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flutteringfable · 27 days

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here’s everything i have jotted down for the infection au. gotta thank my moot @pwupcakess for the initial idea; it was genuinely a really cool and original take on the cutie mark themed infections ive seen going around! i think this au definitely still needs some cleaning and clarification, but i really wanted to play with the idea of a magic-based illness, considering magic is so vital to the ponies’ lives :3

warnings for mentions of death, two (2) mentions of body mutilation (chopping off a cutie mark [not described in detail]) and descriptions of mild gore. nothing too crazy, and honestly i feel like its a bit tamer than most infection aus lolz. still tread with caution if need be!

begins at the flank. around the cutie mark, a bruiselike mark will appear. this mark will darken and spread over time. usually it takes about 2-3 weeks for the infection to reach past the hocks, but in the early stages, it doesn’t appear to grow significantly for a few days.

common flu symptoms begin in the early stages. ponies will feel slightly fatigued, sore (specifically around the flank), and congested. dizziness is also common in weaker ponies. depending on the pony’s health pre-infection, these symptoms can vary in severity.

as the bruise spreads, it appears in patches over the body (think something like swamp fever). ponies’ fur will thin out and in some cases leave completely empty patches where the infection leaves marks.

after the first few weeks, the bruise coloration will have spread to almost the entire leg. at this point, ponies will feel stiffness in their back legs, but the full paralysis will not set in until another week has passed. the previous symptoms will intensify exponentially.

in its third stage, the infection will have spread to the front legs as well. in more severe cases, it will have made it almost halfway up the neck. paralysis won’t set in fully in the front legs until the infection reaches above the ears. ponies can still drag themselves around if absolutely necessary, but the fatigue and paralysis in the back legs, as well as the dizziness, makes it incredibly difficult.

in its final stages, the infection will have spread past the ears and will begin to slowly spread to the rest of the head. it spreads from beneath the chin and behind the ears. ponies will be almost comatose at this point, though most are still able to talk and be fed. the soreness will have dissipated completely at this point, leaving ponies’ legs numb and unusable. it takes about four days for the infection to finish covering the body, reaching the brain and killing the pony.

instead of the mane 6/7/8 (if you count sunset and starlight), the cmc are the main ones working to fight the virus. starlight is still mostly healthy (aside from sleep deprivation and stress), others’ statuses are tbd.

at this point, the cmc are around 9-12ish. they still don’t have marks, and are therefore immune.

chopping off a cutie mark cupcakes-style can also stop the virus, but it leaves a nasty scar and depending on the progression of the virus, it can still leave a pony paralyzed accordingly.

cutie marks go to about the second layer of skin, so it isn’t too hard to carve them out if somepony has a strong enough will or is desperate enough.

spells like starlight’s that change a pony’s mark do not change the effects or speed of the infection (trust her, she’s tried).

the first princess to be infected is luna, and in her haste to find a way to heal her sister, celestia is infected as well.

cadence, shining armor, and flurry heart are all safe, but cadence is struggling trying to decide between going to help the other princesses or staying to watch over her family.

twilight is wandering with spike, trying to find a faster way to create a cure. she contracts the infection while exploring near the original castle.

areas high in magical energy are at high risk to infect ponies. ponies with high magical energy themselves, such as the elements of harmony, unicorns, and alicorns, are at a much higher risk to be infected because of the instability caused by the virus. while infected, these ponies will show more extreme symptoms such as wild magic when trying to cast spells.

when celestia and luna are infected, the land is kept in a perpetual sunrise because neither of them can safely wield the sun or moon.

#fable talks 💫#mlp infection au

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cursingtoji · 3 years

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random shit that reminded me of my moots

@kyoutxni

@tequchiha

@sebbyzoldyck

@lonis-fantasy-cafe

@thekillingtimethekillingmoon

@sacredsong

@yuutitties

@bubblebeemie

@princesatoru

#cmc: moots #cmc: crack hours

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transbloom · 2 years

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new pinned idc

hi hi hi for the love of god Hello

CARRD HERE (clicky)

PRONOUNS AND NAME HERE (clicky) (if we're not moots don't use the ones marked "only if we're close" pls!)

ao3 (clicky)

scroll for everyhting else important ig

part of a system lol (bluebell sys, read carrd for details! mostly thorne/clementine posts here)

sideblog! main is @.bellemyers

im a sleepy bois stan but benchtrio cool too

DNI if u are: map/nomap/pears, terfs/radfem, transmed/truscum, anti-kin, ace-exclus, anti-mogai, anti-neopronouns (sucks to suck lol), panphobic/pan-exclus, nsfw/ddlg/18+/21+ homophobic/lgbtphobic/ace-exclus/anti-mogai against technoblade, jschlatt, tommyinnit, or dream, enderbees shipper or supports romantic ccbeeduo, any kind of srs truther. poppy/problematic, supports cmc/james charles/pewdiepie/etc ask before interacting, or only if i've interacted first under 13, over 30 (exceptions include philza minecraft, because he looks very polite, and the hermits, but they're on thin fucking ice)

my tagging systems (aka i dont really. use any anymore sorz!)

long posts i use Lonk Post bc that gets by the syztemz

I do my best not to reblog anything involving d/scourse or anything that has the potential to be triggering. this blog is 100% meant to be a safe space for anyone and everyone, and if/when i do rb something like that, its always properly tagged! <3

if i forget to tag smth yell at me abt it btw

ask me to tag things and i will do my best to remember but see above if i forgor

#abt me ig #Lonk Post #save. fave.

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lmanberg · 3 years

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yknow this feels like a dumb question to send in, but. do you have any advice for making good online friends? i've tried out things like discord servers, but it's hard to insert myself into communities because i don't have much to say, and it makes it fairly hard to meet new people. and when i do meet new people, it all seems fairly superficial moreso than any actual friendship. legally vibe assigned oldest brother of ebblr help :pray:

Well I made my first batch of internet friends through fucking around in the CMC Discord vcs but clearly that’s not an option anymore lol. Then I got added to a gc bc I replied to a tweet wanting to make a Dream 10mil gc or something. After that I met a group of people in Dream’s offline chat. Then got added to a gc from one of those other two. Then joined the ebcord and the modcord and ditched the Dream stans. Every once in a while I dm my twt moots tho, usually when they reach out first. Also I’m buddies with the sunflower burner too. Pretty much just dm people you wanna talk to and join gcs every opportunity you’ve got /shrug

#honestly all my friendship opportunities come to me i don’t really seek them out #thank god bc i hate initiating interactions i always feel like the other person isn’t interested 😭#ask

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antarticblxebird · 3 years

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I stray away from serious topics of grooming and such but wholeheartedly fuck Mizkif. I don't give a fuck about cmc and the gross fucks that associate with him. But to make a joke of people (a lot of who are grooming victims) being reasonably upset at you is sick. He responded to two of my twitter moots who said the most tame shit and put them in a video after blasting them on stream and replying to them being angry and disappointed 😐 Not to mention he's literally encouraging people to invalidate grooming where it's not inherently pedophilic and it's so fucking gross. He's since the beginning downplayed the situation and what happened and now he along with his fans are going around mocking people (again many who have been fucking groomed) implying they exaggerate issues and predatory behavior.

