"someone (Jeremy) had the audacity to criticize someone (Christine)and Criticism is Not Harassment no matter how some people wish to construe it as such."
Jeremy went far beyond objective criticism and publicly persecuted Christine for nearly a year. He may not have personally hounded her with hateful private messages, but his actions directly resulted in months of direct online harassment from his fan base. You can't seriously look at all the crap Jeremy said and not call it harassment. When you hold that much influence over such a large congregation of people, you have a basic responsibility to not give them the idea that these sorts of heinous actions are socially acceptable. He could have easily criticized Christine without his plethora of disparaging personal remarks against her, and without encouraging thousands of his followers to constantly flame her. The fact that he did do these things, and unapologetically so, is what makes it harassment.
"The protests, mobs, riots all a sign that someone is incapable of accepting the opinion of others."
You mean accepting the opinion that bullying, harassing, and dehumanizing innocent human beings is okay? Yeah no, that sort of mentality has no place in our society, and entertaining that line of thinking will only hold us back as a species.
"someone who disagreed with the Nazi party during there rain ended up at best in a concentration camp at worst with a bullet in there head."
If you think the experience of a Nazi concentration camp is the best case scenario compared to a quick and painless death, then I can't even fathom how detached you are from reality. I encourage you to quantum-leap into the body of an emaciated Jewish concentration camp prisoner circa 1944 and ask yourself, "Is this better than not suffering at all?"
"but the moment you stop respecting the opinion of others and start attacking, harassing them, posting there personal info and calling for a public lynching joust because thy sad something you don't agree with, that is the point I stop respecting you, that is the point you have become a Nazi"
Is that not exactly what Jeremy did?
"people can not differentiate between Nazi and centre right"
Actually, as the years have progressed, our Overton Window has been shifting steadily to the right. Democratic socialism (a mild leftist ideology) has become regarded as far-left, and centrism has become regarded as center-left. On the other side, traditional conservatism has shifted to the center of America's political spectrum, with semi-fascist ideologies occupying the moderate- to far-right.
In other words, the more that neo-Nazi ideologies become normalized and accepted as a valid political platform, the closer the center right drifts toward Nazism.
I don't call right-thinkers Nazis. I call Nazis Nazis. I know a lot of Trump voters with opinions that I strongly disagree with, and I don't call them Nazis because they're not Nazis. They don't believe in things like a one-party government or ethnic cleansing or the removal of basic human rights (except maybe health care, but that's an entirely different can of worms), so I can't in good conscience call them Nazis.
Do I think Jeremy is a Nazi? Not at the moment, because he hasn't shown me any reason to think he's a Nazi. But I do think he's a scumbag with a startling lack of empathy for other humans, and that his career as a psychologically abusive and hate-mongering content creator should be completely and utterly destroyed.
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One card that I would definitely include is Gitaxian Probe. It adds to your storm count, cantrips, and scouts your opponent's hand for any potential answers, all for 2 life. And if you can't afford to pay the life, you can always use Manamorphose/Chromatic/Lotus Petal to pay one blue mana in a pinch.
One of my friends bought a foil playset of Jhoira for a dollar a couple years ago.
He still has 'em all, too.
So my friend and I were playing some games with super-casual decks. I was using a red-green Aura deck, and my opponent was using his red-green Eldrazi Spawn deck. (See? Super-casual!) He had just played a Rapacious One and passed, so I put a Lightning Talons on my Silhana Ledgewalker and ended my turn.
He thought for a bit, looked at the cards in hand, then asked:
"So, Ledgewalker's a 4/1?"
"Yep."
"With first strike?"
"Uh-huh."
"Hmm... Okay.
...
...Leyline of Vitality?"
"Aw damnit!"
We both proceeded to laugh for about 30 seconds before he attacked me for 5, which I took. This resulted in him getting five 0/2s and gaining 5 life, along with enough mana to drop nearly his entire hand.
Yes. I just got trolled by a Leyline of Vitality.
Later on (and this one actually was a fail on my part), I was playing against the same friend's Grand Architect deck. I had the Ledgewalker with Lightning Talons (again), and he had an Everflowing Chalice or two, along with a Thrummingbird. I passed the turn without attacking, saying, "I've gotta leave it open so I can block."
"Nice plan, bro.
Except for the part where Ledgewalker can't block Thrummingbird."
"...Sonuva..."
...Sometimes I forget that Silhana Ledgewalker doesn't actually have flying.
My school play group occasionally does this, too. Whenever we play, they always try to get as many people as possible together to play Emperor or a three-way Two-Headed Giant, or this weird Phyrexian Archenemy thing that they made up. (Two infect decks versus four or five regular decks, and whenever a non-Phyrexian player dies to poison, they continue the game on the Phyrexian side.)
