I run slip because it's one of the few things that can take down the big indestructibles. Sure, the morbid triggers aren't always easy to manage, but it can be an answer to a TinkerBlightsteel Colossus.
When I was a distance runner in high school, I dislocated my ankle at the start of a 5k race by stepping in a hole. Finished the race, but had to be on crutches for a while.
I don't know what my worst fall was, but my scariest happened on the Cornell campus. I was walking to class on this path that hugs the edge of one of the gorges. It was super icy and my boots were old with little tread left. I fell and slid under the fence and over the edge of the gorge. I managed to grab the fence, so I didn't plummet the 50 feet or so to the bottom of the gorge. About half my body was hanging over thin air. It was frightening.
We used to run it, when it kills a monster it feels awesome but when it's -1-1 you feel like a ******* idiot for running it. Too inconsistent.
One time when I was drunk I fell down a flight of steps (15+ in total) and smashed my face into a basement floor-to-ceiling support pole at the bottom. Needed 12+ stitches as I tore my eyebrow open, have a nice lil' scar going through my brow.
I cut Tragic Slip a long time ago as well due to its lack of consistency, but I do run it in my Peasant cube.... for now. It's not completely useless as a combat trick when you're not triggering Morbid, but there are betteroptions for that as well.
I once fell of my bike while I was riding in the rain and cracked two ribs. It took me over two months for it to stop hurting to breathe.
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I don't run it for the same reasons stated above.
I came across this story this weekend. It's a little long, and not quite "Tragic", but worth the read anyways.
It's from an old English newspaper clipping
It appears that an English company owned a property in the West Indies. A violent storm damaged one of the buildings, and a man was sent to make repairs. Of his experience, he wrote the manager as follows:
“Respected Sir,
“When I got to the building, I found that the hurricane had knocked some bricks off the top. So I rigged up a beam with a pulley at the top of the building and hoisted up a couple of barrels full of bricks. When I had fixed the building, there was a lot of bricks left over.
“I hoisted the barrel back up again and secured the line at the bottom, and then went up and filled the barrel with extra bricks. Then I went to the bottom and cast off the line.
“Unfortunately, the barrel of bricks was heavier than I was, and before I knew what was happening the barrel started down, jerking me off the ground. I decided to hang on, and halfway up I met the barrel coming down and received a severe blow on the shoulder.
“I then continued to the top, banging my head against the beam and getting my finger jammed in the pulley. When the barrel hit the ground, it bursted its bottom, allowing all the bricks to spill out.
“I was now heavier than the barrel and so started down again at high speed. Halfway down, I met the barrel coming up and received severe injuries to my shins. When I hit the ground, I landed on the bricks, getting several painful cuts from the sharp edges.
“At this point I must have lost my presence of mind, because I let go of the line. The barrel then came down, giving me another heavy blow on the head and putting me in the hospital.
We never even tried Tragic Slip in cube. It just felt inconsistent, so not worth the effort. The only morbid card we currently run is Malicious Affliction, which is fine without the morbid trigger and extremely good with it. Tragic Slip is only playable if you can play with morbid active, so it was a safe pass. If only it was a better Disfigure, it would likely have a home.
I've had bad knees all my life, so I've taken some pretty bad falls. My funniest is probably the time that I thought it would be a good idea to stack chairs up in art class like chairs to climb up and hang my drawing on the wall. There were already several up there and I'm short and needed to get above the rest. Of course the chairs fell. I landed on my feet, but the art teacher was not pleased with my lack of judgment. My worst is definitely the time that I dislocated my knee. Had to to ride to the hospital in a truck without bucket seats with my very short (4'8") mother. Got to the hospital and had to have two nurses drag me out of the truck. This was very painful. One of them thought it'd be a good idea to prop my leg up in the wheel chair. It wasn't a good idea and this was also very painful. I did get a ton of morphine, though, so that was cool. I told a couple of the nurses how pretty they were (I was 14 at the time). And I made the doctor promise not to cut off my shorts when he came in to relocate the knee. Two nurses and my dad had to hold me down, but the doc knew what he was doing and the knee popped right back in. I was in a brace and on crutches nearly all summer that year, but it's given me a heck of a story.
