wickeddarkman

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There has been super collector reprints before.
It's some years ago, but the price of those reprints exploded because of the art AND layout of those, so alfred may very well be right.

Take a look at wooded Foothills, there are 5 variants and the mythic reprint is most expensive.

I'm close to having completed my scapeshift mana.
It's titled "a war between two cores"

Some alternatives to wrath of god are [[Scourglass]] and [[all is dust]]
Both are more mana hefty, but would be good with the myr that makes white mana.

That could replace tempered steel.

Heh, after I mentioned the "Nigerian prince" scam the commercial algorithm have decided that I should be showed a commercial on how to send money to Nigeria :) I had quite a laugh about that :)

Great :)
Now I'd like the deck if I hadn't already done it.
Upvoting your comments instead :)

I get that at least some of the structures can be usefull in the hands of well meaning enlightened people.
The problem is that the world is filled with a majority of stupid selfish people.

A clever scientist may be able to create a brilliant structure, but for others to imitate and spread that structure it takes a lot of equally clever AND good people to adopt it.

The scenario that usually follows is that someone less smart understands parts of the structure and selfishly alters it to fit their needs.

So one brilliant structure becomes diluted and altered all the way down through a layer of humans, and suddenly we got thousands of mutated variants of structures competing in a darwinistic way. The easiest exploitable and easiest performance versions of the structures will win out, and the brilliant worldhealing structure is soon forgotten by the masses while the originator mourns the loss of such a Brilliant idea.

The us, army has actually field tested "downloading memories" with success.
Test persons have been been learning how to shoot carrying a chip in their head, and after an extensive course at the shooting fields. The chip was then given to test subjects who had never been at a shooting field. Compared with a test group they proceeded to start shooting with positive "improvement"
We haven't got anything near total recall, but I want you to know it's already being field tested, and they have probably moved a lot further since I learned that it was out there.

A technology that I place more hope in, is the "rationality field" which increases your rationality. It's also been talk about as a faith dampener, and the applications against terrorism is pretty clear :)

But all scientific gear can be turned against us by anyone selfish enough.

All mental structures can be distorted and take on their own life, and suddenly we become ruled by some mutated ism or politic that was well meaning to begin with, but there were noone to stop it from turning bad, because all the way down it seemed like such a nice thought.

When I get into a discussion with someone religious they often have something on the government, so I usually ask if they believe in the phrase:
"Power corrupts, ultimate power corrupts ultimately"
And they pretty much always agree that it's a solid truth.

Then I point out that god is ultimately powerfull, and they will blink as the realisation sinks in.
Then they often separates god from corruption, "god is never corrupt" but pressing down on the phrase of ultimate power I change their view about the line, altering the narrative.

I then usually follow up by telling them that the phrase exists because corrupt people are attracted towards power, and it is usually them that makes it seem like power corrupts, but usually they were corrupted to start with and once in a position of power they showed their true self.

Now the people I often tell this accepts this new truth, but what happens to the knowledge and insight I've given away trying to make the world a better place ?

Since it hasn't caught on I'm assuming that most people aren't bright enough to say "wow, if only everyone knew that" I also assume that a bunch of them thinks "wow, what a gullible idiot, I can't believe he's trying to teach this to everyone. Now that I know it, maybe I can find a way to exploit it"

Here's a class experiment for you:
Tell the students that a big albino rat has been spotted on the school ground.
Anyone who can give out any information on where it's been seen lately will be helping in locating its nest and will be given a reward.

It's up to you what kind of reward it is, but it should be proportional to the number of sightings any individual can give you. Maybe a piece of candy for each sighting.

Make notes on who reports, and where they saw the rat.

Let the experiment run for a while, with the reward visually given each time.

You will suddenly see an increase in reports on the rat, and you will know the name of every student who is willing to lie to you.

Continue this long enough and I'm pretty sure you will start to see other humans as a lot more selfish than you think of them now.

I've been running small tests like these all my life because I'm an asperger and is insatiable curious about other people.

My own estimate is that about 1% of your students will not spot the albino rat.
10% if they like you.

The absolute border for tempered steel (or wrath of god) is 12 white sources of mana.
So 12 plains and 4 urzas tower is also a thing.

Having more urza lands could allow you to explore the concept of darksteel creatures to the max.
I've always loved darksteel gargoyle which I played with jokulhaups and jokulhaups uncounterable cousin.
The gargoyle will help you if the opponent has kept a big creature in hand, waiting for you to cast it after you've swept the board.

Doomscar might also be an idea.

There is also a myr that creates white mana, which could also allow you to play with more tron.

10 plains, and 4 of each tron is probably a better solution.
Most tron decks use 4 of each and adds cards to search for individual tron lands.

Ghirapur orrery has to go.
It is a combo piece designed to support the player who can play out their hand the fastest.
If your opponent plays a deck with stuff only costing up to three mana, they will quickly start drawing long before you have gotten around playing your whole hand.

Put it in the sideboard, then go through the deck and think about what other cards might behave as two-edged swords. Put them in the sideboard as well, and then I'll tell you what I would put aside.

Precisely.
Relic of progenitus can be used to exile some things before you reshuffle so you regain oriss at a faster and faster rate.

I've more or less adopted the "suffer to grow" mentality these days. I used to be more zen.
Once you accept that life is all about these mental structures, you can start to use them as if they were dresses, so I'm much more hardened than I used to be.