Small trauma dump below

I've spent the past month or so coming to terms with the fact that I was groomed by another teenager with a similar age gap as cmc and his victim and thanks to Mizkif finding that matter so funny and people just being "snowflakes" I had someone tell me I clearly don't understand abuse for calling Carson someone who ADMITTED TO ABUSE OF POWER a groomer guilty of predatory and therefore innately abusive behavior. In conclusion, fuck Mizkif :)

#carson #callmecarson #grooming #cmc #trauma dump #small trauma dump but still #// cmc situation #there is no good reason for teenagers having to see defending of groomers all fucking day holy fuck #it's actually just gross

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currentlyprocrastinating · 3 years

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⋆ written works ⋆

Indescribable 》 911 》 fluff 》

Even the most talented poet would fail to convey the profound beauty Saeran sees in you.

Take a Break 》

Pretty Hands 》

hold me tight 》 [sneak peek]

⋆ artistic works ⋆

#1 - pretty in pink

#2 - try new things

#3 - sweater paws

#4 - an xmas gift for a moot [CMC]

#5 - sleepy babes [CMC]

#6 - RED

#masterlist #my post #my photo #my edit #mystic messenger #saeran choi #ge saeran #mysme #last updated:#21 november 2022

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turkeysinatrenchcoat-blog · 6 years

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Great Designer Search 3: Trial 2 - Responses

There were 75 multiple-choice questions. I’m including my responses given with some of my thought processes. 73 correct responses were required. I did not make the cut, meaning at least 3 of these answers are incorrect.

1-3 use the following card:

Scrappy Survivor [converted mana cost (CMC): 6] Creature — 5/5 Menace, prowess

1. What is the most appropriate color for this card? White / Blue / Black / Red / Green

A: Red. – Clear cut, menace is red/black, prowess is red/blue.

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2. What is the most appropriate rarity for this card?

Common/Uncommon/Rare/Mythic Rare

A: Uncommon. – Larger than red gets at common, not splashy enough for higher. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. You are changing one of Scrappy Survivor's keywords to another one. Which of the following combinations would result in a card that couldn't be monocolor? Menace, prowess / Lifelink, menace / Hexproof, prowess / First strike, prowess / Menace, vigilance

A: Menace, vigilance. – Vigilance is white/green, menace is black/red, no crossover.

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4-6 use the following card:

Come Work for Me Temporarily [CMC: 4] Sorcery Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gets +1/+1 and gains haste, hexproof, and trample until end of turn.

4. What is the most appropriate color combination for this multicolor card? Red-green / White-black / Black-green / Red-white / Blue-red

A: Red-green. – Threaten is red, hexproof is green or blue, trample is red or green. While arguments could be made for both blue or green, green adds more of itself (blue only adds hexproof) and making creatures bigger is more green than blue.

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5. What is the most appropriate rarity for this card? Common / Uncommon / Rare / Mythic Rare

A: Uncommon. – While common versions of Threaten exist, this has enough additional complexity – the P/T modifier alone greatly changes combat math.

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6. If we aren’t planning to change the color combination, which change are we leastlikely to make to this card? Change from "trample" to "this creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less."

Change from "hexproof" to "this creature must be blocked this turn if able."

Change "sorcery" to "instant."

Change "haste" to "double strike".

Change "+1/+1" to "+2/+2."

A: Change “haste” to “double strike”. – The rest could reasonably be made, removing haste makes the card functionally useless.

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7. Which of these phrases is a follower of white's philosophy least likely to say?

"Violence is never preferred but is occasionally necessary."

"Sometimes the individual suffers so that the larger group can thrive."

"Nothing can go wrong if you act from your heart."

"A system without structure is a system asking to fail."

"Evil must be preemptively stopped."

A: “Nothing can go wrong if you act from your heart.” – White is about the good of the group over personal wishes, hopes, or emotions.

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8. Which of these phrases is a follower of blue's philosophy least likely to say?

"Tools are an important part of any society."

"A fear of change is dangerous.”

"Action should only follow thought."

"You are shaped more by your genes than your experience."

"Every person has the ability to become anything."

A: “You are shaped more by your genes than your experience.” – This is the core green-blue conflict – green is nature, blue is nurture.

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9. Which of these phrases is a follower of black's philosophy least likely to say?

"The difference between success and failure is a willingness to do what needs to be done."

"Only I choose what path I walk."

"I didn't create the system, I just understand how to take advantage of it."

"The weak serve a purpose; they are a resource of the strong."

"Sometimes you have to put others ahead of yourself."

A: “Sometimes you have to put others ahead of yourself.” – Black's core belief is doing what must be done for personal gain. Doing things for others may be beneficial for you as well, but sacrificing for others is a no go.

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10. Which of these phrases is a follower of red's philosophy least likely to say?

"The greatest regrets are about things you didn't do, not things you did."

"A life without passion is a life unlived."

"Life is messy."

"Mistakes should be avoided at all costs."

"The fewer rules, the better."

A: “Mistakes should be avoided at all costs.” – One word: Goblins.

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11. Which of these phrases is a follower of green's philosophy least likely to say?

"Killing for sport is just a part of life."

"The key to happiness is accepting that the world is as it's meant to be"

"You are born into your role."

"Adaptation is a slow process."

"All life is interconnected."

A: “Killing for sport is just a part of life.” – Green understands that wanton, reckless killing can greatly (and adversely) affect the ecosystem.

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12. If we were to bring back the battle cry mechanic in a Ravnica set, which guild would be the best match for the mechanic?

Selesnya / Rakdos / Gruul / Azorius / Boros

A: Boros. – Not only is battle cry already red-white, but Boros is the army guild. Rakdos is a close second, but they're less about benefiting others, and black's selfish nature would make it an odd fit.

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13. Which effect is usually seen on more instants than sorceries?

Reanimation (putting creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield)

Direct damage

Discard effects

Land fetching (getting a land out of your library)

Land destruction

A: Direct damage. – Discard gets an immense power jump (draw step). Land fetching is more powerful (hide available mana) and takes more time. Land destruction, for the same reasons it's not done much in general or cheaply. Reanimation would make it functionally removal and provide pseudo-haste.

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14. What is the biggest problem design-wise with this card? Long-Acting Giant Growth 2G Sorcery Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of the turn. At the beginning of your next upkeep, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. At the beginning of your next upkeep after that, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The spell should be an instant so that it can work in combat.

The spell should get bigger over time, not smaller, to build in excitement.

The spell requires you track things for three turns without any way to mark it.

The spell should let you target different creatures because the first one might die.

The spell is too cheap.

A: The spell requires you track things for three turns without any way to mark it. – Not much to say here, there is a reason the game uses counters even when they have no mechanical use.

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15-17 use the following card:

Mysterio [CMC: 4] */* Flash CARDNAME's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

15. If this card was a hybrid creature, what colors would it be? Blue-black / Blue-red / White-blue / Green-blue / Black-red

A: Blue-green. – Maro is blue/green. (Flash is at least Tertiary in all five colors, so that's not a guarantee.)