They do it so frequently nowadays that whenever they ask, my most common response is, "Why can't we just play regular Magic?"
(Another rant incoming, by the way.)
Also, it doesn't help that half of the people who play have only picked up a Magic deck once or twice in their lives, and therefore haven't a clue what they're doing. One chick, whenever she's around, is like being trapped in an episode of Jersey Shore (very unintelligent, hypocritical, holier-than-thou attitude, brings conflict and drama wherever she goes, screams at people on a regular basis, is often drunk/high), and then another guy plays because he likes to spite the first chick. There's also one other chick who only plays because she wants to be a part of the group and get people to like her (which I can't really fault her for), but she's under the impression that time spent playing Magic = experience and skill. She's played maybe ten games in the past year and a half, but she thinks that she's better then the newer players because she's "been playing much longer than they have."
Actually, a lot of people there have that mindset. They think that if they continue playing games, they'll just keep getting better. But they don't realize that they need to learn if they want to get better, and they don't bother learning from their mistakes. Nor do they learn how to properly assess situations and act accordingly, or keep track of the game (including their own life totals), or actually take a look at what's on the board.
Just today, I saw one guy with his mono-green stompy deck activate Garruk's ultimate and swing with a 9/9, a 10/10, and an 8/8 at my friend (who was playing his tribal Cleric deck). My friend (who had gone from 5 to 23 in a couple turns) just shrugged and said, "Okay, no blocks. I'll take zero."
The green player gave a doubtful look at the table and asked, "How?"
My friend pointed at his two copies of Battletide Alchemist and counted up his eight Clerics.
The turn before, my friend had attacked him with a 9/9 Doubtless One, and instead of double-blocking with Spearbreaker Behemoth and Deus of Calamity and making the Deus indestructible, he opted to simply chump-block with the Behemoth.
My school play group actually makes me miss my old competitive play group. They actually knew what the heck they were doing.
Yeah, the first line is what made me unsure. I also wasn't entirely sure if "[This permanent] is indestructible" had any rules meaning, or if it was just pointing out "something that's true about a permanent." I guess I was thrown off by the old Marit Lage example.
But thanks for being overly specific as if I can't comprehend the rules or something.
Anyway, short story time!
I got my friend (who was playing Jaya Ballard, Task Mage) to scoop on turn 3.
Turn 2: Umezawa's Jitte
Turn 3: Soltari Priest
Apparently he had a poor hand.
No, but the 30+ life that he paid in response to the Pithing Needle is huge.
How did he kill Ulamog? Ulamog is still indestructible, even after Snakeform.
(Unless I'm misinterpreting the rule for it?)
There's one guy at my school who just... cannot play Magic. His decks have 10 lands in them, and are crammed with many useless cards (like Champion's Drake with no levelers, or Training Drone with no Equipment in the deck).
Furthermore, he never makes correct plays, never assesses any situation properly ("You're playing infect! I'll swing at you with my Iron Myr!"), and simply cannot comprehend what a good card is. He constantly talks about "needing to pick up copies of Ancient Hellkite" because it's "sooooo good," and he responds to any recommendations or naysaying with a description of what Ancient Hellkite does, as if it's supposed to refute the point that people are trying to make.
(At one point, he saw an Earth Servant on the table and said, "Oh wow! So basically, if you control six Fires, this guy is a 4/10. That's pretty broken!")
Whenever he plays a card, he'll either tap too few or too many lands, and he won't even bother to read the card before playing it. ("Why do you have Training Drone in a deck with no Equipment?" "Why, what's Training Drone?" "It's that card in your hand..." "*spends ten seconds reading the card* Oh.")
I apologize for the rant, but... He's just an anomaly that defies all explanation in my eyes. It seems like he is literally incapable of improving.
Anyway, I digress. He's a nice guy, but that type of behavior is just unbearably annoying to me.
I have an Order of the Stars naming red, a Mirror Entity with Whispersilk Cloak on it, and an Umezawa's Jitte with three counters on it. I'm at 4 life, and I have six lands.
The two cards in my hand of relevance were Soltari Priest and Gaze of Justice, as I could play the Priest, then tap my three dudes to do away with his Charger. However, I forgot about the Charger's triggered ability until after I had equipped Jitte and the Cloak to Mirror Entity and passed the turn. No matter how I sliced it, I would still take exact lethal damage.
I facepalmed so hard.
I'm tempted to go to Game Day for these. I'll have fun fitting them into decks.
Yeah, same with creatures that can block as though they had flying!
Also, three Artillerizes as finishers.
This is fun!
Fair enough.