I'm starting to hate passwords. You get the standard talk about the strong passwords. Don't use anything in any dictionary, start with a letter, use numbers, capitals, and symbols and whatknot. So you make a real complex strong password then proceed to signing up to all sorts of aplications. Then you discover that not every application has the same requirements for passwords. So you alter and change stuff slightly untill you have a dozen or so nearly identical but not quite the same passwords for dozens of applications. My heads about to explode.
The thing that I find best is to have 8 or so unique passwords for the various requirements. So, have two 8 character passwords (one with lowercase and numbers, one the same but with some letters uppercase) two 12 character password of the same type, a pair of 16 character passwords, and then a few "throwaway" ones for sites that you don't trust your password to be kept secure.
My school however is suddenly demanding we all change our current passwords to ones that meet a certain definition of strong. Now, I'm not opposed to this, and indeed I have very strong password to begin with. But when a 12 character password that has 2 numbers, 4 uppercase characters, and 6 lowercase characters, that was created by a random character generator and thus has no dictionary components, whatsoever, fails at being secure enough for them, that's when I get pissed.
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Damn I love MTG, I wish I didn't suck so bad at it. I guess I am more of a collector than a player. ..Hell, I know I am. All I seem to do is throw money into my collection. The last time I played was in November. I wish I had more friends that played. I am feeling kinda bummed about it. I have thousands of great cards, but neither the knowledge to make a good deck or the people to play with. The 13 or so decks I have are decent I think. They are competitive against eachother. But I don't know anyone who has a deck other than myself, so whenever I do play, I am playing against another one of my own decks. It gets old. And there is no way to really improve.
My best friend is celebrating his wife's birthday tonight. All of those friends are drinkers tho, so I guess I won't be attending.
I have 2 episodes left of Lost season 3. I don't wanna watch them. I don't want it to be over. No telling how long it'll be until season 4 is out on dvd. Hell I don't even think it has aired yet. My next dvd to watch is season 6 of 24 i guess.
I am in a bad mood right now..
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Hi everyone!! I know this is really out of the blue but just letting everyone know I'm still alive. In college and doing well. It's nice to see how much of the clan remains and that things are going well. Also haven't forgotten you guys.
DUX, hang in there and keep up the good work. 70 days is awesome and you seem to be doing really well. Sucks that you're in a bad mood right now but try to enjoy your season of 24. *hugs*
BD, I don't think I could ever put that much effort into freaking passwords. I've got a few good ones, but to organize them so takes serious commitment. Good for you though, noone's hacking your comp.
And Daggs, thanks for the warning to stay away from Fuze.
Damn I love MTG, I wish I didn't suck so bad at it. I guess I am more of a collector than a player. ..Hell, I know I am. All I seem to do is throw money into my collection. The last time I played was in November. I wish I had more friends that played. I am feeling kinda bummed about it. I have thousands of great cards, but neither the knowledge to make a good deck or the people to play with. The 13 or so decks I have are decent I think. They are competitive against eachother. But I don't know anyone who has a deck other than myself, so whenever I do play, I am playing against another one of my own decks. It gets old. And there is no way to really improve.
My best friend is celebrating his wife's birthday tonight. All of those friends are drinkers tho, so I guess I won't be attending.
I have 2 episodes left of Lost season 3. I don't wanna watch them. I don't want it to be over. No telling how long it'll be until season 4 is out on dvd. Hell I don't even think it has aired yet. My next dvd to watch is season 6 of 24 i guess.
I am in a bad mood right now..
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Season 4 of LOST is currently airing, they've done 3 or 4 episodes thus far. So far, it's the best season since the first season.
DUX, jj is piloting N00bstax, which is hatestuff - Ghostly Prison, Root Maze, Trinisphere, Thorn of Amethyst, Living Wish with hatey targets SB'd. What I'd play if I had $200 to blow on cool rare lands
Ahaaa, now I starting understand you decision play this deck, yes?!?!
ok...so I didn't do as well as I would've liked. I'll post the issues I had later tonight. One of the things I had a hard time with was Rock. Dredge was a non issue. Affinity was tough, but it was certainly beatable. Goblins was just too fast. I think With gobos I need a faster way to get Ghostly Prison in play. I'll do some thinking on a way to beat all these today. Doran was a non issue as well. Even though I didn't beat the one deck I saw, I made some stupid play mistakes and lost on my own accord.
