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Izzet Storm Enabling Package - $16.39

request by @mrsnufflegums

The Izzet Guild is known for three things; casting flashy spells, making cool contraptions, and having those contraptions blow up in their face. Mrsnufflegums wants us to find ways to cast as many spells as possible in a turn. Short of Omniscience, we have a few options.

Goblin Electromancer - $0.15 A nice, cheap cost reducer for our spells.

Baral, Chief of Compliance - $4.66 Another cheap cost reducer. Baral has the added benefit of card rummaging when you counter a spell.

Eye of the Storm - $1.27 Never settle for one measly spell again. Now you can play your spell and every single spell cast before that.

Paradox Engine - $7.51 Get a few mana rocks on board, cast a few spells, and never run out of mana. Combo it with Arjun and have at it.

Possibility Storm - $0.42 Now you can have two Storm triggers for the price of one! Not to mention the chance that the board wipe someone is counting on or the removal of your key pieces now may be nullified.

Jace’s Sanctum - $0.66 More mana couponing! You can now help get those spells on top of your library too. Goes great with Possbility Storm.

Seal of the Guildpact - $0.69 Holy mana saving abilities, Batman! mono-color spells cost one generic less and multi-colors cost two generic less. I mean, this is a spellslinging deck that needs cost reducers AND IT’S SHINING RIGHT ON THE IZZET SYMBOL!

Primal Amulet/Primal Wellspring - $2.03 This one is so new, it’s hard to say if it’ll go up in price or drop. Nevertheless, this card will be invaluable in spellslinger decks. Starts as a cost reducer, finishes as a spell copying land. The best of both worlds for Spellslingers.

There you have it, folks. Just a few ways to help get that Storm count up before your drop a Grapeshot. Regardless of your commander, you should easily be able to get this up and going. Keep the storm raging and…

Victory shall be yours.

— Jake, @apok-the-combomancer

All cards are priced according to Magiccards.info mid price on the date it was written. These prices are subject to change.

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Why is this funny to me? I need to grow up.

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YAAS LION GO OFF

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soviet russian grandma cats complaining about their grandchildren and swapping recipes

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THEY HAVE EAR HOLES let me die

BABUSHKATS

babushkats.

“I loved you, always.”

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going to comment a little on this game: the overseeing voice talks as if it owns you, and defies your free will. if you follow its orders, you are praised, and the worldview becomes sharper and more detailed. if you don’t, you are chastised, and the world becomes more vague and difficult to navigate, but also more colourful and loud. it’s odd, and sort of eerie, but definitely interesting. take it as you will.

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This game really unsettles me. It unsttles me that my first choice to obey, and when I played again and disobeyed, I got really emotional really fast. Failure hurt me more the more I disobeyed. It was… interesting to experience.

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i’ve always said we are trained to obey more than to think.

bobateebrek

holy shit. i reblogged this the first time without playing. then i played in and it is terrifying. i very much like this, but it will give you intense feelings.

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What’s the game??

bobateebrek

you obey everything the game tells you too, even jumping into barbs and basically killing yourself. if you dont youre chastised and even the scolding is terrifying

theanimatedraccoon

So, essentially, it’s a game that illustrates what it’s like to be in an abusive parents or an abusive relationship - and how it affects you emotionally. That is horrific and ingenious - the next time someone negates the affects of emotional abuse, I’ll take them to this game and let them come to their own conclusions.

phiasmir

This game absolutely gets it. The most solid and reliable degradation is a gendered insult. The more you obey and co-operate, the better understanding you seem to have of your word, and things seem easier. But what really gets me is the contradiction. You are not allowed to have the correct answer. Are you a boy or a girl? The answer is no, I will give you the answer. even towards the end, your “praise” is “no, I will give you the answer. You earned this answer, but it is given to you by me.” Disobeying makes the world frightening and confusing and difficult, but beautiful in a world devoid of flavour.

codergf

great that it’s made by a fellow australian too

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Reblogging this for later.

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If anyone was looking for the name it’s called Loved

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Narcissa came out of retirement to run Breath of the Wild and set a sub-4 hour record just two months after the game's release.

So so happy to see Narcissa back in the community.

ommanyte

What do you think Nidoking and Nidoqueen are based of?

Their lines seem to be inspired by bits of all sorts of animals - we git some unmistakably mammalian influences, for example from rhinos, rodents/rabbits etc. but also something archaic and reptilian - hey don’t have cheeks for example. I think that they form a unique little clade within pokémon, a distinct body plan (that includes having also similar quadruped pre-evos) that allies them with the rhydon line. Indeed the Nido royalties, Rhydon, and Rhyperior all are known as The Drill Pokémon. Also, Khangaskan shares many features of this group too.

The body plan of a large, eared, bipedal, tailed, spiny, reptiley-mammal has an unmistakably gen 1 feel about it, it is so recognisable, for example it stars as the iconic gym statues, and as one of the major roster sprites in gen1/2. Rhydon like mons everywhere man.

