Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Also: I love how many threads got derailed today... and how far from their original topics.

Mitt Romney Rant --> M:TG strategy.

I love it.

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@ Icemage: That is just sickening.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

ITT Ygg has never played against an Artifact deck before. Not even Esper.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I haven't played since Alara Block. Most of this is news to me. I used to play a pretty solid Artifact Blue deck myself back in the day. I broke it all down though... ages ago.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I'm pretty sure Tinker is limited in formats where it isn't outright banned. While there are plenty of ways to cheat it into play, there's also plenty of easy counters to it. Pacify, Swords to Plowshares, Threaten, there's a lot of answers to that.

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I like the direction this thread has gone while I wasn't looking.

Anyone going to the Return to Ravnica prerelease next weekend?

[Malacite]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

My beliefs I feel are far more in line with guys like Jeffery Sachs .

Govt has a responsibility to not only keep the country safe (Military, Police etc.) but also to provide and help manage services for the common good where as Sachs argues, the Free Market is simply inefficient (Health Care, Roads, Schools etc.) It's why I get riled up whenever I hear jackasses on the right going on and on about liberals wanting to create some kind of bureucratic nanny-state. That's horse shit, we (well I anyway) just want to see some level of fairness across the board because society functions best when everyone does well and not just the lucky or the highly privileged. You need a healthy balance of capitalism and socialism for a modern society to work. I think part of the problem is, there hasn't been a serious debate followed by a consensus (though there may never be a consensus) as to what kind of government the country really wants and how to pay for it. The 2-year election cycles are also incredibly destructive to the whole process; they should be every 4 years same as the Presidential elections.

EDIT: If you get down to it, really what the right is pushing for (not everyone but the majority for sure) is a complete free-for-all survival of the fittest. Ford took all kinds of flack for paying his employees well enough to actually afford the cars they were making, but guess what? He was right. The greater the share of wealth that's in the hands of the middle class, the better everyone does as a whole as poverty goes down and more people are able to live happily - oh yeah, and buy all that stuff you Rich folk sell to get so rich in the first place.​ Nothing boosts sales like having a wider consumer base able to actually purchase your products.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I like the direction this thread has gone while I wasn't looking.

Anyone going to the Return to Ravnica prerelease next weekend?

I saw a green/white hybrid 2/1 first turn drop with a bonus ability and got turned off. New magic is still being silly.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Not I. I've got nobody to play with IRL anymore. The wife and I play... but that's it. Aside from the odd draft we used to do with strangers at the comic shop... we didn't get to play too often... so we quit.

I'd love to play... but lets just put that complaint right on the top of the pile of reasons why I wish I lived closer to TM... or vise versa.

[Malacite]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

RtR is a pretty cool set.

The original Ravnica was my favorite block ever. They're a little insane with some of the newer cards they're printing though. The new Rakdos for example is just completely batshit....


http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attac...1&d=1347763388


LOL @ the "drawback" XD (love that art too).

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

My son got into Magic recently, so that got me playing again. Otherwise I have the same problem of none of my friends playing anymore. We're gonna do a two-headed giant tourney at the prerelease.

[Icemage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I'm pretty sure Tinker is limited in formats where it isn't outright banned. While there are plenty of ways to cheat it into play, there's also plenty of easy counters to it. Pacify, Swords to Plowshares, Threaten, there's a lot of answers to that.

Better pray your opponent isn't holding Force of Will, because you basically have one shot to kill it.



Icemage

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

actual politics

I think generalizing about what "the right" or "the liberals" or whatever is a convention we should abandon. Individuals believe what individuals believe, and any time you lump someone in with their camp you're usually mischaracterizing their viewpoint. Unless of course someone's identity is highly conflated with the identity of the party, again referring to certain cable news personalities.

I agree that the best society is the society that allows and enables all of its citizens to do well. I think most people would agree with that. But that still leaves a lot of room for disagreement about what it means to "do well" and what measures or environment would best facilitate that.

[Icemage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I agree that the best society is the society that allows and enables all of its citizens to do well. I think most people would agree with that. But that still leaves a lot of room for disagreement about what it means to "do well" and what measures or environment would best facilitate that.

You're being a lot more generous than I would be. There are a lot of twisted and clueless people out there who think they're good people, but only want good things for people who are like them: i.e. if you're not "normal" to them, they don't care about you, and sometimes will not shed a tear if you suffer at the expense of others. That definition of "normal" bends and shifts depending on the person.


Icemage

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Let's put it this way: Everyone wants people to do well, but not everyone recognizes everyone else as a person.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I like the direction this thread has gone while I wasn't looking.

Anyone going to the Return to Ravnica prerelease next weekend?

I'm totally going to be hitting it up.

Keeping up with Standard can screw itself with a pike, but several of the Azorius/Selesnya cards seem like pretty darn good fits for my Rafiq of the Many EDH deck, including Archon of the Triumvirate, the Azorius Prerelease promo. This potentially includes Dryad Militant, the card cid is butthurt about, since graveyard recursion is currently a powerful thing in my local EDH meta.

Which, speaking of, I'm totally loving all of this graveyard hate that's being printed in the wake of Innistrad block. Seems like a very very very good thing for every format that it will be legal in.