I am happy this amazing card is eliciting the joy it should. It's ever so slightlyyyy tough to play in Modern, but it's a beautiful guy, that's for sure.
I'm terrified and sick to my stomach. If you aren't, please consider helping those who are: if you believe in your candidate, now's the time to explain it kindly and firmly and heal the nation. If you'd prefer to cackle and celebrate misery, consider what in life made you this way and check if you are in fact a bad person.
As a Jewish American, for the first time in my life, I've experienced anti-semitism directly tied to Trump supporters. I get tweets with Swastikas, images of cartoon Jews being shot, gassed, Holocaust deniers, threats, all from Alt Right Trump supporters. David Duke is a big supporter. He's endorsed by the American Nazi Party and the Daily Stormer enthusiastically. Trump is whipping up hate and terror at such enormous quantities that I am afraid for this country. I am physical ill.
If you're a Trump supporter and not actively a Neo Nazi, I'm delighted to hear it. But I say with no exaggeration that the two are deeply linked and for the first time in my life I am deeply fearful. Google if you doubt me.
I'm trying to write a novel that involves Quantum Mysticism heavily: would be curious if anyone in this thread is familiar with it. I would actively love to hear more interpretations.
My novelistic take is that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle--and the unprovable, string-like nature of reality-- is a feature, not a bug, of existence. That is the physical manifestation of free will: the paradoxical, yet true and observable hallmarks of our universe can be read as elastic bands of uncertainty that allow a curve of free will in various likelihood: chaos theory from there takes that tiny uncertainty and balloons it to the near-infinite range of possibility.
I'm not sure if I literally 'believe' this but I do like its simplicity and beauty. Combines scientific impossibility as proving some higher power. Please, please let me know if this sounds cool to you or you have thoughts/edits/disagreements to add.
I think this is going to be pretty strong. Forget about going "insane" with value and consider the mid-range opportunities. As a top-end result for U/R or U/W, this can flash in and kill any attacker plus recur a burn spell, a counter spell, or a removal spell.
On-color, you can recur:
Brainstorm
Mana Drain
Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Mystic Confluence
Ancestral Recall
Fact or Fiction
Thirst for Knowledge
Gifts Ungiven
All of which are pretty spicy to recur free. Off color, you get some interesting add-ons like:
Lightning Bolt
Swords to Plowshares
Path to Exile
Dismember
Beast Within
Ultimate Price
Hero's Downfall
Disenchant
Electrolyze
All spicy for a 5/6 flash body with artifact relevance. I'd sub this in over Frost Titan which has often disappointed me.
Donald Trump is a horrible, obvious con artist. I am disturbed at how easily he's brought bigotry to the mainstream and how quickly otherwise intelligent people, on this forum and otherwise, are eager to adopt his ugliness.
That said, it doesn't look like he's going to win. With 74 days before the election, he trails in almost all the swing states and, furthermore, Clinton has a sturdy lead in enough states to clinch 272 electoral votes even without those swing states she leads in.
Trump is going to lose. But it is a national humiliation that he got this far.
[/quote]It doesn't matter. It's Trump and Clinton right now. If Gary Johnson or another third party candidate become relevant, we'll see. But for now, it's down to those two. And yes, I prefer Trump to Clinton. He's a businessman, he's intelligent, and quite frankly, people said it was absurd Reagan was an actor and became president, or Arnold becoming governor of California. For all her "experience", Clinton failed and considering her sabotage of Sanders, and the present division in the DNC, I'd question how qualified she is to even have the nomination, let alone the presidency.[/quote]
Decent answer: I too would consider Gary Johnson or a third-party candidate in a pinch, but here we are. That said,
*"He's a businessman." How do we know Trump's financial success without his tax returns that he's weirdly refusing to give? What about the contractors he's screwed over? Also, he succeeded by leveraging his father's fortune and a "small loan" way higher than one million: depending how you count it, it's about $40 or $50 Million in 2016 dollars. Impressive, but not exactly "starting from the bottom."
*"He's intelligent." I disagree. He's charismatic, amoral, and wealthy. I don't think he's *stupid* but intelligent may be a stretch: do you believe Kim Kardashian is intelligent? As long as we're retroactively giving credit to intelligence rather than luck .
*"It's absurd...". We agree there. Arnold was a pretty great Governor, and Reagan was a pretty solid president. But they both ran on united, centrist platforms. If Trump was a true centrist, I'd be a lot less worried TBH.
And lastly, re: "everything I don't like is a Nazi." I get it: it must be frustrating to be told that your political disagreement boils down to a quick slur implying that you're straight-up evil. That sucks, and I hope you didn't think I meant it regarding you in specific, or any Trump supporters here or elsewhere. We are allowed our disagreements. But I remain deadly serious when I say that segments of Donald Trump's enthusiastic support correlates strongly to Neo Nazis. Google it. Check out "The Daily Stormer" or the Alt Right on Twitter. See the swastikas and Jew Caricatures there and their glorious Trump who they *glowingly compare to Hitler.* It's ugly. Hopefully its small. But it's there. And if you don't support it, consider rebuking it rather than pithily denying it matters.
