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Happy middle of the week Noisers, I hope you are doing well. In Sweden it feels like winter is coming, and temperatures have started to hit negative numbers.

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Accidentally made up a new word today. Font, meaning F*king don't. It is very different from the other font, meaning style or types of letter.

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Gods Unchained - Winter Wanderlands set card review, card 4-9 I will continue to review and look at the cards as I come across them. Today we will take a look at cards 4 to 9, so 6 cards in total. I hope you will find this review and look useful. Winter Wanderlands A quick recap, the set will be available from December 14th, and will be 20 cards in total. They will be available for purchase and through ranked play. Maybe some other holiday was as well, we will see. The set will "disappear" on January 11th, so it will only be available for a 4-week period. Let us look at the new cards, cards 4-6 These new cards were revealed in a similar way, through tweets from a Gods Unchained partner. The first three cards we will look at are cards 4-6. The Reinnapper, Roar: obliterate a creature with mana cost 3 or less. Afterlife: Summon a base copy of the creature for its controller. 4 mana 4/3, looking at the stats alone the card is not great value. The Roar and Afterlife effect appears to be a combination of the two cards Dearly Departed and Sines on Us All. Dearly departed sees very little play as it is now, and it is combined with a card that transforms it. Meaning the card you took from your opponent's hand is now lost forever. I assume it is this fact that makes the card so sparsely used. Shine on Us All also sees very sparing use. Mostly in control Nature decks as far as I know. There it is used as a buff remover, or debuff remover/creature heal. I see the Reinnappers use as neither of these. I think if it will be used, it most likely will be used in a similar way as to how order is used. It allows you to buy tempo by temporarily removing the opponent's creature. With the card being a neutral card I think that will allow for more flexibility and more use cases. But if it will see wide use, not sure. There could be a case made for it to fin in both control and aggro decks, as it will allow a at least temporary tempo swing. The Pallas' Wonderwagon, is a 4 mana 3/6 that swaps its health and strength every time a spell is played, and the card is a structure. The stats of the card are nice for a 4 mana card, 9 stats points. It is on par with other good taunt creatures. But I think the fact it is swapping its stats can make the execution or use of the card a bit tricky. And I think because of that it will only see limited if any use. Spirit Storm, a Death spell that cost 2 mana, when played will trigger the Afterlife of all friendly creatures. I think this card will see play in decks that utilize the Afterlife effect. This would allow you to take advantage of this to an even greater extent. And I definitely think it will see play in decks that play into the Afterlife effects. So far it is one of the better cards I have been so far. Cards 7 to 9 Now let of look at the three next cards that were revealed. And it is looking like War is getting some gifts this time around. Thawed Heart, a 2 mana light spell. Obliterate your opponent´s void. For each creature obliterated heal your god for 1. This card is very similar to Gleamweaver. But instead of removing 2 cards in any void, it removes all cards in your opponent's void. And instead of a 2/2 creature, this heals your god. It looks to me like this is an attempt to combat the Anubians to some extent. This might have been the reason that the GU team was unwilling to do anything with the balance of the Anubian deck used right now. I also see this card being good in matchups versus control War decks. As it would hamper the effectiveness of their End to War spell. I definitely see this card being used in control Light decks. And maybe in other light decks as well to some extent. Take the Reins, a 3 mana War spell. Gain control of the strongest enemy creature with less strength than the strongest friendly creature until the end of turn. Empower 4: Gain control of any enemy creature until the end of the turn instead. This spell is a 1 mana cheaper version of the Deception card Anti-Magic Expert, the 8 mana 7/6 creature that lets you take control of an enemy creature for one turn.  While the card costing 7 mana instead of 8 is a big deal, as it allows you to use it 3 turns earlier. It is still an expensive card. And if you will use it to kill a threat, or require your opponent to have 2 great threats in play. And if that's the case you are pretty close to dead. And using it to kill your opponents, that's fairly uncertain as well.  *One of the great tempo swing cards* Where I think the card will be used to swing momentum, in a similar way to how Umber Arrow is used. The caveat here being it is more expensive and has a prerequisite. But the upside is greater. The late-game addition to the card I think allows it to have more than one use case. Which is good. I do think this card can see played in some war decks. But it most likely will not be an automatic inclusion, but more of a situational card.  Woodcutter Imp, this card on the other hand will most likely be included in almost every aggro War deck. Because a 2 mana 3/3 with Godblitz is extremely useful. There are only a handful of cards that have the Godblitx rate, and even fewer creatures. The drawback of taking the same amount of damage just see as a small price to pay. I hope that you have enjoyed this look at the 6 new cards that were made public. I will keep looking for the rest of the cards and do similar reviews of them. If you think I made any wrong assumption or messed up in some way. Or am plainly barking up the wrong tree with my assessments of the cards? Please let me know and let me know why I am wrong, or correct for that matter. I would love to hear your opinions on these cards. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: https://twitter.com/NFTradeOfficial/status/1599752291032391681, https://twitter.com/AdamantiumZero/status/1599987832474701824

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A teaser of one of the cards I will be looking closely at in a future post.

