Johan

By blinded by experience I mean it like when someone who is an expert in quantum physics has to teach a course.

People who are new to magic still don’t understand that all regular damage happens simultaneously or how first strike or filter lands work.

Aren’t we just creating needless complexity?

Wouldn’t it be better to instead make it so you can have cards with ‘Devoid’ in any deck, and then have WoTC introduce a keyword like:

Color bloom X Green/Blue; [Ability] (if X Green or X Blue mana was spent to cast this spell, it has this ability)

Omo, Queen of Vesuva {2}{G/U} • Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Noble • 1/5 • Whenever Omo enters or attacks, put an everything counter on each of up to one target land and up to one target creature. Each land with an e...

If hybrid means OR not AND for deck building, shouldn’t commanders with only one hybrid pip (like Omo) be mono-colored commanders. Or will hybrid mean OR for deck building except when it’s your commander?

scryfall.com/card/m3c/2/o...

There’s already a lot of things to learn when you start playing commander. When me and my friend tried to learn it from Gavin’s YouTube tutorials, we didn’t understand any of it.
A lot of veteran players are blinded by experience when they say the hybrid change would decrease confusion.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that EDH was also made with a specific intent in mind. It’s a format, that was made specifically to limit the available card list based on color identity, to give less powerful and obscure cards a place to be played.

Harder Daddy! - Commander (Mathas, Fiend Seeker) A deck created using Moxfield.

@quipsandguac.bsky.social
Would you ever be interested in a series where you reviewed weird decks and then came with input on how to make the deck more functional without sacrificing the theme?

If you are, here’s my self-hate deck:
moxfield.com/decks/w-NZKj...

@gavinverhey.bsky.social
Please make this card happen, it would be a great commander!

Skibby {R/G}
Legendary Creature Insect Hero
- Skulk
- Whenever Skibby deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards
Power = 0
Toughness = 2

This way hybrid spells could slot into any deck, and you don’t have to worry about accidentally making something broken because of flickering or reanimation spells.

@gavinverhey.bsky.social
If you want to utilize hybrid mana more, have you considered introducing a keyword like ‘Devoid’?

Example:
Gibly Goblin {1}{R/G}{R/G}
Colorburst 2; This spell is colorless, if two mana of the same color was spent to cast this spell, do [Ability] when it enters

If you cast a hybrid spell with a mono-color commander, should Null Elemental Blast no longer be able to counter it?
Should hybrid pips still count as devotion for each of the colors?
Is casting Beseech the Queen in a colorless eldrazi deck for 3 mana with treasures/exotic orchard/etc the goal?

But why is phyrexian mana different? It’s literally just hybrid mana where one of the options is life instead of mana.

1 of your cards is your commander, which has to be a legendary creature.
- except not really, it can now be a Vehicle or any of the random card-type that has “can be your commander”
- except not really because sometimes it’s 2 cards if they say “partner” or “background” or some other new keyword

S:”we’ll just get HQ to shut it off :)”
V:”your shadow organization will study my world destroying device?”
H:”… maybe… but when has organizations like the CIA really hurt innocent people?”
V:”sigh” *pushes button*

V:”and then what? I go to prison forever? Sounds awful”
H:”leave and I’ll just say you got away”
V:”hmmm…”
Sidekick:”what about the world destroying device? How do we turn it off?”
V:”oh yeah, I made it from scratch so I should probably do that”
H:”don’t you have manual or something?”

V:”wow I can’t believe you would do this. Where’s your morals?”
H:”I’m here to stop you aren’t I?”
V:”yeah and FAILING at it! So you get no points.”
H:”well you don’t HAVE to do this”

V:”my actions are only a response to yours! It’s self sense really”
H:”a hostage-taker isn’t acting in self-defense”
V:”well it appears, YOU have doomed them all.”
Villain’s finger slides on top of the button, slowly increasing the pressure, until

H:”life unlived by subjugation is no life at all”
V:”come on, people are going to die”
H:”you’ve already decided their fate”
V:”what the hell, man! There’s innocent kids and puppies that will die!”
H:”I’m not the one killing them, you are?”

Imagine a Villain holding the world hostage and is about to cause mass casualties. The Hero shoots their last shot at their world-destruction-remote.
V:“Haha! Victory is mine prepare for chaos!”
Their finger moves in slow motion to the button
V:“Or you just surrender and bow before me”

Squall + his weapon is in the same MTG set, but they don't have synergy? If I were to design the gunblade it would be like this
- It should be max 3 mana value for his ability
- it should incentivise attacking
- it should shooting more than once
- easy to equip on him
- the total of mana costs is 8

I completely agree with you!
Ultimecia, Squall and the Sorceress designs are amazing

You didn’t Lofty Denial, which works insanely well with Bumbleflower, since her ability grants flying to one of your creatures on-cast, so whenever Lofty Denial resolves, you have a flyer

FF8 had some good moments.
If the enemies didnt scale with your level and they hadnt cut out most of the Laguna content, FF8 would probably have a much larger cult-following

I have increased the Vignette and blur/bloom effects on this picture, to show how utterly ridiculous it is to make your game "cinematic" so people cant play it

Why do game developers think this is good menu design?
STOP making me fight the UI #KCD2

Has China ever made demands about removal of DEI stuff of companies OUTSIDE of China? No! Does China constantly break trade deals? No! They do shady stuff, but not outright betrayal!

So if the free world is going to ally itself with a superpower, why should we choose the USA over China?

He cannot understand that the US was the leader of the free world BECAUSE it was a cooperative superpower that promoted democracy, liberty and human rights. If the US doesn’t do this, then why would any nation of the free world ally with the US over China?

Explaining that tariffs on the entire world hurts the USA, is like explaining colors to a person who was born blind. He is a land(slum)lord mentally, and incapable of understanding that the world doesn’t need the USA like people need housing.

Watching interviews of Trump, it’s becoming clear to me that he genuinely can’t conceptualize people not being a billionaire. No one can explain economics to him, because the systems of “limiting factors”, “rules” and “other people’s perceptions matter” don’t exist in his brain.

Putting a #tariff on movies is stupid, how would you even tariff media? You would have to shut off all ways to communicate with the free world and only let stuff in by making the distributers pay a toll. Of course only media that’s approved by the state is allowed in, no Czech hunter or journalism

For anyone wondering, the value of the dollar was the highest in the mid 80’s and just before Bush in the early 00’s. This coincides with the time Boomers and gen X started to enter the job market and started to vote.