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16. What is the most likely rarity for this card? Common / Uncommon / Rare / Mythic rare

A: Rare. – The Maro ability always found at rare (excepting a mythic). Giving it flash as well ensures it wouldn't dip below that, but isn't splashy enough to see mythic.

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17. What ability could be added to this creature without changing its colors? Use your answer from question 15. CARDNAME must be blocked if able.

CARDNAME can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.

Whenever CARDNAME deals damage to an opponent, draw a card.

At the end of your turn, untap CARDNAME.

A: Whenever CARDNAME deals damage to an opponent, draw a card. – Curiosity is in both blue and green.

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18. A player finishes their first game of Magic. Which of the following do we care most about?

They understand the cards in their deck.

They want to play again.

They have a favorite card.

They see the potential depth of the game.

They have seen most of the card types, and most of the evergreen keywords.

A: They want to play again. – If they don't want to play again, the rest is moot. Whatever the reason, you want them to want to play again.

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19. When designing a card for Spike, which of the following is most important:

The card produces card advantage.

The card is very open ended.

The card lets Spike feel they outplayed their opponent.

The card has a low casting cost.

The card tells Spike what the deck is about.

A: The card lets Spike feel they outplayed their opponent. – Spike will play what gives them the best chance to win (by their own volition). They want to win by skill, by outperforming their opponent.

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20. Design considers a card “too slow for tournament play.” What does that mean?

The card will make too many matches run over time in tournaments.

The player with this card will monopolize too much of the play time in tournaments.

The card will cause problems for coverage, as it will require too much commentary devoted to it.

The card will make games take more than fifteen turns.

The opponent will call the judge too often with a request of “slow play”.

A: The card will make too many matches run over time in tournaments. – Being confusing or powerful are not issues of speed, so that rules out monopolizing time or 'slow play' calls. Commentary isn't so simplistic as to need to spend too long on a single card without the means of working around it (and they can use additional tools to help with that – on screen aids, etc). Turns don't matter if the game is engaging and doesn't go to time.

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21. You're working on the next Commander decks. Which is the most important goal?

The colors are equally represented.

The commanders inspire people to build new decks.

Each deck has a brand-new theme.

The decks are based on popular Commander decks.

Designing new cards for Legacy and Vintage.

A: The commanders inspire people to build new decks. – The decks are, above all, for Commander players, and getting new players into Commander (or old players back into it) is going to be most beneficial to those groups (and the product line). Players like existing themes, while brand new themes can be great, not allowing yourself to reexamine existing themes is far too limiting.

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22. Which of the following creatures is the weakest in a typical Standard-legal Draft format?

7G 8/8

9G 10/10

5G 6/6

3G 4/4

1G 2/2

A: 9G 10/10. – Surviving that long is difficult, and in most cases a 10/10 would be useful, an 8/8 would suffice.

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23. Which of the following creatures is the strongest in a typical Standard-legal Draft format?

9G 10/10

1G 2/2

5G 6/6

7G 8/8

3G 4/4

A: 1G 2/2. – The 4/4 for 3G was under consideration as well. However, in most formats you will always be willing to play a few bears in your deck, even if you are going for a more linear strategy. A 4 drop will be far more likely to overlap with key cards for your deck. Then there are the aggressive formats (which are fairly common), in which you will end up taking a bear over 'stronger' but more expensive cards.

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24. The lead of a set has removed a black instant removal spell from their set, and asks you to create potential replacement designs. Which of these qualities is mostimportant for your designs?

It's an innovative card.

It's a removal card.

It's an instant.

It's a powerful card.

It's a black card.

A: It's a black card. – The design skeleton's base organization is by color; if your card isn't in the same color, it doesn't match anything. Removal can be added onto another creature. Or, the card might have been removed because the set was feeling removal heavy. With no other direction (there should be some), plugging the hole in the design skeleton is the primary objective.

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25. Why do green's common creatures tend to be a bit more efficient than white creatures?

White is the enemy of black and red.

Green players love powerful creatures.

Green is the enemy of blue and black.

This is the way it has always been.

White has stronger removal.

A: White has stronger removal. – Players who like big creatures will gravitate toward green, it's not the other way around. 'That's how it's always been' is... a bad design philosophy; if it was a good decision, you should be able to justify it.

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26. Which color gets the second fewest common creatures in a typical set?

White / Blue / Black / Red / Green

Red. – It is one of the two spell focused colors, and fourth in creature count, ahead of only blue.

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27. Which of these green keywords does design have to be the most careful when using?

Reach / Deathtouch / Trample / Vigilance / Hexproof

A: Hexproof. – It can limit interaction and cause a stale format. Put another way, having 3 hexproof creatures is far more damaging to interaction and enjoyment than 3 trample or deathtouch creatures.

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28. We try to avoid making two-color cards where the card could be done as a monocolor card in one of the two colors. Given that, suppose you have a two-color 4/4 creature with flying and vigilance (and no other abilities). Which of the following color combinations would be the best choice for this card?

Blue-black / White-black / Black-green / White-blue / Green-white

A: Black-green. – Yes white-blue creatures exist, but by and large those have had an additional ability from blue's slice. 'It's been done' is also not a good reason to do something again if it is not in and of itself a justifiable decision. (This question is one I anticipate a decent amount of disagreement on.)

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29. Which of these is the most important quality for a set to have?

It matches the story.

It has great strategic depth.

It has powerful cards.

It's fun to play.

It's easy to learn.

A: It's fun to play. – Similar to wanting a new player to play the game a second time, you want players (new or experienced) to play your set a second, third, and nth time.

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30. Which of these creature keywords tends to have the most value in a control deck?

Menace / Haste / First strike / Trample / Lifelink

A: Lifelink. – Evasion is less useful when your opponent doesn't have creatures, and you're less concerned about them chump blocking your win-con. You have time, so haste isn't attractive. First strike is solid, but only works if they get into combat (not good against evasive threats). Lifelink can pull you out of range of burn after a slow start, make your opponent unwilling to attack if they're going wide (moreso even than first strike), and allow you to counteract an evasive threat.

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31. When Set Design holds a draft, most of the time there are exactly eight drafters. Why?

Our smaller booster boxes hold 24 booster packs.

We want four Spikes, three Timmies/Tammies, and one Johnny/Jenny.

That's the most common number of drafters in the real world.

Our teams have eight people.

We have tables that sit eight drafters.

A: That's the most common number of drafters in the real world. – You design for the real world, not for R&D.

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32. You've designed a card, and you want the Play Design team to like it. How should you choose your casting cost?

Pick the strongest cost that isn't broken.

Use your intuition.

Find a similar card as a basis for the casting cost and then make it one cheaper.

It doesn't matter; they'll fix the cost if you get it wrong.

Ask someone from the Play Design team to choose the casting cost.

A: Ask someone from the Play Design team to choose the casting cost. – While Play Design can recost, relying on that or intuition (rather than logic and discussion) puts the work on them without giving them any insight into your goals. If you are unsure of how to cost it, discussing it with Play Design will allow you to point out the important aspects of the card. (That way they don't remove an ability key to its function in the set.)

