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slipperyblogle · 6 months ago

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Beginning My Magic: The Gathering Limited Journey

If you haven't seen my previous posts, I mention several times that I have been playing Magic: The Gathering for about six years now. While my engagement with his has ebbed and flowed, depending on where I am at in life, I've done my best to stay connected one way or another.

My journey began with limited. In the summer of 2018, I worked as a camp counselor at a sleepaway camp. Several other staff members played and decided to host a small Dominaria draft. I had just learned the basics of Magic but was so eager to continue learning, so I decided to attend! I won a game, which was both exciting and surprising.

After that, I attended the Draft Weekend for War of the Spark and several FNMs drafting that same set, yet I never really resonated with the Limited format.

After devoting the majority of my time to Commander, I've been craving something new yet accessible. My goal was to find a 1v1 format that could challenge me to think about the game in new ways but also be mindful of my expenses; I'm a graduate student and cannot justify spending hundreds on even more cards.

Naturally, Limited, and especially draft, came to me! While I do attend the Pre-release event for most new sets, I do so in a casual manner to have fun with friends and open some new cards. That being said, I really, REALLY, enjoyed Duskmourn and could see myself interacting with it more.

Here are the following goals I have outlined for myself:

1. Interact with more Limited format content. I specified some podcasts and media I was already familiar with but would like to challenge myself to find even more. If you know of any, please don't hesitate to recommend!

2. Track my data. The website 17Lands came up when I was searching for ways to interact with Limited data. When I get home from work/class today, I will download the tool and begin tracking my games. It may also benefit me to keep track outside of that via spreadsheets or other document software.

3. Share my findings, thoughts, and feelings. I want to do a weekly update on my data here on the blog, as I feel it will allow others to see how a beginner to the Limited format grows and changes over time. These updates may just contain data from my games via 17Lands, card evaluations, or simply just my thoughts and feelings.

4. Have fun. It is important to me that I have an underlying mindset that this is a journey and especially one I am just beginning. There will be triumphs and tribulations, but at the end of the day, I am playing Magic. And I love Magic.

I am not an expert. In the grand scheme of things, I know little to nothing about the game, but it is so complex, interesting, and evolving that I hope to one day become one.

Thank you, as usual, and I hope you have a super rest of your day.

#magic the gathering #drafting #duskmourn #limited magic #trading card games #fun

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chronivore · 9 months ago

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#limited magic

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infinitelystrangemachinex · 5 months ago

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The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.

#arcane #melvik #mel medarda #mel arcane #viktor #viktor arcane #spoilers #arcane spoilers #arcane s2 #wake up friends - mel and viktor are doing that thing again #I was mentally out of commission after act 2 but after sitting and thinking about this? season 1 parallels were crazy. but this. is INSANE #by the way - this is nowhere near all of them. i did not include dialogue. this MIGHT be HALF of them. i hit image limit here #at this point i don't know whose fight is gonna be crazier. viktor and jayce's or viktor and mel's lolololol #i support mage on mage violence #okay real talk. why are mel and viktor explicitly paralleled more than basically any other characters #it's bc this is the story of the Arcane literally. they are piltover and zaun's only mages respectively. the Arcane is waking up etc.#the macro narrative is about different kinds of magic rising to power again in a place like piltover/zaun which is a refuge from mages #and it's about how they clash - or work together - because the history of the rune wars is repeating itself #also viktor was a false prophet and mel... may not be #it's because the Arcane speaks through them and the show is about what that means and the consequences

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egophiliac · 2 months ago

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So.... what are your thoughts on Ace's UM, if you haven't been asked this already?

sneaky magic for the sneakiest boy

no but really, I think it fits him really well! I had thought his UM would probably involve something kinda sleight-of-handy or pickpockety! and I looooved that it made such a nice loop-around back to episode 1. ❤️ I was. kind of half-expecting him to just run out and punch Riddle in the nose again. but instead this time 'twas he who offed the queen's head! it was great! and he did it while stone-cold terrified out of his mind! because Ace is the only remotely normal or well-adjusted person at NRC and therefore the only one who is like "we're going to literally die, this is super effed up". but he did it anyway!!!! I AM SO PROUD

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 12 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 12 spoilers #also love how it complements deuce's magic! they are two of a kind ❤️♠️#i do think bet the limit fits the 'uno reverse card' description more though #like...okay they haven't really said much on how joker snatch works #(literally ace went 'we'll talk about it later')#but i think it's not supposed to be inherently retaliatory if that makes sense #the japanese is something like 'put an ace up my sleeve'#which implies to me that it's not really an in-the-moment thing? i think he can steal it and hold on to it for a while probably #like he might be able to snatch it and then use it on someone else later rather than it being reflected back on the original caster #versus deuce's being that he punches you back with your own punch (and/or other various punches he's acquired)#(a connoisseur of fine punches)#i am 100% guessing though so who knows! we will find out later i presume #now the only one left to get their um is grim maybe 👀#(i mean i would also love to see some staff ums HEY TWST THAT WOULD BE COOL)#(but like. narratively speaking and all)#oh and maybe crowley's depending on how plot-important he actually ends up being #what if it turns out nothing's going on with crowley and he's actually completely irrelevant #he tears his mask off and he's just some random dude who has zero idea of what's happening #nobody's been orchestrating shit #everyone's just been getting radioactive poisoning from the stone adeuce replaced in the chandelier back in the prologue #this was all a cautionary tale about getting the blot levels in your school's hvac system regularly checked

