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    I have this ongoing obsession with this current trend of cards being printed w whitespace in the set symbols. I feel as though they're begging us to color it in using a marker, and I already bought a gold marker for that exact purpose. (Defacing MtG cards ftw.) I've done this to a few Baldur's Gate cards I bought previously, and I plan to try it on Commander Masters next.

    The marker I use is kinda thicc, but I don't know a good place to get one with a finer tip. And it does a decent enough job. From a distance, you wouldn't notice that it the gold was colored in.

    When I think it through a bit, I guess my goal ought to be to acquire the most expensive card or cards in an expansion and deface those, for maximum effect. And better yet, I should post it on social media. Recording it would be even better than taking photos, since there's that experience of horror as I take a marker to an $80 card while viewers helplessly watch. I don't have a tripod, so maybe I should get one. For the time being though, I bought a booster box of Baldur's Gate for the heck of it. I'm not unlikely to open a Mother of Runes or some other goodies for my deck. But the best catch would be an Ancient Copper Dragon.
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      Editing … Here's what I mean by the whitespace. It looks so out of place. https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/79/capture-of-jingzhou
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      Editing … I see nothing. This is some serious nerd rage right here.
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      Editing … I'm all for it though.
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      Editing … The booster box arrived today, man that was fast.
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      Editing … Weird, it won't let me post a new status. Anyway, I opened the booster box. And inside was a copper dragon!! And two more elder dragons!! Achievement unlocked, I don't need to bother w this expansion anymore since I already have the single most valuable card in it. Strangely I did not open any Mother of Runes, despite it being an uncommon, I thought for sure the box would contain at least one. Lol, weird luck.
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      Editing … https://scryfall.com/card/clb/161/ancient-copper-dragon 50 dollar card ^_^ https://scryfall.com/card/clb/3/ancient-gold-dragon 11 dollars, meh. https://scryfall.com/card/clb/406/ancient-bronze-dragon this one I got in this kewl alternate style. (Not sure what it's called) I plan to put it in my deck. edit: maybe I should hold on to the white one? It combos funny w Maskwood Nexus.
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      Editing … I also opened this which is $15 https://scryfall.com/card/clb/81/kindred-discovery
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      Editing … You gonna deface them?
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      Editing … I'm gun save the $50 copper dragon for when I'm ready to record myself coloring it. Maybe I'll create a tiktok account just for that reason, in addition to posting it on Twitter. Also, those Leonardo da Vinci sketchbook style cards.. look fine. The pure white doesn't look quite as out of place (I say this even though the background is tan..... sooo... yeah?) so maybe I'll leave those as is. My hatred only applied to the standard frame.
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      Editing … You seen very passionate about this. I'll leave you to it. I'll be waiting for all the nerds around the globe to cry out in pain.
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      Editing … Hey I notice on Twitter that a lot of videos in the tiktok style (as in vertical) have captions and subtitles? Is that something tiktok is able to add automatically? If so I should absolutely join tiktok and be careful that I record in the proper orientation. I could add passive aggressive captions, e.g. "a cool feature on magic cards recently" pause "there is a blank spot you can fill in with your favorite color!" followed by a bunch of hokey positive emojis.
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      Editing … Why do you ask here? We are all too old for tiktok. You'll have to converse with gen z.
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      Editing … Then I'll become favslist's tiktok ambassador.
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      Editing … P.s. you were the only one willing to engage w me on this super interesting, not fringe at all topic. Thank you klem.
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      Editing … lol welcome. a tiktok ambassador would be great. I don't get it and I am disturbed every time I see it on people's phones.
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      Editing … I did the marker thing and it looks good but not one person I played irl mentioned it. (they obviously had to have noticed though) My tiktok video leveled out after just one day with only 800 views and 5 likes. Rather anti climactic. I think I may stop, the marker expires very quickly, it looks best on the first day I use it, after that I feel I have about 2-3 weeks to use the marker before I have to throw it out, and it looks gradually shittier until then, (less shiny/metallic and the gold looks to have vaguely muddy/greenish tone. ironically the bronze seems to look better over time) Furthermore, I find card stock very very abrasive so I think I may stop buying booster packs totally after this. Thank god I was spurred into buying singles before this happened. That will be the only way I'll acquire cards from now on... though I could allow myself an exception from time to time.
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      Editing … Wait... You actually used tiktok?! But you're over the age of 15. Is that legal?
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      Editing … It's super weird. The home screen for tiktok app is a random video and you swipe up to see another one. In other words you open the app and it will immediately start playing a shitty random video without even asking you. Apparently having a home screen that is a bunch of thumbnails so you can choose what to watch, like how yt does it, is so incredibly outdated and totally not hip with the younguns.
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      Editing … What? really? this is the weirdest thing I have learnd about tiktok but I should have guessed it would be like that. But that makes it even more dangerous. Even babies can use it then.
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      Editing … Yes, like that clip of a toddler swiping up in his sleep. The screen generation. It's terrifying stuff.
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      Editing … But I thought gen z was already the screen generation... then gen alpha will either become screens themselves or trancend the screen entierly and ascend to unimaginable heights in the real world while the rest of us remain in darkness illuminated by decreasingly amusing yet increasingly unproductive screen activities.
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