Barry Peddycord III @ishara@social.isharacomix.org

Something that really bothers me about Magic is how so many of its cards are effectively disposable commodities after a game of limited. Many of the cards opened in a draft will never see play, whether competitive or at the kitchen table.

Since #keyforge decks are complete units, I feel like more cards will be used in actual games, and even when the players move on, they make more meaningful donations to new players than boxes of draft chaff.

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I'm not sure how strict your "no data storage" requirement is, but Darius Kazemi write an RSS-to-activitypub thing that I like a lot. You could just statically update the blog and feed document, and then it would create the actor and everything else so people can follow it.

https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub

@Tuxhedoh Oh no! At least selling out bodes well for the health of the game at your LGS.

I'm near three LGSes: one sold out, one didn't get their product in time, but the one i went to was under-attended so my wife and I managed to get a deck each.

Better luck at the launch event!

The analogous concept would be something like a floating prefix, I suppose. And then for your static services, pick a static IP in your prefix. If the provider is doing things right, they should have full control over which client is getting which /64, and you should be able to specify that in your dashboard.

Too bad no one does that yet. I guess my project will be one of the first to do it right, lol.

Apparently "floating IPv6" is not a thing, at least not in Openstack.

It's kind of a shame, since the coolest feature of disposable VMs is that you should be able to transfer workload without having to update the DNS whenever you do it. 🤔

I hope I'm reading this wrong, because apparently Digital Ocean issues droplets /124 subnets for IPv6, and they need to be statically assigned in order to use them.

What is it with VPS providers and their aversion to letting SLAAC do its thing?

I wonder when we'll get the Tumblr Dashboard experience powered by ActivityPub? :D

Something that Magic does *very* well is that the design space gets divvied up set-by-set. In Zebras of Zendikar, White Blue might be built around mill but in Ducks of Dominaria it's a tribal Mallards Matter theme. Each set is also very stingy with how many new keywords or mechanics get added to the game.

I think that Magic's greatest asset is its design team's commitment to discipline, but there's a whole other thread that I can go into there regarding who can afford that commitment.

#keyforge take number three:

Something that bothers me about most upstart TCGs is how quickly they partition their design space. "Here are our four factions." It seems like a superficial copying of Magic without understanding the nuance of the color pie.

I love the fact that there are seven houses and each deck features three of them. The houses are all tightly designed in terms of what they do, making room for new houses in the future with completely different playstyles and flavor.

I had a dream that I skipped draft at my game store in order to be a passenger in a really sketchy ride where we did extreme air stunts in a passenger plane.

Everyone was like "draft starts in 15 minutes" and I'm just "this is more important."

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Oh wow I've been on my #singleuserinstance for nearly a year now! Happy #fediversary, and here's to another one with @mastohost

My second #keyforge take:

Another of my favorite feelings in Magic is when you deal with a threat and then stabilize in your board position. It's something very common in midrangey draft and sealed games - especially when you're in green!

In this game, you don't really stabilize. It seems like you either disrupt your opponent's combo, steal/capture amber to prevent a key happening next turn, or pull off some degenerate combo of your own! Again: it's a very swingy game.

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!

@matt I usually try to troll google by picking incorrect pictures, but they've started getting wise and it's working less and less. D:

I've been really interested in Fantasy Flight for coming up with alternatives to the predatory TCG system created by Magic boosters.

The "Living Card Game" system was pretty cool for people who like deckbuilding since there were no rarity constraints or singles markets to chase after. But as someone who likes the unpredictability of draft and sealed, these "Unique Decks" offer the adaptive challenges of random card sets with the ease of play of playing with preconstructed decks.

So in completely unrelated news I recently heard about a game coming out this month from Fantasy Flight called "Keyforge".

The gimmick is that unlike TCGs, each keyforge deck is randomly generated and sold as a unit that can not be modified or stripped for parts.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/keyforge/