I don't run it for the same reasons stated above.
I came across this story this weekend. It's a little long, and not quite "Tragic", but worth the read anyways.
It's from an old English newspaper clipping
It appears that an English company owned a property in the West Indies. A violent storm damaged one of the buildings, and a man was sent to make repairs. Of his experience, he wrote the manager as follows:
“Respected Sir,
“When I got to the building, I found that the hurricane had knocked some bricks off the top. So I rigged up a beam with a pulley at the top of the building and hoisted up a couple of barrels full of bricks. When I had fixed the building, there was a lot of bricks left over.
“I hoisted the barrel back up again and secured the line at the bottom, and then went up and filled the barrel with extra bricks. Then I went to the bottom and cast off the line.
“Unfortunately, the barrel of bricks was heavier than I was, and before I knew what was happening the barrel started down, jerking me off the ground. I decided to hang on, and halfway up I met the barrel coming down and received a severe blow on the shoulder.
“I then continued to the top, banging my head against the beam and getting my finger jammed in the pulley. When the barrel hit the ground, it bursted its bottom, allowing all the bricks to spill out.
“I was now heavier than the barrel and so started down again at high speed. Halfway down, I met the barrel coming up and received severe injuries to my shins. When I hit the ground, I landed on the bricks, getting several painful cuts from the sharp edges.
“At this point I must have lost my presence of mind, because I let go of the line. The barrel then came down, giving me another heavy blow on the head and putting me in the hospital.
“I respectfully request sick leave.”
This story shows up in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, too. One of those apocryphal stories that has made its rounds many, many times, but it's still hilarious.
I don't run Tragic Slip, although I love the flavor.
No major falls, except starting when I was an undergrad at the University of Chicago, I tend to take one big slip on ice every year. Not bad, all told.
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The flavor of tragic slip is morbidly funny, and reminds me on how old magic cards connect flavor with mechanics.
Tragic slip is in my pauper cube as it is fine killing 2/1's, and possibly larger ones.
In a regular cube there are lots of better options at higher rarities. (Malicious Affliction if you reaally like Morbid)
I fell down a flight of stairs and hit my head on a rock leaving a small scar on my brow.
I still like Vapors for medium-large sized cubes, and would probably play it at 630+ right now. I think it's still a good card, but there are more affordable/more flexible removal spells available that edge it out now.
I don't think I would cube it unless I went bigger or went deeper on stax but I remember when I was just starting to play magic and had my mind blown by this card.
I'm not a fan of vaping nicotine, seems like you should just quit altogether if your health conscience. The fact there are so many flavors its a bit weird to me, some feel especially aimed at kids to me sometimes.
I have a wee butane weed vaporiser, but it doesn't get used too often.
Consuming Vapors was my cut for Languish, Languish just has so much more board impact on more board states, and it gets it done faster for essentially the same mana cost. It's unfortunate to have cut yet another source of life gain in black, because there are somanywaystohurt yourself playing black, the life gain on Vapors was often just as relevant as the card/board advantage.
I went through hell trying to quit a pack-a-day smoking habit of 12 years the old-fashioned way not long before smoking indoors started getting banned everywhere in the US and SK, so I'm not sure if I would have tried vaping as a way to "quit" smoking or just let me "smoke" inside. I do know that I don't dare try vaping nicotine now, because I know it wouldn't take much for me to be hooked again. Pot's very illegal here in Korea, so vaping weed's never had a chance to take off here, but even if I could try it legally I still wouldn't bother. It's been a very long time since I've tried it in any form, but when I did it just made me feel awkward and dumb. Pot's safer in many ways than tobacco or alcohol for the people who enjoy it, so more power to anyone who does, but I'd still rather have a glass of wine or a cocktail any day.
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Vapors isn't bad, but is more of a flex option i.e. it's one of the last cards you're adding to your black section if you were making a cube from scratch. In some match ups it's really good, in others it's embarrassingly bad as 4 mana is a lot to pay for two edicts if the two edicts suck. (Tokens, no creatures, one creature.)