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33. Which of these evergreen keyword abilities is most likely to be put on a common white creature?

Indestructible / Flash / Double strike / Trample / Vigilance

A: Vigilance. – It has minimal impact or complexity.

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34. Which of the following best describes how a counterspell-based blue deck should contribute to a Standard environment?

Standard is the most fun when the counterspell deck is the strongest deck in Standard.

Standard is the most fun when the counterspell player has the ability to stop the opponent from doing anything.

Standard is the most fun when the counterspell player has a way to win quickly and efficiently once they take control.

Standard is the most fun when the counterspell deck is mono-blue.

Standard is the most fun when counterspell decks aren’t competitive.

A: Standard is the most fun when counterspell decks aren't competitive. – Runner up was having a way to win quickly/efficiently once they take control. However, the process of your opponent gaining control is as if not more frustrating than being under a lock. (Note: this is counterspell.dek and not any deck with counterspells included in it.)

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35. Assuming the creature is strong enough to see Standard play, which of the following isn't a good quality for a green creature to have?

It can tap to produce mana.

It draws multiple cards without attacking or blocking.

It uses +1/+1 counters to grow to very large sizes.

It has larger stats than other creatures at its mana cost.

It can destroy an artifact or enchantment.

A: It draws multiple cards without attacking or blocking. – Green's creatures rely on combat for most of what they do, being able to draw breaks that.

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36. If we were to bring back the storm mechanic in a Ravnica set, which guild would be the best match for the mechanic?

Simic / Selesnya / Orzhov / Rakdos / Izzet

A: Izzet. – The colors of spells, and Izzet is the most spell focused guild and likes experimental/weird stuff.

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37. A synergy theme in a set needs you to draw specific cards for it to work. This isn't happening frequently enough. Which of the following mechanics would not help increase the frequency of these interactions?

Transmute / Cycling / Kicker / Scry / Investigate

A: Kicker. – It relies on you being able to cast the card in the first place, and the mechanic itself doesn't do anything to filter.

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38. Which of the following designs from Legends would be the most reasonable to recost into a competitive Standard card?

Arboria / Mana Drain / Presence of the Master / Land Tax / Acid Rain

A: Mana Drain. – A reasonably costed Mana Drain is not the type of counterspell that is likely to be the core of a counterspell deck, and the rest are largely over-specific hate cards, of the type that R&D has moved away from.

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39. Which category of player most dislikes high variance in gameplay, with “high variance” defined as larger swings in outcome possibilities for individual cards outside of the player’s control?

Johnny/Jenny / A new player / A player who prefers multiplayer / Timmy/Tammy / Spike

A: Spike. – Spike likes having control, if it's out of their control it is not their skill being the deciding factor.

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40. Which of the following cards is typically the strongest in Limited play?

Pacifism / Duress / Wind Drake / Lava Axe / Cowl Prowler

A: Pacifism. – Efficient, unconditional removal for combat relevant creatures. It doesn't affect utility creatures, but that's a cost for cheap removal.

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41. Which of the following are not generally aimed at competitive Standard play?

Card draw

Counterspells

Direct damage that can hit either creatures or players

Mass creature kill

One-shot mana acceleration

A: One-shot mana acceleration though. – A lesson R&D has learned quite a few times, is that mana acceleration can be dangerous. Also, formats with more powerful cheaper spells, or with combos more prevalent, are better able to make use of it.

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42. Which of the following iconic white cards is most reasonable to reprint in a Standard-legal set?

Karma / Baneslayer Angel / Swords to Plowshares / Land Tax / Armageddon

A: Baneslayer Angel. – Creatures have gotten more powerful such that enough are even at least comparable to Baneslayer.

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43. Which of the following iconic black cards is most reasonable to reprint in a Standard-legal set?

Infernal Darkness / Demonic Tutor / Demonic Consultation / Underworld Dreams / Sinkhole

A: Underworld Dreams. – Tutors are extremely powerful, and the drawbacks don't matter if you're going to win from it. Underworld Dreams can be interacted with and leaves time to find an answer.

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44. The card Felidar Guardian was banned last year in Standard because of an unintended interaction with the planeswalker card Saheeli Rai. If this interaction were realized late in design, what would have been the best solution?

Keep both cards as is, but add a flexible instant that can destroy either one of Felidar Guardian and Saheeli Rai.

Change Saheeli Rai's mana cost to UUR so that she is harder to cast in a three-color deck.

Change Felidar Guardian's ability to return the permanent to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.

Add "Felidar Guardian enters the battlefield tapped."

Add one colorless mana to the cost of Felidar Guardian.

A: Change Felidar Guardian's ability to return the permanent to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step. – This is the only ability that fully limits the interaction. Having the Guardian enter tapped would keep you from attacking, but still leave them around for etb triggers or to sacrifice.

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45. Assuming all of the following designs are costed at an appropriate power level and win rate in Standard, which would be the least fun to show up in competitive play?

An artifact that taps to add three mana to your mana pool.

A sorcery that destroys all nonland permanents.

An enchantment that stops all creatures from attacking.

An artifact that causes each player to lose 2 life during their upkeep.

An enchantment that lets you name a card, then stops the named card from being cast.

A: An enchantment that stops all creatures from attacking. – Unfun. It completely hoses all creature based decks that cannot remove it – forcing one to go into white or green (possibly blue for bounce/counter).

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46. Which of the following cards would we be most likely to reprint in a Standard-legal set?

Counterspell

Dark Ritual

Swords to Plowshares

Lightning Bolt

Llanowar Elves

A: Llanowar Elves. – A format can more easily be designed knowing they will exist, and answers printed to interact with it. One drop mana creatures are more problematic in numbers; 8 of Llanowar Elves is far more troubling than 4 of.

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47. From a design standpoint, what is the biggest problem with this card? Mega Bolt 3R Instant CARDNAME deals 8 damage to target creature.

It blurs the line between black and red.

Players might find ways to redirect the damage to their opponents.

7 is a more aesthetic number than 8.

It’s too much damage for four mana.

A card dealing this much damage should be a sorcery.

A: It blurs the line between black and red. – The more damage something deals, the closer to destruction it gets. Very few creatures have 9+ toughness.

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48. Which of these text boxes would most likely be red-flagged as highly complex for a common creature?

2W: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Whenever CARDNAME attacks, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, CARDNAME gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

1R: CARDNAME gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

A: 2W: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. – It can be used at instant speed, multiple times, and affect one creature multiple times or multiple creatures one time. In short, a headache during combat.

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49. You're playing a multiplayer game. Which pair of mechanics would cause the most confusion if they frequently appeared together in a play environment?

Myriad and battalion

Devour and exploit

Fabricate and formidable

Modular and scavenge

Miracle and cycling

A: Myriad and battalion. – Both trigger at the same time, and many players don't understand the difference between attacking, and something entering attacking.

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50. If we printed an enchantment with the same text as Stabilizer ("Players can't cycle cards."), which color should it be?

White / Blue / Black/ Red / Green

A: White. – White is the color of ability/spell denial.

