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[beautiful-wildlife]

Fashion show? by Ian Brown

[mmmskulljuice]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING

[nightjarring]

It’s a baby Jacana. They use those ridiculous stick-figur toes to evenly distribute their weight as  they walk around on waterlillies and stuff. Like snowshoes, but for swamps.

Here’s an adult:

Another really interesting thing about Jacanas is that it’s the dad who does all the child rearing while mom goes off to lay more eggs. Amd their really good dads too! Plus look at how they Cary their babies around!:

All aboard the dadbus

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

is it supposed to look like gravelord nito

[airframeextender]

what the fuck

[buddy-berry]

He got 2many legg…

[eximago-blog]

Aaaah I love jaçanas!

[maybethistimemegz]

[mtg-peasant]

Since tumblr is discussing Anime Tiddie™ playmats, let me offer an alternative

I am a professional graphic designer, if you want your idea for a simple playmat design done, drop me a line and I will throw something together for you. I will literally sacrifice what little personal time I have to make sure you’re not playing with a goddamn waifu playmat.

[flavoracle]

In case you ever wanted to see a real-life superhero using real-life superpowers, this is it.

No joke, no sarcasm. Just an awesome person using awesome abilities for the forces of good.

[velolciraptor-deactivated201904]

Jace, hun, we need to talk about why it’s not nice to lie on your tinder profile…

[gerwalkmode]

Calling Jace “brilliant” at anything let alone a “genius” is a more than a little presumptuous. I’d err on the side of moderately skilled or even undeservedly successful before either of those.

[indymagic-blog]

"It's actually quite simple, but since you've only recently begun to walk upright, it may take some time to explain."—Jace Beleren, to Garruk Wildspeaker - Redirect

"It's good to learn from your failures, but I prefer to learn from the failures of others."—Jace Beleren - Lay Bare

The pyromancer summoned up her mightiest onslaught of fire and rage. Jace feigned interest. - Counterspell

"I said we should destroy the Eldrazi,Ugin wanted to return them to stasis.Ugin's arguments were ...unconvincing." - Jace Beleren Its funny how tumblr always comments on how Jace is struggling, always failing, a dorky awkward funny guy who is a real character with flaws and depth... and then WOTC writes things like the above flavortexts. He’s the Living Guildpact, so he’s basically the President of Ravnica, he’s got “unparalleled genius”, and has no problems or consequences for treating his allies like this, except that one time Garruk, Slayer of Planeswalkers decided to choke him instead of murder him like every other Planeswalker he had come across. Oh wait...

[unlimiteur]

best Splinter Twin discourse article yet

[island-delver-go]

Sort of?

I mean, I appreciate his insight but he’s stated many times that he doesn’t like the fact that sideboard cards are relevant which is just so alien to me. Isn’t that the point of your sideboard?

He was also complaining last year about the diversity of the format in that you’d sometimes run into a bad match up which baffles me. Welcome to tournament play?

[geeky-renamon-deactivated202006]

Like… isn’t more diversity in a format good and fun? Some are saying banning Twin will lead to that.

[island-delver-go]

From a pros perspective, a wide meta is problematic because it’s harder to know what to play and how to construct a sideboard.

From my perspective, tough noogie

[indymagic-blog]

The Pros’ perspective is rather terrible then, and if the meta was more narrow, would eventually devolve into whining about how overpowered Paper is, and how Scissors is the idiot’s choice. 

[loreleywrites]

Which color is most inclined to believe that we must all suffer immensely in order to grow and learn and become better people? That pain and misery are some of the most essential steps on the path to enlightenment/freedom?

Sounds like a Black thing.

[indymagic-blog]

that sounds like a Green/Black thing. “We Must All” doesn’t sound like a sentence fragment that Black would ever willingly construct

[rowanwould]

The best explanation I’ve heard so far for why R2 only woke up at the end, is that he actually does start booting up when BB8 first finds him; he just has to get through 10 years worth of updates before that.