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Gods Unchained - Winter Wanderlands set announced for December 14th, first 3 cards revealed Let us look at the first three cards that are revealed in the new Winter Wanderlands set. See if we think they are any good, or what type of deck they can fit in. Winter Wanderlands set The cards were announced earlier today on twitter by Play It Forward DAO in a partnership between them and Gods Unchained. What exactly the partnership is or entails I guess we will have to wait and see. But let us look at the cards.  *I have done my very best mature effort in cleaning up the cards, but this is as good as it gets, so sorry.* First of all, it is three cards from three different gods. From left to right, Light, Deception, and Nature. Let us look at the first card, the Avalance Watcher. This is a 0 mana 0/1, in info itself not very impressive at all. It does have backline. But what is interesting is that the card has a varied mana cost. Meaning it will use up all your mana. And for every mana expended, the Avalance Watcher gets +1/+1. This means the card has very nice potential. It can be played on any turn. Meaning it will be a good early game. But also it will be an ok late-game card. This is a great flexibility to have in a card. Allowing it to fill several use cases in a deck. The only drawback to the card, as I see it. Is a fact that you can not play any card after you played this. Unless you saved your pip. This means you can not play this card and then play a buff. You have to play the buff first and then play the slightly smaller Avalance Watcher. Omitting it from getting a buff. I do think this card will make its way into many light deck simply because of its flexibility. Curious Wandercat, the second card. This is also a creature. A 3 mana 4/3. Simply based on that stat alone I would see it is decent to a good card. But it has relic removal on top. Meaning that it most likely will be a very good utility card. It looks to be a more powerful version of the two 1 mana cards that remove 1 durability at the end of your turn. This now removes 3 durabilities at the end of your turn. Which is huge. This can potentially help vs the relics that keep adding charges to them, like Lysanders Spear.  The drawback is that it will kill your own relic at the same time. But Deception, as far as I know, is not a god that has a lot of decks built around their relics. But this might hint that maybe Deception will get a new relic in this set as well. I think this will be a good card. It is only a bit strange as deception already had the only way to deal with sticky relics, that being the card Counterfit. I would personally like to have seen this card be for another god. The third, and last card Fir Tree´s Fury, to be revealed is a spell for nature. This is a spell that has some flexibility to it. But it has some downsides to it as well. Let us look at what the card does. 5 mana spell, first that is a pretty expensive card. The effect of the spell is it does 1 damage to the weakest enemy creature. And it will repeat this 4 more times, for a total of 5 damage. But it has the upside that it will hit the next enemy if it kills the first one it targets. If there are no more enemies or none to begin with. Then instead of doing damage the spell will summon one 1/1 Frosty Fruit for every damage not done. This means the card has some flexibility, it will allow you to both kill off some weaker enemies and possibly still summon a 1/1 creature or two for you as well. I will assume the Frosty Fruit will have some Afterlife to it as well. The other 1/1 like the Vibrant Fruit, or the Walking plant has both an Afterlife effect. One buffs your creature, and the other heals your god. A guess would be an afterlife that does damage to the enemy God or their creature.  Based on the card alone, I don't think it is that good of a card. But there are some unknowns. Like will the Frosty Fruits do something, will they be Wild or just neutral? These are two possibilities that very much can affect and increase the utility of the card. As it is now, based on the card alone. I would say that maybe it will see play in some Nature Controle decks. What are your thoughts on these cards, do you agree with my assessment or do you think I have over or undersold them by missing some potential or flaw? Please share your opinion in the comment section down below. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: https://twitter.com/PIF_DAO/status/1599673295431168001

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A few new cards in the Winter Wanderlands set for Gods Unchained have been revealed. Are you excited? I am. =)

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I am finding myself ever so flustered with Gods Unchained. Last week leading up to the weekend ranked games I started playing a new deck. And it went very well. I literally shot through the ranks and I went from rank 7-8 to rank 10 almost rank 11 for the weekend tournament. The weekender ranked went swimmingly as well, one of my best weekends ever. But then something changed... Now I cant seem to be able to buy a win. I feel like I am having the worst of luck in games, or my opponent is having all the right counters to everything I do. It is a very frustrating feeling. In short, I have come crashing down the ranks in a similar way to how I shot up through them. Currently, I am sitting in rank 8, but as it is looking I might fall down yet another rank. *Sigh* Has this happened to you in a game? If so pleas share your experience and if you were able to get "over it".