I think the reason why people feels more like automaton to you these days are probably because you've lived long enough that you've sort of heard all the narratives already, and can chain them into categories. That sort of allows you to see "through" the framework.

They on the other hand have had less time with these structures, so they are sort of testing them out to see if they can win something by adapting those ideas and opinions.

That's why I view almost all concepts as mental prisons build by others.

We've been at it for so long that the layers of all these constructs are burying us.

I sort of realized how it all worked when I was thinking very hard upon how dominance and submission were tied together, it's the story of sadomasochism being woven into our worldviews. A tale about how some are meant to lead, and others to follow. Some have great endurance, while others have the willingness to bring pain.
Once you start to look closer at all the connections, pleasure and pain, snuffporn, jackass, love and the storfull relationships, it is basically all stories spun around the same theme. "No pain, no gain" "if it doesn't hurt, how do you know you are alive" "without evil there can be no good" all of that is a gigantic web of small stories with a similar framework. "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again" "winning is not as important as participating" "you must break them down to build them up"

From there the whole human race became a prisoner in my mind. All through our lives we are told stories, and our identity is more or less based on what act we think we've been cast in. I had quite the depression from starting to see the world like this.

The funny thing is that sociopaths are sort of a rescuing rope in all of this.
They are known to be without morals, and usually doesn't cast themselves in any of all the available roles.
It's possible to live a life outside of this framework, but you quickly discover that there is a large number of humans who reinforce the mental webs, because they themselves have realised the power of telling a story to manipulate others. It's probably why the :Nigerian prince scam" is still in use.

And the hitler meme!
I'm not sure if outlining the rules counts as an auto loss :)

I just hope I haven't broken your reality...

By the way, if you search for the decktag: wdm 2018
And click on the deck titled "deckbuilding and storytelling" you might be able to see how my worldview can be applied to magic as a game. Maybe you can teach the class how we all superimpose a common narrative on the formats we play.
This is probably also why so many people try out several formats or even create their own.

What classes do you teach ?

Incredible life story :)
Mine's been the exact opposite.
I started out a happy and sharing person which meant that at a late age I have nothing, is being screwed by thieves hustlers and social welfare (and practically every women friendzoned because I was so supportive)

I'm scrambling not to lose my economy again, has a truly strange paranoid life to avoid being hustled anymore, and the police won't help me against someone with keys to my apartment because "there's no sign of a break in"

The mental trap of "you are monologuing" is a pretty modern invention. A book is a monologue, a speaker usually monologues, but people in general don't monologue in my oppinion, but anyone wanting to "win" an argument can accuse the other of monologuing.

There is a truly wast number of conversational weaponry, and most of it is based on telling an old story creating a narrative where people will easily drop into roles.

Take for example "the hitler meme"
According to the internet the first person to mention hitler or holocaust in a conversation usually loses their argument.
We got thousands of that kind of micro-rules.

No problem :)
And welcome back.
The place has improved during the corona, lots of interesting people and a lot of formats.
Take a look around.
You might recognize some of the oldies.

I'll take a detailed look at it in a few days.
Do you want it to be a 100 card deck, or can it be narrowed down to 60 ?

Condolences...

I'm aspergers syndrome so I'm very straightforward, which may be seen as rude, but isn't intended that way.

Consider your overall aim with the deck.
Do you want to keep it as close to this list as possible ?
Is the goal to build it physically or just virtually ?
How symbolic do you want it to be ? (Like I see jungle shrine in the build, which might be a bad coincidence, but could also be very symbolic gesture, so do you want symbolism?)

You've resurfaced after 10 years, so your loss must be recent :(

As long as you teach both sides of the coin, lessons will be learned :)

I am of the oppinion that humans are extremely good at creating mental structures.
We give these structures many names (laws, ethics, morals, rules, philosophies, isms and so on)
An extreme majority of these structures are in fact mental prisons designed by others to enslave everyone else.

The six words that you choose to state that we need, are great examples of this, because exactly why do we need them ? Why not status, fashion and religion or just "rules" these three also makes humanity "great".

I mean, as a teacher you've probably been taught exactly what concepts that young minds need.
Let's take positive thinking (also a mental prison, although one I like because science says it's good for our mental health) surely you've been taught that not teaching them positive thinking, their lives will quickly fall appart ?
But do you ever question what you are being taught to teach ?

Teaching pupils a darker view on society will get you fired very fast, so hands down, are you sure you are not imprisoned too by established mental slavery ?

I know it may sound paranoid, but I'm pretty versed in this topic and truly believe humanity is undermining itself because an exclusive elite often uses all the mental trickery to enslave us.

This is the basis of all human evil, all suffering arises from rules imposed on us all.

Sure we are taught that a world without morals will be a living hell, but exactly how did we get the scientific proofs that that would truly be the state of things. Think about nature, animals are supposed to be without morals, but somehow it keeps on forming symbiosis between species.

I can see great potential in the soft combo with
Orissa, samite guardian
Heartwarming redemption

If you can both assemble a draw engine and a way to shuffle oriss back into the deck, then you might have a permanent lock.

I have an RW prison deck that could perform that.
Search for the decktag: Wdm prison

Red does have a variety of cards that could speed you towards drawing more oriss, and with a reshuffler similar to emrakul and relic of progenitus you can set the deck up for the lock.

I'm gonna add his combo to my own collection.