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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 22, 2023 0:29:39 GMT
dangerousdice: Glad to see our captors giving you some time off of staring duty. How is Peanut doing, btw?
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Post by dangerousdice on Aug 22, 2023 15:01:18 GMT
dangerousdice : Glad to see our captors giving you some time off of staring duty. How is Peanut doing, btw? Absolutely hellish, thanks for asking! |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 28, 2023 20:55:27 GMT
First up is quantity: No more than 7 cards of removal 3 that isn't creature-based are allowed in your main deck at any one time. Sure, you could stuff your sideboard with 15 removal cards that aren't creature-based, but you'd only ever be able to have a max of 7 in your main deck. To be fair (as it really shouldn't be a suprise), I'm not really up to date with recent deck lists – but I'm pretty sure even Jund Aggro plays more removal than that.. Do you think it's possible to eliminate control archetypes from Magic/card games entirely? Would it be a more fun game that way? Not gonna lie, I don't think I have much to add to this one beyond what D-3527-jA ζ already said. If it would be possible to remove control decks from existence, then aggro and combo would be left on their own – and with the latter (in a very general vaccuum speaking) having the faster goldfish, combo decks would rule the game. Thankfully though, it's not possible to remove control from the game in the first place. Some players will always try to play more defensively, no matter how many tools WotC would try to ban. It's been many, many years, but back when the game was still young, I got into YuGiOh for a while. I was an anime and TCG fan, played one of the early Gameboy games (let's be real, I used an emulator  ) also my now wife and her brother played it – so I created two or three decks using 100% proxies and played a few games with them. Back then, while the game was much simpler than the complex mess it turned over time (insert doomsday meme of Magic repeating some of YuGiOh's steps in recent years) and its developers clearly wanted players to focus on a „smash one monster into another one“ gamestyle. Almost the entire ban list consisted of control cards – and it was still possible to build a control deck anyway. Believe me, I tried and it was pretty effective |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 30, 2023 22:43:46 GMT
Intercom voice: D-3527-jA λ, you have yet to answer. Really? Shit, I've been waiting for errbody else. I guess I've been holding errbody up, then. Ok. While I don't think it's at all possible, feasable, or even a good idea to completely do away with Control permanently, I do know that R&D have done some interesting experiments in the past, so why not do a 5-year period where there are NO Control elements? Just be as experimental as the original Time Spiral block. Follow that up with horrifically overpowered Control cards whose major drawbacks are all "You lose the game." on casting. Idk, I'm just spitballing here. MaRo seems completely unequipped to his stated task of destroying Magic, so somebody's gotta step up to the plate! What were we talking about?Intercom voice: Removing Control as an archetype. Oh, right. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well would be the rejoicing of the players who absolutely loathe Control with the fiery burning passion of ten thousand blue hypergiant stars. At least, at first. Some pussies might start complaining when the meta becomes more about ekeing out the smallest of advantages against an overcrowded, overcomplicated, stalemated board, but honestly, I live for Magic like that! You show me a boardstate that requires several Rube Goldbergian, hypercomplex steps that only yield a couple, 3 points max, life swing to someone's face, and the entire game shakes out that way, I'm a happy manchild. Intercom voice: That sounds like a dangerous position to take.Ah, whaddyouknow? You're just some mysterious voice that may or may not be all in my head. Intercom voice: We shall compile and analyse this data you've all given us, then return with our findings. You may or may not be released based on said findings. So, now that they're gone, Where the hell you you all suppose we are? |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 31, 2023 7:26:36 GMT
Honestly, before making any guesses about potential site locations, I'm actually curious - did someone pick up on what I left in the previous post? |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 31, 2023 9:29:12 GMT
Honestly, before making any guesses about potential site locations, I'm actually curious - did someone pick up on what I left in the previous post? Man, I think our captors redacted most of the clues you gave. Either that, or ●●|●●●●●|●●|● was nearby. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 31, 2023 10:46:45 GMT
I think it's rather us being so wacky in general - when I intentionally talk nonsence it really goes unnoticed easily
(also the fact that I messed up one of the clues and made it more obscure than intended might not have helped either..)
