#Magic the Gathering

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vivid hatch
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U

1/3

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, exile it and transform this creature. Until the end of your turn, you may play that card.

Transformed:

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Shadow

Whenever CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player’s library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

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sounds balanced to me, print it into the next standard set nyaruhodo

glad peak
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Too balanced, you should say if a card was revealed that way nyaruhodo

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Any card

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Oh right it also happens to let you discard your reanimation targets

atomic harness
glad peak
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Who thought it was a good idea to make reanimator into also the best tempo deck KEKW

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So turns out [[signal the clans]] exists

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glad peak
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Reveal 3 creatures that do effectively the same thing KEKW

vivid hatch
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turn 1 both players on 0 cards

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meme format

granite badge
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Wow I am ass at drafting

gritty nest
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If you’re sorting your collection alphabetically, would you put [[!The Prima Vista]] in T or P?

waxen timber
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T. Makes it more inline with spreadsheets if you use that to keep track of inventory

glad peak
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A. if you utilize a database you're more likely to have an even amount of cards in each number nyaruhodo

trail anvil
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if you're tracking it digitally then yeah T, otherwise P

glad peak
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you should track with [-1] nyaruhodo

gritty nest
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thanks guys

trail anvil
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[[sami, wildcat captain]] has been so insanely fun as a commander, I love boros artifact storm

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trail anvil
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newgin has been busted with them, endstone has been busted with them, etc. free spells make me happy inside

glad peak
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Have you considered Gerard nyaruhodo

trail anvil
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is that just double dipping on dies triggers and sac

glad peak
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Pretty much

gritty nest
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Newgin?

golden plover
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Is [[Weapons Manufacturing]] the new roots? (cope card that's gonna be in 1000 bad brews)

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granite badge
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Random encounter has been so fun to brew in standard

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I have a good manabase now

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Surveil + shock lands

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Running 8x forestcycling bodies so consistency is through the roof

glad peak
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I tried making weapons manufacturer work in erinis as that’s probably the most suitable one

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Didnt work

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Maybe Gerard will work better

sleek ferry
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Do with that info as you will

tardy echo
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Borderless glimmer alt arts for the daily deal for anyone who wants them nyaruhodo

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First time I ever read enduring friendship icant

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Tenacity cheaper than all the other ones because they know it’s the only one that wasn’t playable icant

trail anvil
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Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin
When you cast this spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors.
+2: You gain 3 life and draw a card.
0: Add manacmanacmanac.
−11: Search your library for any number of colorless nonland cards, exile them, then shuffle. Until end of turn, you may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
Loyalty: 7

gritty nest
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Okay that makes sense

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What are your win cons in Sami?

trail anvil
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endstone, that, paradox engine (in brawl), aetherflux reservoir

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it's really easy to storm off and you can reliably use colorless spells like [[kozilek's command]]

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fallow citrus
golden plover
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Guys I think Izzet Cauldron might be good

twilit canyon
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maybe

fallow citrus
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izzet?

twilit canyon
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cauldron yeah

fallow citrus
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I guess the joke doesnt land as well over text

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izzet sounding like is it

tardy echo
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I understood the joke however it wasn’t funny

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-3

hidden ermine
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I liked it

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+4

fallow citrus
twilit canyon
fallow citrus
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maybe it is I that is the fool

glad peak
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No thats [[flubs]] and he izzet + green

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sleek ferry
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I ended up buying an EoE bundle for $50

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Time to gamble boys and girls

fallow citrus
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gamba time

past socket
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Flubbothy

gritty nest
storm elbow
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Wow, i didnt know alph was a member of mtggoldfish

glad peak
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PRURBLEM?

golden plover
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I was ahead of the game hating Vivi

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Now that every event is all Vivi, everyone is on board lol

sleek ferry
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dw you're still wrong for hating Vivi

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Cauldron is the bigger issue here

fallow citrus
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if only rotation was 2 years instead

sleek ferry
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Also, I hate using online only formats as examples, but see Alchemy with no Cauldron and Vivi perfectly legal, Vivi is not an issue there

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Some of the arguments I'm seeing are downright stupid af. People going "Oh so we're going to ban a 2nd card for Vivi now?" As if Monstrous Rage wasn't going to get hit regardless

fallow citrus
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but yeah cauldron is 100% the issue in this deck, it becomes a lot more manageable without it

sleek ferry
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the issue with the deck is literally that once you apply vivi's ability to anything that's not 0 power to start, it literally turns into fast mana

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and regular removal isn't an option vs cauldron, you need cheap exiling removal

golden plover
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I don't know, I think Vivi will still be a problem without cauldron down the line

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I'm not sure I can say the same for cauldron without vivi

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Unfortunately neither is gonna get hit until November

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So get ready for another 3 more months of "Standard is flourishing"

fallow citrus
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I think vivi will be a good card without cauldron but I don't think it would be this good

golden plover
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Yeah that's fair. Vivi will probably be annoying with profts and stuff but it won't be unable to be stopped