Trump is an unqualified con artist on trial for fraud.
I wonder if his opponent was recently on trial for anything?
Not the old "Everyone I disagree with is Hitler" argument. The internet is tired.
Okay, so clearly you don't care about that. So, besides having no experience, an unstable temperament, authoritarian-leaning policies, and a history of flip-flops or outright lies, why exactly do you support Trump? Follow-up: would you prefer Trump to, say, John Kasich or Mitt Romney?
Trump is an unqualified con artist on trial for fraud. He has only his own interests at heart. He is an unstable, lying fool with no experience. And his most enthusiastic supporters are the "alt right" Neo Nazis: "The Daily Stormer," David Duke, and more. His son was on a White Supremacist radio show and his media team's "Sheriff Star" tweet was sourced IN FULL from a racist-leaning image-board.
Personally, I'm Jewish. I've gotten swastikas and threats online (with my real name, not here) over Trump criticism: something that *never* has happened when I've criticized Romney, McCain, etcetera. His most rabid supporters online are Neo Nazis. I'm a **** to these people, somebody who's family should be exterminated and gassed in the Holocaust they don't even believe happened. And that's not a coincidence. Julia Ioffe, Dana Schwartz, Laura Silverman: see what Trump supporting, actively eager Nazis harass them. Pretty easy to Google.
This is somebody who's most excited supporters joyfully compare to Hitler. Count me out.
I've never had a presidential candidate in my lifetime terrify me. If he gets elected, I will get a gun and pray.
(Side-note: I'm not calling any of *you* Nazis for supporting Trump: I know good people, even Jewish people, who support him. But if you support Trump, maybe take a moment to repudiate Neo Nazis, y'know? I'd appreciate it.)
Here's what drives me bonkers: we all share obvious common ground, but the Republican nominee is in no position to act like a reasonable adult capable of leading this great country of ours.
Everybody is against illegal immigrants: that's why it's illegal! Democrats, Republicans, Centrists etc...the differences stem around the "what now?" issue. Democrats favor a complex web of social policies while the Republican nominee wants a big wall that Mexico is somehow going to pay for.
That's not a serious answer, because he's not a serious nominee. The problems in the world are enormous. But the only full-throttled praise I hear for Trump is by Neo Nazis. Seriously. Check the "Alt Right" on Twitter. Check "The Daily Stormer." Check David Duke, former KKK head. Only these people want Trump. I cannot be a part of such a movement of proud, vile monsters.
I'd vote a Romney or a Kasich. I wouldn't hate a Rubio, or even a Bush. But this no-nothing bully, this thin-skinned ignorant heel, the patron saint of the most evil forces in our culture? No thank you. Hard pass. I'll trust a mediocre career politician over that any day.
Faithless Looting is such a beautiful card all around. It's good, flexible, fun, and the flashback gives it synergy and dig for later in the game. One of my all-time favorites. Simple, powerful, elegant, fun, flavorful. Hits all the stops.
Look, in a perfect world, I'd squeeze a little more value out of this. If this was all the same with Gitaxian Probe, Simian Spirit Guide, and Lotus Petal at uncommon I'd be kissing my fingers like a stereotypical cartoon chef. (Plus those additions would encourage an insane suicide-speed draft-deck while we're at it).
As it stands? It's darn good. Not perfect, but still. FoW, Top, JTMS, Wasteland at ~rare~, Sinkhole, Natural Order, Sneak Attack and Mana Crypt. New art everywhere. And even the annoying upshifts--Heritage Druid, Baleful Strix, Shardless Agent-- are far from bulk rares.
I dunno. Timing can be tricky on predictions. I'll give him 2-4 weeks of a grace period before making any decisions. If news comes out, say, Monday, then he's way more right than wrong.
If you're a Trump supporter and not actively a Neo Nazi, I'm delighted to hear it. But I say with no exaggeration that the two are deeply linked and for the first time in my life I am deeply fearful. Google if you doubt me.
My God have mercy on our souls.
My novelistic take is that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle--and the unprovable, string-like nature of reality-- is a feature, not a bug, of existence. That is the physical manifestation of free will: the paradoxical, yet true and observable hallmarks of our universe can be read as elastic bands of uncertainty that allow a curve of free will in various likelihood: chaos theory from there takes that tiny uncertainty and balloons it to the near-infinite range of possibility.
I'm not sure if I literally 'believe' this but I do like its simplicity and beauty. Combines scientific impossibility as proving some higher power. Please, please let me know if this sounds cool to you or you have thoughts/edits/disagreements to add.
