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you lazy fucks dont deserve a good op.
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>>97458597
>Artifactfag abusing simulacrum synthesizer
>I don't take 20 minute turns guys!!1!
You're either blind to your own degeneracy or so mentally handicapped you can't recognize it, either way you're gay and retarded
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>Most recent bracket system update
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-bet a-update-october-21-2025
>Outline article introducing the bracket system
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander- brackets-beta
>Current banlist
https://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned
>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committee
https://mtgcommander.net
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet
https://www.edhrec.com
>Learn about PDH, Commander's budget pauper format
https://pdhhomebase.com
https://www.pdhrec.com
>Deck list site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck strategy and card choices
https://www.archidekt.com
https://www.moxfield.com
https://www.tappedout.net
>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen color identity
https://managathering.com
>Card search
https://scryfall.com
>Proxy a deck or a cube for cheap
https://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM
>Precons
https://magicprecons.com
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>>97458481
>repostan from dead thread
When would (You) take out Good cards, that aren't especially synergistic, from a pet-tier deck?
My mono-B Lili discard deck has a Tergrid and a Bolas's Citadel. They're always good when they come out, but they feel a little out of place. I don't want everyone's Evolving Wilds, my god.
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>friends nag me to get back into edh for like two straight years
>begrudgingly accept
>play a few games, have fun, start brewing again
>share with my friends because I'm excited
>no one can understand them at all
>"Anon, what the fuck is this?"
>"Why would you do this when you could just play something good?"
>"Discord says this is bad."
>slap them senseless in increasingly elaborate ways
>they literally dont understand how to tune their decks to stop me
Delightful.
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Hey, I'm Anon, and I'm addicted to cardboard gambling. I've been clean for four months and I'm hoping to make it to a whole year.
The recent Strixhaven spoilers, as well as the Turtles and Power Rangers ones, have made me even more determined to skip sealed products.
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>>97458805
One thing I've learned is to never take anyone seriously who says "this card is bad." Even if that's true, it's not generally true as time has shown almost every card can be good in a certain deck at a certain time. Second, that isn't the point of the format. It's to have fun and try new things, and be creative and play cards you like. If you're friends can't understand that then fuck them. You need to be playing decks at similar power levels for maximum enjoyment. If they are all trying to make good strong decks, and keep getting stomped by your bad cards then refer back to point one.
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>>97458851
Well, it has a few deterministic combo kills, but setting up the combo requires entering [EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES] with mystic forge biotransference type insanity as your life total slowly dwindles and you slowly realized the wrong half of the deck is showing up relative to your tutors. But this isnt the other version that is straight up kci second sunrise kci yawgmoth's will, cast 60+ spells in a turn.
Without further stalling:
>https://moxfield.com/decks/pI6VLydHN02CnMsg9jMBaQ
Just ask if you want a rundown. It's rather... insane and unintuitive. Mostly because I'm bored.
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>guy casts a boardwipe while i have 3 blood artist effects active
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I'm developing a theory. I found a significant overlap between "friends" and "people who are really, really bad at magic". Like, "I have to bring a budget bracket 2 deck to the bracket 3 table to not pubstomp everyone"-bad.
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>>97458905
Glad you asked. It does a few things. There are three main combos in the deck: heliod balista (obvious, ends the game), that stupid blink cat from kaladesh and restoration angel plus a payoff, and paralax wave opalescence plus a payoff. The cat works with wave as well. The concept is to set up a flicker loop. Flicker the boys infinite times, impact tremors, laugh about it. Alternatively, any of the weird looking nonsense cards are usually payoffs of varying quality like molten hydra. That doesnt work? Get the big vagina demon or bonehording dracosaur out with zuko and just smash face with value until they die.
Now why this deck, why like this. My brother asked me to build him a stupid avatar deck with this card. I was mad. So I did. Everyone was on the impulse draw bandwagon, but I said fuck it and made this monstrosity.
This is not a combo deck. I know it seems like one, but it's a tempo deck. You have silver bullets, and usually your tutors are there to grab one and slow everyone else down. Apparently since I was gone people stopped running interaction, which is great for a deck like this. Wheel or discard your cards into the graveyard, do not give a shit about anything because nothing in life matters. Identify what will stop your opponents, or just make them discard cards so they need to waste time sculpting their hands. Then, replenish. Replenish will bring back your combo. If you mill replenish, past in flames. Most of your creature removal relies on bow masters and wheels or burning inquiry.
>>97458858
Yup, I feel that. Coming from legacy and vintage I mostly wanted to do crazy things, and they were all "if it isnt on mtgtop8 it's shit". I mostly shrugged about it.
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>>97458805
>Put gravepact out in a deck
>If it resolves friends just scoop
>They are in fact in colors that can deal with enchantments, they just elect to not fucking run any enchantment remove outside of it being randomly tacked on to things like decimate which they only run because destroy creature and teehee blow up land!
You just can't help some people, and sound like your friends are as dumb as mine and just download netdecks and don't know how to pilot or build a normal deck
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>>97459059
it definitely doesn't look hyper optimized. it looks like his friends are idiots who can't close a game out and he's grinding value into their faces until they die; which, to be fair, I do appreciate doing sometimes.
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>>97459032
https://moxfield.com/decks/rOOLTA_u5U6A_YfzitsIKQ
this deck has probably around 90% winrate against at my friend's bracket 3 table
my other ones are xenagos and big black mana ardyn, with absurd winrates too and similar budget. I can't play any of these anymore, so I'm currently just playing an ognis deck on slightly-above-precon level.
https://moxfield.com/decks/VHONiNtJQUi17QwFyRwDXA
(jaws is only in there for the meme proxy)
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>>97459054
Yup, exactly. I find they get into this weird zone where they think that the internet is law. It's more of a collaborative thing, but none of that is a substitute for goldfishing 100 times and playing the deck.
>>97459059
>friends are retards
Yes. That was the point. Hyper optimized? No. Not even remotely. Confusing? Extremely, and piloting it well versus piloting it poorly makes a massive difference. The mulligans alone are extremely punishing.
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>>97458901
>locus petal
>mana vault
>top
>TOR
>helios+balista
>tutor, tutor, tutor
>wheel, pitch, dig, reanimate
>mass flicker with impact temors
>my brother's girlfriend's cousin's mother's book club's host's son's friend on a chat room told me this card is bad
you and your friends are retards
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UNBAN MY ZESTY ELF YOU WOTC FUCKS!
