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May 4, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Magic: The Gathering CosplayThat's actually pretty sick.Posted in: stsung Blog
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Apr 25, 2012Zelderex posted a message on SoM / Innistrad Standard decksI love GA Illusions to death, but that is the worst build of it I've seen in ages. No wonder you got rid of it.Posted in: CorwinOfAmber Blog
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Apr 23, 2012Zelderex posted a message on [TEST] Watch them GRoWIt's actually pretty good. The overall power level is what one would expect for budget, but it's striahgtforward, has synergy, and seems reliable. Good luck with it!Posted in: jander_blackheart Blog
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Apr 5, 2012Zelderex posted a message on New month, new recordIt takes talent to go positive in games, but negative on matches.Posted in: truckingpete Blog
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Apr 4, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Decks (Past/Present)You've only ever played one deck with no Black or White in it, and almost half have both in them. You clearly know what you like in a deckPosted in: haganbmj Blog
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Apr 4, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Viable Mono-Green Deck in Standard!Bro, Mono Green Aggro has been good since DKA came out. This is not news.Posted in: dooglestyle Blog
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Mar 17, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Hey, there's a blog here!Cleric's Awakening, in my opinion, would be fine- if you "inverted it." Make it black, have you lose three life. As a sorcery, it'd be sorta playable in Standard, unplayable in eternals (probably), and a near-staple in EDH. Seems like a decent enough design to me.Posted in: Advent Blog
Soulfling bothers me, for a number of reasons:
1.) I'm pretty sure a billion variants of that exact effect exist, minus the drawback of...
2.) You need two black permanents for it to work! Zuh?!
Other than that, it's all pretty decent design. One thing that's important in design is being passionate about the cards you're making. Look at black, and assess why you don't play it (probably because it's a jack-of-all-trades color that is mediocre at everything, good at nothing). From there, you can see ways to fiddle with the color pie to bring it into your perspective. If that makes sense.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm a regular in this neck of the M:TG:S woods. -
Feb 28, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Esper Spirit-BladeSeems solid. I'll stick to Pikeblade until the hate dies down though; Spirits are having trouble placing, due to the prevalence of sweepers.Posted in: Meretrix Blog
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Feb 26, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Esper Spirit-BladeI'm still wary about adopting Spirit Tempo, mostly because it's slower, and has a weak manabase. How's it been comparing to Pikeblade and Classic delver?Posted in: Meretrix Blog
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Feb 22, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Half of the national team bannedI'm in the states, but I know the feel. After the Channel Fireball fiasco at worlds, I'm confused with regards to the legality of tying for top 8, and other such.Posted in: Post Affinity Blog
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Feb 16, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Esper Teachings Primer DraftA couple more lists would be nice. All told though; a nice primer.Posted in: Greatness at any cost
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Feb 14, 2012Zelderex posted a message on DelveIntoSouls ... NO Cptn.!Interesting decision to go with Geist over Captain. For a lot of people; Captain is more valuable than geist; as he offers an extremely aggressive route for the deck; and with the prevalence of sweepers, Geist's hexproof is only marginally valuable. With the Captain, you can plunk down HUGE amounts of damage using little mana and card investment.Posted in: Sellfish Blog
I also find it interesting that you chose to go with 3 SoWaP, as opposed to a different ratio. Do you think that your highly Geist-Blade stlyed list will still play to the strengths of Spirit Tempo? -
Feb 12, 2012Zelderex posted a message on [First Draft] Wolf-RUGI believe that Feathers was running this for a while.Posted in: Mockingbird Blog
I wonder if Frost Titan is better than Inferno against myriad Aggro/Tempo decks though? -
Feb 7, 2012Zelderex posted a message on Haikus GALORELove comedic, or satirical haikus tbh. Go check out the PRC; Blippy has them on lockdown right now.Posted in: MandersHex Blog
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They had us open
Our great; old; mirrored cookbooks-
And then "solve for X."
They had us swallow
The Cocks of "King and Country"
That we might taste Christ.
They had us Thank God
For the "sweet and merciful"
Rape of heathen souls.
They had us crawl on
Hands and Knees and Egos on
"The hot coals of Love."
They had us judged and
Found our Hearts wanting before
"The hot coals of Love."
They had us swear oaths
That we would sanctify our
Bleeding on "Art's" Cross.
They had us blink back
The tears of Abraham for
The cause of "beauty."
They had us sharpen
Stakes and live without our lives-
And then "solve for X."
Blippy's had a heart to it that I appreciated. It's an honest perspective; and kind of aimless and meandering like its subject matter.
Lucknorris, almost entirely on the back of that first stanza. The title alone is incredibly evocative
@Talore: I'd be interested in trying to work that out. What would the threshold be? Would it be an instant round ender? I mean, it's probably best to give people time to vote, right? Would it be like, "Okay, we hit this submissions target, you have X days to vote before this round ends? Would you continue to allow submissions during the closing window? Would it be possible to then have overlapping rounds?
