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For personal stuff (and even early machines for some companies which blurred the lines) I always chose the names of forests in the Magic: the Gathering multiver
by thom 6y ago
For personal stuff (and even early machines for some companies which blurred the lines) I always chose the names of forests in the Magic: the Gathering multiverse. I try and help keep this page updated purely for that purpose:
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Forest https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Forest
These days, for work, it’s just boring unambiguous stuff. I think with more cloud infrastructure and the rarity of shared unix servers with home directories for people, it’s rare that I have any emotional investment in a machine. They’re basically soulless now.
- Etheryte 6y agoTo date, Dryad Arbor is still one of the coolest cards in MtG, simply because of both the simplicity and the universality of its quote. When it came out, I was very surprised by the idea that a land could also be a creature. These days we have way wonkier mechanics, but that novelty along with the quote has a special place in my heart.
- thom 6y agoYeah I’m always really sad it doesn’t make it into the MTGO cube.
- bobbyi_settv 6y agoAn opponent being able to remove one of your lands with small creature removal or any ping effect or -1/-1 counter is scary. It sees play (I think) in Legacy and Commander where there are a bunch of specific powerful ways to abuse it (e.g., combo off early with Arbor + Gaea's Cradle to generate a bunch of mana), but you're not going to pull that off often in cube, so it would mostly be a basic forest that your opponent can easily remove.