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I respectfully disagree. Green in MtG is about growth, power of life, abundance (not harmony). Black is about destruction, death and suppression (not “individualism” or “at all costs mentality”). You can build your strategy on all these.
FYI - you can play mtg (even edh) online with your friends or randos: https://cockatrice.github.io/
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For what it's worth, I know enough people who went on from MtG to make a ton of money in poker and/or finance that I'd probably perk up if someone with decent Grand Prix or Pro Tour finishes popped up during hiring. That said I am also biased and sentimental.
There's a whole team of them in SIG, Pikkula now works at Citadel, John Finkel runs a $1B AUM HF, etc.
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As someone who used to play magic, can you explain what "Elks for life" means?
I had not heard that phrase, but I imagine it refers to the recently printed Oko, Thief of Crowns. A card that dominated every format until it was banned in all but Legacy, Vintage, and EDH. It is (almost) universally agreed to be the most busted Plainswalker in Magic. And it is unique in that when you first read the card you think ‘meh, no big deal’... then you play against it and lose every time. https://gatherer.w…
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There's also the Whatshisface Schema: BLACK: Big-picture executive thinking. RED: Thinking like a Reddit commenter. (Glib, humorous oneliners) ORANGE: Thinking like a Hackernews commenter. (Glib, contrarian milti-liners.) YELLOW: The color of the sun, sunflowers, lions, and therefore courage and the heart, as in middle ages medicine. GREEN: Thinking about the environment, or money, or both. CYAN: Coming up with busin…
What about PURPLE?
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By now I'm pretty sure that English-speakers are gradually forgetting what punctuation is. Quotes and commas are already basically dead—instead, we receive titlecase and italics, and convoluted stream-of-words sentences.
Just be thankful in English there are spaces. Chinese doesn't have even that!
Every time “Magic: The Gathering” is mentioned it seriously throws off my phrase parsing for like half a minute. What about “the magic”? What is “the gathering color wheel”? I wish “Magic: The Gathering” was in quotes.
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By now I'm pretty sure that English-speakers are gradually forgetting what punctuation is. Quotes and commas are already basically dead—instead, we receive titlecase and italics, and convoluted stream-of-words sentences.
Yeah, runs of nouns and gerunds are notoriously hard to parse. Even a short phrase like "Finding Nemo Audience" cannot be parsed unambiguously. That's what you get when most words can function as nouns verbs and adjectives alike. "The old man the boat." - a grammatically correct sentence in English. It's like Perl of human languages :)
Doesn’t really apply to the post title, though. Quotes would help. In Germany we have a thing called “Durchkopplung”. Basically, there are no spaces allowed inside nouns, so compounds are either concatenated or “durchgekoppelt” (which nobody does, unfortunately): The Magic-The-Gathering-Color-Wheel. However, in this case, the most elegant solution would simply be a more clear construction: “The color wheel of ‘Magic: The Gathering’” or, less fortunate, “Magic-The-Gathering’s color wheel”.