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So I know my last post wasn't Commander related, and for that I'm sorry. To make up for it, here's my latest deck that I've been fucking around with. I present to you: Keranos Bolt and Durdle.
It's got two of my favorite colors, Blue and Red. Together they become something weird and chaotic. I originally built this deck as some kind of weird side deck, but because I'm a constant brewer, I've been constantly finding better things to throw in this deck. As you're looking through the deck you may notice three cards stick out in terms of not just value, but power as well, those cards being the Torrential Gearhulk, Ugin, and Cryptic Command.
Like I said earlier, this was supposed to be a weird fun little side deck I built for when I was bored of playing Mono-Blue and Black, but now it's turned it to what it is now; a bit of a value sink. The story behind those three cards is the one I'll relate to you now because each one is an interesting one (I hope).
I got the Ugin in a trade. A very unlikely trade, but a trade no less. A few weeks back my buddy Ian and myself did a Two-headed Giant Event for pre-release, we both had a god pool (literally) and we built super powerful decks for the events. Ian pulled a foil'd Scarab God, so I used it for my deck, and in the end, because Ian is Ian, and Ian is awesome, he gave me the Scarab God (After he pulled a Slaughtering Pact from one of his prize packs). The Scarab God sat in my trade binder for about two weeks until I met a guy named John. I asked to see his trade binder, and in there I found the Ugin. We initially trade for some unrelated cards, but at the end, before I walked away I said to him, "Could I tempt you to trade your Ugin for my Scarab God?"
He looked at me, he looked at the god, he looked back at me, and then the god. My heart stopped for a few seconds as he looked back up at me, "Sure," he said. At the time Ugin was sitting at about $30 at low and the God was $28. I did not expect this trade to go through, but it did, and for that I am incredibly thankful to both John and Ian.
The next card is the Cryptic Command. It had been sitting in the case at my LGS for a while, at least a week. I was initially not interested in because it was foil and I thought to myself, "There's no way in hell I can afford it. The foil's gotta be ridiculously expensive." I was being lazy and indifferent, until one day while playing Commander I realized, "Why don't I look up the value of Cryptic Command?" So I did, and then I saw that there was barely a mark up on the price. I raided my binder of everything of value and managed to pick it up for some trades and about $7 cash. It is always nice to find out something you though was unattainable was actually more reasonable than you thought.
Lastly, there's the Gearhulk, which is actually the newest addition to the deck. Last night I bought seven packs of Kaladesh and actually pulled it, along with an Aether Hub, a Scrapheap, and a few other cards so I made my money back on packs.
That's the story of my durdly Keranos deck, check out the deck list and let me know what you guys think. Thanks for reading and sit tight for my next post.
You read that title right, this is an actual thing. People who are physically adults, but mentally still children. The type of people who go their entire lives in an infantile state where they do not ever progress past their overtly emotional and spastic nature. They are people who throw fits because things do not go their way (Look at what happened when Trump was elected and the collective tantrum that was thrown).
Being an emotional child is not the only symptom of being an adult child, it also includes being a child intellectually as well. Not being able to understand ideas such as "Innocent until proven otherwise," instead the narrative of "Listen and believe," is being pushed. I lost a lot of friends during the whole Trump thing because I asked "Why are you so upset," and was met with responses like, "Well he could potentially put Muslims into interment camps, and bad things could possibly happen," to which I answered, "Where are you getting this from, and even if this was true, how would he be able to legally do this when there are checks and balances that would prevent this from happening; not only that there would also be the public out cry it would cause should it actually happen?" It seems as if the logical and cognitive faculties of people turn off when politics are concerned. There's also this ridiculous notion that apparently half of the population of this country is racist now because they voted for Trump.
