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asfaltics · 4 years ago

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sources (nearly all cross-column misconstruals)

1 ex Willard Phillips. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance (1823) : 195 (Chapter 12, “Deviation and Change of the Risk”) unconnected errata (at p538, same volume) — Page 392, line 21 from botton, after ‘does’; read ‘not.’ 2 ex The History of Clarissa Harlowe, Letter 53 (To Miss Howe, containing a draft (from which this passage) to Mr James Harlowe), in The Novels of Samuel Richardson... in three volumes. (Ballantyne’s Novelist’s Library; London, 1824) : 634 3 ex “Reminiscences of a Tempest-tost Life” in Putnam’s Magazine 6 (October 1855) : 416-424 (419) 4 ex “Ground Game and Game Laws,” in The Farmer’s Magazine (London; December 1869) : 522-524 (523) 5 ex “On Gardening,” by “An Optimist,” The Living Age 115 (November 2, 1872) : 303-313 (310) (from The Cornhill Magazine (October 1872) : 424) 6 ex J. V. P., “Who wrote ‘Shakspere’?” in Fraser’s Magazine (August 1874) : 164-178 (167) 7 ex (via chaotic cross-column misreads), W. J. Patten (Bangor, Maine; June 10th, 1878). “A National Church Music.” In [John Sullivan] Dwight’s Journal of Music 38:6 (Boston; June 22, 1878) : 251 8 three-column OCR chaos involving a description of the upcoming The Cleveland Convention, and a report of a quick passage of an English troop-ship through the Suez Canal (fourteen hours, between the hours mentioned above), ex Engineering News (June 7, 1879) : 177 9 ex Mister Harrington’s address to the House (May 28, 1883) on the matter of Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Act, 1882—Seizure of the “Kerry Sentinel,” involving Messrs Parnell, Trevelyan, and (Edward) Harrington owner of “The Kerry Sentinel,” in The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition; Great Britain, 1883) : 969-70 on Edward Harrington (c1852-1902), consult wikipedia; DIB (Dictionary of Irish Biography); and, for (fascinating) context, wikipedia on the Land War 10 ex Charles E. Clay, “History of the State Island Athletic Club,” in Outing (An illustrated monthly magazine of recreation) 11:4 (January 1888) : 340-351 (343) followed by C. Bowyer Vaux. “Aerial Messengers” (on use of pigeons in yacht races) 11 ex index (bottom of page), in The Federal Cases / comprising cases argued and determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. Book 21 . Runaways—Shore, Case No. 12,137—Case No. 12,805 (St. Paul; 1896) : 1351 OCR misread of “upgoing”, “cheer” for printed “sheer” (which is likely a typographic error for “steer”) + OCR cross-column misread 12 ex Julie M. Lippmann (1864-1952), “Mrs. Chisholm’s Companion,” in The Smart Set : A Magazine of Cleverness 8:1 (September 1902) : 135-139 (137) author at wikipedia 13 ex South Australia. Parliament. Debates in the House of Assembly (First session of the Eithteeenth Parliament of South Australia) Booleroo Centre Railway Bill. (October 19, 1905) : 438 14 from preview snippet only (nothing on landing page), The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).: House of Commons, Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the 1st session of the 48th Parliament. Great Britain. 15 ex Raymond S. Spears. “Opportunities for Trappers Incomes, No. 1,” in Hunter-trader-trapper 22:5 (August 1911) : 27-30 (28) 16 ex Ed. A. Goewey. “An Old Fan Says:” (illustrated by “Zim”), in Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 118 (April 30, 1914) : 418 which led (on following page 419) to Chief Red Eagle (1885-1972) his “Chased by a Moose, A Vacation Story.” on Chief Red Eagle (Henry Perley) consult wikipedia 17 from preview snippet only (nothing on landing page), The Sunday at Home (Religious Tract Society, 1914) 18 snippet (nothing on landing page), Collier’s 56 (1916) : 23 the whole — “Will I ?” she retorted with mocking awkward reluctance at last , “are you manner were both pleading and per- curtness . And then ensued an ungoing — ’m , if you've decided to jump emptory Again she thrilled him . Yet socially silent hour or ...” 19 ex “Memphis St. Ry. Co. v. Rapid Transit Co.,” Supreme Court of Tennessee. Oct. 23, 1915 (appeal, finding reversed); in The Southwestern Reporter 179 / November 3 — December 15, 1915. (St. Paul, 1916) : 639 20 ex (preview snippet only, but found in different scan linked here) “Discovering the Union Label,” by P. J. Doyle (from The Carpenter), in The Shoe Workers’ Journal 18:8 (August 1917) : 8 21 ex Gertrude Henderson (with illustrations by O. F. Howard), “Scheherazade of the Factory,” The Century 99:3 (January 1920): 427-31 (428) 22 ex preview snippet, nothing on landing page (and title suspect), Heart’s International (1920) note — this magazine seems to have been a predecessor to Cosmpolitan 1911: Hearst’s International: “World To-Day”, a middling monthly magazine, was acquired to attack politicians against whom Hearst waged war, namely Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Jennings Bryan. He renamed it “Hearst’s magazine” in Apr.1912, shortened it to “Hearst’s” in Jun.1914, and finally entitled it as “Hearst’s International” in May.1922. from wikicorporates timelines for Hearst Communications. scans of several numbers (as well as books published by a related entity) available via archive.org 23 ex “The Battle of Booby’s Bluffs,” By Major Single List, in Infantry Journal 19:4 (October 1921) : 427-433 the whole — “In this case , I hoped to mainexplain anything that did not seem pertain this reputation of getting results , fectly clear to me . and I felt that I stood an excellent I promptly saw that my battalion was chance , because Colonel R was an ungoing to [have the hardest nut to crack]” 24 ex Charles F. Howell, “Marine Insurance / Cuban Conditions Bad,” in The Weekly Underwriter 104:11 (March 12, 1921) : 428 aside — first page of each number features a spectacular photograph of a disaster (e.g., grain elevator explosion; train wreck; fire), together with monitory details. 25 misprint in this edition (corrected in later), John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology (1922) : 74 26 ex discussion following John J. Moren (Louisville), “Diagnosis and Treatment of Encephalitis,” and cross-column misread involving G. A. Hendon (Louisville), “Cancer of the Large Intestine,” in Kentucky Medical Journal (March 1922) : 204 27 ex High Egg Production by Individual Hens, Pens and Flocks (Reliable Poultry Journal, 1922) : 91 specifically, ex Part II, Chapter III, “A high-producing strain of barred rocks and how it was bred / Methods of breeding that have enabled J. W. Parks of Altoona, Pa., to develop a remarkably productive strain and to win financial independence — interesting examples of pen and flock production — Methods of line breeding and “Tracing Back” by pedigrees.” By Grant M. Curtiss, Editor of Reliable Poultry Journal 28 ex confused snippet preview (nothing at landing), Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica: Supplementum (most definltely not 1922, though so dated) in full : “of these facversial therapy and there is an ungoing debate tors .”

