I can post the current list on the discord, but I have a custom Jump-Start box that I built that is a LOT of fun to play with. It has pre-sleeved 20 card theme packs (bagged in team bags) and each player picks two at random to shuffle together for an instant deck. The packs are also super fun to design, and I think the sleeves cost more than the cards themselves. Keeps a consistent power level between players and doesn’t rely on newer players having to figure out how to draft/build a deck correctly.

So I definitely agree with MaRo that Magic isn’t one game, but actually several distinct games with shared pieces and rules, because Commander is not for me personally, and I have been playing Magic for most of its existence. I get why people like it, but it doesn’t scratch the same itch as playing in a constructed event for cash. My only real complaint with Commander is that it is a terrible way to on-board new players, and maybe losing with some janky brews at FNM isn’t the atrocity some players have made it out to be.

I know it’s cringe, but I just want good things for him and his family.

I keep to the honorable, ancient ways- drafting for $20s

Please let there be other oldheads on there, so we can talk about Invasion block constructed, how terrible Masques constructed was, how good and rewarding Caw-Blade was for disciplined players, etc

Such a great show

Trip is a great word for that series

Web 1.0 is roughly the early internet up to the start of Facebook. Web 2.0, which we are in now, is the consolidation of the internet into a series of “walled gardens”, where most people engage with the internet though one or more platforms (FB, Twitter, etc), the rub being that these platforms are moderated (and privatized). Web 3.0 is not a thing (yet?), but it’s the idea that decentralization through blockchain technology will create a new “phase” of the internet

I’m an elder millennial and I have known who Alfred E Neuman is for most of my life despite not reading Mad magazine regularly (always felt like more of a Gen X/late Boomer thing). Obviously the Simpsons referenced Mad a lot, and MadTV was the greatest sketch comedy show on Saturday nights.

For what it’s worth, I think that was Mayo Pete trying to insult trump in the weakest way possible, and it was an utter failure.

Love this whole album

Andross’s enemy is MY enemy!

PEH-PPY! Long time no see!

Andross has ordered us to take you down.

Which one did I like? ME?

RETVRN

This is actually something I use as a “canary in the coal mine”/“Van Halen M&Ms” thing- if someone talks about M-R Pact as Hitler and Stalin were BFFs, then I know they’re full of shit. There’s a new Cold War history series on Netflix, and as soon as they said it, I knew series was trash and turned it off.

It was the first of its kind!

But in fairness, I have never really liked any other card games or felt the need to play YGO, etc. Except a younger family member is big into Lorcana now, so I am enjoying playing that with them.

Orpheus is my favorite

Magic: the Gathering Arena, Magic: the Gathering Online, and OpenRCT2 (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 with mods)

My favorite genres are JRPGs and Magic: the Gathering

Also, I always watch in private and I use a downloader tool to make my own copies