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📌 Hi there! I'm Val. I'm a content creator from the East Coast who lives in your phone. You can find me on Twitch and Tiktok playing games and making skits, and some 🔥 things elsewhere in the link up top. I'm everyone's favorite Cyberpunk and The Final Boss of Planet Earth. 💙
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The winner will be picked on May 9th. Good luck!
RIP Dack Fayden, you would've loved being a murder suspect and a cowboy and not dying unceremoniously in a trailer while a Linkin Park cover plays over everything I'm still so angry wtf
Fun fact: Pigeons are doves. It's obvious when you actually look at them, but people ignore it because of their perception as pests due to them mostly being found in cities. They're extremely smart and loving birds, and they bond with humans very easily.
What's your favorite Magic play of all time? Back when New Phyrexia came out, someone Mental Misstepped my turn 1 Llanowar Elves and I Summoning Trapped into a turn 1 Emrakul, The Aeon's Torn.
For the people who still don't understand why this card is good: The twice each turn trigger is on each creature, not Nadu. You equip 0 twice on every creature on your board and draw a ton of cards or get a ton of untapped lands(or both). It warps the game immediately.
Let's talk more about legendary art pieces on criminally underpowered cards. This card is playable in the right decks, but I would've loved to see it on a mythic-level, game warping enchantment.
Look. Not everything needs to be profound. Not everything needs to be social commentary. Art doesn't need to provoke pain, and games definitely don't need to. If you're reading this, you probably started playing Magic for one of two reasons:
Look, everyone's mad about a building killing Atraxa, but did you ever consider that a building in New Capenna can be a 7/7 with a shield counter? Building wins. I don't make the rules.
Positive: one of my birthday presents to myself arrived today.
Negative: I broke up with my bf. Please don't be weird about it. It hurts like hell. The only reason I'm posting about it is because our relationship was so public in this space.
I tell stories about the wild parties I've been to and always think people don't believe me. Then I rewatch the Grant episodes of breaking news and think, "he gets it."
This card is beautiful. I love Izzet, and I love River. That said, yall are gonna build this, play it one time, realize that picking up your deck to draw is a hassle, and immediately take it apart.
Protip for anyone opening collector boosters of LOTR: Film every collector pack you open. If you pull the ring, it's going to be hell trying to prove its authenticity.
1. You had friends that played
2. You saw an aesthetic you really liked.
That's why the sets are so wildly different. It attracts people for a ton of different reasons. Did I like the detective set? No. But I know people who REALLY liked it because it was a detective set.
I'm seeing a lot of "the new Elspeth card is just okay."
1. It's a callback to her original art, which is just *chefs kiss*
2. The card protects itself, gives a permanent buff, and has an easily obtainable and game-changing ultimate.
Don't be silly.
I immediately didn't like Emrakul's new artwork, and I was unsure why. Then I realized it doesn't utilize the colorless border the same as old Eldrazi. The border has changed so much that the original thing that drew me to these cards is gone. The old ones were barely there.
Before the game:
Okay, I call this deck the Final Boss because if you dont work together you cant kill me
Last turn of the game 1v1:
"So there's just nothing I can do?"
I told ya.
I love my narcissist dragon wizard. I love that a character looks like me and has ice powers. I love unfathomable eldritch creatures. That's fun. Cowboys are fun, too. Playing with all your bad guy toys at once is FUN.
Magic is fun. It has something for everyone. It's also been around for 31 years, and there's not a soul alive that likes every single product. You shouldn't. Just have fun. There will be more stories that you like eventually.
I uh... beat Baldur's Gate? The final boss attacked midway through the fight, a bunch of graphical issues happened, and the credits rolled. I'm gonna revert to my last save...
You know what I don't want? I don't want a trans character who goes through hell their whole life. I don't want a story about a girl who lost her parents and her language, and I don't want a story about the pain of being poor. I want cool characters doing cool things.