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51-53 use the following card:

Junkpile Engineer [CMC: 3] Creature — Human Artificer 3/2 2, Sacrifice an artifact: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the converted mana cost of the sacrificed artifact. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in random order.

51. What are the most appropriate colors for this card? Black-red

Green-blue

Red-white

White-black

Blue-red

A: Blue-red. – Blue is card filtering. Red is more about sacrificing artifacts.

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52. What is the most appropriate rarity for this card? Common / Uncommon / Rare / Mythic Rare

A: Uncommon. – Repeatable activation and caring about CMC make it complex enough to push it out of common. (It also reads as a buildaround uncommon.)

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53. Which of the following changes is Set Design most likely to make to this card? Give the creature haste.

Put the cards revealed into the graveyard.

Change the number of cards looked at to a locked number rather than caring about converted mana cost.

Add the ability “2,T: Put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.”

Make the power and toughness the same.

A: Change the number of cards looked at to a locked number rather than caring about converted mana cost. – This allows It to work with 0 CMC artifacts, and makes sacrificing a 1 CMC artifact less of a direct parallel to 'draw a card.' It also makes it easier to balance a format around. (Putting the cards in the graveyard was a close second for me.)

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54-56 use the following card:

Dead Man Walking [CMC: 7] Creature — Shapeshifter Wizard 1/1 When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, return target creature card from any graveyard to the battlefield under your control. All your creatures then become copies of that creature.

54. What are the most appropriate colors for this card? Green-blue / Blue-red / Red-green / Black-green / Blue-black

A: Blue-black. – Black is reanimation, blue is copying. Green has dabbled in mass copy, but it's more about replication of oneself than copying something else.

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55. What is the most appropriate rarity for this card? Common / Uncommon / Rare / Mythic Rare

A: Mythic Rare. – Rare or Mythic Rare were the only reasonable options. The card allows for some epic moments (getting a bunch of their non-legendary bomb), pushing me above Rare. It also felt like the combination of two rare effects.

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56. What change would design not make? Make it a 0/0 creature.

Have it only get creatures from out of your graveyard.

Have the returned creature be sacrificed at end of turn.

Have it only get creatures out of the opponent's graveyard.

Give the creature flash.

A: Make it a 0/0 creature. – It would die before the trigger even goes on the stack.

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57. You're designing a set that returns to a plane we've been to before and plan to have Humans, Wolves, and Spirits. Which world would be most appropriate?

Amonkhet / Kaladesh / Innistrad / Ixalan / Zendikar

A: Innistrad. – The only plane that has all three.

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58. Which of the following attributes can a card in a Standard-legal set notmechanically care about?

Power/toughness / Card subtypes / Card supertypes / Mana cost / Expansion symbol

A: Expansion symbol. – In Standard, all printings of a card are identical.

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59. Which of the following abilities is R&D least likely to put on a mono-red creature in an upcoming set?

CARDNAME must attack if able.

[MANA]: CARDNAME gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

T: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creatures you control have haste.

When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

A: T: Draw a card, then discard a card. – Red doesn't loot.

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60. According to current design standards, which of the following "enters-the-battlefield" effects is least likely to be on a common creature?

"Target creature can't block this turn."

"You may return target creature to its owner's hand."

"Destroy target enchantment an opponent controls."

"Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn."

"Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand."

A: "You may return target creature to its owner's hand." – Common is far more likely to see freeze effects. Bounce is more likely to be reserved for uncommon+.

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61. Which of the following sets isn't designed around factions?

Khans of Tarkir / Shards of Alara / Amonkhet / Ravnica / Ixalan

A: Amonkhet. – Guilds, shards, and clans are pretty self explanatory, Ixalan was semi-asymmetrical with four rather than five factions.

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62. Which of the following mechanics would be the best fit for the Simic guild from Ravnica?

Proliferate / Rebound / Undying / Dash / Entwine

A: Proliferate. – Counters are frequently used with Simic, to represent growth. Undying might work, but has more of a black theme, and requires death (prior to 'growth'). Dash is fleeting. Rebound/entwine are spell mechanics

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63 – 65 can all be found in the mechanical color pie. They use the following definiton:

Secondary—This is the color (or colors) that an ability shows up in on a somewhat regular basis, but not as often as the primary and not always in as low of rarity as the primary. If the effect is something we do a lot of, the secondary color will usually get the ability in most sets. 63. Which color is secondary at trample?

White / Blue / Black / Red / Green

A: Red.

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64. Which color is secondary at haste?

White / Blue / Black / Red / Green

A: Black

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65. Which color is secondary at vigilance?

White / Blue / Black / Red / Green

A: White

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66. What kinds of creatures can green destroy?

Tapped creatures and enchanted creatures

White creatures and red creatures

Blue creatures and black creatures

Attacking creatures and blocking creatures

Artifact creatures and flying creatures

A: Artifact creatures and flying creatures. – Green can destroy artifacts – that means anything with the type artifact, including creatures. They can also destroy flying creatures.

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67. Which of the following mechanics is not an ability word?

Delirium / Landfall / Hellbent / Morbid / Awaken

A: Awaken – Awaken is defined, and not undefined italicized text used to group like abilities.

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68. Why doesn’t common often have seven-mana instants and sorceries?

It makes the math too hard.

It’s too impactful for common.

They are hard to design.

It’s too complex for beginners.

Common creatures need to be more expensive than the instants and sorceries.

A: It's too impactful for common. – Some of the other answers touch on this, but this is the core reason. An expensive spell should feel expensive; if you're spending seven mana on a sorcery, it should do more than just remove a creature or create a token. The types of effects you would put on a seven mana spell, are unlikely to find a home at common. (Creatures needing to be more expensive sounds plausible at first, until you realize the question isn't about making more high cost sorceries or instants than creatures; having a few high cost nonpermanent spells wouldn't change anything here. No go.)

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69. Which world has had the most expansions set on it?

Mirrodin / Zendikar / Ravnica / Innistrad / Dominaria

A: Dominaria – Not even close.

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70. A linear mechanic is one that encourages players to build around a specific aspect. Which of the following mechanics is the least linear?

Delirium / Transform / Morph / Rally / Energy

A: Transform. – While some cards that have transform push a specific strategy, the mechanic itself does not. Rally loves allies. Energy loves energy. Delerium pushes for graveyard variety. Morph is trickier, but it does love more morph creatures, as it makes it less clear what you have; your opponent must guess, and thus has incomplete information.

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71. Which of the following formats can't the card Power Conduit from Mirrodin be played in?

Legacy / Modern / Commander / Vintage / Pauper

A: Pauper. – Commander uses Vintage as its base, modified by a banlist. Power Conduit was never printed at common, so Pauper it is.

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72. Which of the following is the most important reason that some cards' mana costs are higher than others?

To encourage players to put more lands in their decks

To encourage players to "splash" an additional color in their decks

So that people will play them later in the game

Higher mana costs are a hint to new players that the cards are more powerful

To make the cards different

A: So that people will play them later in the game. – Making cards different looks good. However, making the cards have a different cost doesn't actually make them different. Costing them higher is so that when you have a different card, it will be played at the time you want it to be played.

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73. Which of the following is the most important reason for the color pie to exist?