I'm waiting on the official release of You're Dead! But the preview tracks (especially, obviously, Never Catch Me) are ill. Still need to catch NehruvianDOOM, bout to start binging the ***** out of "STN MTN/KAUAI." Took Gambino long enough to drop it.
A hundred and forty or so weeks;
seventy, maybe eighty or ninety submissions.
Goddamn did we run.
Half a year or so of
Missed deadlines and
Loving critique;
Late monday nights
and rushed sunday submissions.
"Remember to vote!"
"Allow me to be the first to welcome you..."
Goddamn did we run;
It gave me shin splints but
What was I using them for anyway?
Legacies and stories and
Heroes and myths;
I still can't believe we actually had to ban someone
And I'm so damn proud of the ***** that we did-
I'm proud of the country roads and political prose-
I'm proud of gods and monsters and cowardly men-
I'm proud of roses and sunsets and Otto flailing into the den-
The pace slows. Down to maybe a jog; a halfhearted trot at best.
Maybe the knees are starting to go- the lungs to fail the body to ail
and the years (all five or six) have been too much
Or maybe, the old girl, she just needs a rest.
Maybe the templates can just sit in the .txt files
And we can forget the bbcode for punching in the latest winner.
Maybe the dust can collect and we'll wait for some other nerd;
Like us;
To trip across this spot where "maybe I like writing," becomes
"What else was I doing?"
maybe one of us will make it.
Trophies will become prizes,
and someone will idolize and ask,
"what were your influences?"
And in passing, we'll recall
Haikus about ***** and socks and god,
and sonnets about crack cocaine and innocence
We'll remember that levity was our favorite,
Even if somber honesty always won-
Maybe we'll even have a favorite.
That poem Madding wrote, about the hot shower. How he let it run because the city paid for the water anyway.
Otto, falling down the stairs. A goddamn gem; the sight of which the world has been deprived
Maybe we'll just remember the times we fell in love with a series of sounds in Portugese or German
Maybe; like an endless string of untitled poems,
We'll just keep running.
Thanks, guys. To everyone I've ever interacted with in any way through the PRC. It breaks my heart to see it slowing down. I've seen the rest of this nook of MTGS slowly wither, but I always kinda figured the PRC was untouchable- because for me it was. It was a moment in history that never blinked and never faltered even when rounds got delayed. It was a thing that I spent way too many hours hosting (and yet still too few to have done a decent job), and a thing that got me through a lot of weeks. I'm a better writer for it. I'm a better person for it. I like to think I'll always remember what we did here.
A man can no longer stand alone in history
against the oceans of anonymity-
No one can struggle, mightily,
against the undertow-- and prevail.
One can only close their eyes and relax;
can only give way to the waves of our era
as the salt slowly washes away
the fine, ugly lines of our lives-
the details will become a blur
Our work, our rage, our love, our hurt
will be undone by the historian's pen;
the marrow of our days will be footnotes
amid a textbook's endless slur of words-
One can only close their eyes and inhale-
What worth has a scream
that will only go unheard?
Because struggle. August was Rough, and it sure didn't help that we failed to fire a single PRC. Hopefully activity gets a little more consistent; I know things get rocky after we have delayed firings.
(Glad to have you back iCwalzy, btw)
Charon oh my captain
I only to row;
One arm wounded, useless-
I only know to row.
I am a rabid dog,
Lame, and toothless-
Charon oh captain my captain
I only know to row
Albums have to come out...eventually, right? I liked Pinata way more listening to it today than the first time I did. I found it to be a surprisingly involved listen, given the overall sound seems really inviting in an old school kind of way.
Seven million.
"In or out?"
For what? The copper
Ran out seventy years
Ago and the citrus
Doesn't like drought
"In or out?"
"You're wasting A/C"
Seven million.
The people came
Looking for something;
And the kids leave
Looking for something;
And the sun sets
And the winters are mild
And the summer wants
You dead and so does
The sheriff and the voice
At the back of your skull-
The one that has studied you-
Hand picked to write your
Biography, so he knows you-
And he regrets it. He's seen
What you've done and he nods
In agreement when you sink
your head and slur
"God damnit,
"I'm ****ed up ain't I?"
And you both think the same thing.
You both hope it's true- that you are
A remarkably awful specimen,
The apex ********,
The pinnacle of wasted space-
Because the alternative?
That everyone out there
Could be just as bad-
Well,
We've got weak stomachs
I am laughing unreasonably hard at this. I can't contain myself. This is perhaps the greatest thing I've ever seen. I don't think anything has ever summed up what it's like to host the PRC so succinctly as accidentally listing the closure of a round of submissions as a poem. This is beautiful, it really is. Too meta. It helps that this is one of the more bizarre weeks, PRC wise. I'm still deliberating my votes, so I guess this is a placeholder for now, just to preserve this moment against edits.
EDIT: Vote for Ilvaldi and Ophidian Eye. I sorta liked both. Ilvaldi's more, certainly, but I'm willing to endorse the lighthearted goofiness of Ophidian's piece.