u/insrto

No, I'm not talking about how we're turning the dead magic guy into a weapon, although in hindsight that's pretty fucked

Instead, we have the weapon shop owner, instead of escaping Narshe to presumably a safer haven, while having an unknown source of food and water, in the middle of an abandoned city filled with monsters, chooses to wait for you, in the hopes that you find him.

You meet him, and he immediately states to you his profession. He's been a blacksmith for SEVENTY years, and has the utmost confidence that he can use his skills to forge this rare stone into the greatest weapon in the game (well, second greatest). He senses a great power in it, and is ready to put his skills into, what is presumably the ultimate test, and give you a powerful tool to use against the person that destroyed the entire world.

And you can just completely shit on him, someone who probably doesn't know what the stone actually is (since he calls it a strange power), and tell him "yeah I want the stone". 70 years of being a blacksmith, the opportunity to finally do something amazing in the world, flushed down the drain. And if you're playing any version with a post game (which fortunately for the old man is not the Pixel Remaster version), the Esper is ultimately the best choice since you can get unlimited Ragnaroks, which also just sucks even more for him.

Poor guy.

He only came down to commentate for the semis matches, but he's already performing at a level far above every other guest commentator, minus maybe Despy who I still think TAKE performed better than. He's the perfect mix of excited and analytical, whereas most other guests tend to just keep to themselves and remain quiet until prodded, even if they have a brilliant mind like Yuya Uemura, or are known to be rabunctious like Yuto-Ice. Although if you're not a fan of "UOHHH" excited screams, then maybe you won't like TAKE, because he legitimately sounds excited throughout the match.

I'll grant that Milano does tend to have very good chemistry with all of his commentators, so they might not want to intrude on that (I don't know how they manage to scream the move at the exact same time). But when TAKE realises this and remains quiet, when the commentator prods him, he doesn't give a short, confused answer, but is very direct with his words while directly telling the story of the match. Some examples, starting with Callum vs Oiwa (these are all me amateur translating quotes, any reference to "I" is in reference to TAKESHITA himself):

• (after Callum Excalibur'd Oiwa on the outside and rolled him back in, answering a question about the difficulty of the G1): When you get this far, you get high, a G1 high. I can say it now, against Goto, I hurt my ankle, but when I faced Shingo, it completely healed. That's the G1 high, the adrenaline. When you get this far, some of the damage you take, you don't even notice it.

• (when Oiwa locked in the Big Rock for the first time, after the commentator noted that TAKE was caught in this before): Yeah, when you're in this situation, you really can't think properly. (after a bit of commentary from Milano) It's important to think about your moves when you're facing different opponents, but you can't really think properly after that headlock.

• (after Callum started a comeback with a Landslide): Actually Callum is strong in explosive bursts, which is actually quite similar to me, so that's why I understand him. Each time I hit a big move and my opponent kicks out, I have to stop and think how I should proceed with my next move.

• (after Callum low blow'd and rolled Oiwa up): OI OI OI OIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOI (he fully begins rooting for Oiwa here, begging for Oiwa to kick out after each of Callum's big follow up moves)

• (when Oiwa reapplied the Big Rock and refused to let go): This, this, THIS! This is Oiwa's pro wrestling. (phrased in an almost Big Baby way, he used a child's "pouty" term for it, making it sound like Oiwa's strength is unfair)

During Yuya vs Tsuji (he was cheering for Yuya):

• (when Tsuji locked in the first Boston Crab): Ah, it's that move... I've BEEN THROUGH that move... (other commentator immediately capitalizes on it and points out this is the move TAKE tapped out to in the Tokyo Dome)

• (after Yuya breaks out of the first Boston Crab): He (Tsuji) has been aiming for Yuya's back the whole time, you'd normally think to continue targeting the back, but in this situation against this kind of opponent, it's more difficult than that. (he proceeds to list a lot of Tsuji's moves) as a champion, he has all those options to use.

