You’d think so, but ever since Demonic Tutor was determined to be really, really, way too good, searching for cards has generally become too expensive. Combo decks will utilize search because they need it, and they also tend to combo out with lots of temporary mana, negating the cost disadvantage. Control decks will…

Whoa, hold on there, buster. Sounds like you need to look up Dredge, aka Playing Magic Correctly Is For Losers.

I counter that it has a perfect place in a tourney deck. It’s a silver bullet, a Get Out of Jail Free card. Take a 30-card deck that’s already viable with a fair number of spells, take one card out, and put in Yogg. Don’t play it unless you’re getting rekt. In a tourney, you’d never play it if you’re winning, and…

Combo decks are built that way, yes, but aggro or mid-range decks (Hearthstone: Zoolock, Evolve Shaman, etc. MtG: Red Deck Wins, Death and Taxes, etc.) rely instead on appropriate mana curves and all around good cards, so that the randomness of their own deck does not affect their play as much. Sligh is the first…

That’s probably why RNG effects on cards are lessened in MtG. Mana systems have not really been 100% solved. Hearthstone’s system is more consistent than Magic’s, but it’s not perfect. Also, screw Energy.

All CCGs suffer from an amount of luck. No matter how skilled the players are, if you draw like ass, you can’t play better than ass. Yogg-Saron increases the luck factor, but without him, there’s still a decent degree of randomness inherent in the system.

I’m more concerned about “Bam stumps for Hil”. I understand that we have to shorten the line to fit onto the page, but that sounds like someone is exploding tree stumps on a hill.

Battery pack: the true micro-transaction.

Soldier Dad is best dad.

C’mon, you can’t scam Devolver. They put out amazing games and flip E3 the bird. You have to scam the studios that don’t give a shit.

But who has the twisty rockets?

I’m still holding out for Dan Hibiki in SF5. Maximum styling, minimum fighting ability.

But what does this mean for Tim Tebow? Bayless still demands to know!

Zelda flavors?

That’s how you go out with style. Star Wars Galaxies, another SOE game, had a massive faction vs faction battle during the last days of the servers.

I’ve never been a part of the discovery process like this, but I have followed some of the good video game ARGs, like I Heart Bees and Potato Fools Day. Things like this are kinda hard to explain to non-puzzle people, though.

This calls for a song from the soundtrack that is now used as meme drift music.

As far as monuments to the arrogance of man in fast-food form go, the Double-Down has to be king, but I figured the Mac-n-Cheetos would be higher on the list. Interesting.

To be fair, governing in cosplay would make the old farts in the House and Senate look as silly as their policies.

If the new VR doesn’t allow for at least one Virtual Boy game through Virtual Console, Nintendo is done as a company.