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Card has been out for a while. Has anyone had any experiences with it, positive or negative. Four mana for a tapped rock seems questionable in any tribal deck that contains green or white but maybe it's playable in red goblins or blue merfolk.
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>>97459177
I can't tell you what I want to see, but what I can tell you is I don't want to see any ugly dark colored people on the cards.
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Does he still hold up in 2026?
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>>97459278
I'm fucking dumb.
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>>97458691
I just do my math fast, it’s not that hard. And when I take a really long turn is usually “the game ends now if X is not dealt with” type of situation. Teysa guy drives me insane, he does everything at a snails pace, is literally sleep indulcing (that’s what happens when you decklist and play someone’s else strategy and not something you thought on your own).
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>>97459258
I had one anon tell me no matter what it can't be strong, so probably bracket 4 strength isn't possible even if you throw all the syngeristic CG's on it. I still want to make one with him one day. I love the colors, the exalted mechanic and the one creature doing giant damage out of nowhere.
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>have one deck of each dual color combination
>have one deck of each mono-color but red
>have no idea what kind of red deck to make since it's my least favorite color
>slowly gathering red cards I like and setting them aside
>figure I might just say "fuck it" and pick one legendary creature and throw all the cards together and see what happens
Anyone else do this and then find some synergy that actually works out? I'm figuring doing it this way would be a long work in progress.
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>>97459361
you can probably take some people by surprise, and maybe if you really optimize it take some higher bracket games, but it's just going to be slower than combo at that level. still in good colors for get huge and evasion
obligatory mechanical reference post
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>>97459349
>Sometimes you build a deck with a bunch of CG's but for whatever reason it's not strong like a 4.
That's because certain strategies are too weak no matter how many GCs you shove into them (voltron will never be anything beyond b2), while heliod + ballista is cedh viable
Also there's no point in advocating for a 3.5 because then people would want a 3.25 so on and so forth, a line has to be drawn and gavin has already decided
>but i want my deck to be b3+
There's no shame in just being a b2 deck, b2 is the standard format of edh anyway
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>>97459416
I think 5 is a bad number because the differences between 1-3 are so minor, then you get into nutso bonkers crazy land immediately afterwards if you run the wrong cards. I get having a soft banlist. Tiers? Not so much when there is no material difference.
But all this is an aside. I have never once seen anyone refer to the system IRL. Online? Obsession. Most people at the game store are in three big buckets: people who build what they have, people who buy stuff to be better, and people who also play formats where the floor is having everything already.
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>>97459394
Squall has a niche in bracket 2 wherein he's voltron while retrieving combo pieces and removal from the grave, he can kill the most threatening player and then kill the other two with a warren soultrader combo
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>>97459461
People will be mad about anything. Emrakul is a bit iffy because that opens the flood gates for all the sneak and show tin fins type stuff weaker players would explode about, prime time is a cool guy who doesnt afraid of anything, and neither really make a big difference in the scope of all magic ever when applied to EDH.
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>>97459486
>Emrakul is a bit iffy
So now you're seeing b3 having an identity and b2 will be safe from those shenanigans, not so minor after all huh
It's not like gavin is keeping this a secret, any 60card tournament grinder worth their salt wouldve seen exactly what kind of "meta" he wants for each bracket/"format"
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>>97459482
>I don't have an argument for what you said, so I'll just make a pithy comment with no substance
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>>97459495
No, actually. I think they're both hysterical over literally nothing? My comment was literally "weaker players will lose their minds", but the subtext was those strategies have been around an extremely long time and arent even very... good? Anyways, the segements always made the most sense as "some soft banned cards, all the soft banned cards, none of the soft banned cards" and I have a lot of difficulty understanding anything betond that.
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>TQ
Even more Toughness Matters support for Doran.
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>>97459553
This was meant for >>97459177
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>>97459533
It's true. Hate all you want, the fundamental difference between "cards are good" and "structure is relational, a deck is a system, and even great cards are only good in context for the amount of the solutions they provide relative to the solutions you have" is so unbelievably vast that it's almost impossible to move between them.
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>>97459572
You're too autistic to accept that any delienation from cedh is by definition arbitrary and it just so happens that gavin is at the helm
And even cedh itself is arbitrary, sheldon banned the moxes just because he said so, and imagine how ridiculous it is that contract from below is banned when cedh games are done fully proxied
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>>97459559
Oh? To the point and to skip the bickering, it wont make a difference. I can make a crazed combo deck without them, I can make one with them, it's about literacy and experience, not the soft bans. Problem solving can be taught, and magic is a skill.
>>97459585
Sure, I'm autistic, but that's not really relevant, and I aware this is the bait specifically selected for you so I'll leave it here. They are two VASTLY different methods of deck building that do not care about tier or soft banlist. However, a soft banlist keeps the strongest proponents of the methodology on the side where they get the most toys, until there is incentive for them to come back. Like prizes.
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She's pretty good, no? I'm surprised I haven't seen a list posted here yet
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>>97459616
Glad to see you admitting to be disabled, but rest assured i'm telling you the truth that any "soft-bans"/GCs inevitably lead to new distinct metas for each bracket/format, the arbitrariness of gavin saying so and so doesnt take away from this truth
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I am forgotten
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>>97459174
Tried it in Ashcoat. It's fine if you can get it down early and can keep your board up with rats. But a lot of times it would just sit in hand since there would be other things I'd rather cast. I'm debating just cutting it for some other mana rock.
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>>97459642
I agree? Damn. Maybe I need a smoke or something. I was just trying to say that a big chunk are parts, and the smaller chunk are things greater than the sum of the parts, so we should just accept the premise that metas gunna meta.
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>>97459625
I mean, she sure is a UR commander that wants to only have >=4cmc cards
her most "interesting" case is probably going to be as turn 2 ramp in nongreen decks with 4mana commanders, and especially 'big grixis/temur spells' or similar types of deck
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>>97459625
>She's pretty good, no?
Shut up Rrrrrrararararan
She's fine but only in the 99 of other decks.
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>>97459675
They wanted to change it so they could start printing lazy pie breaks and overpowered hybrid cards to double dip on whales in every color, but they've gone silent.