I still love the deck...and I think with a couple of tweaks I should have it perfect for GP Philly in March. More real testing too.
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Ahaaa, now I starting understand you decision play this deck, yes?!?!
The man who wrote that was pissed freakin' drunk.
Adam slept on the couch and now it's a gorgeous bright sunny day here. We have the windows open to let in cool fresh "feels like almost spring" air, and going to play some 3 player Magic. Curt would join Adam sammy and I, but he's puking his guts out every few minutes.
Why I woke up after 3 hours and started my day, I'll never know. Oh well, Magic calls!
Hey lil Akroma, nice to see you around. feel free to drop by more often. And yes, stay away from Fuze.....although, it does taste wonderful. I mean maybe one more wont do what the last few have done....
I've decided to make a GB type 2 elf deck. Mainly because I have alot of those cards. I'll miss my smallpox deck, but I don't think it will work with this build. I perused the type 2 forum and read a few pages...(or just two pages, it got boring)...of they typical elf deck going right now. I need to get four of that elvish champion and maybe goyf and thoughtsieze. Maybe I'll finish this type 2 deck before Timespiral rotates out and actualy play it competatively. It would be a first for me considering I never get these things done.
Cheers,
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I have 3 Extra Thoughtseize, Chris. You're welcome to use them. I also have 2-3 extra Garruk, and I'm pretty sure you should be running 3 copies of that card in any deck in Standard. Doug at the card store will always sell a PS of Tarmogoyf for $100, which is, by far, the best price you're going to find. Now that you're working at GD and on your way to making a real salary, $100 will be no problem for you. Then once you get out of training you'll be able to go to FNM all of the time.
Elves are hot sellers, Chris! Green moreso than black, from my experience. But definitely a huge force in block and Standard. I made an Elf deck but it's Lorwyn only so far, and mono-green, and not very good. I need to update it.
Caught up on shipping now
Gonna add foils to inventory in the next couple days, that'll be good.
But for now, I'm off to my ex's to spend the day with my boys!
Hey guys, I've been really busy with school and stuff. Deadlines are approaching at ever increasing speeds... needless to say, I've got a bit on. Please forgive me if I'm a little inactive over the next few weeks.
jj, you got to pm me with your beats asap. Am I underestimating Goblins?
Anyway! Who has dibs on the next thread? I reckon we did good in these 7 pages - got a Diggy ensnared, Akroma came in hasted + attacked for 6 to the dome, Daggertooth re-invented campstoves + won the thread making fun of math rock. Let's move on, we have important Clan business to discuss. Let's doittoit, yehs.
I have 3 Extra Thoughtseize, Chris. You're welcome to use them. I also have 2-3 extra Garruk, and I'm pretty sure you should be running 3 copies of that card in any deck in Standard. Doug at the card store will always sell a PS of Tarmogoyf for $100, which is, by far, the best price you're going to find. Now that you're working at GD and on your way to making a real salary, $100 will be no problem for you. Then once you get out of training you'll be able to go to FNM all of the time.
Elvish Champion is a fairly cheap card.
lol, I may eventualy start making money with this job, but I can't imagine being in a situation where $100 is no problem for me. I'll probably just trade till I get what I want. I do have decent stuff despite the fact I never carry it with me.
I think the next priority past the bills and loans are some new Hiking boots. I complained back last may about how horribly shoddy the Columbia boots were and I am still wearing them. They've blown out both sides of each boots, have huge tears running on the inside of them, and even the rubber on the bottom have been eaten away. High time I replace them I suppose. Maybe in a few months though. At the moment I'm a bit concerned about my next months payments.