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Rn there's no winning since removing a Vivi just gives them a board of vivi

twilit canyon
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its a problem with u/r not cauldron or vivi necessarily

golden plover
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And it's not like you can choose to leave it alone

twilit canyon
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blue-red has been the best color pair in magic for a reason

golden plover
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I mean Vivi shouldn't have been designed that way

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They mentioned he tapped in playtesting and they removed that to intentionally push him

twilit canyon
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and the reason is the deck just does see way more cards

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yeah but thats fine cards can be pushed and strong thats okay

golden plover
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But also, he should have had prowess instead of counters

twilit canyon
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what happens when you can guarantee see the cards you want?

golden plover
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It's more in line for Izzet storm stuff to get a single turn of big pop off

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And not being able to do the big pop off every turn

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But it's not like they're gonna eratta him to prowess and tap now

twilit canyon
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izzet decks are able to get infinite consistency bc they are far and away much better at seeing their cards than other decks

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and the format is slow

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like real slow

golden plover
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So the solution is likely to just ban him and/or cauldron

twilit canyon
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aggro is killing on turn 5-6 if that

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these vivi decks can durdle forever

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spin wheels and guarantee whatever cards are needed for the win

golden plover
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Izzet is the issue at it's core yeah, with how much draw power and answers it's got rn, but they keep designing 2-3 mana cards that can turn cantrips into a whole board

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So unless they ban like fomo, Tersa, profts, star chart, and every other good Izzet draw card (they won't) they need to keep hitting these problems

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With more sets going into standard than ever, the ban window needs to be loosened up so this stops happening every banlist now too

subtle sierra
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sigh why does red have to be my most hated color

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it's corrupting my cute blue

sleek ferry
golden plover
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Without Izzet having must answer threats on t3-4, there's room for midrange, control, and aggro that can play around their bombs

twilit canyon
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rage legal wouldnt help here though

golden plover
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Yeah rage would just be in the Vivi deck, wouldn't answer it

sleek ferry
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rage had to go regardless, I don't think you needed to hit hero though

twilit canyon
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granted wild ride is better than rage for the deck

golden plover
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They'd probably do a split of them ngl

twilit canyon
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3/1

golden plover
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Rage would give them another win avenue that isn't draconaut

twilit canyon
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but yeah

sleek ferry
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oh yeah, there is also gruul aggro that can kill on t3, but that deck dies to a single piece of removal

golden plover
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Since it'd let a mako or a huge Vivi kill you after making 300 mana

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I honestly don't know how you build around Vivi in a way to cleanly answer it rn

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I think you don't ngl

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Since shit like caretakers can have a high noon, RIP, and Starcage on board and still just die to a 15/15 mako

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Dimir and Control eventually run out of counterspells

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And like, cauldron can just dig for their torch the towers and flood maws whenever they're locked out

twilit canyon
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you build to kill the deck before it can set up

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or go above it

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but you cant do either well rn

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hmm how to put it

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i've been playing the kona deck a lot recently

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more of a reasonable version focused on the ramp plan

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it does well

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but

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it can never really have the highs that it did

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and that, is notable

golden plover
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Yeah I've seen attempts to go above it and below, but there's really not enough aggro tools to get the kill beforehand

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I've seen the Kona deck, might have a better shot than the overlord stuff

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Since that all loses to the same boarded in cards Vivi does and they don't care about your Mistmoors if they're just gonna do 100 damage and make 50 guys

sleek ferry
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a lot of it also has to do with EoE promoting a slower playstyle (within standard), as we don't have the actual tools to abuse some of the more broken cards in the set (pinnacle emmisary come to mind)

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What's our next standard set again?

golden plover
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Spiderman

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All the reveals for spiderman so far have been slow as shit too

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So I'm not sure we'll see an answer there

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But even the 3 cleanest answers don't really do it

sleek ferry
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spiderman is straight to modern no?

golden plover
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Nope

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No more straight to modern sets

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Everything goes through standard now

sleek ferry
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oh wow, here I was ignoring the spiderman stuff because I figured it wouldn't concern me

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no wonder I was reading these cards and wondering why none of these cards were modern playable

golden plover
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I mean tbf none of them are standard playable either lol

fallow citrus
sleek ferry
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punk spider seemed the best so far?

golden plover
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For sure

tardy echo
golden plover
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And he's like fine

sleek ferry
tardy echo
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I think most aggro decks are pretty bitch made

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Imo though I’m not sure what the common sentiment is towards draw spells but stock up is just an absurdly broken card

sleek ferry
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mastering an aggro deck is unironically the best way to get better at the game

tardy echo
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I know how to play aggro doesn’t mean I want to icant

sleek ferry
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Do you though clearly

subtle sierra
tardy echo
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I would’ve cooked you kids with csc if they didn’t take it from me so soon

subtle sierra
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just like i hate green, but i love ramp and artifact/enchantment killing

tardy echo
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Sometimes mono green is cool sometimes it sucks

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Normally I think mono blue is pretty boring

sleek ferry
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Only thing I despise is landfall decks tbh

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they're sleeper as fuck

tardy echo
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Actually rephrase I think basically all mono colors are pretty boring

tardy echo
subtle sierra
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mono blue is boring to me too

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but mostly cause it has no good removal

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only mono colors i like are white and black

