#communications breakdown

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Life During Wartime: Communications Breakdown; or, Tell Us Something We Don't Know (2023), paper collage, 21.7 x 31 cm.

[inventors-fair]

Friendly Reminders

Congratulations to our winners this week: @davriel-canes-tea-supplier, @deg99, and @naban-dean-of-irritation!

Spell Teacher

An excellent example of flavourful reminder text, and a clever approach to making it show up on a card. It's interesting to think about what spells you would actually want to use this for, and what planeswalkers can gain loyalty quickly enough to make doing so worthwhile, but valuing spells and planeswalkers differently is what makes a design like this interesting. There are some high-level rules concerns (linked abilities across two objects), but the effect is intuitive enough (and explained well enough) that I can imagine crossing that bridge when we come to it.

Void Inversion

This one is a very clever design, using reminder text to help clarify what the effect is really doing beyond the obvious. In most cases this will just be a more restrictive and reactive Disperse, but in a number of cases this is much more flexible and impactful. I half suspect that an effect like this is more likely to see print at rare, simply for weirdness sake, but I believe the effect is a reasonable conclusion to reach for this challenge and the reminder text explains it well. If anything, you could probably scratch the "illegal" part of the reminder, because while technically accurate, it isn't related to what this card is doing.

Double Down

I like this one as an example of simplicity, creating new reminder text by taking the standard version of an ability and turning it on its head. The flavour is spot-on, the utility is obvious and reasonably excitin. I'm a big fan of the Strixhaven flavour in particular for its synergies with magecraft. If I had any quibbles, it would probably be the cost: 3 is a fair price point, but copying spells traditionally costs two colored pips (in some combination of red or blue), so 1UU is probably a slightly safer cost for the monoblue version of this card.

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I had no intention of picking all blue winners this week, but apparently blue mages have the best memories - who knew? Meet us back here tomorrow for our runners-up!

[ @3smuth ]

[notdoogadooga]

[pinklink]

Ok "fight me" on a post doesn't literally mean "rant at op for eight straight paragraphs and threaten to throw hands" and if you think it does you really need to work on your more subtle communication skills. Like there is literally no phrase an OP can include in their post that makes that okay and that should go without saying if you think for literally two seconds about how that would make you feel to receive.

[taratarotgreene]

March 31 internet goes down www warning

March 31 is one of the hardest most difficult days this year with the two malefic Mars and Saturn coming together at 0 Aquarius.

Saturn Mars conjunction drawing By Napoleon Brousseau Napo B

Expect the Internet to come down. Just to be safe. Back up your computers. something heavy is going to come down and it may not be in plain sight. 

SABIAN SYMBOL for 1 Aquarius

PHASE 301 (AQUARIUS 1°): AN OLD…

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[wealthymatters]

Of Feuds And Family Businesses

Of Feuds And Family Businesses

Strong disagreements are inevitable in all human relationships, but families that own businesses are more at risk for serious conflict than ordinary families because the power, status, and money at stake are greater.

There are seven predictable stages of conflict.These stages are largely avoidable, but the owners of family businesses have to be aware of them,and of the ways to extricate…

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[dancing-mylife-away]

Trusting everyone is the same as trusting no one

Auggie (Covert Affairs 1x07)