MTG Salvation

I really don't see rape there. I see strangling, of course. In context, it's a noble savage who got cursed by a death mage. Actually, the backstory is more sexist than this. (Garruk's story with Liliana is the G-rated version of Gilgamesh: After, ahem, meeting a woman*, Enkidu's animal friends were afraid of him.)

*So that's what they're calling it now?

Usually sexism in fantasy art comes in the form of a double standard in clothing. In Magic, sexism does show up in "female angel, male demon", and the clothing double standard sometimes. (For instance, in the original Mirrodin block, male Auriok wore armor while female Auriok wore lingerie.) Another issue is, is this build possible without surgery?

Tribal decks generally aren't good with EDH. (An exception is Rebels, but only because you can use Lin Sivvi as your general.)

I would, however, recommend a combo of Auramancer with repeatable flickering/recursion. It can be hilarious. Also, Captain Sisay answers Spin Into Myth like no other.

Also, consider spellshapers. Especially if you go with Sun Titan: Discard a land, then bring it out when the Titan attacks.

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What's the debate here, O Captain my Captain? Frivolous lawsuits?

Marketing-wise, you can't claim something is healthy if it isn't. "Functional foods" don't really promote health. One food is only part of a dietary pattern, and dietary patterns are only part of a lifestyle. The net result is stone soup: That stone is delicious, but only when you add beef, barley, tomato, potato, onion, and paprika. You know it's the stone that made your soup good.

Of course, the people who buy Nutella are the same people who say med schools don't teach prevention, then five seconds later, say vaccines cause autism.

I like to use "one of each". Though of course I don't end up using that many basics in general. Depends on my general. Obviously for Jaya Ballard, Lin Sivvi, Kemba, and the like, I'm using more basics than for Ghave, Thraximundar, or Rafiq. But since I'm fond of the ZEN common and rare lands (except for Magosi, the Waterveil, thank you very much), I tend to put one-of for them.

So I use as many different arts for basics as possible, just to get the EDH flavor.

I was more laughing at the article. The Chief Seattle speech (really from a PBS special in the 70s) is hilarious because of how cliché it is. Unfortunately, the clichés are based on plains Indians, and...the Salish ain't from the plains.

I have noticed a lot of the "green stuff" is pure woo, too. And most of it is also of the Sunday school of environmentalism.

Also, you don't make money to, well, make money. You print and coin money to have an easy medium for trade.

That said, it's annoying to have 99 coins, and one I can use in a vending machine ain't one.

Blue's weenies supposedly suck.

That's really all you need to know. Even at what blue's worst at, it's the best.

I'm a bit paranoid. If I see a player put his hand under the table, I assume *puts sunglasses on* he's doing a really bad Magic trick.

My worst pet peeve is pile shuffling.

I also have an annoying habit of reminding players that they tipped their hand a few turns ago. "No, I'm not going to equip that Infiltration Lens. I have one mana left, and you have a Dismember!"

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The power of the creatures/spells is there, but I still hate the enemy-colored land bases in Standard right now. I'm really hoping RTR/M13 brings us another cycle of enemy-colored lands.

Also, I'm a big fan of maindeck O-Ring. It's almost never a dead card.

Ravnica being Ravnica, I picture RTR giving us a ten-card cycle of duals. And everything else.

And yeah, I've never heard of a dead O-Ring.

If you want to proliferate, put Mickey 1.0 in your deck. Or the new card that gives everything on your side a +1/+1 counter every turn. (Can't remember its name.)

@Sioux:

The thing about it is, multicolor has to either 1) have abilities available to C and D, 2) have abilities available to both C and D, or 3) have abilities defined as such by the block (See, for instance, Alara: Red gets the graveyard? Black gets artifact synergy? Enchantment removal that doesn't have any green or white mana attached? Granted, Bolas costs 8 mana, but still...)

Abilities available to both C and D also allows for hybrids, and you can also allow some bleed here, usually by ensuring the hybrid player is playing both colors in some way. (In spells, you can make sure a certain color was used. In permanents, you look at the basic lands.)