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#tercet #un #ungoings #The Land War #does not #Chief Red Eagle #per-curtness

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radramblog · 4 years ago

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My Commander Decks Pt.1

I was supposed to be going to a Commander night tonight, and that fell through, and now I’m just sitting here, staring at my deckboxes. So I thought I might channel that sorta fixation into a discussion of some of my (many) commander decks, the history behind them, and how my own deckbuilding ethos folds into them.

The Mimeoplasm- Sultai Reanimator

My oldest and most storied deck, though it has changed a lot over the years. I first heard about commander not long after I started playing magic, and I didn’t have much of a collection at that point, nor did I have that much money to drop on a 100-card deck. I might not have even had the basics necessary at that point. When I heard of the upcoming release of Duel Decks: Jace vs Vraska, I ended up agreeing with my brother to split it- we pay half each, he gets Jace, I get Vraska, with the intent of turning that into my first commander deck, with my copy of Varolz, the Scar-Striped at the head.

Getting cards isn’t easy in Perth, as there aren’t many card shops and their stock is limited- ordering online is an option but it can take upwards of a month for cards to arrive from the US stores. As such, when I saw a significantly better generic BG “stuff” commander in Sapling of Colfenor in a local store, I was easily conviced to pick her up, sleeve her up, and lead with her for a long time

At this point the deck was still just a pile of (mostly bad) cards I liked, with somewhat of a graveyard theme, but it was my pile of cards, and I loved it. I have a lot of sentiment attached to most if not all of my commander decks, actually. Eventually we got to the release of Khans of Tarkir and Fate Reforged, and while somehow I never got convinced to run Sidisi, Tasigur, the Golden Fang, would eventually take command of the deck, adding Blue to its options.

