I wanna see someone make a midwit meme for Magic the Gathering about the card bloodmoon. The card says “nonbasic lands are mountains.” The idiot would think this turns them into the basic land card called mountain. The genius will know how it actually works, of course. But the midwit would say that it doesn’t take abilities away because it just changes the card’s subtype, which doesn’t inherently remove abilities in general, but for basic lands it does.
But even then it’s a stretch because the midwit in the example would have to be a very narrow slice of the chart. Obviously bloodmoon negatively affects opponents or it wouldn’t see play. Nobody in their right mind is gonna think it buffs cards if they know what it is used for. But still, I remember it tripping me up in a “but wait, why does it do what it does?” way.
I wanna see someone make a midwit meme for Magic the Gathering about the card bloodmoon. The card says “nonbasic lands are mountains.” The idiot would think this turns them into the basic land card called mountain. The genius will know how it actually works, of course. But the midwit would say that it doesn’t take abilities away because it just changes the card’s subtype, which doesn’t inherently remove abilities in general, but for basic lands it does.
But even then it’s a stretch because the midwit in the example would have to be a very narrow slice of the chart. Obviously bloodmoon negatively affects opponents or it wouldn’t see play. Nobody in their right mind is gonna think it buffs cards if they know what it is used for. But still, I remember it tripping me up in a “but wait, why does it do what it does?” way.