@SaffronOlive Like the idea is to turn the players you capture into highly enfranchised players but you can’t because you’re adopting a system that you know doesn’t work for them. The long game is atrocious
@SaffronOlive I mean his logic is terrible. “The most invested players have a limit, and so we spend a lot of extra effort going beyond that for the people who don’t care as much.” It only makes sense if the extra stuff is low effort slop to cast a wider net, and oh would you look at that.
@Mengu09 The funny part is #mengufinance is always the worst advice anyway, I.e. buy high never sell. I think this is still on brand and anyway taking financial advice from you is in for a surprise or two
@RyanTalksAutism@LickshotLippy This is super bad logic. This would mean that doctors have a nearly perfect accuracy in diagnosing adhd with far less time/effort than the assessment they’re signing people up for. At that point what is the assessment doing other than billing insurance?
@pizzagoyf I will take the bait: UB is not bad cuz SpongeBob. UB Is bad cuz slop. UB is low effort design. UB is compromised by usage contracts and promo timelines. UB outsources creativity AND fanbase. Eventually you will own neither. UB can kill magic for good faster than anything else.
@xtracombatphase You know how when you play commander everyone has card alters and you have no idea what is going on on the other side of the board and you have no idea if the thickness of the paint makes it a marked card? This stops the cheaty part. You stil won’t know what’s going on.
🔻 THE SURVEILLANCE STATE DIED LAST NIGHT. AND NO ONE ON TELEVISION TOLD YOU WHY.
At 11:59 PM on June 12, 2026, FISA Section 702 expired. The most powerful domestic spying tool in American history — the same tool they used to wiretap a sitting president in 2016 — is DEAD.
198 to 218. That was the vote. Nineteen Republicans crossed the line. Not because they love privacy. Because they were told what comes next.
On the same day — the SAME DAY — Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 12. It transfers control of ALL national security systems to a restructured military-intelligence command under NSA oversight. Every government server. Every classified network. Every intelligence node.
Read that again. The civilian surveillance apparatus is gone. The military now holds the keys.
This was not a failure of Congress. This was an execution.
A former signals intelligence officer — Ft. Meade, 2018-2025:
"FISA 702 was never about foreign threats. It was a domestic weapon disguised as national security. The FBI conducted over 278,000 warrantless queries on American citizens between 2020 and 2023 alone. Political figures. Journalists. Pastors. January 6 families. Anyone who questioned the system was in the database. The authority to conduct those queries died at midnight. And NSPM-12 ensures that what replaces it answers to military command — not the agencies that abused it."
THE HUNTERS BECAME THE HUNTED.
They spied on Trump in 2016. They queried patriots after January 6. They monitored churches. They tracked parents at school board meetings. They built a surveillance machine that would make the Stasi look primitive.
And last night, one man let it die. He could have pushed for renewal. He chose not to. He waited until the exact moment the military architecture was ready — then he pulled the plug on the old system and activated the new one.
June 12, 2026. The day the deep state lost its eyes.
They cannot query you anymore. They cannot listen without military authorization. They cannot use national security as a shield for political persecution. That era ended at midnight.
What comes next is not surveillance. It is accountability.
CODE: FISA-DEAD-0612 / NSPM12-ACTIVATED / NSA-COMMAND / 278K-QUERIES / MILITARY-KEYS / HUNTERS-HUNTED
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The machine they built to destroy him — he just turned it off. And turned the lights on them.
@JulioBB52@MillThat Brother they go in the same deck. One card combo vs two card combo. You already play all the mox. This is all upside and arguably as strong as the most busted thing you can think of (maybe stronger).
Just watched a guy on the subway with a gorgeous woman nestled into him whip out the binder and toss his blinged out Pokémon card collection to a different woman across from him. The most baller move I’ve ever seen
If I’m gonna play a game with art like this (at best and bagel with shmear at worst) why am I not playing Riftbound? That’s the question I’m wrestling with.
@mtg_ds The “sample size too small” people are so annoying. They never have any idea what they’re talking about, they don’t even know what a larger sample size would provide. It just makes them feel good to say “sample size too small”. It’s almost “but I did eat breakfast this morning”
@CanMack1 It’s always about incentives. Try to align the incentives and you’ll see why. Magic without UB has a long term incentive that outweighs the short term ones. UB upends that and misaligns basically all of the incentives for developing a consistently healthy competitive scene.
@Eureka22422_MTG@RealPokemoki One degree of separation. It's like claiming you don't support Kool Aid because you buy it from the grocery store instead of Kool Aid. Or that you don't support a company even if you buy their stock (at an insane markup!!!) because you bought it from someone else on the market.