This deck looks awesome but I wouldn’t spend the wild cards to build it.

Jeskai Magma Opus is very powerful.

Yeah it’s arguable that Steam is a monopoly but somehow billion dollar publishers can’t create a store to sell their own products without fucking it up with annoying bullshit. Pay the 30% to protect you from yourselves.

Google has been kicking the can on ending third party cookie support for years. Chrome has such a large market share that whatever they decide to do has a huge impact on the ability to monetize content with ads.

There’s no clear direct replacement for identifying users for ad targeting outside of 3pty cookies. Lots of competing ‘privacy preserving frameworks’ but they all need buy in from many players at scale to be effective.

This deck looks sweet. Balanced by getting to 8 mana as the win condition, but a lot of options and removal along the way.

Power level of this set looks off the charts. If we get better duals in this standard cycle it will dominate like OG Eldraine cards.

Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.

This tracks. Signal claims to have your phone number and logs on the last time that number accessed the service.

They could not generate new access codes via Twilio when certain patterns are detected and still be within that known data.

Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_Technology_Park

Went down the hole, part of it soon to become a Microsoft data center. Makes sense when you have access to a shit ton of fresh water.

I would be curious to poll the Seattle WTO protesters and see how they voted in the last election.

I recently moved to the Midwest from the West Coast and understand how Globalist policy kinda sucks for a lot of people out here.

With how much creature removal there is standard I was surprised to see Sheltered by Ghosts perform well but it is a strong aura.

We’re effectively sold out of LOTR product so time to ban the Ring!

First 48 is about finding a victim alive. Murderers are commonly identified and caught outside that window.

Back in 2014 RIF was $2 one time purchase for a completely ad free experience. I knew that couldn’t last forever, but I enjoyed the 9 years I did have.

So it seems clear that WOTC is spending less than 1M on art per set. That is less than I expected.

If you didn’t know what magic was that first match would be so confusing.

I didn’t realize how many cards had suspend. It’s just all the ones that can cheated in for zero mana that grab all the attention.

I love this series. Maro gives a genuine review and you generally see all different lessons learned year to year.

My favorite set of the year was definitely Ixalan

I went from an 07 Escape to a 2023 RAV4. The thing just won’t shut the fuck up. Mike any kinda of parking the detection beeps. Console software is annoying.

Miss my relatively dumb car.

If they are trying to monetize popular NSFW subs they cannot monetize with ads, a paywall would probably just kill the engagement.

If they are trying to compete with OnlyFans and rev share with the sub creator I could maybe see that working.

100% that’s a great one to pull off