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  • posted a message on Angel of Condemnation+Mirage Mirror
    Yes, that does. I thought that was the way it should work, but the comprehensive rules are complex enough to make me second guess myself on more then a few occasions. Thank you.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Angel of Condemnation+Mirage Mirror
    So what happens when you use Mirage Mirror to become a of Angel of Condemnation and then you use the mirror to exert and exile a creature? Does the creature return in the endstep once Mirror reverts to not being the angel?
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Permanently exile creatures with Angel of Serenity
    Ah, ok. Yeah, I see it now. That is pretty tricky. Thanks for the help. At times this game gets .... a little complicated.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Permanently exile creatures with Angel of Serenity
    I admit I am confused. Segoth, are you saying that you can permanently exile cards with Angel of Serenity and Deadeye Navigator? Even with your explanation I just don't see how that works.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Weirdest Magic Art
    Love Phil and Kaja Folgio's artwork

    Master Decoy

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    Humility

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    Cooperation
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on ever feel ripped off?
    Every time I open a booster and get a Dubious Challenge I feel ripped off. I am getting all of mine and my friends and mailing them back to Wizards.


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    Locked necro thread - cryogen
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on Question on card: Unwinding clock
    However, it won't allow artifacts to untap on your untap step that wouldn't normally do so, such as basalt monolith.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Another thread about cool finds at Wal-Mart/Target.
    Smuggler's Copter and a Cataclysmic Gearhulk were two out of my rares out of my last 3 boosters from WallyWorld.

    Haven't seen a single Masterwork yet between me and my friends and that is over 100 boosters, although that also includes boosters from comic store.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on What Book Are you reading right now?
    Must say Twelve Kingdoms is my favorite anime. Wish there was more episodes.
    Posted in: Printed Media
  • posted a message on Comics that must be read. NOW.
    Wayward
    Exiles
    Runaways
    Posted in: Printed Media
  • posted a message on The Marvel Sliding Timescale Needs To Die
    Tony Stark needs to retire, he should be 55+ by now since the damage to his heart occurred back in the Vietnam War!
    Posted in: Printed Media
  • posted a message on Thor's Gender Bender
    Long time reader of Thor. Through the good, bad and terrible. Although I don't mind that a lady has managed to gain Mjolnir, I highly question that the person they have wielding it should have qualified as worthy. I would really like to know what Marvel things the "real" Nick Fury whispered into Thor's ear that made Thor doubt his own worthiness. What makes that even worse, is that it's Mjolnir that determines if the person is worthy, it shouldn't have anything to do with the person's self perception. I like the story line with the power struggle between Odin and Freya and the events going on between the Council and Malaketh. But the way Marvel has been splitting important parts of the story line into other series makes me scream with frustration.

    Oh, bit of a side note, but I loved the entire Journey into Mystery stories with Loki and the Triumvirate (Freya/Gaea/Idunn).
    Posted in: Printed Media
  • posted a message on Best Fantasy Book Series?
    Must say that Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle is my favorite at the moment. So many hidden little gems of information in the stories, the stories within stories framework, and the time you can spending thinking about what might end up happening when some of the characters come to realize what is hinted at just keeps me rereading the series. Great characters and lovely prose, even if Kvothe is an epicish character. Although, speaking to that, I find it interesting, as good as he is at so many things, he keeps running into people that are better at specific things.

    So, a few suggestions I haven't seen so far in this post.

    Black Jewels novels by Anne Bishop (Fantasy/Romance) are fairly good. Good characters with some dark twists.

    Patricia Brigg's Mercedes Thompson series (Urban Fantasy with some romance) is a lot of fun and the interaction between Mercedes and the members of the local pack are quite fun.

    Carrie Vaughn's Kitty series is very interesting in that we have the typical hidden world Urban Fantasy matrix but then we get to see what happens when that hidden world gets revealed. Although, I do wish she would have spent more time exploring that aspect of the story.

    Drew Hayes books NPC and Split the Party are surprising fun, interesting, and rereadable. Although the start of the first book is a little cringworthy and stilted, although part of that maybe because I knew, and know, people like those Hayes describes.

    Going back a bit, Joel Rosenburg's The Guardian's: Warriors of the Flame series was quite good.

    Its always interesting to see how widely people's tastes in the same genre can be. I personally cannot stand Robert Jordan' Wheel of Time series, found the story and characters uninteresting. Sanderson, I liked the books I have read, but not as a series as they never seem to go anywhere. Piers Anthony I loved as a teen (and still think the first six Xanth novels are fun to read as well as some of the Incarnations of Immortality) but many of his other books, ug (although Rings of Ice and Macroscope I find to still be quite good)! RA Salvatore, pretty much throw-away novels for me, read them once but never again, even though I like his characters. But then he also wrote the Cleric Quintet series, which is one of the only books, never mind a series, in a D&D universe where the main character is a cleric. Which seems fairly surprising since you would think a universe where the gods take an active role by giving their most devout followers powers, those followers would play a more prominent role. But in most of those type of novels, the devout worshippers are usually the villains of the story. Which maybe says something about the religiousness of the writers in D&D universe stories.

    Posted in: Printed Media
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