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Any dark habits of Magic that you’d like to confess to the rest of us?

(Very awesome cards, btw… I lol’d)

Fricking awesome, that’s what you are.

LOL!

I’m both a bit awed by how much thought and effort you’ve put into this and…maybe a little…worried….

Nice work. Yes/We Can and Renewable Energy look like they could be useful in a real deck.

… Where the heck did the quote for the “Si Se Puede!” card come from?

As awesome as that was — and it WAS awesome — what I want to know most is when Colbert did that threatdown and if it’s online anywhere. That looks funny.

Andrew: I’m guessing that’s a result of the ThreatDown generator. If it’d been on the actual show, I would’ve heard the screams from Toronto.

Sig: I swear I remember seeing that in an episode, but I couldn’t point to a source.

Man, this would have been really hilarious if it had been done by someone with a sense of humor. Hopefully someone who’s actually funny will steal this idea.

Or…I guess someone could play the Keith Olbermann card and tap him to destroy target douchebag.

So… Ron Paul is a Kobold?

(By the way, what does the acronym PUMA stand for?)

Party Unity My Ass.

Best one was the Ron Paul card.

And how the hell do you know about my Maddow fantasies??! Get out of my head, Bird!

Olbermann’s sometimes a douchebag and sometimes not, in my admittedly biased opinion. I’d like to be able to say he is not now and never will be the Bill O’Reilly of the left, but can’t. Which is a shame, because I do not want us to have anybody like a Bill O’Reilly. I can say that I don’t think he’s as deranged or egotistical as Billo, FWIW.

Tell me you Photoshopped the “Obama-Biden/Osama bin Laden” bit. Not even Fox News could possibly be that fucking stupid.

God, I hope it’s Photoshopped…

and that’s why this is my favorite blog.

my favorite part was the kucinich elf, and drilling for oil.

So, McCain is a marginal finisher for a mono-red (i.e. warmongering and belicose) deck, but Obama is utterly unplayable outside of Limited?

Marvin, re-usable or not, counters that only target a specific mechanic are only going to see sideboard play, and 1U is the correct casting cost for those even at Common rarity - I’d say Maddow is fine. Agree that Michelle Obama is utterly broken, and you should add Mike Huckabee to the list (5/4 for 3 with a drawback you can ignore at will? Sold!), though he’s not quite as crazy. I’d be worried about Superior Speechcraft too, depending on how much Blue mana is floating around the metagame.

Also, shouldn’t Democrats be (philosophically) White rather than Blue? I get that they’re the parties’ official colours, but you’re blurring the Flavour Pie! That stuff’s *sacred*!

(…wait, is that Fox News photo real? Yikes!)

Rudy Guiliani is by far my favorite card here. Bush is a pretty close second, though, and he’d be nice to have in a madness deck (especially as so many Republican cards have that ability).

The Democrats would end up taking a lot of mana burn. They have the life gain to ameliorate the cost some, but that’s going to be pretty rough with all the damage the republicans can dish out. Barack Obama is the most notable example of this, although i like the lifegain aspect. Flavor-wise I really like the idea of countering spells to produce mana, but unfortunately since the mana is produced after the counter spell is played, you end up with a lot of useless mana.

…Although given the Democrats’ ability to shoot themselves in the foot no matter what incompetence the Republicans show, maybe the ability’s appropriate after all…

OMG, you made a Rachel Maddow card!

@ Michael John McGee
Right, I thought so.

Also, for the benefit of geeks at large, the original grandmaster of fake Magic cards is the one and only Mr Yawgatog - http://www.yawgatog.com/ - though of course most of his jokes are about Magic itself.

Nice stuff. Is it wrong of me to want a similar deck fashioned after Yu-Gi-Oh!? I never played, but the anime was a guilty pleasure.

… It took me way too long to realize that these were based on Magic cards. Very funny nonetheless.

Thorfin,

They’re actually flip cards, using a mechanic in the Champions of Kamigawa block.

love these cards! great stuff!

@ ‘rax: mogg fanatic? way to kill the flavor. you should have made this card to go with it:

Suicide Bomber - 3B
Creature - Republican Bullshit
Flash
Sacrifice Suicide Bomber: Deal 2 damage to target player. You gain 2 life.
When you play Terrorist Threat, sacrifice Suicide Bomber. If you do, destroy target Democrat.
1/4

ok my geek quota is fulfilled for the day. MGK - thanks for the laughs!

This is so much fun, thanks.

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@ Dave Silva:
It’s from an RPG called “Shadowrun”. If you haven’t heard of it, I’d suggest Wikipedia and/or borrowing the rule book from someone.

Ironically, the reason I scrolled the comments page was to get to the comment box to give MGK props for the Atzalan reference….

I laughed although I take it you don’t like Ron Paul. My favorites were Ron Paul, John McCain’s house, Bill Clinton, and Keith Olbermann. Nice work.

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lol, i must say this is the funniest thing i have ever read

Its a funny concept, but the overt liberal bias in almost every card kinda turned me off to it. Try to remember conservatives use the internet too, hmm? Its still funny, I’m not afraid to laugh at my own party by any means.. but come on, dish it out both ways, its not hard.

uhh, you can just use this to make false magic cards…not that hard

http://magic.falseblue.com/

Un-b-Fucking-elievable. My vote for most genius thing of the political cycle. Seriously.

Wow- holy crap. These are amazing. Also, I see I didn’t get in before someone decided to use a humor card post to try and discuss politics and change someone’s social beliefs. How unfortunate.

Si Se Puede comes from the Disney Channel movie “Gotta Kick it Up” if that helps. Great job on it too. I love the cards. And a lot of these could actually go good in a spoof deck. Got anymore cards in the works?

Funny…
Dumbocraps will be the downfall of this nation. Just wait for the tax increases and the 7 billion in projected spending that osama-obam-laddin has promised… Tax increases on corporations, oil companies and the so on and forth… And who do you think that these Corps will pass that added cost on to?? Us maybe?? On an already weak economy, this is the CHANGE that people want??? More taxes and bigger gov?? Hey look at how good soc security works, its just awesome, paying money for nothing, obamaLadin wants us to pay MORE into that crap system.. Lets let the gov take over the medical world, they are great at managing money! Just look at how great they run business, go to the local IRS, or maybe the DMV… Or how about the city workers that need 12 people to watch 1 guy work and dig a hole. These people love what they do and are paid ALOT, I bet doctors want to go to school for 12 years and spend 1000’s on insurance because everyone in this nation is sue happy, to make city workers wages, great incentive to care about what you do..?? I want to go to a doctor that is underpaid and doesn’t care about his work because he is paid a social workers wages… Great idea dumbo-craps. Lets take advise from the Soviet Union, and Red China. Socialism is awesome, a false sense of security is all that it is.

relevant categories:

MCCAIN OBAMA
Income Avg. tax bill Avg. tax bill
$112K-$161K -$2,614 -$2,204
$66K-$112K -$1,009 -$1,290
$38K-$66K -$319 -$1,042
$19K-$38K -$113 -$892
Under $19K -$19 -$567

chdb: my hero once again!

Dude I am totally getting a playset of Ron Paul’s. Hilary card is broken. That is what Mono Blue Decks need for the extra push.

Huckabee is perfect in Boros decks. You know the whole religious yet violent theme. Im going to order my playsets todsy!

Incredible. I love it. LOVE IT!!!

As yet another Magic player (retired, lol), I found these funny as hell. Good job!

What about Dick Cheney??

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