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Penny Arcade - Comic - Magicians, Part One
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Magicians, Part One
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Also I want to know the kid's deck.
by which I mean buying all the priciest cards in the format and also cutting Gabe's allowance so he can only afford commons
Honestly if you've watched Mike play games he's not exactly a prime example of understanding lots of mechanics so I'm not surprised his son would be whooping on him in MTG.
I'm not understanding the mechanics of this sentence.
(I say this not to be harsh, as often my edits and re-edits mid-posting wind up splicing things together in incoherent ways.)
I was saying that Mike is bad at mechanics in games of all sorts. Just sorta who he is. So the idea that his son would be beating him in a mechanic heavy game like MTG is really surprising and may speak less to his son having a great deck/doing well and more him(Mike) being not super great.
From context, I would guess that the first "example" should be "exactly".
and the tl;dr version is "well, Mike's crap at complicated games, so of course he's losing (to his son) at this one".
"Sir we've received reports of over fifteen instances of Lantern Control in the past week alone."
Ah hah! I kept reading over it but I couldn't figure out where I went wrong because my brain new what I was trying to say so I kept reading it correctly.
Thanks!
I have been awakened.
Dominaria seems pretty kickass so its a good time!
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"It's worse than we feared... Baral Brawl."
Didnt Gabe call Child Services once because a neighbors kid had some minor flaw in his Star Wars trivia knowledge?
I'm not a parent myself, is there some study that shows that holding back with your kids is bad for their development, or is Tycho just a monster who gives no quarter to children?
One of the agents just throws up.
He's just saying he's not into that style of letting kids win things and pretending they did it all themselves is all.
Gabe's plan for Gabe was also fairly cruel. Apparently he planned to let Gabe win for a while, to build confidence in himself, only for Gabe to then build a deck to crush him, Gabe's false confidence making the defeat even more crushing.
2015 isn't all that long ago.
I remember being really into magic in 1995.
I got out of it back around Mirrodin-ish, and in the intervening years had given my brother my card collection as birthday/christmas gifts. Then I get back into it with Ixalan when I buy him some boosters for a gift and get a couple for myself and see the set was all about the tribal mechanics. I go to my LGS and get stomped in modern a bit. Then I get into commander and whoops now I have five decks and have spent as much as $80 on a single piece of cardboard (that I proxy into all five of the decks, but still) and am now obsessed with the game again.
2015 was merely the most recent time I've gotten into Magic. I played in 1995 too. I had an original set of cards. Foolishly gave them away to a friend in elementary school. I'm sure those cards would have been worth some money now.