#go shintai

[reubenyeoart]

Fanart - Go Shintai of Life's Origin

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[mtg-cards-hourly]

Go-Shintai of Boundless Vigor

It seeks those with untamed spirits and offers wild strength.

Artist: Johannes Voss TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Nomadic,” starring Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim and Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty! It's easy to be a wandering cultist when your shrine can travel with you..

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Reuxben

[brewerssupplies]

Here's a monk subclass I've been throwing around in my head for a while, definitely took some inspiration from the MtG cards for the names of the shrines and their themes. Hope you enjoy!

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[dravidious]

Actually I lied, you're not just incredible. You're incredible and awesome and cool and amazing and

Fun Fact: The "what's a virgin" bit in RTR was inspired by this tumblr post

[markrosewater]

Can the rule care about the number of types a card or a permanent has?

- "The Royal Scions" would have 1 card type(Planeswalker), and 2 planeswalker subtypes(Rowan and Will)

- "Go-Shintai of Ancient Wars" would have 1 supertype(Legendary), 2 card types(Enchantment and Creature), 1 enchantment subtype(Shrine), and 0 creature subtypes

Yes.

[gensokyohyakkiyako]

@warriorsofcrimsonrealms

"Reimu~!" Izumi cheerfully waves to her as she flies over, landing in front of the shrine. "Thanks for your help last time~. I learned about the second Go-Shintai from Lady Inari, and she told me about how to use it well. Oh yes, she also brought me this to bring you as thanks~." She handed over a small box with a miniature cake inside, several candies sticking out of the top.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Exalted but you just make charms up off the top of your head whenever you use them.

What, you're gonna go down every interminable charm tree in every source book to check if Moon Shattering Dream Shintai or All-Truth-Warping Path Of Stars are real or not ? Ha, good luck fucker.

[whencyclopedia]

Ninigi

Ninigi-no-Mikoto, or simply Ninigi, is the grandson of the supreme Shinto deity Amaterasu, the sun goddess. He is the son of Ama-no-Oshiho-mimi and, descending to earth as the first just ruler, he brought with him gifts from Amaterasu as symbols of his authority which remain part of the Japanese imperial regalia today. Ninigi became the great-grandfather of Japan's first emperor, the semi-legendary Emperor Jimmu, and so established a divine link between all subsequent emperors and the gods.

Ninigi Descends from the Heavens

In Japanese mythology, the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami asked her son Ama-no-Oshiho-mimi to descend from the heavens to rule the world of the mortals. Twice refusing this honour after seeing the general chaos that prevailed in the world, Ama-no-Oshiho-mimi nominated his son Ninigi-no-Mikoto (full name: Ame-Nigishi-Kuninigishi-Amatsu-hiko-no-ninigi-no-mikoto) to go in his place. To this Amaterasu finally agreed, and she gave Ningi three gifts to help him on his way. These were the Yasakani, a fabulous jewel (or pearls or magatama beads), source of the ancient quarrel between Amaterasu and her brother Susanoo, the storm god; the Yata, the mirror which had been made by the gods and successfully used to tempt Amaterasu out of the cave which she hid in following some typical bad behaviour from Susanoo; and Kusanagi, the great sword Susanoo had plucked from a monster's tail. These would become the three emblems of Ninigi's power (sanshu no jingi), and they became the imperial regalia of his descendants, the emperors of Japan, starting with his great-grandson Emperor Jimmu (r. 660-585 BCE). Thus, all subsequent emperors were able to claim a direct descent from the gods and so legitimise their authority to rule Japan.

The celebrated 7th-century CE poet Kakinomoto Hitomaro composed this poem on Ninigi's descent to govern humanity:

At the beginning of heaven and earth

The eight hundred, the thousand myriads of gods

Assembled in high council

On the shining beach of the Heavenly River,

Consigned the Government of the Heavens

Unto the Goddess Hirume , the Heaven-

Illuminating One,

And the government for all time,

As long as heaven and earth endured,

Of the Rice-abounding Land of Reed Plains

Unto her divine offspring,

Who, parting the eightfold clouds of the sky,

Made his godly descent upon the earth.

Manyoshi (Keene, 104-105)

Amaterasu also gave Ninigi some specific instructions regarding the Yata mirror: "Consider this mirror as thou wast wont to consider my soul, and honour it as myself" (Hackin, 395). Eventually, the mirror would indeed become an object of worship or shintai and end up in the Ise Grand Shrine in the Mie Prefecture, dedicated to Amaterasu and still today Japan's most important Shinto shrine.

