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Rezatta — VISION DESIGN PHASE
Hey! ^^
You probably know the Great Designer Search 3 is happening right now, and if you don't you should really check the first judging articles because they're a gold mine of information for custom designers:
The contestants are doing exactly what we're doing here, i.e. trying to reproduce Magic designs and push the boundaries of the game, except they get professional feedback on it. There's an invaluable amount of information in those articles but they are quite long with ten-ish cards for each of the eight participants. So I figures I would select some of the best pieces that could be interesting to remember for the design of Rezatta.
I'll be looking for three types of submissions:
- Designs that would fit the themes of Rezatta
- Designs that fell into interesting design traps
- Designs that try to push the rules limit
Let's start this series with the first article. As no one was eliminated yet, there are A LOT of cards so I'm only going to cover the first four candidates in alphabetical order in this post. Here are some lessons I could take from this first challenge:
Challenge 0: MULTICOLOR GRID (PART 1)
For this challenge, the contestants had to design 10 cards following those rules:
1) All the cards will be two-color and each of the ten two-color combinations (listed below) need to be represented.
2) Each of the following five card types (creature, enchantment, instant, planeswalker and sorcery) needs to be represented twice, and never on the same color.
3) Each rarity (common, uncommon, rare, and mythic rare) must be represented on at least two cards.
• Design 2
Naila and Hrun, Fused (mythic rare)
Planeswalker — Naila-and-Hrun
Mark Rosewater commented:
I like the idea of a planeswalker that's a pair of Planeswalkers working together, but then you just revert them to being two different planeswalker cards. You tap into a cool concept and then abandon exploring it.
Why I selected this card:
We should always be on the look-out for cool twists on Planeswalker cards, and having one card representing two planeswalkers is something we could easily consider.
• Design 3
Swiftblade Pikeman (common)
Creature — Human Soldier
CARDNAME enters the battlefield with a blade counter on it.
Remove a blade counter from CARDNAME: CARDNAME gains first strike until end of turn.
Erik Lauer commented:
This is an interesting design. However, it puts a lot of tension on your opponent. This is more challenging than we would want from most commons.
Melissa DeTora commented:
One thing to be careful about with commons is how often they lead to gotcha moments. This creature sits there as an on-board trick and with no mana in the activation cost it can be easy to forget this is there. For cards like this, I would avoid first strike and go with abilities where you can't win combat for free, like trample.
Why I selected this card:
I think that's an interesting design trap: make sure the commons with first strike don't lock the game. We should check for that.
• Design 1
Steamfist Enforcer (common)
Creature — Human Rogue
If mana from an artifact source was spent to cast CARDNAME, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter and is an artifact in addition to its other types.
Why I selected this card:
The card received mixed reviews because it hinted at an artifact set which was against the rules, but for us it is a cool bit of information about the possibility of making cards that care about being paid "with psylian life".
• Design 3
Rahmi, Master Engineer (mythic rare)
Planeswalker — Rahmi
Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a loyalty counter on CARDNAME.
Ethan Fleischer commented:
Putting a triggered ability on a planeswalker is a natural place to go if you're looking for novelty, and triggers such as this tend to work well on build-around rewards.
Why I selected this card:
Again on the planeswalker twists, almost all candidates proposed a planeswalker with a static ability and that was very well-received. Definitely something to consider.
• Design 4
Mugai Creation Saga (mythic rare)
Do both of these, in either order -
* Draw a card for each creature you control.
* Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token for each card in your hand.
Eli Shiffrin commented:
This breaks a couple rules about modal spells, but hey, rules were made to be broken! Wait, that's not what I'm supposed to say, is it? This design is a wonderful example of something that the rules specifically forbid (spells always do their things in the printed order) but only because there's not an exception that we need to point out. You stretched your design and found an exception; that's easy to write rules for.
Why I selected this card:
A cool design that pushes the rules boundaries and that got the approval of the Rules Manager, making it something we could use ourselves.
• Design 3
One-Shot Saboteur (common)
Creature — Human Rogue
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, look at the bottom two cards of your library, then exile one face down.
When CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, put the exiled card into your hand.
Erik Lauer commented:
This is a fine design, except I would stick to the top two cards of your library, especially on a common.
Melissa DeTora commented:
I dislike looking at the bottom two cards because it uses more dexterity and is just more time consuming that looking at the top.
Ethan Fleischer commented:
I too don't really understand why we're mucking around with the bottom of the library here, but I could imagine an environment with a lot of scrying or something might want to do this.
Mark Rosewater commented:
I agree with the other judges that there's not a strong reason to look at the bottom of your library.
Why I selected this card:
The judges unanimously disliked bottom of the library manipulation for the sake of novelty as the contestant was doing it, but we should also note some nuances in Ethan Flesicher's comment: in an environment with Discover that basically scries a lot there could be room for it.
• Design 7
Bucket List (rare)
Whenever you cast a spell of a type showing on CARDNAME, put a counter over that type and draw a card. If all five types on CARDNAME have counters over them, sacrifice it and draw one more card.
[ ] artifact [ ] creature [ ] enchantment [ ] instant [ ] sorcery
Eli Shiffrin commented:
I'm positive that I can write rules to make this design work, but seeing it pop up out of nowhere made my brain do a somersault. It would require extensive rules work and terminology definition, and then there's even more issues I'm aware of downstream: graphic design concerns, digital tracking and display concerns, and tournament play concerns. I hope you've got more than one card cooked up to use this design space for the amount of work it'd need, but I'm impressed and intrigued.
Why I selected this card:
This pushes the boundaries of the rules and the jurees were pretty excited by it. That said, it's not something we can really do on MTGCardsmith unless we put the frame modifications directly inside the illustration box.
That's all for today! I'll finish the last four candidates another time so it's not too long to read
Wait! @ningyonk are you asking us to submit card designs in the same manner as these fellows have done?
Not at all! x) I just thought some of the designs they made (and more particularly some of the feedback they received) were interesting for Rezatta itself ^^ It's just a selection of especially helpful moments from the GDS3, nothing more
I've been enjoying that series as well.
SO, I love Rezatta so I'm gonna keep pitching at it. First off, Psylian life makes me want to play the set mechanically. I don't like how wordy Discover is but I'd draft it if I had to. The token mechanic is a token mechanic and that's not my play style but I think it's a good red token mechanic. I don't think Rebirth should turn you into an angel or legendary. You can have specific cards that gain those boosts for those stories. The color grid is bueno I think. I'm down to design some throwaway commons if I don't have to find art for them so we can play test a draft. I like the idea of a bizzare planeswalker. I think the art you had for the silent planeswalkers is gorgeous. So here's a toss up idea:
W:Target opponent reveals an unrevealed card in their hand until the next end step.