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cause they feel more complete than the other 3

tardy echo
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Mono white is so SCsleepybb2

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Mono black has some cool stuff like the demon synergy etc

sleek ferry
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mono white rn is pretty good

tardy echo
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But mono white is just bleh

sleek ferry
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This is peak gameplay right here

tardy echo
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Caretakers/elspeth and friends is as close as it gets to an interesting gameplan for me

sleek ferry
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I love it when my speed ticks 4

tardy echo
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Speed is such a funny mechanic

twilit canyon
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true

sleek ferry
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start your engines might be the most made for standard mechanic ever

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and I love it

sleek ferry
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well I'm done for the day, 10 ranked games, 9-1 record

sleek ferry
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@golden plover let me show you the latest version of mono white I've been working on

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Unsure on the land base for now, I’m back and forth on whether this wants caretaker or not, amount of removal feels right though

glad peak
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Imagine thinking aggro isn’t based nyaruhodo

fallow citrus
sleek ferry
fallow citrus
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true

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It's like the mechanic I forget existed

sleek ferry
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this mono white deck feels so crazy now that I'm actually playing it

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haliya is a crazy card

fallow citrus
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[[haliya guided by light]]

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Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Whenever Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Warp manaw (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
3/3

sleek ferry
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why is this a warp for 1 white lmfaooo

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it's so good with zenith + pixie + kirin

glad peak
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Warp is the most non-commander design of all time nyaruhodo

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Must warp from hand nyaruhodo

sleek ferry
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I'm doing some disgusting things to this life gain player rn

fallow citrus
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don't worry wait until the next commander legends set where they make warp from command zone

sleek ferry
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I've literally bounced [[spring loaded sawblades]] 6 times already

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Artifact
Flash
When this artifact enters, it deals 5 damage to target tapped creature an opponent controls.
Craft with artifact mana3manaw (mana3manaw, Exile this artifact, Exile another artifact you control or an artifact card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Bladewheel Chariot
Artifact — Vehicle
Tap two other untapped artifacts you control: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.
Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
5/5

glad peak
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They don’t have suspend from command zone yet nyaruhodo

fallow citrus
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yet

sleek ferry
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you can also create an infintie resource loop with 2 kirins + any 1 mana drop

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Literally unpunished

golden plover
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Fuck it, I guess I'm crafting cauldron since I'll get my wildcards back in November

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Tier 0 time

sudden lava
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Distributors posted this image

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preorders start soon

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Cards from every episode

lusty trench
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That tea time set is so good

zinc shard
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Festival in a Box: 2025 Atlanta cards

tardy echo
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Spaghetti junction…

zinc shard
subtle sierra
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morally correct vivi...

zinc shard
lusty trench
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THE UNDERMINER!

copper pecan
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No card found for “terrisere, moon dancer”

copper pecan
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fuck what's it called

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the 2 mana gw elf that scries 1 whenever you gain life

glad peak
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That sandbagging bastard KEKW

glad peak
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so the youtube channel lightning bolt is actually pretty good

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new youtunber

golden plover
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Waiting for my friends to get here for board game night and just listened to the world's most pubstomper playing pubstomp urza explain to his friends how he won the game (he didn't, he misplayed multiple cards in the explanation)

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His combo involved umbral mantle, WAR Karn, everflowing chalice, and some artifact that he turned into a creature to ping everyone for one??.

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Like bro, just play basalt monolith

glad peak
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Better yet, don’t play bad cards in urza icant

golden plover
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I mean if you're playing that urza you're playing bad cards

gritty nest
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I’m building slivers

sudden lava
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Got confirmation my LGS EoE Commander Party is on the 21st, gotta pick what deck to bring that day

gritty nest
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Adam

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Hold on

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[[!Rukarumel]]

sudden lava
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Yes do the sliver biologist

gritty nest
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Yes

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I saw a $15 sliver elf deck with rukarumel

sudden lava
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But yeah trying to win

gritty nest
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Pearl-Ear or Bumbleflower, and swap to light paws if you want to be extra sure if winning with pearl ear deck

sudden lava
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gotcha

gritty nest
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Mono W fast Voltron can catch most people off guard, one tap someone by turn 3 then go after the rest

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It’s nuts

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I’ve got a super budget tifa deck that popped off once and cleaned the table by turn 6. I got extremely lucky with that hand though

sudden lava
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And I assume Bumbleflower because I can give something flying to take a planet/use the planet as a political resource?

gritty nest
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And also because you can work to fly under the radar by being the group hug player

sudden lava
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Very true

stark skiff
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lol I just remade my Bumbleflower deck

subtle sierra
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excuse me what

stark skiff
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buddy asked me to help him build up his Alela deck. This is what I brewed up. Any suggestions?

glad peak
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Thoracle consult NyanGun

golden plover
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Dude the cauldron mirror sucks so much

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There's literally no skill to it. It's who got their cauldron first

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Might as well flip a fucking coin

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Usually at least tier 0 decks have interesting mirrors. But this one feels like it's 100% decided by opening hand