Ninigi, carrying his three precious goods, and accompanied by three gods (including Ame-no-uzume, the dawn goddess, and Sarutahiko-no-kami, the god of crossroads) and five chiefs, landed on earth at the top of Mt. Takachiho, in the south of Kyushu. From there, after first building himself a palace, he went to the temple of Kasasa in Satsuma province where the five chiefs set about laying down the principles of the Shinto religion, creating a priesthood and organising the building of temples. The chiefs would pacify the land and establish the clans which would dominate Japanese government for centuries to come such as the Fujiwara clan. In this capacity, the five became the ancestral deities of these clans, the ujigami.

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[transitranger327]

Magic the Gathering has so much good art, I want to know who your favorite artist is. Whether you actively collect them, seek out their versions of cards with lots of variants, or are on the top of your list to sign your cards.

There’s a lot of artists I couldn’t put in a poll, but I tried to have a mix of older and newer artists. Reblog with your faves!

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

So for those of you who don't follow Magic news and want to hear about something funny, I have a story to tell for you. The biggest format in Magic (for better or for worse) is Commander, a predominantly casual 100 card Highlander format that is played in pods of 4. There is also a Commander Rules Committee, who governs what the rules of Commander are as well as the Commander banlist. Importantly, the Commander banlist is designed for a casual focus in mind, and also in general is pretty bad and no one really likes it. There's a whole different post about cards like Stasis and Armageddon which are considered _soft_ banned through community consensus but not hard banned through the banlist.

Recently, they announced the bannings of four cards from the format: Jeweled Lotus, Dockside Extortionist, Mana Crypt, and Nadu, Winged Wisdom. Nadu is not the discussion point of today, but rather the first three cards, cards which are often under the group of cards called "Fast Mana". Fast Mana generally refers to cards that are extremely cheap to play and give you more mana than you put into them to play. It includes the above cards but also includes cards like Sol Ring, Lotus Petal, and Mox Opal/Diamond. Fast mana is one of the hallmarks of high-powered casual Commander pods, as well as cEDH, the competitively focused niche unofficial format of Commander. Dockside Extortionist also had the additional factor of causing a number of easy to do infinite loops involving a ton of different cards to make infinite mana.

These cards were always questionable, but have become more and more powerful recently as more and more powerful Commanders have come out in the 4-6 mana slot. The ability to drop a Commander such as Winota or Go-Shintai of Life's Origin on early turns can very easily result in snowball wins where it becomes impossible for the other players at the table to react in time. This reasoning for banning them is reasonable but not exactly bulletproof either, since Jeweled Lotus is generally better for Commanders who are only one or two colors.

Much more importantly to our story though, these cards were pricy. They were seen by many as staples of the format, especially if you wanted your Commander deck to be as strong as possible. Jeweled Lotus and Dockside Extortionist frequently were in the $80-$100 range as cards, while Mana Crypt was at its cheapest somewhere around $150-180. A chase version of these cards could go for $300-500. Pricy! While these cards were seen by many as staples, they also created this weird pay to win atmosphere, where these cards were super expensive but extremely powerful. Proxying, where you use an obviously fake card as a representation of a game piece, isn't universally accepted among Magic players either, often by the same very cranky people as we're going to be talking about. It is much more common in the cEDH community where deck prices tend to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

So, what happened about the bannings that made people so upset? Well, the prices of these cards crashed. It is worth noting why. Mana Crypt is only legal in two formats: Vintage, where it is restricted to one copy, and Commander. Commander ends up being the primary home for the card, because Vintage is SO overwhelmingly expensive and proxy hostile that tons of people are priced out of the format in paper (it is significantly cheaper on Magic Online). Dockside Extortionist is playable in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander, but was only good in Commander, since in 60 cards 1v1 formats its hard for Dockside to generate enough mana to go infinite or make big swings in mana. Jeweled Lotus was basically only playable in Commander, since it doesn't serve a particularly useful function when you don't have a commander. It could see very fringe play in Legacy but it is probably not worth it.

So the removal of these cards from their primary spheres of play have caused the prices of these cards to utterly crash, their value now only kept up by their general scarcity. Dockside Extortionist is currently going for about $25, Jeweled Lotus for about $45, and Mana Crypt for about $90. They're still valuable cards, but their value no longer has promise of going to the moon anymore. They will simply be reasonable expensive and probably never reasonably appreciate in value again. This has made a bunch of people who had no intentions of ever selling their speculative card pieces very angry. Several of these very angry people have decided to hurl accusations that the Commander RC was insider trading, making the frankly hilarious assumption that Magic the Gathering cards are in some way equivalent to stocks. Many people have made the claim they will quit the game over this, but in the kind of way where it's pretty obvious they won't actually do that and will just take the cards out of their decks and keep showing up at their LGS.

It is very funny to make fun of these people, and to be quite frank, we should. This example is a pretty good one in how collectors and financial speculators are pretty much poison to card games as a whole. Most of the people complaining did not have actual money that they lost. They never intended to cash out their gains at any point. It's all theoretical money, practically monopoly bucks. They had, in reality where we all live, spent $80 on a game piece. They made a purchase, they did not make an investment. I spent $60 a piece on a playset of Infinite Impermanence to prepare for a tournament that was cancelled due to the LGS being incompetent. We all make these Ls in our time as card game players.