I don't vape, but I like it a lot. If the devices weren't so expensive I'd probably vape the nicotine-free juice as I like the taste and the process of smoking in general.
I don't think it's all that good. It seems great, 2 creatures for 4 mana, but it's the same problem as Cruel Edict which is that you don't decide what creature is getting sacrificed, so to make it most effective, they have to have 2 scary critters on the board, and not play another one that turn. Or one scary critter, and you use Vapors to kill it, and as a tempo shift to prevent them from dropping another.
I don't vape, and it kinda pisses me off how a lot of people act like it shouldn't follow similar rules to smoking, so they'll vape inside, causing nicotinic scum buildup all over tables and chairs and whatever else. It's disgusting.
I don't vape, and it kinda pisses me off how a lot of people act like it shouldn't follow similar rules to smoking, so they'll vape inside, causing nicotinic scum buildup all over tables and chairs and whatever else. It's disgusting.
I do security and people just assume they can use it anywhere they want, a lot of people don't seem to realise that vaping will set off a lot of smoke detectors just like a feg will so we are always having to stop them using them at events. It also causes the problem of if I'm far away and I see a cloud of what might be smoke I have to check it.
What annoys me most are those people who insist of blowing as obnoxiously large cloud of smoke as possible and making the area smell of whatever they happen to have decided they are smoking that day. I get that smoke smells worse but in some situations its more annoying because with a cigarette they wouldn't be pumping as much of it into the air as their lungs can manage.
I am still running Consuming Vapors at 600 cards. For the last few years, whenever I have to make a cut in black, I am looking at this card, but it has managed to stay in so far. The main reason is that it gives black decks lifegain, counteracting the common life payments in that color. And it can go into any type of black deck, so it is available to all archetypes/theatres. Another reason is that it is one of the few cubable edicts. Having an edict is nice when the opponent brings out a lonely hexproof or indestructible threat.
Never ran Consuming Vapors, probably simply because it wasn't in my collection when I started my cube, when I just used cards I had lying around, and it's not a card to chase after. Fine effect and all, but so are dozens of other black edict effects.
I've never been much of a smoker to begin with (just drunkenly at parties and a few cigars here and there, never bougth a pack of my own), but I've completely stopped years before vaping even became a thing.
I don't vape, and it kinda pisses me off how a lot of people act like it shouldn't follow similar rules to smoking, so they'll vape inside, causing nicotinic scum buildup all over tables and chairs and whatever else. It's disgusting.
I do security and people just assume they can use it anywhere they want, a lot of people don't seem to realise that vaping will set off a lot of smoke detectors just like a feg will so we are always having to stop them using them at events. It also causes the problem of if I'm far away and I see a cloud of what might be smoke I have to check it.
What annoys me most are those people who insist of blowing as obnoxiously large cloud of smoke as possible and making the area smell of whatever they happen to have decided they are smoking that day. I get that smoke smells worse but in some situations its more annoying because with a cigarette they wouldn't be pumping as much of it into the air as their lungs can manage.
I hear ya. I didn't experience a lot of vaping until I went for my graduate degree, and people were vaping inside all the time, and you could literally see the white scum build up on the black classroom tables, and these kids didn't think it was rude to be vaping like chimneys right next to people, and in their faces. The lack of conscience was astounding.
I worked in a distribution center for coca-cola, and my last year there some people started vaping, and were actively arguing that it wasn't like smoking a cigarette, so they should be allowed to vape on the floor, allowing that crap to fall on product. Disgusting and terrible. It was infuriating.
While I understand that it shouldn't be allowed in places of work at all for all the reasons mentioned, it really isn't like smoking a cigarette. You're not burning your lungs, you have a ton of cool/tasty flavors, you don't stink like an ash tray, you can choose nicotine free, really it seems like there are generally way more positives than negatives. Again, I agree that it's ridiculous to do it in an indoor public place or a work environment so this isn't really a counter-point, but I would consider letting someone vape at my place way more than letting anyone smoke a cigarette as a couple times doesn't leave much of anything whereas it only takes one or two cigarettes before your place stinks like a tray.
