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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 11m

The short version? Multiple 70 year olds and apparently some comparatively boring other folks no one outside Maine knew were running. If everything else didn't look like it does, I'd say he's done, but it's 2025 and the world is a fucked up place.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1h

The ICJ finds that Israel as an occupying power and based on 4th Geneva Convention and customary convention has obligation to protect the civilian population, even under conditions of active fighting.

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 22m

it's crazy how a white guy with nazi tattoos is deemed more "electable" than like

like any genre of marginalized person

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 25m

That absolutely blows. This market is awful. A friend of mine was recently laid off and she's just struggling to just get past the automated resume reviews. Keep trying though, you never know when another opening might appear, or where this might lead you!

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 29m

Maybe? Send me a dm and we'll see if we can work something out. My point is largely riffing off Maro's recent post from yesterday about hybrid though. He doesn't say exactly where the design space is being limited, but I think it's possible to work out some key points.

Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 45m

Hybrid is the same issue. WotC is trying to give multiple colors access to the same card, but commander is saying no. So instead they have to make more commanders with more colors on them to adjust.

Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 49m

Interestingly I think that the current restrictions makes cards like ulalek more likely. If Devoid meant that you could run those cards in colorless commander decks, they could have left him colorless too for instance. It's limiting design space in weird ways that makes WotC try and get around it.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 59m

I might agree if those colorless pips weren't miserable for 90-99% of decks and Eldrazi were more widely played. As it is though, is it that much worse than Roaming Throne? I could see maybe mono green Eldrazi becoming a thing at higher power, but I don't think it'd be good or fun enough to matter.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

Hell yea

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

Every single hybrid cards is supposed to be able to be printed as both, but rather than print a white Rhys and a green Rhys that do the exact same thing, they made a single hybrid one.

Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

But the "mono white" one is green everywhere you've expressed an issue with. That's what changing the hybrid rule would do.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

What's the difference between these two cards?

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

Ok, so let's ban painter's servant and color changing effects. The hybrid mechanic is for deck building and it's a deck building rule. Nothing about the format says you can't ever have a red creature on the field in your white deck.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, people also think that UB is incredibly unpopular based off online discourse, so who knows. Maro seems to say the data says otherwise here too though.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

You keep ignoring the fact that hybrid pips represent OR. Hybrid cards are EITHER color. They're supposed to be, with some older exceptions when the pie has shifted, 100% doable in color pie for either color. They're not off color, they're supposed to be available to both to play.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 18h

Hybrid Mana will not ruin the sanctity of the format.

Stop over reacting.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe they'd make fewer 5 color soup cards if hybrid mana worked correctly?

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 1h

The hyperbole has been insane. Real Chicken Little moments going on all around.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

Cool, lets go back to making mana cost the only thing we look at for Color ID then. And decks can't make mana outside their colors again. It's a separate format from the rest of magic, so let's pile on the restrictions regardless of design intent.

Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

Sure, and we can go back to having decks of all lightning bolts all the time. Because no format has ever changed, ever. The rules were written in stone at the dawn of time.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

Made originally by people who don't actually design the game. And those rules and restrictions have already been changed in the past to fix flaws. They largely never changed this over vibes, not for any other actual game design purpose.

Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

Hybrid cards are either color when casting them is the difference. They have their own pip for a reason. That's the point of the mechanic.

People need to stop jumping to extremes, you'd think WotC was removing Commanders from the format altogether the way some folks have been in hysterics over this

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

They added the text box counting towards Color ID because originally you couldn't play creatures like Bosh as a commander. That wasn't in response to new cards, it was just a flaw in the format. Hybrid specifically doesn't work in Commander as the mechanic is intended, just like Bosh didn't.

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Beamtown Artisan @beamtownartisan.bsky.social · 2h

If we're arguing cedh decks, then maybe a couple cards pop off a little, but if anything that helps increase the number of 2 color commanders seeing play over 3. I'm currently running manamorphose in Kalamax because it feels like the only place it works. I'd love to have it as an option elsewhere.