Caesar Slaad (AKA Alan)

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Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

"Virtue signaling": a phrase invented by those who've smashed their own moral compasses and are pissed off that others' can still find north.

My dentist plays country music or streaming while doing crowns. Thank goodness there was an MST3K of the Lassie movie "The Painted Hills".

In other news, I don't think I get the Lassie cinematic universe.

Magic: the Gathering Card "Doppelgang"

Lots of nifty value adds to various decks, but this is probably the most fun. It's like "what if Crackle with Power was simic?"

I'll be straight with you here. Though I can do things like win with Maze's End, this is really my "let's have fun with Doppelgang" deck.

I take precons and jazz them up, but if they aren't interesting or fun, I'll strip them for parts. This deck and Aminatou are the two precons of 24 that I have added to my permanent rotation.

In some ways it's just a big mana deck (like a coffers deck), but has some fun lines.

I mean drawing cards is good, right?

Links That Burn What Is This? The internet used to be a bunch of links to other places, with cool stuff on each website. Then we spent a couple of decades with search engines that worked, and people stopped needing t...

The internet used to be a pile of links to cool websites. Then we spent two decades with working search engines and people didn't need to know where everything was.

Then google broke itself with AI.

I've made a website to catalog niche sites that do one cool thing really well, for free. #NoAI

Outgunned - Two Little Mice | Outgunned | DriveThruRPG [English and Italian version included /// Include sia la versione italiana che quella inglese] Outgunned is a cinematic action rpg inspired by the classics of the genre, from Die Hard to True Lies, pa...

Hark, another like!

I'd like to play Outgunned, a modern action game by Italian rpg outfit Two Little Mice:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

ME: and make mine a double

WAITER: your..your tater tots?

ME: you heard me

Leonardo is going through some changes right now. I initially built it to cheat in expensive artifacts, but that alone wasn't winning games. I'm finding the deck wins more when I have other ways to make thopters, like Sai or Access Denied, so I'm adding more of those.

Felix isn't super consistent, but still fun. It works best when I'm doubling triggers from Malcolm, Kodama, Ojer Kaslem, or Key to the Vault.

Heartless Conscription is a sleeper hit. I had it as a placeholder until I got Toxic Deluge, but after winning a few games with it, I decided to keep it.

Magic the Gathering card "Leonardo da Vinci"

Magic the Gathering card "The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride"

Magic the Gathering card "Iron Man, Titan of Innovation"

Magic the Gathering card "Obeka, Splitter of Seconds"

New Scratch-Built! Favorites (valedictorians?) pictured:
Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
Leonardo da Vinci
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds
The Gitrog, Ravnous Ride
Iron Man, Titan of Innovation
Missy
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
Shilgengar
Felix Five-Boots
Vraska, the Silencer
Nyssa of Traken/Seventh Doctor

New Precons I finished the year with:
Aminatou, Veil Piercer (fun spin on enchantress!)
Bello, Bard of the Brambles (aggro artifacts!)
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (reanimate clones!)
Omo, Queen of Vesuva (land shenanigans!)
Not shown: Ulalek (I'll likely retire this unless I can jazz it up)

Retired decks (scratch-built):
Hua Tuo (its concept never gelled)
Atraxa, Grand Unifier (too grindy, too oppressive)
Myra the Magnificent (was fun, but I didn't play for too long and needed its parts for Iron Man)

Decks I retired this year (precons):
The Fourth Doctor/Sara Jane
Zimone, Myster Unraveler (I like the idea of morphs/manifests, but found this deck to lack nuance)
Jared Carthalion (a little dull)
Otrimi (played out its gimmick)

At @narukamiknights.bsky.social suggestion, here's my class of 2024!

I'm not 100% sure about the format and I have a lot of decks, so I'm going to focus on decks that *either* premiered or retired this year. In some cases I'm not to sure precisely when some of these started.

Be not afraid

Court of Blades - Scandal Forged in the Dark by A Couple of Drakes The game of intrigue, romance, and peril, Forged in the Dark.

I'd love to play Court of Blades, a BitD-based game of fantasy swashbuckling!
acoupleofdrakes.itch.io/court-of-bla...

1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library/I wanna play

(And quote this, #ttrpgsky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation card for Magic: The Gathering

Mishra's Burnished Banner preconstructed Commander deck for Magic: the Gathering

If you are looking to build an #EDH deck around the Iron Man secret lair card, you could find a lot worse starting place than the Mishra's Burnished Banner precon, which can be had for about $45 right now.

#magicthegathering

If you are planning on visiting Volcanoes, especially if >1 day, we had a lovely experience at Volcano Village Lodge! Great B&B, closer than Hilo.

1) A card you love to play
2) A card you love to hate
3) A card people associate with you
4) A card with art you love

(#3 is a little dated, I'm probably better known for Swan Song or March of Swirling Mist now)

Characteristics of cedh players who drop into our casual EDH pods:
- will not do casual mulligans
- will peek at their top card before deciding whether to mulligan
-will peek at your hand

Brindlewood Bay Brindlewood Bay  is a tabletop roleplaying game that combines  Murder, She Wrote  with H.P. Lovecraft. In it, you play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book...

Recent events have filled me with stress. For todays indie RPG, I've opted for something a bit more light-hearted: Brindlewood Bay, where the PCs are a retired ladies' mystery book club. If you are in the mood for something offbeat, take a look!
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/brindlewood-...

Currently 22 "scratch built" + 13 precons, which is about my limit. I'm contemplating building Iron Man, but I'd have to rob or disassemble 1-3 other decks to do so unless I want to buy a new mana base and staples.

I decided to start using this more since there’s a new round of folx fleeing the bird site, but man I hate the iPad app for Bsky.

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