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Newly playing modded Minecraft. Really enjoying tinkers construct. But can someone tell me why the most valuable resource in the game isn't diamonds or netherite or anything anymore. Its god damn sugar cane lmao.

Sugar cane = sugar = silk touch = free diamonds and netherite as you mine cobalts and diamonds respectively.

Just a ton of ores are better in the foundry if you have the actual ore block and super easy silk touch is an amazing resource to get those. Might be the funniest thing me and my gf figured out playing together.

So I am working on a complex book series and i have the story beats down. The story part is written and I'm flushing out and ensuring the magic system is well made now. I am wanting to make sure the base magic system rules make sense to someone who hasn't been working on this for several years.

The magic works slightly differently than I've oftentimes seen. The main powers of the world are conscious entities. Death Life Space Time Reality and Void. These 6 made Magic the being that all magic works through.

The magic can be summarized into 3 rules with a lot of depth. Imagination, communication, and sacrifice.

Imagination: the more creative or different the spell the more useful. The difference can best be spelled out by "stop heart" vs "make a small metal orb appear in [name's] heart attached to the left ventricle".

Stop heart can well stop someone's heart. But its untargeted weak and limited. Stop for how long? Stop completely? One part of the heart? Its effective against a single normal person with no powers but effectively useless

"Make a small metal orb appear in [name's] heart attached to the left ventricle" is a lot stronger a spell. More targeted. Direct cause. Harder to predict. Harder to prevent through say "the person wearing this cloak cannot have their organs stop functioning" spells. Even if the person has protection against full death application by something like that it will hurt and cause alternative effects.

Imagination tldr: the more different unpredictable and unique the spell the stronger it is in the magic system. For both combat and general life.

Communication: communication is a very important part of the system. This is more the "learning" part of magic. Why can't every single person just do whatever they want automatically.

Magic is a being. A conscious entity that is paying attention to all beings. Magic already gifts their power to a lot of people. Artists, engineers, scientists, doctors, everyone who is creating new through Imagination is using magic.

However for the more magical magic system you need to talk to magic directly. Spells are basically requests for effects. Magic understands all languages as they all used magic to be created but certain languages work far better. "The language of the movement of the stars" aka astrologers can actually create new events in the future by reading and talking about what they see in the stars. But doing so would be better at changing events or causing things in the stars. A person could shift the planet 100 miles to the left to dodge an asteroid for instance. If they used the same language to cast a standard fireball it would be significantly weaker and slower. So you need to know how to communicate with magic in a way that relates to what you want.

Sacrifice: this is the weirdest part of the system. Depending on the spell there is a significantly higher or lower cost and that price can be adjusted by the other two parts. If a spell requires as piece of yourself to cast that is a literal full cost. The cost is your answer. Your hair is a piece of you. Your urine is a piece. Your arm is a piece. More doesn't necessarily mean better. Trying to subvert the system is encouraged by Magic. Magic enjoys people thinking of different ways to cast spells. But it's discouraged to use others for the cost. If a spell requires a heart you could kill a slave and give its heart or you could draw a heart on a piece of paper. Both work. But Magic likes the creative expression and effort of the drawing.

Similarly communication effects the cost. If you want some major effect to take place asking for said major effect directly would require more to be effective. However understanding and communication can greatly reduce the effect. "Light the air around my hand on fire and launch it at my opponent" vs "excite an atom towards my opponent at high speed". heat fire and direction all take a lot of effort. However moving a single atom? Easy. You do that just breathing. So the cost is drastically reduced even if the effect is the same. Through communication and understanding.

Does this all make sense for a Magic system? I understand it can be complex. Thats the point. It makes sense on the surface but creativity and thinking allow for so much more. Just want to make sure I'm not going off the deep end of an idea that won't make any sense to anyone else.

So first time every really building a deck around a "Choose a background" and background combo. Choose mono black [[sarevok deathbringer]] and [[criminal past]]

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Decided to just see what the deck could do against a red green aggro +1/+1 deck.

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Turn 5. Mill myself for 32 cards [[undercity informer]] sacking all my creatures but my commander. 29 are creatures. Commander is a 36/37 with the effects of [[cultist of the absolute]].

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Decide not to attack because I want to hard test such as if as multiple opponents swing back.

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I end my turn lose no health. Opponents turn i take 18 damage (10 commander). Opponent ends their turn. Takes 36 damage for game. Turn 5 commander. Casual 36 damage because unless i blocked they had no way to remove their own permanents because the deck doesn't focus on that.

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This is scarily reliable and powerful. With multiple ways of gaining health and removing threats included. Genuinely never considered mono black commander very strong but sheesh.

Why is it that whenever blatant obvious false information is reported, nothing happens? I'm seeing a lot of it with pride month now.

Like genuinely seeing lives that are calling for removal from life let's put it. But apparently that's nothing.

Is it just that it's an ai bot that doesn't care? Because there's no way real people are hearing half of this stuff and thinking, it's fine.

So I cannot seem to find anything that qualifies but I want to check before I make the assumption.