They haven't started they aren't going to do it, they're just going to wait until people are apathetic again, then push it through.
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>>97459070
isn't the point of the post to call his friends retards?
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>>97459862
I see
>>97459861
Kill yourself libtard
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>>97459675
They were trying to feel it out but only the vast amount of pushback actually kept them from changing things. It was a bad change and would have made pie-breaks more common for no actually beneficial reason as >>97459824 said.
>>97459836
You can be annoyed by a company's stated intent if it runs counter to your desires, especially as a voluntary consumer of their product. We're under no obligation to respond positively when WotC goes "hey guys, we were thinking about doing some more enshittification about a format we didn't even come up with, is that maybe okay with you guys?"
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new to commander, played standard for a while. I was building a deck and saw the whole bracket system. I was wondering what the attitude around it was, like if someone is bringing a really thematic deck that is super suboptimal but has a couple strong cards is viewed the same as say a midrange deck
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ALL THE FAGS WHO WERE SO SURE IT WPULD HAPPEN YOU WERE ALL SO MEAN TO ME BUT I WAS RIGHT THE HYBRID CHANGE DIDNT HAPPEN
PRE ADDRESSING THE OBVIOUS COPE
>it could still happen
It could! That has no bearing on this scenario!
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>>97459922
Forgot image my bad
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>>97459733
Oh, okay. That's good to know. Thanks anon.
>>97459824
I don't even know how to respond to this. If they were going to do it, I would think it'd mainly be to save money on printing color symbols. Hybrid can fit 2 symbols in one circle, thus giving the card a little more space.
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>>97459920
>I was wondering what the attitude around it was
the attitude is awful. I can't figure the opinions though.
>if someone is bringing a really thematic deck that is super suboptimal but has a couple strong cards
depends on what you mean by "super strong cards" as there is essentially a "this moves you up a bracket" list, but generally that would probably be 1 or 2.
>as say a midrange deck
depends on a lot.
here's the issue, "strongly themed at the cost of power" is 1, "about your average precon" is 2. unfortunately it's half vibes and half "how early do you expect to win the game;" with tournament cedh being "t0 wins acceptable," bracket 4 "threaten to win starting on turn 4," bracket 3 "win starting turn 6," 2 is "win starting turn 8" and bracket 1 anything past that.
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>>97459965
anon I literally have the article open to reference the turn counts. 'average precon' is deprecated language because dumbasses can't help but say "but this one has a gamechanger in it," but if you can remember what 'average' means it still works.
also I'm not opining, I'm explaining the guidelines in different words so it's hopefully easier to understand.
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I really hate how every card game seems built for longer turn counts but never actually pans out that way
Even in the weakest formats you'd never be able to hardcast shit like the Eldrazi titans without ramp, because games simply do not go long enough for them to be accessible
I don't like every 5+ mana card being permanently impractical
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>>97459999
Elaborate
ALSO NICE QUADS
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>>97459977
I would use "average precon" in any way shape or form regarding bracket 2 as the average precon is in fact weaker than the world shaper precon even without the gitrog darkmor infinite
What actually defines b2 is how incremental and telegraphed it is compared to b3, "whenever x do y" commander design is a good example
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>>97460014
Back in the day, like 2012ish, the colour pie was a real limitation. You needed to know the mechanics, the flavour, and a giant card pool of elaborate work arounds. Multiple colours (beyond two) was unironically a massive drawback. Jeleva and Kess used to be top tier JUST because they were grixis and had somewhat of an effect. Colour fixing was expensive, difficult, inconsistent, and a legitimate drawback. 3 colour commanders were rare, sought after, and limited. Anything beyond that was unheard of.
Now? Every set has 3+ colour this and that. WotC slaps effects on cards just to get around restrictions. All the good decks are lots of colours and monocolour is a massive draw back. Deck building is too consistent. Colour fixing is effortless. Partners have been around for a decade and are uncontested on top of the shitpile because they get around colour restrictions with upside, and every single deck is just all the best cards slapped together with some mild variation. New problems that require solutions not allowed in the colour pie have cropped up, and they are gated behind 3+ colour decks that can do everything.
They need to remove the colour limitation and just get on with it; it is only a negative and doesnt matter in a functional sense anymore.
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>>97459996
Excellent question. I don't know. Here's the source from the clawmark rune.
I took it to mean the difference in "horrific" and "unwelcome", implying horrific things aren't inherently unwelcome.
But I guess it could also mean the difference between the "Beast" rune and the "Clawmark" rune. Where beast is unwelcome while clawmark is inviting.
I do like the first interpretation more.
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>>97460000
C-consecutive..!
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>>97460065
it's a lot clearer with both subjects, anon. remember that you're supposed to be able to rearrange clauses separated by commas in (nearly) any way and the sentence will still make sense.
>"although the difference is subtle, Caryll describes X as this while Y is that."
>"Caryll describes X as this while Y is that, although the difference is subtle."
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>>97460019
They couldnt even if they tried.
>>97460029
Oh, it is. Long turns that dont go anywhere. Harsh mulligans. You will kill yourself if you arent careful. But I love it. Based on my playtesting, you win no later than turn 6. Usually around turn 4. Rarely before turn 3. It's like... well I dont want to spoil the magic, but that B warp guy that's blood artist also works with artifacts.
>https://moxfield.com/decks/UAOYJvfElE2IHgxnV8T1yQ
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>>97460082
shitty idea they though of in a 10-minute meeting, just makes multiple hybrid cards an autoinclude in all mono decks
they need to print cards that are inverse-converge to actually encourage monodecks. print more high-commander-cmc-matters cards, things that reward high cmc commanders (and uses the lowest cmc among commanders you own/control, fuck you dargo)
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>>97460133
dargo's an honest pirate in an honest mardu deck he did nothing wrong
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>>97460155
The deck is cool. Once.
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>>97460157
So, I take that the difference between Beast and Clawmark is the favored interpretation.
I don't think it'll look good to have the entire paragraph on the card, so I'll likely paraphrase it or look for another source of flavor text.
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>>97459920
Brackets are mostly a way of better enabling rule 0 talks instead of the "everything is a 7" that plagued the format before.
The main thing I would suggest is readily knowing and being able to communicate how quickly you plan to win, how much you will be interfering with other people's gameplans, and how hard it may be to set you back once you get going.
