TehPers

Depends on what you need to match. Regex is just another programming language. It’s more declarative than traditional languages though (it’s basically pattern matching).

Pattern matching is something I already do a lot of in my code, so regexes aren’t that much different.

Regardless, the syntax sucks. It takes some time to get familiar with it, but once you get past that, it’s really simple.

To me, it seems like this article is overemphasizing code duplication as problematic. If multiple types of searches use some of the same fields, it’s okay to just copy them to each search type that uses them. This also allows each search type to be independently updated later on to add additional fields or deprecate existing fields without affecting other search types.

Fields that should always exist together should probably be moved to a struct containing those fields, if there’s some concept that encapsulates them. Paging fields, for example, that exist only on two of three variants can just live in their own struct, and those two variants can have fields of that type.

Code duplication is only really problematic when all duplicates need to be updated together every time. That does not seem to be the case here.

You don’t even need to do things with the counters. The decks that want this land can station it really quickly just by doing what they already want to do. In those decks, this is functionally just Gaea’s Cradle behind the city’s blessing.

Depends on the format. In commander, this probably makes the 99, but in other constructed formats, Slivers aren’t really known for their longevity.

It can still be used to cast spells from exile, like permanents with adventures or warped spells.

But yeah, it seems designed to not be broken like Urza’s ability was.

Agreed. This card is insane. It’ll definitely support older formats than just standard.

.NET is more of a runtime and SDKs than a framework, despite the terrible naming of .NET Framework (which is now an obsolete runtime anyway, new naming is just .NET).

ASP.NET Core (which also is named after the now obsolete .NET Core runtime hilariously) would be closer to the other listed frameworks.

Similar to Justice Strike. That card saw some play in standard, but it was 2 mana. Not sure if it’ll be worth it for 3 mana, even in mono red, but there might just not be a better mono red removal spell for big creatures at this cost.

Notably you only get the first spell you cast on your turn, so after playing this, your opponent gets the first free spell.

There is no way this card isn’t unbelievably broken.

This is awesome! More options at 2230 is great for Steam Deck users, and even some laptops (my Framework 16 for example) have 2230 slots where a 2280 would be too long.

It makes you feel the wind a little too well though. But I guess that’s probably a problem for everyone.

If you don’t leave a voicemail, I assume it wasn’t important.

I get asked sometimes when I don’t leave a voicemail why I didn’t. It’s because I don’t really care if you call back. I called because of something urgent, but not important. Just text me instead.

Unstoppable Slasher at home.

Seriously. Slasher is so pushed. It’s insane that card is 3 mana. Even wilder that it’s not even close to broken in current standard, but maybe that just means that power level is where we’re at now.

The ward on this is nice, but at 5 mana, the opponent will have many ways to answer it. Or they can just take the hit and block it since it’s only a 3/3 I guess.

Selesnya counters? Was that the deck with Venerated Loxodon?

I hope so. Selesnya has a ton of support right now, especially with the Gearhulk. That plus Sheltered by Ghosts can be the core of a counters deck.

The other deck that came to mind was Simic adapt, but I think that was in the beta.

I too want all AI chatbots to be unhinged Nazis. That way we might be able to all move off this chatbot bullshit and back to communicating and working with humans.

For an ability locked behind 12+ charge counters, I’d have hoped for an ability that favors big red. Maybe a ritual or some other kind of ramp instead? The haste might still be useful, but I’m sure there’s something better there.

A 3 mana bushwhacker on a land is nice, but this feels like it’d be too slow for the aggro decks that really want this.

Worst case they can come up with a new name in the future.

I’d love to see this token used in more places in the future like we do with treasures, clues, food, maps, etc but it might take some time before it’s reused if they’re waiting to see how it’s received by players.

Yeah this one’s interesting. I think sadly its best synergies are in other colors. Turning your artifacts into food is super interesting, but it doesn’t make anything else into an artifact.

The most I can see with this is that you can combo it with Academy Manufactor like you mentioned, which might lead to a combo deck where you make a ton of cheap artifact tokens and they make treasures and clues to draw and play the entire deck. But breaking Academy Manufactor is not really that impressive.

This will either be ass or busted, and I’m inclined to lean towards busted, assuming you can station while summoning sick like you can with crewing. Playing this t1 and tapping all your creatures when they ETB until this hits 12+ feels free in a meta where aggro doesn’t overrun you in 3 turns. Plus, artifact decks tend to make big creatures pretty quickly, and Tolarian Academy is OP pretty much everywhere.