Cheers,
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I'd vote Conquer. Necropotence and Animate dead have strong history in magic. Animate Dead is a personal favorite and an old staple. Oldschool recursion was often charicterized by going second, discarding on purpose, then animate dead on turn three. It was the precurser to an entire arch-type. I don't think I need to say anything about the impact Necropotence has had on the game. It was a staple in several decks that defined their format. At best you may consider Conquer as representative of land destruction in Magic, but thats streaching it so I vote Conquer.
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I think the next priority past the bills and loans are some new Hiking boots.
Hey man, when you decide which ones you're going to buy, let me know. I'm going to buy whatever ones you do, unless you tell me they're only suitable for the advanced hiker or somesuch. I haven't owned a good pair of hiking boots in many years and I plan to do more hiking again. You do the research for yourself, and just drop a name when you're ready! Thanks man!
I'll consider the contest although at first glance I was thinking Necropotence for being narrow, broken, and destructive to the design space around it.
Chris, I work there too, don't forget. You're underestimating how much money you'll make. In fairness, I did the same thing, but still. You made what like, 15K in the last year, before taxes? You'll makes 2-3 times that at GoDaddy, at least. Plus after 3 months you get full benefits with only a 10% co-pay, at no cost to you whatsoever(including dental and vision, I know you said something about needing to go to the dentist), which helps keep down costs because of illness, etc, significantly.
I am bored. I have work to do but I don't feel like doing it. Work sucks. I have been chewing on the same stir-straw for over an hour; pacing back and forth. ..Will 5-o'clock ever come?
I went to my place last night and p/u all my TS block cards, took them home and began looking through them. Wow, I have a lot of cards. I have playsets of most everything. I learned that I have a FOIL playset of Thornweald Archers!! That's cool, I love FOIL playsets, especially of playable cards! I added those to my W/G anti-flyer deck.
I love MTG, someone please get on IM and play me tonight. I want a game at 6pm central.
EDS: I can buy a FOIL playset of 10th ***'s for $122 shipped. Do you think I should?
EDS2: And where the hell is anybody? I want an IM game..
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I think Necropotence is weak sauce. Nobody got it, not even the people who made it. Then it broke a summer in half, + you either played it, or tried to hate it out. Even then, R&D's "fixed" version was arguably even more stupid (Yawgmoth's Bargain), + they realized half the problem was Dark Ritual, so that became a casualty too.
Somebody needs to put this thread out of its misery, page 8 is looming
Pretty sure it's Laika or Yuke's shot. Laika, we still trading? Yukora, make a new thread!
Lando is fantastic, ta for asking! He's very much a morning person, which means I don't get to see him being his most sparkly through the week. The hot weather last few days made him especially grizzly in the afternoons, but he slept fine despite the heat. Funny that when the change came last night, he woke up squalin' - not one for the cold, this boy.
He ate a cherry tomato right off the vine this afternoon - looked quite please when it went *pop* in his mouth.
Big news is he's heavy enough to sit in a proper car seat, my mom dropped us a big $ for it at Christmas, we've just been waiting to put it in (he's had enough head control for yonks, just not fat enough 'til this month).
Thanks for the condolences Brian....I will be fine though. I think I'll stash a couple of Wrath of God's in there for good keeping.
I can't let Necro go....I'm sorry. The first real amazing deck I put together for casual group play was with Necro before anyone figured the card out. Right when Ice Age was released I saw that card and flipped out. I grabbed Elkin Bottle, Zur's Weirding, Ivory Tower, Fasting, Necropotence, and a lot of counterspells and put together a group sized lockdown with Mahamoti Djinn on the board. With all of that life gain and the fact that I didn't actually "DRAW" a card I could keep anyone from drawing anything new with Zur's on the board. Fasting was the bomb in that deck. The group game scene allowed me enough time to get the engine running. It was a great time by all. Not really....since I dictated what everyone kept when they drew. Syphon Soul was a great card in those games and well......ahhhh the good old days.
* jonnyjonski goes to refresh his mind about what's left.......
