#gather and removals

[beautifulmask]

The photo

[astro-candii]

Re-redesign of my version of Link from the first two games. Yeah I’m gonna do redesigns and remakes and 5 versions of the same character every 6 business days I’m sorry I’m like this. He’s Jesus coded…if you even care…

[a-french-guardsman]

Officially starting the process for top surgery, the surgery date should be sometime this year. Very excited!!

[mtg-art-daily]

Remove Soul

Nethya stiffened suddenly, head cocked as if straining to hear some distant sound, then fell lifeless to the ground.

Artist: Mike Dringenberg

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Remove Soul

Artist: Adam Rex TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[shadowland]

neil young & joni mitchell

Neil Young debut solo album (1969) artwork cover Roland Diehl / Neil Young Watercolour Portrait by Joni Mitchell, 1969 / Neil Young: The Rolling Stone Interview – Rolling Stone by Cameron Crowe, Aug 1975 / Joni Mitchell and Neil Young at the airport, 1969 / Sugar Mountain - Neil Young / Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe / The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell / Neil Young excerpt from Waging Heavy Peace (2012), photo by Rich Zimmermann, 1973 @meadow-dusk / Joni Mitchell with Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers, August 26, 1973 / Review: Neil Young’s ‘Archives II’ Is a Stunning Look Back at His Peak – Rolling Stone, Nov 2020 / Neil Young excerpt from Waging Heavy Peace (2012) / Warner Records’ launch party for Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night” ca. June 1975 / Neil being soft with Joni at The Last Waltz following “Furry Sings the Blues” @meadow-dusk /Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, The Last Waltz, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California, November 25, 1976./ The Making of The Last Waltz, the Band’s Concert-Film Masterpiece | Vanity Fair /The Last Waltz "Helpless" @joelmccrea / Joni quote / Credit on Hejira album (1976) / Neil Young photo in Rolling Stone, Dec 2021 / Joni Mitchell photo by Anton Corbijn, Chalk Mark in A Rainstorm album (1988) / 'I Stand With Neil Young!' Joni Mitchell, Jan 2022 / Neil Young Interview: Crazy Horse ‘Barn,’ Archives, ‘Harvest’ – Rolling Stone, Dec 2021 / Neil Young and Joni Mitchell at the Grammys, Feb 2012

[divorcedwife]

my grandma saw one of the princesses i painted to practice watercolors this summer and she asked if i could make one for her, i have to make the cutest princess ever for her

[inventors-fair]

Substantial: One-Word Runners-Up ~

Our runners-up this week are @arixordragc, @bergdg, and @helloijustreadyourpost!

@arixordragc — Buck

We live in a funny world where this card does exactly what it says on the tin, and it's a common that does something strangely unique in the world of bite spells. I don't have to talk about what this card is doing for limited or whatever, and I don't have to talk about the intended flavor. Everyone agreed that this card was solid enough to be commendable. The reason I'm putting it here first is because a) we do things alphabetically, and b) it's missing that one final aspect that I want to talk about during commentary. If there was a specific reason not to add flavor text here, I'm curious what it was. Regardless of that choice, I'll stand firm that it was detrimental not to add it.

Here's the problem: does that take away from the mechanics of this card? No, not at all. Does it add anything to a designer's repertoire to be able to write flavor text? Personally, I think so. I also think we're in a niche in the custom design sphere where we're jacks of all trades—and at this point I'm getting a little niche philosophical, so I'll try to cut to the chase with what matters. Every part of a card's presentation for these contests needs to be available at a first glance, not because it would be expected of someone in a professional design setting, but because custom design demands that all aspects be accounted for. This is a general waxing and I hope you don't take it as a lambasting of anything; this card rocks and we on the team were surprised it hadn't been done before. I find it fun and clever and slapsticky and perfectly befitting of the setting. I just wish there was that last little push to make these sensations gallop to life.

@bergdg — Liquidate

I remember when these weird hybrid combos were introduced in Strixhaven, and as someone who had been playing (badly) with hybrid since my first designs in high school, I was pleased as punch to see them back in action. With this card, I think there's no reason to ding it for the mid-hybrid split, and if I was super generous I'd say that the split and the art go together quite well! Even if there was more in-line themed art direction, I think that seeing someone's brain dribbling out as they split apart their mind from Ashiok's whispers... Highly impactful. Great Ashiok callback with both the flavor and the effect.

Dissolution, as it relates to liquidation, isn't as common a definition as one might expect, but you're not the only person to have used it for this contest. And the creature/planeswalker is definitely being turned into liquid here. As a rare it's a perfectly reasonable killspell, and while it might not be the absolute eye-popping card to open from a pack, I'd be happy to run it in a control draft shell. Blue's milling and black's destruction meld together quite nicely here—a liquid blending of effects. Could it have been uncommon? That's a big maybe, but I don't mind it as a rare and especially not as a control sideboard card. "I'm gonna Liquidate your dragon." That tracks, heh. I'm a fan.

