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- Stoogeslap
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Dec 26, 2020
Stoogeslap posted a message on 2019 Holiday Exchange!Guessing this didn't happen this near. Didn't see any announcement.Posted in: Articles -
Dec 26, 2020
Stoogeslap posted a message on The End of an EraHey look... it didn't "close"... Heh, and this site's stronger than Nexus. Guess Nexus is a failed experiment.Posted in: Articles
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Nov 27, 2018
Stoogeslap posted a message on The Twelfth Annual MTGS Holiday Card Exchange!This has been a lot of fun each year that I have participated. I'd like to re-emphasize a point: please make sure you chose a nice, playable card. As silly as Vizzerdrix is, this over-costed vanilla blue dude is not playable, no matter how much you dress him up as Santa. I am not naming names, but I have gotten some really meh cards in the past that are still collecting cob webs in my binder. The card(s) do not necessarily need to be valuable, but at the least playable. You know how stokes I would be if I got a Sign in Blood that is pimped out.Posted in: Articles
Also (luckily I haven't seen this), please do not decorate HP or damaged cards. All the gorgeous artwork isn't going to make up for a crease from being bent in half or cover up the hole marks when your dog bit your Lightning Bolt.
Please do not cover up the text box w/ art or anything else. We will have seasoned players as well as the novice players (possibly) participating. Most of us know how Counterspell or Swords to Plowshares works, but some newer players who might be starting off w/ Standard may not know these cards, no matter how classic they are.
And lastly, this is important too, please takes photos of your cards before sending out because not everyone will post scans of what they got. I made this mistake last year and the lucky geek who got my alters still hasn't posted them (if you are reading this, it's never too late, lol).
Look forward to a lot (I hope) of participants. Let's make this the best Holiday Card Exchange the best one yet!!!
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Feb 7, 2014
Stoogeslap posted a message on MTGSalvation Update FAQMy gripes that I hope will/can be fixed:Posted in: Announcements
- Custom titles for the "archmage overlords" have been snipped to 30 characters or less and (to my experience), cannot have a color outside of black.
- Where did the itrader go? I used that a lot... needs to come back. I found something similar, but it asks for "one card" I am looking for. itrader could search up to 10 cards.
- The "curse premium" ad on the top... do not like to see a reminder about a service with a fee that doesn't add much to this particular site
- Thread that have new posts are no longer bolded... the bolded look gave a visual clue to new posts in the thread that I (the current user) has not seen.
- So far, there's not area/section at the bottom of a thread listing the members and guests reading/reviewing the thread.
- The fonts are too light (for the light skin). I'd like to see the fonts darken up a bit for easiness to read. The fonts are too thin as a whole, which makes the black appear dark gray.
- The "would you still like to leave this site..." Y/N bubble when going to a linked site. It is unnecessary.
- So far an image has to be really tiny to upload... a 16.2kb jpeg was "too big" to upload... what gives? -
Feb 4, 2014
Stoogeslap posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite card is Sensei's Divining Top... just being able to see what's coming to anticipate the new few moves is a big help. I actually played it a few nights ago in a casual game verses my girlfriend, and she actually voiced that she didn't like the card. She knew right away the edge it was giving me... and she's a new player!Posted in: Announcements
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And like I said, to push WotC's new keyword darling: Ward.
I like the legendary beholder... sort of giving off the Jabba-vibe. Also has something like a bully feel to it, like when it is out it pushes around opponents and takes their lunch money.
The design space is extremely large, like so large they'll run out of ideas when the 22nd century rolls around.
There can be a Pridemate w/ " hexproof, first strike, lifelink, flying (in white), in other creature types, can be on a 3/3 or a 4/4 body, can be a manland, a mana rock, etc... etc... etc... That was at least 8 variations w/ barely any thought put into that. Now take any other popular card type and rinse & repeat.
Betting that w/in the next decade an entire Pridemate Commander can be thrown together, complete w/ a legendary Pridemate. There's already planeswalker support.
Also, having all of it's protections could've been represented with shroud of hexproof. I think the massive ward is just to push the new, possibly evergreen keyword.
You made a joke and didn't even realize it... The Tarrasque has it's origins in French gothic folklore. Read about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque
But as we are at the beginning of preview season, there are many more chances for WotC to surprise me/us. They better, or this set will bomb (really not too impressed so far). Flavor-wise, w/ the classic D&D art and the "module" alternative art look are impressive, but good looks can only take a card so far; personality goes further.
This is an assumption, but the past dictates the future (mostly, will give a recent example why it's "mostly"). When new a new tribe is added in mass, there are usually a few different reasons all at once, such as heavily requested, opens up design space, clues to a not-so-distant future set, keeping things consistent (such as when they announced that if a creature is painted/drawn with wings, it'll have flying, as was the complaints about Blinking Spirit).
So I am betting more than naught that we'll see a return to Mirrodin or a Phyrexian Invasion on another plane w/in the next 2 years.
One case where this reasoning is most likely not the case (which feels more like either a meme, per se, or a goofy 1-off is Scuttletide, as I do not see having any more crab lords will come about (buuuuut, who knows... I may have some deep fried crow in the future; WotC have done Stranger Things...[like make "Contraptions" a real thing years after it was announced as a red herring {that was a joke, I meant to mislabel :rofl:}]).
And yet season 4 is coming out. For you, I hope they make a Brady Bunch Secret Lair... Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!!!