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Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

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Vintage & EDH | Winter/Christmas Alters | Decision Science | Cat Lord | He/Him

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Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

I just sent out my latest personalized deck (Myrkul, Lord of Bones) for a patron and I had a ton of fun with it. It's my most detailed primer yet! The opportunities and levers that Myrkul offers are deep and fascinating.

HMU if you want a bespoke deck, built to your specifications!

Myrkul, Lord of Bones
{4}{W}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — God

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Myrkul has indestructible.

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that’s a copy of that card, except it’s an enchantment and loses all other card types.

7/5
Illustrated by Isis

Source: https://scryfall.com/card/clb/544/myrkul-lord-of-bones

November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Google Analytics graph depicting the sudden rise in the search term "Did Joe Biden drop out" that occurred right before election day, 2024.

November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Yes, I did watch all 35 Simpsons Treehouse of Horror again this year.

Yes, I did rate each segment on a scale from 1-10.

Yes, I do have a histogram of those ratings.

Graph showing distribution of segment ratings (1-10) for 108 Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segments, ranging from 1990 through 2024. There are three "extra" ratings because I scored the bumper or intro segments, in a few cases where I was inspired to.

November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

How can we stand against this change when it produces this kind of joy?!

Rachel and Josh discuss the possibility of Dovescape being legal in mono blue. Rachel's eyes alight, her jazz hands on display.

November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Today's Halloween themed Dominion setup:

Dominion Halloween themed setup:
- Black Cat 🐈‍⬛
- Chapel 💒
- Snowy Village ❄️🌇
- Hermit 😊
- Treasure Map 🏴‍☠️
- Town 🌇
- Witch🧙
- Festival 🎑
- Sack of Loot 💰

November 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Playing BL4...

Padme: what do you call someone who plays your game to find bugs so you can fix them?
Other Devs (Obi wan): play testers
Gearbox (Anakin): customers

October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

I made this as soon as the set was previewed:

Massacre Girl, squatting amongst three or more human corpses; blood-soaked blade in hand: "OK, here's what I think happened..."

October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Just caught a glimpse of a beautiful pine grosbeak for the first time!

Photo of a grey, female pine grosbeak on a Birch tree branch, in Fairbanks Alaska.

The pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) is a large member of the true finch family, Fringillidae. It is the only species in the genus Pinicola. It is found in coniferous woods across Alaska, the western mountains of the United States, Canada, and in subarctic Fennoscandia and across the Palearctic to Siberia. The species is a frugivore, especially in winter, favoring small fruits, such as rowans (mountain-ashes in the New World). With fruit-crop abundance varying from year to year, pine grosbeak is one of many subarctic-resident bird species that exhibit irruptive behavior. In irruption years, individuals can move long distances in search of suitable food supplies, bringing them farther south and/or downslope than is typical of years with large fruit crops.

October 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

This year's Halloween tree:

Black tree with black ornaments and purple and orange lights.

October 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Similarly: "whenever a creature you control..."

But I don't think any of these are fully generic, in the way you posed your question.

scryfall.com/search?q=is%...

October 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

You could look for "whenever you..." commanders and eliminate the common themes you're not after. Here is an example search, which starts to get you into more obscure effects.

scryfall.com/search?q=is%...

October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

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October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

@mtgnerdgirl.bsky.social @veggiewagon.bsky.social Relevant to your latest podcast, I have this token, which I give out to opponents:

A faux name tag sticker that reads "Hello, my name is... I rolled a die to determine whom to attack; therefore, Kevin is going to Target me."

October 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

My LGS now has the distinction of being the northernmost WPN premium store 😊

We have the distinct pleasure to be the furthest north WPN Premium store in the world!

To our amazing community,

We are overwhelmed with gratitude as we celebrate reaching WPN Premium designation.

When we started on this journey, we knew it would take a great deal of effort, but we could never have imagined the continual support you have given us.
Everyone of you has played a crucial role in getting us here. Your passion for gaming has been our driving force. We hope you feel immense pride in what we have accomplished together.

Thank you for being part of our success. We can't wait to see what the future holds.

Continue to Champion Your Own Adventure and we'll see you here at Fantastic Realmz!

P.S. Celebration this Saturday evening at 7:00 PM

Magic: The Gathering
Dungeons & Dragons

October 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

I believe this is the case across nearly all professions: the AI is very good at one vertical slice and lousy at horizontal integration of skills that make up each role/profession.

Three things explain this. First, while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions. Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data, and models often don’t work as well outside of their test conditions. Second, attempts to give models more tasks have run into legal hurdles: regulators and medical insurers so far are reluctant to approve or cover fully autonomous radiology models. Third, even when they do diagnose accurately, models replace only a small share of a radiologist’s job. Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians.

October 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

It's nice here.

Photo of a dirt road surrounded by woods, leaves beginning to change from green to yellow.

September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

@wachelreeks.com I'm fairly bummed you didn't come with fan favorite Gustha's Scepter when discussing hiding cards for Doc Oc! 😉

Gustha's Scepter
{0}
Artifact

{T}: Exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.

{T}: Return a card you own exiled with this artifact to your hand.

When you lose control of this artifact, put all cards exiled with this artifact into their owner’s graveyard.

September 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

Why would these cards not meet the criteria described here?

MDFC ✔️
Other face is a permanent ✔️

September 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Kevin Noël Cron

@kevincron.bsky.social

This is a major increase in utility for these MDFC lands that are popular in Commander. Now they function more like Rooms, where you can play them down early and cash in their more expensive abilities later (albeit, at the cost of a land).

As if I needed more reasons!

scryfall.com/search?q=is%...