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Was losing G2, saw my cauldron, immediately had 300 mana and all the draws in the world and took it. They were at 3 life in G3, they saw a cauldron and immediately had a full board with haste

sleek ferry
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Slight update on the list, I forgot sheltered with ghosts is just broken with Haliya

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The fact that pinnacle starcage has that 8 mana ability is so dumb btw, it’s so good

steady onyx
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how are frogs in standard or something similar

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ot temur

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or anything like that

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i pulled 3 breeding pools from my eoe pre

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so i kinda wanna paly some simic thing

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and I did a bloomburrow draft with friends and got some frog cards

tardy echo
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There’s a temur deck in standard but it’s kind of memey combo

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There’s a few pretty good simic decks revolving around landfall stuff with [[genemorph imago]]

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tardy echo
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And [[orobouroid]]

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steady onyx
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oh

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i also pulled 2 of those from my eoe prerelease

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might go twoards that

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i dont like memey combos personally

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but i like landfall I thikn

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ill look into the landfall deck thanks cake

golden plover
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Lmao

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"No discounted wildcards or styles. Fuck you"

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Why even announce it

sleek ferry
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Best interaction I've found so far is bouncing your warp cards back for infinite value

sleek ferry
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In 1 turn I just went warp shepherd into add pixie, bounce shepherd, into warp shepherd, add pixie, into bounce shepherd, warp shepherd, add lightstall

sleek ferry
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Eyyyy lessons are back

golden plover
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Smh the last line should be 6

subtle sierra
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holy lesson

golden plover
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Neat it is a haiku tho

subtle sierra
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is avatar standard legal?

golden plover
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Yup

subtle sierra
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i liked lessons a lot

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i think the card is trying to be a haiku with it's text

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not that i know how they look

copper pecan
hidden ermine
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Yeah but in that episode Sokka messes up and does 5-7-6

fallow citrus
zinc shard
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Omg 1 mana Swat

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Waterbend

subtle sierra
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shrines monkaGIGA

storm elbow
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I like that zukos thing is things returning from exile

subtle sierra
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oh yeah that is a good one

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also izzet artifact stuff gets sokka

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and it looks like he's pretty decent

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tersa for less mana that doesn't have haste but grows

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if he wasn't cast and was enter he'd be nuts

zinc shard
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"Learn" will not be in this set

subtle sierra
zinc shard
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there will be cards that care about "Lessons"

subtle sierra
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that sucks

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i am no longer excited

zinc shard
copper pecan
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when the

sleek ferry
zinc shard
subtle sierra
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the card is kinda crazy if you run seam rip and overlord

zinc shard
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There will be 1 card per episode of the series

subtle sierra
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if you open overlord i'd say it's even worth to just station for 3 turns and then copy overlord instead of pressuring with 6 damage

zinc shard
gritty nest
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I heard someone say they might make wish effects work in commander. I’m low key hoping not

subtle sierra
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fire lord
black

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sigh

zinc shard
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Ozai does not fit Red. He's not impulsive.

storm elbow
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Ozai is a very stereotypical black card yea

subtle sierra
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ik but muh color...

lusty trench
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Ozai should only be red when hes on the backfoot

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Like azula when truly on the backfoot he becomes very unstable

stark skiff
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firebending being only during combat is interesting

sudden lava
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Ok these mechanics are goated

sudden lava
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Strixhaven is next year tho

gritty nest
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Then why even include lesson?

sudden lava
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Flavor, certain cards also care about lesson being on the card

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The mentors and all

stark skiff
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time to figure out how to make this work

stark skiff
glad peak
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Surely there’s a 3 card combo for this for bracket 2

stark skiff
sudden lava
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Also thespian stage reprint is nearly guaranteed

stark skiff
sudden lava
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cuz well

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The Ember Island players yep

stark skiff
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here's the promo card

sudden lava
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waterbending is a goated mechanic

twilit canyon
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force of negation in timeless the format will finally be playable again

sleek ferry
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waterbending is the most boring of the new mechanics

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by far

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it's literally just convoke

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earthbending and airbending are by far the most interesting

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firebending is thematically accurate which is cool

stark skiff
stark skiff
glad peak
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Oh toph is pretty interesting

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Simultaneously anti non-land hate and also an easy way to tap things like the orbs

subtle sierra
subtle sierra
glad peak
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Oh that’s cool

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Also can’t be commander

sleek ferry
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This guy thinks people don’t rule 0 shit like this in all the time

glad peak
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Rule 0? More like skill level 0 nyaruhodo

copper pecan
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convoke is for the mana cost of the card. waterbending is for activated abilities

stark skiff
sleek ferry
copper pecan
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in what way

subtle sierra
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i don't think it's particularly boring, but it feels a little less exciting than the other 3

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for me at least

copper pecan
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it feels more exciting to me than earthbending which is just awaken again

sudden lava
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You can tap down artifacts for waterbending

sudden lava
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MSRP for the ATLA stuff

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Jumpstart is gonna cost 14 dollars per player

lusty trench
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They explain whats in a commanders bundle?

sudden lava
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they didnt explain it or show it on stream lmao

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BUT

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its in the collecting article

