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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 15/09/2025

From The State of Nature (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...). Lots of ways to disrupt it, but whips ass if you can get it online

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 22/08/2025

If this is the top of your curve then you're gonna do a good job of helping matches stay under the time limit

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 19/08/2025

If you see this, post a tower or structure

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 18/08/2025

Hard Mode Quiz! If you were a NON-LEGENDARY creature, which would you be?

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 08/08/2025

This one reminds me of my friend's cube, in which energy is a big deal, and I like that cube and that friend

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 24/07/2025

It's so pretty! The tea bag is stuck pretty good in there but we persevere

A bottle of Sprite that has had tea steeped in it

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 03/07/2025

Without downloading any new pics, tell me where you are mentally

"Thinking about this intractable problem drives Bob into a black despair from which he has yet to recover..."

"But let's not dwell on such unhappy things. Let us instead think of pancakes - moist, delicious pancakes, dripping with syrup and hot butter...

oh yeah..."

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 25/06/2025

Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than 10 times

A still from the Beatles Yellow Submarine animated film

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 10/06/2025

without downloading new pictures where are you mentally

A tweet that reads: "phone, wallet, keys, manifesto"

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 18/05/2025

If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without context

A frog wearing a little backpack is handed from one person to another

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 16/04/2025

Happy birthday! Wishing you stacked Ponder piles and a lot of prowess triggers.

Narset, Enlightened Exile, a 3/4 with prowess that also makes your dreams come true

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 15/04/2025

This is an untoward number of guys, and figuring out how to get them is a fun little puzzle

Promise of Bunrei: makes four 1/1s when a creature of yours dies

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 17/03/2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This card is not a Game Changer. It is a perfectly fine card I just think is a little silly is all.

Earthcraft. 1G Enchantment. Tap an untapped creature you control: untap target basic land.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 25/02/2025

The card suggested was Mercurial Spelldancer:

Mercurial Spelldancer 1U
This can't be blocked.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this.
Whenever this deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 09/02/2025

In Firefox, you can make a new default search engine that uses that parameter. Instructions below, in the alt text of the images. The search string url to use is www.google.com/search?q=%s&...

Step 1: open the three dots menu in the top right corner, then tap Settings.

Step 2. In Settings, click the Search option.

3. In the Search menu, tap "Default search engine."

In the default search engine list, click "Add search engine". Use whatever you want for the name, and for the search string url, use this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

You can leave the last text field blank.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 29/01/2025

Does the nature of the referent have something to do with it? Maybe referencing literature feels like it's enriching the game, and referencing "low" art feels degrading. Here's another pair to consider.

You Are Already Dead, aka "omae wa mou shindeiru" from Fist of the North Star

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 26/01/2025

Today my friends and I went to the Lego store and they helped me find cool pieces in the bulk bin and I built this

My sick Lego build. It's a crab mech with pinchy claws and a radar mounted on the back.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 03/01/2025

But Zoy's original question asked about the probability if we filter to rolls of 7, not 6! Using that criterion yields about the same answer she got.

Python code to simulate the die-rolling experiment Zoy poses, along with a result of 31.40%

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 03/01/2025

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

Andy Warhol's 2x2 print of Marilyn Monroe, but it's a Lego man, and it's made out of Legos

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

I'm so excited to tinker with this list, and I'm looking forward to finding new synergy packages to drop in. Harmonic Prodigy also triggers Rage Forger and Evolution Witness, for example. That's pretty neat! (end)

Evolution Witness. Gets back stuff when you put counters on it.

Rage Forger: puts counters on your Shamans and then damages your opponent when stuff with counters attack.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

Overall, I think I've succeeded in achieving my design goals with this Cube so far: it's a format with decks that feel different from each other, that doesn't play at all like other Cubes that are popular here in Madison. And crucially, *you can do the Sarkhan's Unsealing thing.* (12/)

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

I was also super happy to see some last-minute includes overperform. Harmonic Prodigy was immediately worth its salt, dupe-ing Eternal Witness triggers for example, and This Town Ain't Big Enough was way stronger than it looked on paper. (7/)

Harmonic Prodigy. Duplicates triggers of Shamans and Wizards.

This Town Ain't Big Enough. Bounces two things for 5 mana, or 2 if one of the things is yours.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

D. Aggro. Turn creatures sideways. (5/)

Grafted Wargear, an equipment that gives +3/+2 and has equip 0.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

C. Loop Control. Use efficient removal and countermagic to shut down early threats; accrue card advantage with loops like Colossal Skyturtle & Season of Renewal; cast Fight with Fire until the game has ended. (4/)

Colossal Skyturtle, an enchantment creature that you can discard from your hand to return a card from your graveyard to your hand. (It's also a 6/5 with flying and ward 2, but that's not important right now.)

