alexgndl

If it's your first time at a prerelease, I REALLY recommend you try and stick to just 2 colors as much as possible.  Find your two strongest colors (which may or may not include your promo-that's okay!) and use those to make your deck.  Only go 3-color if you absolutely have to.  Trust me-every prerelease I go to where someone sits down and goes "oh, I've got this cool 4-color deck, I just couldn't decide what to take out!", I just kind of grin a bit.  Try and stick with two colors, and your deck will be a lot better off for it.
 
But really-just have fun! Prereleases are awesome.  

I just realized the dancing birds are Darwin's finches that is amazing

HE'S BACK. HE'S FUCKING BACK. I DON'T EVEN WATCH REBELS BUT I GUESS I DO NOW.

 
 

What the shit

This is fucking disgusting.

oh by the way sleeper hit of the set that is not unlikely to see modern and legacy play
 

 
 

So Brexit. My company is an international company with offices in 92 countries. Today they announced the firing of 150 of the UK staff and closing of 5 of the 13 UK region offices and moving them to Ireland and Germany to continue to work on the EU projects. Today they lost 10,000 euro and the cost of doing business in the UK jumped by 17%. They expect to possibly close all par the Belfast and London UK offices to deal with UK work.
 
 
 
Also the Northern Unionists are calling for an United Ireland.
 
HELL HAS FUCKING FROZEN OVER.

Fuck off. I'm not British and even I can see how mindbogglingly stupid this decision is. You're upheaving over 40 years of economy built around being a member of the European Union and creating trouble for literally every single country that is a part of the EU when it comes to trade, not just the UK. Trade agreements will have to be re-negotiated now that the UK has opted out of the benefits that comes with trading among EU countries and I can promise you right now that these new negotiations will not favour the UK. The Pound Sterling is taking a nose-dive and is currently at the lowest value I have ever seen in my entire life and while the financial situation obviously cannot be predicted 100%, there is no doubt that there is short-term financial pain coming to all within the UK. Who knows, maybe the UK just voted yes to their very own "Do-It-Yourself" recession. Considering that 45-50% of British export is to other countries in the European Union, it's quite incredible to me that they decided to leave.
 
Not to mention the issue that will occur with Brits who are abroad. The Erasmus exchange program will be limited if not downright removed from the UK, meaning that the future of all of Britains exchange students in Europe is uncertain. And what about the people with British citizenships living abroad in Europe? Unless the countries they're staying with offer them citizenships, there is a chance that they could be sent packing and be forced to return to the UK.
 
I'm not even touching on the internal struggles that the United Kingdom will face now that Scotland and even Ireland are much more likely to vote for their own independence.
 
England shot itself and its friends in the EU in the foot with this decision. The EU is still reeling from the refugee crisis and now the UK is adding another logistical problem on top of it. There's just no way they can come out of this without some damage to the relations between them and their neighbours.
 
It doesn't matter that "other countries are doing just fine without the EU" because other countries aren't the fucking United Kingdom.
 
People in the UK have every right to be worried about their future, not to mention frustrated about the results of the vote. There is no hysteria here, just anger and discontent for good reason.

They ruined the flavourtext for Werebear.
 

 

"Through my intense training, I have gained the ability to run at speeds close to 150 miles per hour!"
"Wow! That must be really useful for travelling long distances!"
"Uh, no, I just use it to beat people up from a quarter-mile away."

CHOO CHOO
 
HERE WE GO AGAIN BOYS

CHOO CHOO
 
HERE WE GO AGAIN BOYS

HOENN CONFIRMED, GEN 3 REMAKES FINALLY

HOENN CONFIRMED, GEN 3 REMAKES FINALLY

This is my new favorite thing.

This is my new favorite thing.

This is my new favorite thing.

It can be pitched to force of will.
 
We've got a deck.

Saw it last night. HOLY CRAP IT WAS SO GOOD

​So I finally got to introduce this guy two Sundays ago (this group only meets every two weeks, and even then people keep finding reasons to be unable to show up). Everyone seems to like him, both for his personality and his usefulness to the party. The only thing he lacked was his own mini.
Someone in the group told me about Hero Forge, a service that was Kickstarted earlier this year. You can customize your very own miniature, which is then 3D printed and sent to you. It sounded perfect for making something more personalized than a "generic cleric" figurine from the store, so I'm giving it a try.
The character creation is intuitive, and gives an impressive range of choices for body shapes, poses, expressions, clothing, and equipment. You can even mix and match items from different genres (fantasy, sci-fi, etc.). I've already spent a ridiculous amount of time with it, and even made a few of my characters from other games. You may be familiar with some of them!
Here's Damien, the drunken bastard who started all this, ready to spread healing and revelry across the stars:
 A hard-boiled skill monkey detective named Jones:
The semi-legendary orc pirate, Captain Jrahk:
And just to see if I could, here's some caped baldy who's a hero for fun:
Last but not least, here's Joan, a gunslinging half-japanese magical girl:
There's just something uniquely satisfying about seeing a close approximation of these characters as I see them in my head, rather than some vaguely appropriate forum avatars and store-bought figurines.
So anyway, once you're satisfied with your model, you then choose a material. Several reviews say that the ultra-detail plastic is VERY fragile, which is a deal breaker for me. Strong plastic looks like crap with its lack of detail, and I'm not dropping a hundred bucks on a one-inch bronze figurine. So, steel it is. All of the reviews I've seen only mention the two plastics, so I guess the metals are a relatively new addition.
I ordered it on Sunday, and its estimated date of arrival is the 16th. I'm not sure if other materials would have different delivery times, and there don't seem to be any options for faster shipping. Still, that date suits me just fine - it's nearly a week before the next scheduled session. But it wouldn't do for someone who needs a mini ready within a week.
I'll make a follow-up post on the quality of the mini when it arrives.

Inked playmats is having a flash sale right now until 1pm PST (so 2 and a half hours from this post), 50% off all custom stuff with the code FIREBALL.  I got a custom mat with the art from Gift of Orzhova on it for $12.50.  Free shipping, too. Not sure if they ship outside the US, but it's worth checking out in any case.

​No. Fuck off.
It's not "the Muslim world."
It's a bunch of lunatics.
And people calling Islam as a whole, or the Muslim world, responsible for this is why more people become jaded and join these lunatic movements.
Because assholes say shit like this and propagate the cycle.
I reiterate: Fuck off.