Bought it, gonna give it a shot tonight. I remember hearing about this while on a bus to class maybe 7 years ago, and even though I wasn’t a Spelunky guy, I wanted this thing immediately. Derek Yu seems to have a pretty good handle on how to make a compelling game, so I’m looking forward to seeing this collaborative project.

I believe Erdogan (and Turkey in general) were big players in getting the wheat trade deal settled, as well as the prisoner exchange, though I could be misremembering. It’s just a weird situation of Erdogan having a history of centralizing power, but also making moves to be more relevant on the global stage.

Is it covert if you know it’s happening and have agreed to it?

Why is this a news article? Why is this posted to this community? It’s a well written article, but it carries no new news, and is just an article by the author of a book that’s about to go on sale.

For deck building purposes, I always have Scryfall up, and if I’m doing EDH, EDHRec is something I like to reference to see if I’m missing something obvious.

I want to build a deck largely out of cards I have, and I want it to be my deck, not just what people consider to be the best shell for my commander. But, I can always use a very powerful search tool, and sometimes my knowledge of cards is pretty limited, so seeing what other people are doing can help inspire me to look for similar lines or concepts in my own deckbuilding.

This game gave me my first real experience of melancholy. A sort of bittersweet sadness, born of what was and what could have been.

I’m digging the Lowlands a ton, but I actually didn’t spend too much time in Grothmar. I’ve done the cycle of meta events there maybe 2-3 times total. They’re fun and interesting, but when they’re not active, I feel 0 compulsion to do anything on that map.

To the Moon is an awesome little narrative. One of the games that reminded me that there’s room to feel feelings in games. And the main theme song (I think performed by Laura Shigihara?) is one of my favorite pieces of music to come from a game.

I probably won’t end up playing this, as I’m bad at this kind of game, but man does it have styleeeeee.

I wish I liked this art treatment more, but man it sucked to play against in paper.

Compare [[Drivnod]]'s and [[Phyrexian Obliterator]]'s inkblot arts. Just not easily distinguishable across a table, unfortunately.

I think the things look cool as art prints, but aren’t clear enough when shrunk to half of a playing card to appreciate.