & have it sent to the ex-friend's house. Especially since he buys off of that website anyway. It wasn't like I acquired the address through or for shady means but I know this definitely skirts a line. But at this point I just want to strike back somehow. I don't intend harm but just to be annoying but I really worry. WIBTA?

What are these acronyms?

[markrosewater]

Cheatyface rules question: if i play cheatyface and the game ends while cheatyface is still on the battlefield and i simply leave it there instead of shuffling it into my deck for another game, do i get to start a new game with cheatyface on the battlefield?

No.

[whatsthatmagiccard]

I feel bad that submitters have been using dirty tricks to try to trip you up so I wanted to give you an easy one :)

(Oh, no way you're Cheatyfacing my ass.)

[soegster]

siblings’ comments scorning fictional sibling relationships in reference to forgiveness are a dime a dozen at this point. find some other literary trope to pick on. 

for my part, i have decided to begin laughing on the trope that everything siblings do together that defines their shown relationship must be rooted in some emotional and meaningful backstory. 

[killmebutneverinsultme]

I can bring Arrbucks

“With extra cream!”

[rakdoswarlord]

30 day magic challenge

Day 5: Favorite UN-Card

Mother fuckin’ CHEATYFACE!

[benevolentgodloki]

“Snowball fight!”

Emily sent in a winter meme

“Are you sure that’s wise, dear?” He tossed a snowball up and down in one hand, a glint in his eye before he split into a ring of clones around her, teleporting among them to disguise his position. 

“I seem to have the advantage,” they chorused.

[overfedvenison]

Also finding combos with Cheatyface would be the best

[askkrenko]

Krenko’s Guide to Creature Types: Djinn

Art by  Magali Villeneuve

What is a Djinn (flavorfully)?

You ever watch Disney’s Aladdin? ...What do you mean no? Get off Tumblr right now and go watch Disney’s Aladdin. Seriously. The singular of Djinn in the real world is Djinni AKA Genie. Same word. They’re big and magical. Djinn are similar to Spirits or Elementals, but Djinn were never humans first, they’re simply people made of flame and air. Djinn are powerful but willful, and though they can be controlled by strong mages they will often struggle and fight back. While some djinn are powerful enough to grant wishes, they usually reserve this for people they like or people strong enough to force them. Djinn live on many planes, with a large population on Tarkir.

What is a Djinn (mechanically)?

Though there are many varieties of Djinn and they exist in all five colors, the majority of Djinn are large, blue fliers, often used as a blue iconic before Sphinxes became solidified in the role. Many Djinn, especially in the earlier days of magic, included drawbacks, enabling some to be particularly powerful.

Can I make a Djinn deck?

Relatively low numbers, no support, and little synergy with one another means no, making a Djinn deck is not particularly reasonable. As usual, this isn’t to say one can’t make a deck with Djinn in it, with Juzam Djinn specifically being a powerhouse of years past, but there’s no real benefit from leaning toward Djinn. Even taking advantage of drawbacks to play many particularly aggressive Djinn is unlikely to work as too many of them require an upkeep cost. What’s worse, though you’re unlikely to sever see them, there are two cards that specifically harm Djinn: King Suleiman and Suleiman’s Legacy.

In Commander, the only Legendary Djinn is  mediocre at best. Zahid is, in optimal circumstances, a 5/6 Flying creature for 4, which is solid value and could be useful in Brawl, but is basically a joke in Commander.

Is Djinn a good creature type?

Djinn was a great creature type, though it’s gotten a bit lost over the years. Early Djinn were almost universally undercosted creatures with some sort of drawback, representing the powerful entity struggling against its controller. This was a great identity for them to have. For a while, they tried to take the slot of the Blue Iconic creature. This wasn’t too awful for them, but the problem with being a big blue flier is that blue is full of big fliers.  Since then, Djinn abilities are mostly random. Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp and Djinn of Wishes strongly play into the classic Djinn stories that became Disney’s Aladdin, but otherwise are just another flier in blue’s arsenal. These Djinn are far less interesting.

As far as flavor and other creature types go, Djinn has a few problems. The historic loose terminology for Djinn included all spiritual creatures, including Angels and Demons. Obviously that’s not the appropriate definition to use here, as there are far, far too many things that would fall under Djinn for it to be an effective creature type. More specifically, mythological Djinn are creatures created of air and fire in a mirror to the way God created Adam out of earth. They live in the world in much the same way humans do, but are inherently invisible to human eyes unless outside magic is involved. While this doesn’t butt heads too much with the concept of elementals as a whole, it does run counter to the human-like Flamekin in Lorwyn. People made of fire in that way should almost certainly be Djinn.