It expands the color palette usable in the art.

It allows a wider variety of costs.

It increases the number of distinct cards that can be designed.

It adds more symbols to the game.

It encourages deck and gameplay diversity.

A: It encourages deck and gameplay diversity. – Not much to say here.

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74. Which of the following effects is design allowed to use on a Standard-legal black-bordered card?

Making a choice secret from the other player(s)

Having a card coexist in more than one zone

Putting a card in your hand you do not own

Rolling a six-sided die

Affecting a future game with the same opponent

A: Rolling a six-sided die. – Dice were almost used in Battle For Zendikar. They are straight-forward enough for players to understand, and should design find them a good fit, can be used. A few of these have been used in the past (making a secret choice, affecting a future game if you count sub-games/karn/etc), but these are effects that wouldn't see use in a Standard-legal set. Sub games mess with tournaments too much. Secret choices are difficult to use in a competitive environment.

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75. You're designing a card with a converted mana cost of 10. Which of these card types is it least likely to be?

Sorcery / Instant / Creature / Enchantment / Artifact

A: Instant. – Permanents can do things over time. An expensive sorcery you are incentivized to cast when you can rather than holding it in your hand as with an instant.

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88% of Crypto Volume Could Be False: Is Bitcoin Price Drop Inevitable?

If you take one look at Coin Market Cap, it becomes easily apparent that cryptocurrency trading is reaching multi-month highs. However, researchers claim that many established crypto exchanges are reporting billions in false volume each and every day, potentially setting precedent for a nasty drop in the Bitcoin price.

Related Reading: Kraken’s $1 Billion Futures Trading Volume Prove Crypto Demand is Very High

Booming Crypto Volume

For much of late-2018, exchanges in this space saw little traffic. Case in point, the daily nominal value of cryptocurrency trades fell under $10 billion on a number of occasions. But, ever since Bitcoin’s tumble in mid-November, trading activity has purportedly been on the up-and-up.

In February, exchanges posted a collective $25 billion or more — approximately 20% of the market value of all digital assets — in volumes each and every day. To give this statistic some much-needed perspective, this budding market hasn’t seen such activity seen early-2018, when cryptocurrencies were still trending on Twitter worldwide and mainstream media outlets covered the matter day in, day out.

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But, Crypto Integrity, a blockchain-centric research division that specializes in market manipulation and fraud, claims that volume figures seen are far from cut and dried.

88% Of Trades Could Be False

Integrity released its February report earlier this week, which outlined the presence and veracity of “fake volumes in cryptocurrency markets.” The pseudonymous team explains that there’s a high likelihood that 88% of all trading volume seen on exchanges during February, which was when tumult in Bitcoin markets returned, is entirely false.

Integrity’s data science team specifically draws attention to OkEX, Bit-Z, Huobi, HitBTC, among a handful of other mostly unregulated exchanges as perpetrators. As seen above, Binance, BitMAX, among a handful of other exchanges that the fittingly-named Integrity group investigated are reportedly clean. Speaking to Decrypt, a team member from the research group explained how it gathered this information:

“[We built] a system that collects low-level market data from exchanges (order books as well as trades). It allows us identify what no one is able to find on charts or by the analysis of trades & volumes.”

What Does That Mean For Bitcoin?

That’s the question that remains on the mind of traders the world over. If this data is bonafide, some fear that it could set a precedent for a collapse in the Bitcoin price first and foremost, and then crypto assets across the board.

Per previous reports from NewsBTC, leading analyst The Crypto Dog explained in the context of recent market conditions that if the volumes seen on Coin Market Cap and sites of similar caliber are real, BTC is poised to burst into a “raging bull market.”

Financial Survalism, one of Crypto Dog’s trading peers, echoed this thought process. The insurance agent turned Bitcoin trader noted that from a top-down perspective, trading volumes are the highest this industry has seen since the last week of 2017, a time when everyone and their dog were investing their savings into altcoins in dreams of striking it rich. Survivalism adds that this nascent space hasn’t ever seen “four straight weekly bars with [this] much buying volume,” leading him to the conclusion that a short-term bounce to precede a move to under $2,000 is in Bitcoin’s cards.

In a number of recent posts on Twitter, eToro’s in-house crypto trader, Mati Greenspan, has also drawn attention to why high market activity could be a positive sign for Bitcoin moving forward. Greenspan once explained that “more meaningful moves” in markets of all nature often go hand-in-hand with higher volumes.

But, all this would be deemed moot if Integrity’s report is even the slightest bit accurate. Even if there are some nuances to the purported 88% statistic, that would mean that cryptocurrency volumes are at levels seen in early Q2 of 2018, rather than late-Q4 2017/early-Q1 2018. This would be a drastic blow to analysts who believe that cryptocurrencies are slated to move higher on the back of volumes.

As of the time of writing this, however, the cryptocurrency market is only slightly down, with BTC posting 1.61% in losses.

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88% of Crypto Volume Could Be False: Is Bitcoin Price Drop Inevitable?

Related Reading: Kraken’s $1 Billion Futures Trading Volume Prove Crypto Demand is Very High

Booming Crypto Volume

Courtesy of CMC

But, Crypto Integrity, a blockchain-centric research division that specializes in market manipulation and fraud, claims that volume figures seen are far from cut and dried.

88% Of Trades Could Be False

What Does That Mean For Bitcoin?

As of the time of writing this, however, the cryptocurrency market is only slightly down, with BTC posting 1.61% in losses.

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88% of Crypto Volume Could Be False: Is Bitcoin Price Drop Inevitable?

Related Reading: Kraken’s $1 Billion Futures Trading Volume Prove Crypto Demand is Very High

Booming Crypto Volume

Courtesy of CMC

But, Crypto Integrity, a blockchain-centric research division that specializes in market manipulation and fraud, claims that volume figures seen are far from cut and dried.

88% Of Trades Could Be False

What Does That Mean For Bitcoin?

As of the time of writing this, however, the cryptocurrency market is only slightly down, with BTC posting 1.61% in losses.

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The Chase Files 25/5/2020

Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is your daily news cap Monday 25th May, 2020. There is a lot to read and digest so take your time. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS), Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing a Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

GOV’T TO OFFER BONDS TO HELP COUNTRY GET THROUGH COVID-19 CRISIS – Government will meet with union leaders tomorrow to continue discussions on the proposed National Pandemic Solidarity Bonds offer. Addressing a virtual service of thanksgiving this afternoon to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Barbados Labour Party election victory, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said the Government of Barbados wants to issue the bonds to public servants to help the country get through the crisis brought on by COVID-19. While not providing much details about what will be on the table, she pointed out that she has “always been sensitive to the issue of wage cuts”. “We are not interested in cutting persons’ pay but we are interested in creating a scenario where we can carry as many Barbadians as possible,” Mottley said. “To that extent therefore, what we’re proposing is a form of forced savings, what I’m now going to call a national meeting turn. Tomorrow morning the Ministry of Finance officials will meet with the labour movement and they will explain how this will work. “And believe you me, every public servant and every person who is paid by Government will receive their full salary package,” Mottley added. She said while the majority will be paid in cash, Government will also be asking some workers to look at bonds that will carry interest rates of five per cent. “At the end of the day, the Government is going to have to be the one driving the capital works programme in Barbados, dealing with water, dealing with roads, dealing with cleaning the country, dealing with building gabions, dealing with fixing schools that are the subject of environmental problems every week, or other facilities that government has that literally are in bad need of repair,” the Prime Minister said. “So my friends, believe you me, I’m sensitive to the fact that every Bajan needs to play their part, but I equally do not want you to be out of pocket. And that is why in the same way that this Government refused to touch savings bonds when we were restructuring the debt, I’m going to insist that we find a way of immunizing and protecting those bonds that any public sector worker or any other Barbadian may take as part of the National Pandemic Solidarity Bonds that the Government of Barbados wants to issue to help us get through this moment.” (BT)

