"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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Don't forget about Diminishing Returns.
Plus, I'm sure people would prefer a gold-bordered proxy over a piece of paper with "SotF" scribbled on it any day.
(Sorry again to get your hopes up with this new post, lurkers!)
That's exactly how I feel every time I see that there's a new post in this thread.
At this point, it's been so long since the product was announced that I don't think there's really anything else to talk about until the deck list is spoiled.
I believe I would have been left with exactly seven cards in my graveyard if I hadn't used Demonic Tutor, but I would have been a card short when trying to flashback Stitch Together.
With a general like Dralnu, having Demonic Tutor in the graveyard is like a dream come true. So if I can afford to do it, I'll jump through the extra hoop to tutor for it, since tutoring for tutors in this deck provides extra long-term advantage.
Genju of the Realm would like to have a word with you.
It's legendary, and it can win with general damage! ...Sort of.
Transmuting a Muddle the Mixture into a Demonic Tutor, tutoring for a Stitch Together, reanimating a Grave Titan, and then kicking a flashbacked Rite of Replication on it is a pretty crazy way to end a game.
...Unless the Kaalia player across from you wipes the board with an Earthquake for 7, which he most certainly did.
Thankfully, the plethora of Zombie tokens kept me from losing most of my lands to Dralnu's replacement effect.
The other two decks (Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant and Teneb, the Harvester) didn't do much, although Teneb had Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter on the board throughout most of the game, which threatened to keep my general off the table for a dangerously long time if I ever removed Greaves from it.
Eventually, an Akroma's Vengeance from Kaalia put a stop to my flashbacking shenanigans, and my life total was 18. Not good, especially since Kaalia would come back next turn (with haste, thanks to Anger). But I had tutored for Pongify earlier in the game, in order to discourage Teneb from attacking me.
Unfortunately, I had to tap out, so I ended up taking 14 and going to 4.
The next turn, Kaalia played the one creature that sealed my fate: Mother of Runes.
I could either Pongify Kaalia in response and take exactly 4 damage from the Ape token and Mother of Runes, or simply die to Kaalia and whatever she dropped onto the table.
I opted to go with the former.
The other two players died in short order, because Teneb kept top-decking lands and Rune-Tail literally had no useful cards in his deck.
Keeping three players in check is hard work! But it was agreed that if I hadn't participated in that game, then it only would have lasted about ten minutes, rather than an hour and a half.
The Rune-Tail player asked me why I didn't just transmute for Stitch Together as if I was a moron, and no matter how much I tried to explain the advantage it provided with Dralnu, he thought it was a dumb play.
Speaking of dumb plays, I witnessed another game where someone thought it would be a better idea to kill an opponent's Vigor than to steal it with Captivating Vampire.
When I asked him what the potential downside was to practically making his creatures indestructible, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "I didn't want it."
If he Waves his entire deck onto the table, he can simply choose to put Regal Force in the graveyard.
Noncreature double-faced cards are going to be intriguing as well. Maybe we'll see creatures that transform into enchantments, akin to the Ascendants/Essences from Kamigawa?
Her card could even go something like:
Nissa, the Wayward 2GG
Planeswalker - Nissa
+1: Put a 1/1 green Elf creature token onto the battlefield.
-1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Elf creature you control.
-5: You get an emblem with "Elf creatures you control get +1/+1 for each Elf you control."
3
Alternatively, the first two abilities could be:
+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target Elf creatures.
0: Put two 1/1 green Elf creature tokens onto the battlefield.
However, if that becomes the case, then her mana cost might need to be bumped to 3GG.
So I was playing Dralnu, Lich Lord against my friend's Wrexial, the Risen Deep, which is incredibly annoying by default, and we were at a very decisive point in the game. He had managed to stick Thada Adel, Acquisitor early on in the game, which made things even worse. He began to gradually steal all of my protective Equipment, and I had to use both Clutch of the Undercity and Cryptic Command to bounce them back to my hand. I managed to stabilize, and kept Wrexial from hitting me more than once by Pongifying it twice. I later used Rite of Replication to get rid of Thada Adel, but he stole my Grave Titan with Corrupted Conscience, so I was in a bad spot.
At this point, one of my other friends came up and started telling me about this big multiplayer game he had the day before that involved Progenitus and Mirrorweave, and I was too polite to tell him to hold off for a couple minutes while I wrapped up the game.
Whenever I start my turn, I always always ALWAYS scan through the entirety of my graveyard to consider all of my options before making a move. But since I was simultaneously trying to play the game and listen to my friend, instead my thought process went something like this:
"Demonic Tutor is the top card of my graveyard. I should probably tutor for a way to get out of this situation and save myself."
I still gave my actions a lot of thought that turn, but my thought process was very narrow. Essentially, I was playing that turn with blinders on.
When I passed the turn, my opponent said, "That was the wrong play. Look through your graveyard; you'll see it." He then cast Neurok Invisimancer and won.
I still make play mistakes with this deck all the time, unfortunately. A couple of examples from Monday: Casting Rite of Replication on my Grave Titan instead of my opponent's Vigor, and using Demonic Tutor to search for Breakthrough instead of Pongify while my opponent had Nath's Elite and lethal on the board.
But oh well, I'll still do my best to improve. My experience with control decks is scarce at best, but if I continue to analyze my mistakes and learn from them, I know I'll get better.
...My friends play very janky cards, in case you couldn't tell.
And during the Zendikar Prerelease, I would never hesitate to pop my Sunspring Expeditions, even though I knew my opponent had Sorin Markov.
Also, during my first Scars of Mirrodin draft, I passed a Myr Battlesphere. To this day, I'm still not sure why.
As for dumb moves that actually weren't made by me, I did see one guy use Harm's Way to redirect 2 damage from his creature to himself, because he didn't think that he could redirect it to something he didn't control.
We have Holy Light as a sweeper, Guardians' Pledge as a finisher, Temporal Isolation and Journey to Nowhere to serve as removal, and utility creatures to take care of issues that arise when facing other various archetypes.
Ah yes, I probably should have mentioned that.