Of course, rhydon was one of the first Pokémon designed, and you can see from this early concept art that the original rhydon was even more Nido like than now.

Ok I don’t know where I’m going with this, but before I had a tendency to shoehorn pokémon into definitive groups based on real life counterparts, however this often runs into difficulties where you have pokémon based on more than one unrelated real life animal, or when a real life counterpart simply doesn’t exist. Plus we have lots of game mechanic bullshit that can be just plain biological sacrilege - eggs, B̑́ͧ͐rͨͩ̇ͣ̏ͧE̷͗E͑͟d͗͆iͤͦͫ͒n͟Ǧ̃̃̄̌, evolutionary stages (though I see pokémon evolution in this sense as a form of facultative metamorphosis) etc.

I think now it’s better to assume that Pokémon is an incredibly different universe, but one that does share some fundamental biological and evolutionary laws and similarities. Thus for example instead of saying that Rattata is a rat definitively, it could be better to say that Rattata is an organism that shares many morphological and ecological characteristics with a rat, and thus, since we have very limited data to go upon (we can’t properly study it’s physiology, behaviour etc., sequence DNA etc., and like,the pokedex is written by a ten year old child lol), we can infer aspects of it’s biology from rats as well as it’s evolutionary relationships to other rodent like pokémon that share a similar suite of physiological and ecological characters, from what we know about such relationships in Rodentia, and from real world character evolution.

So what can we say about the Nidos? They are part of a distinguishable group of pokémon that all possess a distinct set of ecological, behavioural, and morphological characters, which have analogies to a variety of real life mammalian and reptilian real life counterparts, such as rhinos, glires (rodents and lagomorphs (hares, pikas, and rabbits), and mammal like reptiles. The variation within this group of pokemon is less than the differences between members of this group and other pokémon, and this unites this group as a clade. It would be a lot of work to actually work out what pokémon the drill pokémon + khangaskan are most closely related to, i.e. make a phylogenetic tree, but here is just a rough within group tree with a possible scenario of major character evolutionary events (indicated by black rectangles).

(also, the breeding rules between the Nidos, and whether the king and queen are different species or this is just sexual dimorphism is completely clouded by game mechanics of having gendered pokémon before established gender mechanics, so I’m not going to into that - however, I will say for a quick example, meerkats live in a matriarchal society and the alpha female usually has most of the breeding rights - however, because she has to defend the her position, as well as the group itself from danger, she often has very high testosterone levels which reduces her fertility - perhaps nidorina and nidoqueen are extreme examples of this, changing physically to take on a more protective role, letting nidoran sisters/aunts/mothers take on breeding roles)

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Squeaker squeaks.

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Somnus is a breathtakingly beautiful puzzle adventure in which you journey into an Alice in Wonderland-style dreamscape, solving perspective-based illusions by lining up shots with your camera.

Play The Full Game, Free (Windows)

#to play

coolthingoftheday

While these may look like regular moss-covered rocks to you, they’re not - they’re actually a species of flowering plant called Azorella yareta, also known as Yareta. In order to survive the cold, windy, high-altitude conditions of the Andes, they live in tightly-packed colonies so dense that they are capable of supporting the weight of an adult human. They can also live to be thousands of years old - in fact, one of the oldest known plants on Earth is a 3,000-year-old Yareta plant.

Because it is so dry and dense, it was traditionally used as a source of kindling, similar to peat moss. As a result of this, and the fact that it grows so slowly, Yareta is now a protected species in order to prevent its extinction in South America.

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“What’s your favorite thing about the 21st century?” (2016)

An artwork inspired by this great post: “OKAY BUT fanart where Humans of New York stops Steve on the subway. “What’s your favorite thing about the 21st century?” is the caption. There’s no answer, but in the photograph Steve has his arm around Bucky’s shoulder, and he’s laughing and smashing a kiss against Bucky’s cheek.”

I’m SO sorry OP, I missed the “in the subway” part when I read the prompt! I don’t know what happened ><

#cap

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Black Blood turns imbiber’s blood into poison; blood becomes lethal to monsters which drink it.

“In the distant past, mages working with witchers developed this potion specifically for use in fighting cemetery and crypt dwellers that drink the blood or eat the innards of their still living victims. Witchers use Black Blood unwillingly because the potion only works when a monster begins to feast on their body. Their transmuted blood proves to be a deadly drink.”

baewall

so I may have gone slightly nuts with the building function…

Be aware

Inferno Rumble is not 6v6 team deathmatch, but 6 player free for all. The other descriptors are accurate.

#destiny #inferno rumble

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i always thought it was funny how in the lord of the rings sam and frodo head out and after awhile sam’s like “mr. frodo if i take one more step this is the farthest from the shire ive ever been” and then a ways after they meet up with merry and pippin on their daily vegetable run like jesus christ sam get out of the house once in awhile

#lotr