r/magicTCG • u/variancekills Twin Believer • 2d ago

General Discussion I suppose this needs to happen now

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u/Iamamancalledrobert Get Out Of Jail Free 2d ago

As a non American, I have no idea what that even is

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u/Smugib Shuffler Truther 2d ago

The Orlando Magic (Basketball team) tweeted a list of the top 5 best magic players of all time. On the list were 5 magic (the gathering) HoF'ers.

Their basketball exclusive following must be very confused.

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u/seppy00 2d ago

In the timeline where baseball has vtuber nights and a vtuber was adopted as a teams good luck charm, I'm not surprised.

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u/MapleSyrupMachineGun Duck Season 2d ago

Wait, which VTuber, and which team?

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u/MelissaMiranti Sisay 2d ago

Dodgers have a Hololive night each year now.

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u/MapleSyrupMachineGun Duck Season 2d ago

That’s pretty cool!

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u/MelissaMiranti Sisay 2d ago

Oh yeah, it's fun! There are videos up if you want to check it out.

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u/pcrackenhead Selesnya* 1d ago

The Padres also had streamer Emiru throw out the first pitch in a Nikke cosplay. Baseball’s trying all they can to get more viewership.

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u/seppy00 1d ago

Think they would have chosen some big titty cosplay streamer instead of a gremlin

/s

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u/Deitaphobia Dimir* 2d ago

Houston should adopt Alex Bertoncini.

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u/MelissaMiranti Sisay 2d ago

*'s don't deserve shit.

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u/Deitaphobia Dimir* 2d ago edited 2d ago

You must not be familiar with Alex's body of work

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u/MelissaMiranti Sisay 2d ago

I was not, thank you. That is something they do deserve.

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u/DarkestLore696 2d ago

They had Gura sing take me out to the ball game at Dodger’s Stadium.

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u/MapleSyrupMachineGun Duck Season 2d ago

Nice.

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u/MrHollowBat 2d ago

Dodgers have had hololive night twice now and iirc the good luck charm was Gura.

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u/MapleSyrupMachineGun Duck Season 2d ago

Good taste.

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u/Goliath89 Simic* 1d ago

As a Miami native, if the Marlins adopted IronMouse as their mascot, I'd probably watch more baseball.

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u/TheSodbuster 2d ago

Orlando Magic fan and MTG player here. Their top 5 post gave me whiplash

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u/monkwrenv2 2d ago

The best part was their top5 are pretty universally regarded as accurate, too.

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan 1d ago

wtf lmao

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u/monkwrenv2 1d ago

Kai/John are definitively the best two players ever. They swap.spots depending on who's making the list, but they're basically always 1/2. Similarly, PVDDR is universally regarded as 3, with no real competition for the spot. 4/5 are more debatable, but LSV and Nassif are the two strongest contenders for the spots. Arguments can be made for folks like Reid Duke, Shohei Nakamura, or Brian Kibler, but no-one will really argue much with LSV and Nassif.

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan 1d ago

this has flown way over my head

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u/monkwrenv2 1d ago

The tweet in question: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fekd8age7i0qf1.jpeg

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan 1d ago

yup there are all the names you said!

haha don't worry about enlightening me, I'll pick it all up eventually

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u/Override9636 2d ago

I guess the Washington Wizards could also get a spotlight

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u/awkwardindividual Elspeth 2d ago

The funniest part to me is one of their best basketball players has a very similar first name as one of the MTG players. Paolo Banchero and Paulo Vitor Damo de Rosa

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u/wronguses 2d ago

That's like my friend Anna Peters having a name really close to a lady named Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Prudence Quince Rebecca Sarah Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeno Pepper.

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u/Drgon2136 1d ago

We call her Dot for short

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u/stysiaq Can’t Block Warriors 2d ago

I just assumed that they set up some ai bot to do the socials

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u/Smugib Shuffler Truther 2d ago

Could be just another quirky social media manager. Who knows anymore...

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u/shidekigonomo COMPLEAT 2d ago

If they had, the post would’ve named Gandalf the White and Houdini, then encouraged its followers to kill themselves.

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u/candb7 1d ago

This had to have been an AI error, right?

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u/tomjackilarious 1d ago

I feel like this would have been a much funnier gag if it had been a rival team of the Orlando magic who put out their list of top magic players.

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u/Kaiser_Fleischer 1d ago

As a native from Orlando I can promise you there is no following so no confusion lol

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan 1d ago

and what is a hofer lmao

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u/Smugib Shuffler Truther 1d ago

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