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@GavinVerhey I'm not surprised but still extremely thrilled to hear you voted for Harris too! I'm anxious but cautiously optimistic about our chances. I hope all is well BTW Gavin!

Please vote. I don't expect to sway undecideds (I'm voting Harris), but in the US usually over 1/3 don't vote. It's easy to think "my vote doesn't matter", but if millions who thought that voted it could be all the difference. We're all in echo chambers here. Go be heard. Vote.

@sean93pq @talkofthecharts @Beyonce Why not both?

@talkofthecharts @Beyonce No one will be watching. Stream Disease instead.

Beyoncé releases visuals for “Bodyguard” on YouTube, seemingly for US election day based on description ‘#VOTE’.

@TolarianCollege @SaffronOlive Players loudly whined and complained about the old system, specifically that shipping took too long which is much faster with the new system.

@SaffronOlive We HAD a better system for selling Secret Lairs.

We really need a better system for selling Secret Lairs...

@worldsfinest I'm in the process of a Young Justice rewatch with a friend and I recently saw this episode again, it's fantastic, a great arc with lots of interesting twists and turns!

The Young Justice episode "Tale of Two Sisters" debuted on this day (Nov. 4) in 2021. Kicking-off the fourth season's second major arc, Artemis Crock's life is shattered by devastating news just as two Shadows members arrive in town both vying for her protection! #YoungJustice

@jasonkilanski @iamcardib What evidence do you have that Beyonce got paid to endorse Harris? She's a billionaire. She doesn't need to get paid to endorse Harris. Cardi B said she didn't want to vote for Biden or Trump but she liked Harris and was inspired when she ran for president. She wasn't paid.

@marcusjlang @iamcardib Did you think how much Beyonce got paid was the point? lol Cardi was saying a few months ago that she wasn't going to endorse anyone because everyone was struggling because of this admin, and then she endorsed this admin. You slow?

We all know Trump was a hustler, but hustling women out of the rights to THEIR OWN body is nasty work!! Hustling Americans out of their hard earned money by selling $500 Trump Sneakers, $60 Trump Bibles, and $100,000 Trump Watches is even nastier!! Tomorrow he’ll be hustling you out of your healthcare rights. Donald Trump talks about how he has concepts of a plan… but the only concept of a plan he has is a plan to hustle YOU

@jasonkilanski @iamcardib "Beyonce got $10M." You just made that up.

@iamcardib Heh, you sold out. At least be honest about it and tell us how much you got. Beyonce got $10M. Did she hustle better than you?

@SaffronOlive I know you are already brewing the Standard Maze of End deck and I can't wait to watch you play it in an upcoming video hopefully!

My favorite Knight returns.

@FVLAM That would be so hype!

If Kamala wins I will give everyone in the replies a copy of Mario Party Jamboree

@MTGGoldfish This seems pretty good. This is basically Mutavault the sequel. I suspect this will see some Standard play for sure, right?

A modern take on Stalking Stones; a creature land that animates forever when you activate it. More previews at mtgpreviews.com/FDN Source: x.com/day9tv/status/…

@coreyjbowen Wow, that's and interesting fun fact! Please do the same but for a 4-color design (but something more dynamic than creature typal)! 😛

@marcusjlang I actually designed yoshimaru and used it as an example of a good time to print a 1-drop partner, something I think I would be staunchly against otherwise. I think it was a great execution and exception to usual partner wariness.

At my gate for like the next four hours please fill my time with questions #WOTCstaff

@coreyjbowen I think that game designers appealing to populism sometimes (provided it doesn't break the game) is typically a good thing. Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful was a good example of a design that did this (and again, I'm saying this as a person who on principal really dislikes Partner).

@coreyjbowen That makes sense. I will note, even though I don't like 2 color partners, they are ridiculously popular by the player base. Although in my humble opinion 2 color partners (and even mono colored ones) are significantly more developmentally problematic than 4 color cards.

@Real_Kilometers @coreyjbowen I think that's largely true if you choose to play maximum sweaty/optimal. Additionally, I wonder if the variance among how people would build those types of decks would be increased if there was a higher variance of 4 color commanders (which there are very very few of currently)

@marcusjlang @coreyjbowen Going off EDHRec, the opposite seems to be more true, and logically it makes sense. Sure, 4c has more options, but it also ends up collapsing on the more popular choices more often

@coreyjbowen The fact that you can play Treasure Cruise in a Vial Smasher deck is absurd to me. I don't see how that is different than playing Thassa Deep-Dwelling in a Elesh Norn, Mother of the Machine deck. It leads to a bunch of soup decks also because the Partners are broad designs. 2/2

@coreyjbowen What is your take on the Partner mechanic? My hot take is Partner is problematic because it violates one of the most important rules of EDH in that it allows you to play cards outside of the color identity of a commander to support it with positive synergy lines. 1/2

@coreyjbowen It's not that I can't make a WBRG blink/panharmonicon deck, it's that it's boring that I literally only have one option for who can be my commander. FWIW, I meant to say UBRG deck (more colors with primary flicker/ETB shenanigans) but I think you understand my point.

@marcusjlang Fwiw I treat this similarly as “I’d love to make a BR blink deck”— while you can certainly technically build it, the game benefits from some color pairs having unique access to distinct strategies and gameplay with different personality. I’m happy w wbrg blink being a challenge

@Real_Kilometers @coreyjbowen I don't think a mono B reanimator deck has to reach far for effects. There are more than enough reanimation spells, there are several big creatures to reanimate + many ways to self discard/self mill. But those decks are going to be less varied than the 4-color reanimation decks

@marcusjlang @coreyjbowen The mono black one is going to have to reach a lot further for effects and use more specific solutions to the strategy at hand, though

@coreyjbowen And what you are saying makes sense (obviously of course, that's you're job + you're an adept professional Magic designer!) But respectfully + humbly, I think there's plenty of homogenization in EDH at higher power tables for some commanders among irrespective of color identity.

@coreyjbowen I don't want homogenization with 4+ color legends. I just want it so that instead of 4 color commanders being less than half of 1% of all the commanders printed in the past 4 years, they would be more like 2-3% of the total. BTW, I sincerely appreciate the in-depth response.🙏🏿

@coreyjbowen Sometimes I want to build an broad archetype I enjoy but I don't want to do it the way it is always done + having more colors gives me more options. Blink is my favorite archetype and I'd love to make a WBRG Blink deck but there's literally only 1 commander with that color ID.

@marcusjlang Fwiw I think 4/5 colors is used best on hyper-niche buildarounds like Myr or something