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It seems like changing control removes it from combat. Regardless of who gets it. But it does still "block".

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day 06/07/25: Goblin Cadets

Goblin Cadets is an uncommon from Urza's Saga, seen here in some commander thing.

This is an early example of how aggro wasn't really allowed to have nice things. For one extra power, you get this massive downside which requires you to basically have an open board to attack into. Even a 0/1 can safely block this thing, cause the effect goes off before combat damage can be assigned, and I don't believe creatures can be attacking their own controller.

I suppose that little wrinkle is why it was in the original Commander, despite the fact that it seems real bad(other than the fact that Commander was originally dreamed up as a format for using bad cards. I know, it seems insane now): if you give it to an opponent who you are NOT attacking, the attack(I think) still works as normal. If the cadets survive, they just stay under that player's control, who can then even attack the same guy the very next turn and give control back to you, if they want. Very good for ganging up on the most powerful player, something essential in multiplayer Magic.

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It would be a real shame if black had a card that turned all of its opponent's lands into swamps regardless of what they are playing...

Also, forgot you went on vacation. Had been wondering what happened. Welcome back

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day 30/06/25: Bog Tatters

BACK BY ZERO DEMAND! IT'S CORNWALL'S RANDOM CARD OF THE DAY!!

Bog Tatters is a common from Zendikar. Yeah, so whatever of the myriad of things that could have been causing a problem(either Tumblr, Gatherer, or my internet itself somehow) has cleared up since, so I guess for now the Random Card of the Day is back. Did you miss me? Admit it, you missed me :P. I took the opportunity to change my numerical classification to a date one, since I have done this far longer than I expected and I am sure I fucked up and started repeating numbers several times(and noone corrected me!). So now, I just use the date instead. Easier.

Not much to say about Bog Tatters. Landwalk is retired for a reason. Too much of a silver bullet, makes cards waay too matchup-dependent. This guy is especially bad for that, in fact. Black always has had an easier time against landwalkers due to their ability to kill creatures(admittedly, maybe not black creatures at this time, due to the weird footprint Terror left), and this guy only has 2 toughness! Even back in the day, a 4/2 for 5 is pretty unacceptable rate, and the only decks that it might be good against will probably be able to -2/-2 it to death easily. Of course if you somehow CAN'T and are running swamps, this is an insane clock whose existence in your opponent's deck will likely lose you the game.

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Oh hey I am in this

Top 47K - Suikoden (and 140!)

Join the HG101 gang and returning special guest Sara Leen/Saralene as they discuss and rank Konami’s RPG with more playable characters than a Fire Emblem game. Then stick around for 140 – a colorfully artistic, grooving platformer!

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Gahan Wilson (1930-2019) Some cartoons from the above artist from ''Playboy'' culled from various issues published between 1975 to 1983. Wilson, for me, was a precursor to cartoonists like Gary Larson of 'The Far Side' fame (which I loved). His work often lived in the kind of weird territory Larson explored although Wilson was attentive to different details given his darker sense of humor. It makes sense that Wilson credited cartoonists like Charles Addams (the creator of 'The Addams Family') and writers like H. P. Lovecraft as influences. I'm pretty sure there are collections of his ''Playboy'' cartoons out there and a few children's books Wilson wrote. The world benefits from the existence of weird people doing their weird things. If you're weird and you're reading this, keep on being idiosyncratic.

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I still think its in color pie. It clearly says it only damages players with flying.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1255: Hurricane

Hurricane is an uncommon from Alpha.

So, how did THIS card exist? Well, Alpha, sure, but there's more to it than that. Green has always gotten damage to fliers to help defend against them, and that hasn't changed. X damage to each player is a bit different, though. Direct damage to players is about as far OUT of green's colour pie as you can get. Well, this was designed as a counterpart to red's Earthquake, which did the same but damaged non-fliers. Suddenly, it becomes clear that Garfield and friends at the time were more interested in appealing symmetries than keeping things in colour pie. Weirdly, this meant that for another decade or so, green did get to deal damage to players, but ONLY if it dealt damage to fliers at the same time. Super weird!

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I still don't have that chicken pot pie

reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

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Fuck yeah Abominog

The fourth edition of the Call of Cthulhu rules, the first I owned, has a bunch of color plates tipped into the regular pages. They are mostly drawn from color plates that Games Workshop stuck into its own publication of the third edition rules — Chaosium apparently liked that, and did the same for some of their books for a while. Anyway, most of those plates featured art by English painter Les Edwards. Oddly, none of these really related to the Cthulhu Mythos, a fact that might have made them (and the world of the Call of Cthulhu RPG) all the more beguiling. It was my first real encounter with Edwards’ work (I wouldn’t learn he did the HeroQuest cover art until much later) and they pretty much made me a fan for life.

