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any pronouns | 30s | Former software developer, MTG judge, and TCG design consultant. Current freelance personal assistant.

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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh, 1000% agreed. I would've preferred a more explicit callout along the lines of "during 601.2b-d some spells may require information about objects used to pay costs, in those cases announce in 601.2b which object will be chosen for that cost". But, y'know, cleaned up. ... Or just re-word Cap.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You were having spicy CR discussions without me?? Woke up to this in a server I'm in and wrote about 1000 words stream-of-conscious, and figured I'd share here too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I don't disagree with Jess's intent, here. How you intend to pay phyrexian or hybrid mana is relevant info sometimes to 601.2b-d, so it gets lumped into the 601.2b "announcement" step. This seems mean...
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow. Shocker. Who could have foreseen that the anti-queer right-wingers who openly bragged about using ""just asking questions about fairness/safety in women's sports"" as a wedge to eliminate trans rights... Are using that same wedge to eliminate women's rights. Truly impossible to see it coming.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💜💜💜
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SCG Hartford in October, but no, not Atlanta. Right now I'm sticking to events within driving range, and my range is no longer 12+ hours like it was when I was fresh out of college. 🥲
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The -moment- I start working big events again, huh. 🫠
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?
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Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue
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Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's a healthcare economy, and the rest of us are just living in it.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" shows change in employment since January 2025. Healthcare and social assistance has added 952,000 jobs through July 2026 with consistent monthly growth, while the rest of the economy has lost 362,000 jobs over the same period, meaning all net job creation has come from a single sector in an unusually unbalanced labor market.
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TrueScorn (comms closed) @truescorn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy PMD day, scrubs. #pmdday #pmd #pokemonmysterydungeon
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One of my favorite moments.
A panel from GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN  by Jadzia Axelrod, Rye Hickman and Jodie Troutman in which Nia shoves her hands in the pockets of her jacket, hating the words she’s saying. 
NIA: I’m so sorry. You fought a war, and nobody noticed.

A panel from GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN  by Jadzia Axelrod, Rye Hickman and Jodie Troutman in which Galaxy hugs Nia, as the sun finally rises on the blasted Cynadii landscape behind her.
GALAXY: >sigh< What else is new?
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
(4) The same logic that makes Dress Down "win" versus Impending creatures (614.12 can't predict counters, default to creature) should make Grist "win" against Dress Down (Grist's static doesn't apply on the battlefield; 614.12 ignores it, Grist's default is noncreature). bsky.app/profile/mino...
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
(3) 614.12 was never updated for Xu-Ifit. The look-ahead doesn't technically allow predicting that the creature "has no abilities", because that's not an effect "that already exist[s] and would apply to [it]" - the effect starts existing as the permanent enters. bsky.app/profile/mino...
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