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@lusty trench

zinc shard
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Oh so it's just a bundle that replaces one of the regular packs with a collector

lusty trench
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Oh so they renamed gift bundles

sudden lava
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Btw Im likely going to make a Jumpstart Cube

glad peak
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Wait I just realized

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Earthbending brings back the thing

golden plover
glad peak
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So toph is also recursion if earthbending an artifact

golden plover
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Better be a damn good click wheel

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But they Phyrexia wheel sorta sucked so...

steady onyx
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also do any decks use burgeoning

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i pulled a realy nice copy i wanna uise

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but idk if its worth

lusty trench
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Pretty good in most green decks but especially low cost landfall shells

steady onyx
lusty trench
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Ye

steady onyx
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like this

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can i just chuck some in here?

glad peak
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Wait huh? [[burgeoning]]

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glad peak
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Ok so I haven’t gone insane icant

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Burgeoning isn’t standard legal

steady onyx
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really

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wasnt it printed in eoe

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oh as sg

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i see

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:(

trail anvil
glad peak
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Oh huh

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Damn

trail anvil
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I like the back side but it has to survive that many turns

fallow citrus
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this avatar set is quite funny to me

gritty nest
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Because spider man hasn’t released or?

fallow citrus
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the reception to this compared to other UB sets just confirms that like

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people just don't like UB when they aren't connected to the IP but looove UB when they are

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and not like "oh I don't like this set bc I'm not interested in it" but like opposed to UB as a concept unless it's pandering to them

gritty nest
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People are hypocrites

trail anvil
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idk like I still think the art is jarring and I love avatar, but as long as they're gonna print interesting cards I'm gonna play them

rigid scarab
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Maybe I just haven’t been given “the one” yet

glad peak
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I love spiderman but some of the art looked weird ngl

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I was mostly happy with final fantasy though

sudden lava
#

Bought a thing yep

sudden lava
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Also this may be what bats needed

subtle sierra
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Is it tho?

twilit canyon
#

this doesnt do anything for bats

rigid scarab
#

Commander player (derogatory) card evaluation

glad peak
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Hey you got to it before I did NyanGun

past socket
#

Pretty unnecessary comment either way tbh

subtle sierra
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I mean

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Like misty said, this is literally nothing bats want

glad peak
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Commander deserves it nyarusnatchy

past socket
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I didn’t have a problem with what Misty said

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Sickle just didn’t need to just be insulting to others for a format they enjoy.

subtle sierra
#

I don't see how that it insults players tbh, just that they tend to think that just slapping random synergies to cards help decks like that

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I personally find statements like "bats fly therefore this helps" stupid and calling them commander brained is fair imo

rigid scarab
#

Not telling everyone that like

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No you are stupid for wanting to put cards in a deck and not playing the most optimal color combination

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But like the imo unironic claim that Momo is going to elevate Bats because it has "Bat" in its type and does mediocre stuff with flying is just blatantly wrong?

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Well it's blatantly wrong in edh and I think just regular wrong in standard

subtle sierra
#

I think blatantly wrong in standard is fine too

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This neither heals nor damages, nor progresses their gameplay in any way besides making a single bat per turn cost 1 less

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Which isn't much

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If it wasn't opt maybe, but even then, oh no my zoraline is cheaper now

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The aggro buff is also meh since most of your spam comes from the enchant and it's after combat

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If it got counters, maybe

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Then it would actually be a very decent card

rigid scarab
#

idk ig it's a little distasteful?

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Because Summer is very vocally hyped for this set

subtle sierra
#

Ngl it didn't feel like they're that excited to me

rigid scarab
#

I looked at her messages during the set reveals

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She was bored at the Tarkir announcement

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And exploded at the ATLA reveal

subtle sierra
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That's fair then

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Just that those two messages didn't really feel like hype to me

rigid scarab
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I mean I hope me saying that "I think that's a very commander-coded way to evaluate cards" doesn't mean an attack on her person

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But

subtle sierra
#

As a mod i personally have no issue with the comment

rigid scarab
#

In your opinion as a mod

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am i gay

subtle sierra
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Idk

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You can be gay if you want to

rigid scarab
#

I can be whoever I wanna be

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Even a legacy grinder?

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(I've literally only played edh and pioneer)

tardy echo
#

Edh player (derogatory)

steady onyx
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normal edh isnt competetive enough

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so its socialy weird to me

tardy echo
#

Actually no version of that format is cool I regret to say

steady onyx
#

false

tardy echo
#

And I think edh only becomes worse when you optimize it

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As seen with certain incidents that occurred this year even

steady onyx
#

idfk what happened but my issue with edh is that there is no like good way to be playing at the same level with a want to win theg ame

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most people just wanna play and get off their cool combo

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so they rarely interact or hold interaction untill too late and games just become weird

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but thats been my experience

rigid scarab
tardy echo
#

No I definitely will be talking about the 13 hour turn

rigid scarab
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Shucks

tardy echo
#

When we’re going to yap about competitive integrity of a format I will most certainly mention how that was the pinnacle of exactly why commander was designed to be a casual game first and foremost

rigid scarab
tardy echo
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And it doesn’t help that 83.7% of cedh players are jackals (also a demonstrated facet of the 13 hour turn)

rigid scarab
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Or I guess the analogy is better set with tabletop games in general

past socket
#

Just in the pod to do silly things and have a good time

glad peak
#

I like doing silly things too

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Like thoracle consult and yapping it up with my friends

rigid scarab
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Ok ykw if Im dunking on casual Im dunking on this too