Blue didn’t add much at first, and it’s still the least present colour of the three in the deck, but a looter or two and some funky spells were a fun time. I was never good at playing Tasigur, never really willing to delve too much, not willing to exile my own graveyard, a sentiment that would continue into the current configuration. Not long after this, one of my friends organised an online order, and I decided to order enough cards to completely retune the deck.

I’d like to argue I got lucky, seeing as a lot of the cards I picked up spiked not long after, but it was then that the style of the deck solidified, and it started resembling where the deck is at now. Despite the huge changes, however, I didn’t think to change the commander to the Ooze that now helms the deck until after, and it would take some time until a friend spotted a Mimeoplasm in someone’s binder at a draft for me to finally get the deck’s final commander, solidifying it as a Mimeoplasm deck rather than just my Sultai Reanimator deck.

Even now, this deck is an eclectic collection of my history with Magic. Ostensibly, it’s a deck that either tries to win on turn 2-3 by reanimating an insurmountable threat, or by grinding out value steadily lategame between engines, possibly ending the game with a convoluted combo. But that’s not really what the deck is, is it. It has the Vraska from that old Duel Deck, the misprinted Flooded Strand from my Khans of Tarkir prerelease. It has two of the 5 Masterpieces I somehow managed to open over the 3 entire blocks they did those, and it has the damaged Reanimate my best friend traded for for me (He needed value in the trade and I paid him back for it, but it still counts). Cutting anything from this list is like killing my darlings, maybe with the exception of the manabase (It’s still pretty awful).

Radha, Heart of Keld- Gruul Topdeck

From my oldest deck to my newest. Radha is a deck borne of one evening- it was a friend’s birthday, everyone was peacing out and walking back to our cars, both me and the birthday girl are parked next to the local game store, which, hey, it’s still open, let’s take a peek. I ended up buying everyone a round of Modern Horizons packs, as well as a Japanese Ikoria booster for myself, and apparently my good deeds were repaid in the packs I opened.

From this, I decided I wanted to build a more unique deck. See, it hadn’t been that long since the Commander precons where WOTC had decided to make a new archetype in the form of Esper Topdeck, printing Aminatou and Yennet as commanders to promote this. But with M21 recent, and Vivien’s ability to play off the top, I wanted to see what the other two colours could offer for such a deck. Hence, Radha, Heart of Keld became the leader of my own Gruul Topdeck deck.

There’s a lot of ideas coming together in this deck. The options for topdeck manipulation in Gruul are largely just the artifact ones, so I wanted more options to manipulate the deck- hence, I made sure the ramp was largely Rampant Growth type effects so they would still be relevant as shuffle effects in the lategame. I knew I wanted to run Wrenn and Six, so I made sure just about every nonbasic in the deck was a Evolving Wilds type effect- they synergize with Wrenn, they are shuffles when I want them, and they mean I can put all of my actually good Gruul lands in my other Gruul deck.

Unfortunately, the most you can abuse topdeck manipulation in Gruul to do is mostly just using it to cheat creatures into play. So that was the angle I went for, throwing a variety of spooky creatures in that would let me have a variety of options if I had the capacity to manipulate my deck. The sheer number of basic-searching effects I had gave me an excuse to run the Conduit of Ruin toolbox package I had in mind, letting me play Deciever of Form, a card in my collection that I’d had my eye on for quite some time, off of a one-of Wastes. I wanted to run Oath of Druids, so the deck doesn’t play any creatures under 3cmc just in case I’m flipping blind.

The deck does a lot of powerful nothing, but it’s not a blue deck, so I think I can get away with that. It’s far from perfect, and despite my disgust with the card it probably needs a Sensei’s Divining Top, butt I think this deck is an elegant reflection of my own deckbuilding process, if I do say so myself (and I do!)

Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea- Mono-Blue Devotion Voltron

I built a Callaphe deck because I saw a foil showcase one at a card shop for cheap, thought it looked gorgeous, and had a bunch of blue cards sitting around without a deck to put them in. It’s not as well thought-out as some of my other decks, but I’d argue it has a lot going for it. Turns out the best way to play a bunch of blue enchantments with devotion also happens to you stealing a bunch of stuff and drawing a bunch of cards. Neat!

