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This is a really fun combat trick for blockers. Throw a green creature in front. Then cast this. You can eat really above curve with this.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1066: Gather Courage

Gather Courage is a common from Ravnica: City of Guilds.

Most convoke cards are there so you can use a big expensive spell early, but this is the same mana cost as Giant Growth, what gives? Well, this explores the smaller design space of "cards that are okay to cast for free regularly". For the cost of just tapping one untapped green creature, you can get a mini giant growth! I mean, it still costs you the card. But the surprise factor! I'd be interested to hear from players of the Ravnica block limited formats about whether this made combat a total pain in the ass, since any untapped green creature could give a +2/+2 bonus at any time for no cost. It's the sort of effect that's probably fun to have as a small bonus that shows up once every five or so years, but would be really fucking irritating to have to deal with constantly.

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Been a minute, but I am on this one

Top 47K - M.C. Kids + Trilby's Notes

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a McDonald's game with no fast food in it whatsoever. Then stick around for TRILBY’S NOTES, an indie adventure game by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw!

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Shout out to @aaronderschaedel @thecornwall @shuunnico @lolitahartlessstuff @katieg91 @weaselsblaugh @thechosenpumbloom for somehow all still being here too.

It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Jesus Fucking Christ

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Jesus Fucking Christ

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One of my best elf buddies, because we have ways of generating mana for playing elves.

Even if i fucking *always* flip lands after playing him

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1125: Realmwalker

Realmwalker is a rare from Kaldheim.

I'll mention once that I don't like this flavour of changeling, then changeling the subject. This guys is one of those "choose your own tribe" lords. Which makes sense for a changeling, I guess. You see these "look at the top card of your library and if it is [THING] then you can cast it from there" rares from green every so often, and I consider them welcome. I do like that they can really go off in card advantage late game if you get a bunch sequentially, which is especially fun if you built your deck for it.

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To add. Tempt is a strong word. That is still a bit Jackson butchers too. Its always come off as musing to me. Like, look at this guy, he is just gonna give me the ring. What would my life be like if I robbed the Kwik E Mart? LOL no Frodo. I am not taking it champ.

Her saying she passes the test is her being at least happy she can do that. I do think there is a level of doubt in her that she is at least as good as Gandalf or Elrond or any number of these people who have just passed it up. Not that she was really tempted in the sense the ring tempts one.

Uh, guys? Don't confuse your crappy televised fanfic for the story that Tolkien actually wrote.

Galadriel was never "under Sauron's thrall." That's something ROP made up. In Unfinished Tales, she was the only one in Eregion who suspected that Annatar was lying about being an emissary of the Valar. Celebrimbor was deceived by him. She was not. She was certainly not "under his thrall." No, not even because she had Nenya.

Yes, when Frodo offered her the One Ring, she was tempted. It could have given her the power to prevent the fading of Lothlórien. But when she makes this speech in the book, and in the Peter Jackson movies, it's her own thought, she's not repeating something that Sauron said to her once:

“You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

These are Galadriel's words. Her words. Not Sauron's. And she was tempted by the One Ring because she could have been a more powerful queen, not Sauron's queen. Like, you guys really took one of the most powerful and complex female characters in Tolkien's works and you made her story all about a man and his power over her and his manipulation of her. Fuck off.

And stop tagging ROP as Lord of the Rings.

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Did you watch the movies? Because thats Faramirs group. The ones that capture Frodo, Sam, and Gollum.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1015: Rangers of Ithilien

Rangers of Ithilien is a rare from that Lord of the Rings tie-in product.

Illithids taking over creatures' brains, makes sense, yeah- wait, they're Rangers of Ithilien? Oh, I guess that just makes no sense then? Why do rangers practice mind control? As someone not that into LotR, I have no idea why this is.

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That would be so fucking awful. So so awful

would you ever consider some massive change like making first strike and double strike only active on their controller's turn?

We’d consider it. We consider a lot of things.

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@weaselsblaugh

i gotta stop dating prog rock guys I don't know how much more rhythmically complex tits and lyrically dense pussy I can take

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Its because Missouri was a slave state that had Kansas carved out later

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Cant believe you cheated and did such an important card for the big One Oh. Oh... Oh.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #1000: Binding Grasp

1,000 Cards of the Day! I am finally free! So long, shitlords!

Of course I'm joking, I will keep doing these until the sun burns out.

Binding Grasp is an uncommon from Ice Age. Weird having a stealing spell being uncommon instead of rare, also not so weird for the time, this has an upkeep cost. But none of that cumulative upkeep crap, this card is actually manageable. Also it gives +0/+1 for absolutely no reason I can fathom.

Weird flavour on the art, there, you bite the creature real hard and now it obeys you? And gets tougher???

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There is some damage rules and life loss nonsense I think causes issues. In fact, if I am not mistaken, if it procced the ability *after* damage you could cause issues if you killed with it. Because then I think it actually saves him.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #971: Master of Cruelties

Master of Cruelties is a mythic rare from Dragon's Maze, seen here in its Double Masters 2022 printing.

This is a weird card and I am unsure why it was reprinted. Like, kinda cool, but just mostly awkward. You can only attack with it alone, and the first strike+deathtouch combo means that you're essentially making the enemy choose one every turn: sac a creature or lose all but 1 life. But it also has the weird text that normally was only seen in early Magic: if it does the cool thing, it does no combat damage. I honestly woulda just made this trigger off dealing combat damage to a player, like Phage does. I guess it could be confusing to others, how you would deal the damage, THEN the ability goes onto the stack, then their life total becomes 1.

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@hausofdecline

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'Quackshot' Mega Drive (1991)

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Knee jerk reaction, this way it can't be reduced. Like if you have a way to reduce ability costs, the way it is written isn't going to work? You can't flashback extra turn spells for essentially free.

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #957: Mavinda, Students' Advocate

Mavinda, Students' Advocate is a mythic rare from Strixhaven: School of Mages.

This is a weird effect. They try to avoid putting "{0}:" in a cost anymore. I woulda thought it would be {8}: and then saying it cost {8} less to activate if it targets a creature you control. But perhaps the way the rules works precludes this from working. Either way, seems like a fun ability. Making a deck around combat trick recursion sounds like fun.

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Talk about your 2-bit OS

people keep saying making stews is easy but how the hell am i supposed to count to a billion to know how many cubes to use