A [[Kird Ape]] for a new age.
DakraMystic
joined 2 years ago
The model certainly has some obvious flaws like you noticed with Dynamo and Powerstone. I don't think it "counts" words or symbols on cards and it definitely doesn't have a notion of the "role" a card might play in a deck other than its key words.
I like using it when I have a card that has a niche intersection of mechanics/words and I want to find all the cards that are as similar as possible without manually searching every possible subset of those mechanics or words.
That's exactly correct. The similarity model basically ranks the importance of keywords based on how rare they are in the entire body of text. So for Counterspell "target" is pretty much irrelevant because so many things target but "counter" and "spell" are significant because they're rarer. Then it more or less quantifies the similarity of any two cards by how frequently they use these important keywords.
[[Blightcaster]]] vibes <3
I'm very happy for BW to see real support for non-aristocrats and non-aggro archetypes. I can imagine this card being a key piece in a board based control shell.
In EDH you get access to three Impetuses right off the bat which is nice. One of them is even courteous enough to recur itself.
I have to wonder if in commander the threat of the second ability might incentivize your opponents to kill this creature earlier or more often than the first ability.
[[Ghoulish Impetus]]
[[Martial Impetus]]
[[Parasitic Impetus]]
What a warped view to have. It sounds like you're projecting a small number of negative experiences onto the whole community who plays by just another set of rules.
Good to see them all (?) in one place!