((The book of exalted deeds)) ((faceless haven)) ((tyrite sanctum))

These 3 are the main combo. 7 mana (across 2 turns) to essentially have an indestructible land with "you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game". Have cards like ((heroic intervention)) and ((tamiyo's safekeeping)) and ((teferi's protection)). Is there any way to get around this?

For anyone wondering why im making such a janky combo its more so green white enchantment life gain deck with ((sythis harvest hand)) commander. Just figured id throw it on for the lol

I've been playing this game off and on for a good while now. It seems like it usually has some pretty regular updates. But it's been a good bit since the last one. I know they were working on an imp rework. And I just read their whole entire post in game for it.

I'm just curious since it's been a little over two months if there's been any word from them? I understand game design is hard and takes a while. Especially with all the changes they're implementing. I'm just checking for an update basically. Can't seem to find anything

So im working with [[moritte of the frost]]. I'm particularly asking about an instance where I copy the frost. Such as [[extravagant replication]]. When I copy my commander as it enters the battlefield, I can have it be a copy of any other valid target. I know it is no longer my commander. I'm just making sure that it doesn't become a copy of the original copy.

Meaning if I have extravagant replication. And then I cast of the frost becoming a copy of replication. The first replication at the beginning of my next upkeep can target the of the frost copy of replication. That copy can then become something else. Or does it have to be extravagant replication

I had a quick question for timing and targeting for [[lord of the deep]]. Say I attack with him. Target another creature i control. Someone else uses a removal spell.

1. I trigger lord of the deep. Removal spell removes one of my targets. I target something else now as ability resolves on stack and get a copy

2. I trigger lord of the deep. I target creature. Removal spell removes creatures before resolution and the ability fails to find target and fizzled

3. I trigger lord of the deep. I target creature. Removal spells removes that creature. The ability resolves copying the creature because it only counted if it could copy at time of targeting.

Basically could a person respond to the attack effect and negate the effect for that turn by removing my target.

I do know of fail to find, fizzle, and the stack. I just don't know if the trigger and target are seperated and can have a response to remove valid original target

Edit: I have my answer of result #2. Thank you.

This is an easier one but I can't find a specific ruling on it. [[Shipbreaker kraken]] if I monstrous it. Then copy it so I have the monstrous original and a token copy. Then the original dies. Is the effect still in place because I have a creature named shipbreaker kraken. I know theres a ruling that when a card says a name it is basically just saying this card. But this is distinctly different so I wanted to ask

Edit: I have gotten the answer resolved. Confusion was in 2 points.

1. I have physical pre errata version of the card.

2. I didn't know if the effect created a rule that checked for the name. Something like "chainer nightmare adept" that has the effect allowing you cast even if chainer itself died.

I want to preface this with i think I understand how this works. But it has recently been a little bit of confusion for my play group. So I just want to get verification. I have the card "runo stormkirk". His opposite side "krothuss, lord of the deep".

Lord of the deep has the effect "whenever lord of the deep attacks create a tapped and attacking token, that's a copy of another target attacking creature. If that creature is a kraken leviathan octopus or serpent, create two of those tokens instead"

That effect is word for word from the card.

My question is now. Mercurial transformation. " Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes your choice of a blue frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1 or a blue octopus creature with base power and toughness 4/4"

I have three main questions with this. Those are the only cards that are relevant for the rulings

1. If transformation targets a creature. Something that is already a creature. Makes it into an octopus. Which is then copied by lord of the deep. I would get two attacking copies of the original creature with original power and toughness. With its effects.

2. If transformation targets a non creature, non land permanent. Specific example for this being an enchantment. I would get two copies of that enchantment. They would not be attacking, but they would be tapped despite being enchantments.

3. If I took another players creature or non creature. Turned it into the octopus. I would still get two copies of that creature or non creature following the same rules as before. And they would not return to the opponent at the and of turn or other criteria for return. I know it's the wrong colors, but something red " gain control of target creature on tap it it gains haste return it at end of turn". There would be no return criteria on the copies.

Final little disclaimer. I do understand that the legend rule still applies to copies and cards I take from my opponent. I am a fairly good at least with overall experience and playing the game for several years, so I understand a lot of the base rules. This is just a very weird mishmash of different effects. So I want to understand all of the little criteria.

So I know that subnautica two is coming out soon. I played the 1st game for like 2 months years ago and want to play it again.

I have a Nintendo switch 1 currently. I am not planning on getting the 2 for at least several months. Probably 6+

My nintendo switch one can play games like grounded with only minor issues. I want to play subnautica again on the switch 1 to enjoy the og before playing the new game (I know its going to be heavily delayed for any switch 2 release hence why I want to play the first with no rush)

I did a similar thing with like breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom.

My main thing is, can the switch run subnautica? Like, will the switch one just crash and burn? Lose progress. Crash and not save. Lag heavily. Etc. Is it worth playing it. I know the switch has a lot of problems that the switch 2 fixes. And I know i can transfer user and game data to the switch 2 whenever I get around to getting it.

But in the meantime is it worth buying the switch one version of subnautica at all?

Ps. First time posting on this reddit so if this isnt the correct place please let me know and direct me where I should. This seemed more like a switch than subnautica question because it more focused on the hardware and running issues than any gameplay.

Thank you!