Yea totally I agree, vapings definitely way more healthy and doesn't have the stale smoke smell. I smoke and know that it's one of the worst habits to have. My complaints are mainly aimed at the inconsiderate vapers rather than vaping itself.
I play Consuming Vapors in my low power list. I still like it quite a bit there, but it's been edged out of the main cube.
As far as vaping goes, I've never tried it myself, but I can understand the appeal. I smoked a pack a day for about six years or so before quitting cold turkey. After that initial quit, I stayed quit for a few years before I ever touched a cigarette again. Since then I've been able to control myself and have one from time to time when I'm around other smokers and we're all drinking and partying and not really want one the next day. I truly enjoy the act of smoking though, so I can understand why people vape.
Glen Elendra is a great creature. She provide high levels of safety while beating down and usually granting card advantage. Makes maindecks very often. The mana cost of the card is deceiving - you really want to cast it with one blue mana open. She has a few combos with conspiracies too, producing a soft lock.
On top of my head, I really like Reclamation Sage. Splashable, good value and sometimes game saving.
When I was a distance runner in high school, I dislocated my ankle at the start of a 5k race by stepping in a hole. Finished the race, but had to be on crutches for a while.
I don't know what my worst fall was, but my scariest happened on the Cornell campus. I was walking to class on this path that hugs the edge of one of the gorges. It was super icy and my boots were old with little tread left. I fell and slid under the fence and over the edge of the gorge. I managed to grab the fence, so I didn't plummet the 50 feet or so to the bottom of the gorge. About half my body was hanging over thin air. It was frightening.
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One time when I was drunk I fell down a flight of steps (15+ in total) and smashed my face into a basement floor-to-ceiling support pole at the bottom. Needed 12+ stitches as I tore my eyebrow open, have a nice lil' scar going through my brow.
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I once fell of my bike while I was riding in the rain and cracked two ribs. It took me over two months for it to stop hurting to breathe.
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I came across this story this weekend. It's a little long, and not quite "Tragic", but worth the read anyways.
It's from an old English newspaper clipping
It appears that an English company owned a property in the West Indies. A violent storm damaged one of the buildings, and a man was sent to make repairs. Of his experience, he wrote the manager as follows:
“Respected Sir,
“When I got to the building, I found that the hurricane had knocked some bricks off the top. So I rigged up a beam with a pulley at the top of the building and hoisted up a couple of barrels full of bricks. When I had fixed the building, there was a lot of bricks left over.
“I hoisted the barrel back up again and secured the line at the bottom, and then went up and filled the barrel with extra bricks. Then I went to the bottom and cast off the line.
“Unfortunately, the barrel of bricks was heavier than I was, and before I knew what was happening the barrel started down, jerking me off the ground. I decided to hang on, and halfway up I met the barrel coming down and received a severe blow on the shoulder.
“I then continued to the top, banging my head against the beam and getting my finger jammed in the pulley. When the barrel hit the ground, it bursted its bottom, allowing all the bricks to spill out.
“I was now heavier than the barrel and so started down again at high speed. Halfway down, I met the barrel coming up and received severe injuries to my shins. When I hit the ground, I landed on the bricks, getting several painful cuts from the sharp edges.
“At this point I must have lost my presence of mind, because I let go of the line. The barrel then came down, giving me another heavy blow on the head and putting me in the hospital.
“I respectfully request sick leave.”
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I've had bad knees all my life, so I've taken some pretty bad falls. My funniest is probably the time that I thought it would be a good idea to stack chairs up in art class like chairs to climb up and hang my drawing on the wall. There were already several up there and I'm short and needed to get above the rest. Of course the chairs fell. I landed on my feet, but the art teacher was not pleased with my lack of judgment. My worst is definitely the time that I dislocated my knee. Had to to ride to the hospital in a truck without bucket seats with my very short (4'8") mother. Got to the hospital and had to have two nurses drag me out of the truck. This was very painful. One of them thought it'd be a good idea to prop my leg up in the wheel chair. It wasn't a good idea and this was also very painful. I did get a ton of morphine, though, so that was cool. I told a couple of the nurses how pretty they were (I was 14 at the time). And I made the doctor promise not to cut off my shorts when he came in to relocate the knee. Two nurses and my dad had to hold me down, but the doc knew what he was doing and the knee popped right back in. I was in a brace and on crutches nearly all summer that year, but it's given me a heck of a story.