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It looks like Gods Unchained will be coming to a mobile near you next year. They announced the following in their December dev update: "We’re aiming to launch an early mobile Alpha to a small segment of the community in quarter 1 next year." With Alpha hitting in Q1, one would assume that there will be a vide release in q3 or q4 next year.

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FTX apparently got had back in 2021 for a lot of money. Some describe it as a money laundering scheme. My question is why was it not reported back in 2021, if it was I could not find any mention of it. And was FTX in on it?

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Bahamas public announcement regarding FTX from Bahamas General Attorney turns into a circle jerk I don't really know what to say after watching the Bahamas National Adrees made with respect to the FTX situation. It was a lot to take in. But I will do my best to confer what was said to you, my readers. The bullet points First of all, it starts in a similar way to how China's press releases read regarding covid. The Bahamas Attorney General Sen. The Hon. Ryan Pinder KC, yes it is a mouth full. He starts off by basically giving everyone involved in the running of things in the Bahamas one of the biggest pats on the backs. Saying that no one else would have been able to act as fast as they did. And no one else have the best regulations like they do. So fast and so good. Everyone basically should be in awe of how fast and well the Bahamas were able to react. Then he goes on to state that this whole thing started with the leaked financial report from Alameda Research, which it did. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the Bahamas. This is because only one of the FTX companies is in the Bahamas. If only the rest of the world have as good laws as the Bahamas.  He also goes on to throw some shade back at the chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Apparently, in it, there was some shade thrown at the Bahamas via the FTX company. But that was apparently one of the non-Bahamas FTX companies. He goes on to imply that throwing shade on Bahamas might be part of the million-dollar law defense made by the lawyers. But again they should get their own stuff in order. The rest is basically the Bahamas is the best, they have the best laws, the faster and best people. And in no way shape or form could they have known about FTX. But they are still better than any other place. And he ends on a very sober note "it is better in the Bahamas". I guess now you know. If you want the best of the best go-to Bahamas, it does not get any better than what is there. And all other places should basically copy them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFTJliFl5Fo In case you want to give the whole glorious thing a watch yourself. There it is. And remember "it is better in the Bahamas". Oh, I almost forgot, it has also been revealed that the Attorney General previously was the Cheif Legal Officer and Head of Wealth Management for over a year at Deltec. And if you think that name rings familiar, it should. It is the name of the Bahamas bank Tether uses. *Source:* *https://twitter.com/Forculus/status/1597038476368969729* What is your thought on this? Is the Bahamas simply better? Or is there just something in the water there making people think things? Please share your thoughts on the public service announcement from the Bahamas in the comment section. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: https://pixabay.com/

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I hope everyone here is having a good time. Been in a funk the last couple of days so been keeping a lower profile, but hope things will start to move again soon. =)

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FTX and Alameda Research bank update This will be a shorter post than normal. But I thought I would update you on their venture with Farmington State Bank. What is new As I reported earlier the investment from FTX and Alameda was $11.5 million, despite the fact the bank's total net worth was only around $5.7 million. So their investment was more than double. New information has however been revealed. And that is the fact that FTX and Alameda with their $11.5 million investment not even bought the bank. They merely bought 10% ownership. This would then put the proposed net worth for it at a whopping $115 million. A pretty stark contrast compared to the reported $5.7 million. *If you never have seen $115 million before, now you can feast your eyes on it. Just right-click and "save as" and you can look at it whenever you want.* And the good question now becomes what is it that makes the evaluation of FBH, the parent company of Farmington State Bank worth just over 20 times the listed net worth? It appears the key is in the rebranding of the bank. I reported that they have been rebranded online to Moonstone Bank. And some hints as to why have also been revealed.  *No, no, not that type of stone.* It appears that Moonstone is a play on words. Moon comes from crypto. As it is a race often used here, "this project will moon" or "to the moon". Eluding to the gigantic potential for a project to increase in value. Even if I would say it has become nothing more than a meme at this point. The second part Stone, comes from stoner, aka someone who is high on drugs. And if we put them together we get Moonstone, and this according to the reports is who this new venture was going to target. Crypto projects as well as companies that deal in the legal drug trade. If this plan remains intact I guess we will have to see. But judging by the fact that FTX and Alameda only had a 10% stake in FBH I assume it very much will move ahead. Well unless regulations get all caught up and put a stop to it, now that they are aware of what the plan seems to be. What is your thought on this, do you feel it is time for a crypto stoner bank? Or is that a recipe for a disaster? Please sound off in the comments section down below. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: https://pixabay.com/, Farmington State Bank from Google view

