Barry Peddycord III @ishara@social.isharacomix.org

Just wrapped up the #keyforge preview event! Quite an interesting game.

My first take: tempo. One of my favorite things about Magic is how board changes are often very incremental - especially in the end game.

With Keyforge, I find the number of permanents in play change quite drastically throughout the game, making it swingy and unpredictable. Refilling and dumping your hand regularly is a key game mechanic!

Wooooo! Pulled off a third place finish tonight in #MTG #GRN draft. I was one of three at the table solidly in Dimir, but I think I did all right! Plenty of shenanigans with Passwall Adept [1] and nice combos with House Guildmage [2] and Darkblade Agent [3].

1: https://scryfall.com/card/grn/50/passwall-adept
2: https://scryfall.com/card/grn/177/house-guildmage
3: https://scryfall.com/card/grn/164/darkblade-agent

I'm... not sure how to parse this. 🤔

wait what

Guilds of Ravnica and the Dimir Guild have me thinking about guarded secrets. Note that lands are allowed to be chosen, giving you a way to bluff having something scary under your deathtoucher.

I had played around with the idea of adding conditions to spells that say "if this was cast as a guarded secret", but I settled on the less parasitic "if this was cast from exile". #moxtober

Whale is a creature type, so I had to stretch it a bit to make a mechanic out of it. The first thing that came to mind was "beached whale", so I did a riff on Blue's still of temporary removal. Beached is a characteristic of a card like Monstrous, so it can't be removed like Blue's usual enchantment-based removal.

It'd be quite ridiculous if you could build a blue deck with no Islands, so you need to watch the power level. #moxtober #MTG

I hard a hard time figuring out how to make a "Cruel" mechanic that required playing differently than how most #MTG players play anyway. So I was thinking, maybe Cruelty could be an attribute of permanents where if they can't take it out on the opponent, they take it out on your creatures instead.

The self-exile is mostly a flavor thing where "if you won't let me have my fun, I'm outta here". #Moxtober

Could also have some interesting "when this card is exiled" effects.

Precious is an artifacts-matter payoff designed for sets with lots of trinket artifacts (cheap, nothing on etb, pay and sacrifice for an effect). This rewards you for opening with a cheap trinket and then playing creatures that care, and also makes artifact removal more valuable.

With some clever rulesmithing, you can also make the artifact bestow a drawback to encourage destroying it.

It's a bit obvious, but hey, it's my first try. :P #MTG

Went 6-3 in my first GRN sealed deck on #MTG Arena. Not bad.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1357217#arena

Just think, there are 10 more of these coming in January with RVA. #MTG #MTGGRN

I'm going to stitch em all together and make a desktop wallpaper out of it. :D

Played 4-player brawl today with a loaned deck and won. It was a fun artifact heavy Jhoira deck where I mostly swung Skysovereign[1] equipped with Black Blade Reforged at people[2].

I guess teaming up with people is part of the game, but I just feel like the wins that come from that is hollow and arbitrary. #MTG

1: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=417807
2: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=443099

New ebooks account when? #MTG RT: @itsJulian23@twitter.com

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Magic drama then asked it to write its own. Here is the first page.

https://twitter.com/itsJulian23/status/1031910789702201344

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It feels good to contribute code to the programs you use! This is my PR for Draft Tracking for MTGATracker. #MTG

just reading toots when suddenly:

Anyway, for some GOOD NEWS, look what I found on the #MTG Arena forums! Challenging specific players is on its way... Fediverse league anyone? ^_^

I love draft leagues for the convenience factor, but ending up in two Sandwurm Convergence[1] deadlocks in a row is definitely not an authentic draft experience. #MTG #MTGArena

1: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426885

Recently I was thinking about tabletop RPGs and how they apply to video game UX.

One quality of games that are not particularly fun is how they don't effectively present which information the player needs to care about. Consider how simple talking to an NPC is in a game like Final Fantasy, and compare with Dwarf Fortress.

Just when I thought #NoMansSky couldn't get more colorful.

Wow, my little self-hosted streaming experiment went much better than I expected. No dropped frames, decent audio sync, surprisingly low CPU usage. That peak was just me starting all the daemons.

Back when I used Twitter, this was my notification feed, and the straw that broke the camel's back: