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I played a Spirit of the Night deck with four of each of them. Cliff Nielsen's art ruled so hard.

Birthday ritual trivia question: Zhalfir and Kaervek returning have brought up some mirage nostalgia, and my favorite lost creature type: Nightstalkers. Are they high enough on the beeble scale that we could actually see them again?

I'd say not super high. Let me demonstrate:

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It's a meaningful gameplay difference too – gets around Grafdigger's Cage for example.

Why does Beseech the Mirror exile the card. Could it say something along the lines of “search for a card (if conditions are met, you may cast it) otherwise put it into your hand”. Is it to make it work within the rules or was it just the best way to communicate what the card does?

My guess is a mix of both. Exiling makes it clearer and shortens the template.

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Ante is explicitly off-limits to un-sets, which implies that other gambling-related mechanics probably wouldn’t be allowed. Might be fun to lean into ante and other gambling stuff for a fan-made cube or limited environment – wagering permanent ownership of cards on game events or outcomes has lots of potential design space, very little of which was ever explored before Wizards put the kibosh on it.

Are there any excellent tools/mechanics you or R&D have devised that can't ever be printed in a MTG product, silver-border or otherwise, that could work in a fan-created set? Would you be able to divulge them?

There’s little off limits to acorn/silver border.

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Hibiscus flower - mechanical pencil (.9mm)

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Octopus - mechanical pencil

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Goldfinch - lines with pencil and brush pen, colors with colored pencils

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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.

Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)

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Make A Circuit With Me

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Teamwork

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The Batmobile

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Batman and Spider-Man at the Devil's Backbone in Loveland, CO.

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Batman always wins the race.

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The primary source of sexual tension in The Avengers.

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Dance off

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A picture of the Pop Stalinist that's been sitting in my sketchbook for a few months.