And it should be noted that artifacts and hybrids are better places for bleed than monocolored cards.

I just wish each guild mechanic was coming back. Mikaeus, the Lunarch+graft=lulz.

Here's one for you:

Artifacts (8)
4 Liquimetal Coating
4 Sword of Feast and Famine

Creatures (12)
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Manic Vandal
4 Snapcaster Mage

Spells (16)
4 Ancient Grudge
4 Into the Core
4 Mana Leak
4 Ponder

Lands (24)

4 Copperline Gorge
4 Hinterland Harbor
4 Sulfur Falls
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Island
2 Mountain
2 Forest

I went 4-0 at FNM a few weeks ago with this deck.

The Borg aren't green. Q said specifically they were only interested in technology. They took pains to assimilate Picard just to show him what it was like to live as a Borg.

It's only later that they became a virus themselves. I'd say it was around the time of Voyager, which, depending on which Trekkie you ask, is either the worst spinoff or second-worst to Enterprise.

My biggest issues with green are this:

Flying Green is given anti-flying to balance green's poor flying. Green shouldn't have any creature removal that doesn't risk its own creatures, keeping with its Darwinist philosophy. (And no color should do stuff it can't normally do just as hosers. A red card saying "Destroy target white or blue enchantment." shouldn't exist; a red card saying "~ deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of enchantments that player controls." should exist.) Also, bees are definitely green. Possibly green/white. Hummingbirds fit this as well. All in all, Hurricane feels red, and Plummet feels black. We could complete the cycle by giving green "Counter target creature spell if it has flying." and "Exile target creature with flying.", or we could just admit it's bleed and move on.

(For the record, ghosts flying is more Halloween, and vampires flying was how Hollywood avoided having to pay Stoker's estate; they also made Orlok ugly while Dracula was a seducer.)

Artifact interaction in the last couple blocks I get that Scars was on Mirrodin and blah blah blah, but green in the original Mirrodin was mostly artifact hate. Green metalcraft and splicers really shouldn't exist.

But Innistrad is not an artifact block. Or, for that matter, a tribal set: Though it has more tribal themes than most blocks, it's nothing compared to Lorwyn or Onslaught (or even Mercadian Masques) in tribal mechanics. Yet, five artifacts want me to play human. Problem is, while humans are in all five colors, they're most concentrated in green, since green has humans and werewolves in large numbers. Granted, Heavy Mattock is strictly worse than Mirran swords, but it's also at common.

Critically, of every last card I just complained about for green/artifact synergy, only Ezuri's Brigade is rare.

I feel that while modality should be in each color, it should be primarily green/blue. Blue because blue is intelligent; green because green is adaptive.

(Red/black can get "opponent chooses" modality, though; this can be flavored out as "Unless you let me do X, I'll rip out your spine!" White seems to me the least modal color, just because it's the most dogmatic.)

Red's had this issue before. I think red's low point was Mercadian Masques. Kris Mage is possibly the worst direct damage card ever.

EDIT: I forgot, next set, we got Rath's Edge. But still, tapping, paying R and discarding a card for what blue can do with just a tap, in terms of direct damage, is stupid.

Within Standard right now, I'd say...

Phyrexian Vatmother: I love adding a Spirit Mantle to her, attacking, and saying "You have one more turn." Also, unless your opponent's also playing infect (or maybe Tempered Steel or slivers), the downside is getting one disregard this lol. Were there more wedge support, I might throw on an Assault Strobe.
Falkenrath Noble: I love to use this guy with Ghave, Guru of Spores in EDH.
Diregraf Ghoul Isamaru-sama, white is no longer best at weenies.

Simple answer to this original question:

Judas (Ioudas) is the Hellenized form of Judah. It also means "Jew". Judas enters the story in the ninth decade. Iscariot might refer to the sicarii, a group of Jewish resistance fighters, though its etymology is ultimately uncertain.

What we know is, you have a dude claiming to be the son of God, and the Romans know where he is.

There are a number of tropes present in the Judas story found elsewhere in the Bible as well.

So yeah, it was made up to foment antisemitism. Surprised?