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How much would you guess this one is valued at? The building shows Farmington State Bank, online known as Moonstone Bank. Net worth listed at $5.7 million.

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Sometimes RNGesus just smiles at you. Other times not so much. =)

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My lovely Amazon Ladies are putting in the work on Gods Unchained. 5-0 so far today and they have brought me back up to Auric Gold as well. Thanks ladies =) GU_1_5_CAECAECBfCBfCBxCBxCCOCCOCDGCDGCDOCDOCDVCDVCDYCDYKBOKBOKDUKDUCFsCFsCFyCFyCGACGACGBCGBHAJHAJ If you want to have a look at the deck. =)

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Gods Unchained - Opening the past weeks packs I have recently switched to saving all my card packs in the game, stacking them up, and opening them with the ranked packs every Wednesday. Makes it a nice little mini-event. Last week my haul was 22 packs, and this week there were only 20. This is mostly due to my abysmal 8 wins during the weekend ranked. Did my card pull match my weekend result? Let's find out. The packs, did Christmas come early? I did know I would be getting one legendary as I recently hit level 150 in the game, and that meant a legendary pack. So that at least was some compensation for my abysmal 8 wins. But enough stalling. Let's get to the fun part. =) The first pack of any interest was my Legendary pack. And it had an excellent Legendary and two bonus rare Viking Longships. Some very nice cards indeed. But I was a bit worried as the first 7 packs were very forgettable. Fingers crossed the rest of them won't be. But the very next rare pack was also delivered. It had a nice bonus Valewarden Minotaur in it. A card that is both great and one I was missing. This might be a good sign for more and better cards to come. Fingers crossed. And again the very next pack was delivered for me. How so you might ask. Well, I was up till now missing my second Marsh Walker, aka Mr. Brocoli. This finally means I now have a complete set. Non-meteorite, but still. A complete set. The next goal is a Meteorite set. Next came a bit of a lull. But then RNGesus gave me an early Christmas percent in a rare pack. Almost a full house of rare cards. I mean who can't be happy with that? A second Radiant Embalmer for me as well, completing that pair. And the pink Heffalump, I think I only had one of them as well. And I actually had no Wicked Fae, so that was also a great pull. Sadly the remaining packs were just like the starting pack. In a sense, you can then call this pack opening an oreo opening. Meaning all the good stuff was in the middle.  I did however get another first this week. And that was the bonus card pack for getting 30 wins during the weekend. That is something I will try to get in the future as well. As a bonus card pack is always nice.  overall I am very happy with this week's 20 packs. I got some much-needed cards I have been looking for. And I got a nice legendary as well as a handful of bonus rares and other cards. What did you get from your weekend packs? I hope you managed to get a better haul from the weekend than I did. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: Gods Unchained media, screenshots by me

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Another month on Publish0x, still had some downs this month thanks to me feeling crappy for a few days. But still managed to pull in some decent numbers. =)

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Hope al you Noisers have had a great Tuesday. Now it is time to get ready for Wednesday =) Sleep well

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What is your thought on Bitboy in the Bahamas stalking SBF? Is it just a way to get a tax write of for a vacation?