Season of Renewal, an instant card that returns a creature and an enchantment from your graveyard to your hand. So your turtle gets back a thing, this gets back another thing and the turtle, then the turtle gets this back and the cycle begins anew.

It deals 5 damage to a creature. Or, if you spend 9 mana, it deals 10 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

B. Ferocious Ramp. Use Kiora's Follower with Karoos and auras like Utopia Sprawl to power out threats, using card advantage engines like Outcaster Trailblazer and Garruk's Uprising to fill the board; finish with showstoppers like Genesis Ultimatum and the second ability of Sarkhan's Unsealing. (3/)

Kiora's Follower, which untaps permanents. Like, for example, a land that produces two mana.

Outcaster Trailblazer, a creature that draws you a card when creatures with power 4 or greater enter under your control.

Sarkhan's Unsealing. Holy heck this card is so dope.

"Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 4, 5, or 6, Sarkhan’s Unsealing deals 4 damage to any target.

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 7 or greater, Sarkhan’s Unsealing deals 4 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control."

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 02/01/2025

The decks that got drafted looked about like what I expected to see: A. Midrange Blink. Take powerful ETBs like Flametongue Kavu and Dragon Trainer, and rebuy them with Lilysplash Mentor and Electroduplicate to stay ahead on board and push across the finish line. (2/)

Flametongue Kavu, my special boy who deserves the whole world.

Electroduplicate, who creates *additional copies* of my special boy.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 30/12/2024

If you see this, post a pic from your device without any explanation.

A comic in an unrefined, MS Paint-esque style, in three panels.
Panel 1. Spock says, "Captain, after further analysis i am inclined to agree with your assessment that, in your words, 'this edible ain't shit.'"
Panel 2. A hand reaches out and grabs Spock's arm.
Panel 3. Kirk says, "spuh"

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 14/12/2024

Happy Sorcery Saturday, the perfect day to forget your cares!

The Magic card Thoughtseize, which for one black mana and two life lets you look at a player's hand and select a card for them to discard.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 29/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

A portrait, in the style of Andy Warhol's famous 2x2 image of Marilyn Monroe, of a Lego figure head with a helmet on it

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 29/11/2024

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 28/11/2024

Getting real unhinged by starting breakfast so late in the day

Cephalid Illusionist, a Magic card that mills you 3 whenever you target it with a spell or ability. (A Cephalid is an octopus person.)

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 25/11/2024

#mtgcube p1p1 @ratafia.bsky.social and I are now ready to introduce you to Options Cube, which is a celebration of cards that do more than one possible thing (with mechanics like kicker, modality, cycling, etc). What's your pick from this pack? cubecobra.com/cube/list/op...

A pack from Options Cube, with the following cards:

Riku of Many Paths
Tarrian's Journal
Pestilent Cauldron
Badlands Revival
Souls of the Lost
Bloodchief's Thirst
Bonecrusher Giant
Dig Through Time
Jeskai Charm
Bala Ged Recovery
Charming Prince
Road // Ruin
Canyon Jerboa
Kazandu Mammoth
Sea Gate Restoration

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 20/11/2024

If you see this, post your favorite Pokémon.

Perry the Platypus from the TV show Phineas and Ferb

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 18/11/2024

What's more, the draft is interesting the whole way through. Instead of zeroing in on a lane and coasting through pack 3, when you draft a cube like this, you get to think about all the cards you're seeing as new opportunities. (20/)

Hazel's Brewmaster. "Whenever Hazel’s Brewmaster enters or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard and create a Food token. Foods you control have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Hazel’s Brewmaster."

Alseid of Life's Bounty, a 1/1 with lifelink that you can sacrifice -- as an activated ability mind you -- to give target creature or enchantment protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 18/11/2024

Instead of defining rigid archetypes for its color pairs, it includes smaller synergy packages that decks can dip into if they so choose. So, instead of a deck having only one mechanical throughline (BR Sac!), it has 2-3 mutually reinforcing ones (Sac + Gleaming Geardrake: artifacts??) (18/)

Mayhem Devil, a 3/3 for 3 in black/red that pings stuff when you sacrifice things. It's real good with Treasure.

Gleaming Geardrake, a 1/1 flier for UR that's an artifact creature, makes a Clue when it enters, and gets a +1/+1 counter when you sacrifice an artifact. Hey wait, this thing *also* seems good with Treasure. I wonder if you had this in a deck with Mayhem Devil if --

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average flicker enjoyer 🔜 Shoebox @stav.gold · 18/11/2024

That matters because nowadays, if you're playing one person's Cube, you're likely to play another person's too. (There are dozens of us! Dozens!) And, it's not very fun to draft, say, Boros Heroic Reinforcements in one Cube, only to play against the same dang list in someone else's Cube. (15/)

Heroic Reinforcements, a red/white sorcery that as far as I'm concerned reads "If you did the thing this color pair was designed to do, which is play aggressive creatures on curve, destroy target player. They can't be regenerated."

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