Time is a flat circle

Puka Nacua looks like he might be the real deal. Getting peppered with targets and performing real well as a possession receiver. It’ll be interesting to see what happens once Kupp comes back, but I doubt he fades away entirely.

No, no, he has a point. It’s Patrick’s fault Toney couldn’t catch Covid 19 at an anti-vax convention the way he was playing last night. 🙄

You know this is a crazy take, right? Mahomes won MVP last year with essentially the same quality of offense. Of course they’d struggle a bit with his #1 playmaker on offense sidelined.

This is a “regress all Mahomes TDs to the mean” level hater comment. What’s more likely, Mahomes is average at best and has been propped up by playmakers on offense (including last year without Tyreek), or Mahomes is great and has seriously subpar talent to work with on offense?

Hang on, is this Kadarius Toney making this post? Shit, now it makes sense.

“Mom, can we have Hydroid Krasis?”

“No, we have Hydroid Krasis at home”

I realize food tokens can have more use than just life, but needing to pay more to gain life and attack to draw doesn’t compare well to Krasis despite the +2/+2 to make up for it.

We’re not there just yet, but Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books will be blending magic and tech as they go on. He keeps promising to deliver FTL travel using the magic systems he’s embedded in his worlds.

Without getting spoilery, the Cosmere is a shared universe for the majority of his book series and novellas. Each series deals with a magic system that was “splintered” in a way from a main source of divine power. While each series or novel is pretty well self contained, they more you read the more you notice overlaps between the series; it’s possible for powerful and talented beings to travel between worlds in the Cosmere without going through space.

Each of his main series has tech developments and time jumps built in where we see tech developing more and more. In one series, he has three or four eras planned, with the first and second eras already published. The first era is your typical dark fantasy setting, and by the time of the second era “magi-tech” (or “fabrial” tech might be a better in universe term) has developed to be about old west levels. The next era is supposed to be at a 1980s tech level, and I think the last era will be future tech.

There have also been indicators that beings that are aware of more than one planet in the Cosmere being concerned about tech level and the rate of technological progress occuring in a given world. There might be a conflict brewing in which a magi-technological arms race matters, so each series is getting a healthy injection of tech development.

All that is to say, don’t pick up a book set in the Cosmere today and expect robots and spaceships. But the current work is all clearly laying the foundations for such. Might take a few more years to really get there, but Brandon is nothing if not a prolific author.

Well, thinking about this more, there’s a slim chance it could combo kill. You’d need two things. First, Vorinclex, Monsteous Raider in play. Second, a repeatable source of paying life. Something like an expensive enchantment with “pay X life: surveil 1”. It’s be a three card combo, but you could drop Ashiok, exile your library until you have mana value in exile equal to or greater than your opponents library size, then ult, mill them out, and they die on draw step.

That said, that’s a lot to ask for. And it’s pretty unlikely we’d get an abusable life paying outlet. You could also do it with some sort of “pay any amount of life” but that’s even more unlikely in standard.

I think you’re right. 5 mana draw a card or 5 mana make, at best, 2 2/2s isn’t ideal. Interesting with phyrexian mana but how often will you be able to play this and another spell in the same turn.

If there is support in set for paying life as a cost, maybe this sees play? But it’d be a lot for the meta to allow a slow PW in a suicide black style deck that also wins by milling.

The Tenni-bator. A guy would approach the tennis courts from the woods in a trench coat and beat his meat to tennis practice. Male or female, if I remember correctly. When they’d try to catch him, he’d disappear into the woods. I don’t think he was ever caught.

As a Toney owner in dynasty, this is the least surprising headline I’ve ever seen. Gotta hope he gets healthy a bit, keeps up some camp hype, and I can ship off his fragile and talented boay to another team.

It’s good early or late. Dropping a bunch of these is fine to fill a board, but dropping 1 and then replicating your next drop a ton also seems pretty sweet.

She’s not here to give social media pointers. Get that through your thick skull.

Good ole Breezewood, PA. It’s impossible to recognize this mess of a stretch of road / drive through truck stop

Yeah, what would we ever do without today’s billionaires? I can’t imagine a world without guys like Elon Musk spending their endless money on controlling narratives on social media instead of contributing a much larger share to social programs and infrastructure. He’s always finding ways to innovatively call people pedos, and without that, we’d be much worse off as a society.

This is the right tip. If you can’t dry brine with salt overnight, then salt right before you hit heat.

That being said, give me a 24 dry brine plus reverse sear any day.