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starrysharks · 1 year ago

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friendship is magic

closeups:

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sprinklesharkie · 10 months ago

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more textpost cos i love them

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ruumiinlaulaja · 4 months ago

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Stolas going insane was hilarious af.

#helluva boss #stolas #stolitz #stolas goetia #sinsmas #video #helluva spoilers #girl how did you manage to beat up andy when you can’t even move a desk #lol parental rage knows no limits apparently #plus andy is weak #these twinks need their magic powers

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dapper-lil-arts · 9 months ago

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RARITY CONFESSES (NOT CLICKBAIT!!) inspired by this banger lol

#rarijack #rarity #applejack #video #ngl i made this whole thing just to showcase bara applejack more #enjoy #animation #mlp #mlp gen 4 #my little pony #friendship is magic #Rarity is at her LIMIT

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lurkerdemon · 24 days ago

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Random DP x DC Thought #9:

The fight was desperately going on against the villains near a newly located Lazarus Pit, but despite the heroes best efforts they couldn't prevent one of their own suffering a fatal injury.

Per usual desperation to avoid having to go through life with that loss, the dead person is placed into the Lazarus Pit for revival. (The cost of a bout of possible madness could be dealt with, and at the very least it would remove another one of the pits from the world).

Except this time when the revived person comes back out of the waters, the Lazarus Pit doesn't leave. Shrinks certainly, but still roils and churns before a large, glowing creature with white fur looms over all those gathered. Their blue cape flutters slightly as it floats up above the waters.

"Greetings, I am Frostbite of the Far Frozen. I have come to request-"

A head of white hair and glowing green eyes pops up from behind the being's shoulder.

"STOP THROWING SO MANY PATIENTS INTO PORTALS! YOU'RE STRESSING OUT THE YETIS!"

#dp x dc #dpxdc #In which the Lazarus Pits are super ancient magic connecting to the Far Frozen #something something ancient deal maybe where magicians wanted to save their own loved ones #and the deal was the Yetis accepted so long as there was a limited amount #and they would only accept people who wouldn't become ghosts during the process #time weirdness between the dimensions is the only reason why it seems like a quick process #so this was fine #until the world got more heroes and villains and crazy stuff #and now on the yetis end the yime weirdness means they have gotten a LOT of patients #why is Danny there?#cause moral support / he thinks Frostbite would be too nice about it #crack fic idea?#probably #also this thought might be a result of me Franken-monstering my canon and fanon knowledge a little too closely without checking

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blondeaxolotl · 20 days ago

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The insane part is that he's probably the most stylized and possibly my favourite design I've done so far, 💜moth💜epel💜

#“i'm sending a horde of moths to their dorm” <- he has done that before btw. Vil was NOT happy #He's not allowed to do that again but he will continue to make threats about it if someone tests his limit enough to where he does it anywa #also yeah most bugfolks can communicate with actual bugs. that's why Epel has that power it's not magic it's just second nature #twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland fanart #twst fanart #epel felmier #pomefiore #monodukes art

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procyoren · 4 months ago

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Wizard like creatures

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teratomatica · 8 days ago

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you always land on all fours

