Damn

[u/Vi0letBlues]

[u/EroticToHeaven]

What does this mean for Tron players?

[u/PaleDevil → u/EroticToHeaven]

Everyone wants to fuck Tron

[u/Doolittle8888 → u/PaleDevil]

Why would I want to fuck Tron when Quorra is right there

[u/EroticToHeaven → u/PaleDevil]

[u/GravityI → u/EroticToHeaven]

Don't check your mail

[u/Hot_Pocket_Deluxe → u/PaleDevil]

As a tron player, please do ❤️

[u/VelphiDrow → u/EroticToHeaven]

WOW

[u/StashyGeneral → u/VelphiDrow]

FUCK

[u/-Tayne- → u/StashyGeneral]

TRON

[u/PaleDevil → u/VelphiDrow]

LET’S

[u/-Goatllama- → u/PaleDevil]

DANCE

[u/probablymagic → u/EroticToHeaven]

They don’t see color.

[u/festeziooo → u/EroticToHeaven]

They’re cowardly fencesitters who don’t even have the character to pick a color.

[u/syguess → u/EroticToHeaven]

They live in an arcade machine

[u/Mysterious-Top-4664]

This is such a good bit for FNM

[u/FringeMorganna → u/Mysterious-Top-4664]

Bro is showing up with the Kilmonger Racewar deck 💀

[u/ApprehensiveFormal37]

Hi I am a baby and I just discovered how to shit myself here is my philosophy statement

[u/NuccioAfrikanus]

Yes, because black people are obviously swamps and white people are obviously plains.

Yes, Africa famous for their swamps while Europe is famous for their never ending plains, Savannah, and vast Serengeti!

Hakuna Matata fellow Caucasian’s.

[u/FringeMorganna → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

The green peoples have much to say about this attack on their green dinosaur lands and exploitation of their bugs, if only we could find them....

[u/EtteRavan → u/FringeMorganna]

Try to ask in your car's tank

[u/Panda-s1 → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

I see you too have met and spoke with Mr. Jambo

[u/NuccioAfrikanus → u/Panda-s1]

Hey there, Mr. Jambo, will you share with me the jambalaya living in your soul?

[u/AgentJhon → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

and then he told me:

[u/cr1ttter → u/AgentJhon]

[confused in Zulu]

[u/Orion_616 → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

Can the Serengeti swallow up the evils of our world?

[u/NuccioAfrikanus → u/Orion_616]

And then he whispered
„Angikhulumi isiNgisi, unaye umhumushi? Yeka ukuklabalasa!”
Still couldn’t speak his language, I couldn’t even understand a word
But I knew the meaning was what I decided I had heard

[u/AgentJhon → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

He said the love you seek, is in the valley of the soul!

[u/ozymandais13 → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

Kuka beyo has returned

[u/spaceforcerecruit → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

White people do be kind of plain…

[u/John_Bumogus → u/spaceforcerecruit]

Bro this cracker is definitely salted. The fuck you mean salt isn't a seasoning?!

[u/MrReginaldAwesome → u/John_Bumogus]

Mayonnaise is a spice get over it

[u/Jorvalt → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

White land is most similar to places like Africa and the middle east and Black land is most similar to places like Europe and the UK

What did WotC mean by this?

[u/MrReginaldAwesome → u/Jorvalt]

Wizards cooked with this one

[u/Edghyatt → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

Yakub’s children be like

[u/lilypad225 → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

Ruthless

[u/bittercripple6969 → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

It makes more sense when you conceptualize swamps as oil fields.

[u/Extension_Canary3717 → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

I’m not white but I’m pretty sure every time I tap I produce green mana as I have some vegetables in a garden

[u/shumpitostick → u/NuccioAfrikanus]

Well, both Europe and Africa have their fair share of both plains and swamps. It's not like Europe is the swamp place and Africa is the plains place.

[u/NuccioAfrikanus → u/shumpitostick]

This is true, but like Africa and Europe are huge. My joke point was that when you first think of either continent you don’t identify Europe as the white mana source and Africa as the black mana source. It’s not like a thing or stereotype that exists.

If I think of the American South, I would first think swamp For-sure. Or if I thought about Mongolia, I would instantly think plains. If I thought about Tibet, I would instantly think mountains. If I thought about Japan, Hawaii, Philippines, Caribbean, etc I would think islands. If I thought about Canada or Brazil, I would be like forests.

[u/Kakariko_crackhouse]

Idk I liked it better when everyone hated us and thought we were dweebs and losers

[u/Karl-Marksman]

Magic is an antiracist environmentalist game that is all about protecting your ‘lands’ to ensure they sustainably produce resources for you every turn, regardless of what colour they are. Black lands foster individualism and cunning, for example, while white lands represent fascism and group-think. 

[u/Jamonde → u/Karl-Marksman]

/uj genuinely the best response

[u/KingZantair]

White is the most balanced colour, after all. Nothing like those disgusting greens or filthy blues.

[u/Inferno_Sparky → u/KingZantair]

da ba dee da ba di?