+2 If you have a card exiled facedown with CARDNAME, reveal all cards revealed with CARDNAME and cast them without paying their mana cost. Otherwise, exile the top card of your library facedown.
0 Name a card. Players cannot cast spells with the same name as the named card until your next upkeep.
Hey! I'm still on this but with two GDS3 articles to read each week (plus the Magic Story in-between each round) it's a lot to take in so my activity is going to be more focused on week-ends until GDS3 is over ^^
Is the first ability a loyalty ability that requires you to pay W to activate or is it a regular activated ability like in the following example? (It's a personal try at the GDS3 Trial 3 challenge with an activated ability that's not a loyalty ablity, it's not ready yet so don't mind the rest of the card):
I like that you tried to find ways to express she is communicating through things like naming and revealing cards (I especially like revealing cards to depict mute communication.) The last ability is also quite flavourful with a mute planeswalker for me ("Players can't cast spells" cards are often Silence-flavoured so it's an especially good white fit.) Still the whole package lacks cohesiveness I think. I'm especially puzzled but the activated ability, couldn't the third ability just make the opponent reveal their hand?
First: The GDS3 is awesome. I intend to major in game design and the GDS3 is major-ly inspiring!
Second: We could take lessons from the Tribal challenge for making Tribal work in Rezatta.
that card is cool!
Hey so on page one you said psylian life was w/b but then created an entire cycle of for it. So is w/b just the color that uses it the most if so then shouldn't the cards that use psylian life be uncommons or rares like the examples you showed because sets are usually defined by its commons?
I meant it as a repeatable nonloyalty ability. Mira's minus is so busted though. Can planeswalkers tap? I think changing a rule like that would have some pretty big consequences (tanglewire superfriends?). I think a mana ability works fine, especially with the two mana helping mechanics in Rezatta.
After re-reading all the Nuts & Bolts articles during the break a couple months ago, I realized that we were really encouraged to let the mechanics tell us in which colours they wanted to go by playtesting them and keeping the most fun elements. So I figured that instead of deciding a priori in which colours each mechanic should go, it could be interesting to test each mechanic in each colour then cut them off from the colours that played the least interestingly. That's why I tried to make a common cycle of cards for each mechanic. Here, let me emphasize that they're part of a special first batch of commons which role is to playtest every aspects of the mechanics and not make an actual balanced set of commons.
That said, psylian life bein life gain, it kind of have to be restrained to the life gain colours which are white, green and black. But this little experiment can give us a hint at the potential for blue and red bending, most likely at uncommon and/or rare like you mentionned
Okay, I like the idea of using an activated/triggered/static ability on a planeswalker. It's something that was proposed multiple times during GDS and WOTC said they were completely ok with it and will do it eventually, they were just trying to burn through planeswalker design space as slow as they could because it's not that big. My only issue is that we only have access to three-abilities planeswalker frames on MTGCardsmith which means the special ability will have to take the spot of a loyalty ability, so the two remaining loyalty abilities'd better be really exciting ones ^^
And yes, you can tap planeswalkers, but not with Tangle Wire since it specifically asks for an artifact, creature or land. They also don't have summoning sickness, like artifacts.
Maybe the nonloyalty ability could be the ultimate spot instead of the plue spot? I like the idea. Do we need it in this set??? I think Eco, the planeswalker you flashed in the creative thread, has the OH I WANT THAT CARD art and would fit the mute character we wanted, so thinking of planeswalkers I would keep that in mind. Planeswalkers also build archetypes around them, like Teferi making Azorious control a thing in standard right now, so thinking of how a planeswalker affects a typical standard could help determine where we could push them and where we don't need to. It also helps in sealed if they synergize with the main mechanics of the set. A lot goes into a memorable, effective planeswalker.
Felt like making cards so I made you half of an Uncommon cycle hope you enjoy.
I'll make the rest tomorrow probably, also the way you described r/ b in the archtype guide really made me think of exploit fingers crossed it fits.
Ahhh I finally understand psylian life.
Maybe it should be betokened somehow, like Exerted or Khans//Dragons was marked with little tokens.
About planeswalkers, Mark Rosewater often mentions that they do the planeswalkers very late in design because, as you mentioned, they are tailored by the needs of the whole set. It's fine to brainstorm some ideas earlier though ^^
That's a pretty cool set of cards ^^ Note that the archetype grid in the intro is just a random example. As I was saying above, the current plan is to playtest the mechanics in all colours to define where they feel best, then fill the holes. So the archetypes may end up completely different.
You can't use any keyword in any set, all evergreen mechanics and three-ish additional set mechanics is about the maximum number of mechanics a modern Magic set uses because of complexity (and to avoid having every set feeling the same.) This means Exploit can't be used as-is, but you can still use the non-keyworded version: "When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, EFFECT" ^^
Do you mean having a reminder card? Like Morph, Monarch, or City's Blessing?
If so, you'll find the reminder card of Psylian life in the intro
We could make a "put your psylian life counter here" zone though, like Energy or Poison counters reminder cards, maybe?
I'm finishing the second part of my GDS3 lessons that I started last week, next I'll jump directly to challenge 3 because two candidates proposed life-matters mechanics that are especially important to us ^^
Challenge 0: MULTICOLOR GRID (PART 2)
• Design 1
Pick Your Poison (rare)
Choose any number of modes that add to exactly <4> You may choose the same mode more than once.
<1> Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
<2> Create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
<4> All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Eli Shiffrin commented:
The rules to support this don't seem too bad, but it's definitely some work. Don't forget two important facts: Modes happen in the printed order, and targets are chosen before any of the actions are done. If a card's design looks strongly like it's asking you to break those rules, you'll be fighting your players, and no one wins there.
Why I selected this card:
This is another design that is doing something that hasn't been done before and basically got approval from the rules manager if we want to try something like it.
• Design 5
Sign In Someone Else's Blood (common)
Sign In Someone Else's Blood deals 3 damage to target creature you control.
Draw two cards.
Ethan Fleischer commented:
This is only really an additional cost if the creature you target has 3 or less toughness. I'm pretty skeptical of this card's color pie appropriateness. Also, player's frequently use cheap card draw spells to help them out of mana screw; this card can't do that very well.
Why I selected this card:
An example of potential life-matters card, and in this specific case one that was not generally well-received, so probably something we should try to avoid in our own designs.