You know why Trump won? People got tired of hearing that their thoughts and opinions were wrong because they do not conform to the limited and skewed world view of the ultra-liberal uber elite. Trump resonated with people not because he was some well spoken Harvard educated Ubermench, but because he was like an actual human begin. He was frank, to the point, and often made an ass of himself, and for some reason people liked it. The more his opposition tried to discredit him, the more people liked him because they began saying to themselves, "These people have no fucking idea what they're talking about and what gives them the right to talk down to me? I have my own agency, I can make my own god damn decisions for myself."
See the Democrats focused on vilifying their opposition, telling everyone that Trump is "Literally Hitler," and then began talking down to their base, where as the Republicans choose a candidate that spoke to their base and was relatable.
I remember back in '08 when I was fresh out of highschool and full of optimism for the future of this country, I was finally old enough to vote, and I drank the koolaid hook line and sinker that Obama was going to be the next "Hitler," because I believed what the talking heads on the radio told me, I trusted their opinions so I voted for McCain (I physically wretch every time I remember this) because I thought at the time he was the best answer, but I was young and naive. After Obama came to power I soon came to the conclusion, "Wow, none of this actually matters, what the fuck was I thinking?" I spent all of my time being angry about shit no one cared about, I soon realized that all the rhetoric I had heard was nothing more than verbal diarrhea spewed forth at behest of major news organizations.
Ever heard of Godwin's Law? It states, "In any discussion, for however long it may go on, eventually someone will bring up Hitler and compare someone or something to him." Given that, and you may begin to understand why the claim that Trump is "Literally Hitler," holds so little water with anyone who has an intelligence above room temperature.
I survived eight years of Obama, and while he wasn't particularly a great president, he was not entirely horrible either. I mean, people ignored him killing an American citizen with zero due process during the '12 elections, but other than that I mean he did at least kill Osama Bin Laden (I was one of those weirdos that did not celebrate this event because I thought it was a little too convenient that they didn't take him alive). You can make the argument that the guy he killed was a bad dude, that he may have done a lot of shit that may have warranted the government targeting and killing him, but here's the real question that should be asked, "Should the government really be deciding for itself whether or not someone is guilty or innocent and just skip the whole due process and extra-judicially kill someone? What's stopping them from doing this to anyone else?"
Last time I checked, people are still innocent until proven otherwise.
This same kind of logic can be applied to the whole "Punch a Nazi," debate. While you may disagree with someone ideologically, it does not justify you using violence against someone. The use of violence actually signals to normal functioning human begins that you've lost the debate because you have to resort to force to silence your opposition. Does this mean I support Nazis? Nope, I think their ideology is backwards and antithetical to Western civilization, but that does not mean I am for taking away their right to think how they want to think, or their ability to exist.
Nazis have done horrible things in the past, but as they exist today they really do not have any way of regaining power, at least democratically. After what happened in the Second War it'd be a pretty hard sell for most of the general public to go along with a Nazi-esque regime.
You know it was Aristotle that said, "It is the mark of an educated mind that can entertain an idea without accepting it." (You know I'm getting full of myself when I start quote old dead dudes no one gives a shit about) Why does this quote matter? I think it has a lot to do with this attitude that people are some how fragile objects that need constant reassurance and acknowledgement in order for someone to "feel," safe and secure.
The world outside of school does not give a shit about your feelings, so stop acting like they matter (because they don't). Sure you may have gone through some shit in your life, well guess what? So has everyone else, stop expecting people to give in to your Sophist demands that they conform to your shallow understanding of reality. Want people to care about you? Show them you care about them first, everyone else is just some random ass hole that should have zero affect on your life.
So in closing, I actually managed to write about something other than magic today (Giving myself a gold-star here). I've been standing on the side lines for far to long, watching the actual rise of Fascism in the form of Antifa (Ironic really) and people who are demanding that Freedom of Speech be curtailed to spare their feelings, to which I emphatically have to say "Fuck your feelings, no one cares now let me speak and make a complete ass out of myself." - Direct, totally legit quote from me guys.
I'll leave you all off with a video from System of a Down that kind of adds emphasis to this post, feel free to leave comments below and maybe even share with your friends.