I will never make profit on my Flames of Destruction Secret Rare Infinite Impermanences. Ever. Konami has reprinted Infinite Impermanence several times in the interests of making the game more accessible to players. This is the key thing. Bannings and reprints are market forces if you're being a particular kind of twit like anything else. You should not just expect that your pricy pieces of cardboard are untouchable. Bannings and reprintings are often done for the interests in making a format more accessible to other players. I do think that the bannings in Commander do that on some level, because Commander is not just played in pre-negotiated pods. Having a non-game because someone opened a fast mana piece and sped ahead of the entire table sucks, strictly speaking. Your cards will lose secondary value, because the primary goal of the Commander RC, and to be quite frank, Wizards of the Coast as a whole, is to make sure the game is accessible to the most players possible. Reprints and bannings are tools for that function, and frankly, I think Wizards has been using them wrong for over two decades at this point. They've ceded a lot of ground to collectors and financial investors, and it has resulted in entire formats that are basically unplayable to the average person. Modern is now very frequently a $900-$1200 format. Legacy decks run at price tags of several thousand dollars, and Vintage decks can run from $20,000-60,000 dollars. All because the price of Black Lotus must keep going up, and there are many, many cards in Magic where this is the case. These people are, to be blunt, parasites who can and will suck a game dry. If this offends you, please do some soul searching. The thing that keeps a game alive is its players, not your tens of thousands of dollars of cardboard game pieces sitting in a cabinet never to be sold or played with again.

The only people who have a reasonable claim to being upset are cEDH players, as these pieces were a part of the meta and their loss will be felt. Frankly, I don't think cEDH should be governed by a Rules Committee that on its face does not make decisions in the interests of cEDH. cEDH is still fringe compared to the casual Commander pool, and they should not be governing policy for players who do not play the same format as them. Likewise, the RC should not be governing them either. This would be a good incentive as any to finally make the split imo.

oh and trust me im tagging this bitch lmao

(Also, the allusions to NFT language in this post are intentional! These are basically one step removed from NFTs.)

[reubenyeoart]

Still working on this piece; noodling on the background at the moment! For the full WIP:

[yoga-onion]

Legends and myths about trees

Shinboku (lit. tree of God) – Sacred trees where gods dwell in Japanese prehistoric Shintoism

A sacred tree (shinboku) is a tree or forest worshipped as a shintai - a physical object of worship at or near a Shinto shrine, worshipped as a repository in which spirits and deities reside, or where they descend. They are often distinctly visible due to the shimenawa (lit. 'enclosing rope') wrapped around them. Types of sacred trees include evergreen cedar, pine and cleyera japonica (sakaki) that is regarded as a representative sacred tree and is often used in Shinto rituals.

In ancient Shinto, the Himorogi (lit. "divine fence") was considered to be a place where the gods dwelled, or a boundary between the everlasting world and the present world, and was feared and respected. In order to prevent people, things in this world, gods in this world, and things that bring misfortune and evil to this world from easily coming and going, shimenawa were hung as walls, making it a forbidden place.

Generally, the term refers to trees that are regarded as divine or sacred, as well as the guardian forests that surround them and that are not supposed to be cut down.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

神木 (しんぼく) 〜 日本の古神道における神の宿る樹木

神木 (しんぼく)とは、神社や祭壇の近くに祀られている木や森のことで、霊や神さまが宿る場所、神さまが降臨する所とされていた。注連縄が巻かれているため、はっきりと見えることが多い。神木の種類としては、常緑樹の杉や松、榊 (さかき) などがある。 この中でも榊は代表的な神木とされ、神事にも多く使われている。

古神道において神籬 (ひもろぎ) は、神の宿る場所としての神域、または常世 (とこよ) と現世 (うつしよ) の境界考えられ、恐れ敬った。また、現世の人々やもの、常世に存在する神々や現世に災いや不幸をもたらすものが、容易に出入りできないように、結界として注連縄をはり、禁足地とした。

一般的に、神体としての木や神聖視される木、その周りを囲む鎮守の森や、伐採をしないとされる木を指す。

[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Sparkle,” starring Anikthea, Hand of Erebos and Go-Shintai of Lost Wisdom! You're really under no obligation to solve these riddle-culous conundrums--just walk away!

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Reuxben

[kiichilog]

2023.5.3 男体山 Nantai-san

Mount Nantai is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan.Mount Nantai constitutes Futarasan Shrine's go-shintai, and the shrine is an important example of this ancient type of mountain cult.

[transgenderer]

The New York times Square ball is like the American go-shintai* for the kami of time

*the "body" of the kami, that the kami's spirit enters/resides in, possibly in many locations at once