• (during the second Boston Crab on Yuya): This is when Yuya has to work the hardest, and this is when he needs the fans cheers the most

• (after the match): It's just my opinion, but I think Yuya Uemura wanted to win with the Deadbolt. 2 years ago, Uemura-san got injured, then in the semis, Tsuji used the Deadbolt against David Finlay (in Ryogoku). It was amazing, and while it wasn't necessarily a case of wanting to return the favour, it was probably moreso a matter of pride.

I made a post about that match awhile back, but tl;dr, SANADA baited Yuto into playing his game and won because of it.

The point I wanted to bring up is how he seemed conflicted to cheat, and only cheated after Kanemaru handed him the guitar.

After that Yuto-Ice match, with his remaining two matches vs TAKESHITA and Shingo, he didn't cheat at all. He was maybe still a little snake-y (pretending to go for a handshake with Shingo at the start), but even though he lost to TAKESHITA, it was ultimately his fighting spirit that helped him withstand ALL of Shingo's finishers, and roll him up.

As a neat little maybe unintentional parallel, the last time we had a fighting spirit finisher ignoring moment was with former J5G member Yuya Uemura, against Shingo's partner, Drilla Moloney. Also notably, this was also the only G1 win for SANADA where he didn't cheat at all, although I'd argue his resilience is the reason he ultimately beat Tsuji even if he went for a low blow at the very end.

As a small aside, his O'Connor Bridge had been countered in every other match, and I was starting to think that he literally could not do it anymore due to his arm. That snake baited me.

As someone who I think many thought didn't deserve to be in the tournament, he had a standout veteran performance in a block with so many breakout performances from guys like Tsuji, Oiwa, and Boltin. SANADA deserves to stay in the G1.

Zack Sabre Jr. > HENARE via Triangle Choke

Drilla Moloney > Ren Narita via Drilla Killa

Aaron Wolf > Callum Newman via that Triangle Choke thing that he does

Yuya Uemura > Gabe Kidd via rollup

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Ren Narita and Callum Newman only need to win to proceed. Callum could also theoretically make it through via a multiman tie without the need for a deadlock.

Yuya Uemura needs to win, then either one of Callum or Narita to lose

Gabe Kidd needs to win, then either one of Callum or Yuya to lose

HENARE has a complicated multiman tie scenario where he's still in. He needs to win his match, of course.

OSKAR, Drilla and Wolf are only in via deadlocks. OSKAR and Wolf obviously need to win their match. Drilla can only watch.

ZSJ has no scenario where he makes it through.

Points denote points after the match

Boltin Oleg (8) > SANADA (4)

Really fast match, almost a squash

Yuto-Ice (6) > Jake Lee (4)

Jake Lee lost to a cuffed guy. Also Yuto-Ice couldn't figure out how to work handcuffs and needed a Young Lion's help, though he and Jake played it off well

Shingo Takagi (6) > Great-o-Khan (4)

Shingo almost got a swirlie. Otherwise standard 2026 G1 GoK match.

Yota Tsuji (8) > Ryohei Oiwa (6)

Absolutely fantastic match, any amount of words I type cannot do it justice. If you enjoyed the heavy counter-based offense of 2010s NJPW, this match is for you. It is unfortunate that Meltz's WON Ratings don't seem to cater for non-main events nowadays, although they ultimately don't mean much they do help bring eyes to the product and the glory of this match will likely only be known to us.

KONOSUKE TAKESHITA (10) > Hirooki Goto (4)

Also great like you'd expect. Samurai dad is now on the bottom of the block, having also lost to both GoK and Jake.

UPCOMING A BLOCK MATCHES:

Yuto-Ice vs SANADA

Jake Lee vs Great-o-Khan

Hirooki Goto vs Ryohei Oiwa

KONOSUKE TAKESHITA vs Shingo Takagi

Boltin Oleg vs Yota Tsuji

Basically just the title, I think I just suck at Google because for the life of me I cannot find the answer to this.

i.e. if I have a Wombo Combo with no licensed parts, would an Enhancement that affects Vladof-licensed parts affect it?