[not-so-secret-nerd]

I can literally accept that

[itwontdeletemyaccount-deactivat]

we traced the subscriptions and they’re coming from inside the building

[dasebeleren]

[magicjudge]

I don't understand the new mana rules for EDH. Could you explain them please?

Here’s the best way I can explain it: If something would add mana to your mana pool, that mana is added to your mana pool. It doesn’t matter anymore if the color of the mana is within your commander’s color identity or not. 

Previously mana of colors outside of your commander’s color identity would be added to your mana pool as colorless mana instead. This is no longer the case. There is no longer a special rule for mana being added to your mana pool in Commander / EDH.

For example: I control Birds of Paradise and my commander is Nissa, Vastwood Seer whose color identity is mono-green. I tap my Birds of Paradise for mana and choose black as the color, so one black mana is added to my mana pool.

There is no change to what cards are allowed in decks, though. I still can’t play Noble Hierarch or Rattleclaw Mystic in that Nissa deck because they have mana symbols in their text (and thus their color identity) outside of Nissa’s color identity. The change will only matter for “add mana of any color” effects or for cards owned by other players that you gain control of. (And probably for some weird stuff from other casual formats like Planechase, Archenemy, etc.)

[indymagic-blog]

Almost? It does change some tactical scenarios about taking control of other people’s manarocks and things with activated abilities.  I’m sure Memnarch decks are rejoicing.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Baking a New Color Pie

Jumping off of @transreliquat​‘s excellent color-pie discussions, here are some of my own ideas for changes:

Make it clearer that Blue does not have a monopoly on being smart.

This might be too entrenched to properly change by now, but Blue should be about seeking knowledge, not about just being smart; Accord from Worm is a staggeringly smart character who’s mono-White, being completely concerned with grand plans to improve the world and establish order.

And Blue could stand to improve its cold-and-rational Vulcan image, too- I like condescending Counterspell flavor text, but I would love to see more Blue characters who are reckless, tyrannical, or wildly misguided in pursuing new knowledge.

Give Black a PR overhaul.

Black gets a bad rap. It’s got demons and vampires and discard and kill-spells, and it’s admittedly hard to get “ambition” shown in clever ways in a game about magical combat. (See also: the trouble with Red’s underrepresented passion.) But there are interesting, nonviolent ways of showing a willingness to succeed at all costs- it’s nice to see a pay-life-to-draw spell, Painful Truths, that’s shown as harsh pragmatism, not a demonic blood rite.

This could be helped in a way that also breaks up Blue’s monopoly on intelligence: make Scrying primary in Black. Blue already has plenty of card-draw and library manipulation, and it would be a great way for Black to express, “I refuse to accept what is fated for me.”

Give Green some more terrifying weirdness.

Nature is fucked up. So why is Green so often on the treadmill of Elves, Shamans, and Beasts? “Letting nature run its course” and “letting everything harmonize in their roles” lead to all sorts of weird evolutionary outcomes. Evolution isn’t an elegant march from worse to better, it’s a kludgy, surreal mess of modifications where the only criterion is “good enough.”

Bring on some great weird-creature artists, give Green some Future Sight-level weirdness at higher rarities, and evil Elves are always a plus.

Anyone have further points/counterarguments/things I missed?

[orb-warded-kor-warlord]

Wrote this a while ago, would love to see some more discussion from it.

[theceaselesshunger]

Ok so after today’s UR Im fairly sure that the Eldrazi recycle or at least create planes. Emrakul being described as a good creator really stood out to me.

Perhaps it goes that Ulamog wipes planes clean so that Kozilek can reshape them and Emrakul seeds them with new life.

