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   mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 (monorail@glaceon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:09:29 JST mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓

   the most No Fun Allowed decision in MTG in recent memory imo is changing the default name of a token from its types to its types plus the word "token"

   they did it so you couldn't use [[Pithing Needle]] to shut down Blood tokens by naming Blood from [[Flesh // Blood]]

   there was also a nebulous thing that nobody could agree whether it really worked or not, but there was a good argument to be made that if you could give yourself protection from a chosen card name, you could use the silver border card [[Ninja]] to get protection from ninja tokens

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     tadpole slurper (aleums@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:09:56 JST tadpole slurper

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     @monorail that's hilarious

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     mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 (monorail@glaceon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:21:59 JST mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓

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     i fell in love the moment i learned what happens when you destroy [[Oblivion Ring]] with its ETB on the stack. it felt like, if you're wise enough, you really could do anything. it felt more like noita than harry potter, apologies for that but i don't have a better analogy

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     mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 (monorail@glaceon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:22:02 JST mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓

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     stuff like "you can disable blood tokens with Pithing Needle because there was a card printed in 2013 that was called 'Flesh and Blood', but that name actually refers to two separate game objects called 'Flesh' and 'Blood', so you can name just the half of that card that shares its name with the token" is probably bad for the game overall but it's the kind of thing that i personally want more of, y'know? part of the draw of magic to me is that they've made so many cards over the past 30 years that of course there are bizzare, arcane interactions like that. it lends a sense of mysticism to the game, and makes its best players seem more like wizards

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     tadpole slurper (aleums@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:23:30 JST tadpole slurper

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     @monorail i love the video of lsv executing this in mtgo. The game crashes and tries to replay itself and crashes again. It's a computer trying and failing to do magic, while the wizard watches on, cackling