I usually go to tagger.scryfall.com and search a card I know works for what I want, then look at the tags that card has, then swap to scryfall proper and search for all the cards that are legal in whatever format I want that have the right tag, then start parsing down from there.

Scrfall is an amazing tool and still has lots of depths I have not plumbed yet

I would try scrfall: https://scryfall.com/search?q=art%3Aangel+t%3Aland+legal%3Astandard+&unique=art&as=grid&order=name

That is all the angel art tagged lands valid for standard. You can change the legal:blah to other formats

Piefed has a couple of different ways to populate a new server. Pulling lemmyverse data and subscribing to comms that way, or scanning a remote Lemmy/mbin/pieces server for comms. You can look at that code if you want inspiration.

Usually Lemmy/piefed does a pull of the most recent 50 posts when the follow first happens. Then new posts come in over time via federation.

If you’re not getting /any/ new posts it may be that the federation is not working. If some communities gets posts more than others then it’s probably a difference in activity levels in the communities.

Aside from the make-the-world-a-better-place stuff, I’ve always wanted to have the space/time to make my own holograms.

I have this idea for claymation+lasers+holograms to make little stop motion films, but as holograms.

I don’t know if it’s possible, but if like to play with the tech and find out

Riveting!

thats a good bet yeah.

Fair. I don’t do audio stuff so I’ll take your word for it.

Agreed. A Virtual Machine is also an option. That’s how I got started, running fedora vms on my windows laptop ten+ years ago.

the announcement says its effective as of june 30th, so i’d bet a release of arena is due out today or tomorrow that will have the change.

You can also find all of his deck lists here: https://aetherhub.com/User/SwayzeMTG/Decks for easy perusal.

SwayzeMTG (https://youtube.com/@swayzemtg?si=wcoaC0Xga5EXp_Tn) is my current daily dose for interesting standard brews.

Also MTG_Creative_Combos (https://youtube.com/@mtg_creative_combos?si=2SlHou4u7lLfqjIB) and MTG Filipa (https://youtube.com/@mtgfilipa?si=rO6dDE-55me1rap9) are good channels.

Nixahon on YouTube put it like something like “even if I’m not into it for the IP or adverse to mixing in non-magic IP, I’m still going to have fun with the mechanics”. I’ve kind of used that as the touchstone for me to enjoy it.

Have not had a chance to play it yet (out of town), but that helped mollify some of my objections. Lots of the early access streams look like it will be a fun set mechanically so I’m looking forward to playing.

I’ve never seen anyone say it was cheating. more like haveling a pocket reference manual.

you can get the same info with quick alt-tabbing to 17lands really, it’s just convenient to have it as an overlay.

I liked them more for the collection tracking convenience myself. that became a lot harder once WoTC took the collection data out of the logs.

I saw the code for one tracker that basically injects some c++ or unity code or something into the memory where arena is running and gets the collection data that way. it does not seem to work in proton the same way though, at least not for me.

Two votes for Nizzahon (YouTube) and Lords of Limited (Podcast, YouTube).

https://www.17lands.com/ is your friend if you have not found that yet. If you’re on windows there are also various collection tracker/game overlays that can give you info about the cards in a pack while you’re in the draft.

I liked https://mtga.untapped.gg/companion and/or https://mtgaassistant.net/Download when I was on windows.

Sadly there are none that really work on linux at the moment. That I have been able to find anyway.

Biometrics are fine as a /username/ but should not be used as a password - heard that on some security podcast ages ago and have kept with it since.

So basically I don’t use biometrics, lol

For the federating its a new kind of AP actor. I’ll be putting in a FEP for it in the near future, but its basically a “Group” that only cares about the “Following” collection.

You can see example json for the AP interactions here: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/activitypub_examples/feeds

The AP interactions for a Feed are:

• Send a Follow request for a Feed
• Accept a Follow request (this is automatic for public feeds)
• Reject a Follow request (this is automatic for private feeds)
• Announce an Add of a Community to a Feed
• Announce a Remove of a Community from a Feed
• Send a Delete of a Feed to subscribers

Shapeshifter, magic, immortal. Boom.

Hello from PieFed!

Dominaria/Brothers War is what was coming out the first time i got into magic. That was a fun time.

Now im back after a couple year break and am getting caught back up on all the happenings.

It seems like standard is a lot healthier now, there is a huge range of good and fun decks, so im happy about that. Im not sure how the universes beyond cards being legal in standard will fly. Im willing to give it a shot but spiderman next to Elspeth or Squee just feels… weird to me.

I’m trying to get into some of the other formats as well, to keep my interest longer this time.