>>97460000
So far as I saw it was specifically about things like the high release volume undercutting the long-term value of the brand which was demonstrated by huge reported growth followed by losses the very next quarter. It's still being laundered under the terms of "fiduciary duty to shareholders" but could be enough to potentially reign in aspects of this absurd release schedule since it is in terms that Hasbro execs can potentially be forced to understand. That said I'm not super optimistic, going public is bad for any even remotely niche company.
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>>97459920
>I was wondering what the attitude around it was, like if someone is bringing a really thematic deck that is super suboptimal but has a couple strong cards
this is covered by gavin wherein he gave an example of a nicol bolas bracket 1 deck getting the pass to run bolas's citadel even though that card is broken as fuck
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>>97460310
>90% of any given set is useless pack filler
Said this a thousand times, but anon what the fuck do you think happens if they try to make 100% of cards busted?
The power level of the whole game goes up and still only the top 10% of cards see play and you continue to say that 90% of the set is pack filler.
You would have to be an actual diagnosable retard not to understand this.
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>>97460310
They gave more of a shit about FIN than either of the Marvel sets honestly
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How do I build monke? Voltron? Blink?
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>>97460347
>squeenix
>giving a shit about FF
haha yeah
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>>97460396
Can you see it too?
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>>97460347
To an extent maybe but there's only so much you can do on the corporate end to control card design, not to mention Disney is notoriously litigious
It's not a perfect set (Omega's flavor is bizarre) but in comparsion to spidermemes it's night and day
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>>97460489
In most of the series Omega is a superboss with the shtick of traveling through the Interdimensional Rift, kind of like what Gilgamesh does.
The XIV one is designed to be a perfect weapon that chased Midgardsormr from the Dragonstar to the game's planet because Omega's race (the Omicrons) genocided the dragons. It's trying to finish the job and use the WoL to optimize its combat skills but can't because it's in a setting where passion and willpower make you stronger, and eventually it learns that and stops trying to blast everything, or at least that's the tldr
Basically it has nothing to do with lands/nature and is no more Simic than Memnarch was, but they made it that way because the YoshiP card is built for landfall and they were clearly meant to be played together. I really like Omega so I'm a little bit sour about it still.They COULD have gone for the OMG route, where you can find Omega's little drone peacefully exploring the world after completing that questline, and that would have sorta made sense with the land synergy, but it wouldn't have done anything to represent the franchise-wide Omega.
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>be me, sigma WANGHAF
>only play GOAT commanders
>my lgs doesn't understand, they big mad
>roll up to some uncs playing some bracket 2 or 3 shit
>decide uncs are in for a mogging and get out my blue farm
>tell them it's giving 3 vibes
>we sit and i'm mewing while moging their negative aura with sigma rizz
>t1, i stacked my deck so i keep and yeet my infinite on the table
>uncs be delulu yapping about my deck not being 3
>i low key hit them with that sigma stare and walk out of the store to my pookie in the car about to get some action on
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That's why I really like Socrates, politics and draw all in one.
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>>97459143
He's unbanned but only his "updated for 2026" art card is legal, which is pic related. Do you still play it?
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>>97459249
No. Both Rafiq and the Exalted mechanic have been powercrept out of the game. Needing a Voltron commander that relies on 8+ not good creatures/enchantments sticking to the board to get lethal is laughably bad in 2026. Even his strictly better replacement isn't great.
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After 16 years, I finally put together this deck. What are some must have cards for it? I'm going to sleeve it up and start testing it out.
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so I've been tinkering with a Bre stoutarm a bunch, and realized she doesn't return the exiled lands to the bottom of the library like other pseudo cascade effects. is there anything in boros that can benefit from (land) cards in exile? something in the vein of candlekeep inspiration?
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It was an off and on and off and on deck. I finally got around to narrowing it down to 100 cards.
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It's anything but that. Not one CG.
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>WG
Kindred Instant - Enchantment
Testicular Torsion
As you cast this spell, each player and each creature with flying they control take 1 damage for each ability they activated or had trigger this turn.
Until end of turn, if an ability would trigger or be activated, instead it doesn't.
>Not Impossible. Necessary.
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>>97461682
it's bullshit, but I banged a chick in seattle who said something about they floated modal types - like evoke for enchantments and planeswalkers. didn't give me any details but I figured something like a cast trigger than sacrifice it while it has an overcosted static ability.
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>>97461698
>t no balls
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>>97461698
Jesus christ. You didnt get it checked? Holy hell.
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I am not allowed to play control.
I am not allowed to play combo.
I am not allowed to play aggro decks such as Arabella or Ureni because I win faster than my opponents can win.
I am not allowed to play simic.
I am not allowed play removal.
I am not allowed to play mono-blue.
I am not allowed to play mono-black.
I am not allowed to play izzet.
I am not allowed to play azorius.
I am not allowed to play any commander in the EDHREC top 100.
I am not allowed to play any commander with protection.
I am not allowed to play any commander that interferes with my opponents interfering with my board state.
My pod? They play, to mention a few: Edgar Markov, Krenko, Y’Shtola, Pantlaza, Lathril, Ms. Bumbleflower, Teval, Frodo and Sam, Hearthhull, Atla
Palani, and Captain Niggathrod
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You can cast your commander ONCE for free, but only on or after the turn that meets its mana cost (eg 2 mana commanders could be cast on turn 2+ for free, 5 mana commander turn 5+ for free).
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>>97461908
Ayyyyyy. I wrote an unmarketable postmodern hell book no one will publish or buy. Neat. We're now internet friends.
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MTG commanders with this feel?
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>>97460339
Given how uninspired and outright bad a lot of UB has been, I'm starting to suspect that Final Fantasy's success was due to SquareEnix advisors putting a boot on wotcs neck and forcing them to be at the top of their game in every respect. The characters were protected from DEIversity and it nailed the power level Magic should be, not weak and not full of overpowered whale call chase cards. And every single major deck type got to eat good, there was actual variety in the set.
It feels like one of the few sets they actually gave a fuck about in awhile and given that they don't seem to be personal fans of the series I really can't help wondering if wotcs FF success was forced upon them...
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>>97461946
>given that they don't seem to be personal fans of the series
gavin says his favorite is ff9
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>>97461926
I am in the process of negotiating with a few publishers, I was being dramatic, but sales are irrelevant to me. I mostly wanted to have my book published so when I'm dead people can look at my ideas and say "neat".