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 31, 2023 16:55:44 GMT
Subtlety isn't my strong suit these days unfortunately and I was more interested by your experience with Yugioh if anything - one of the most counterintuitive things about transitioning from older casual to competitive Yugioh is realizing a deck full of trap cards and spell cards doesn't really need a lot of monsters besides some of the best ones like Jinzo that are also usually specialized in dealing with spell/traps somehow if they're not trying to line up an extremely efficient monster kill not unlike Tarmogoyf or Into the Breach decks...
I'll reveal my SCP location next time I post.
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Post by dangerousdice on Aug 31, 2023 17:04:20 GMT
Site-169, I think? I can hear dubstep faintly, and despite their best attempts to clean my cell, there's an almost distressing number of suspicious stains.
Honestly, if I could maybe just get a drink...? No? O-kay.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Sept 1, 2023 17:43:17 GMT
Subtlety isn't my strong suit these days unfortunately and I was more interested by your experience with Yugioh if anything - one of the most counterintuitive things about transitioning from older casual to competitive Yugioh is realizing a deck full of trap cards and spell cards doesn't really need a lot of monsters besides some of the best ones like Jinzo that are also usually specialized in dealing with spell/traps somehow if they're not trying to line up an extremely efficient monster kill not unlike Tarmogoyf or Into the Breach decks... I'll reveal my SCP location next time I post. You'd better reveal it now, as your post determines how I proceed... |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Sept 1, 2023 18:48:25 GMT
Subtlety isn't my strong suit these days unfortunately and I was more interested by your experience with Yugioh if anything - one of the most counterintuitive things about transitioning from older casual to competitive Yugioh is realizing a deck full of trap cards and spell cards doesn't really need a lot of monsters besides some of the best ones like Jinzo that are also usually specialized in dealing with spell/traps somehow if they're not trying to line up an extremely efficient monster kill not unlike Tarmogoyf or Into the Breach decks... I'll reveal my SCP location next time I post. You'd better reveal it now, as your post determines how I proceed... (You'll need to give me like 2-4 hours. I'll @ you when I'm done.) |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Sept 1, 2023 22:17:25 GMT
Alright, time's up. Where the ($#@#$()* are we? Wow~, so PO'd. My sugar really get to you hon?I've had to answer three consecutive questions about control. Two of which I had to write. Aww, that's so sickening. Hey, wanna hear this new sick-trick song I've got? It's called "Creeeeep" By Rad-Tell ME N̷̾̽́̽͒̈́͜͝O̸̝͈͙̪̤͍̍̍̿͆̓̋̒̑͛̊̾̀̎̔͠͝Ẁ̶̨̫̺̺̠͝.̸̢̭͕̬̻̰͍͙͖͇͌̄̏̆̑̈̎̎̚͘͝ (Mission Magic)...now that is what I want to see. You pass.And I'm Jace Beleren. I'm not taking any statement like that at surface value. Now fess up. We're ẽ̸̩̮̝͛̏ͅa̴̩̖̯̟͍̰̞̱̱̟͚̫͎̜̬͂͌̃̈́͂̍͂͝f̴̥̳̯̜̃̇̍͆͋͌͒̀͌́̿̊̽̍̚a̶̢̙̦̺͕̘̲̎̓͑̋̋̊̏͝͝ś̷̯͑͐̌͝f̴̢̨̛͍̥̜͕͎̞͉̩̬̺͙͇̀̍̓͌͑̍̊̒ș̷̨̤̠̿̉̊͂ͅá̷̬͈͖̙̠͎͍̯̠̼̱̭̙̇̀̑̏̈̑ş̷̤̥͖̪̦̟̩͎̤͖̜̭͉̌̓̐̿͗̓̏̉̑̎̋͗͘͜͠ͅd̴̛͚̦͚͚̱̼͚̬̬͚͈̂̈̓̍͂̂͒̀̊̊̌͒͜͠͝͠a̴̢̧̨͓̰̬̤̰͓͂̈́̀a̴̛̠̋͂̅͗͘̕͝͝s̷̨̨͓̬͓̹͖͉͍̻̲̺̳̰̪̪͊͊̃̐͒̒̈͌̿̉̅̌̽̋͊̚͠f̸̧̢̨̨̡̲͕̦̪̘̻̥͙̗̀̆a̴̛̛̙͊́̎̅̂͊͒̋̾͋̀̄͌̋̂ạ̶̛̙̩͎̖͍͚͙̱̿̽͊̑͂̑̌͆s̴͕̜̗̞̝̖̣̯̲̻͌͐̈́̈́̊̀̂̃f̸͍̹̮͌̂͗̐ 01010111 01100101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010011 01000011 01010000 00100000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01110100 01100101 00101100 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 00111111? 