• Design 5
Ashiok, Dream Collector (mythic rare)
Planeswalker — Ashiok
-9: You get an emblem with You may cast nonland cards on the battlefield you don't control.
Eli Shiffrin commented:
Casting things off the battlefield is theoretically possible, but it causes no small amount of weirdness. What if the other player want to activate its ability in response? Priority fights aren't fun. What if it's face-down? I can move it to the stack, look at it, and then determine whether or not I can or want to cast it. Perhaps you can get to the same goals by having the emblem let you pay a permanent's mana cost to exile it and cast it for free, or even having it simply gain control of a one by paying its mana cost.
Ethan Fleischer commented:
The ultimate is bizarre; casting cards from the battlefield is bound to confuse a lot of players.
Why I selected this card:
I talked about this before but casting things from the battlefield was once considered for the Rebirth mechanic. Two lessons here: it is technically possible, and it's not encouraged unless you have an excellent reason to not just blink the card.
• Design 7
Graveyard Dig (common)
Return up to two target {green or black} creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
You may cast this spell for 2(b/g)(b/g). If you do, ignore the braced text.
Eli Shiffrin commented:
"Change this spell's text by removing 'some words here'" isn't something we've done, but it's pretty reasonable within the rules.
Why I selected this card:
Another tool that was considered at the very beginning of Rezatta Design, if anyone remembers the time of ability counters and do-it-yourself tokens in-between other oddities. I thought it was interesting to notice the approval from the rules manager here, if we're ever interested in digging this back.
• Design 8
Borrow (rare)
You may activate an activated ability of target artifact or creature you don't control without paying its costs. (If it has {X} in its cost, X is 0.)
Eli Shiffrin commented:
I'm more concerned with all the other costs besides X that can be problematic when you skip them. Costs of "Sacrifice a creature" can do weird things when the effect tracks back to the sacrificed creature—and even weirder things if the effect affects "that card" but that card is still on the battlefield. Will players get that the T cost is waived, so tapped permanents can be re-activated? If my opponent has a planeswalker, I can activate its ultimate ability right away with Liquimetal Coating. I'm confident I can make answers that won't cause the game to collapse into a singularity, but I'm not confident the answers will be user-friendly.
Mark Rosewater commented:
I'm torn. The player in me thinks this is a cool effect that would lead to a lot of fun moments. The designer in me agrees with Eli that this effect is going to cause some non-intuitive gameplay. If this card were submitted to my set, I would play around with variants to find the sweet spot between cool and understandable.
Why I selected this card:
Another design with an ability we sometimes see on MTGCardsmith from time to time. I'm not sure what the final lesson is, it's certainly not encouraged because of priority battles, but Mark Rosewater seems to think there are ways to do this in more specific situations. That's just food for thoughts.
• Design 1
Swallow Whole (uncommon)
Exile target creature if its toughness is less than the greatest toughness among creatures you control. You gain life equal to the difference.
Why I selected this card:
I thought that last line of text was cute and could be considered in a life-matters set
• Design 3
Indiscriminate Slaughter (rare)
Choose a creature at random. Destroy all other creatures.
Erik Lauer commented:
This is a fun but familiar design, but probably not for Standard tournament play. I would charge more mana.
Why I selected this card:
The lesson here has nothing to do with the card itself! x) This card was actually printed as-is a few weeks later in Battlebond under the name Last One Standing... except the real version costs 1 less than the contestant's version where Erik Lauer suggested it to cost *more* ^^ He probably knew about it, which is why he made the "Standard tournament play" precision, but this also means we should always look at the bigger picture when reading the judges advice
• Design 5
Heart's Desire (mythic rare)
If you would search your library for a card or cards, search for twice as many cards that fit the search criteria instead.
Eli Shiffrin commented:
Some cards like Cultivate that refer to a singular "the other" can easily enough be brushed off as affecting "the others," which is a power level issue rather than rules. Protean Hulk boggles in confusion, though—two sets with total converted mana cost 6, or one? I'd aim the text simpler to get straight to the point and only mention the bits you care about:
While searching your library for one or more cards, you may search for up to twice that many cards.
Why I selected this card:
Just another random cool design trying to break some rules that could be Mythic rare material if needed after it basically got the rules manager tweaking and approval.
• Design 6
Kaya, Kingslayer (mythic rare)
Legendary Planeswalker — Kaya
-6: You get an emblem with Creatures can't attack Kaya planeswalkers you control.
Mark Rosewater commented:
Your ultimate should help you win, not prevent you from losing.
Why I selected this card:
A really important design lesson from Mark Rosewater that I saw multiple times during the contest. Planeswalkers are hard to design and making designs that slow down the game instead of bringing it to an end is an easy trap to fall into.
• Design 7
Cranky Hydra (rare)
Creature — Hydra
When Cranky Hydra enters the battlefield, choose X. You may choose the same mode more than once —
* Put a +1/+1 counter on Cranky Hydra.
* Cranky Hydra deals 1 damage to target player.
* Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Ethan Fleischer commented:
This card is pretty sweet. I don't know if each of the modes is sufficiently balanced against each other, but the essence of the design (X Hydra with Confluence text) looks like it will make a cool, flexible, appealing rare card, or maybe even a mythic rare!
Why I selected this card:
Choose X: Yet another new cool effect brought to us by the Trial 3 challenge x)
• Design 10
Curse of Apprehension (uncommon)
Enchantment — Aura Curse
Enchant player
Creatures enchanted player controls can't attack or block alone.
Erik Lauer commented:
This is novel, but what worries me that it is a lock-out component, so I would likely charge more mana. That sounds innocuous, but is clearly a step toward replacing the card.
Mark Rosewater commented:
My gut is to punish the cursed player for not doing what the spell restricts rather than prevent it from happening. This helps with Erik's lockout issue.
Why I selected this card:
That may be a cool way of showing fear in our set, once we take the judges advice into consideration.
• Design 1
Easily Excitea-Bull (rare)
Creature — Beast
Haste, lifelink
Whenever a player's life total changes, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.
Eli Shiffrin commented:
Will players easily understand how many times this ability triggers if two attacking creatures with lifelink deal damage? If a player is dealt 2 damage at the same time their own source with lifelink deals 2 damage? Will there be a consensus on what the answer is and/or should be? Those don't kill the card, but they're red flags.
Mark Rosewater commented:
I'm a fan of this card. To deal with some of Eli's issues, I'd contemplate making the card a little more expensive, moving it up to mythic rare, and granting a +1/+1 counter per life gained as that's clearer how many counters you get.