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"Lmao thoracle consult" is not a mark of superiority

tardy echo
#

You constantly talk about hating commander yet maybe it’s because the only thing you do is thoracle people

glad peak
#

Also casual players talk about how they wanna just do their thing but their thing is just thoracle consult with extra steps KEKW

atomic harness
#

My friend quit commander @glad peak @twilit canyon

Sadly not the stax killing kingmaker but the other blue guy nukgar

sleek ferry
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Such is how tcg's go

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he'll get the itch to counterspell somebody again dw

glad peak
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is he playing another format now?

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hopefully a format where counterspelling a win condition isn't taboo?

subtle sierra
#

Counter cards are fun

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(to me, countering you clearly )

atomic harness
#

Thank you Mr marang

glad peak
#

what was that?

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(me, countering your counterspell)

tardy echo
#

Spell pierce and phantom interference are fun

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3 steps ahead is cringe

twilit canyon
#

flusterstorm on the stack

atomic harness
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Fuwisty is the storm enchantment frog card any good in cedh or too expensive?

tardy echo
#

Flusterstorm your flusterstorm

glad peak
#

mindbreak trap say what

atomic harness
lusty trench
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Dress down good

atomic harness
#

Thank

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downpour probably playable in casual

rigid scarab
#

I get part of your persona is hating casual edh but sometimes it does get kinda annoying

glad peak
#

true nyaruhodo

rigid scarab
#

idk

steady onyx
copper pecan
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wouldn't be surprised if partition becomes a staple in historic

trail anvil
#

what the fuck that's busted lmao

trail anvil
#

in any real competitive format slow play gets called at the minute mark

copper pecan
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the guy who did it was a youtuber who was popular in the edh sphere and people were afraid to call him out on it

trail anvil
#

obviously you need some politicking but fucking how

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maybe now they'll be less afraid now that he's known for the infamous 13 hour turn

glad peak
#

Tbh politicking in cedh has gotten out of control

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A lot of people went to cedh to stop the whole politicking and complaining about people not dealing with the opponent’s stuff and now we’re right back to it

trail anvil
#

tournament edh is clearly a mistake for many reasons but if you're doing it at least use the damn judge though

glad peak
#

Same guy also was complaining people were going too slow and that he needed to take a flight iirc KEKW

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For a format made for bored and sleepy judges I’m surprised they didn’t strictly judge that game, should’ve been stopped a long time ago

trail anvil
#

what do you even talk about for that long

glad peak
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he was contesting every spell cast and trying to get his opponents to target something else or get someone to counter something or tell someone to waste their counterspell on each other

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while berating people if they didn't comply

copper pecan
#

did he think that people would just be fine with this?

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his reputation is in the dumpster now

glad peak
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guess he did since he did it

trail anvil
#

was it a fucking combo turn

glad peak
#

nope

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literally open gamestates multiple times

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i haven't watched the entire thing but i wouldn't be surprised if he started yelling at someone for not paying for rhystic

golden plover
# copper pecan

That feels really strong, but also another tacked on "perpetual"

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Other than the not revealing lands part (which functionally doesn't matter) there's plenty of paper versions of this effect where it just exiles

glad peak
#

So I was building for bracket 2 and realized I can’t have more than 2 banishing light variants because it’s a 2 card combo icant

golden plover
#

What

glad peak
#

Well, not literally banishing light but similar effects that can target your own thing

golden plover
#

Oh I see

trail anvil
#

wouldn't you still need infinite mana

glad peak
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Nope just enough to pay for 2 of the effects

trail anvil
#

I feel like I'm missing something

glad peak
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Hm I might be forgetting

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Or was 3 needed

trail anvil
#

if you do 3 then I guess you could do some kind of permanent etb loop, but then you need a payoff too lol

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honestly if you infinite combo with 3 banishing lights and an etb payoff then pop off queen

glad peak
#

I swear there was a 2 card combo with leonin relic warder

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Oh it’s animate dead nyaruhodo

trail anvil
#

yeah that seems a lot more intentional lol

glad peak
#

I know most people will say no but would a 2 card infinite that does nothing to the board be ok icant

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For bracket 2 at least lol

trail anvil
#

I mean what's the purpose

glad peak
#

Just an excuse to be able to put Ashaya into erinis street urchin creature combo trash pile

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Ashaya has a bunch of 3 card combos that win the game and a couple 2 card combos that just plays and bounces the same creature over and over and over again

trail anvil
#

which combos are you using

glad peak
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Bunch of the kodama ones and the woodlands analyst safekeeper one

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Dryad + nantuko + lotus cobra too

sleek ferry
#

Politicking is a part of edh, Cedh is no exception. It’s also a needed skill to be good at the game

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If you don’t have it than oh well

glad peak
#

True but a lot of people say their reasoning for moving to cedh is because they wanted to get away from that and then it came right back to it