>>97461931
For me? Nin, fhe Pain Artist.
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>>97461946
aside from the blackening of a few characters, lotr was very much in the same stratta of power level, perhaps slightly more torqued with halfling, bowmasters and the one ring, but otherwise a flavorfully diverse set.
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>>97461960
I have extremely high expectations for the Hobbit, mostly because I desperately want a viable golgari food commander, so I am apologizing in advance to anyone else who also is excited for the Hobbit because God personally hates me and doesn't want me to experience joy so it will probably be shite.
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>>97461965
Not really. Many commanders would get significantly stronger.
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>>97461974
Yes. Yes it is. That's my goal. I could tell you a long silly brag filled story, but mostly I want a real publisher to give me some street cred so I can follow my dream:writing childrens books. I have chops, I have a voice and a distinct style, I even have a market segment with long tail upside and. built in merch options, but attention would be nice. Anyways, thanks for your advice anon, I'd happily talk about your book any time.
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>>97461848
Infinite with whatever treasure spamming sac/death outlet
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I love this guy.
>block almost anything
>removes anything if you're attacked, which basically makes it a fog
>if removed or sacked, gives you a ton of value
It's the perfect white card. Buys you all the time to do what you need.
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In response to his activation, I bounce kang
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>>97461182
Fuck. You’re right. We’ve seen fucking 3 and they’re all absolute buns. Precon cap gets a pass for being the designated hero slop commander that I can throw all the heroes in but I had really hoped they would have built upon what they started in the Secret Lair. All the Avengers barring Hulk have weapons that could be equipment. Equipped creature matters would have been a solid theme. We better get his shield as a card.
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>>97462045
>kang
Krang*
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>remove banlist
>bring back tuck rule
>bring back legendary rule
>ban UB cards
There. I fixed Commander.
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>is non-binary
>doesn't sacrifice any creatures
73 gender bros. we are eating good!
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Not so fast colorlet
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>Wolverine, Furious Mutant
>1RG
>Legendary Mutant Hero
>1/1
>Whenever this creature attacks it gets +X/+0 until the end of turn, where X is it's power.
>Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each other player.
>1G: Regenerate this creature.
I will now buy your Marvel set Hasbro.
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>>97462142
I may be tapped out, but I always have it.
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SYBAU
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>>97461946
I unironically think that after LOTR black washing a lot of third party ip's have been WAY more careful with what they let wotc do.
Square enix is notoriously defensive of their intellectual property so it's no surprise that everyone was represented properly with s lot of thought going into the cards (even if they clearly didn't take very many risks design-wise). As much as I love LOTR(the books of course not the wotc changes) I feel very much like it was the sacrificial lamb in terms of UB. It had to die so that every other IP that comes after actually defends their characters
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>Bello, Aragorn, Rin and Seri, Kefka, and K’rrik. I’m sure at least one is played by you
your prediction is black x white pairs
based actually
but I prefer commanders that are hot males but with plausible deniability of me running them as a coomer
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>>97462215
Honestly I agree, the IPs where the holder actually gives a damn about them seem to have produced better recieved sets, and the ones where the IP holder doesn't fucking care have produced garbage. It's just genuinely tragic that the current IP holder for LotR literally does not care about it outside of how much cash they can milk from it. It'd unironically be better off in the public domain since at least then people who actually love and cherish the IP can freely work with it as they please, instead of access being limited to the highest bidder, who only cares about it because it is a recognizable brand that people have a high opinion of (Because it hasn't been subverted by ideologues yet)
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>it's just genuinely tragic that the current IP holder for LotR literally does not care about it outside of how much cash they can milk from it
tolkien's descendants are bongs, it was bound to happen
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>>97462254
Kek who was that quote originally meant to describe?
The British spent 900 years in the Dark Ages after the Romans left but everything they built after that was entirely their own. A nation that has lasted 1000 years, took democracy to 1/4 of the world. You can’t say any of that was built on older civilizations any more than you could say it about every other European country
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>>97462277
MTG color pie should've been constructed differently.
Instead of
>White kills enchantments
>Red doesn't
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>White kills enchantments AND gains life doing it
>Red kills enchantments BUT loses life doing it
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>>97462277
White used to be the color of fairness and balance but players the stax plus it was super abusable
>Armageddon
>Balance
Etc
The whole point of the game is to advantage yourself and disadvantage your opponents. In white if an effect is legitimately symmetrical then it fucking sucks, and if it’s asymmetrical then players will just break it so it benefits them the most
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If you swapped "Red" for "Black" in the second group, you'd get the modern color pie, since under rare circumstances, black CAN kill enchantments, provided they pay a cost.
Red still can't kill enchants, but it's one of the best at killing artifacts so it's fine.
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>we are going to print sooo many cards
that means a lot of near forgotten mechanics will get reprints and new additions, right?
> :^)
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Honestly preserving the idea that every new set needs new mechanics in an era where they print 6 fucking sets a year is beyond deranged.
One of the biggest arguments I ever got into at the LGS was with the old guard, telling them that I’d rather see support for existing mechanics than shit out a new mechanic that’s just slightly different to an old mechanic but with a completely different name
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>>97462141
Nigger they made this card
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how many named mechanics (printed on cards) are there in mtg at this point? it has to be easily over 50
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>>97462408
>old guard defends mechanics flood
weird
anyways, wotc are a bunch of retards, and I predict that if they keep going like this, we will see an entire mechanics ban in our lifetime because they fucked up so hard.
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>>97462450
Way more than that. I feel confident I could name 50 by myself.
I bet there’s an answer on the MtG wiki tho
>>97462453
Their entire basis was that it’s just what Magic has always done and not doing it essentially makes all keywords “evergreen”
I said it was the biggest argument I ever got into at the LGS and you can see why, with them being this retarded
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I don't even know how someone can argue in favor of the endless creation of new mechanics in every set. Especially when it's clear they sometimes don't know what the fuck they're doing and just make something that's almost the same as another mechanic but with a different name. It's fine to sometimes just go back and support something that already exists that sucks and make it marginally better.
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>>97462487
last time I checked, it only counts tutors, gamechangers etc. what you end up with is pretty much every bracket 2 deck actually being a bracket 3 deck.
in terms of measuring power level, I use this scale
>1 precon and memes
>2 optimized budget and badly optimized normalfag goodstuff
>3 competent killer decks without price limit
you will never need more.