Why I selected this card:
A definitely interesting design in life-matters territory that we could consider for our set.
• Design 4
Blessed Fists (common)
Target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn. It fights target creature an opponent controls.
Why I selected this card:
Again, a simple design that could make a lot of sense in a life-matters set.
Hello everyone!
While the winner has been announced and the last article will be released next week, I figured I'd dig for some more lessons from the judges' feedback that could be applied to Rezatta by looking at another challenge.
This will be much different from Trial 3 because participants are not showing off crazy ideas anymore. This means I won't even talk about all the participants. Basically, it's going to be two parts:
1) Some general insights in designing mechanics with a bit of every participant.
2) More detailed feedback for the mechanics of Jay Treat and Jeremy Geist that are life-matters mechanics.
I won't be putting each card details because I selected feedback on how to make mechanics work in general. To make things smoother, I added between square brackets some contextual information on the card that is being discussed when needed.
Challenge 3: FINDING A GOOD MECHANIC (PART 1)
Revered N (As CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may tap up to N other untapped creatures you control. CARDNAME enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of creatures tapped in this way.)
Melissa DeTora commented on Design 1:
When making mechanics that require a choice, it's important to make the choices equal.
Jules Robin commented on Design 1:
My suspicion is that you'd already usually rather revere when you have the option, so combining it with more abilities that scale up with revering is going to widen the gap.
Summary of the Judges feedback:
Ari made a pretty huge mistake we must keep in mind though I don't think any of our current mechanics is concerned for now. His mechanic is an alternate casting cost but has no tension, it is virtually always better to rever when you can. He needed to have the revered creatures get downsides to compensate the additional power/toughness, but did the opposite instead.
Rhythm N (If this is the Nth spell you cast this turn, it is cast in rhythm.)
Jules Robin commented on Design 1:
Putting rhythm on cards that are very good to cast on curve [= 3/3 for 2G] leads to some pretty high-tension decisions. There are some Spikey players who enjoy that, but many don't, so be wary of doing a lot of these.
Mark Rosewater commented on Design 3:
I'm going to side with your playtesters and not Melissa and Jules. I like rhythm 1. I think it creates a low bar challenge that will make may players feel happy. It's important to remember that you need some simple puzzles for players to solve.
Summary of the Judges feedback:
Some interesting in-depths advice on the role of a mechanic in the set. We want to reward players for playing the mechanic, and be careful with commons that give hard choices to players. Note that some of them is still fine, we just got sets with Cycling and Kicker in Standard ^^
Ancestry {COST} (You may pay {COST} and exile this card from your graveyard as the ancestor of target creature you control. Add this card's power and toughness to its descendant's. Ancestry only as a sorcery.)
Eli Shiffrin commented in the Overall Feedback:
The one piece of rules-related feedback I have here is to make sure to use a happy little colon in the reminder text so your playtesters can tell it's an activated ability right away, and they don't have to ask you if it uses the stack, etcetera.
Why I selected this comment:
I figured I'd highlight this specific comment because we have an activated mechanic in Rezatta for now: Rebirth. We have put the "happy little colon" in the reminder text already, but if we ever try to remove it, we should always remember this piece of feedback ^^
It is indeed the same artist that did "Eco"! That's why I originally proposed this silver-haired character as the main character, this artist painted her in many different situations which could help us convey a story on the cards, by having the same character doing different things on multiple cards.
I haven't seen this artwork yet though, it's gorgeous ^^ Did you find it on their Deviantart portfolio??
Ok, that artwork is their latest, it came out 3 days ago which is why I had not seen it yet x)
For those interested, you can see how much raw material we could take from that artist's gallery if we decided to have this character be a main character: https://wlop.deviantart.com/gallery/
Great concept!
I just wanted to mention that since we have Rebirth (+1/+1 counters), we should avoid entirely including -1/-1 counters in the set.
Are we still doing separate story and design threads?
Yeap! It was just slowed down by the very condensed GDS we just got but once we've digested everything it will go back to normal. Actually we've gone past page 10, it may be a good time to decide how the GDS3 lessons will affect the design of Rezatta then start a fresh thread to execute those changes ^^
Challenge 3: FINDING A GOOD MECHANIC (PART 2)
In this post, I review one of the most important moments of GDS3 for Rezatta. As they were asked to design a custom mechanic, both Chris Mooney and Jeremy Geist proposed a very similar life-matters mechanic... and got ranked last and second-to-last xD Let's see what happened:
If you spilled blood this turn (You spill blood whenever a player loses 3 or more life.)
Spill your own blood (To spill your own blood, lose 3 life.)
Mark Rosewater commented on Design 1:
Melissa is correct that black only gets life when you drain something or in conjunction with sacrificing something.
Jules Robin commentedon Design 2:
Life payments appeal to a pretty narrow and Spikey group of players, so I'm skeptical that this space would ultimately prove worth all the complexity it adds to learning the mechanic.
Mark Rosewater commented on Design 2:
One of my pet peeves is mechanics that work differently on different cards. You spilling your own blood is different than blood being spilled (the first is active and the second is passive—that is, the first allows you to activate it while the second requires for something else to have happened). This is going to cause confusion.
Mark Rosewater commented on Design 5:
Again, you gave an ability you really want to gain before combat damage [= Double Strike] based on something that will most often trigger after combat damage.
Eli Shiffrin commented in the Overall Feedback:
Players reacted poorly to the "two meanings" implementation of haunt, and I'd bet they'll have the same issue here.
What lessons can we take from this entry?
Chris got eliminated after this round, so his life-matters mechanic didn't exactly convinced the jury. He did quite a few mistakes that are going to be important to avoid ourselves:
1) The main reason he got eliminated after this was that his mechanic was doing too many things under the same name in a very confusing way (it looked if you lost 3 or more life this turn, allowed you to pay 3 life, made your opponent lose 3 life, and looked whenever you lost 3 life or more.) I think this basically settles the discussion on potentially having all the life-matters triggers united behind a same ability word xD
2) Most players don't like paying life. It's ok in small doses but we have to make sure no one HAS to do that if they choose to play Black for instance. Maybe the life-matters triggers needs to be unified into something that allows you to create life swings the way you like, at least at common.
Jeremy Geist
Bloodied — If you lost life this turn, EFFECT.
Erik Lauer commented on Design 1:
[Bloodied] does not have a wide enough appeal for a Standard set. For a common, it is too challenging to get the reward. In practice, I would adjust your mechanic. So, for the rest of this assignment, I am changing your mechanic to "if any player lost life this turn."