Callaphe has a bunch of new cards in it that I haven’t gotten to try yet, but I’m excited to do so- it’s probably the first deck I’m going to pull out at my next commander night. It’s not particularly powerful, but she gets big surprisingly quick, and no-one expects the old Corrupted Conscience my own Commander trick. Infect is a perfectly viable way to win a game of magic! Especially when I’m using someone else’s creature!

Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist- Cat Tribal

The first round of Secret Lairs were announced in December 2019, as I recall. My birthday is December 11, and so I decided to spoil myself a little and pick up the “OMG Kitties!” pack, all the cards of which became the basis for this deck.

I’m a cat person. My cat Ruby is a brat but I love her to bits. This is the cutest deck I own.

Building around the Ikoria companion restriction was interesting, as it meant cutting staples like Sakura-Tribe Elder and…actually I think that was it? Turns out when you build kitty aggro you don’t want a lot of things that aren’t kitties. I opted for Mirri over Arahbo, however, partially because I despise Eminence as an ability, and partially because I like that Mirri lets you swing with impunity without getting cracked back too hard. A bit of a nonbo with Kaheera, unfortunately, but you can do worse. Kaheera usually gets blown up at some point anyway.

I’ve had a surprising amount of trouble getting all the tokens for this deck. I’m working on it.

Roalesk, Apex Hybrid- Simic Superfriends

The idea for this deck is actually a spin on one from Ben Doolittle, from his Conditions Allow series on EDHREC. It inspired me, and while I took the mechanical core of the deck from the article, the Superfriends spin was my own idea. Essentially, the plan is to use Clone effects to convert cards in hand into copies of Roalesk’s powerful enter the battlefield and dies triggers (as the clones are sacrificed to the Legend rule), making the main man himself big very quickly and proliferating counters onto a wide variety of spicy planeswalkers.

The deck was built not long after the dissolution of my first Cube, as such many of the cards were taken directly from it- just about every UG walker in that cube or in my binder ended up in the deck, which proved problematic when I rebuilt the cube. It also ended up with the Doubling Season I opened in it, giving it combo potential, but the only tutor around is Jace, Architect of Thought’s ultimate, so it’s not a guarantee (Though the one time I did get it off was incredible…). Most of the deck is filled with Clones and a whole 22 planeswalkers, fulfilling a variety of roles in the deck, leaving not a whole lot of room for more traditional answers but since I have superfriends that ramp, superfriends that draw, and superfriends that are removal, it has yet to be too big an issue. Outside of ramp, however, I find myself allergic to “staple” cards, and so relying on the planeswalkers that the deck is built around and that synergise with Roalesk and the other Proliferate effects in the deck is fine by me.

The deck actually got strictly better with the recent Commander rules change that made dies triggers work even if you put the commander in the Zone, but I was a little salty anyway, since I’d built it with the idea in mind that I wasn’t getting that double proliferate unless I worked for it. Ah, whatever, can’t complain about the devs making my deck better for me, right?

Much like many of these rambles, I’m going to leave this one here, halfway through. In the second half, we’ll discuss my awful but hilarious 5 colour deck, my awful to play against monocolour deck, and 3 others. ‘til then!

#ramble #edh #commander #mtg

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2022-504-joshualowe · 2 years ago

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Rationale

Throughout this semester, I was assigned the typefaces, ASAP and ASAP Condensed for my type specimen book. Although the limited information, I have learned a lot about this typeface and type in general, I’ve learnt the anatomy of type and its terminology.

Using the skills in InDesign and other programs in the Adobe Suite, which I learned in the first semester, I found this paper much easier than the previous one. This semester on InDesign I’ve learned to use a few features, Indenting and Character and Paragraph Style, this is seen used in my spreads. Before this paper, I did know about these functions on InDesign but I didn’t know how to use them, but now I know the purpose of each tool. I think I am well versed with InDesign at this point in the year.

I started this project with my first draft, it was a culmination of some of the in-class tasks we did, but I didn’t properly plan my draft and after getting feedback from Karol I changed it a lot. I now considered a grid system in my type book, this is seen on my cover page with the alignment of the title and the subtext. I also reduced the page numbers on my pages and made them on every other page.

In my final spreads, I’ve included diagrams of the anatomy of my assigned typeface and my created 27th letter, displaying the alphabet and the Maori vowels, and displayed all of the glyphs. What I found challenging was the number of ideas in my spreads, I decided to stick to 24 Pages / 12 spreads.

Memorising the printing settings is something I need to improve on, making sure I have short edge binding, two-up saddle stitch etc. I have spent a lot of money on errors and misprints.