Of course, that meant I’d be on the hunt for Blood & Iron (1989), one of two art books Games Workshop produced in the ’80s (the other, a collab between Ian Miller and John Blanche called Ratspike, is still very much on my want-list, but is pretty universally priced outside my budget). I found it recently for a reasonable price (no easy task) and while it may be the mustiest book I currently own, it was well worth it to get such a concentrated dose of Edwards’ work.

He’s gnarly, man. All bug-eyes and too-wide grins and gore galore. Some of his fantasy stuff is kind of hilarious (his covers for Fighting Fantasy are pure, glorious cheese) and it’s is cool to see the process essay for the gross AF cover of The Lost and the Damned, but his horror work is really where it’s at for me. It’s so metal (to the point that, unsurprisingly, a number of his paintings were used as album covers). Even his pin-up paintings, which routinely feature big boobs and improbable poses, still come off as appealing somehow — that black idol is so good! I don’t really care about the titular high priestess, but she doesn’t bug me the way a lot of other artists pin-up work makes my eyes roll (see Chris Achilleos, tomorrow).

Anyway, a real wonderful time capsule of Edwards’ work. Oh! The cover. I gotta mention the cover — it’s the second version of the cover of a Graham Masterton novel called The Devils of D-Day (1978) which was used to replace Edwards’ earlier cover painting. It’s a novel about a demonic tank? I dunno. But the first cover! That was re-used for the Metallica single Jump in the Fire. One of my favorite bits of fantasy/metal cross-over trivia.

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Miss you boo

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Man how far we've come. Aaron didn't even tag me in this

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Its a tuck when move a card to the deck.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1218: Deem Inferior

Deem Inferior is a common from Modern Horizons 3.

This is what is now a common card in every blue set: the 4-mana creature's-controller-puts-it-on-the-top-or-bottom-of-their-library card. I need to find a better name for that. This one costs less for each card you've drawn this turn, making it actually cost 3 instead, at the price of being a sorcery. There was a blue-black "draw a lot of cards" theme in MH3 which unfortunately drowned out by the energy and eldrazi decks which dominated that limited format. Draw extra cards themes must be a real pain to balance, since drawing extra cards ALREADY gives you a way better chance of winning on its own. Seems prone to either being purely win-more or being super snowbally.

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Walter Street, Takapau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

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Oh hey I own this

USA 1993

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Fujo never saw my scheduled post coming

Mental note for birthday request. Sexy lich skelly...

Feel free if you remember

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Yeah imagine having much faith in Tarkir after Lorwyn

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Proper white weenie

Playing two of em lol

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1175: Arashin Cleric

Arashin Cleric is a common from Fate Reforged.

This is a lot like that Pious Monk we had a few entries back, but better in multiple ways. The cost is lower, and the toughness is higher, making it a better card for more modern limited formats. The power is lower, but the more defensive stat block serves a creature with this kind of etb effect well. Good common.

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@shuunnico

please pray for our american hero

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I just realized this guy eats Emmy. I have never thought about that before. In fact he kind of feels like he was printed to stop Eldrazi. Flying deathtouch is pretty good for that

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1143: Vampire Nighthawk

Ugh. THIS guy.

Vampire Nighthawk is an uncommon from Worldwake, seen here in its Modern Horizons 2017 printing. At the time of printing it was just EGREGIOUSLY over the power curve. Like, sure, it costs 3, it's only a 2/3 and requires two black mana, but BOY is a flying lifelinker that can ALSO kill any creature in combat just EXACTLY what you would want at any point in the game. If you're winning or at parity, it helps create a massive life gap in your favour which cannot be bridged. If you're behind, it's WORST application, it blocks and kills the opponent's best attacker while gaining you 2 life.

If you ever had to play against this thing in a game where your life total isn't insanely high to start with, you'd understand just how much of a problem this little uncommon can be. And that's JUST on its own, no +1/+1 counters, no tribal synergies, nothing that activates off of doing damage to opponents, no equipments or auras, NOTHING.

It's not even the power I object to, it's just the fact that it's...so straightforward. So universally applicable. Any black deck can just take one of these in an it'll probably be better for it, especially in casual decks where you just don't have access to every rare and optimal synergistic pick you can think of. And being uncommon, anyone can kind of just have a near-infinite amount of em, so expect to see these a LOT in casual. I don't much care for it, is my point.