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Bisquey Rizzness

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been loving my new Zodiark deck, keep those board states in check make sure I've got the biggest boy around

MTGxFinal Fantasy card
Zodiark, Umbral God
BBBBB
Legendary Creature - God
Indestructible

When Zodiark enters, each player sacrifices half the non-God creatures they control of their choice, rounded down.

Whenever a player sacrifices another creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Zodiark.
5/5

November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Bisquey Rizzness

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dang these surveys have a shorter availability window than a secret lair!

screenshot saying "Survey already closed" which shows when you try to fill out the WotC SpidermanXMTG survey they posted one hour ago.

October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Bisquey Rizzness

@justmicah.bsky.social

It's this one

Burnished Hart magic the gathering card with flavor text:
Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

October 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM

Bisquey Rizzness

@justmicah.bsky.social

sleeving up this beautiful lad

August 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM

Bisquey Rizzness

@justmicah.bsky.social

I ain't your bud, Romina

August 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM

Bisquey Rizzness

@justmicah.bsky.social

I get texts from republicans and democrats

CONFIRMATION: $5k Dividend Check for Daniel

Would you claim this offer from Trump?

Need your response NOW: [red26 link]

Daniel – I’m Ambassador Bridget Brink.

🔵For 3 years, I served in wartime Ukraine. I saw Vladimir Putin’s war crimes up close: missiles hitting playgrounds, children abducted, entire cities destroyed. But we fought back. Because defending democracy matters – abroad and here at home.

🔵Now I’m running for Congress. Because the same forces undermining freedom overseas are showing up in Washington: billionaires slashing services, extremists raising costs, politicians stripping away rights.

🔵I spent nearly 30 years in the Foreign Service under 5 presidents, tackling hard problems and standing up to the powerful. Now I’m taking that fight home – to stand with working families in Michigan.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗜’𝗺 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀.

Will you chip in to help us reach our end-of-month fundraising goal?

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Thanks for standing with me.
–Bridget

August 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM

Bisquey Rizzness

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MaRo is getting dragged for saying this but he's completely correct. I am less overwhelmed by Magic than ever because I know I can skip any set that doesnt make me clap like a seal and I am having more fun playing Magic discovering new cards every game.

A Mark Rosewater Tumblr post from https://www.tumblr.com/markrosewater/791980596663599104/mark-i-would-like-to-voice-a-grievance-i-and

"You're right. Pointing out that we've gone down in sets is missing the larger issue, so let me dive into that. I think R&D, over the last decade, has significantly shifted in how it thinks about the players' interaction with the game. Magic, by its very definition, is a game "bigger than the box". The game has over 30,000+ cards. No one person can possibly absorb it all.
For many years, our solution was to carve out a lot of sub-groupings. Here's a way to play Magic with a much smaller card pool. This way you can just focus on those cards, and that will be something you can wrap your mind around.

Then came Commander, which seemed to completely fly in the face of this whole philosophy.
The format basically gives the players access to every card (okay, almost). This means you are exposed to all the cards, all the mechanics, all the sets, all the things we've done over the years. It's the exact opposite of limiting access.
And Commander took on a level of popularity we'd never seen before. What if the correct way to handle the immensity of the information wasn't to chop it down to bite-size? What if we just embraced the complexity? Let the players have access to it all (or at least, a lot of it) and let them sort through it in whatever way works best for them.

In other words, we stopped prioritizing the mind set of players being able to absorb it all.
Interestingly, it kind of ties into Richard Garfield's original vision of Magic. He purposefully didn't want players to know everything. In the early days, Wizards didn't provide a list of the cards. The idea was you would learn about them as you played.
The Internet then came along and made it impossible to hide information. But now, thirty plus years in, the sheer scope of the information has actually allowed us to do the thing that Richard originally wanted. You can't learn it all.

Embracing this philosophy has affected many things. It changed how we built Commander decks.
It allowed us to raise the complexity level of sets (although we still have limits). It let us make cameo cards, to bring back popular old mechanics in smaller doses. It let us increase the size of Standard both in time and number of sets.
The challenge is there are players who are accustomed to the old ways, who are used to being able to grok everything at once, and this new system does not make that easy. In fact, it's near impossible. I get that this change over is a bit disorienting, but we believe once people get used to the new status quo, to the idea that no one person is supposed to absorb everything, that it will lead to a richer, more enjoyable means of interacting with the game."

August 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Bisquey Rizzness

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Found these gorgeous hardcovers at Commonwealth Books in Boston, great little store loaded with gems.

The Complete Short Stories of J G Ballard
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel R Delany

August 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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@justmicah.bsky.social

Fans of Tchaikovsky will recognize familiar themes in Shroud executed with more focus and biting inciciveness than his other works I've read. The hostile ecology and truly alien biology is awesome, mindbending, but also serves to critique the human corporate structure like the sci fi masters of old.