@helloijustreadyourpost — Draw!

OW, my ORGANS. You shot me right in the organs! Well, anyway. Red being secondary in fighting is underutilized, I feel. And for moments like this, you have that real competitive sense that feels pretty solidly in-color for it. As the flavor goes we did have the card Quick Draw from OTJ, but this one is a far more in-situational card rather than an explanation of whatever "wild magic" is. Frankly, I wished that OTJ had had something comprehensive going into it, and I know I'm not alone there. The flavor text is by far one of my favorites from you so far. It's punchy with a drawl. It's demonstrably about the situation you're creating, distant from a story but at the same time defining the moment. You are the sharpshooter here in control. I really love it.

I also feel that the grokability of the rules text makes sense. To me. It's a little heavy-handed, I gotta admit, or at least it's a lot of text to do something that only that much text can do. I'm sure that I'm overthinking it more than I am analyzing it at this point, and considering the bar for commons these days, I'm sure it would be fine. That sort of replacement effect that relies on a timing effect is still a little wonky, though, or at least it might be in the brains of newer players. That said, there are other ways that these fight-to-bite effects could be seen on other worlds, and I'm really curious about what could be opened up with this. Maybe it could replace with other triggers, or for types, or whether or not a creature is equipped/enchanted... Lots of options for the mechanical side here! But it starts with this card, with two cowpokes and two thunder pistols. Man, I just think it's awesome. I can picture the wounds already.

Small note on general commentary! I thought I'd get ahead of myself this week and do some commentary in advance. Hooray! Around 40% of them are done, but there are still the remaining 14 cards to write up.

This was a surprisingly popular contest, and the more popular contests get the harder it is to finish commentary on time, what with working Saturdays. I'm just letting y'all know in advance about that, since keeping you informed is important.

Be good, folks! @abelzumi

[shm128iii]

Other People: What was Magic thinking when they added Jumbo Cactaur to the Final Fantasy set!? It's so OP! It deals 10,000 damage! Me:

[mtg-talk]

Finally. I don’t even care if he’s good or not, I’ve been waiting for my boy Vronos to get a card for YEARS.

[jensownzoo]

Okay. It was like pulling teeth, but I finally got all the back, sides, and top of the long raised bed in the back covered in hardware cloth. Yeehaw.

Thanks to a 12 foot long 2x4 I picked up by the dumpster yesterday (someone had obviously used to to level a newly poured concrete pad or driveway), I came up with a new idea on how to do the front which will be easier. Theoretically.

I'm going to put a new crossbeam halfway up down the length of the bed and attach hardware cloth to the upper portion. Then I'll do two doors for each section (four sections) on the lower half. This way the doors are (a) much lighter and (b) will use shorter lengths of scrap lumber, which I have much more of.

This plan has mostly resolved that feeling of project dread so hopefully it won't be so slow going?

[worfsbarmitzvah]

i have officially been removed from both of my hs friend group’s groupchats and lost like 10-15 instagram followers. ultimately less devastating than i thought it would be but kinda disappointed they did it without even a word to me

[yoshifawful64]

can't say i'm a big fan of uh… any of the new magic announcements

[whitherwanderer]

6.58 -> 7.0 Comparisons!

[brehaaorgana]

People joke about ADHD all the time, even swear up and down they totally think they also have it, but then if you ask for an accommodation, to please please please provide things in fucking writing, EXACTLY what they want and need, you will even work it out WITH them, like they promised they would do — repeatedly over and over, and then you don't get it people really will fucking be like:

I am using the incorrect bathroom (TM) to place my shelving and store my things. Homegirl literally removed various sundries and toiletries from a CLOSED CABINET and SHELF because she's interested in boundaries and accountability for my mess.

I said months ago I wanted to improve things for her comfort level and needed a written list of what precisely that fucking looked like in order to achieve it and not miss anything she deemed important. I explained how ADHD works, why I needed a written reference. Why I had to have it laid out, and if something needed changing we needed to write it all out. I would've made the list myself, but they said they would make it for the whole house to hold up their end of things. And, thinking this was a very reasonable adult solution to keeping the house in good shape, I said okay, come up with the list of expectations and what is needed and that way we can update how we handle chores. Awesome. I will do that to uphold my end.

No list ever gets made or drafted or anything despite my bringing it up, knowing we need to do it, but I DO get berated for failing to meet expectations and boundaries that were never fucking provided or delivered and include "don't store toiletries in this particular bathroom because I don't like it."

I can't believe I am a goddamn adult who gets treated like an idiot child for expecting adult communication instead of snide ass passive aggressive bullshit and basic respect for my things.

Because when I fucking get home, my shelving has been removed and a cabinet emptied of my things and placed in the "correct" bathroom.

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Oh shit she solved it, this doesn't look cluttered at all!

What a vast improvement to storing things in appropriate storage!

[antaripirate]

domestic rhylucard MY HEART🥺 also i am so excited to learn more about nadiya, there are just so many possibilities