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    posted a message on [C20] Nikara, Lair Scavenger & Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel — Stybs previews
    Quote from CatParty »
    Now this is what I call fanservice!

    ...and Nikara is nice, too.

    Jokes aside though, both are great and I didn't know I wanted a Hyena commander before.

    Thanks, WotC!


    I'm just curious - what is the sarcasm/joke here, and what is the implied fanservice?


    Sorry, messed that one up quite badly. Nikara is the actual fanservice. No sarcasm. The joke was supposed to be that my first line strongly indicated how much I like the design and depiction of Nikara (which I really do), only to flip it on its head and make it seem like I was praising the animal as fanservice. It tanked, I'm sorry, thanks for asking.

    I really like both cards and I do actually find hyenas pretty cool.

    Cheers!
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    posted a message on [C20] mtgcommander - Selective adaptation
    "and so on" on a card looks weird at first glance, although it perfectly lays out how this is supposed to work.
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    posted a message on [C20] Zaxara, the Exemplary — SCG Commander VS preview
    Mandatory Pemmin's Aura / Free from the Real comment.

    ; )
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    posted a message on [IKO] Phase dolphin
    @Crispen_Smith
    A mammal *and* walks on all fours! So, what is there to differentiaite one from the other, really?

    ...ugh, Wizards...

    Still love the game overall, though.

    '^^
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    posted a message on Alleged Ikoria Box Toppers, leaked from a brazilian LGS
    Quote from Ryperior74 »

    Also one saids cycle ability one of Gavin’s hints was 8 returning mechanics cycling is pretty popular and a cycling legend was a huge request from the commander fans


    This might be the wrong place to ask this, but why would CMD players want cycling Legends?

    You can only cycle from your hand. Of course WotC could introduce something à la Commander Ninjutsu and call it Commander Cycling

    (even though that would be weird given how it sounds reminiscent of Forestcycling or Wizardcycling, where you still can only cycle from your hand and the name would then suggest you could search for your commander if it somehow ended up in your library)

    , but would that even count as a returning mechanic then?
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    posted a message on New Ikoria Image with links
    That's what I thought way back when I learned the names Corin Nemec and Jonas Quinn. You tell me which sounds more like a made up alien name and which like an actual real world actor's.

    '^^
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    posted a message on New Ikoria Image with links
    Thanks for the update, AbzanPlaneswalker! (Also, hopefully we'll get an actual BGW planeswalker soon.)

    Is it possible that Vivien is aiming for the magic rock? Maybe that way that guy's *bond* to that wild animal would be *sundered*. Could this be a story about a guy capturing wild animals to experiment on them in order to empower or mutate himself and Vivien bursting into the scene going full PETA?
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    posted a message on Secret Lair - Thalia, Guardian of Thraben leaked
    Quote from FlossedBeaver »
    Seems like you just went through a whole tirade, name-calling included, against detractors and then covered yourself by saying that no one was doing that here.


    A tirade is, by definition, inherently long-winded. If you mean that I levied a brief - but sharp - criticism against those posters by modeling how their own behavior lacks civility, you would be correct. Seems fairly transparent to me.


    If you find it appropriate, after asking to "cut out the name-calling", to use terms like neckbeards and talk down to people who find themselves desperate enough to work low income jobs, I prefer you do it and own up to it or don't do it all, instead of essentially going "Hey, no one here is saying these insulting things that I'll list in this here comment, so be nice!" (paraphrasing).

    And once again, I do like this product in regards to the cards themselves (overall, as I hinted at the heavyhanded focus of Thalia's confidence by having all four of her quotes start with the word "I", "I've" being also short for "I have") and I do acknowledge concerns regarding behind-the-scenes shenanigans on Wizard's part.
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    posted a message on Secret Lair - Thalia, Guardian of Thraben leaked
    Quote from FlossedBeaver »
    Can we cut out the name-calling, please? I don't see anyone putting the WotC detractors on blast, calling them entitled neckbeards, or explicating on how they'd have more disposable income if they'd only develop higher aspirations than McDonald's fry cook. We get it, you don't agree with Wizard's new marketing strategy. That doesn't make it okay to insult the people who want this product.


    Quote from FlossedBeaver »
    I need to grow thicker skin, but you’re too scurred to read another cogent response from the person who called out your toxicity? The irony is delicious.


    Seems like you just went through a whole tirade, name-calling included, against detractors and then covered yourself by saying that no one was doing that here.
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    posted a message on Secret Lair - Thalia, Guardian of Thraben leaked
    Quote from FlossedBeaver »
    Wizards: “What?! They locked the other thread at MTGS? Well, leak another drop, damnit!”


    Looks like some companies are desperate to keep outrage and infighting among their customers going so that word about their product spreads more rapidly...
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