Jules Robin commented on Design 1:
The vast majority of Magic players are not interested in hurting themselves.
Mark Rosewater commented on Design 1:
I do like that you included reminder text as I agree that many players might not realize that damage causes life loss.
Melissa DeTora commented on Design 2:
A+B mechanics are very hard to draft, and are not satisfying if you aren't able to get your A or B cards. Since sometimes you aren't able to get your synergy, these cards have to have reasonable rates on their own (see madness from Shadows over Innistrad—fine if you don't madness them, huge cost reduction/reward if you do).
Mark Rosewater commented on Design 3:
Now we get to bloodied cards that can be cast on your opponent's turn. While this version has more natural synergy, it suffers from a different problem: it discourages the opponent from attacking. Normally we like our conditions to be things that promote the game ending.
Jules Robin commented in the Overall Feedback:
I'd immediately discard bloodied if somebody submitted it as a mechanic idea for a set I was leading (or change it into something like Jay's submission). The mechanic has very narrow appeal and forces you to put more cards with that same narrow appeal into a set to support it. Its interaction with fetch lands makes it easy to create Modern cards, but whatever shots we took in that space wouldn't justify the other asks on the set compared to just making a few designs with the text, perhaps as an un-keyworded Limited theme for a single color pair. Serving this audience is necessary, but we need to find ways to do it such that other players can also enjoy it. There are just too many non-Spikes to build the structural elements of our sets from things they won't like.
What lessons can we take from this entry?
Not a great week for life-matters mechanic as this was considered the worst performance of Jeremy by a wide margin. There were, once again, some very important design lessons for Rezatta:
1) Once again, it's pointed out that caring about losing life is too narrow and won't appeal to many players. Our set doesn't revolve entirely around losing life, but maybe it's better to have the cards just care about life swings and let you decide how you want to create those life swings.
2) Caring about gaining/losing life create an A/B problem that's very difficult to design for. Jeremy did the mistake of not showing how he would enable life loss on your turn, while we have Psylian Life that both gains you life and allows you to pay life whenever you like. That said, we may once again want to consider mixing those triggers with something more natural for the game — caring about the opponent losing life — so those cards don't get stuck in your hand if you don't have the right enablers.
3) One of the biggest traps that we were already aware of but it's good to see Jeremy remind us here: "if you lost life this turn" cards must never discourage your opponent from attacking.
Your designs are far better than those two's submissions. Those were surprisingly poor ideas out of them.
Can we reprint fetches?
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|Occurred : 2/15/2017 21:00 (Entered as : 02/15/2017 21:00)
Reported: 2/15/2017 7:30:31 PM 19:30
Posted: 2/17/2017
Location: Wichita, KS
Shape: Other
|2 objects that look like stars moving erratically and stopping abruptly.
Friday night, Sunday night and Monday morning saw a moving object way above Orion's Belt. It moved erratically and came to abrupt stops. I watched it for a long time.
Tonight there are 2 moving objects moving erratically. One is to the far left of Orion's Belt and is very bright; the other under Orion's Belt and is dimmer. Each object looks like a star but both move in the same erratic manner.
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Pokemon Go is a game which has got spread like viruses in just a very minimal time. The game focuses on catching the Pokemon around the world.
Pokemon Go is a game for all those 90s generation kids who have been waiting since eternity to catch their own Pokemon.
The game offers you 3 starter Pokemon- Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and after choosing the one you are all good to go for honing your skills.
The basic requirements of the game are as follows-
A good 3G net pack, since you have to go outside to play this game.
A good trekking spirit within you as you have to walk/run/stroll in your real life to catch Pokemon virtually.
A great spirit of calmness, yes it's needed since the game crashes at the time and you don't get to catch Pokemon easily either.
Now, let's talk about some news here, the game has been officially launched in North America, South America, East Asia and some other parts of the world and is yet to get launched in India.
As per the intended rumors from Nintendo, it's been heard that the game will be launched within next 40 hours in India. So, as you all can start up with your fitness skills and start tracking those cute beasts down.
Since we are talking about a game here, it itself comes with some hacks, pros, and cons, so let's discuss them too.
You get to move outside your place and get to walk outside which makes you fit in some sense.
In the real outside world, we now to get to meet and make some new cool friends there.
You get to communicate with people of all castes, creed, race and since it's Pokemon, it all doesn't matter, we all are FRIENDS now.
The intentional trick of this game is that to fight your opponents or to train your Pokemon or to gather some free poke balls you have to start visiting temples, mosques, gurudwaras and churches. So, yeah that's one great move made by Nintendo to allow people revisit their old good times.
As such there are no great cons with the game but still the fewer of them are:
The battery draining issue is seriously a demerit here, once you start playing the game you realize this thing soon enough that your battery is drained out at a faster rate than ever.
Some days back, a major accident had occurred on a highway just because people wanted to catch a Dragonite there.
A very basic detailing about the game is- the type of atmosphere around you, the same type of Pokemon surrounds you.
When it's raining outside, you are more likely to get a water type there and so when it's thundering a thunder Pokemon can be found easily. In a hot sunny day, fire types are more common out there and yeah near the ground fields it's more common to find some grass type.
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DEFINITION of Blockchain Operating System
Beyond the standard payment processing system of the popular Bitcoin cryptocurrency, blockchain is finding extensive use all across the technology stack. The emerging fad among the technical development on distributed ledger technology is the blockchain operating system.
A blockchain operating system uses blockchain as a support in the background. For instance, your Android mobile or Windows PC needs a local installation of the respective OS on the smartphone's memory or on the PC's hard-disk, and all transactions and commands are executed locally. A blockchain-based OS captures all commands and transactions from a user's device but authenticating, executing, and recording them occurs on the blockchain.
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A blockchain essentially works as a transaction processing engine. Whether you need a payment processed, or you need to arm your cryptokitty with the latest gadget on the Ethereum platform, or you want to track your high-cost wine shipment right from the vinyard to your doorstep on the VeChain blockchain, all such applications of blockchain are based on authenticating, recording, and processing transactions.
Any standard operating system, be it Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, or mobile systems like Android or iOS, also executes transactions based on user commands issued through mouse-clicks or screen-taps where all the tasks get completed locally on the device. The same concept is extended to the use of a blockchain for device OS, where its use for working as an operating system is seen as a more efficient OS.