But questioning what else they could be is not nearly as relevant to me here than complaining about what should be Djinn. There is a creature type of twenty one cards that should, by all traditional terminology, by Djinn. Their creature type comes from the same mythology, and uses a word that means powerful, evil Djinni, and sometimes demon, but never a thing that is neither a Djinni nor a demon. This creature type is Efreet, and it is completely and utterly absurd that Efreet are not the same creature type as Djinn. If it were just Tarkir’s unique type of Efreet, that would be one thing, but Serendib Efreet, Frenetic Efreet, and even Cheatyface just have all the visual cues of a Djinni. Further, plenty of Efreet have that same “powerful creature with drawback” design that’s so common among early Djinn.

Overall, I’m calling Djinn a falling creature type. In earlier days of Magic it was a great one, with a strong mechanical identity, even if there was a foolish divide between Efreet and Djinn. Now, even after various updates, the divide remains, and more recent Djinn and Efreet are abandoning their traditional mechanical identity. Further, without any cards that reward Djinn and two that punish them, the Djinn creature type itself is actually a strict drawback. Djinn is a bad type, but the fixes are easy: Absorb Efreet, print more strong guys with drawbacks, and while I wouldn’t ask for a proper ‘lord,’ a creature or artifact that made Djinn cost less would be nice.

And seriously, Djinni is singular, Djinn is plural. Go and fix that on... all the old cards please. That’s right, I want names eratta’d.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Cheatyface

Artist: Doug Chaffee TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[mtgtips]

Magic the Gathering tip: telling jokes at the table is a good way to lighten the mood and also distract people so you can put cheatyface onto the battlefield

[dailytopimagic]

Topi’s Daily Card #1305:  Entirely Normal Armchair

I love this card for what it does and how it plays for obvious reasons.  It’s an evolution off of Cheatyface, a card that wanted you to sneak it onto the battlefield.  I think the most common way to do this is to do it with a land drop, so long as you can keep it hidden with your lands.  If you’re able to, you have a fine removal trick for only two mana, and with the right deck you can recur the answer.  Although if you’re going to do that, they’ll be much more wary of your boardstate the second time around.

[markrosewater]

Hey Mark, I want to thank you for giving Unfinity Collector Boosters a "list" slot. This is going to help me in my dream of making a fully foiled all un-card Commander deck (to get the best use of Super Secret Tech). I would like to request foil printings of: Timmy, Power Gamer; Strategy, Schmategy; Bronze Calendar; Jack-in-the-Mox; Checks and Balances; Common Courtesy; Free-for-All; Cheatyface; and Underdome. In addition the following are really hard to get a hold of in foil and could use a reprint: Johnny, Combo Player; Who/What/When/Where/Why; Gleemax; Mox Lotus; City of Ass; Super Secret Tech.

Thank you for all you've done for silly magic!

You’re welcome. I wish you the best of luck in your mission.

[mtgbracket]

Round of 4096 - Batch 12

You can now vote in Batch 12.

Feature match: Sorin, Solemn Visitor against powerful Eternal-format lock card, Trinisphere.

Currently open batches:

Batch 12 Batch 11 Batch 10 Batch 9 Batch 8 Batch 7 Batch 6

Batch 5 results will be up shortly.

Full list of matchups:

Boros Garrison vs Bloodspore Thrinax Sift Through Sands vs Sphinx of Magosi Abrupt Decay vs Abyssal Persecutor Tezzeret the Seeker vs Gateway Shade Tuktuk Scrapper vs Electrickery Totem-Guide Hartebeest vs Angelic Field Marshal Steel of the Godhead vs Dance of the Dead Scandalmonger vs Turn the Tables Coastal Piracy vs Champion of Lambholt Arc Trail vs Selkie Hedge-Mage Might of Old Krosa vs Triad of Fates Mourner's Shield vs Crystalline Sliver Thorn of Amethyst vs Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet Sarcomancy vs Become Immense Transcendence vs Sigil Tracer Fleetwheel Cruiser vs Illuminated Folio Dragonstorm vs Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker Luminarch Ascension vs Ground Seal Firemane Avenger vs Giant Spider Thundermaw Hellkite vs Bloodshot Trainee Breeding Pit vs Nissa, Vital Force Leyline of Lifeforce vs Saskia the Unyielding Predatory Sliver vs Dispel Master of Cruelties vs Ghoulcaller Gisa Frogmite vs Corpsejack Menace Crookshank Kobolds vs Incandescent Soulstoke Jungle Shrine vs Cheatyface Suffocating Blast vs Bounty of the Hunt Trinisphere vs Sorin, Solemn Visitor Darien, King of Kjeldor vs Dawn Charm Suspension Field vs Volcanic Dragon Leonin Relic-Warder vs Miscalculation