Oh yeah....I can't really see how Conquer is a defining card. I think that one needs to go. I agree that it is an early style Annex, but red was so used to blowing things up back then. The card just never made an impact in the possitive or negative for the game. As matter of fact, The card hasn't really been seen since 7th edition, and even then no one played that damn thing.:-/
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So cute Brian! Could you live in a nicer-looking area, though? That's so grubby, with the crystal blue water to the horizon, etc.
Jonski, we're not judging on power level alone, this round.
Consider what each of these cards has brought to the game, the design space they take up.
Consider the flavour in contrast to the function, their relation to the colour pie.
Consider where these cards led to.
Consider how these cards interact with the card pool they were made for, the card pool that we have now, the possibilities for the future.
Consider how much fun each is to play, or to play against.
To me, Conquer brought interesting design space to the game. It was one of the original enchant lands, a card type that has led to plenty of great design even till this day. The pie-corrected card Annex was a tournament staple at some points. I even think Conquer made the subtle point, way back when, that red can not only explode things, but sometimes it can even gain control of them. Another thing to mention when talking about design is elegance. Necro and Animate Dead have had many errata and still don't work well within the rules. Conquer has them both beat in the elegance department. "You control enchanted land."
Conquer has plenty of flavour from the card name to the art to the flavour text.
It led to red being the second best "gain control of" colour AND it led to Annex and similar cards. Necro led to.... something else equally impossible to balance correctly.
I do believe it loses in the last category "fun to play". I do have 4 of them in my legacy LD deck and I do enjoy them when I get to 5 mana, but that said I would probably rather combo out off a Necropotence.
All told, I think looking at Conquer in light of the guidelines for the round is negligent.
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I let people jerk me around too much.
...After some thought I think I do it to myself. Damn jail f'ed me up not being on my meds. I just need to hang in there a few weeks until it is back in my system.
If anyone wants to get STOMPED in some IM MTG I am here.
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I bought the FOIL playset of 10th ***'s!! W00T!!
Lora just called me. I have decided it is best to try to stop liking her. Unfortunatly that is a very hard thing for me to do. I never been good at ignoring or demoting my feelings for someone. She is a good person but she isn't what I need. I was right. She hasn't hit her bottom yet and I fear she will. I don't want to be dragged down with her or see her go through it. It is a hard pill to swallow. I may be able to admit it, but I don't think I can except it yet. I am just a very lonely person reaching out for love, sex and companionship. Maybe I'll be able to think more clearly after my meds kick back in.
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We are still trading, I'm just way entirely too busy these past couple... forever to keep up with everything. I just got my first official student, so I'm getting all in line for that, and well, beyond that, without taking the next 45 minutes to type, life is kind of crazy sometimes, and occasionally I trip and fall off the face of the planet.
I need to crash now, as it's been a long day, but I'll do my best to power through everything tomorrow at some point.
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The thing that I find best is to have 8 or so unique passwords for the various requirements. So, have two 8 character passwords (one with lowercase and numbers, one the same but with some letters uppercase) two 12 character password of the same type, a pair of 16 character passwords, and then a few "throwaway" ones for sites that you don't trust your password to be kept secure.
My school however is suddenly demanding we all change our current passwords to ones that meet a certain definition of strong. Now, I'm not opposed to this, and indeed I have very strong password to begin with. But when a 12 character password that has 2 numbers, 4 uppercase characters, and 6 lowercase characters, that was created by a random character generator and thus has no dictionary components, whatsoever, fails at being secure enough for them, that's when I get pissed.
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My best friend is celebrating his wife's birthday tonight. All of those friends are drinkers tho, so I guess I won't be attending.
I have 2 episodes left of Lost season 3. I don't wanna watch them. I don't want it to be over. No telling how long it'll be until season 4 is out on dvd. Hell I don't even think it has aired yet. My next dvd to watch is season 6 of 24 i guess.
I am in a bad mood right now..
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DUX, hang in there and keep up the good work. 70 days is awesome and you seem to be doing really well. Sucks that you're in a bad mood right now but try to enjoy your season of 24. *hugs*
BD, I don't think I could ever put that much effort into freaking passwords. I've got a few good ones, but to organize them so takes serious commitment. Good for you though, noone's hacking your comp.
