You have my attention. How is it a combo piece? Arcbond , any way to make a second Arcbond, Jeskai Charm , and something that gives indestructibility deals infinite damage to everything and everyone while gaining me infinite life. The two creatures targeted with Arcbond bounce damage back and forth...

Have you seen the "Baracuda of the Tide" spoiled from Commander 2020? Does the deck need another flash enabler? I think it is worth it!! I have actually thought about a card giving everyone flash at times. Now that they've actually printed it, I'm not sure. It's another 4-drop in a 4-drop...

I see the advantage of a cantrip that also nets me a creature, but 3 mana for half of opt plus a 1/1 flyer? I don't love it. It gets better the more you sink into [sym=x], for sure. I mean, I can sac my spirits when a board wipe is cast and turn them into a big shark after it resolves, so there's t...

Mutate - needlessly clunky on paper. Mutating a couple creatures into one-another is not a big deal, but with the potential of having an exceedingly high stack of mutations, managing the card might become a pain, especially if you add auras, equipments and counters on top of that. Not to mention sc...

Oh, thank goodness. Just OG Tamiyo and a bigger setup to break that then. To be fair though, good luck hitting that emblem. I never have and I played her regularly for quite some time. I've seen precisely 3 of that emblem happen. One was a planeschase game where the place gave a free Tamiyo like tu...

Atraxian wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Proxying one with pkhex is the easiest and fastest way to get one for your own enjoyment.

Easy and fast aren't fun. Games are entertainment by way of challenge and competition. The joy of winning is success in the face of adversity. Easy and fast are the antithesis of a good game experience.

Also, you need experience to pilot a team (you can get an uber team steamrolled by a never-used team if you don't know what you are doing), same way as in MtG you need experience to pilot a deck. But like, you're straight into talking about competitive pokemon, and I'm talking about the person who'...

Right now people without a *ton* of disposable income do not get to experience the whole game of magic. They get to experience far less of the game than those who can spend thousands of dollars per deck. I want to play against you and your ideas, not your wallet'. I'm not generally an opponent of p...

It's a pretty sweet curve into Priest of Gix for an aggressive black deck.

Sanity_Eclipse wrote: ↑

4 years ago

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On a different note, I like putting in ~55 hours a week while technically being a part-time and non-salaried manager. /s

I did that at UPS for a time. To be fair, I was pretty well compensated and had benefits, so the part time designation was pretty meaningless.

You aren't alone on that. Haven't really enjoyed the franchise since Rogue One came out. I don't think Rogue One was really much better in a vacuum than any of the others, but in context of the full franchise it was waaaaaay better. It just did a great job answering questions people want answered. ...

Quick dumb question. I was playing my mirrorweave build the other day and ran into role reversal. Can you sac the token in response before giving it away? I didn't bother this time to save a rules headache with the store closing soon but the thought occurred to me. No. If both targets in an exchang...

That feels like the Barren Glory win condition of this deck. Really? I'm curious why you think that. I kind of thought Felidar Sovereign would be the closest analogue, being an alt wincon and all. I'm still not sure if I'll ever include it though. I think that because all Aether Charge does is win ...

If I take out Aether Charge to avoid the issue of Guardian + a clone, I lose out on some other game winning combos, and I'm willing to bet that Guardian + a clone will be problematic elsewhere. However, everything I can think of right now is fine: Guardian + Clone + Panharmonicon + Goretusk Firebea...

kenbaumann wrote: ↑

4 years ago

4. I'm 50% Spike, 30% Johnny, 15% Timmy, and 5% Vorthos.

You broke it down 4 ways and still left out Melvin. What a shame...

Yo, anyone who happens to be following this thread, hop over here real quick. @MeowZeDung has a deck going built to be a 4-card combo deck, that's also beast tribal, and Astral Slide based, and my brain is farting out trying to find 4-card combos other than Ghostly Flicker-based ones.

1 success below, 2 not successes. Ghostly Flicker both Nucklavee and Gilded Lotus , return Ghostly Flicker to hand, trigger Aether Charge / Jeskai Ascendancy each time around. I spent a long time staring trying to make Nucklavee recur Expansion // Explosion copying Brought Back to bring back a Nuckl...

Hermes_ wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Why do people (Cedh reddit) think it would be a good idea for there to be a record of eacch RC/CAG meeting? Do they have idea what madness would be unleashed?

Yes, they do. But justify it in the name of validating their complaints. Little is more gratifying then having your complaining validated.

Taking a quick lookover, I see 1 4-card combo right away, and then get distracted by all those creatures I had never realized were beasts. I'll come back later and give this a deeper dive, but Jeskai beast tribal etb flicker combo is fantastically unexpected, and I hope it works out.

Hermes_ wrote: ↑

4 years ago

i'm tempted to make a banding deck,jsut to see if i can make the local judge's head go boom lol

It's really not that complicated. The worst you'd put them through is having to repeatedly confirm to opponents that yes, it does block trample.

lyonhaert wrote: ↑

4 years ago

I hope you haven't been counting it as two CMCs for Gateway.

Nah. It can untap Gateway which is sweet for catching people off guard who thought they had another turn to answer it, and it counts as a 9.

I'm curious, when you were building the deck with your "4-card combos only" rule in mind, did you lay out all the combos on paper ahead of time, or did this gradually evolve? The more I think about it, the more I'm intrigued by any deck of a bunch of infinite but "bad" combos, a...

MeowZeDung wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Just like a certain Dracogenius, we have no patience for minds that do not inspire us or explode by trying.

Well, if they spent more time harming Swans, the would quickly learn their lesson.

Oh, that's spicy. . . Geez it's a shame that folks don't see Mindmoil as the treasure that it is. It's been one of my favorite pet cards since the first time I had it out alongside a Psychosis Crawler . The value is incredible. Most look at it and see the "downside", I look at it and see ...

I feel this in my bones. I'm a huge fan of Mindmoil and Arjun, the Shifting Flame . Some of the most underated EDH cards ever imo. What's your preferred method of funneling damage into Swans of Bryn Argoll ? That's another card that is criminally underplayed imo, including by me. Have you done anyt...