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Pretty bad since it treats brackets as a checklist because it cannot detect vibes.
So it's impossible to get a 1 or a 5, and the inbetweens just become purely a measurement of how many GC's you run. I yearn for the day it can detect combos.
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Am I in bizarro land? The best UB sets thus far have been LTR and FIN. The Tolkien Estate will give the license for $20, and Square Enix has happily let FF wither since the PS2 was modern hardware. Meanwhile TMT and SPM are bland uncooked slop, and Paramount (Viacom) and Disney are two of the most lawsuit-happy companies in the entire entertainment industry.
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>Command Zone finally drop their elemental precon upgrade video
>they recommend fucking Muster the Departed
>pic related is strictly better
>same mana value
>same color
>same permanent type
>copies all your elemental tokens that entered this turn instead of populate 1
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>>97462736
They also shit on Jegantha in the deck because they're fucking stupid. They say because Jegantha can't spent its mana on generic costs you won't use its mana to evoke other elementals, but the thing is if it is evoked in, it gains haste and can pay for its own WUBRG cost under Ashling to stay on the field meaning for the rest of the game any time you want to keep another token on board you always have that option without having to populate. If you don't ever want to pay that cost you can always just split the colors to knock off colored cast costs from hand.
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if I learned one thing from my love for brewing and testing edh decks its that everyone is retarded (inculding me). there is no exception to it. its all retards down the line, and at the end if it, there are more retards. together, they form a gigantic ball of retardation, and retards like you and me are forced to come up with our own retardation.
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>>97463016
I like the precon upgrade videos to get an alternate perspective on cuts and additions. Sometimes they’ll recommend a card you’ve never even heard of, or make a good case for cutting something you were going to keep
>>97463091
Nah absolutely not. Having playtested Ashling probably over 100 times on Archidekt I can tell you board presence is a massive problem with her. All your shit is sacking itself all the time.
Yes paying WUBRG to keep a token is doo-doo garbage, but having the option will never be a bad thing. You evoke Jegantha in for 4 (or less), it has haste so it can pay for its own WUBRG, and then you have a 5/5 body and the option to WUBRG any other token that you evoke. If you never pay that cost again for the rest of the game, then at the very least you can use that mana to reduce the cost of some spells. It’s win-win
The alternative to running Jegantha is dedicating slots in the deck to cards that populate and hoping to have them in hand when you want to keep a token around
That simply is not as efficient in a deck where you can cut a lot of instant and sorcery slots and put in an elemental that has the same effect on ETB. Every populate card youre running because it’s cheaper than paying WUBRG is 1 less elemental
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>>97463100
I guess I'll just ask here since they're older cards and probably can't be used with current cards. These seem to be the best/most expensive cards out of the bunch. Should I pick one of them to build a deck around, or should I sell them to build a different deck entirely?
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>>97463428
It's the 2nd time, and the 1st was about how JLK had built the deck for a game a week ago and not for how they recommend upgrading the precon yesterday.
JLK running the card could have been him being stupid or having a redundancy in case he didn't draw Renewed Solidarity
Including it in the precon upgrade video is just bad advice
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>>97463436
I hate zoomers so much like you actually think its worth posting that some fag on YouTube used the wrong card in your mind. It betrays such a pathetic personality on your part. You clearly do not think for yoirself and look to content creators to develop your opinions for you.
No one gives a fuck if game knights used the wrong card, the fact you do is beyond embarrassing. Kill yourself you pathetic underage nigger
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>>97461713
Nope, everything's still there and functional. Just needed to let it untwist.
>>97461802
The first time was in the middle of the night and I didn't really want to deal with trying to drive while half-awake and in pain, but a walk around the block had me able to get back to sleep. Went in the next morning to get it looked at and all the plumbing was intact.
The second time, I figured that things had been fine previously, so I'd only bother going in if it lasted more than three hours. Lo and behold, it untwisted after I took the dog out for a walk.
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>>97463450
>how DARE you attempt to talk about good cards to play in a particular deck! Don't you know your basis for bringing it up was that a YOUTUBER said something stupid!?!?!
I cannot imagine how high your blood pressure has to be to get upset about shit like this.
My advice to you is to bring your heart rate down and enjoy the time you have left with your remaining hair folicles.
Also
>You clearly do not think for yoirself and look to content creators to develop your opinions for you.
Yeah bro, disagreeing with a content creator and reasoning why they're wrong is the PEAK of not thinking for yourself, right?
Actual retard IQ, get yourself diagnosed
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WATERBENDER ASCENSION
Good or shit in a low-curve go-wide flying deck?
Better or worse than a Coastal Piracy?
Also is Toski better than Coastal Piracy?
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>>97463598
Yes, but the galaxy brained strategies to do crazed combo things ascend past post those posts. It's a format about using weird cards in singleton, easy enough, but man oh man do I admire someone who can win the game while doing that.
>>97463600
Those decks that one guy was posting. I aint never seen shit like that in my life. Something that makes you go "why" but also "wow".
>>97463602
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>>97463655
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>>97463629
>Good or shit in a low-curve go-wide flying deck?
fine, its not bad but i wouldnt take it over any of the coastal piracy clones if you have access to them
>Better or worse than a Coastal Piracy?
worse. if youre playing this on curve you need to wait until turn 5-6 for it to really work anyways. I think the best place for this is somewhere that the unblockable activated ability is going to be valuable to you
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>>97463583
you might be stupid, but what you lack is wisdom. what you consider stylish is the work of an experienced player who has spent thousands of hours brewing and playing decks.
you are basically asking why you are unable to create a great work without years of experience.
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>>97463704
because letting your opponents see a big dick creature in the grave for longer than 1 turn is only a good way to get it exiled. that and you need another setup piece to get it there in the first place. at that point might as well just flash it in. nobody ever pays attention to the emergence zone
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>>97463665
The deck is Edric, full of cheap 1-2 mana evasive creatures that I want to get out, 1-2 mana counterspells that I want to hold up mana for, and 6-7 mana overruns and extra turns that I want to draw into and play in second main.
