I like your thinking, puffs. Rock is also the simplest, most basic, and most permanent of the three options, which could give the impression that it would have the most resolve and tenacity in this Mexican standoff of sorts. But alas, I'm fond of scissors.
You're totally right, Zaphrasz. And I'm starting to see a trend in this metagame towards rock. Thus, I think that the time is ripe for some countermeasures on the part of paper. I tend to root for the underdog, and so I'm definitely hoping for a papery comeback.
For what it's worth, paper is what made Magic possible, and without it, there wouldn't be any discussion here whatsoever.
Death waits in the gutters of beggars and the palaces of Kings.
Time, rain, wind, cheeseburgers, coffee, moths - all of these things may, and one of them shall, reduce paper to so much detritus.
Time, rust, use, glue, a dog chewing the handle - all of these things may, and one of them shall, reduce a pair of scissors to no more than that incredibly resilient and moderately lethal packaging that covers computing hardware.
But Rock. Noble Rock existed long before either paper or scissors, and shall remain, worn but unbeaten, when both have crumbled to dust: artifacts of a forgotten era, mused over by whatever alien equivalent of Kirk or Picard meets your fancy. Rock...Rock will endure. And Rock will conquer.
Looooooooooool Sigged.
I've always been a paper person myself mostly because I find the majority of people choose rock. Although rock seems like the sensible choice because if your opponent beats you you can punch them in the face with your already balled-up fist.
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The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. The use of rocks has had a huge impact on the cultural and technological development of the human race. Rocks have been used by humans and other hominids for more than 2 million years.
Thus rocks are the oldest and wisest of the 3. The most flexible and useful. Obviously they are superior to their man-made opponents. Without rocks there would be no paper or scissors.
Rock beating scissors makes sense because they can smash scissors and they can't cut rock.
Scissors beating paper also makes sense because scissors can just slice paper into millions of pieces and paper can't do nothing to scissors.
But Paper beat Rock? No Fricking Way! What is paper gonna do, it can't stop rock, rock can murder paper all day and paper still can't do squat.
It would make sense if it was Rock, Scissors, Dynamite with cuttable wick. But it's not, and paper can't do squat to rock. 'Nuff Said
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Why do I like posting in lists:
1. It allows me to express multiple thoughts without a need to write an essay or make multiple posts. 2. I tend to have multiple thoughts at the same time. 3. Having the right first opinion is sometimes more glorious than having a grammatically correct second opinion. 4. It allows you as a reader to pick out the most erroneous point and counter-comment, allowing you the chance to express an opinion and look like a sensible person when I sound like a dummy.
Obviously. (To the MTG newbies and n00bs, that's an allusion to Rock Slide. Never have truer or wiser words been uttered and never, ever will there be wiser words uttered.)
...not only is the total number of players expanding very quickly, but at the same time a greater and greater number of those players are being pushed to only desire a small subset of the available cards. These combined forces drastically increase demand for those cards and cause the values of just those specific cards to often balloon out of proportion.
Everything scares me... kitties scare me... squirrels scare me... corpses....corpses bring forth a pletora of confusing feeling which i prefer not to dwell on...:p
I'll just sit back and watch the results tally up.
For what it's worth, paper is what made Magic possible, and without it, there wouldn't be any discussion here whatsoever.
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Time, rain, wind, cheeseburgers, coffee, moths - all of these things may, and one of them shall, reduce paper to so much detritus.
Time, rust, use, glue, a dog chewing the handle - all of these things may, and one of them shall, reduce a pair of scissors to no more than that incredibly resilient and moderately lethal packaging that covers computing hardware.
But Rock. Noble Rock existed long before either paper or scissors, and shall remain, worn but unbeaten, when both have crumbled to dust: artifacts of a forgotten era, mused over by whatever alien equivalent of Kirk or Picard meets your fancy. Rock...Rock will endure. And Rock will conquer.
Looooooooooool Sigged.
I've always been a paper person myself mostly because I find the majority of people choose rock. Although rock seems like the sensible choice because if your opponent beats you you can punch them in the face with your already balled-up fist.
Modern:
GRB Jund BRG
RBU Grixis Delver UBR
Legacy:
W Death & Taxes W
GRB Punishing Jund BRG
GUR Canadian Threshold RUG
Commander:
RUG Maelstrom Wanderer GUR
Thus rocks are the oldest and wisest of the 3. The most flexible and useful. Obviously they are superior to their man-made opponents. Without rocks there would be no paper or scissors.
Rock beating scissors makes sense because they can smash scissors and they can't cut rock.
Scissors beating paper also makes sense because scissors can just slice paper into millions of pieces and paper can't do nothing to scissors.
But Paper beat Rock? No Fricking Way! What is paper gonna do, it can't stop rock, rock can murder paper all day and paper still can't do squat.
It would make sense if it was Rock, Scissors, Dynamite with cuttable wick. But it's not, and paper can't do squat to rock. 'Nuff Said
1. It allows me to express multiple thoughts without a need to write an essay or make multiple posts.
2. I tend to have multiple thoughts at the same time.
3. Having the right first opinion is sometimes more glorious than having a grammatically correct second opinion.
4. It allows you as a reader to pick out the most erroneous point and counter-comment, allowing you the chance to express an opinion and look like a sensible person when I sound like a dummy.
Obviously. (To the MTG newbies and n00bs, that's an allusion to Rock Slide. Never have truer or wiser words been uttered and never, ever will there be wiser words uttered.)
You use scissors in both First-Aid and surgery, meaning they are the only item on this list with the power to both kill and cure.
- Willy Wonka
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Rock can get the job done, sure, but it's just so messy. Paper deserves no consideration.
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