I'm looking for cards that turn my creatures into non-creatures, or copy/steal an opponent's creature into a noncreature, whether it be via theft or otherwise. Ideally artifacts, but I'd take anything, really.

I'm sure there has to be more, but currently all I can think of is [[Machine God's Effigy]], [[Espers to Magicite]], [[Myrkul Lord of Bones]], and the new upcoming [[Supper for Spiders]]. I guess I could [[Imprisoned in the Moon]] my own thing.

I have no idea what I even want to do with the deck itself, but for now I just want to see what avenues I have. It's probably going to be a [[Mishra, Eminent One]] deck if it's mostly artifact stuff, since turning them back into creatures is funny.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I don't want them to lose their abilities, so Imprisoned in the Moon wouldn't work either

I will be using Japan formatting for the dates (MM/DD). Only the first day is both blocks, every other day alternates between A and B Block shows.

Day 1, 07/11 - Yota Tsuji vs KONOSUKE TAKESHITA

Day 2, 07/18 - Yota Tsuji vs Hirooki Goto

Day 3, 07/19 - Yuya Uemura vs Zack Sabre Jr.

Day 4, 07/21 - Boltin Oleg vs Shingo Takagi

Day 5, 07/22 - Shota Umino vs Ren Narita

Day 6, 07/25 - Yota Tsuji vs Shingo Takagi (Yuto vs Oiwa is semi-main)

Day 7, 07/26 - Shota Umino vs Yuya Uemura

Day 8, 07/29 - Yota Tsuji vs Yuto-Ice

Day 9, 07/31 - Yuya Uemura vs Aaron Wolf

Day 10, 08/01 - Hirooki Goto vs KONOSUKE TAKESHITA

Day 11, 08/02 - Shota Umino vs Callum Newman

Day 12, 08/06 - Boltin Oleg vs Yota Tsuji

Day 13, 08/08 - Shota Umino vs Gabe Kidd

Day 14, 08/09 - Shingo Takagi vs Yuto-Ice

Day 15, 08/11 - Yuya Uemura vs Gabe Kidd

Day 16 (08/12) and 17 (08/13) are unknown since they're the last days. I'm guessing they'll be main evented by KONOSUKE TAKESHITA vs Ryohei Oiwa and Aaron Wolf vs Zack Sabre Jr. respectively.

Wrestler	Amount of Mains
Yota Tsuji	5
Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura	4
Shingo Takagi	3
KONOSUKE TAKESHITA, Gabe Kidd, Boltin Oleg, Yuto-Ice, Hirooki Goto	2
Callum Newman, Aaron Wolf, Ren Narita, Zack Sabre Jr.	1
HENARE, Great-o-Khan, Ryohei Oiwa, OSKAR, Drilla Moloney, SANADA, Jake Lee	0

EDIT: Added a table of data

I'm running a [[Xenagos, God of Revels]] deck, and my goal is to hit 6 mana by turn 3 in order to drop a card that can (constantly if possible) attempt to cheat fatties out, so that I can drop Xenagos on turn 4 and start punching people in the face.

Currently I have [[Guild Feud]], [[Triple Triad]], [[Lurking Predators]], [[Monster Manual]], [[Doors of Durin]] (although this one isn't the best for what I'm trying to do), [[See the Unwritten]] and [[Selvala's Stampede]], though the last three don't need to be done on turn 3 specifically.

On the creature side, I do have [[Etali, Primal Storm]], [[Ilharg, the Raze-Boar]], and [[Ojer Kaslem]], who is easily a deck MVP. I'm also considering the new [[Molecule Man]].

Is there anything I'm missing? RNG flipping cards off my library is fun for me. Notably I do run mana dorks so cards like [[Oath of Druids]] aren't really on the table, though I guess I still could.

Basically the title - I don't mean mods that allow you to summon multiple minions as I have both Ordinator and Realm of Lorkhan for like, +6 minions? But rather a mod that allows me to perhaps store the summons I want into a single spell and then summon all 6 at once so I don't have to go through the hassle every combat.