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text: wykikitoon 876 Report post Posted October 25, 2008 Made my bed, so now sleep in it Live by the sword..... etc Ive had them all going through my head today, so, wtf is Darth talking about? Ive been going out with my partner for 3 years. Last year we bought out house and it needed some serious work on it. We grafted hard along with her old man with 14 months and 5 months ago got it finished and moved in. Anyways, since day one we moved in, its not been great. I feel I am always getting told off for leaving lids off this, not putting XYZ back to here and there. Little petty shitty things. Added to that, I dont have sex any more and for 4 months of this building up I had literally had enough. My partner is a great lass, really outgoing enjoys a pint and a laugh. Now this has brought attention of many a man. Attention I dont deal with very well. I bottle it up and it gets to me. This attention however, has never ever (I hope) made her stray. She is well in with the Hockey club girls (ooo errr) and likes to go out on the socials etc. Now, sometimes these socials I dont get told about until the last minute which does my head in. There is very little communication on that side of the relationship. Anyways, so what am I getting at? Well, my mate was out with his work colleagues the other week and I met him for a few. He had a couple of female colleagues out with him, one I got on really well with. She got my number from my mate and started texting me. Anyway, I met her for a drink one night and thats all. I got a buzz like when I first started going out with my Gfriend. Soemthing my gfreind and I havent had in 7-8 months. Anyways, Ive texted this girl a bit and thats all. I havent had anything else to do with her, Ive not kissed her or had sex with her. Anyways, one morning last week my gfriend looked at my phone and looked at these messages and she quite clearly went a little beserk. The worse of the messages was "Missing you, goodnight". So, last night we had a chat and I went for a walk, whilst I was out I was trying to phone this girl to tell her I was happy with my gfriend and that was it. Whilst I was out my Gfriend came round the corner and again wasnt happy. She took my phone off me there and then. Last night we didnt really talk too much, mainly because I had been drinking and didnt want to argue on a fuzzy head. Anyways, we went to bed, this morning she went off to hockey with my phone. So she didnt phone anyone up and cause a mess I phoned Orange up and got the SIM blocked, this was a bad move as she said that added more doubt. Now, I havent seen her since 13:00 and I am shitting myself I love her and dont want to loose her at all, but I think its gone beyond that. I am worried about her mum and dad finding out too. Her parents are great and I feel so ashamed and I feel Ive let them down. Her dad have us quiet a bit of dosh to do the house up and I know thats going to come up soon. I really dont know what to do. I am not looking for sympathy here at all, I know what Ive done is bad etc, I just want some advice. Ive tried calling her and her phone is off, Ive left her a message asking her to get in touch to let me know she is ok. Cheers all Martin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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People Group Info
Total Population: 3,700ROP3 Code: 102928
IMB Affinity Group: European Peoples
Affinity Bloc: Eurasian Peoples
People Cluster: Romany
Language: English - (eng)
Religion: Christianity
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Total Population: 3,700ROP3 Code: 102928
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Vancouver (Surrey), BC - 3,700
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English Gypsies are certain groups of nomads, and may mean: Romanichals, or English Gypsies of Romani origin. Historically, people have both romanticized and formed negative steretypes views of Gypsies.
Some would characterize them as lazy and lawless, along with being unsanitary and a host of other stereotypes. However, such views do no justice as to who English Gypsies really are.
Romanichals are a Romani sub-group from the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world.
They are closely related to the Welsh Kale and to other Romani groups in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Romanichal are found across the United Kingdom, particularly England, Lowland Scotland and Wales.
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"It's the most wonderful time of the year." Unfortunately, that's not the experience for many people during the holiday season. There is often an increase in depressive feelings as time and money resources are drained and people struggle with recent or unresolved loss. Self-care is vital year round, but even more so during this stressful season. Many find themselves dealing with external stressors which includes environmental factors or events as well as internal stressors which stem from maladaptive personal behaviors, traits or lifestyle choices.
For more information and tips on to manage stress and implement self-care techniques, please check out the article "The Importance of Self Care During the Holidays" at PsychCentral.com (https://psychcentral.com/lib/the-importance-of-self-care-during-the-holidays/)


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Variety 102a
Obverse 1.2: Repunched 8, High Date Downward Slope
Reverse C.2: Die Crack Through S(T)ATES, Rev of 1844 (A)
Obverse 1.2 Reverse C.2
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Comments: Greer defines three repunched date varieties for 1845. Two of the three repunched date varieties are easy to attribute and to locate. They are Variety 103 (Greer 101) and Variety 107 (Greer 103). Greer's third repunched 1845 date is labeled as Greer 102. Greer indicates, for this variety, that there is strong repunching above the 8 digit, but this repunching quickly fades away. Dr. Tim Cook first provided me with an example of Greer 102 for study during 1992. Since then, I was unsuccessful in locating another example. Fortunately, I purchased Tim's dime at the May, 2005 Heritage CSNS Signature sale. From the plate coin, I have the following comments and conclusion:
First, the obverse and reverse dies match the Obverse 1 and Reverse C.2 die pairing. There is no question that the plate coin is an early die state or very strong strike from the Obverse 1 die. Similarly, the reverse has the die crack through the first T in STATES and can be confirmed as the later die state Reverse C. The plate coin clearly shows repunching above the left upper loop of the 8 digit. There are also die chips around Stars 3, 4, 5, 8, 12 and 13. Fortin Obverse 1 within the Variety 101 listing, shows die chips around Stars 3, 4 and 5 or a subset of the die chips on this coin. The Fortin Variety 101 plate coin, while paired with Reverse A, is a bit less well struck than this plate coin. Fortin Variety 102 is a pairing of Obverse 1 and Reverse C with Reverse C being in a later die state that shows the die crack through S(T)ATES.
So when was the Variety 102a dime struck? Could the repunching over the 8 digit be visible only when the obverse strike is very bold? Could the Variety 102a variety be a bold strike die state of the Obverse 1 and Reverse C.2 die pairing? I believe this to be the case. The continuing difficulty in locating an example of this variety versus the general availability of other 1845 repunched varieties, would suggest a striking anomaly or die state phenomenon as a potential explanation. The repunching of the 8 digit on Obverse 1 could have been present on the die for a considerable time. However, the repunching is very shallow on the face of the die, requiring a strong strike to place an imprint to the planchet in the die press.
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There are many contenders for the Basil Fawlty 'Don't mention the Mosque' award, which has been unofficially running ever since Farhad Jabar nipped home from school a fortnight ago, threw on a black robe, popped by the local mosque, picked up a gun, and murdered a police accountant, before bellowing out a last prayer praising Allah.
An honourable mention must go to Mohamed Taha, the ABC's western Sydney reporter, who told viewers, even before the police had issued a statement on the night, that the murder had nothing to do with terrorism. And ABC online stuck bravely to the broadcaster's narrative that night despite the evidence of our own eyes.