01010111 01101111 01110111 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01100111 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100111 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001 00111111 \rxyh#grqh#qrwklqj#wkdw#ylrodwhv#wkh#Jhqhyd#Frqyhqwlrq#wkh#hqwluh#wlph#|rx*uh#khuh Wkh#xqlirupv#dqg#wkh#PLEv1#Wkh#fuhghqwldov#zhuh#zhoo#klgghq/#exw#L*p#d#eorrg|#sodqhvzdonhu/#*krqh|*/#dqg#wkrvh#Pdjlf#Flufxlwv#VFUHDP#XLX1#Wklv#lvq*w#wkh#VFS#dqg#lw#vxuh#dv#khoo#lvq*w#wkh#Lqvxujhqf| Ха-ха, дуже, дуже вражаюче! Все це, і ви все ще не можете сказати, де ми? hi sdfkjgh!Jy het my lewendig nodig, reg? Dis hoekom al wat jy kan doen is om my teen 'n muur te ry en nie aan 'n haar op my kop te raak nie. Vertel my net reeds en kry dit klaar. Ek is moeg vir al hierdie vasvraspeletjies. .wohs reinnuf a ekam em tel t'now sdrac lortnoc sih dna nam-ylerriuqs eht sseug I tuB !gnirob os ,hA
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Post by Daij_Djan on Sept 2, 2023 6:10:32 GMT
Well, ok then.. I'm sitting in a room in Site-06-3 (Lorraine, France), which means I'm categorized as "low risk human" apparently - which might make sence but also feels a bit insulting - which is why I tried leaving hints behind in my first three posts about it (and then in my fourth asking whether someone noticed them - aparently not  ).. (writing this quickly before work - might add stuff like reaction to the previous post later ) |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Sept 2, 2023 8:16:18 GMT
Well, while ZephyrPhantom is recovering from his ill-advised ingestion of Word Salad, let's see if I can figure out where I am. *Near- infrasound rumbling, basso profundo shouts of highly-descriptive violence, followed by an invectively-hurled " MEATBAGS!"* Welp, since Jund is off taunting social darwinists with all the many ways in which their philosophy is just so, so wrong, pigheaded, and counter to how evolution and the wilds actually work, that must mean that I'm in Site-19, right next to Daryl682's containment cell. Odd. Why would I call 682 Daryl? And why does all this seem familiar? Um, excuse me, guard! Any idea how long they plan on keeping me here? I have a flight to catch in the morning, at the crack of wee small hours of too goddamn early. Dr. Bright: Abe? What the hell are you doing in there? And why did you think I was a guard? Wait, this isn't a 50 thing, is it? Because testing that damn monkey statue's been disallowed for decades. Abe? Who the hell's Abe? I'm sdfkjgh, from the Magic Set Editor fora. Dr. Bright: Ok, now I KNOW you're joking! C'mon outta that cell, we'll get you back trying to neutralize Daryl in no time. What are you talking about? You're starting to hurt my head. Dr. Bright: Shhh, shhh, it'll all be over soon, we just need you to talk to the lizard, and tell it what you know about Ambulatory Location of Interest-187, a.k.a. "Jund". *Woozily* You'll never get me to talk, you goddamn chintzy piece of costume jewelry! Dr. Bright: Now, now, I know such harsh, hurtful words are only because of the side effects of the knockout gas, and you don't really mean them, old man, so there's nothing to forgive. But when you wake up, if we still have a problem, then we are going to have words.  Oof, my head. What happened? How long have I been out of it? What time is it? 11:15pm. Where's my calendar? Ok, looks like I was last active 12:15pm, 5/13/16, and it's now 9/1/23?!?!! Jack?! JACK!!! BRIGHT, YOU GODDAMN BASTARD, WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME THIS TIME?!?!
