“Also, why do people like cute things? Is there no audience for dark, edgy, grim, and gritty stories and media?”

This is somehow a sillier question than your previous one. Literally no one is saying there is not an audience for dark stories - the fact we just finished up an arc about a bunch of evil corrupting oil that firmly falls into the body-horror genera shows that Magic is very much still here for gritty stories.

People are not saying Magic should not have dark stories - they are just saying they want to see cute stories also.

“regular animals do not possess the capacity for logic and reasoning, so why would WotC wish to make such a set?”

Why did Aesop’s stories of animals displaying a human level of logic and reasoning last for 2,500 years?

Why do so many of our classic fairy tales involve talking animals?

How was Narnia so successful, despite the inclusion of such things as talking beavers, horses, foxes, and more?

How were they able to churn out 22 successful Redwall books?

I honestly do not understand your confusion - it seems unfathomable to me that someone could grow up without experiencing talking, personable, but regular in appearance animals.

That is what Wizards is doing. They are making a plane that does something new for them… but which is inheriting several thousand years of literary legacy.

We have never seen anything like Bloomburrow before. These are not anthropomorphic animals with human-animal hybrid traits like Leonin - they are just regular animals. The plane is the inheritor of a legacy stretching back to Æsop and continuing through the popular Redwall series. It decidedly does offer something Magic has never seen before - and something that has been pretty popular for the past 2,500 years of human history.

As folks keep posting on this long-dead thread to ask questions, I am going to lock it. Anyone with a question should ask it on the Rules Q&A section of this site: Link.

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I think you are fine to post a link to the deck - the "no lists" is really about "please do not fill the format conversation section with asking for help with your decklist or showing off your decklist."

Here, you would be talking about the format generally, and any decklist you link would be to support that conversation.

I do a fair bit of work in the field of mental health - IQ is one of those things that medical professionals still use and it does have some utility - but, in a lot of cases, they are doing so because it is expected, not because they actually think it is the right test to apply.

As a metric, IQ has a lot of problems - they only test certain types of intelligence and are extremely prone to non-intelligence factors influencing the results (for example, dyslexia can heavily reduce one’s performance on certain IQ tests, even though it has no bearing on actual intelligence). IQ is designed to measure a generalize aptitude - but not really the actual usage of that aptitude. Richard Feynman, for example, has an IQ of 125 - the lowest bounds of the “genius” category. Feynman helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe, and his theories both won him the Physics Nobel Prize and were instrumental to the Manhattan Project. He did all of that while also being extremely witty and charming, showing types of intelligence IQ tests simply ignore.

This is why the psychologists I work with only pay attention to low IQ scores. At the low end, IQ is actually helpful - it shows the individual has a diminished capacity for learning and likely will have impediments to their functioning. At the high end, you do not get as much from the metric - you know they have a high capacity for one specific type of reasoning, but not what types of intelligence or if they are even using that capacity in an effective manner.

Overall, I would not give it much thought. IQ is not really important; what is important is whether two people are compatible and love one another. It sounds like you have found someone you connect with, and, when it comes down to it, does anything else really matter in this world in which we all live?