But this pales compared to Peter Lloyd's effort. On ABC radio's PM, a full five days after the event, Lloyd leapt over the issue of terrorism as nimbly as a youthful Nadia Comaneci. Early in the report, a friend of Jabar describes the shooter as a 'really nice and humble kid' and not 'that much of a bad person'.
But, Lloyd intones, 'since Saturday police and politicians have been calling Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar something else'. Seemingly loath even to utter the 't' word, Lloyd cuts to NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione saying, 'We believe his actions were … linked to terrorism'.
But, Lloyd sniffs, that 'narrative is supported only by the violent execution of a police employee by a teenager expressing disputed phrases before he was gunned down'. According to Lloyd there was 'no trail that leads to terrorism other than the fact that the teen is a Muslim and his target a seemingly randomly chosen adult male who was leaving the police headquarters at that time of day'.
Indeed, Lloyd revealed, 'PM has been given an alternative scenario… that the teen was visiting the local mosque at Parramatta not for radicalisation but to avoid school where he'd been bullied'.
In Lloyd's 'alternative scenario' visiting a mosque is no different to visiting a church or a synagogue. And the president of the Muslim Women's Association agreed, 'whether we've got a mosque, you've got a church, you've got a synagogue, you've got a temple, this always is a symbolic place where you can turn to… a mosque is a safe haven…'
'He probably had mental health issues', Lloyd concluded, lamenting that this has not been given 'fair attention'.
The point of these mental gymnastics is to avoid, at all costs, admitting the link between Islam and Islamism, the fact that lurking in the shadows of a suburban mosque or prayer hall there might be people who, instead of preaching peace, love and understanding, are mixing religious messages with incitement to hatred, murder, anti-Semitism, anti-Western propaganda and world domination.
When it comes to dangerous language, it isn't the siren song of Islamists that the politically correct have in their sights but former prime minister Tony Abbott.
According to Muslim community leader Dr Jamal Rifi, it was Abbott who had alienated Muslims by talking about 'Team Australia' and referring to Isis as a death cult.
'I believe Malcolm Turnbull will be more mature and insightful and that the government he leads will not fall for such short-minded, unwise use of words', Dr Rifi said.
Got it? Mention Team Australia and Muslims will refuse to combat Islamist terrorism.
When Premier Mike Baird suggested an audit of prayer groups in public schools, Sheikh Wesam Charkawi told ABC's The Drum that the Muslim community felt unfairly targeted.
'Will other faith groups be targeted as well?' asked Charkawi as if Presbyterian lone wolves were a particularly pressing threat that was being ignored.
'There's no evidence whatsoever that teaching religion in schools has led to violent extremism in any way, shape or form', he insisted, despite the fact that the premier announced the audit after a Year 12 student at Epping Boys High School was reported to be preaching in support of Isis at his school.
Thus, while the ABC's 7.30 this week scrutinised the unsavoury backgrounds of some of the Bendigo mosque's opponents, almost no attention has been paid to Australian Islamic Mission (AIM), the group stumping up a cool $3 million to finance it. As it turns out, AIM happily invited Tareq Al Suwaidan to launch a fundraising campaign, a man whose sermons are so violently anti-Semitic that he was banned from attending a Muslim Fair in Belgium last year.
In one sermon Suwaidan said, 'All the mothers of the Islamic nation – not only Palestinian mothers – should suckle their babies on the hatred of the sons of Zion. We hate them. They are our enemies. We should instill this in the souls of our children, until a new generation arises and wipes them off the face of the earth'.
It's a message that probably wouldn't worry the Grand Mufti of Australia. In 2012, he led a delegation of scholars to Gaza, met Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and said, 'I am pleased to stand on the land of jihad to learn from its sons… we feel like we are on cloud nine'.
The Grand Mufti was another who declined to utter the 't' word in relation to the Parramatta attack and apparently offered no support to Parramatta mosque leader Neil El-Kadomi. Kadomi told Fairfax he got more support from the Anglicans and the Jewish Board of Deputies in the last fortnight and called for a 'Mufti who can speak English, who is qualified to be a Mufti'.
Freedom of expression and religious freedom are cornerstones of Australian democracy and understandably governments are loath to curb either. But the government had no trouble banning Christian anti-abortionist, Troy Newman, on the flimsiest of pretexts even though there is little evidence that Newman was inciting violence. John Stuart Mill argued that there should be the fullest liberty of expression to push arguments to their logical limits rather than the limits of social embarrassment.
'The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.'
We do the opposite. Political correctness silences a debate about Islamism, which allows Islamists wolves to prey on Muslim flocks. There is abundant evidence that Islamist hate speech inspires violent crimes.
Yet it is we who are cowed into silence, not the friends of Hamas.
Rebecca Weisser is a freelance writer
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On Friday, July 19, 2019, Marjorie Doucette, loving mother of two children and six grandchildren, passed away peacefully, at the Provincial Palliative Care Centre, Charlottetown, at the age of 88. Marjorie was born on September 7, 1930, in North Rustico, P.E.I., to Frederick and Marion Gallant. She taught elementary school in North Rustico for 34 years. She raised one daughter, Anne, and one son, Roger, as well as providing endless love and support to her brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, and most of all, to her grandchildren. Marjorie was passionate about her teaching career. She loved reading, watching the boats come in to the North Rustico Harbor at the end of the day, and a good cup of tea. She liked long talks, good jokes and being surrounded by her family and friends. Her home was open to anyone in need, at any time. She is survived by her daughter, Anne Kirk (Larry), and son, Roger Doucette (Tami); six grandchildren, Jessica, Andrew, Tyrell, Keltie, Telsyn and Connor; and five great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sisters, Joyce LeClair, Noreen Down and Janet Gallant; and brothers, Walter, Paul and Merlin. Marjorie was predeceased by her parents, Frederick and Marion; brothers, Bert and Charlie; and sisters, Ida, Marina and Judy; and an infant son. Resting at Central Queen's Funeral Home, 2538 Glasgow Road, New Glasgow, for visitation on Monday, July 22, 2019, from 6-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Stella Maris Roman Catholic Church, North Rustico, on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. Interment to follow in Stella Maris Cemetery. If so desired, donations in Marjorie's memory may be made to the Provincial Palliative Care Centre, or Rosewood Residence would be appreciated. Online condolences may be sent at www.peifuneralcoops.com, or by sending an email to email@example.com


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Baylor Model UN breaks team record for awards at national conference
In recent years, Baylor's Model United Nations team has won top team honors and an avalanche of individual team member awards at national Model UN conferences across the country. Their latest appearance, at the American Modern UN Conference (AMUN) in Chicago, set an even higher bar for team and individual excellence.