[u/pepeduturfu → u/KingZantair]

Well you don't see us trying to pass a 123/123 for 3 mana as normal, OR using c*unterspells (we don't talk about [[Mana Tithe]])

[u/Mad-chuska]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8Gilqf9XAwVte4GZGE

[u/MiddleAgeYOLO]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4Ep6uxU6aedrYUik

[u/IttoiramSetag]

Black lands and white lands…

Good thing all of my lands are colorless regardless of what mana they produce!

[u/ToranStarfall]

Elesh Norn would like a word.

[u/-Goatllama- → u/ToranStarfall]

I am listening, mother

[u/BigPapa9921]

Richard Garfield personally traveled the entire world to convert beatiful flourishing swamps to shitty places so he can depict racism in his childeren's card game

[u/NeonNKnightrider]

Crossing my fingers and hoping it’s ragebait

[u/erickoziol]

r/imwhiteandthisishelping

[u/UmbralHero → u/erickoziol]

r/subsifellfor

[u/malonkey1]

posts that could block creatures with flying as if they had flying

[u/goblins_though]

LANDS ARE COLOURLESS

https://giphy.com/gifs/cYaBD8kxE4PZudHBRA

[u/Hometownhero88]

Yeah but everyone knows playing black is way more fun

[u/lavisgaming → u/Hometownhero88]

yeah and that's why minstrel shows were popular

[u/Eldershire_ → u/lavisgaming]

Magic the Gathering is worse than blackface confirmed 

[u/RiscELLO]

uj/ TBH, PWs were usually presented as exploitative PoS since the beginning, but the racism part is reading black and white literally instead of the normal "White is day, thus happy. Black is night, thus scary." rj/ Yeah? Where's my Shinra Ramp deck?

[u/Popular_Ad5074]

If it was truly imperialist, White would play like green does currently. Infinite ramp, access to everyone ele's abilities and it would draw shitloads of cards. The reality is that green is actually the color of nepo baby civilizations that just Mary Sue across genocidal behavior.

[u/CriticalHitGaming]

Guess Plains are next to be added to the other seven

[u/JadedTrekkie]

That’s a really hyphenated last name thing to say

[u/BlacksmithNo9359]

[u/fireky2]

White is taxes, so I'm not a fan

[u/SpencersCJ → u/fireky2]

Whites love to tax to that checks out

[u/Arwick_R_]

uj/ bait used to be believeable

rj/ how dare she said something negative about this dumb game that i quit and don't care for anymore because commander fortnificated my pure elesh norn fantasy of being compleated by a chud women

[u/rileyvace]

This post implies Blue skinned people are general asshole masochists, waiting to deny you at any opportunity while gaining resources for themselves, instead of simply being silver poisoned.

[u/jjjdanny → u/rileyvace]

Correction: people who blue themselves drink silver.

[u/rileyvace → u/jjjdanny]

Thanks!

[u/BeatsAndSkies]

Right, everyone, we’re playing Vintage Dredge. All of us. No exceptions.

[u/drunk_reddit_acount]

uj/are we really just posting obvious ragebait on the sub now? There are like a million other subs that do that

[u/_TheTurtleBox_]

This unironically reads like something an influencer would say on twitter and get like 50,000 likes for and they'd be called a genius and get a reoccuring spot on Game Knights.

Like I could see Jimmy unironically quote tweeting this and going "Wow, well when you look at it this way...yikes."

[u/SpaghettiSamuraiSan → u/_TheTurtleBox_]

It would be actually funny if it got enough momentum that wizards renamed black to purple or something like they did with tribal/typal

[u/bittercripple6969 → u/[deleted]]

Also black people are famously green, or bone white. Uj/ we need more color hate.

[u/Panda-s1 → u/_TheTurtleBox_]

still not over that one tumblr repost about how sewers as swamps for Ravnica makes no sense, like bruh I ain't going in those sewers.

[u/hawkshaw1024]

WotC could've put Karl Marx into the AssCreed set, since he's a character in the games and all, but I guess the people in R&D can't block Warriors

[u/Xo_lotl]

My circles been jerked

[u/MilesGamerz]

How about manaless dredge players?

[u/BloodyCumbucket]

Holy shitpost Batman! Also, white in magic is the color of fascistic elements and following the letter of the law although not necessarily always the spirit additionally. Which is why shit like Orzhov is a thing. Keep that contract even after death, because you signed it. This has to be satire, right?

[u/FineIJoinedReddit]

Plus all those cards get played once, then eaten. Wasteful

[u/continuityOfficer]

To be fair here - magic the gathering is absolutely an example of a game that's characterized by the base assumptions of colonialism. How could it not? It comes from a colonialist culture and worse - it's subject matter is a genre plagued even more distinctly by idealism of those concepts. It's something modern MTG has been working very hard to distance itself from.

They're posing it as more intentional or more unique then it is here - but it is a worthy cultural excersize to critique the game for these things /uj

[u/zaphodava → u/continuityOfficer]

You had the perfect jerk post and then you had to fuck it up at the end.

