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And now we have Pyrophobia referencing Cowards, and the only cards that actually produce Cowards are Boldwyr Intimidator and Reprobation. That's more niche than Goatnapper. Is that the most niche modern creature type reference?
I haven't been following MTG much recently. Now I find they did a set with "splice onto instant or sorcery"? AND with snow mana? And a cat lord? And changelings, and about 50 other old mechanics?
And a lifedrain card in B that flashes back for RW.
Oh you're right, I misread the dates. Curse acquired MTGS in 2012, Twitch acquired Curse in 2016, and Fandom acquired MTGS this past December
"A few years"?? the hell are you talking about. The sale of Curse to Fandom was first announced in, like, early december and completed last February.
Honestly what upsets me is that Fandom has no plans (literally: I asked and they told me so!) to undo the twitch account requirement of Gamepedia, so Twitch gets to have its cake and eat it too. That enforced account merger had prompted me to stop going there (though I do miss contributing to MTG wiki), so I feel little sadness over it.
It does seem odd this spate of site shutdowns suddenly, though.
Twitch doesn't actually own MTGS anymore. They sold it to Fandom (Wikia) a few years ago. Fandom also owns HearthPwn, a major Hearthstone deck building site, and just announced they're shutting that down too
I almost never posted, but I enjoyed reading threads and MtG Salvation was my preferred site during spoiler season.
Yeah, they basically got what they wanted out of it and then dumped it.
Wondering why I put so much effort into recovering my posts over there recently...
Curse and Twitch now have all they wanted, I assume.
The wiki and the forum are separate, so the wiki will survive.
Also was the original Magic Wiki. I'm sure a number of the links in my articles are broken because I linked to some obscure pre-Modern lore on their website.
Gone the way of the Magic Dojo, I suppose. To be honest, it's surprising they lasted as long as they did, considering how infrequently forums are used nowadays. You know, I Googled "Magic the Gathering Forum" and it's still the first two entries on the front page. Entry three was Tapped Out. Entry four was a Reddit page asking where to go for a good MTG forum. MTG Salvation took the number one and two spot on that page, too.
I haven't posted there regularly in ages, but it's like, THE Magic forum.
Woah, what? I didn't use the site, but that was an institution
Announcement
Yeah! I saw that and I came to post about it. Haha.
Yep, that's mee! :D It just got posted on Kotaku as well.
Yeah, I read your actual paper on the arXiv. Very cool to see the final form
Pretty cool, Alex.
gee gee
Yes he is, to both.
what about this website?
https://www.toothycat.net/wiki/bnf.pl?page=AlexChurchill/MagicCardGenerator
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613489/magic-the-gathering-is-officially-the-worlds-most-complex-game/
@Alex, are you the Alex mentioned in this article?
^
Where's that "re-space a cardname" challenge...
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Mrs. Teacherwoman, secretboi420 just gave dudeboi420 3rd degree burns! Requesting medical attention! Thx mum.
Does the word Elf show up in the name Boreal Shelf?
It's very easy to find out: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+[Human]
Inhumaniac also shows up in that search. Does that count?
Human Frailty and whatever the legendary Human was called that was part of the Kamigawa cycle of special members of their tribes that turn into enchantments.
woah! do you know which two?
Only two cards have the word Human in their names.
The third round of Ravnica split cards are very competitively costed (as they should be.) My Esper Skies deck will have 4 copies each of these three split cards: Depose // Deploy, Warrant // Warden, Discovery // Dispersal,