[nahiri-deactivated20170217]

congratulations gatewatch, you just destroyed the ecosystem

[veenilla]

the gatewatch: we’ve saved zendikar

ugin: you fucked up a perfectly good multiverse is what you did. look at it. it’s doomed to die now

[tanknspank]

Big Momma Emrakul can make more intergalatic abominations

[pls-delete-me-deactivated201603]

so…… the Eldrazi are………………. the good guys??

[tanknspank]

No.

[yahenni]

[wariowaretrans]

They could be. It’s important to keep in mind that a natural system does not make a good one

[orb-warded-kor-warlord]

Ooh, I like this theory! Especially the idea that the Eldrazi are interplanar scavengers/janitors.

But if that’s the case, they’d be drawn to planes with little to no mana, and wasn’t Zendikar used as bait because it has a ton of mana?

[indymagic-blog]

OR The Eldrazi are drawn to planes with TONS of mana.... because mana may be like cancer or nitroglycerine; ie, bad for the multiverse. Its an assumption that magic is natural and good and positive because its Fantasy, but nuclear physics is a natural part of our reality, we still try not to let nuclear power everywhere.  Zendikar is unstable yes, but that was due to imprisioning the Eldrazi... but we don’t know the long-term effects of superrich mana planes. The only look we have had at a “old in geological terms” planes is stuff that is literally almost just memory now. 

[orb-warded-kor-warlord]

Occasionally, Rakdos blood witches send unsolicited, extremely-detailed reports on pain tolerance across demographics and species to Zegana and Niv-Mizzet.

[indymagic-blog]

Niv-Mizzet looks at the report, looks to his Ig-Magus, looks back at the report. “So uh... Did anyone ask them to do this? Or is this just one of those things?”

[mtg-realm]

Magic: the Gathering - Stencil Art

Suggest that you drop whatever you may be doing (if it is safe) and have a look at these wonderful / beautiful stencil art creations posted by redditor Snikrot914. 

CHALLENGE : Can you name all six cards associated with these pieces ?

[orb-warded-kor-warlord]

I really want to see Jace make meaningful choices between joining the Avengers/Scooby Gang on missions and being the only barrier against total anarchy on Ravnica, and I hope it isn’t just sidestepped or swept away with some nonsense.

[indymagic-blog]

In fiction, he'll be stressed and awkward. In cards, he will join wolverine on even more super teams, defeat ob nix whole delivering crushing insults, and casually dismiss his allies as cave men. Mtg's Fandom on Tumblr will not understand continued hate on Jace.

[sennabunn]

...Wait really? My fav died because he tripped and drowned in a 3in pool of water? Wtf wizards q.q

He ded. (Hes not rlly dead. @sarkhan-volkswagen lore pls)

[dasebeleren]

Well, first of all, he didn’t trip. He was forced into it by Ob Nixilis.

Second of all…I’d wait for more Official Magic Fiction to come out before you declare him deceased.

[indymagic-blog]

This is fair. According to official magic fiction, Odrick the crusader gave Garruk the Veil Cursed a skull fracture. Obviously he got better

[blogging-phelddagrif]

Why is this only 1.50$?? This can be super good in EDH! Plus its only 1cmc!

[tokenmancy]

It only protects you if an effect makes you discard a card, though. If the discard is part of the cost (like retrace or desolate lighthouse), you still have to discard :(

I learned that one the hard way

[indymagic-blog]

But Desolate Lighthouse has the discard as part of the effect, not the cost?

[loreleywrites]

I've been debating with my brother, and since there's no B character in The Gatewatch currently, we're trying to figure out, not mechanically what a B "Oath of" card would work like, but what kind of flavor text we could expect from it, since the Gatewatch appears (from the flavor text of the Oaths) to have taken their oaths for the Multiverse itself, the life of the planes in the multiverse, and for freedom, peace, and justice of those living on those planes. Could you help with a B oath?

“I’m one of the idiots who lives in it, so I will keep watch.”

“I want people to like me, so I will keep watch.”

“I’m skimming funds from Jace’s Guildpact account, so I will keep watch.”