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Bitboy former? crypto scammer trying to become the peoples champion, stalking SBF In the wake of the FTX crash, there have been many things revealed. One of them is that there appears to be no end in sight as to all the scams and crap that went on behind the curtains at FTX. From the ashes emerges the new people's champion Bitboy, ready to get answers when no one else is looking. Who is Bitboy? He is a youtuber and influencer that have been getting rich from pushing scams down the throats of his followers. Something he has been doing for a long time. And when called out he tries to scare the smaller people with frivolous lawsuits.  **Bitboy vs. Atozy aka the Youtuber fight** https://www.publish0x.com/things-of-note-and-other-interesting-stuff/bitboy-vs-atozy-aka-the-youtuber-fight-xddgeed?a=4zbqQ2N7bp Something I covered back when it happened as well. In short, what happened was Bitboy tried to bully Atozy who had criticized him in a video to take back all the true things Atozi said about Bitboy. But Atozy did not take it lying down and instead decided to fight back. And then Bitboy did what most bullies do, backed down. Now that you're all caught up on who Bitboy is let us take a look at the new Bitboy 2.0, the people's champion. Bitboy in the Bahamas Bitboy has taken it upon himself to go to the Bahamas to confront Sam Bankman-Fried personally to get answers for the people.  I have no idea what people are expecting the Bahamas to be, some sort of lawless wasteland? It is a tax haven, a place where the rich goes to stop the rest of society to be able to leach and motch of all the money they for the most part inherited. If Bitboy were doing something really stupid I assume at the most he would get arrested or escorted away by security. Something that in fact already has happened.  To me tho it is more looking like Bitboy is stalking SBF. Something I assume is illegal even in the Bahamas. That or he just saw the opportunity to get a nice Bahamas vacation tax deductible. Along with trying to rebrand or change the perception about him. Going from The Scammer of People to the Savior of People. Hopefully tho this is not something that people will buy.  But then again if you have a deranged man shouting the same thing over and over apparently they will elect you president. So who knows? Maybe Bitboy truly will become the people's champion, a fighter for justice and truth everywhere. A good start tho would be trying to reimburse all the people he tricked to put money into scamms. Just saying. And if you were doubting Bitboys commitment to his rebranding. The evidence of his wrongdoing is disappearing right before our eyes. He has been deleting tweets, and making videos private where he promoted the scam project. So soon he probably hopes he will be able to change the perception surrounding him from scammer pusher into a deranged savior. As there is greenwashing, whitewashing I think it is time we add a new one to the list, pewashing or perception washing.  What are your thoughts on this whole Bitboy in Bahamas thing? Is it just a pewashing attempt, or just a tax write or what is it? Please share your thoughts in the comment section down below. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: fair use

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Thought I would share this thumbnail I spent way to long on making with you =) ^^ If you could get a Christmas gift for Putin, what would you get him?

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Russia wants new system for international money transfer Russia is calling for a new digital currency or ledger bases transaction system. Wanting to reduce reliance on big banks and third parties. As well as reduce costs. Putin wants, but will Putin get? It is not really any surprise that the heavy sanctions imposed on Russia have severely limited its ability to interact with the western financial sector. But other than that the sanctions have been affecting the people of Russia rather than the oligarchs and their ilk. Mostly affecting them in ways of limiting their vacation options. But Putin wanting Russia to back into the western financial system is probably something that is very high on his Christmas wish list. But I have a nagging feeling that people on the naughty list seldom get what they wish for. We all know very well that under today’s illegitimate restrictions, one of the lines of attack is through settlements. And our financial institutions know this better than anyone because they are exposed to these practices, -Putin This is why I think Putin seems to have been backpedaling on Russia's crypto ban recently. As well as looking to create a new reserve currency together with China and Saudi Arabia. Both things could alleviate much of the pressure put on Russian finances with the sanctions. And creating a new international banking system seems to be yet another try to mitigate and help alleviate some of the pressure. Today, the system of international payments is expensive, with correspondent accounts and regulation controlled by a small club of states and financial groups. -Putin While the timing of Putin's realization leaves more to be desired. The problem he talks about is one of the very basic principles that crypto was designed to address. With it enabling peer-to-peer transactions. Too bad my belief in Putin and the odds of him not having personal or nefarious reasons, as motivation for why he suddenly seemed to have had a "come to Christ" moment is at about -10000%. Or about the same as a snowball's chance in hell. But I do agree with him that a blockchain-based system for international transactions would be a very good solution. I do not want any power-hungry despot anywhere near such a system. In fact, I do not want any government near such a stem. Despot or not. What are your thoughts on this, have Putin finally seen the light? Or is he just trying to wriggle his way out of an uncomfortable Christmas sweeter he was forced to wear against his will? Please sound off in the comments down below. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead.   See you on the interwebs!     Picture provided by: Fair use

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“We have been shocked at the ignorance of those who assert that FTX came to the Bahamas because they did not want to submit to regulatory scrutiny. In fact, the world is full of countries in which there is no legislative or regulatory authority over the crypto and digital asset business, but The Bahamas is not one of these countries.” -Bahamas Attorney General