"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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Aight, stay mad then
Lmfao why are you acting like this is disappointing or in any way surprising? They have cookbooks for IPs like Halo, Skyrim, and Minecraft, what's got your knickers in a bunch about an MTG cookbook?
What are you confused about?
Iirc, they said that the EDH precons will have more tribal themes, but the main set itself will not.
Nope, they said in the panel that the set isn't tribe-focused this time around, which means we can assume that the Limited archetypes aren't either.
You know, I said something similar to my friend when we were sitting in the audience at the preview panel... He replied "Why? You don't need Ghalta"
And you know what? I think he's right. If you're cheating in a Griselbrand or Emrakul, you're already winning the game. Cheating in something that can put them into play is just win-more.
I mean, Emrakul hasn't ever seen ubiquitous play in Modern. I think it briefly saw play in Tron, until people realized that Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger was often just a better card to go for. It does see play as a 1-of in 4c Control sideboards, but there's no way anyone would consider that "absolutely warping Modern."
It definitely tore up Standard, but that doesn't have anything to do with its price. It's only maintained a high price because 1. it hadn't been reprinted since 2016, and 2. other cards were printed to increase demand for it.
I'm still excited for this reprinting, though, because Emrakul, the Promised End is one of my all time favorite cards and the price has needed to come down for a while.
As for Progenitus, a few people who bought the Painbow precon and upgraded it with a copy of Progenitus haven't done anything to change its status as a binder filler. These things were handed out like candy at GPs, to the point where it was easy to find copies of them lying around at tournament tables because players who didn't want them had left them behind. Every single GP main event and side event entry in 2017 came with one of these, so it wasn't difficult to just incidentally have a playset of them by the end of a single GP weekend. I wasn't even much of a tournament grinder, and found myself with 10 of them. I haven't encountered a single person who's been looking to trade for a copy of Progenitus since 2009.
Seems kinda boring. Not sure how good it'll be, but I don't anticipate it seeing much serious play.
It's gonna get real awkward when this thing gets blocked in combat alongside your other creatures, then dies to SBAs when the other creatures die, lol
If you couldn't, then the reminder text on Luxior, Giada's Gift sure would be awkward
But yes, if a non-planeswalker permanent has a loyalty ability with a cost that it can pay, then it can indeed activate that ability.
With the exception of timeshifted cards from Time Spiral, bonus sheet cards have never been Standard legal, no
Hey, I'm just giving you the summation of 13 years of anecdotal evidence. But I guess that's only worth anything when it's coming from you, huh?
You're right, I can only speak in the context of my metas, and in my metas the shuffle has almost never been relevant. I've just had access to better answers against indestructible threats. It's true that two random cards are less impactful than an Avacyn or Blightsteel, but if you're using Oblation against something that isn't a game-ending threat, giving an opponent more cards to work with is a much bigger downside than giving them a token and should (imo) be avoided accordingly. I've been an Oblation apologist for over a decade, but with all the good mono white removal they've been printing lately, I just don't think it's needed anymore.
My fallacious narrative of talking about mono white and you bringing nonwhite cards into the discussion? KEKW
But okay sure, Oblation is better with anti-draw stax pieces (or Smothering Tithe) in play, thank you for your mind-blowing revelation
I fully agree, I loved the old tuck rule. If someone is going to build a deck that fully relies on its commander to win games, then the trade-off should be that they get punished when an opponent finds a creative way to get rid of it.
You... you do realize you're preaching Oblation to a guy who's been running it in mono white EDH for the past 13 years, right?
The fringe utility of Oblation's shuffle vs Stroke of Midnight's destroy generally isn't good enough to make up for the fact that giving someone two cards is way, WAY more impactful than giving them a 1/1 token. Oblation dropped off hard when the commander tuck rule was changed, and now we have even more options available (like Excise the Imperfect).
Also, why are you even mentioning cards like Consecrated Sphinx or Notion Thief when the discussion is about Stroke of Midnight in the context of mono white? Lol
Spellbook Vendor and Mosswood Dreadknight might do cute things in Standard and cubes with lower power levels, but that might be it.
A lot of these rare adventure cards have pretty decent rates, but I still don't really foresee them doing a whole lot.
These manlands do look heaps better than the BFZ ones, though!
I think your evaluation skills need work. No one plays most of these spells in EDH in the first place because they're almost all terrible, and letting them dome your opponents still doesn't make them good enough to justify running imo.
It's also worth noting that Imodane doesn't work with Volcanic Salvo or Meteor Swarm unless they only damage a single creature, in which case you're sacrificing their utility just to make them work with her.
And I don't foresee Food Fight being "nuts in Commander" either, considering that 1. it costs 2 mana to sac each artifact, and 2. you're talking about jumping through tons of hoops just to make each artifact deal enough damage for Food Fight to be worth it in the first place.
Step 1: Have Food Fight
Step 2: Play multiple spells that can make copies of Food Fight
Step 3: Make a ton of artifacts to sac to Food Fight
Step 4: Find a way to generate tons of mana to sac your artifacts to Food Fight
Step 5: ?????
Step 6: Profit, I guess??
Buddy, if you think Fable might get banned in older formats because it makes tokens to be sacced to a kicker mechanic, then we might need to sit you down for a talk... KEKW