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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Just wanted to come out and say that with the new Mathemagics usage of exponential notation, you can re-write the oracle text of Game of Chaos to express the life loss/life gain in powers of 2. Tagging @itsannamargaret.com because I know she would love this.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Holy shit, I was very close to calling it.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is the kind of card that would make me want to play Green. Pair it with Gaea’s Cradle, Shifting Woodland, Strip Mine. You name it.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The game is rich enough in card diversity that players can play through combos in Split Second and they can just use Split Second as another Silence effect.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Everytime I watch a short from @veggiewagon.bsky.social and read the comments section, it makes me think when people said “White cards suck” way back when. Seems like it had more to do with people not knowing how White cards worked versus them actually sucking.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Gilgamesh from FFV, or the version from FFXIII wielding 6 guns, or the version from FFXV with one arm, and—last but not least—the big ass Adamantoise from FFXV lmao:

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Wake me up when MTGxFF spoils this guy:

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

You can shortcut this a bit by running Rest In Peace instead of Relic of Progenitus and now you'll be able to draw cards at 1 mana from Ashnod's Altar!

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Land Equilibrium should be Bracket 4. This is potentially worse than Limited Resources, especially when played early. Ward of Bones is similar but you can circumvent it by "putting" lands into play ("put" =/= "play"). Equilibrium does not have that loophole. 6/6

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I debated this with @veggiewagon.bsky.social, but I think Disciple of Caelus Nin should not be in Bracket 1. This is a "fixed" Limited Resources because you can recover your lands by killing this, but I think that's cherry-picking when Realm Razer and Urza's Sylex are Bracket 4. 5/6

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Magus of the Balance and Restore Balance are both Bracket 1, but we have seen the play patterns for Balance-like effects be notorious at denying players of their mana--especially in haphazard situations where these cards will force players to be as mana-screwed as the most mana-screwed player. 4/6

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Razia's Purification is Bracket 4 on your site. At 6 mana, players must choose 3 permanents and sacrifice the rest. Balancing Act can be a very efficient version of that same effect, especially if one player is very far behind. 3/6

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This seems almost a no-brainer because of the ultimate. I guess you can argue that your opponent would have sufficient time to deal with this before it goes off, but I feel like that's against the spirit of Bracket 1. At Bracket 1, they should not even have to consider the threat of an MLD. 2/6

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I’m not a fan of quoting fallacies, but the Star Wars community reminds me of a lot of this:

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Worldpurge is another good example of this. It’s currently not being flagged when you put it in a Bracket 1 deck.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hey @moxfield.com, while building a Bracket 1 deck using your system, I realize it’s not catching Soulscour. Soulscour should be a Mass Land Denial card. I think you can catch it if your algorithm looks for “Destroy/Exile/Return all Permanents” texts that don’t also contain the word “nonland”.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Field of the Dead is something you could add in a Bracket 1 or 2 deck with land tutors (since tutoring for lands are not considered real tutors here). What’s worse is because of Bracket 1 and 2 expectations, there will be no interaction against Field of the Dead running away with the game.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Also, though I don’t know when anyone would do this, you can’t use LED to pay for Ghostly Prison, even though it is a mana ability. You can activate LED anytime you could cast an instant. You can’t cast instants as you are declaring attacks because no one has priority while you declare attacks.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Not sure if this was intended design, but you can name Sol Ring with Skyseer’s Chariot. It will make Sol Ring cost 2 more to activate. Chariot does not exclude mana abilities unlike Suppression Field. @gavinverhey.bsky.social can you or someone you know confirm this (don’t know who else is on here)?

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

That should be an Achievement if @magic.wizards.com ever employs an achievement functionality on Arena and you use a redirection spell like Bolt Bend in Arena. Call it, “Your Mana? You mean MY Mana.”

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

FYI, you can’t use Radiant Lotus to pay for Ghostly Prison. First thing during Declare Attackers Step, you pay for Ghostly Prison as you declare attacks. This happens before anyone gets priority. You can only activate Mana Abilities at that time. Lotus is not a mana ability because it targets.

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Andrew coming in hot with the thumbnail game. 🤣

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

For those of you who don’t know, Rawls wrote “A Theory of Justice”, a book that would forge the basis of today’s Social Justice movement. The image I think most of you all have seen of equality vs equity was based on Rawls’s Theory of Justice: 3/5

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Charles, the Mono-White Guy @ilvaldi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

For one thing, the show is co-created by the head writer of Avatar: the Last Airbender.

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