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XXV. The Crossroad

obsessed

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If you hate all of MtG's main characters, most of the sets released in the past 3 years, its tournament structure, and its approach to storytelling, you don't like magic. Maybe you just miss being 15?

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I'm kinda not cool with the criticism of there being no option for Max and Chloe to still be together in Double Exposure as "lesbian erasure?" Like, sometimes LGBTQ relationships will... fail, and it's actually healthy if that's depicted occasionally?

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>Lost, but seeking

>Cannot become lost, except by magical means.

Hm

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beyond which no waking eye may see. Behold! in darkness, a doom sweeps the land. This is the 27th of last seed. The year of Akatosh 433. These are the closing days of the 3rd era... and the final hours of my life.

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They were talking about this format Pendragon, which is like pauper commander, except your commander is a common creature and a legendary equipment of any rarity.

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kaitos outfit in the new collab is killing me. they gave him bikini armor

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I am extremely hyped for universes beyond, in a "There is a point where we needed to stop and we have clearly passed it, but let's keep going and see what happens" way

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How do you go about resolving the tension between the characters of V3 and their "ultimate real fiction"ality? Like, on one hand, a fic about Kibo and his inventor bonding sounds cute, but on the other hand, that canonically didn't happen. His inventor is some props guy on the Danganronpa team that he never met.

disclaimer that this is just my Personal Interpretation of V3's ending:

considering Tsumugi flat-out objectively lies a bunch of times while explaining her master plan or whatever, i personally think she is not telling the whole truth. whether or not she knows that is up for debate, but regardless, this + holes in Rantaro's story + the rules of cospox puts a lot of the "backstory" stuff into question. so, to me, we have no idea of knowing whether or not Keebo is or isn't Idabashi's beloved rolling son.

(i won't get into my full explanation here, but my headcanon from a few pieces of dialogue folks forget is that V3's universe is the HPA universe's opposite land: Ultimates get/got special legal privileges like voting [!] so seeing them get cut down is cathartic and ecstatic for the general public. there is indeed a reality show, but there was also really an Ultimate Hunt. their game selves are their real selves, and Moogs doesn't know she's a pawn. but anyway.)

also, i rarely consider the V3s in the context of their own game, for a couple reasons:

i first met them in Summer Camp, so my initial thought of them is always a sweet peaceful AU with the rest of the franchise where their backstories are played straight, and

i think splitting V3 off into its own AU (or "setting reboot" as Kodaka called it) was kind of a weird ineffective writing move.

so me? i just assume the backstories are canon to a certain degree. it's more interesting to me that way...again, IMO.

thank you for the question!

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People who get sick from radiation exposure are faking it for attention, radiation is literally the divine light of creation and it nourishes those who are pure of spirit

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How fun! Here's my attempt:

WU - Presidents' Day

UB - Thanksgiving

BR - The superbowl

RG - Valentines day

GW - Christmas

WB - Veterans Day

UR - New Years Eve

BG - Halloween

RW - birthdays

GU - Arbor day

assigning MtG color pairs to days I know well enough to vibe check

halloween: black/red veteran's day: white/black thanksgiving: black/green christmas: white/green new years: white/blue lunar new year: red/blue valentine's: red/green easter: green/blue independence day: white/red labor day: black/blue

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Page outlining inspiration for Skyla... SEXY PILOT THO...

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Please reblog if YES so your followers will know!

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You are the entity, BTW. The Pacts are time travel spells.

my favorite magic card from a metatextual flavor perspective is Pact of Negation because like, this card is insanely powerful because free counterspells are really good, but also pretty niche because the downside is massive, so the way it gets used in competitive magic is primarily in combo decks that use it to defend their combo on the turn they try to win because you don't have to deal with the consequences if the game is over which is extremely funny to think about

like all these wizards are out signing pacts to negate their opponents spells at the cost of 5 mana or their life next turn but they've found this loophole where when the entity the pact is with comes to collect they're like "actually if you read the fine print, it says that I pay on the next turn of the duel, but if the duel is over, it will never be the next turn ergo I don't have to pay you anything" and that is an extremely funny mental image to me

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You can do whatever you want forever. Chromanticore is a great commander.

Miku is super cute! Sacrifice reanimator is a fun theme. Wake the Dead. Rescue from the Underworld. Cauldron Dance. Apprentice necromancer. Footsteps of the Goryo.

Chromanticore doesn't have to be enchantress. I'd run it with saboteurs like cold eye selkie, lathril, or the reaver cleaver. Maybe an infect build would be fun.

My personal 5 color deck is Jared Carthelion. He wants a deck filled with 5 colored cards specifically.

Jodah the Unifier and Jodah, archmage eternal are both very fun. Unifier likes other legendary creatures, archmage wants the biggest spells and creatures you got.

Okay I need suggestions I’m making a sacrificing deck using Child of Alara as the commander but I’m not sure exactly what to use.

I have been told since I already have an enchantment deck I cannot use Chromanticore (purely because I loved the art and it’s got a great effect) as a commander as there would be no use for two enchantment decks.

And this will be my first wooburg deck so I am taking suggestions on whether I should go forward with particular commander or not?

- planning to get this secret lair if I can