#Someone remind me

[niuttuc]

Weird Magic: the Gathering effects: Fourth edition

Starting last year, and on three separate occasions, I've ran polling games listing weird magic the gathering card effects among which hid one fake one, to see how easy it was to figure out. It's time for another!

Like previous instances, this is intended for people who aren't experts at magic and would recognize all the cards instantly, more as entertainment for people outside the game, but I've been told it also works for plenty of actual magic players. There are certainly effects there I didn't know existed in specific before pulling this poll together.

As last time, only the current text of effects is used, not necessarily the one printed on the card. Limited to cards that exist in paper, and are legal to play in at least some tournament formats. Though I did expand in previous polls to text that's part of keyword rules or that's part of the current reminder text on at least one card, and that might apply here as well.

This time some of the cards are less obscure, but I wanted to include them because they're flavorful bits of text. Without further ado...

I will give one bit of context for people who don't play the game at all: your library is what your deck of cards is called while a game is going.

[cxffeek]

yes. he would.

[midnight-mourning]

@divinit3a more of the silly holiday boy for you <3 made on magma late last night (pls dont ask me how late, i was strugglingggg) he's not my favorite but i think it captures the vibes i was going for in the chapter :)

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[are-they-a-faggot]

KAZUI MUKUHARA - MILGRAM

reasoning: due to the nature of milgram as a media its impossible to say with 100% certainty what is going on with this guy but like. I present this guy for 2 major reasons: 1. the main theory for his whole deal is that he is a closeted gay man, who broke the news to his wife after lying to her for years and years, and that drove her to suicide. he says he would be a disappointment to his family. he fucking hates himself. he wishes he was "born normally". 2. do you see him. look at him.

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[revenantghost]

*places face in hands*

Wolfwood becomes himself when he stops following Knives's path

Wolfwood becomes Wolfwood when he instead follows Vash

[spacecatdraws]

my immortal bamboo plant

^yes I am fully aware that sounds like a bad webtoon title

One of my hyperfixations a couple years back was plants. So, for my birthday, I got 5 lucky bamboo stalks, to which I was very excited and very enthusiastic. I named the bamboo こんにちは (Konnichiwa) and put her on my windowsill. And she refuses to die. So I’m gonna talk about her because I am in awe and slight terror of what this plant is fine with. (And I mentioned her in a previous post so why not)

Yes, I did name my plant the Japanese word for hello. I was (and still am) a weird kid. It was also 2020 at the time, and my judgement was not the best. Here’s a picture of her:

“I thought you said she had 5 stalks?” She did, but four of them dropped one by one. It’s been a couple years since a stalk has turned yellow, which is good because she only has the one left. But she’s still alive and well, in her perpetually unchanged water and underground sunlight. No clue how or why she just. Stopped dying. She’s still here, bright green and beautiful and probably magical. It’s been a while since I did a lot of things you’re supposed to do with plants:

4< years since I changed that water/added fertilizer

3< years since I pruned her/removed a stalk

and very infrequently getting the dust off her leaves.

This plant was given to a mentally odd little girl in the middle of a pandemic. There was no way she would live past a few years. And yet, she made it the COVID-19 pandemic pass. Survived multiple presidential changes. Witnessed over 20 seasons. Heard the grief when my grandfather died. Watched birds fight for seeds under the porch and my dog running after the tennis ball. Been headbutted countless times by my cat. Tolerated being draped with a necklace. Lived through it all, and is still living on.

I’m proud of her, honestly. She’s a testament to life’s ability to be anywhere, to be able to grow when the world is dark. Because each winter, the sun ducks below the horizon, and she presses her leaves again the glass of my window, with conditions that should in no way allowed her to survive. And each spring, the snow melts, the frost dies back, and the sun shines again. Every single time, she’s there, taking in the light she’s been deprived of, challenging the gods, saying “I am here and I am not going down without a fight.” Thankfully, the gods have not fought her for this, and she still sits here, next to me as I write this.

This is not an obituary. This is not a memorial. This is a celebration of the soldier who does not fall in battle. This is a tribute to life and its audacity. This is a letter of gratitude.

So thank you, こんにちは, for being here with me. Thank you for the time we’ve spent together. Thank you for being the light that shines when the world is dark and hopeless. In 24 days, we will have made it five whole years. Half a decade of work and play and joy and sadness. 60 months that changed more than I thought possible. Several times around the sun. A handful of parties for a kid who keeps on growing. Countless memories.

Five years that we’ve had with each other. Five years that I’d never want to forget.

So raise a glass of whatever you’d like, dear reader, and toast with me-

To five years, to the many more that come after, and most of all, to the immortal bamboo. Thank you, こんにちは. Thank you for being part of my life. And thank you, the one reading this, for making it this far. We’re glad you came.

[flowersforfrancis]

Remind me why we exist?

[thymeisasocialconstruct]

Luke, who is going to be moving. Hershel, who has never had a relationship last more than a few years

[satellitewar-archived]

in love with hypatia trevelyan and her poise and power and intelligence and capabilities as a leader and how she grows into her own and learns to become more than her family name and all their expectations................. just in love with her

[ego-sum-deus-fractus]

This is to whichever ghost writer of Rick wrote Camp Jupiter Classified.

THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH. YOU'RE THE ONLY THING THAT'S STOPPING CJ FROM DISINTEGRATING.

[yveni]

wait wait hold up TDP season 6 is already about to be out????

[tex-now]

That's it I'm making mafuena Pocky day

[finn95o]

i need to show my appreaciation towards Este more damn

[zishu-arts]

WAIT A DAMN SECOND I FORGOT I WAS WRITING A VICAGENT FIC BECAUSE OF THAT ONE POLL I DID

[thalassic-p4rk]

*Consumes your family* /j

*gasp*

eats you

[chessb0r3d]

my john egbert is actually genderfluid nonbinary this whole time. he's just looks low budget(the same) as a projection of myself.