Another question: what about Skybind? If I whip a creature and play an enchantment, and exile my whipped creature with Skybind, will it permanently return my whipped creature to play during my end step?
I am working on brewing a Standard deck based around ETB effects. I had an idea, but wanted to see if it worked like I hope it would first.
Let's say I managed to Whip of Erebos an Ashen Rider into play. If I then exile my own Rider with Banishing Light and then bounce or destroy my Light, will it return my Rider to play?
Bought two boxes. One box only had Sorin, no fetches at all. Third pack out of the other box had a Polluted Delta and foiled Wooded Foothills. One pack nearly redeemed the whole box. Managed to pull out two foiled Treasure Cruises as well so far. On the whole, KTK has been pretty kind to me.
But then there was the trade after the prerelease when I traded two unopened boosters for a Bloodstained Mire. Kid opens them, pulls a Windswept Heath. Ah well, I'd still make that trade again.
"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man."
Are we the most dominant species on the planet? Clearly.
Are we also the most foolish and destructive species the planet has ever seen? Clearly.
Are we arrogant? Clearly.
Our great and complex civilization is one major "polar shift" or solar flare away from being completely wiped out. There are many potential vehicles for our complete extinction, (most of which are overdue to occur, historically speaking, such a a major asteroid strike, massive volcano eruption, or the aforementioned solar flare or polar shift) and I can assure you microorganisms will survive.
As for treating animals as we wish, sure, there's no force to stop you, or to make you reconsider, but the power to exploit nature's resources does not include the right to do so by necessity. Are other animal's rights greater than a human's? No. Morally I would place the life of a human before an animal. But suffering is not something we should seek to impose on other living things, and the resources of nature are finite.
I think claiming that humans are "greater" than any other species is an arrogant claim.
Counterpoint: if an alien species were to arrive on the planet en force, and impose its will over us with superior technology and civilization, would they have the right to do with humanity as they wished? How would that make you feel?
In standard, I'm leaning toward playing the role of Dementor of my own personal A(zka)/b(z)an. But the pre-release? I'm kind of leaning Mardu. Running with Act of Betrayal and then sacrificing to the crocodile pit or a butcher just seems terrible.
I think our definitions of "helicoptering" differ. That sounds like something else entirely is going on. I agree, once a parent is affecting children outside of their own, it needs to be either ignored or put a stop to.
It can be hard at a glance to tell how much "helicoptering" a kid needs. It's easy to pass a drive-by judgement on a parent, but that judgement is probably best unspoken.
I don't even consider a parent to be "helicoptering" until that child is an adult. Up until then, that child is the parent's business. Now, if a parent is demanding their child's college exam scores and arguing for points from professors, they've gone too far.
I have two kids, one is on the autism spectrum. I never imagined how much work it is, how expensive it is, and how little help and useful advice is available.
I know you all want a pro's opinion of this. I took a sweet video of myself giving and indepth view. I'll post the transcript here.
:15 combined minutes of myself saying "uhhh":
:Reads all text on every card, including flavor text and a quick chuckle:
:"Could be good, we'll have to see":
Too bad my camcorder died before I could convert the tape to digital.
Let's say I managed to Whip of Erebos an Ashen Rider into play. If I then exile my own Rider with Banishing Light and then bounce or destroy my Light, will it return my Rider to play?
But then there was the trade after the prerelease when I traded two unopened boosters for a Bloodstained Mire. Kid opens them, pulls a Windswept Heath. Ah well, I'd still make that trade again.
Are we the most dominant species on the planet? Clearly.
Are we also the most foolish and destructive species the planet has ever seen? Clearly.
Are we arrogant? Clearly.
Our great and complex civilization is one major "polar shift" or solar flare away from being completely wiped out. There are many potential vehicles for our complete extinction, (most of which are overdue to occur, historically speaking, such a a major asteroid strike, massive volcano eruption, or the aforementioned solar flare or polar shift) and I can assure you microorganisms will survive.
As for treating animals as we wish, sure, there's no force to stop you, or to make you reconsider, but the power to exploit nature's resources does not include the right to do so by necessity. Are other animal's rights greater than a human's? No. Morally I would place the life of a human before an animal. But suffering is not something we should seek to impose on other living things, and the resources of nature are finite.
I think claiming that humans are "greater" than any other species is an arrogant claim.
Counterpoint: if an alien species were to arrive on the planet en force, and impose its will over us with superior technology and civilization, would they have the right to do with humanity as they wished? How would that make you feel?
Edit: I made a list!
4 Battlefield Thaumaturge
3 Hypnotic Siren
4 Ornithopter
4 Soldier of the Pantheon
Non-Creature Spells:
4 Ensoul Artifact
2 Spear of Heliod
4 Triplicate Spirits
4 Hour of Need
2 Launch the Fleet
3 Curse of the Swine
4 Raise the Alarm
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
2 Mana Confluence
4 Plains
4 Temple of Enlightenment
4 Banishing Light
2 Deicide
3 Dissolve
3 Polymorphist's Jest
3 Polymorphous Rush
I don't even consider a parent to be "helicoptering" until that child is an adult. Up until then, that child is the parent's business. Now, if a parent is demanding their child's college exam scores and arguing for points from professors, they've gone too far.
Gurmag Swiftwing
1B
Creature - Bat
Flying, first strike, haste
"Anything a faclon can do, a bat can do in pitch darkness."
-Urdman the Wanderer
MBA has just got a vicious platform for all its bestow critters. Just, dang.
:15 combined minutes of myself saying "uhhh":
:Reads all text on every card, including flavor text and a quick chuckle:
:"Could be good, we'll have to see":
Too bad my camcorder died before I could convert the tape to digital.