The biggest issue I have with coastal piracy et al is the 4 mana cost, which is best paid in first main for the extra draw but then I might draw into cards I wish I kept mana for. There are several points in the game where they just rot on my hand as an eventual backup for if I can't protect Edric, but otherwise just stay in hand looking pretty because it's too big of a mana commitment.
Waterbender Ascension is easier to get out early or just drop in M1 and keep mana open in M2. It doesn't need to be played on curve, though it is a 2 mana do nothing without the right board state.
I'll just do since playtesting and see how it feels. Shaving 2 mana off for an effective "skip your next three draws" sounds like a really bad deal, but in this deck it might be worth it.
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>>97463766
Hell no, it's so fun. I love playing Edric.
Mind you it's not an optimized list so it ends up feeling pretty weak and scrappy most of the time, but it's something that I feel could hold its own at stronger tables eventually.
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I've had enough of durdling, I want to straight up kill people. Does Uril still get the job done in the current year?
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>>97463761
>The deck is Edric,
Not even reading the rest of your post, Coastal piracy is better and you should look into its clones like bident and recon mission. You want to spend turn two playing creatures, not a redundant commander effect
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>>97463704
That's a good point. Thanks anon, I will practice.
>>97463748
Say what you must but as much anyone can play heliod ballista, that guy was cooking. I played it on TTS last night and a situation came up where Preston the Vanisher copied Bonehording Dracosaur like 8 times, put 16 +1/+1 counters on my dudes, made 11 treasure tokens, 5 creature tokens, and blasted each player for 13 damage out of nowhere before combat.
I was too stupid to understand the KCI deck, but goldfishing it something is happening. I just hadnt seen things like that before. Maybe you have. I've seen the individual parts, but never everything together like that.
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>I thought it was an autoinclude in Ruby Storm and TES with upside?
for legacy its effectively a less resilient defense grid. The only format its had real success in is cEDH and the supply is way too high for that alone to hold its price above $20. After a couple more weeks itll be dropped from most legacy lists. Standard is the only hope for it keeping value right now but its already getting shifted to sideboards for RDW
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>>97463839
That print is down to 20 euro
https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Products/Singles/Lorwyn-Eclipsed-E xtras/Hexing-Squelcher
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>>97464004
Both are shitty.
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ConsiderTardigoyf
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>>97462408
Especially when they resurrect some old nearly forgotten mechanic with less than 30 cards to its name to slap on exactly one new card without including any new support.
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>>97462757
Right because that never happens with UW sets.
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>>97464701
Good morning, I only love artifacts.
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>27 packages coming from TCGplayer
>All of them are single packages because somehow even the one store telling the special printing of soul ring I bough didn't have a single arcane signet
Is there a worse fucking feel?
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>>97464733
>I only love artifacts.
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>>97464733
What kind of artifacts are we talking about here?
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>>97464788
Good.
>>97464823
Why, the symmetrical ones of course. Robots are fine too.
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>>97464897
she actually made herself cum to oko
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>>97464840
I will put the orb in my dumb little wasp deck for you. Someone has to stop the disgusting blink decks anyway.
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>>97465248
>3/3 Elk will never diaper you
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>>97465345
Not as optional as you might think
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the community has spoken again!
I WILL tutor my third and fourth copy of the same combo piece again and again, sorry not sorry. not a singleton format anymore
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I am having the damndest time trying to find effects that force two-sided cards to flip outside their normal effects. Trying to make an Innistrad Werewolf deck work but being subject to Daybound/Nightbound mechanics is making it difficult to get the most out of it.
Not looking for hand-outs entirely here either; I'd be happy to get a rules-text line for forcing either the day/night shift, or for just flipping two-faced cards regardless of the day/night situation, but almost all I've been able to find refers to Manifesting Dread mechanics rather than what I'm working with.
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Mail day was good today
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>>97465585
flipping facedowns doesn't count for double-sided cards. flipping is not the same as transforming.
Immerwolf stops your werewolves from transforming, Moonmist transforms all humans.
a ""recent"" standard brew used tranforming cards from march of the machine and Agatha's Soul Cauldron to transform usually-more-expensive/annoying cards from FF. assuming you're in jund, that's Pyretic Prankster, Blightreaper Thallid, but if you're only in gruul (I.E. your commander is Tovolar) you're stuck with just Bonded Herdbeast.
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>>97463362
But what should I do? Sell them to get something else? Keep them? I don't know anything about Magic but I would like to try. How do I find a commander?
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Also meant for >>97463390
Not sure what food stamps means though.
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I really want to make a sea creature deck. Runo and Kiora seem the obvious choices but I really wanna play Sultai because all three colors have cool sea creatures. but ikra + Brinelin as a dual commander just feels weak. Runos or Kioras effects are so much more interesting.
when will they print a cool Sultai commander for sea creatures
(before you recommend something with no flavor like Glarb - NO!)
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>>97465829
The thing is though, Glarb DOES have flavor, his whole thing was looking into the future and predicting when the Calamity Beast would come and attack. It fits perfectly, cuz as your commander, he's predicting that your opponents are going to get smacked by a giant sea monster.
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>Australian Summer many days over 38c (100°F)
>LGS has a terrible AC
>Evaporative AC makes everything humid, hot and sticky
>its loud so everyone has to yell over the already loud room
I haven't been to the LGS for like 6 weeks now because every Friday I have work or it's hot as fuck and I don't wanna sit around in a hot, sweaty, loud room.Also started getting new captcha with multiple stages of find the odd one out and it's all shit like "find exactly 2 stars with 5 spikes" it's a pain in the ass
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>>97465813
I play Yugioh already, but I feel left out and jealous when my friends play Magic and all I can do is watc, so I've been thinking about making a commander deck anyways and now seems like a time to start. The only problem is I don't know where to start. How do I pick a commander? Do I just go through lists of cards until I see someone that looks cool? Because so far I've seen Jace and Teferi.
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>>97465875
>How do I pick a commander? Do I just go through lists of cards until I see someone that looks cool?
I did that to start with but then ran into not understanding how to build a deck but since you play Yugioh you might pick up on it faster. You could always get a out of the box precon, they're usually fine and people will have decks to play at your level, if you just wanna play asap
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>>97465861
Sin is a leviathan in the colors you seem to want, but otherwise does nothing for sea monsters besides maybe making copies out of the graveyard sometimes.
>>97465875
tell us what sort of thing you like playing and maybe we can make an analogous suggestion.