#umineko #umineko spoilers #ikuko hachijo #ikukos turn for a more serious piece... the old man has reigned for too long #now. INCREDIBLY LONG INCOHERENT TAGS RANT INCOMING FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN:#it makes me so so sad how little discussion there is about specifically ikuko because imho she fits so neatly into a lot of the more #overarching Big Themes of the game in a way that i have not ever really seen people take notice of or point out in a meaningful way #like even just off of the top of my head. the significance of names and what it means to go by a name that's Not Yours (she has like 4+)#what it Means to be a witch how it represents a person's deepest insecurities and flaws & how its at its core a coping mechanism #the fact that it takes two to create a universe and trying to do it on your own anyways has the capacity to bring you intense misery #^ (how she's shown to be extremely dismissive of her own work and skill until a collaborator comes into her life and helps/encourages her)#and even the family/patriarchy/misogyny stuff that is so prevalent in the rest of the game comes back around to her. even her Only Friend #(young&stupid atp to be fair) remarks that shes Weird for being unmarried + the little she does say about her past invites the question of #to what extent her self-image stems from her family deeming her a freak outcast & effectively disowning her while celebrating her brothers #and i have lot in my mind about the witch thing specifically because i think her particular situation is very reflective of what umineko's #entire magic system and fantasy facet as a whole is meant to represent for an individual. from what little we see of (what is presumably)#her Real personality she is shown to be deeply self conscious in a way that is JARRINGLY diametrically opposed to both 1.) what we see in #featherine and 2.) what we see when she is acting as a Public Figure. because both of the above are very much purposeful acts that she is #putting on in order to obfuscate her true self. and i have always been very resolute & adamant about not totally equating her to featherine #not only because im very firmly in the camp of “featherine is the avatar of the Pen Name & tohya is part of her too” but also very much b/c #i feel very strongly that the stark differences between the two are very centrally relevant to her character & her psyche. as is the case #with most other witches featherine's personality traits serve to reveal/magnify a lot of ikukos inner workings by playing on her #insecurities/reversing them e.g. ikuko being very quick to downplay her skill/achievements becomes featherine being the COMPLETE opposite #to the point where she barely registers even other witches as living beings rather than just fun touys. BUT even though i do champion the #ikuko/featherine separation so hard i ALSO think it is purposefully relevant that at first glance the line between them seems so blurry #her introduction implying a more nebulous separation between her reality/fantasy counterpart is i think is an intentional move on her part #like it is part of the front she is putting up when acting as the Author. as opposed to Ikuko the person who we (in a way ironically very #similar to the way that the Real Battler is presumably only shown during the boatscene) only very briefly get to see take up screentime #which even on a meta level lines up very well with her apparent underlying nature as a like. extremely private largely reserved/shy person #hit tag limit but if by some miracle anyone is still reading this thank you... please see ikuko with the love she deserves... ok ily byeee

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cheesewrapper · 11 days ago

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#silly art #betty grof #magic betty #adventure time #adventure time betty #drawing on an a limited art program ugh #my art

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egophiliac · 4 months ago

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I have never been more concerned for a JP update from your art than I am seeing a Cheka knowing the context of Leona’s dream.

My bois ok right?????? My sweet nephews ok right??????

well

uhhhh

I'm sure the real one is fine :)

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 11 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 11 spoilers #unfortunately leona's ultimate happy dream did involve his entire family dying tragically. them's the breaks.#(for the record he is a little messed up about this) (he is a little messed up about a lot of stuff)#the context of cheka is that they were going to try to shock leona awake by having him show up #however while styx could provide them with a 3d model based on a bodyscan (which they had for...reasons??) they had no data on his behavior #so he was basically just a little frozen mannequin #(the sprite was not t-posing but in my heart this was happening)#ruggie could kind of pilot him with his magic but it only lasts for a few seconds so he had to keep recasting it with noticeable choppiness #so while we don't get the entire effect due to the limitations of the format #this means that leona was in the middle of let-them-eat-cake'ing a revolution when suddenly #his late nephew bursts jerkily in through the door yelling OJITAN I'M ALIVE AND MY VOICE CHANGED OFFSCREEN #honestly they spent more time thinking of how to explain ruggie's terrible impression of cheka than anything else #how could leona have seen through this brilliant plan so quickly 🤔#man i really did love his horrible dream though #i like him as a character but i wasn't expecting his dream to be the one that got to me like that #love how all the savana dreams were like #jack: what if leona was really cool and my friend :)#ruggie: what if my dad came back and leona created a socialist utopia for me :)#leona: what if i finally got the chance to prove myself except i screwed everything up and everyone hated me and my family was dead #his conversation with kifaji at the end 😭#kifaji in his dream in GENERAL acting as a counterpoint to his phantom like. like!!!! (waves hands)#i just. these guys.#me 4+ years ago: this game looks so dumb i gotta try it. surely i won't become emotionally overinvested in any of this.

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frobby · 3 months ago

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This is a really specific post but i just wanna talk about how much i like a specific design detail of ichi's witch outfit: the fur pelt

Obvi the fur pelt is there cuz ichi is fucking crazy and loves hunting (it was present on his metaphorical normal uniform too) but i love its function in the silhouette. Usually magical girls have a big dress or big hair giving them a powerful vibe. Not ALL magical girls obvi but more contemporary ones

Heres the cast of wonderful precure for an example. Big hair big dress big personality. But usually magical boys lose that and are kinda stuck being the sleak variety cuz they have no big hair and no big dress

Heres pretty cure dancing stars (the anime poster for consistency) theres an effort to make their silhouette bigger with capes but its still typicially smaller than magical girls

Also heres tokyo mew mew au lait even tho the tokyo mew mew magical girl outfits were always in the sleeker variety more of a sailor moon than a smile precure.

Theres nothing bad with that but i think its good for magical boys to have options rather than only being 1 style of typical magical girl which usually makes them their outfits feel all samey cuz the silhouettes have the same basic shape.

Okay back to ichi

This is why the fur pelt is so cool cuz it bridges that design gap while also seemlessly conforming to who he is a character