And Daggs, thanks for the warning to stay away from Fuze.
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Ahaaa, now I starting understand you decision play this deck, yes?!?!
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I still love the deck...and I think with a couple of tweaks I should have it perfect for GP Philly in March. More real testing too.
jonny
Robynn...hey sexy. I miss your banter. Stop in anytime, cat.
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The man who wrote that was pissed freakin' drunk.
Adam slept on the couch and now it's a gorgeous bright sunny day here. We have the windows open to let in cool fresh "feels like almost spring" air, and going to play some 3 player Magic. Curt would join Adam sammy and I, but he's puking his guts out every few minutes.
Why I woke up after 3 hours and started my day, I'll never know. Oh well, Magic calls!
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I've decided to make a GB type 2 elf deck. Mainly because I have alot of those cards. I'll miss my smallpox deck, but I don't think it will work with this build. I perused the type 2 forum and read a few pages...(or just two pages, it got boring)...of they typical elf deck going right now. I need to get four of that elvish champion and maybe goyf and thoughtsieze. Maybe I'll finish this type 2 deck before Timespiral rotates out and actualy play it competatively. It would be a first for me considering I never get these things done.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Elvish Champion is a fairly cheap card.
Caught up on shipping now
Gonna add foils to inventory in the next couple days, that'll be good.
But for now, I'm off to my ex's to spend the day with my boys!
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Round 6 is on - have to read the crit y'self @_@
jj, you got to pm me with your beats asap. Am I underestimating Goblins?
Anyway! Who has dibs on the next thread? I reckon we did good in these 7 pages - got a Diggy ensnared, Akroma came in hasted + attacked for 6 to the dome, Daggertooth re-invented campstoves + won the thread making fun of math rock. Let's move on, we have important Clan business to discuss. Let's doittoit, yehs.
lol, I may eventualy start making money with this job, but I can't imagine being in a situation where $100 is no problem for me. I'll probably just trade till I get what I want. I do have decent stuff despite the fact I never carry it with me.
I think the next priority past the bills and loans are some new Hiking boots. I complained back last may about how horribly shoddy the Columbia boots were and I am still wearing them. They've blown out both sides of each boots, have huge tears running on the inside of them, and even the rubber on the bottom have been eaten away. High time I replace them I suppose. Maybe in a few months though. At the moment I'm a bit concerned about my next months payments.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
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I'd vote Conquer. Necropotence and Animate dead have strong history in magic. Animate Dead is a personal favorite and an old staple. Oldschool recursion was often charicterized by going second, discarding on purpose, then animate dead on turn three. It was the precurser to an entire arch-type. I don't think I need to say anything about the impact Necropotence has had on the game. It was a staple in several decks that defined their format. At best you may consider Conquer as representative of land destruction in Magic, but thats streaching it so I vote Conquer.
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I'm going to have to get Mike's backup on this one, but I believe the majority of scientists believe time to be constant.
Nevertheless, catch you when you're back
Hey man, when you decide which ones you're going to buy, let me know. I'm going to buy whatever ones you do, unless you tell me they're only suitable for the advanced hiker or somesuch. I haven't owned a good pair of hiking boots in many years and I plan to do more hiking again. You do the research for yourself, and just drop a name when you're ready! Thanks man!
I'll consider the contest although at first glance I was thinking Necropotence for being narrow, broken, and destructive to the design space around it.
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I went to my place last night and p/u all my TS block cards, took them home and began looking through them. Wow, I have a lot of cards. I have playsets of most everything. I learned that I have a FOIL playset of Thornweald Archers!! That's cool, I love FOIL playsets, especially of playable cards! I added those to my W/G anti-flyer deck.
I love MTG, someone please get on IM and play me tonight. I want a game at 6pm central.
EDS: I can buy a FOIL playset of 10th ***'s for $122 shipped. Do you think I should?
EDS2: And where the hell is anybody? I want an IM game..
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Saw Jumper last night.... not really recommended, sorry.