Thanks!

YOH defeats Kosei Fujita after a GTR, Boma Ye, Rainmaker, and finally, a Direct Drive.

YOH is your BOSJ 33 winner!

Post-match, YOH proceeds to deliver an Okada + Nakamura style promo, before then being interrupted by DOUKI and SHO sneaking from behind, but he fights them off and knocks them out with the steel plate that SHO uses. Then he calls his former CHAOS factionmates (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI and Toru Yano) to close out the show with him.

Other callbacks YOH did: Ushigoroshi (Hirooki Goto, twice), Itadaki Kari (YOSHI-HASHI), Toru Yano's general antics, Zack Sabre Jr.'s neck twist while doing Robbie Eagles' "Robbie Robbie Robbie" call, Tomohiro Ishii's headbutt

A Block 1st and 2nd places: Master Wato, Kosei Fujita

B Block 1st and 2nd places: Robbie Eagles, YOH

Semi-final matches:

Master Wato vs YOH

Kosei Fujita vs Robbie Eagles

Other interesting angles on the show:

SHO came out to talk shit about how he beat Eagles, but Hyo made the "save" and held his leg for Eagles to hit him with the steel plate, before Hyo dragged him away, presumably to reclaim Myonmyon. We also now know what happens in a heavy multiman tie, that is, the person with the most tiebreakers over the others will make it through.

FULL MATCH RESULTS (bracketed points are the final score)

SHO (12) def. Jakob Austin Young (6) via Yujiro pretending to be Templario throwing in the towel during a Boston Crab

Taiji Ishimori (12) def. KUSHIDA (6) via Bloody Cross > pinfall

El Desperado (12) def. Yoshinobu Kanemaru (6) via Pinche Loco > pinfall

YOH (12) def. Daisuke Sasuke (6) via Five Star Clutch

Robbie Eagles (12) def. Hyo (6) via Ron Miller Special (I think that's how it's spelled) > submission

Kosei Fujita (12) def. Daiki Nagai (0) via Elevated Boston Crab > TKO

Valiente Jr. (6) def. Robbie X (10) via kneebar that I don't know the name of > submission

Ryusuke Taguchi (8) def. Jun Kasai (10) via Going My Way

Francesco Akira (12) def. Titan (10) via Ground Tarantula > submission

Master Wato (12) def. Nick Wayne (10) via Tsutenkaku > pinfall

Will [[Twilight Diviner]] cause the entered creature to duplicate itself if [[Panharmonicon]] is on the field? Well I'm specifically looking at [[Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines]], but same thing I'd imagine.

i.e. if I have both Twilight Diviner and the doubler on the field, and reanimate [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]], would I essentially create two token copies of Gary and drain my opponents for at least 7 x 3 x 2 = 42 damage?

The one match that isn't a main event is vs Ryusuke Taguchi, which is third to last. Remember too that some of the nights are double block events too, and Fujita is still in a high spot for all of those matches if not the main. He only really loses to Despy.

Main events:

vs Francesco Akira (May 14), Wato vs Titan rematch is unfortunately 3rd to last

vs Robbie X (May 20), weirdly maining over YOH vs SHO and Wato vs Akira

vs Wato (May 22)

vs Valiente Jr. (May 29)

Semi-mains:

vs Nick Wayne (May 16), main is Despy vs Ishimori

vs Jun Kasai (May 17), main is Despy vs Robbie

vs Titan (June 2), main is Despy vs YOH

And just for a bit of extra info, for the night he's facing Ryusuke Taguchi, it's being main evented by Jun Kasai vs Nick Wayne, semi-main of Titan vs Robbie X. Pretty weak night. It's clear Fujita is the "draw" of A Block, probably of the entire BOSJ, though he also probably almost definitely isn't going to main on the last block night of BOSJ against Daiki Nagai. This also means that literally every night is being headlined by Despy or Fujita except for one (the Kasai vs Wayne one), and even then Fujita has more mains than Despy. I really do like this show of faith in the new generation.