On-color, you can recur:
Brainstorm
Mana Drain
Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Mystic Confluence
Ancestral Recall
Fact or Fiction
Thirst for Knowledge
Gifts Ungiven
All of which are pretty spicy to recur free. Off color, you get some interesting add-ons like:
Lightning Bolt
Swords to Plowshares
Path to Exile
Dismember
Beast Within
Ultimate Price
Hero's Downfall
Disenchant
Electrolyze
All spicy for a 5/6 flash body with artifact relevance. I'd sub this in over Frost Titan which has often disappointed me.
That said, it doesn't look like he's going to win. With 74 days before the election, he trails in almost all the swing states and, furthermore, Clinton has a sturdy lead in enough states to clinch 272 electoral votes even without those swing states she leads in.
Trump is going to lose. But it is a national humiliation that he got this far.
Decent answer: I too would consider Gary Johnson or a third-party candidate in a pinch, but here we are. That said,
*"He's a businessman." How do we know Trump's financial success without his tax returns that he's weirdly refusing to give? What about the contractors he's screwed over? Also, he succeeded by leveraging his father's fortune and a "small loan" way higher than one million: depending how you count it, it's about $40 or $50 Million in 2016 dollars. Impressive, but not exactly "starting from the bottom."
*"He's intelligent." I disagree. He's charismatic, amoral, and wealthy. I don't think he's *stupid* but intelligent may be a stretch: do you believe Kim Kardashian is intelligent? As long as we're retroactively giving credit to intelligence rather than luck .
*"It's absurd...". We agree there. Arnold was a pretty great Governor, and Reagan was a pretty solid president. But they both ran on united, centrist platforms. If Trump was a true centrist, I'd be a lot less worried TBH.
And lastly, re: "everything I don't like is a Nazi." I get it: it must be frustrating to be told that your political disagreement boils down to a quick slur implying that you're straight-up evil. That sucks, and I hope you didn't think I meant it regarding you in specific, or any Trump supporters here or elsewhere. We are allowed our disagreements. But I remain deadly serious when I say that segments of Donald Trump's enthusiastic support correlates strongly to Neo Nazis. Google it. Check out "The Daily Stormer" or the Alt Right on Twitter. See the swastikas and Jew Caricatures there and their glorious Trump who they *glowingly compare to Hitler.* It's ugly. Hopefully its small. But it's there. And if you don't support it, consider rebuking it rather than pithily denying it matters.
Okay, so clearly you don't care about that. So, besides having no experience, an unstable temperament, authoritarian-leaning policies, and a history of flip-flops or outright lies, why exactly do you support Trump? Follow-up: would you prefer Trump to, say, John Kasich or Mitt Romney?
Trump is an unqualified con artist on trial for fraud. He has only his own interests at heart. He is an unstable, lying fool with no experience. And his most enthusiastic supporters are the "alt right" Neo Nazis: "The Daily Stormer," David Duke, and more. His son was on a White Supremacist radio show and his media team's "Sheriff Star" tweet was sourced IN FULL from a racist-leaning image-board.
Personally, I'm Jewish. I've gotten swastikas and threats online (with my real name, not here) over Trump criticism: something that *never* has happened when I've criticized Romney, McCain, etcetera. His most rabid supporters online are Neo Nazis. I'm a **** to these people, somebody who's family should be exterminated and gassed in the Holocaust they don't even believe happened. And that's not a coincidence. Julia Ioffe, Dana Schwartz, Laura Silverman: see what Trump supporting, actively eager Nazis harass them. Pretty easy to Google.
This is somebody who's most excited supporters joyfully compare to Hitler. Count me out.
I've never had a presidential candidate in my lifetime terrify me. If he gets elected, I will get a gun and pray.
(Side-note: I'm not calling any of *you* Nazis for supporting Trump: I know good people, even Jewish people, who support him. But if you support Trump, maybe take a moment to repudiate Neo Nazis, y'know? I'd appreciate it.)
Everybody is against illegal immigrants: that's why it's illegal! Democrats, Republicans, Centrists etc...the differences stem around the "what now?" issue. Democrats favor a complex web of social policies while the Republican nominee wants a big wall that Mexico is somehow going to pay for.
That's not a serious answer, because he's not a serious nominee. The problems in the world are enormous. But the only full-throttled praise I hear for Trump is by Neo Nazis. Seriously. Check the "Alt Right" on Twitter. Check "The Daily Stormer." Check David Duke, former KKK head. Only these people want Trump. I cannot be a part of such a movement of proud, vile monsters.
I'd vote a Romney or a Kasich. I wouldn't hate a Rubio, or even a Bush. But this no-nothing bully, this thin-skinned ignorant heel, the patron saint of the most evil forces in our culture? No thank you. Hard pass. I'll trust a mediocre career politician over that any day.
As it stands? It's darn good. Not perfect, but still. FoW, Top, JTMS, Wasteland at ~rare~, Sinkhole, Natural Order, Sneak Attack and Mana Crypt. New art everywhere. And even the annoying upshifts--Heritage Druid, Baleful Strix, Shardless Agent-- are far from bulk rares.