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I think Necropotence is weak sauce. Nobody got it, not even the people who made it. Then it broke a summer in half, + you either played it, or tried to hate it out. Even then, R&D's "fixed" version was arguably even more stupid (Yawgmoth's Bargain), + they realized half the problem was Dark Ritual, so that became a casualty too.
Somebody needs to put this thread out of its misery, page 8 is looming
Holy crap, I need to shave. I'm itchy! :-S
Brian, how is Lando?
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Lando is fantastic, ta for asking! He's very much a morning person, which means I don't get to see him being his most sparkly through the week. The hot weather last few days made him especially grizzly in the afternoons, but he slept fine despite the heat. Funny that when the change came last night, he woke up squalin' - not one for the cold, this boy.
He ate a cherry tomato right off the vine this afternoon - looked quite please when it went *pop* in his mouth.
Big news is he's heavy enough to sit in a proper car seat, my mom dropped us a big $ for it at Christmas, we've just been waiting to put it in (he's had enough head control for yonks, just not fat enough 'til this month).
Thanks for the condolences Brian....I will be fine though. I think I'll stash a couple of Wrath of God's in there for good keeping.
I can't let Necro go....I'm sorry. The first real amazing deck I put together for casual group play was with Necro before anyone figured the card out. Right when Ice Age was released I saw that card and flipped out. I grabbed Elkin Bottle, Zur's Weirding, Ivory Tower, Fasting, Necropotence, and a lot of counterspells and put together a group sized lockdown with Mahamoti Djinn on the board. With all of that life gain and the fact that I didn't actually "DRAW" a card I could keep anyone from drawing anything new with Zur's on the board. Fasting was the bomb in that deck. The group game scene allowed me enough time to get the engine running. It was a great time by all. Not really....since I dictated what everyone kept when they drew. Syphon Soul was a great card in those games and well......ahhhh the good old days.
* jonnyjonski goes to refresh his mind about what's left.......
Oh yeah....I can't really see how Conquer is a defining card. I think that one needs to go. I agree that it is an early style Annex, but red was so used to blowing things up back then. The card just never made an impact in the possitive or negative for the game. As matter of fact, The card hasn't really been seen since 7th edition, and even then no one played that damn thing.:-/
Jonski, we're not judging on power level alone, this round.
To me, Conquer brought interesting design space to the game. It was one of the original enchant lands, a card type that has led to plenty of great design even till this day. The pie-corrected card Annex was a tournament staple at some points. I even think Conquer made the subtle point, way back when, that red can not only explode things, but sometimes it can even gain control of them. Another thing to mention when talking about design is elegance. Necro and Animate Dead have had many errata and still don't work well within the rules. Conquer has them both beat in the elegance department. "You control enchanted land."
Conquer has plenty of flavour from the card name to the art to the flavour text.
It led to red being the second best "gain control of" colour AND it led to Annex and similar cards. Necro led to.... something else equally impossible to balance correctly.
I do believe it loses in the last category "fun to play". I do have 4 of them in my legacy LD deck and I do enjoy them when I get to 5 mana, but that said I would probably rather combo out off a Necropotence.
All told, I think looking at Conquer in light of the guidelines for the round is negligent.
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I let people jerk me around too much.
...After some thought I think I do it to myself. Damn jail f'ed me up not being on my meds. I just need to hang in there a few weeks until it is back in my system.
If anyone wants to get STOMPED in some IM MTG I am here.
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I bought the FOIL playset of 10th ***'s!! W00T!!
Lora just called me. I have decided it is best to try to stop liking her. Unfortunatly that is a very hard thing for me to do. I never been good at ignoring or demoting my feelings for someone. She is a good person but she isn't what I need. I was right. She hasn't hit her bottom yet and I fear she will. I don't want to be dragged down with her or see her go through it. It is a hard pill to swallow. I may be able to admit it, but I don't think I can except it yet. I am just a very lonely person reaching out for love, sex and companionship. Maybe I'll be able to think more clearly after my meds kick back in.
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
I need to crash now, as it's been a long day, but I'll do my best to power through everything tomorrow at some point.
When you cross my mind you'd best look both ways.