[PB56] NobleHelium Tells It Like It Is

[NobleHelium]

I am a walking planet of drama. Just came across this from back in the day.

Why are you asking me questions then telling me not to post in your thread?

[Bobchillingworth]

Oh, an older thread that still has screencaps, that's fun. I was wondering what ever happened to Germanic Joey, but according to his profile he's still around. More of the High Blood Pressure Gang ought to get involved in these games again, what with Gaspar being back. Look at/for you, Boldly.



Also, formally confirming for posterity that I'm ded-lurking this thread as well, for absolutely no other reason than to give Noble a cheap excuse to annoy Mjmd, were he so inclined.

[Charriu]

Oh, an older thread that still has screencaps, that's fun.  I was wondering what ever happened to Germanic Joey, but according to his profile he's still around.  More of the High Blood Pressure Gang ought to get involved in these games again, what with Gaspar being back.  Look at/for you, Boldly. 



Also, formally confirming for posterity that I'm ded-lurking this thread as well, for absolutely no other reason than to give Noble a cheap excuse to annoy Mjmd, were he so inclined.

Boldy played last in PB43 together with Mr. Cairo, if I remember correctly.

[Serdoa]

Oh, an older thread that still has screencaps, that's fun.  I was wondering what ever happened to Germanic Joey, but according to his profile he's still around.  More of the High Blood Pressure Gang ought to get involved in these games again, what with Gaspar being back.  Look at/for you, Boldly. 



Also, formally confirming for posterity that I'm ded-lurking this thread as well, for absolutely no other reason than to give Noble a cheap excuse to annoy Mjmd, were he so inclined.

Now we just need to re-activate Seven and get him to publicly announce that he ded-lurks us as well and I'm sure someones head will explode in disbelief 

[sunrise089]

Can I get a 1-sentence summary of what the deal is with MJMD and why we’d want to annoy him/her? I know nothing of the player...

[Charriu]

You could create an account called SevenSpirit.

[Bobchillingworth]

Can I get a 1-sentence summary of what the deal is with MJMD and why we’d want to annoy him/her? I know nothing of the player...

Mjmd raised an obnoxious stink in the PB56 game organization thread because he was upset that Serdoa was going to ded-lurk Noble, in an obvious attempt to conduct diplomacy and form a pre-game coalition against them, in defiance of custom, rules, and propriety.

[NobleHelium]

That was an impressive sentence. I didn't think it could be done in only one.

Also I didn't know that obstreperous was a word until you changed your forum title, although I may have seen it once or twice before.

[Bobchillingworth]

It's a wonderful word, though I must confess that I stole my title from Star Control II, wherein the player can convince a race of gruff, moderately obnoxious alien space bikers to adopt it as the new name for their civilization.

[NobleHelium]

Okay team, while we wait let's discuss my favorite pregame topic which is the naming scheme!

Originally I was planning to go with Magic: The Gathering cards, of which there is a nearly limitless number and we can pick a suitable one for each city based upon its location and whatnot.  However if anyone has a burning idea of a naming scheme I'd love to hear it.

Also I assume many of you (wider lurker crowd included) have played MTG before so I'm happy to hear about your favorite card(s) that you want cities named after.  No promises that I'll actually use the card of course, I'm probably not going to use a card if I hate it. (Although there are very few cards that I truly hate.) My favorite cards are engine cards, cards that provide repeatable value.  As you might expect, I am fond of planeswalkers.  I am most at home playing decks that win by incremental advantage - which is usually a midrange deck but not always.  And not all midrange decks are incremental advantage decks.  I would say the most famous midrange deck, Jund Midrange, is attrition midrange rather than incremental advantage.  Midrange decks in say Sultai colors tend to be more about incremental advantage than ones in Jund colors.



Tireless Tracker is the prototypical midrange engine value card.  It turns your lands (which usually do not provide any value but are necessary so that you can play your cards) into clues that can be sacrificed for 2 mana for another card. So in essence your lands draw more cards, which is great value. It is also possibly my favorite card, although I have never actually cast it or had it under my control on the battlefield.

EDIT: I just realized that most (interesting) MTG card names are probably over 15 characters. So we might need a new naming scheme. Not sure.