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I often wonder what makes the better person. If you're creative on either end of the encounter maybe that is the true better person?

So, I took the time awhile back to make a little parody for flamers who add me. Looked up the lyrics for "Single Ladies" and made a parody off of it with roughly 95% original lyrics (yay!), just so that I could give myself a little personal challenge to see who, if any, flamers would stay friended to me long enough as I copy & pasted each line of my parody to them as they tried to insult me. Turns out I've actually accomplished this twice now.

First time was from this person who responded with some funny wtfs and many more stfus, but they did choose to stay friends for the whole encounter. Very interesting and a bit funny. Second person was a lot more recent than the first, said it was very cringe, but also did choose to stay for the whole thing before I unfriended.

Letter the better person (creative person) games begin I suppose!

Fantastic site, recently discovered! My favourite commander is [Hearthstone Card (Slimefoot, the Stowaway) Not Found] because, hell, I LOVE TOKENS (and budget haha). Hope to win that code! Cheers!

I can't see why this would be a bug when it is stated that it triggers on enemy minions. It would be bugged if Grasp of the Undying caused the keg to explode when you targeted your own minion.

Decided to fix the card I originally made and decided to make it more intractable and fun for your opponent in this version. It also doesn't give them the dead draw people were worried about in the original version.

I learned something funny thanks to Shifting Scroll in Mage and translates to other spells they have no Mana designation. The card remains uncastable and blocks you from casting it to manipulate spell potential with things like Lorewalker Cho. It's also Casts When Drawn so the only time of ever getting this card in hand would be due to things like Deck discoveries or in very few and unlucky cases, situations in Priest with Thoughtsteal. Overall, I do think this is a much better idea, but I'll let you guys judge that.

[Edit: I came up with some "Happy Birthday!" emotes for some hero cards if the the emote would land on them or would follow through if you transformed.

Hagatha the Witch would be "A happy day that you may!" reinforcing her rhyming chants.
Dr. Boom, Mad Genius would say "Blow out your candles! Y'know, before they blow up..." to add to his explosive and fun nature.
Zul'jin would say ""Halazzi wishes you a good hunt today!" showing his and his Loa's happiness for playing on your Birthday.
And The Amazing Reno's would be an immature celebration emote like "Let's make some SUPER SPECIAL PARTY MAGIC!"

Haven't got any ideas on the Death Knights yet, but if you guys wanted to suggest something for them by all means, leave a comment.]

Good ol' blizzard indeed...

Thanks for the info!

Quote From Theodrinus

Did you know that Evocation could generate Evocation? Well I didn't! And when a Quest Mage player did it on turn 4, with a Sorcerer's Apprentice on board, it was fucking disgusting! First they dropped the Apprentice for 2 mana, then they completed 7 out of 8 spells required for the quest with the two Evocations, FOR 0 MANA, and then finished with a Mana Cyclone! I was just sitting there, it was an absurd "WTF Blizzard, how is this possible" moment for me. Then the quest was finished on their next turn.

At least I lucked out too. With an almost perfect Secret Mage mulligan, and a lucky Duplicate, I was able to go face enough before they played their Time Warp. But with almost any other deck, it would have been unwinnable.

Blizz plz, give Evocation the Dragonqueen Alexstraza treatment.

I feel you, man. I had this game when I had a board full of Keleseth-buffed minions, and all my opponent had to do was play Flamewaker and Sorcerer's Apprentice into Evocation, and a couple of shenanigans later my entire board was wiped out and I took like 10 damage to the face as well. It's bullsh*t

Thanks for confirming! I know where I can find what I am looking for, just wanted to make sure it wasn’t even closer at hand 

I know he's not the best champion, but I just can't get enough Maokai.  The  deck attack, the saplings, the fact they have ephemeral and challenger tags--he just has so many facets!  Here's a mill deck: level up Maokai, then use Pilfered Goods to draw their final 4 cards:

Ancharrr is the safest craft, imo. Pirate Warrior is viable in standard AND wild right now, so you won't lack for avenues to use it. When it rotates, you can still play with it in wild since Pirate Warrior never really dies. 

Then craft Grommash Hellscream, not only because it's classic, but because there's nothing sweeter than a Grommash lethal. 

so sad that Lurrus has to pay for the sins of Yorion and Lukka. I just went 22-3 to get to mythic with Rakdos Lurrus Sac.

Man, I just experienced one of the best games as a Thief Priest for a long time. Please excuse the lack of screenshots.

So, starting off, I got matched with Togwaggle Druid and suddenly I turned into the infamous Priest version of it (well, almost):

The funny thing is, I don't even have Murozond in my collection.

Right after my turn ended, the opponent felt threatened and they decided to pull off their own combo. At that time Raza and Anduin were still in my deck, so after many turns my druid opponent used my win-condition against me. Here's the twist though - I won at the end through the clever usage of King's Ransom from Chameleos, then the original copy in my hand (in order to answer the enemy Murozond's battlecry) and finally Murozond himself (in order to answer the King's Ransom in the opponent's hand). I also found some healing from the Cobalt Spellkin; the opponent couldn't generate enough pressure and conceded.