#

Pretty funny how that turns out to be a good way to actually play the game

sleek ferry
#

It’s all table dependent anyways, there’s some tables where politicking is literally useless

copper pecan
#

if they wanted to do this in paper they wouldn't be doing it as a digital only card in the first place

#

it seems pretty clear to me that your problem with this is not that it isn't taking enough advantage of digital design space and more that you're objecting to the existence of alchemy cards at all

sudden lava
# rigid scarab She was bored at the Tarkir announcement

though I did with time eventually get into Tarkir (Even went to prerelease for it with a clan I wanted to play). Though can't the same for Spider-Man because while I have enjoyed Marvel stuff I am not big on the Spider-Man stuff.
But yeah extremely excited for Avatar.

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Like the only Spider-Man I can see me picking up at this moment is the Spider Pig for my silly Quina deck as a cheap board buff that can make a frog and food token.

copper pecan
#

very weird effect for a blue card

twilit canyon
#

yeah that lords +1/+0 that is pretty strange

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but not unprecedented

trail anvil
#

jesus christ I have literally not gotten a game on the play in this MWM

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I wouldn't mind so much if I actually found one of my 13 removal spells 😭

gritty nest
glad peak
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i don't think he was a youtuber

gritty nest
#

Regardless, fuck the dude for wasting 13 hours

glad peak
#

oh, golden sabertooth

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11 hr game

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10+ minutes per game action

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and something i forgot, at the same time a known cheater won a 10k icant

gritty nest
#

Yeah no cEDH events are cooked

glad peak
#

eh the cheater thing happens in a lot of games

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but the 10+ min one is just horrid

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speaking of, did you know mr burdencheaty is a poker player now

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(alex bertoncini, if you didn't know who i was referring to btw)

gritty nest
#

I don’t know Alex in general tbh

glad peak
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Oh he’s infamous

#

Banned in all mtg events

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As for poker, there’s a clip of him folding a hand and immediately grabbing the person next to him’s hand and play that icant

past socket
#

Just cheated constantly in ways that out of context would just look sloppy iirc

#

As much as others brought up how often his “misplays” just benefitted him consistently

glad peak
#

There’s those cheats and some that are more discrete

#

Pretty sure he created a couple methods

#

Wait wtf he won a wsop event???

lusty trench
#

takes the chair from under the winning player, immediately places it back down in front of the now fallen winning player and sits in his spot
"Wow idk how but im doing so good"

glad peak
#

Never mind he just played in a couple nyaruhodo

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Those buy ins are expensive af

#

1500 for a basic event if you don’t play the main format

gritty nest
#

Sounds ass

lusty trench
#

Iirc wsop games are more about the prestige than the take home

glad peak
#

nah, the main event is but the rest is pretty good to grind if you're a high roller

#

they're not the biggest tournament games you can play but for the average person it's the biggest tournament they can enter (there are some tournament buy ins for 1m)

#

been building bracket 3 ezuri (claw of progress) for my gf because she likes the alt art and wow there's so many 2 card infinites

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i can't put in so many cards because they randomly go infinite with the commander or something else in the deck

fallow citrus
#

mmm artifacts..

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wish mopals weren't so mf expensive

sleek ferry
#

I saw this list and was going to tag you

subtle sierra
#

God vivi is so much cancer can we ban her already

#

Fuck cauldron vivi is the problem

broken fjord
#

Vivi is a boy. Just throwing that out there.

copper pecan
#

he's just a little guy

last glen
#

something something is a girl's name

subtle sierra
broken fjord
#

Yup. There is a scene where he and Zidane piss over a cliff to bond. So, definitely a boy.

rigid scarab
#

How is that your source

trail anvil
trail anvil
broken fjord
#

That's even Zidane's explanation. A ritual between dudes.

#

9's a great game with a decent amount of silliness. Like how Vivi's adopted father is a Qu. He was raising Vivi to eat him. Very profound.

glad peak
#

You haven’t done that with your homies? nyaruhodo

trail anvil
#

Vivi:

golden plover
#

Hitting a Synth player with [[Ultima]] feels insanely good

lost widgetBOT
fallow citrus
#

my locals has a dead mtg scene

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look at the events list for a locals in the city over

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no modern, only standard and commander and pauper is on a day I can't go

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guess I'll die

glad peak
#

Washington? nukgar

golden plover
#

Hey at least y'all run pauper lol

fallow citrus
#

you could not have got that more wrong if you tried

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not even the same side of the globe

glad peak
#

Nah tho when I visit family there the only formats they play are those lmao

golden plover
#

I'm in the biggest city in my state and we don't have a single LGS doing pauper

fallow citrus
#

idk how many players it actually gets so it might like be a 4 person locals

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or they might just have it on their event list and don't run it anymore but haven't updated it

golden plover
#

My main one does standard once a week, two commander nights because of course, and a draft every other week

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There's one store that does modern in the city