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>>97465974
Do you live in a snow-covered forest?
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>This LGS is too hot: >>97465864
>This LGS is too cold: >>97465974
Is theree no LGS for me that's just right?
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>>97465973
I don't know what I like playing, how am I supposed to find a consistent strategy if all of my cards are one-ofs? I figured I was just gonna go for cool art or something. I actually happen to like a lot of the Bloomburrow card arts, but they're kinda expensive.
>>97465886
So like a structure deck? I guess I could look into that.
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>>97466091
Then you should listen to the other anon's suggestion and just use Glarb. Like he said, he fits lorewise, has mechanics that will actually help most of the time, and finally, looks like a fucking Chad in that chair. He's almost giving bedroom eyes!
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I did it. I became flurbulent.
Turn 1. Everyone plays a fetch land. No one cracks. Hehee lets all do it at once :)
>dark rit opp agent
>guy calls me a nigger and scoops
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>>97466083
>So like a structure deck?
Yep exactly that. They release a couple every set and are themed pretty well. Babby's first precon for me was the Explorers Of The Deep from Ixalan (https://moxfield.com/decks/lnTvk7dGp0KzsvxIMxPDJg). You play Merfolk, go wide and with your commander out you draw heaps of land and get big creatures.
>how am I supposed to find a consistent strategy if all of my cards are one-ofs?
That's part of the format, since it's pretty casual but it can be remedied by redundancy (like multiple cards that do the same thing) or a lot of card draw.
> I actually happen to like a lot of the Bloomburrow card arts, but they're kinda expensive
Look into proxies unless you care about the real thing. I use MPC fill and the website Make Playing Cards, to do it all for cheap.
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>>97465585
The Celestus, Into the Night, and Unnatural Moonrise all let you force nighttime. Assuming you're also putting in some old-style werewolves, Moonmist and Vildin-Pack Alpha help with those. And of course Tovolar in the command zone. Then Immerwolf prevents your werewolves from turning to their fronts. Other than that, you can try to get your guys to their old side and just try to at least avoid ever transforming them yourself. Prioritize instant-speed plays via instants, flash spells, and activated abilities so you can spread your moves across turns. Cryptic Gateway is a way to put guys down without casting.
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>>97466243
>Merfolk
Ehh. I'd rather play an aesthetically pleasing deck than something premade.
>make proxies
How common is that in Magic? I've never made proxies for Yugioh, I just kinda buy the card. Not to say that I'm ballin or anything, I just can't fathom using proxies.
>>97466261
I mainly play Edison, and in that format I play Blackwing. The last modern deck I played was Branded like a year ago.
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Did you guys see this pathetic Twitter drama where a guy had to prostrate himself publicly for bluffing about hidden information in cEDH?
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>>97466382
what about those decks is different than the average deck and why do you like playing them?
>>97466406
>I was aware that [playing a card] could net me a win
>this was wrong and doesn't align with my values
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>>guy calls me a nigger
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>>97466437
I guess they spam a lot of monsters, but the real reason is I just think the monsters look cool. I would realistically play any deck, control, aggro, whatever, as long as I like the pictures on my cards. I'm a pretty simple guy.
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>>97465673
Thanks for the clarification, saved me time looking into more that wouldn't help.
>>97465938
Was looking for inspiration for a Gruul kit to fill out the Mono/Dual/Tri-color deck set and Werewolves just looked like they'd be interesting more than my placeholder throw-bulk-into-a-box-and-shake-it set I'd been using before.
>>97466164
Eh, they can't all be winners. Might've thought Lorwynn's day/night theme could offer something to work with but no such luck it seems.
>>97466265
Thanks for the additions to the pick-up list and advice. Will have a bunch to look over now.
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>>97466382
I would suggest perusing the precons for a description that sounds like how you'd like to play and then you can take any of the cards and sub in the nice art versions that you would prefer, as you work to upgrade or alter the deck. Once you've been playing a while you'll have more of a feel for the cards you'd like to play with and build your own deck from scratch.
Proxies are the occasional hot button topic especially here. They're often common for people when trying out a deck but most playgroups will limit them to "cards you are trying out but intend to buy" "card you already own but are in other decks or you just want to use the nice printing instead of the one you have"
Usually as soon as those restrictions get lifted things start going haywire
>>97466535
I'd suggest a simic or gruul deck as green lets you ramp up fast to play the cool looking big creatures.
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>>97466382
Proxies are chill as long as you don't go nuts and print expensive cards or use it as a way to race power level over people you play with. No one really cares how much it costs just try and play fair with everything.
That being said you can put together some simple combo decks for <$50 and you'll win pretty much everything in 5-6 turns consistently if you find that fun.
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>>97466382
Yugioh cannot use proxies because they are sanctioned tournaments. EDH is fun time unofficial shit. WOTC does not care, because they aren't actual sanctioned shit and monitoring every store for that would be a pain.
Proxies are very common in commander. Virtually everyone I know aside from rich fags use some. This general is probably the most anti-proxy place around, though (primarily just trolls.)
The most common argument you will see is "people will proxy the strongest cards" but that isn't a proxy issue. That's a "I'm too retarded to use brackets or even discuss power level before playing." issue
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>>97466535
honestly it sounds like you should just take a look at a few of the bigger tribes and decide what you end up liking. other things that have unified aesthetics tend to be factions within each set/block, like the ravnica guilds or tarkir clans, and the sets themselves might have strong aesthetic cohesion sometimes. also maybe look at Kangee (either, he has two cards, but I'm thinking of his older one), he might be pretty close to what I'm seeing of these YGO cards.
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>>97466630
there's also the issue of 'well what's the most expensive card in YGO right now?' compared to a 'staple' like the ring
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>>97466653
There's only 2-3 people in this general who are actually antiproxyfags. It seems like more because those couple of anons are also severe no life spam faggots who are terminally online and sit here all day looking to start arguments. Antiubfag/antiproxyfag/hipsterfag/poorfag spammer/etc are all the same (few) person(s). I strongly suspect they're no games as well.
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>>97466382
>How common is that in Magic?
Depends on where you play. If you're just playing with your friends that probably doesn't matter. If you're playing at a gamestore on their commander night then it may be an issue. The stores near me are all anti proxy, even the ones that don't sell singles, and give everyone a warning about using them.
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