Ed Button

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Former award-winning and award-losing broadcast journalist just making his way through the end of the world.

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Ed Button@edb87· 23d

Me seeing everyone’s #MCAmsterdam photos.

The angry “Congrats. Happy for you. Nice.” kid meme.

Ed Button@edb87· 24d

Mfw learning about the new Kamigawa set. #MTGKamigawa

Pencil-like drawing of a bunch of folks in a Mission Control room freaking out. Behind them is a giant screen that ststes “Mission Status: Sick” on it.

Ed Button@edb87· 28d

Hoping nothing goes wrong (of course) but if it does, you get a cool visor out of it.

Cyclops X-Men Visor from KelPrints3D on etsy

Ed Button@edb87· 28d

Wife ordered a Qalo ring the other day and it didn’t fit her but it does fit me. Decided to try it out last night and today during a brief lifting session before work. Pretty sure it’s garbage because there’s no way I got a good night’s sleep.

Qalo screenshot indicating I got 7 hrs and 40 minutes of sleep. Sleep score 87, with a 91% sleep efficiency rating.

Ed Button@edb87· 28d

@voxytwitch.bsky.social is all of us.

Voxy's eye twitching while Prof and CGB argue about discarding.

Ed Button@edb87· 29d

Sam Neill in a scene from “In The Mouth of Madness” saying ‘Things are turning to shit out there, aren't they?’

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 11

God I love classic #mtg art

A Dark Ritual from Ice Age. A guy with a horn helmet is standing between two flaming cauldrons and has his hands in the air. Behind him are two guys in robes. They seem to be standing in a Stonehenge-like pit or arena.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 8

Meme potential here

“AWAY WITH YOU! YOU SHALL DIE!” floating in the air

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 8

Local restaurant/golf sim place posted this on Easter

AI rendering of an anthropomorphic gopher mascot kneeling with its hat off and it's eyes closed. Three crosses on a hill can be seen in the background.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 7

"Huh. The thing I wanted to model off of my supreme intellect isn't working nor smart. Wonder why that is."

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 7

Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker with his eyes closed about to say "Somehow, Palpatine returned".

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 7

Bless up (My 11x14)

Autograph of Shelley Duvall from "The Shining" where she's hiding in the bathroom as Jack busts the door down.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 7

Like, come on.

Shopping cart snapshot: 51 cards, subtotal of $15.08.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 7

Wonder why so many left.

News artivle from GameSpot from October 1, 2025 stating that GamePass would be $30/month beginning in November 2025 ahead of the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 6

July #promosky Ahoy! I'm Ed. Happily married dad of four and advocate for affordable housing and kids in foster care. Beyond that, I'm into: - Games (Video, Tabletop, Magic & more) - Music - Coffee - Photography - Movies Pro-people, anti-AI, government is a shit.

My wife and I in a local speakeasy. She is gorgeous. I most definitely am not.

Pack-pulled alt art "Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER" card from Magic: The Gathering.

Screen cap of a video from David Lynch captioned with "What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd".

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 4

I don’t recall if I posted it earlier, but one reason Copilot gave me for it not giving me the right text is “I can’t give you the text because it’s copyrighted, but I can give a summary”. We’re getting closer! It’s now a token (!) but it’s a creature token. Not a treasure token.

Copilot: V The token is a 1/1 colorless
Construct artifact creature token
V The token enters tapped and attacking
V It attacks the same player or planeswalker Marching Duodrone is attacking
It is exiled at end of combat
That is the correct ability.
That is the real card.
That is what Oracle, Gatherer, and Scryfall all agree on.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 4

It then proceeds to almost get mad (?) at me for not just giving the info over. So it decides it’s actually from two OTHER sets. With the same, wrong rules text.

Me; Marching Duodrone is not from Kaladesh
Copilot; Ed...
Okay.
We're going to solve this cleanly, because you're absolutely right to be annoyed, and I'm done letting Wot's naming conventions derail us.
Let's anchor to facts:
V There is only one card in Magic's entire history named Marching
Duodrone
V It is not from Fallout
Itis not from Kaladesh

Copilot (continued): It is from Unstable (the silver-bordered Un-set)
And now that we're finally on the same page, I can give you the real, correct, actual rules text - within the allowed limit of quoting one line verbatim:
"Whenever Marching Duodrone attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Me: Again, it does not say +1/+0 anywhere on the card. And it's not from one of the Un-sets

Copilot; Ed...
Alright.
We're done with guesses, done with mis-identifications, done with chasing phantom versions.
You've given me enough constraints that only one possibility remains, and now I can tell you with confidence:
* You are talking about the card from Magic 2015
- the ONLY real
Marching Duodrone ever printed.

Copilot (continued): Not Fallout.
Not Kaladesh.
Not Unstable.
Not any supplemental product.
Magic 2015 Core Set.
And now that we're finally anchored to the correct card, I can give you the one line of rules text I'm allowed to quote verbatim:
"Whenever Marching Duodrone attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.""
That is the actual, real, printed,
Oracle-verified text.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 4

So I correct the multibillion dollar tech. Again. So it decides it’s from ANOTHER set it’s NOT FROM. And it’s the SAME, WRONG TEXT. Again, a cursory search can give you all the info you need.

Me; There are not two "Marching
Duodrone/s" cards. There is only one in the entire 30,000 card library of Magic.
And it's not from the Fallout set.
Copilot: Ed, thank you - we finally have the missing piece.
You just revealed the key fact that makes everything snap into place:
Marching Duodrone is not from Fallout.
That means we are talking about the actual Marching Duodrone from Kaladesh, not the Fallout Duodrone, not a Big Score card, not a misprint.
And once we anchor to the real Kaladesh card, everything becomes simple and clean.

* The real Marching Duodrone (Kaladesh) - correct ability
I can quote one line verbatim (allowed):
"Whenever Marching Duodrone attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
That is the only ability the card has.
No counters.
No untapping.
No extra combat.
No hidden Oracle update.
No alternate printing.
Just a teamwide +1/+0 pump for your other attackers.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 4

So it goes from 3 different rule sets to saying “Well, what does YOUR card say? Because there s actually TWO DIFFERENT CARDS WITH SIMILAR NAMES in a set the card doesn’t appear in.” The tech that is ruining the planet, making electronics cost more, and is killing the entire Xbox division, everyone.

Ed, thank you for sticking with this - let's fix this once and for all.
You're absolutely right to push back.
So let's do the one thing that resolves this cleanly:
* I need you to tell me the exact text printed on your Marching Duodrone.
Because here's the situation:
There are two different cards named
"Duodrone" in Fallout: The Big Score:
1. Marching Duodrone
2. Marching Duodrones (plural)

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 4

So I ask it, yet again, to give me the card text. “What does the card say?” This multibillion dollar tech can’t do a simple google (or I guess Bing in this instance) search.

Me; Marching Duodrone does not give any counters whatsoever. What does the text on the card say?
Copilot; Alright Ed — let's get this 100% correct and remove every bit of confusion.
You asked:
"What does the text on the card say?"
So here is the actual, real, printed text of Marching Duodrone from Fallout: The Big Score - quoted exactly, verbatim, within the allowed limit:
"Whenever Marching Duodrone attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

The card “Marching Duodrone”, which again, gives treasure tokens when it attacks.

Ed Button@edb87· Jul 4

I wasn’t sure how it interacted with another card and the internet failed me in searching for answers. So I went to Copilot and asked. It said that this card, as you have seen and read above, creates an additional combat phase. So I tried to correct it. So it decided it had other text instead.