Cornwall’s Random Card of the Day #554: Irencrag Pyromancer

Irencrag Pyromancer is a rare from Throne of Eldraine, seen here in its Jumpstart printing.

It’s always weird to see a 0/4 red creature with no ability to pump its power. But this one isn’t about combat damage, it’s about burn! I guess that helps. Obviously there was some kinda “draw two cards in a turn” theme in red in Throne of Eldraine, which is facilitated by the rummaging ability I mentioned a couple posts ago. Always neat when things work out that way.

That was one of the most weirdly confusing mechanics for new players. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to walk people through that this only works once per turn. Or god forbid “Opponent’s second card”

Having had no experience with Throne of Eldraine cards, I do love getting feedback on what these cards were like to, y’know, actually PLAY. Shame this mechanic was tough on newbies, cause it’s returned at least once since.

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Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.

In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.

The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.

The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.

Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.

The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.

4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won't adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.

i think asking someone what they want as a gift to make sure that the gift is something they want/need is more important than not asking in order to surprise them with something they don’t. unless im really sure i know what to get someone, then im gonna ask cause i want to give them something theyll actually like

This is our family tradition, it’s better to give someone what they want than be the cool guy who guessed

Was anyone gonna tell me Vincent Martella, voice of Phineas Flynn on the Disney Channel original show Phineas and Ferb is on some absolute king shit on his twitter or did i just have to see this amazing series of tweets myself?

There’s more just go fucking look yourself

BOY’S ON SOME REAL KING SHIT LEMME TELL YA

I have to add this gem

This man understands free love, he plays a character who wants to fuck an ice cream machine

what the fuck was wrong with people that Labyrinth was originally a flop. How could they take any aspect of it so for granted. How could they fucking do that to Jim Henson. Newspapers were calling it boring and even ugly. I want to go back in time and beat their asses.

when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

I sometimes wonder what the IP situation for Homestuck actually looks like. Like, yes, on paper Andrew Hussie sold the rights to Homestuck outright to Viz Media in 2017, but what did he actually sell? What did they actually buy? Hussie famously made extensive use of uncompensated fan-labour in large parts of the comic's production, including labour performed pseudonymously and/or labour provided by minors, and definitely there's a conversation to be had about the ethical dimension of that – you can genuinely make an argument that Homestuck was built on the back of child labour law violations, which I bet isn't a sentence you were expecting to read today! – but I have to imagine it's also rendered the comic's IP situation a hopeless mess.

@empress-runner replied:

Ironically, that's probably the less thorny part; in general, you can argue transformative use a lot more easily than you can argue that you had an enforceable verbal contract with a fourteen-year-old.

okay i don't think this would work but it WOULD be funny: every contributing artist on homestuck sends a dmca to Viz at once

i love when judges get catty with their official rulings

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I love this also. But it reminds me of the loss of my precious gatherer comments!

One of my favorite tropes is character with a nasty toxic personality who tries very hard to do the right thing anyway

I like my protagonists sad, tired, bitter, fully convinced they will never get the recognition they deserve, but they still gotta get up in the morning and be a good person

i ended up googling how many billionaires there are because of this whole fiasco and there are almost three tHOUSAND billionaires. that is what... trillions of dollars being horded. trillions of dollars that could feed people, house people, educate people. trillions of dollars that could be used to make sanctuaries, protect land and animals, make entire swaths of the world just places where the planet can breathe.

two thousand, seven hundred people. that's just... a particularly dense neighborhood. owning enough wealth to save the world and instead spend on killing it and sometimes killing themselves.

that's what people who go "aw, they're still human beings, aren't they?" don't get. to me, this sounds like fucking space invaders who landed on the planet and just stole the entire food supply. that's not a fellow human being, that is a roadblock to fucking survival. that's my enemy and, yes, i cheer when my enemy dies sometimes.