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This story shows up in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, too. One of those apocryphal stories that has made its rounds many, many times, but it's still hilarious.
I don't run Tragic Slip, although I love the flavor.
No major falls, except starting when I was an undergrad at the University of Chicago, I tend to take one big slip on ice every year. Not bad, all told.
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Tragic slip is in my pauper cube as it is fine killing 2/1's, and possibly larger ones.
In a regular cube there are lots of better options at higher rarities. (Malicious Affliction if you reaally like Morbid)
I fell down a flight of stairs and hit my head on a rock leaving a small scar on my brow.
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I'm not a fan of vaping nicotine, seems like you should just quit altogether if your health conscience. The fact there are so many flavors its a bit weird to me, some feel especially aimed at kids to me sometimes.
I have a wee butane weed vaporiser, but it doesn't get used too often.
I went through hell trying to quit a pack-a-day smoking habit of 12 years the old-fashioned way not long before smoking indoors started getting banned everywhere in the US and SK, so I'm not sure if I would have tried vaping as a way to "quit" smoking or just let me "smoke" inside. I do know that I don't dare try vaping nicotine now, because I know it wouldn't take much for me to be hooked again. Pot's very illegal here in Korea, so vaping weed's never had a chance to take off here, but even if I could try it legally I still wouldn't bother. It's been a very long time since I've tried it in any form, but when I did it just made me feel awkward and dumb. Pot's safer in many ways than tobacco or alcohol for the people who enjoy it, so more power to anyone who does, but I'd still rather have a glass of wine or a cocktail any day.
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I don't vape, but I like it a lot. If the devices weren't so expensive I'd probably vape the nicotine-free juice as I like the taste and the process of smoking in general.
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I don't vape, and it kinda pisses me off how a lot of people act like it shouldn't follow similar rules to smoking, so they'll vape inside, causing nicotinic scum buildup all over tables and chairs and whatever else. It's disgusting.
I do security and people just assume they can use it anywhere they want, a lot of people don't seem to realise that vaping will set off a lot of smoke detectors just like a feg will so we are always having to stop them using them at events. It also causes the problem of if I'm far away and I see a cloud of what might be smoke I have to check it.
What annoys me most are those people who insist of blowing as obnoxiously large cloud of smoke as possible and making the area smell of whatever they happen to have decided they are smoking that day. I get that smoke smells worse but in some situations its more annoying because with a cigarette they wouldn't be pumping as much of it into the air as their lungs can manage.
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I've never been much of a smoker to begin with (just drunkenly at parties and a few cigars here and there, never bougth a pack of my own), but I've completely stopped years before vaping even became a thing.
Vaping isn't my thing.
I hear ya. I didn't experience a lot of vaping until I went for my graduate degree, and people were vaping inside all the time, and you could literally see the white scum build up on the black classroom tables, and these kids didn't think it was rude to be vaping like chimneys right next to people, and in their faces. The lack of conscience was astounding.
I worked in a distribution center for coca-cola, and my last year there some people started vaping, and were actively arguing that it wasn't like smoking a cigarette, so they should be allowed to vape on the floor, allowing that crap to fall on product. Disgusting and terrible. It was infuriating.
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As far as vaping goes, I've never tried it myself, but I can understand the appeal. I smoked a pack a day for about six years or so before quitting cold turkey. After that initial quit, I stayed quit for a few years before I ever touched a cigarette again. Since then I've been able to control myself and have one from time to time when I'm around other smokers and we're all drinking and partying and not really want one the next day. I truly enjoy the act of smoking though, so I can understand why people vape.
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On top of my head, I really like Reclamation Sage. Splashable, good value and sometimes game saving.
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