If you’re hoping Shelob keeps the Magus alive, no. Both triggered effects go off - you want a Rest In Peace style replacement effect like Gisa

Even the magic art for her has her makeup done

By the same token, people complain “there’s too much product” and then say “but I’m okay with this property because I like it” in the same sentence.

Every property has someone saying that. Your niche interest getting featured requires attention on a niche you don’t care for.

Telling me to “read [your post] more carefully” while being the first person to say the word fanfiction is buck wild, mate

Right? Reacting in horror like this just tells me that you’re unfamiliar with huge swaths of the fiction section.

I get this feeling about card games especially - there are professionals designing games who are younger than Magic: the Gathering but repeating mistakes and reviving problems that were solved decades ago.

Gaming has advanced on a purely academic level and there’s no excuse.

Now commander tables know to watch out for the GranGran special

It's wild how hypno gets so much flak and yet almost everyone who actually admits to being a part of the community vehemently rejects using it without consent or for immoral purposes.

Oooh! I must express my love the only way I know how

#mtgcustom #magicthegathering

Yeah you can go to school and do mechanical hypnosis for a living if you just make and sell slot machines

It sucks to see, but people make the same complaints about variance when a poker tourney finishes on a couple bad beats. The competitors have been playing for three days, and humans are just weak to recency bias.

Ahhhh okay now it makes sense.

Yeah I’m all for “kill your darlings” advice