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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 16h

In 2000, I opened a display of MMQ tournament packs (!) where every other pack had all R cards in what was supposed to be the U slot.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

TBF, just about every non-basic land could be read as a euphemism for genitalia…Some are a stretch, some are obvious, but it’s hard not to see.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*raises hand* Used to do it with mono-color decks, with all artifacts ruled Highlander, no “protection from” allowed. But that was in the ancient times, when a rubber band was your deck box and your back pocket was your storage medium.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just start quoting Suzie Izzard routines at them.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now that it’s been pointed out, I get it.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Isn’t that just a scene from chapter 19 of The Wizard of Oz, though?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did they also apologize to Japanese players for the Doomsday card?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I used to call it “Avatar of Keanu”.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Arnock, on the night of his joining!

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's easy to despair with everything that's going on around us, but even "Star Trek" ackowledged that people need to see how bad things can get before they start building things better. As is often quoted, "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/we-n...

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We need more of the hopeful sci-fi that ‘Star Trek’ gave us 60 years ago | Opinion

The sci-fi classic, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, didn’t just entertain millions of people. It gave many of them a direction.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And, as you surely know, NEM also had the mirroring card which replicates Remove Soul, whose art was a diptych with the "Negate" effect.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seems like a lot of people are forgetting or are unaware WotC published a licensed HP TCG in the early 2000s… (Of course, that was before everyone knew the franchise creator’s true colors.)

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Basically a dollar for every year…

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always happy to see Megaman Legends love!

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK!

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ooo this plugs nicely into my Neriv Commander deck…

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Zucchini, just a baking sheet with olive oil, salt, and pepper is good enough for me. For the cucumber, combine with cabbage, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and a touch of sugar or mirin.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hear the dream of the 90s is alive there.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone checked on Jamie Wakefield to see if he’s ok?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So maybe capturing the "create a 5/5 flying dragon" action? Neat!

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking closer, it appears that it has two necks and two heads which have merged, with one upside down?!?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also, wtf is up with that thing’s mouth?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My Ziatora deck is hyped for this.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As others have noted, it’s a rule that serves as a check on a certain playstyle. Every time Forsythe or Tabak would bring up getting rid of this, someone at the Friday afternoon game would bring an infinite life gain recursion deck and stall the table out to prove their point.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never rains but it pours, eh?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You two are looking Gorge-ous!

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Was it “Guche” (“Colony”)? Heard that’s good.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hobbes,you need to be and one man first. Last. I clocked, you were in your 40s?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Played one of Sheldon’s favorite cards tonight. Used it to mess with an opponent’s combat step where I wasn’t even being attack, just to kill his stuff. Chaos managed.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not exactly—one of his mates from uniformed service came up with the core concept. But Sheldon ran with that ball, got tournament staff hooked on the format, and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We really need to coordinate that old man trip to Japan with Galvin and Larabee, don’t we?

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Playing games with friends (including @trulyaliem.bsky.social , whom I am lucky considers *me* a friend, can’t fathom why) today. Toasting Sheldon and you from the Left Coast.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’d have to look it up to be certain, but I believe Serra (and Sengir) were uncommon in ABU. They were “honorary rares” to players, though, given their power and coolness factor.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So, was chapter 3 about fear, anger, and hate, then?

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For a long time, I had this as my Discord avatar.

Photograph of a white t-shirt with black letters reading “When I was your age the Internet went skawee reweert”

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Accountants/marketing people see only “biggest TCG market” and that’s it. There is a bit of a gulf between (upper) management and the staff most people actually interact with. Staff point something out? “Thank you, we’ll take it under advisement.”

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There is a theory that because of the golden color, the rings are related to the Eternals (that’s where the non-magic, non-alien origin is/signal was going), and since that film flopped, it hurt the potential for a sequel.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bonus! His firing of Bennie mirrors Odo’s killing of innocent Bajorans in the previous season’s “flashback” episode.

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

…is trying to be nice to Bennie, he has neutral tones or his jacket off (implying vulnerability or closeness), but when he is “laying down the law” or giving the famous “that’s just the way it is” speech, his clothing is some mix of red, white, and blue. So much amazing symbolism in the episode!

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Something I noticed for the first time on a recent rewatch…In all the scenes the editor, who like Odo is trying to be impartial and above everything but really isn’t and only has his job due to his deference t the publisher (=Cardassians, also named “Stone”, so an image of being unyielding)…

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Ron Foster @ronmfoster.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also because there are no Taco Bell restaurants in Europe, but there are (or were) Pizza Huts. Early version of Steve Roger’s catch-up notebook localization.

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