Something to work on in the second half of the semester is to experiment more and to use these Adobe programs as a canvas to do it.

#materialsandmedia #grad504

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blindrapture · 7 years ago

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Did you think I was kidding?

Here’s an incomplete inventory of the shit I’ve been able to get my hands on during my trip to America:

Top-left: A Penguin Classics edition of the Wake’s first edition (not to be confused with a different Penguin Classics edition-of-the-first-edition I used to have), which I bought in a heartbeat even though...

Top-right: ...I already brought my hardcover Faber third edition with me from England (my favourite copy-- word of advice for anyone else crazy enough to want to start reading the Wake, the ideal copy is one based on the third edition, not anything earlier; Joyce spent the last two years of his life correcting misprints, third edition makes use of those corrections)

Middle-left: Watchmen (always wanted my own copy of this), and a box of two Sonic posters that are really fucking cute (it was at the register at Half Price Books and it was like two bucks)

Middle-right: THE FAMILIAR VOLUME 5, THE SEASON 1 FINALE (I am so fucking excited to read this, oh my god I finally have the bookkkk)

Bottom-left: Quinn took me to his university’s library, where we found several shelves devoted to Joyce scholarship. I promptly grabbed all these and checked them out. From top to bottom: Epiphanies (pretty sure this is an annotated transcription of Joyce’s eponymous things he wrote over the course of his life), The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake (wherein Marshall McLuhan’s son compares the Wake to Menippean satire, and of course devotes many pages to the ten legendary thunderwords as changes in global technology), A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (wherein Joseph Campbell and another dude provide the first ever in-depth analysis of a ‘plot,’ and in doing so Campbell discovers the theory of a monomyth which inspires him to study what would become Hero with a Thousand Faces), Stephen Hero (basically the first draft of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, albeit in the third-person and much longer), Ellmann’s Joyce biography (super fucking thorough and really fucking fun to read, includes the gem that JOYCE LITERALLY WAS GOING TO WRITE A SEQUEL TO THE WAKE, also includes every instance where Joyce offended a famous writer), and Joyce’s Book of the Dark (wherein John Bishop basically puts all Wake scholarship to shame, this thing is the most engaging study I’ve read about the book, mainly focuses on the Wake as an actually-accurate representation of a full night of unconsciousness, and all the mythological and historical and even accidentally scientific significance of that, INCLUDES A FUCKING MAP OF THE WAKE’S LOCATIONS, actually includes two, one for dream-Dublin and one for all of dream-Europe, both are microcosms of each other and penises are prominent). You can tell what I’ve been reading most as of late. I will be so sad to have to return these.

Bottom-right: Other books I’ve gotten! From left to right: MARKS MADE: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present (the back, instead of a blurb, is a piece by Guerilla Girls. I’m in love), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (this is a gorgeous hardcover copy with gold-gilded pages and IT WAS FIVE BUCKS), The Complete Maus (I’ve been meaning to read this for so long), Crossover (I have no idea who Cecil Balmond is but this is one big book of modern art with fascinating theory and collaborations and I’m super happy to take a look), The Old Man and the Sea (dad’s been recommending this Hemingway to me for a very long time, finally managed to find a copy), and the CliffsNotes on Ulysses (it was the closest thing to Joyce scholarship that Half-Price Books had, don’t judge me).

So. I already had a hard enough time carrying my suitcases on the way over to America, and I’d only brought two books. It’s gonna be fun to get back, but it will be 100% worth it.

My god, I am in heaven.

#books #james joyce #the wake or bust

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talinthas · 8 years ago

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On collectors, the forgotten axis of magic the gathering fandom

Prep for a wall of text, friends

Fifteen years ago, @markrosewater created the player psychographic notion of Johnny/Jenny, Timmy/Tammy, and Spike, representing what drove players to play. J was the player seeking to express creativity, quirkiness, and complexity through their play. T sought out the flashiest and most exciting ways, and S was looking to assert their dominance over the game however possible. This concept of splitting the players into their desires was a groundbreaking idea, allowing the designers to aim cards and products specifically at certain slices of the player base, thus ensuring that no one ever felt neglected.

