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| bio | website | ellipsix.net |
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| location | State College, PA | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 10 months |
| seen | May 15 at 17:05 | |
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I'm a fifth year graduate student in physics at Penn State University, doing research in high-energy particle phenomenology. I also have a hobby interest in computer programming.
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Oct 26 |
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Where can I find Magic: the Gathering puzzles? @Affe: actually the Duelist continued to publish until just prior to the release of Mercadian Masques, which was several months after 6th edition came out. If I remember correctly, the last 7-ish issues had puzzles that used the 6th edition rules and would still mostly work as designed today. Even prior to that, there were probably quite a few puzzles that weren't "broken" by the 6E rules update. |
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Oct 25 |
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What Is The Optimal Innistrad Sealed Deck From This Card Pool? Interesting, I always thought you had to return your deck to its original configuration at the start of each round, in any format... but you're right, it's not required in tournaments without decklists. (I'm too used to playing online, I suppose, where your deck is automatically reset at the beginning of each round) |
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Oct 23 |
answered | Do Ensnaring Bridge and Tortoise Formation work together? |
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Oct 21 |
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How can I tell the difference between early Magic: The Gathering card editions? Yeah, though Wizards has gotten a lot more consistent in their use of expansion symbols. The vast majority of cards printed since 2001 can be identified by the symbol; there are only a couple of special sets for which you'd need to look at other characteristics of the card (according to Wikipedia). |
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Oct 20 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Oct 20 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 20 |
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Liege of the Tangle with awakening counter - how does it work? @ghoppe: let's not forget Giant Fan :-P (actually: also Clockspinning) |
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Oct 19 |
answered | Can colorless mana be generated from things that say “Add one mana of any color to your mana pool”? |
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Oct 15 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Oct 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 14 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? @OrigamiRobot: no, my quote is copied and pasted from the current comprehensive rules, last updated September 30, 2011. It must be yours that's out of date, or from an unofficial source, or something. In any case, both versions say effectively the same thing; in particular, nobody has claimed that tokens don't trigger "leaves the battlefield" abilities. |
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Oct 13 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? @WillfulWizard (2 comments up): that seems like a bad habit to get into, namely skipping over pieces of an answer and expecting to get the point of it anyway. Especially the comprehensive rules, which in my experience are pretty clearly written, considering how precisely they define the game. (That being said, I do believe that a good answer should explain the relevance of any quote (or link) it includes to the question at hand.) |
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Oct 13 |
answered | What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? |
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Oct 12 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Oct 3 |
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How many lands should I have in my sealed or draft decks? @JSBᾶngs: perhaps just outdated. Back in 1998-ish a lot of decks ran about 21 lands. Of course back then, the average CMC of a spell in one of these decks was probably less than 2, which is somewhat harder to get away with today. Even at that time, control decks and others that had more expensive spells would normally use 24-26 lands. |
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Oct 3 |
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Oblivion Ring targeting an Aura @Stephen: attaching isn't inherently targeted, I'm pretty sure, so you could attach it to a creature with hexproof or shroud. |
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Oct 3 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 3 |
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What is the difference between “flying” and “this creature can only be blocked by creatures with flying”? added 21 characters in body |
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Oct 2 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 2 |
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What is the difference between “flying” and “this creature can only be blocked by creatures with flying”? Yeah, I completely forgot about that... :-/ |
