[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Post the link! This isn't Twitter where you get penalized for posting links.

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This is one of my first attempts to make a "precon" style deck with an obvious game plan and that especially that doesn't require prior knowledge to play.

I don't have nearly enough "play an additional land" effects but those are pretty price-gated anyway.

What do you think?

EDIT: The fetchlands are proxied.

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Well there's the problem

Reddit, which is based in San Francisco, has in recent years tried to turn from a rough-and-tumble internet message board into a full-fledged social media business by adding executives and strengthening its advertising capabilities.

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[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Seconding the basic rules. You can get pretty much the entire vibe of the game from this. You can even create characters!

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I mostly play Magic with people that I've taught the game and gotten hooked on it. Because of that I always keep the new player experience in mind when building decks and some of them are even built with that as a hard constraint.

These are the decks I keep that I give to newer or rustier players. They tend to have a bit everything or else commit hard to just the one theme where the theme is obvious.

Halana and Alena Counters - Make your commander big then they make something else big every turn.

Sloguurk Self-Mill - mill yourself, make your commander big, draw lands from the graveyard, play them.

Ramp City Svella - Ramp ramp ramp, cast fatties, profit.

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. I think people put undue meaning on the idea of having one single canonical correct place for a topic. Classic FOMO.

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep! This library should help you get started.

https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of a character in The Expanse who gets illegal hormone gland implants that can be activated for a burst of heightened awareness. The drawback is twofold. When the activation wears off the user experiences debilitating nausea for several minutes. Over the long term the illegal part comes into play because you know those things aren't rated for health and safety. This character requires regular blood transfusions/dialysis due to toxin buildup from shoddy workmanship.

Anyway, that's an entire tangent. I'm excited to see if there are interesting complications from a doctor who's strapped with combat drugs of questionable ethics.

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

A fun fact about those furnace filters is that combined with your aver 20-22 inch box fan they're a cheap way of getting very clean air in your house with a Corsi-Rosenthal box. https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/

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I have long said that [[Svella]] is a "fixed" [[Golos]]. She essentially does the same thing by both ramping and drawing cards but doesn't give you five colors for no reason and serves as both an early and late game mana outlet.

It's a deck I often give to newer players because the gameplay is pretty well advertised by the commander.

What do you think of my deck?

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That's great! I was wary of the functionality of PWAs the first time I used them (fearing a lack of functionality) but it's been a breeze with every one so far.

Firefox for Android also has the "Install" feature although I don't know if that's technically a PWA or just a sandboxed browser window.

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We all have that deck that just survives even though it isn't the best. For me that's [[Torgaar, Famine Incarnate]]. It's not the best mono black commander in any way but its particular combination of effects to me is emblematic of mono black. It's a bit of a swiss army knife and so I find myself hard pressed to really change anything about the core of the deck.

What's your pet deck?

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hype for reprieve! It feels like a cards that should have been printed way back in Time Spiral block. It surprised me that it didn't already exist.

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Note that the rules text doesn't say "noted for ANY Long List of the Ents" it just says "Long List of the Ents". A strict interpretation of the English concludes that each instance of the cards has its own "list:.

This interpretation is supported by the Comprehensive rules as well. See here:

201.5. Text that refers to the object it's on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name, regardless of any name changes caused by game effects.

This is how cards normally function in Magic. See an exception that proves the rule: Cylian Sunsinger

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I'm personally excited to use LTR/LTC commander decks to get people into the game!

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The part about it being unforgivable sounds extreme. How can there be "consequences" for simply temporarily opting out of a chat app?

Losing touch with friends for a while definitely sucks but if you need a break from literally an app then real friends will accept that.

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https://i.imgur.com/elQSYKG.jpg

I finally did it. I went through the entire web fiction archive and turned it into EPUBs (except the NEO manga PDF).

330 "books", 2.24 GB

All stories have the proper metadata with title, author(s) and series (set/block/anthology) and include the proper cover image as shown on the MTG Story Archive here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story

Link

This is the link to the Google Drive containing the files. The anthologies and chapters are separated by folder so you can choose your preferred reading experience.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CKIzFmunFLEfPgBXyHw0exEnNelG-7Ja?usp=sharing

It was A LOT of work but made much easier using a variety of software tools to automate the most important steps.

README

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wNjwaW7YgHX4CQ_CblvD-W-_i1crzYr/view?usp=drive_link

Tools used

Future

In the future I may write custom software that would let me scrape a database of links and do every step automatically but that would take longer than the one whole day it took me to do this. There's is also no source that I know of that has a complete mostly of all free web fiction with working links. It's a mess on the mothership.

Enjoy!

[-] thecdc1995@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

To be fair about the archiving thing you have to consider that being able to make old data read only allows you to optimize a lot of things. With good engineering the allowance for archival should make the whole site faster and more stable. So sort of a soft feature.

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