Yes, not every card was a tournament card, but not every player was a tournament player either. Matt Cavotta saw this when he created the idea of Vorthos, the player concerned far more with the story and flavor than the mechanics. Rosewater rightly saw that this was orthogonal to the JTS spectrum, and he anchored Vorthos to Mel, the player who cares more about the nuts and bolts mechanics of the cards. Later this was revised to be more independent, where players had varying amounts of Vorthos and Mel in them, not necessarily in opposition to each other, but more like an old radio with sliders for bass and treble and mids. The VM sliders were modified by the JTS spectrum so that a person could be a Spiky Vorthos, for instance, concerned with knowing the story in and out.

(Before I go on, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the amazing article Ant Tessitore wrote further subdividing Vorthos into five archtypes. Click here to check it out- http://www.gatheringmagic.com/anttessitore-042215-vorthos-2015/)

I’d like to posit that there’s another scale here that has been ignored, the Collector. Another slider like VM are now, The Collector represents the desire to have it all, or a subset of it all, or none at all, and like the VM scale, the JTS spectrum can be applied here too.

First, the baseline. A player with their Collector slider all the way at zero is the person who sells their cards back at the end of a tournament, leaves their draft chaff on the table at the end of the night, if not their deck as well. The player who is only here to play, and cycles through their cards to fund more play, or just to free themselves of clutter. On the maxed out side of the slider is the player who doesn’t just have every print of every card (psh, that’s level one stuff, they say), but has a full set of Richard Garfield’s hand cut cards from the original playtests. Most of us, I’d wager, fall somewhere in between. And its important to note that the scope of the collection isn’t important here- a person deeply dedicated to getting each planeswalker in a set is just as high as a person deeply dedicated to getting each card in that set. It’s the amount of desire and drive that matters.

So lets break down the JTS as applied to the Collector!

The TimTam Collector - This person is into the flashiest, fanciest, coolest stuff around. Their commander deck is fully foiled out, and they make it a point to get the most expensive cards they can find. Masterpieces make their eyes pop, but not as much as the full set of Beta Power in their cube.

The JoJen Collector - Collecting everything isn’t fun, because there’s no direction there. This collector is hunting out specifics of amazing. Every land in their draft deck is by the same artist. They delight in having every card in Korean because the printing paper is different. Masterpieces? Sure, as long as they’re the European mis-foiled versions that only did the borders. And your eyes aren’t deceiving you- those plains in their Titania deck are actually the misprinted German revised Forests.

The Spike Collector - All the cards? Psh, been there done that. Spike has full draft sets of lands from every set just to ensure they properly match and fit the set being played, assuming they’re not just using pack fresh beta lands. This player’s edh deck is a wonder to behold. Every land, every spell, is absolutely on point thematically. Their collection is arranged in hyper meticulous order, in a custom card file cabinet imported from a now defunct college library. And their tokens? Hand drawn by artists and members of R&D. The Spike isn’t looking to collect things anyone can collect. No, Spike collects the things only they can. After all, anyone can have a masterpiece Ornithopter- how many have a fully 3d diorama masterpiece ornithopter made out of 15 layers of cards?

Of course, Vorthos and Mel apply here as well. Vorthos Collector loves the new story spotlight cards, and has the full weatherlight saga in a binder in story order so that it can be read like a comic book. Mel, on the other hand, revels in having near mint playsets of everything, one for display and one for play, double sleeved and in exact collector number order.

I myself am a Collector, which is why I spent many hundred words on this. Most of my enjoyment of the game comes from opening packs and getting cards and then putting them in boxes and binders and going out to get more cards to also put into boxes and binders. It makes me happy to flip through my collection and remember when and how i got these, and it fills me with great joy to make incredibly sub-par decks that are stocked with cards I’ve gone out of my way to hunt down. Is there a better play I can do than tapping an unlimted Sol Ring to play a Japanese Black Bordered and signed Revised Mahamoti Djinn? Probably. But is there one that gives me more enjoyment? You know the answer =)

#magic the gathering #the collector #a new kind of player

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jeskaim · 6 years ago

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FNM 8/10/18 - Luck of the Mythics!!

Man did I have a good night last night. I did draft and my FIRST pack I get this:

Needless to say I took it and two packs later I get passed this:

It was in the pack of the person diagonal from me and both he and the person across from me passed on it. It was still a Mythic worth around $10 so I took it and decided to go for U/G. That wasn’t my last Mythic of the night. This was:

Even though she’s not worth that much I took her just because I didn’t want anyone else to get their hands on her. So I ended the night with THREE Mythics which might be a personal record. It’s still not as good as the time I did Sealed with Amonkhet and got an Invocation, a mythic, a foil rare, and a misprint.

