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| bio | website | ellipsix.net |
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| location | State College, PA | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Jun 12 at 15:16 | |
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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 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 @JSBᾶngs: perhaps just outdated.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... :-/ |
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Oct 2 |
answered | What is the difference between “flying” and “this creature can only be blocked by creatures with flying”? |
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Oct 1 |
answered | When should I add life gain cards to my deck in MTG? |
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Sep 27 |
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How do I deal with Enchantments while playing mono-red? @Demento: just point your burn at the opponent's creatures and then use your creatures to attack. |
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Sep 27 |
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How can a blue control deck be made more efficient? @Latency: this might be material for a separate question, but Standard includes the last two blocks plus any core sets released in that time. At the moment, that's Zendikar block, Scars block, M11, and M12, but that will change when Innistrad becomes tournament-legal. |
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Sep 26 |
answered | How can a blue control deck be made more efficient? |
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Sep 19 |
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Can Clockspinning from Time Spiral be used to remove infect or poison counters? I'm pretty sure that Leeches is the only way to remove poison counters from players - I've read things to that effect in articles on the Wizards website. (Exception: Karn Liberated, who effectively removes poison counters as a side-effect of restarting the game) |
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Sep 19 |
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Bludgeon Brawl & Puresteel Paladin There was actually a deck using that very interaction featured on Channel Fireball: channelfireball.com/articles/channel-conley-deck-doctor-7-1 |
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Sep 19 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Sep 19 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 17 |
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In MTG, is there a collective name for cards that cost 1 mana and grant 3 of something? Honestly, grouping all these different cards together under the category of "3 of something for 1 mana" seems pretty questionable to me. In particular, why would an ability count as a "thing" in the same sense as a unit of power or toughness? And even power and toughness themselves have distinctly different effects on the game, so it doesn't really make that much sense to add them. I wouldn't consider a 2/1 creature at all similar to a 0/3 creature, for example. |
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Sep 17 |
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In MTG, what happens when a player loses in multiplayer? @Neal: 800.4c doesn't talk about returning objects at all. Anyway, regardless of whether the triggered ability is an object, 800.4c explicitly says that triggered abilities that would be controlled by the player who left do not trigger, which is the relevant clause for the Oblivion Ring scenario. |
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Sep 17 |
answered | In MTG, what happens when a player loses in multiplayer? |
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Sep 14 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 5 |
answered | What computer games based on Magic: The Gathering are there? |