Baylor's Model UN team won top honors and broke a team record for most in-committee awards received last month at the AMUN Conference. Baylor's 16-student delegation was named Overall Outstanding Delegation, their second such honor ever. Six of the eight committees in which Baylor students participated were named Outstanding Delegation in Committee, breaking the team's previous record of four (set just last year).
At the AMUN Conference, Baylor students represented the neighboring African nations of South Africa and Lesotho, studying and addressing a wide variety of societal issues such as education for democracy, women in development, and international cooperation to address the world drug problem. At the conference, committees presented their findings to the entire body of more than 1,300 students from across the nation to seek international consensus.
As Baylor implements Illuminate, the university's academic strategic plan that aims to expand the ways Baylor students and faculty collaborate to address the world's most challenging issues, it's clear that many of those students and faculty have helped set a foundation for excellence in these areas. For Baylor Model UN students, collaborating to address global problems is something they've done, and continue to do, with excellence on their biggest national stages.
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Do you know which states are classified as sinkhole states? There are eight, with California and New York at the top.
Sinkhole states are regions where the population dependent on the state outnumbers the population providing the necessary resources. This population surplus causes serious problems when the economy takes a fall. That being said, the sinkhole states have another issue.
In December, President Trump passed a new tax law that ended the federal deduction that people utilize for state income taxes. Accordingly, states with higher taxes have seen a rapid increase in living expenses.
Now wealthy residents who provide funds for the states of California, Illinois and New York will feel more inclined to move to Nevada, Florida or Texas. If they do choose to move, the remaining population of productive workers will be required to support the new financial burden.
These are the eight states classified as sinkholes:
A state needs to be facing a dip in income in order to qualify. The IRS provides reports of the total income of taxpayers moving into a state and the income of taxpayers moving out. When the latter is larger, the state is considered a departure state.
Sinkhole States also have a Feed Me Ratio over 100. The ratio is simply the population of takers for 100 makers. The taker population is the total number of state and local government employees, the people on Medicaid and 1 for each $150,000 that state government pension plans are negative.
The total number of makers is calculated by adding the private-sector employment total and the federal employment total. These people pay the necessary taxes that fund the state government, keeping it afloat.
There is not a perfect way to quantify the gap between private employment and the welfare rolls, but the Feed Me Ratio performs well enough to measure the correspondence between the makers and the takers.
The makers in Illinois would have to pay $68,000 each to fix the pension deficit.
Pensions are not a problem due to the sum of retirees. The issue at hand is that not all of the pension fund assets are accounted for. If the funds were there, the pensions would be completely covered and not pose a burden on employed taxpayers.
Illinois is $361 billion under on state pensions. In order to fix this, the makers in Illinois would have to pay $68,000 each. For this reason, Illinois is considered a failure in income migration.
Like Illinois, California is also an income failure. Many residents may start businesses in California, but once a business becomes highly profitable, the owner packs up most of the business and moves to a more reliable state.
California still has much to offer with prime real estate and giant corporations. But however great California may seem, the taxpayer outflow could always increase into a dangerous situation for the economy. The state's highest income tax rate is 13.3%. For the wealthy, that rate was softened with the write-off they could claim on their federal returns.
The problem with Trump's tax law is displayed as the Soak 'em Score. The score is the percentage of the state tax earnings from incomes over $500,000. The higher the percentage means the tax funds are more unstable because most people with incomes over $500,000 can relocate quite easily.
People living in a sinkhole state should be aware of the home-state municipal bonds. They should also be hesitant about purchasing an expensive home. Even if one plans to move out the state once a financial crisis hits, the bids on the home will most likely be from people who understand they are moving into a sinkhole.
The Soak 'em Score draws from 2015 tax returns. The estimate of the income tax the state takes in from the wealthy residents derives from the numbers those residents wrote-off as local income tax on their federal returns. It is not 100% accurate because residents could be writing off taxes sent from other states. That being said, it is close enough to understand the general situation of a state's tax revenue stability.
The relocation data corresponds with 2010 and 2011 returns, the most recent with the IRS statistics. Employment and Medicaid totals are taken from October and November of 2017.
The calculations of unfunded pension liabilities were made by Joshua Rauh, a Stanford business school professor. The calculations use interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds which produce larger deficits than what the states willingly publish.
Governor Jerry Brown says California will have a $6 billion surplus. However, this would not be the case if there was a strong push to handle the $769 billion pension shortage.
The past 7 years have seen an increase in relocation to Washington State, which does not tax personal income. Amazon and Microsoft seem to have found the perfect place to build their empires.


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Route of the Hiawatha
Our original plan was to ride the 12 miles downhill and take the shuttle back to our car at the top of the trail. Upon our arrival we learned that the shuttle only runs on weekends and holidays meaning that we would have to bike back our way back up the hill. The cruise down was breathtaking and really could not have been more perfect but the real adventure started as we began our journey back up the hill.
On our way back, the weather took a turn and became humid and a bit foggy. Although it was a little eery, we had fun riding through the tunnels with our little bike lights shining through the darkness and fog. In one of the tunnels we even came across a dear licking salt off the walls. As we got closer, it began running away until we eventually chased it out of the tunnel. As we continued on our way back, we would stop every couple of miles to let the kids run around and play. At one stop they found a chipmunk and spent about 20 minutes running around trying to grab it.
One of the craziest parts of the trail was the first (and last) 1.7 miles that we rode through a pitch-black tunnel. Besides being cold and dark, the tunnel was also muddy which resulted in all of us being filthy within the first 10 minutes of our journey. There's no doubt that the trail had its ups and downs (no pun intended), but I think it's safe to say that the journey was one that we will never forget!
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The Medicare Rights Center has developed a new downloadable guide providing free information to help people with Medicare and those who assist them with their finances understand the Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount (IRMAA) and how to request that it be lowered if there is disagreement with their Social Security Administration's IRMAA decision.
The Medicare Rights Center, a national nonprofit consumer service organization, is the largest and most reliable independent source of Medicare information and assistance in the United States.
IRMAA is the additional amount that people with Medicare must pay for Medicare Part B premiums and/or Part D premiums when their annual incomes are above a certain amount. In 2017, individuals and couples are required to pay an additional Medicare Part B and/or D premium when their annual incomes are above $85,001 and $170,001, respectively. The rate they pay is based on four different annual income levels.
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