MOTTLEY PROMISES FULL PAY PACK – PRIME MINISTER MIA AMOR MOTTLEY on May 24 attempted to allay the fears of public servants, promising they will have their salaries paid in full, predominantly cash, with the remainder in bonds, should the Government introduce forced savings. She was addressing the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) Virtual Service of Hope and Thanksgiving which was streamed online as the administration commemorated its second anniversary in office. Mottley prioritised the need to create economic space to help Barbados rebound from the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Mottley suggested the new concept of forced savings equated to a “national meeting turn”. She had first mooted the idea two weeks ago, and members of the Social Partnership and Government’s financial advisors started a dialogue on the process last week. “The bottom line is that I’ve always been sensitive to issues of wage cuts. The Barbados Labour Party was able to restore the eight per cent wage cut which was foisted on public servants [in 1991]. We are not interested in cutting a person’s pay. But we are interested in creating a scenario where we can carry as many Barbadians as possible and, to that extent, what we are proposing is a form of forced savings, what I would call a national meeting turn.” (DN)

DLP AGAINST FORCED SAVINGS – Should Government move ahead with its proposed forced savings on the salaries of public servants, it could plunge Barbados deeper into a recession, warns president of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Verla De Peiza. Speaking on this issue for the first time since Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley hinted two weeks ago at the possibility of Government going this route as an alternative to job cuts, De Peiza argued there were greater factors to consider beyond the savings arithmetic. She contended that with the private sector already engaging in salary cuts and job losses, households which had breadwinners from each group were going to be in dire straits. “A lot of public servants live pay cheque to pay cheque and a lot of them have household incomes cut because their partner has already been adversely affected by the cuts in the private sector as a result of COVID-19, or their jobs have disappeared altogether. "We have a tradition of shoring up one another in families, so if a family member falls on hard times, the others will pool resources to keep them afloat. Therefore, to cut salaries, whether in real terms or otherwise, is to put pressure on household management and ability to function,” said De Peiza. (DN)

VAGRANT ADMITS TO BEDROOM ENTRY – In the early hours of the morning, an 11-year-old girl awoke to the feeling of something wet on her lips. When she opened her eyes, she came face to face with vagrant Ray Anderson Herbert. However, after initially denying to police any involvement in the incident, Herbert threw in the towel and confessed when he appeared in the No. 2 Supreme Court last Thursday. Appearing via Zoom link with HMP Dodds, the 55-year-old former jockey, who has no fixed place of abode, confessed to entering a woman’s house on January 21, 2018, with intent to indecently assault the child. He had 29 previous convictions – ten for burglary, six for theft, four for possession of cannabis, three for criminal damage, two for dishonestly appropriating items and one each for having a traffickable quantity of cannabis, possession of cannabis with intent to supply, having an offensive weapon and contempt of court. (DN)

BWA CARRYING OUT REPAIRS TO BURST MAINS – The Barbados Water Authority wishes to inform the public that it is today, Sunday, May 24, carrying out repairs to bursts in the following areas: A 16-inch main at Porters, St James. & A 4-inch main at Dodd’s Land in St Philip. The Authority is also today continuing to assist residents of several districts affected by an inconsistent pipe borne supply, via refilling of the community tanks and its fleet of water tankers. These areas in the parishes of St John, St Joseph, St Andrew and The Mount #1 & #2 in St Peter will continue as usual to be served by the tankers throughout the day and into the night. The BWA apologizes for the inconvenience these disruptions in service may cause. (BT)

STRANDED ST. LUCIANS RETURN HOME & PLACED IN QUARANTINE - St Lucia on Sunday welcomed home nationals who were stranded overseas due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Through the ongoing repatriation process, of the 151 St Lucians stranded overseas, some arrived from Canada and Barbados. Seventeen nationals being repatriated from Canada arrived here shortly after 2 p.m. on a West Jet chartered service via Barbados. Subsequently, 59 people will arrive aboard Disney Fantasy at Port Castries, and 73 nationals will arrive on Monday through Port Castries via the Royal Vision of the Seas. The Department of Health and Wellness has granted permission for the arrival and disembarkation processes, following which all carriers will depart St Lucia. In accordance with Health and Safety protocols, officials said all frontline personnel at ports of entry will facilitate arrivals wearing the necessary personal protective equipment. “It is mandatory that all returning nationals arrive wearing face masks. Port Health Authority will spearhead the disembarkation process. “Returning nationals will be immediately transported to a government-operated quarantine facility where they will be housed for a period of 14 days,” the announcement stated. It added that each national will be screened upon arrival and daily while accommodated at a government-operated quarantine facility. Nationals will be tested for COVID-19 during the quarantine period, should they present as symptomatic. Speaking on the ongoing repatriation process, Minister responsible for External Affairs, Sarah Flood-Beaubrun, noted that the coordination of these efforts has been a success only because of the full engagement of the team managing the repatriation process. “I wish to express our gratitude to Canada and High Commissioner Marie Legault, for affording St Lucia the opportunity to have our nationals join Barbadians on the flight to that country,” the minister said. The WestJet flight was dispatched to Barbados to repatriate Canadians still in the region. The Minister also thanked the Government of Barbados for facilitating the transfer of nationals, including those at the University of the West Indies who joined the charter, through their borders. “The Department and the Government continue to look at ways to facilitate the repatriation of other nationals who wish to return home. “Nationals who are desirous of returning home are reminded to contact the nearest St Lucian Embassy and Consulate, along with the office for Diaspora Affairs,” the minister advised. (CMC)

