Words of an Immortal

I don’t. It works so well in books and as a podcast, precisely because we all have our own mental images and versions of The Man in the Tan Jacket, the Blinking Light, The Dog Park, etc.

Today, I just got the keys to my first house.

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That means free access to Photoshop CS2 - and that already has most of what you could ask for, really.

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The cs2 programs date back only a few years, and still have much of the functionality of today’s more modern ones. The differences between most of the versions are little more than slight modifications or additions of minor features, and UI changes. Go for it guys!!

He had an Avacyn Angel of Hope deck so right from the start we were like “okay… We’ll see…”

(I believe the other decks in the game were my Aurelia, a Mizzix of the Izmagnus, and Selvala elf tribal; good decks, but nothing too competitive.)

So we’re playing pretty normally, the Avacyn fanboy is filling his board with little humans and angels and not doing much, until he finally plays Avacyn.

Then on his next turn, with the smuggest of expressions as if he’s the first person to ever think of that, he casts Wrath of God - which, of course, would leave all our boards empty and his looking fine with by now a decent number of little humans and angels.

There’s a pause, the Mizzix player says “Hold on… In response to the wrath, I’ll cast Turn to Frog on Avacyn.” (Thus getting rid of her ability and making the boardwipe hit his own board as well.)

There’s silence for a solid ten or fifteen seconds.

And the Avacyn player picks up his cards, says, with the utmost contempt, “This is why I don’t play with Blue players”, and LEAVES.

It’s not that it wouldn’t work, it just would work really really unintuitively.

Let’s try a little thought experiement: You control the enchantment with “Creatures you control with power 4 or greater have flying.” You also control these creatures:

Vile Aggregate (and three other colorless creatures)

Crater Elemental (with its formidable ability resolved)

Timberpack Wolf (and two other Timberpack Wolves)

Hooded Hyrda (with five +1/+1 counters on it)

Calcite Snapper (with P/T switched through its landfall ability)

Siege Rhino (just Siege Rhino)

Which of these six creatures would you expect to gain flying from the aforementioned enchantment?

All of them, right?

Well you’re wrong. Out of these six creatures, only Siege Rhino would have flying.

Welcome to one of the major quirks of the layer system. Because of how it’s set up, effects of different types are handled in a specific order. 

(That order is copy effects, control-changing effects, text-changing effects, type-changing effects, color-changing effects, ability-modifying effects, power and toughness -modifying effects.)

This means that the effects that modify things in earlier layers can’t look at things from later layers without giving unintuitive results.

When our hypothetical enchantment goes to grant flying to creatures, we haven’t applied any power and toughness modifying effects at all, so our example creatures don’t have any of their buffs applied and it sees them with the following stats:

Vile Aggregate as 0/4 (Its power is undefined, so 0 is used instead.)

Crater Elemental as 0/8 

Timberpack Wolf as 2/2

Hooded Hydra as 0/0

Calcite Snapper as ¼

Siege Rhino as 4/5 (smug bastard…)

So yeah, that’s why it wouldn’t work. It would only work for creatures with an actual printed power of 4 or greater and ignore any other effects that would modify that.

A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.

And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.

“B-but prejudice and-” okay so you think everyone in the world who isn’t a part of your specific demographic is going to be prejudiced against you so you decided to prejudice them? I mean come on, if someone causes trouble you kick them out regardless of who or what they are.

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