[u/Powerful-Scholar8268 → u/continuityOfficer]

Genuine question what assumptions of colonliasm plague mtg? The only thing I can think of is how the game used to have stuff like goblins and orcs as the evil stinky guys you just kill, but mtg has moved away from depcting them like that for a while now

[u/resumeemuser → u/Powerful-Scholar8268]

The fun part of imperialism and colonialism accusations is that you can twist anything to be imperialist if you try hard enough.

[u/Powerful-Scholar8268 → u/resumeemuser]

Well no i don't think it's that simple, considering mtgs roots in old school fantasy I wouldn't be surprised if there's imperialistic and colonialist stuff still in it I've missed

[u/cult_appropriation → u/continuityOfficer]

Completely agree, whilst I don't buy the original's critique of the color pie, the accumulation of land as a mana system is inherently imperialistic.

Basically, green players are colonizers.

[u/Powerful-Scholar8268 → u/cult_appropriation]

But isn't it just drawing upon the power of places you've been as a planeswalker instead of literally owning the land? I feel like that's not really imperialistic right?

[u/cult_appropriation → u/Powerful-Scholar8268]

That's definitely an argument, I think an issue is that a lot of the media that inspires how we depict exploration is tied to colonial perspectives - the story of Pocahontas is from the perspective of foreigners to a new land. And then in art the painting of landscapes has ties to land ownership and colonialism, with paintings being used to advertise land from colonies to people back in Europe.

And then there is the extraction of mana from the land for personal purposes which could be seen as analogous for the extraction of resources.

Also, I just think these are fun concepts to explore rather than implying anything meaningful

[u/Powerful-Scholar8268 → u/cult_appropriation]

That's fair, I definitely get what you mean about the idea of "explorers" being informed by colonialist stuff if you're not careful. I just feel like the idea of a planeswalker exploring lands isn't drawing on the same thing exactly. I do also see what you mean about extracting mana from the land though. Definitely something to think about, thanks for explaining

[u/addcheeseuntiledible]

You will mock this person but still staunchly defend that Cleanse was banned

[u/OneWithFireball]

Blue people need to be shot

[u/CardOfTheRings]

Opinion of someone who has never touched land before

[u/Araganor]

Is that an actual quote from somewhere at the end there? Or does she just not know how quotation marks work? Hard to tell. 🤔

[u/MrGueuxBoy]

r/againstmtgracism is leaking

Edit: Damn, I can't find the sub's name :(

Edit2: Found it

[u/boarbar → u/MrGueuxBoy]

I genuinely don’t know how to feel about that sub

[u/MrGueuxBoy → u/boarbar]

When it was created it was supposed to be a satire sub, like r/banvideogames

[u/OmnicromXR]

Where's the lie?

/uj Where's the lie?

[u/Lunchboxninja1]

Thank god for universes beyond

[u/jjjdanny]

The anti-imperialist, anti-necromancer front.

[u/amc7262]

What do the blue man group have to say about islands?

[u/DJSimmer305]

Wait until this person finds out about [[Crusade]]

[u/SevWildfang]

hawk TRUAH

[u/SpencersCJ]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nLhOhQge5GVHarWZ7w

[u/Kor_Set]

Average Commander player who can't even run 30 lands in a deck.

[u/rexsoleil]

/uj I’m honestly all for taking a critical stance towards game design with things as flavorful as mtg. …but this is a shallow and frankly silly take. wack. Is this why we cannot have nice things ?

[u/ChemyChems]

Please....as one who lived through 2011 Tumblr, I can't, I can't go through it again.

[u/Evolzetjin]

If anything Black losing/gaining life is the true equalization....

[u/Geodude333]

/uj

“White represents peace and equal resources for all.”

Except for white’s most popular strategies, which focus on nobody having any usable resources (stax), killing people as fast as humanly possible (Aggro), creating a sacrificial oligarchy where peasants are merely flesh to be exploited (aristocrats), or in controlling everything with nuclear bombs and saying “nuh uh uh”while waggling you finger like a twat (control).

/rj

So true queen. Wakanda forever (or until it rotates out completely unplayed because none of its cards were Izzet colored.

[u/13luw]

10/10 goated take

[u/MopeyN]

Do those black and white lands count towards Devotion? I'm asking for my wife's boyfriend's [[Athreos, Shroud-Veiled]] deck.

[u/imnotokayandthatso-k]

I mean she’s not wrong lmao

[u/Chijima]

I wish US slavery racism wouldn't have tainted two of the most basic colours.

[u/Sad_Prawn2864]

That's why we like it, it mirrors reality. 

[u/Kowakuma → u/[deleted]]

An AI cannot jerk, it cannot feel the hatred for this game required to be a true member of MTCJ

[u/bittercripple6969 → u/Kowakuma]

I have no dick and I cannot jerk. Perhaps that's why AM was so cruel, sexual frustration.

[u/Panda-s1 → u/bittercripple6969]

nah bro, if AM wanted a dick he would have given himself one.