VOODOO LEADERS CONCOCT COVID-19 'CURE' – Haiti’s voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to prepare the sacred initiation chambers of their temples to receive patients. In Haiti, where Western healthcare services are scarce and too expensive for many, inhabitants often rely on the herbal remedies and ritual practices of their voodoo “houngan” priest or “mambo” priestess. Draped in necklaces of colorful beads, Haitian Voodoo “Ati” or supreme leader Carl Henri Desmornes said in an interview at his “gingerbread house” in Port-au-Prince he knew there would be a deluge of patients at their temples. While the virus took root slowly in the poorest country in the Americas, in the last two weeks the number of confirmed cases has nearly quintupled to 865 while reports of a mysterious “fever” are spreading. “Voodoo practitioners – the Houngans and Mambos in particular – have the responsibility to look after the wellbeing of the population,” said Desmornes, 60, who was a music promoter before becoming the Ati. “They have received the powers and the knowledge to put in practice.” More than half of Haiti’s 11 million people are believed to practice voodoo, a religion brought from West Africa centuries ago by enslaved men and women and practiced clandestinely under French colonial rule. Ever since the first cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed in Haiti in mid-March, Voodoo priests have been serving up teas with ingredients including moringa, eucalyptus, ginger and honey to strengthen the immune system.“We live in a country where the health system is not able to respond to the challenge of the pandemic, so we rely on natural remedies instead,” said Mambo Lamercie Charles as she ladled out potion. “I consider my temple a clinic”. Voodoo deputy leader Euvonie Georges Auguste said the community, inspired by the “Loas” [spirits], has also come up with a potion for COVID-19 symptoms that they had taught priests virtually to prepare and administer. The community had identified 1 000 voodoo temples that had a “Djèvo” - a sacred chamber used for initiation rituals - that was separate to the worship chambers and could be used to isolate up to 15 patients each, she said. Auguste said it was a shame President Jovenel Moise had highlighted Madagascar’s self-proclaimed, plant-based “cure” for COVID-19 rather than Haitian voodoo treatments.“This attitude shows he is a victim of the system that still bears the scars of slavery,” she said. Voodoo is closely identified with Haiti’s struggle for independence but has worked hard for legitimacy. It only won recognition as an official religion in 2003 under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.Haiti’s voodoo practitioners in the past have criticised Moise for appealing publicly to Christianity’s god rather than to Voodoo’s spirits. Sometimes misrepresented in Hollywood and pulp fiction as a black magic cult, it suffers from stigma. Some evangelical preachers blamed the 2010 earthquake on voodoo while mobs lynched at least 45 houngans and mambos they blamed for bringing about the subsequent cholera outbreak with their spells. (Reuters)

VALEDICTORIAN MAKES HISTORY AT PRINCETON – Princeton University, a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, has named a Caribbean-Canadian – Nicholas Johnson, the son of a Bahamian father and a Jamaican mother, as the first Black valedictorian in the university’s 274-year history. The university – the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution – said Johnson, an operations research and financial engineering concentrator from Montreal, Canada has been named valedictorian of the Class of 2020. Princeton said its faculty accepted Johnson’s nomination by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at its April 27 meeting. Princeton will hold a virtual commencement for the Class of 2020 on Sunday, May 31, at which Johnson will participate. An in-person ceremony will be held in May 2021. In a statement, Johnson said that he appreciates the encouragement he has received at Princeton in developing his academic interests. He said the university’s support, through opportunities including international internships and cultural immersion trips to Peru, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, was “especially significant”. But, most of all, Johnson said he treasured his relationships with his classmates. “My favourite memories of my time at Princeton are memories of time spent with close friends and classmates engaging in stimulating discussions — often late at night – about our beliefs, the cultures and environments in which we were raised, the state of the world, and how we plan on contributing positively to it in our own unique way.” He said he plans to spend this summer interning as a hybrid quantitative researcher and software developer at the D. E. Shaw Group before beginning Ph.D. studies in operations research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in fall 2020. Along with his concentration in operations research and financial engineering, Johnson said he is pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing. Princeton said Johnson’s research has focused primarily on sequential decision-making under uncertainty, optimisation, and the ethical considerations that must be made given the increasing role of algorithmic decision-making systems. (CMC)

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Baptist Health under contract to buy Coral Gables dev site at center of litigation

Collection Residences rendering with Masoud Shojaee and Ugo Colombo

Baptist Health is under contract to pay $41.5 million for the development site of the Collection Residences in Coral Gables — a property at the center of contentious litigation between developers Masoud Shojaee and Ugo Colombo, court documents reveal.

The Baptist deal could close within two months.

Shojaee and Colombo had planned to jointly develop the Collection Residences, a mixed-use project with 128 condos and retail space at the 2.8-acre site at 250 Bird Road, 4101 Salzedo Street and 4112 Aurora Street before their partnership ended in dispute nearly three years ago.

Shojaee and Colombo, through their firms, jointly owned Coral Gables Luxury Holdings LLC, which planned to develop the project across the street from The Collection. Following a major falling out in November 2015, Shojaee and Colombo pulled out of their joint venture.

In January 2016, Shojaee’s Shoma Coral Gables filed suit against Colombo’s Gables Investment Holdings LLC; Colombo, individually; and The Collection LLC, Colombo’s Coral Gables luxury car dealership, alleging breach of contract, among other counts. Shojaee’s company alleged that Colombo and his companies breached their operating agreement. Earlier this month, the court dismissed Colombo as a defendant in the case.

The suit seeks between $4 million and $5 million in damages, said Shoma’s attorney Andrew Hall, founding partner of Hall, Lamb, Hall & Leto. A civil jury trial set to begin this week was delayed. Last week, Colombo’s firm filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing a contract with Baptist Health to purchase the development site.

“The company is essentially in liquidation mode with an executed contract of sale of its only asset — the property,” the motion states. “If following closing on the contract of sale to Baptist Hospital, [Shoma] receives back every dollar it invested, it will have no actual damage and its claims in this case will be entirely mooted.”

Hall said Shoma objects to dismissing the case. Robert Burlington, a partner in Coffee Burlington, who represents Colombo and his companies, declined to comment. Kathleen Moorman, vice president of Baptist Health Enterprises Real Estate and Development, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Baptist Health has been expanding throughout South Florida in recent years. It recently opened a four-story, 60,000-square-foot outpatient facility at Crescent Heights’ mixed-use development at 709 Alton Road in Miami Beach.

The 2016 suit tied to the Coral Gables site alleged that after Shoma refused to give in to Colombo’s demands, Colombo sabotaged the project, “causing substantial damages to Shoma.” Colombo responded to the lawsuit at the time, calling it “a frivolous lawsuit filed by a peculiar fellow.”

“There’s no question that there is an awful lot of money lost to engage in the development that shouldn’t have been lost,” Hall said, citing expenses including architectural engineering plans, sales office construction and operations. “Those millions of dollars were wasted and its seems to me that [Colombo’s CMC Group] needs to basically write the check because they did something they had no right to do, and make us whole.”

Colombo and Shojaee paid $27 million for the property in 2013, plus a $1 million bonus upon execution of a sale or lease of underground parking spaces to the Collection, and 10 percent of the gross rental income from any lease or the sales price for the purchase of any underground parking, according to the suit.

If the lawsuit goes to trial, Colombo’s firm’s motion to dismiss states that if Shoma proves a breach of contract and a jury awards its claimed out-of-pocket damage, Shoma cannot also receive anything from the closing on the sale of the property because it cannot have a double recovery.

But Hall said that even if the Baptist deal goes forward, the $4 million to $5 million is still lost. “It’s money we didn’t need to spend,” he said, ”and we are going to make them pay us back for that.”

from The Real Deal Miami https://therealdeal.com/miami/2018/07/25/baptist-health-under-contract-to-buy-coral-gables-dev-site-at-center-of-litigation/ via IFTTT

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