#benchariot

aggressive sincerity

i will use Let Me Google That For You without an ounce of passive aggression; i just wanna help out

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Yesterday we met the @wizardsmagic Community Team at Wizards of the Coast. They’re cool folks. But do you know who else is cool folks? You folks, the Magic community!

In the spirit of consistency, here are questions almost identical to the ones that were asked of the Community Team. Reblog and answer or not answer as many of them as you like! Pictures optional! Let’s all be friends!

Name/Online handle: Ben/benchariot/something related to my name somehow

Favorite Magic color: white maybe? i don’t necessarily have a favorite so much as favorite pairings

Favorite Magic card: maybe Thopter Foundry (see anecdote below)

Favorite Planeswalker: Ashiok (not only a cool/mysterious/creepy character, but nonbinary representation!)

Cutest Magic card: brushwagg easily

Creepiest Magic card: either ad nauseam or the fallen

If you had a superpower, it would be: i’m not sure what this has to do with mtg but teleportation

Favorite non-Magic thing (to do, watch, play, etc.): hang with friends/get sloshed/party

Job/College/Aspirations? in college for english/education, hope to be a teacher and/or writer eventually

What’s a favorite Magic related story? it’s hard to pick just one, but there was a time i was playing some casual magic with friends (when i say casual, i mean casual. we played on the floor of a bedroom). there were 3 or 4 players at the start of the game, and we were now down to just me and my friend. this was during alara and i was running some esper artifacts deck and my friend was piloting a mean and aggressive b/r build with lots of discard/burn/destruction effects. it was widely regarded amongst us to be the strongest deck among the bunch.

we had a running joke at the time that thopter foundry was the best card in the game, and that you might as well concede to an opponent casting it. anyway, it seemed like the end of the game. i was at like 3 life, nothing but a couple useless artifacts on the field, and my friend had a decently stacked field. 

i drew thopter foundry, cast it. friend makes obligatory “might as well concede” joke. proceeds to attack me and burn away at me, but suddenly i’m saccing everything i have to make thopters and gain life. a couple artifacts become buffers against burn while also becoming enough chump blockers to trade with his creatures. after a couple turns and some lucky card draw to throw out yet more artifacts, i throw out enough shit to make him fizzle out of resources, and i run him over with thopters. the audience is astounded. the power of thopter foundry is never refuted again

What’s your favorite thing about Wizards of the Coast? their willingness to try new things to keep the game fresh. some of my favorite game aspects came out of that (un-sets, conspiracy, archenemy, planechase)

What’s your favorite thing about the Magic community? the sense of support for others that the community provides. this is a fandom that is so encouraging of new players, players treated unfairly, trans players, players who want to learn more, etc, that it makes my heart swell