I had some very interesting games versus Burn Mage - three, to be exact. In 2 of those I survived thanks to copying their Ice Blocks and I beat my opponents by either playing Reno Jackson or a Seanced Cloud Prince. In the third game I went for Aluneth, because I wanted to draw my healing and AoE spells on time, and Chameleos turned into a Fireball, which helped me close the game.

The last game before reaching Diamond was against Odd Demon Hunter. Nothing too exciting happened there - I managed to draw Reno pretty early, so the win was in the bag. However he wasn't the reason why my opponent rage quit. On turn 5 I was forced to play Madame Lazul, because the opponent had used Mana Burn. I found Eye Beam and took it. A couple of turns later the opponent had a sticky, wide board, which I managed to clear thanks to Mass Hysteria and the aforementioned DH spell. When that happened, they went afk.

Ah man, I can only imagine the expression on my opponent's faces, when they see me winning thanks to their own cards. The feeling of trolling them is glorious.

Kaalia of the Vast is the only commander I've ever used when I've been able to play Commander and definitely my favorite.

I'm feeling dumb not knowing N°11. Number 4 i have a certain idea from which expansion is. Both of them are quotes, i'm sure of that

Haha sorry for making keeping your collection at a healthy size!

I've played a ton of Rhys in paper and so next time I run out of interesting cards in standard, I'm most likely going to take a swing at her. I haven't been able to show it much but GW is my favorite two-color combination, with the only color combination passing it being Naya, which is essentially just GW but with a lot more combo potential. 

Thanks for your kind words and I'm glad you've been enjoying the birthday celebration so far!

@Sinti

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm updating the posts now!

Yeah, Torbran definitely is a strong commander. I've been thinking of taking a swing at him but a lot of the time the deck just feels like it makes itself and since I find the most joy in deck building, I just haven't messed around with him.

As for aggro decks and control decks, something that has always interested me is how the community reacts to both the archetypes. From what I've seen in a lot of the larger MTG community, aggro decks are a lot more accepted while control decks are the big bad evil, while in Hearthstone it is the opposite. Because of that, I think you are mostly in the clear for liking to play him the most.

Also, I totally agree with you on Agent of Treachery, it is probably my least favorite card in standard right now and while standard is now free of it, unfortunately, it is still kicking around in brawl.

I really like Vi, it just sucks that most, if not all decks that play her don't have leveling her up as the main focus, so I tried making a deck that tries to control the game until Vi can come out and wreck stuff. And, it turns out that Lee Sin spell package works really well with it. It's not the best deck ever but I've been having a lot of fun with it and flipping Vi is pretty easy.

Edgar Markov is such a fun card to mess around with. He used to be my go-to aggro commander since, as you mentioned, he pumps out such an absurd amount of tokens, but unfortunately, when Battlebond came out with Najeela, I quickly swapped over to her because she can enable a lot of other fun tribal shenanigans. I don't think I've ever seen an aristocrats build of him though so I'll have to check it out sometime.

It may be working exactly as the text says, the problem is that the text itself is very counter intuitive.
For example, what happens when the opponent plays a barrier spell? Would the Kegs go off or not? By text, probably not.

The card has 2 steps:
1- Spell power is always active while the card is up.
2- It gets destroyed as soon as an enemy receive any spell/skill damage from you.

I believe Powder Keg is worded in that specific way to avoid triggering it on your own minions with effects like 
Blood for Blood and Crimson Aristocrat.
What is happening right here might as well be a minor unintended side effect.

I have so many but my first true love was Edgar Markov. He generates so many vampire tokens in my aristocrats build, where I sac them for value. The deck reminds me of the best vampire movie ever, "The Lost Boys". I can never get tired of playing him!

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in this situation, FW now costs 5 mana. Using FW would leave you with 0 mana left, and since there are no minions with 0 attack on the battlefield the spell cannot target anything. This is not a bug, this is an example of the card working as intended.

Yes, I explained the logic of this interaction in the OP. Like I've said, it used to work differently in the past. I guess the old interaction wasn't intended, so it got fixed.

in this situation, FW now costs 5 mana. Using FW would leave you with 0 mana left, and since there are no minions with 0 attack on the battlefield the spell cannot target anything. This is not a bug, this is an example of the card working as intended. In the past when the card didn't follow this logic, it was bugged and not working as intended as it didn't line up with the logic of the other forbidden spells in that situation.

+1 to HunterHunter's point. The text on Powder Keg reads "Destroy me when your spell or skill damages enemies."

@Xarkkal

I like the balance, but the wording seems a little strange. I think Celestial Breath would probably be phrased more like "Deal 3 damage to all enemy minions. Deal 1 more damage for each Dragon in your hand." I also thought of two more versions that it could be:

The first one would be a way to phrase it to avoid the "+1 Damage" text (although it should probably say "repeat" instead of "recast"), and the second one would be a cool design because it motivates your opponent to clear your Dragons (including Elegon) or risk their board being cleared. 

@Hordaki

As a 7 Mana Spell it seems a bit too weak, what if it reduced its cost based on the number of mechs you control? It'd look like this:

My favorite commander is Jace, Vryn's Prodigy. Ever since the card was announced I started playing with it in every format and just very recently made the jump to commander. With Jace's cost being so low it makes him a very strong and versatile card that works in most every match up