As I put my deck together I noticed I had more green cards than blue but I did my best to put together the best deck I could. My first round I lost which I pretty much expected. The second round I played against the same little kid I did last time I did draft and won. I lost the first game because I couldn’t draw any of the cards I needed but I was able to sideboard and beat him in games two and three. For most of the time one of his friends was giving him tips and telling him what to do but I was still able to beat him. Third round I went up against another regular and won in three games. Vine Mare was a huge help in the two matches I won because I was able to enchant it with with Oakenform to give it +3/+3 and Skyrider Patrol to give it a +1/+1 counter and Flying to get around her creatures.

I decided to drop after the third round because I figured I would just lose anyway and I wanted to trade in my packs for credit towards a Sea of Clouds for my Narset deck because it fits better than Temple of Enlightenment because it doesn’t come in tapped and chances are when I play commander I’ll have at least two opponents so it’ll come in untapped. My deck is officially finished and I can’t wait to take it out for a spin (if my opponents will let me). Next week I’m thinking about dusting off my Affinity deck if Modern fires but if not I’ll just do Commander.

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icoleysblog-blog · 8 years ago

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Finals For Beamish

After my first failed attempt I went back into Photoshop and began editing my first draft. I first started with the circles and made them paler so they didn’t look neon. Already with that slight change the design looked a lot better and once I had thinned down the lines I started to like it. Though I was happy with the changes I had already made, the background was still too bright so I decided to make it a very pale yellow to bring the whole image together. Compared to my first attempt I am really pleased with this one. I believe it is one of my weaker outcomes for this project but I think have done quite well in projecting the 50’s.

This is the second pattern I designed for my notebooks. Overall this may be my favourite one because it looks modern but fits in with the 50’s criteria. I used the oval shape and line tool to create a geometric leaf. Once I was happy with how it looked I duplicated the shape eight times and put them into formation, three across the top, two in the middle and three on the bottom. Taking the oval shape again I created a series of coloured leaf shapes to put behind the foliage. I did this because I noticed in some 50’s designs the colour and shapes are separated, like the pattern has been misprinted. When looking through other 50’s surface patterns I’ve noticed the designers didn’t tend to use white instead they use an off-white, almost yellow colour. Most of my backdrops will have this colour mainly because it gives the image more life and it’s actually overall more pleasing to look at. I am really pleased with this piece because it fits in with the era and even though I hate 50’s designs I tried really hard and ended up creating something I like, something I can be proud of.

The one thing I would change about this piece would be the foliage. Instead of eight big ones I would have smaller ones and a lot more of them. I imagine the piece would look better if it was fuller as there would be more pattern to go across the notebook because depending on the size some of the foliage would be offside, leaving a plain piece of background. I don’t think my original piece is a problem at all in fact it’s very nice but more foliage could make it look even better.

My third pattern piece is a lot different than my others. I still used geometric shapes but chose to keep the background solid white. My pattern consisted of rectangles and squares, which are different sizes, thickness and tone layered on top of each other. My inspiration for this piece was old-fashioned disco and the famous prints people used to wear to go down town. It is a very simple design but took me a while to do because I wanted to get the placement of each shape right. I chose to keep the background white because I wanted the shapes to look bolder, like they are about to pop out at you plus I believe using an off-white colour would make it look strange and execrable. Over all I really like the design it’s simple yet effective and would look good printed onto a notebook. I’ve realised that not all my designs have to have flowers to look like they are from the 1950’s and doing this project has helped broaden my ideas and make me like some 50’s designs just a tiny bit more.

This is my final pattern piece for my notebooks and defiantly one of my favourites. Instead of using foliage I decided to use flower petals and have three vertical lines along the page filled up with them. Like my leaf design I used the oval shape too to create the black outline of the flower. Once completed I duplicated the petal fifty three times and then lined them all up one by one. After that was done I took the oval shape again but instead of having the outlines, the petals would be filled with colour with no black outline. The colours I chose were all pastel pink, green and blue with an off-white backdrop. It looks like a very simple design but it took me the longest to do because I needed to make sure every single petal was lined up and the coloured petals were off-side just right. I think that is why I appreciate this design more because I spent so much time and hard work on it. Overall it’s a very sweet, fun, girly pattern, which fits in with the 50’s era. This design would also look nice on a vanity box, handbags, purses, make up packaging and household appliances.

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