Dr. Bright: Oh, good, you're up. WHY AM I MISSING OVER SEVEN YEARS OF MY LIFE?!!Dr. Bright: Oh, that. You had to go deep, deep undercover after the O5 Council vetoed our proposal to neutralize 682-- She prefers to be called Daryl--Dr. Bright: Like Daryl Hannah, right. Anyway, the spoilsports in the Council were so aghast at our proposal to neutralize 682 via a complete cessation of all our current containment procedures-- It stands to reason: all we've been doing is shoving destructive macroaggressions down her throat (oftentimes quite literally) ever since we made first contact, and due to her very nature, she's adapted to all of them, most often in the most deleterious ways possible. She loses these adaptations with time and disuse, so leaving her alone for at least as long as we've nominally had her in custody should return her to a much more docile baseline state. At the very least, it should move her estimation of us above "disgusting".Dr. Bright:--that they were quite vehemently braying for both our immediate terminations. I had to convince them that you'd better serve the Foundation by infiltrating this new GoI we'd been hearing about, the Mystic Sarkic Eigthists. Supposedly, they had a being congruent to Daryl among their number. So, make your report. Me vambob shens gamomts’vev prazas.Our fears were justified. Item self-identifies as both the embodiment/avatar, and the actual, physical, metaphysical, and 'pataphysical reality of Jund, an entire demiplane tangentially related to GoI-2315203, Wizards of the Coast. Jund isn't just congruent with Daryl, they're related both genetically and metatextually, what those in the 'Pataphysics Branch call "expies" of each other. Plus, Jund'd vocalizations sound like Tim Curry in his prime, ca. Clue[/url].[/font] Dr. Bright: Really? Clue? Not Rocky Horror? Alright, I'll give you Rocky Horror as well. The point is back in his younger days, when the dulcet seduction of his voice was more oleaginous, rather than later in life, when it was deeper, darker, raspier, and had more of a dangerous edge to it, like a slightly dulled serrated knife sliding into your kidneys, as opposed to the well-oiled and sharpened 10 blade sliding imperceptibly into one's heart of his youth.Dr. Bright: Recommendations on how to proceed? Cautiously, first and formost. If we are to tame the beast, either one, we will need to gain their trust. I might have made some inroads with Jund, and studying it should give us some clues as to Daryl's submetastable baseline state. Shall I proceed with such?Dr. Bright: Negative, at least for now. I have a project I need your help with during the next week... |
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) also my now wife and her brother played it – so I created two or three decks using 100% proxies and played a few games with them. Back then, while the game was much simpler than the complex mess it turned over time (insert doomsday meme of Magic repeating some of YuGiOh's steps in recent years) and its developers clearly wanted players to focus on a „smash one monster into another one“ gamestyle. Almost the entire ban list consisted of control cards – and it was still possible to build a control deck anyway. Believe me, I tried and it was pretty effective 
"When in doubt, do a common." 
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