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Strangely for an elfish nation they don't get a recruit-anywhere cavalry mage commander. In fact they are very cap-central in that regard, with no A2 recruit anywhere at all for their big air cap-only mages to boost. No T-strike spam for these guys!

Dominions got a new update with a new nation for the Middle Age... Ys, Morgen Queens. Essentially an Underwater elf nation with Merrow and coastal humans, they get insane Cap-only amphibious sacred cavalry that costs 120 gold and 53 resources each...

If I'm not mistaken, it means Cairo's back room poker champions are world class "Only 2 other people like that exist" poker players who win a game 80% of the time. Unless they are playing against someone with a poker skill in which case the contested roll table comes out and everything be...

Aaaaaand Desura is apparently back again. For how long? Who knows.

I really wish Illwinter would just get their own forums.

So Desura (the site that has been the main forum for Dominions 4 since release) finally gave up the ghost on Friday and went offline. This has been coming for about a year since the company that ran it went bankrupt, but it was still something of a shock. That leaves the Steam forum and dom3mods as ...

I just got the same error when attempting to read a thread in IMHO. Fixed itself when I reloaded the thread though.

Prak wrote:What am I looking at there, AH?

It's the cast of Star Trek DS:9 doing a "friends pose":

And then, a specific issue sparked a firestorm where it looked like some specific writer was sleeping with the subject of his article. people are too stupid to see through really pathetically transparent attempts by the people we are asking to improve, the "journalists" who get paid by co...

I remember a 2nd Edition game I played back in 1995-ish where the GM just asked us to turn up with a character made legally "any book allowed, if it's official it's fine". A friend of mine and I went through the core book, Street Sam Catalog, Shadowtech and I think Cybertechnology and buil...

Not seen this tribute to Robin William posted before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2e_M06YDyY

[Pedantry mode] Isn't the line "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"? [/Pedantry mode]

(Actually that was just an excuse to link to Glorious Dawn, so meh)

Just saw the film. It has convinced me of 3 things: [*] This trilogy could be good. It was obviously made by someone who 'gets' Star Wars. [*] Chewie was always carrying Han. Seriously, he comes across as a real badass in every scene he's in. He even gets the ladies in this film! [*] JJ Abraham has ...

A few random thoughts I had after re-reading the thread: Would Hyper-Perception work if you just combined it to Hyperception? Is that too gimmicky? The Agency and the Registry seem awfully similar. Both are shadowy organisations that work through other people and paper trails and seemingly have no u...

The thing is that this vision of Orcs as the joke cards of bumbling buffoons who were useful if and only if their destructive hijinks fit tangentially into your master plan was a bad vision. It was grossly unpopular, and eventually WotC just stopped making these things altogether. There was a big O...

A red & blue spell is not "a red spell" but it is partly red, therefore Hydroblast & Pyroblast can target it whilst the Elemental blasts can't. This is totally wrong. -Username17 Derp. So it is. I was mixing up the fact that Hydro and Pyro can target any permanent and only check t...

Re: Illusions of Grandeur. There was some sort of combo deck for a while based on the (post-Ice Age) spell Donate, where you cast Illusions of Grandeur then gave it to your opponent to let them deal with it. I don't recall all the details, but I think it saw some tournament success? You could say t...

Even with the newold cards, I think they just sort of underlined how badly Ice Age, Alliances, and other older expansion sets are underpowered compared to the newer ones. I don't think that's entirely accurate. I think power level was more variable in older sets, with some absolute junk next to stu...

Time Spiral was a real love-it-or-hate-it block. The tournament players and old timers loved it and got all the jokes, but to newer players it was just overcomplicated and confusing. It reintroduced a load of old keywords assuming players had already played with them and understood how they worked. ...

The entire culture of the Western world, the freedom of speech, tolerance for others is, being kind, and loving peace is developed from Christianity. And, you can point at the mistakes that Christianity has made and try to tell me I am wrong that way, but the crusades, and the inquisition were mist...

More terrifying than these? http://i.tcgplayer.com/47550.jpg https://www.abugames.com/images/products/zendikarfoil/BalothWoodcrasher.jpg http://www.abugames.com/images/products/magic2012m12foil/GraveTitan.jpg There have been some scary 6-mana creatures printed over the years, what do you think makes...

Also, when you limit commander tax and tack out the tuck effect you are buffing generals that already dominate the meta. The tuck rule for removed fairly recently and all it ended up doing was make Maelstrom Wanderer and Naraset even more degenerate then they already are. It used to be that you act...

Also, Rob not to knock you down or anything but the only thing similar with your rules and mine is that the lifetotals are lower. Otherwise your ruleset does nothing I want done. Really? Maybe I misunderstood. Nerfing tutors is a direct hit to the power of combo and control decks, as these are the ...

I think it's kind of futile to try to make multi-player free-for-all Magic be about anything other than combos. The whole point of the "one of each card" limit is to prevent players from being able to assemble combos with any kind of reliability or speed. EDH is supposed to be naturally r...

The idea is that if your giant monster gets countered you still get something, the original Eldrazi Titans all had a "when cast" trigger. It all makes perfect sense if you have working knowledge of Magic's "language". No. Shut up. There are two spells. One of them says: When you...