I bluff Mana Drain and Counterspell just by leaving up 2 blue mana far more often than I should ever get away with.
I can't prove it but part of me suspects that MaRo, or someone acting at his direction, sent that question in. It reads like a strawman or parody of how he thinks people who dislike nu-magic talk and lets him check a bunch of virtue signaling boxes to boot.
They work in a mega-millions company and this coming set is about to be a massive dud.
No stalker child, you should be looking forward to the Hacksaw and Chestbind Clique retcons.
I'm at FNM, employee A is in the tourney and has one of his sideboard cards replaced with Tree Monkey (not legal during that format) as a joke by employee B. Employee A notices between rounds that he has an illegal sideboard and loses his shit. I start paying attention from a few tables away, dude stands up red-faced and throws his fucking deck and sideboard across the room yelling "GOD DAMN TREE MONKEY" and drives off.
Yargle.
He lives in Seattle and used to work in Hollywood. He's always been a true believer.
Oh no, Lorwyn will be trash just like Aetherdrift.
That's legitimately horrific, I know why the game attracts such autists but I've never had an encounter like this, worst thing that's happened to me was some 40yo retard playing slivers on a slow hand and not "popping off" debating with me that had 21 commander damage on him that no, in fact, it was only 19 or 20 and he wasn't dead yet, I legitimately had to go at that point since that was my last game but he kept being like "no... stay one more turn... I'll show you... please... let me just hit you once... with my 40/40 trample haste flying etc etc... please just one more turn" and I thought THAT was deranged.
Why would it not be?
This is why I'm actually surprised it's as bad as it seems. As bad as Murders and Thunder were I still remember people being hyped for it and hearing talk about strong cards as well as people doing prereleases. This time around it's crickets.
They're talking more about Hashaton the latest discard commander that somebody forgot to add 'exile the creature' to, but honestly the only thing that's from Aetherdrift that's being talked about is the Eternal Might precon. Now there's some Commanders if you care about it that'll hold up their own, Azorius Artifacts is fucking busted in Limited, and there's some cards that'll be upgrades. But hype for Aetherdrift is few in far between. Has anybody got a piss border card yet, and are they ugly as sin in real life?
I went to check Reddit to see what was happening, everyone is talking about MaRo and Lorwyn. I was recommended a new Reddit page for FreeMTG or something where people are sick of globo-homo Magic, and several of the posts are liberal/leftists bitching about getting banned from the main Reddit Magic forum for saying very mild things like that they support troons but don't want to constantly be political at the game table.