(2) The behavior of "total" targeting restrictions uses plain English only, and behavior w/ otherwise-illegal targets is fully undefined. This also affects V.A.T.S., if a target has hexproof when turned face-up, and likely other cases. bsky.app/profile/mino...
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@wotcmatt.bsky.social, @raginglevine.com, @wotcjess.bsky.social, d'you mind if I pester about a few rules Qs that have been lingering? ~ (1) Forecast's intended behavior isn't compatible with cards like Sphinx of the Second Sun, which create noncontiguous upkeeps. bsky.app/profile/mino...
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa
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Announcing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
And for Prepare, you don't create a new object with those characteristics - you copy the creature "except apply its alt. chars., and ignore previous copy exceptions". Before, w/ two identical sets of copiable chars., the rules didn't know or care which had included a "copy except..." Now they do.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Copying it back onto the stack and changing the targets would've nonbo'd both Repartee and Opus - that's a dead end. And the typical template - "copy and cast the exiled card" - would fail (and lock you out of that Paradigm) if the first time it resolved was a copy. Best they could do... But messy.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's... The best that could be done, I imagine. And the mechanics WORK, which is the important part. But. Yeah. For Paradigm, the resolving spell on the stack is the source of copiable characteristics each turn thereafter... But it's copied as an object into exile, then cast, NOT copied as a spell.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
MTG judge posting: I get -why- Paradigm is the way it is in the CR. Design constraints left few other options. And I get -why- Prepare spells rely on "copy THIS, except just the spell, and ignore previous exceptions". But WOW am I a grouchy old grandma who hates the rules philosophy implications.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
... That "technically" raised questions for me, since we ARE copying a spell on the stack... And getting a non-spell object in exile from it is BIZARRE, even if nothing suggests that can't work. But I guess overriding 707.12's "in the same zone" is the normal 'weird' of card text beating CR. (2/2)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hey there @wotcmatt.bsky.social, @wotcjess.bsky.social! It looks like Paradigm's CR entry cites the wrong "for more info, see..." rule. It directs to 707.10, which covers copying spells. But this... Isn't technically doing that? 707.12 seems more accurate, since Paradigm copies the /object/. (1/2)
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 18/04/2026
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#DeafLGBTQWeek @deaflgbtqweek.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Happy #DeafLGBTQWeek from the LGBT National Help Center 💜
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm... Curious to see what the reason for the "Book" subtype is. Other noncreature subtypes have some kind of mechanical throughline - treasures, clues, and food all make mana, draw cards, or gain life, even if it's a card with other abilities. Are books only "Books" so that other effects can care?
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Congrats!!! <3
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I considered it!!! 😂 But at the very least, True Colors HAD to get a spot, and if I'm ruining the joke anyways... But ISAT did at least get the place of honor as #1. 💕
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
9 games that describe who I am. 💜 My genres are evidently "hurt me emotionally", "therian/therian-but-robot", "flashbacks are a narrative device in which -", and Portal. This list is... Accurate enough, but I can't shake the feeling I'm forgetting something, so definitely an asterisk to it.
A 3 by 3 grid of video games cover arts. The titles are In Stars and Time, Life is Strange: True Colors, Citizen Sleeper, In Other Waters, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, Night in the Woods, Halo 3: ODST, Journey, and Portal.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hi @wotcmatt.bsky.social, can I poke you about this again? Or maybe pitch it to @wotcjess.bsky.social if you might have more bandwidth for rules questions at the moment? Also, welcome to Bluesky!
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Sort of! It only untaps the creature that was targeted, not any other; Legends (this card) are basically emblems, not creatures themselves; and "conquering" a battlefield mostly maps to "surviving a combat phase" (with some caveats).
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's uncomfortable how much you sound like a conspiracy theorist, keeping up with the news. Like... Turns out there IS a billionaire pedophiliac cult manipulating world governments. Epstein helped kick off and fund the anti-trans movement. It was strategized in a dozen sloppily misspelled emails.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Side note, while I said these cases are different, technically I'm arguing 614.12 does the same thing in both: it ignores the type-changing effect during lookahead. Just, for different reasons. Results differ because the defaults differ. Blame post limits, I don't have room for nuance in my explan-
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
... since they're not characteristics or effects. Impending are creatures by default; changing that requires the ability AND the counter. Grist is noncreature by default. Its static changes that, but 614.12 only includes abilities in predictions if they "would apply on the battlefield". (2/2)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Per Arena, Dress Down beats Grist. You said that likely uses the same argument as Impending vs Dress Down, where they enter as creatures w. no counters. I think they're different. The "noncreature" part of Impending fails lookahead because 614.12 can't include counters in predictions ... (1/2)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
@wotcmatt.bsky.social Sorry to bother, but I wanted to follow up on this point from the Grist question back in November, if you have bandwidth?
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I've been counting the days to this game's release since November, I'm SO excited for it!! 💕
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Nile (like the river) @nilejoan.com · 06/01/2026
ah yes, magic's time honored tradition of going "hey we just received one of the best arts we've ever received, do we have any bulk commons that need artwork??"
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Going in with no prior knowledge of the story, I enjoyed it a lot! But I WAS pretty surprised at the narrative decision with the flashback near the end. Revealing his justification and the corruption defangs some tension sooner than I expected. It makes more sense that it's a few episodes combined.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The City of Tears really is a jaw-dropping moment in that game. They do such a good job building atmosphere. 💜
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🚲5🇵🇸 @anyfishanytime.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Say it with me y'all sex segregation in sports is to protect mens feelings
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AniList @anilist.co · 28/12/2025
"Ruri Dragon" anime adaptation announced. Production: Kyoto Animation. Teaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0g... anilist.co/anime/204738... - #ルリドラゴン
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Everything's relative - at least this was all regular cards, without any vanguard nonsense! That one took assembling 8 cards to fully test under ""normal"" constraints. Compared to some esoterica still wedged into dark corners of the CR, I feel like Spy Kit questions are practically tame!
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
... it asks if "there are eight or more different names among unlocked Rooms you control." That's significantly different! This template seems to be counting unique names, not comparing objects for likeness. So it shouldn't matter if those names all belong to one object, right? (4/4)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Having the "same name" or a "different name" should be mutually exclusive, then, based on the test in 201.2c. Meaning an object can never "have a different name than itself". But Promising Stairs doesn't ask if "unlocked Rooms you control have eight or more different names among them,"... (3/4)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Rules for "same/different names" are written to assume two or more objects being compared... But Surgical Extraction demonstrates that objects have the same name as themselves! The targeted card is only exiled if you find it during your search, it's not in the "exile them" group by default. (2/4)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Hey @wotcmatt.bsky.social! Promise this one's more reasonable than the MoJhoSto "attach" scenario. If I animate Promising Stairs and equip it with Spy Kit, does the upkeep trigger win the game even if it's the only unlocked Room I control? (1/4)
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Arc Raiders and Expedition 33 won best multiplayer and game of the year despite using genAI. Never been happier to not give a shit about The Game Awards. Sucks to see people fold on anti-AI stances if the game is good enough; reminds me of the "trans allies" who justified buying Hogwarts Legacy.
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Appreciate you taking the time for it (and to reply)!
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minordeviation.bsky.social @minordeviation.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Obviously this won't really happen outside of the MoJhoSto bug that started this. But it hints at some engine issues with "attach": attaching to a noncreature and a card attaching to itself should fail, not attach and immediately detach, and neither should cancel the reconfigure type change. (5/5)
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