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...is that my deck tracker covers them. Kinda wish it was something WotC thought about.

First of all, I want to acknowledge that frequent balance changes (both in nerfs and buffs) is something that the community has been asking for for a long time. In particular, the buffs announced today is a first time for Blizzard, and many people are excited about that. We all hate stale metas, and anything that shakes up the meta and causes new, interesting decks to come about is great for the game, right?

Unfortunately, I think that there are some negative effects from such frequent balance changes and unstable metas that I don't see discussed very often. Being able to play all sorts of different decks on ladder is great.... provided you have all of the cards, and this is the core of the

Hey guys,

A few days back I crafted this Arclight Phoenix/Drakes deck (with a couple of substitutions since I'm totally out of common wildcards, of all things). Namely, I replaced 2 tormenting voices with 2 divination and I don't run firemind's research in the sideboard (since this is a bo1 thread, I guess it doesn't matter).

In the bo3 free play queue I feel like I'm doing all right. I don't have a tracker but I feel like I win more than I lose. But when I try to take this deck into the constructed event, boy do wins seem hard to come by. My results aren't TERRIBLE (usually I go 3-3, sometimes 2-3 sometimes 4-3) but it r

I see a lot of similar posts from new players asking for clarification on certain interactions. While there are many edge-case interactions, I see a lot of confusion about how some core rules work. I am going to try and clarify what I think are the most confusing parts that occur fairly often.

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This is probably the most confusing aspect for new players and the tutorial completely omits it for some reason. MTG allows you to to cast instant spells (or spells with the flash keyword) in response to actions, even if it's during your opponent's turn. Creatures on the board have abilities that trigger. What if multiple abilities trigger at the same time? How are the

Back when they released AKH and KLD into MTGA, I didn't think much of it. They want to implement full standard to test all of the interactions, and at the time I thought they also wanted these sets in the game so they could test their rotation strategy.

Now that it's been confirmed that these blocks will just be deleted from the game come open beta, it makes me wonder why they prioritized implementing 4 (!) blocks during the few months of closed beta. The game is going into open beta without even a basic friend's list, no custom games (let alone spectating), the large boardstate issues unresolved, the same deckbuilder we had almost a year ago, timer issues, no cosmetics, etc. Why, then, was

When they first introduced game modes like QC I thought it was a fantastic idea. It lets people scratch a competitive itch at an affordable price, emulating a tournament with some stakes but nothing too ridiculous.

Fast forward several months and I wonder why EVERY event has to follow this structure. Things like Singleton or "Brewer's Delight" felt like they should just be casual ladder queues where people can screw around with crazy decks and have fun. Now there's Pauper and Momir... with paid entry fees? My mind was blown, I didn't think there existed any person in this world who would think to put a mode called "Pauper" behind a paywall (with a more expensive entry cost than QC...)

This

There have been many (valid) complaints about the economy on this subreddit but I'm surprised to see no one talking about the precons. As far as I can tell, they were not updated at all with the new Dominaria set (please correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't notice any changes...). Going through my collection, I basically have no Dominaria cards since I've only opened the 3 packs we were given and I'm saving my gold for draft.

This got me thinking about the fundamental concept of precons and the impact set rotations have on them. While I think the idea of giving all new players preconstructed decks is very good in theory, I'm not sure how it works out in reality when sets are constantly ent

I haven't played this game in a few months and I decided to drop in and see what's going on. All of my paragon upgrades that I had previously purchase seem to not be researched anymore. I had bought quite a lot of them (price ratios, etc) and now they show up in my science tab as if I hadn't purchased any of them. Is there something I missed in an update?

Anyone else feel like the change to how long the Elder Gods stay is just too strong? They're supposed to stay for 50 years but I've had mine for around 150, because by the time the 50 years are up a new set comes. They're basically constantly there and getting time crystals and relics becomes beyond trivial (and makes alicorns even more useless than they already are).

I'm wondering what the formula for the diminishing returns are? I had +105% apocrypha bonus and I sacrificed 2.8M faith, which according to the table (http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/wiki/index.php?page=Religion#Apocrypha) should give me a 70% boost. Instead it only boosted it to +129% - only 14%. Is this because of the diminishing returns, or am I not understanding something?

What exactly do these do? The tooltips says that it provides a 2% bonus to all space structures. I just built one and I don't see any change: my science production/cap and starchart production is the same whether I turn it on or off. Is there something I'm missing?

Hello, I'm heading up to Whistler from Seattle for the weekend. I'm getting a rental car, but something I want to know is: will I need winter tires and/or chains at this time of the year? The B.C. websate states that the laws are in effect from Oct 1-March 31, but Whistler's site lists it as Oct 1-April 30. I've heard there's been a dearth of snow all year so will I be fine without proper tires/chains for the trip, especially this late in the year?

Thanks!

I've always assumed they were kidney stones.

On Kiranico there are 2 statuses displayed: Jump and mount (example: http://kiranico.com/en/mh4u/monster/rathian)

Any idea what the difference between the two is?

I played trumpet for 7 years in middle school+high school and just started picking it up again after a 6 year break. I'm surprised at the range I managed to retain (I can still hit the high C!) and even the tone quality (it's not as good as it used to be but it's not horribad). However it seems my tonguing speed has dramatically decreased. I can still sort of double-tongue but it sounds a little sloppy.

Which brings me to my questions: how exactly do you improve your tonguing speed? Even when I was actively playing in high school I always felt that my tongue moved too slowly (iirc I can't do 16th notes at 120 bpm) so I think this is an area I've always struggled in. Also, what is an accepta