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And one that did pioneer but they stopped recently

glad peak
#

I remember going to Washington for training and stopping by card kingdom

golden plover
#

I just don't get why they have two commander nights

glad peak
#

Makes a lot of money

golden plover
#

I mean, I get why

glad peak
#

People come out to it

golden plover
#

But throw a modern night in there or something

glad peak
#

Maybe they tried getting interest in modern but nah

golden plover
#

At least they're good about other games tho

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They've also got board game night on Monday, and Altered and One Piece on Wednesday

glad peak
#

Or something that happened in a store nearby (which has a huge modern scene in a store right next door)

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They offered modern at the same time as commander and commander pushed them out so no more modern at that store

golden plover
#

I think they're doing Gundam on Thursdays? But that's a bandai game so it's anyone's guess how long that'll live

fallow citrus
#

my actual locals literally just does commander rn it's awful

#

like 5 people play standard

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I wish they did pauper on another day at that other lgs because I would love to actually get to play it instead of standard

glad peak
#

Commander is awful but in laws and some coworkers only play that so NyanSip

golden plover
#

I just wish the push for 60 card formats was going better

#

Unfortunately there's not a lot of confidence in standard rn irl around here

glad peak
#

Gf’s getting into it now with an ezuri deck I’m building her and expanding past our bloomburrow battlebox

fallow citrus
#

I don't miind commander because some of my friends want to play it but I really wish I could play actual 60 card mtg

glad peak
#

There’s a big push being planned in my region for cube which is exciting

fallow citrus
#

I would play on arena but every deck needs like 30 rare wildcards

golden plover
#

According to staff, half the standard players stopped showing up at my LGS because of the format/price/and Vivi Cauldron rn

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Turns out a lot of people don't wanna spend $800 to play the only deck that can compete

glad peak
#

Funny enough, one of my friends plays standard and loves that there aren’t many players anymore because “it decreases competition and I get to win the prize”

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The prize is 70% of total buy ins KEKW

golden plover
#

A guy I sorta know at the lgs said he's doing the same thing for promos

#

Since there's less players he's guaranteed a promo usually

#

But like, surely none of those are worth $800 lol

#

Yeah the squall is only $50 lol

glad peak
#

I love it when some of the stores nearby do big promos for top 8 and the event is an 8 max draft

#

Get to have some actual fun and I get guaranteed promo

golden plover
#

He's gotta win 16 Squalls to break even on Vivi Cauldron

#

Not counting buy ins for the events lol

glad peak
#

My friend is still playing an old deck from before final fantasy and gets decent results because no one is buying the best decks

#

Would love to go spike it but there’s no incentive for me to

golden plover
#

I wanna buy into paper standard but even a weaker deck is like $400

#

And that's just too much money lol

glad peak
#

I would have to spike the event for 3 months or so to get the same payout for a decent run at Modern

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The prize pool is like 70-80% of buy ins and generally loaded for top 4-6

golden plover
#

Yeah unless I'm really into store credit I don't think I can spike for much here either

#

Outside of the bigger events, most of the prize pool is packs/store credit

#

And I'm not too attached to either

glad peak
#

When I seriously grinded modern I would hoard store credit then go to commander night to sell commander players staples with my credit for their cash

#

Some discount of course, otherwise why would they

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i miss gps

#

i should go to one again but i don't think i can get the same event volume/turnout as before

atomic harness
glad peak
#

Gonna visit an old lgs that I used to go to a lot today, theyre advertising cube night nyaruhodo

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Took a look at their discord and I only see commander conversation and how the combo in that final fantasy precon is cedh??? Yeah I really hope cube fires today icant

atomic harness
#

What ICANT

granite badge
#

My local scene has 2 commander nights right after each other(thur/fri) and then pre-release/draft for new sets and thats it

glad peak
#

I saw someone posting that the nuka cola vending machine card should be a game changer because it combos???

#

What?

granite badge
#

Used to be a tiny modern scene here but zero support lol

glad peak
#

Anyways I’m probably gonna go and if cube doesn’t fire then I’ll try to buy as many of the cards I can for ezuri and erinis

#

The chat in question KEKW

golden plover
#

God I'm so sick of Vivi but he's not getting banned until November (when they ban cauldron, not him)

#

Really cool how you can have them under RIP and counter anything they play and they'll still just use Proft's and a FOMO to beat you to death

atomic harness
#

We need to kill cauldron

golden plover
#

Cauldron isn't the issue ngl

glad peak
#

Tbh there’s another deck with Vivi that’s likely to be one of the top decks so Vivi is the play

golden plover
#

It's 100% Vivi

#

Cauldron is a fair janky card without vivi

#

Without cauldron, Vivi still has t4 random kills and is just one of the most frustrating cards to deal with

atomic harness
#

True

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How playable is ragavan as a commander @glad peak ICANT

glad peak
#

He’s… mid

atomic harness
#

Sigh

#

prolly better as a fun of in the 99

golden plover
#

Mono-Red is arguably the worst color you can be in commander

atomic harness
#

How come magda keeps winning our cedh pods NukGar

golden plover
#

Ragavan is fine in the 99, but you're crippling yourself hard to be in mono-red

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Magda is an exception and not the rule

atomic harness
#

Muck fagda

glad peak
#

So he fits almost everything you want in a commander in that you get a mana dork turn 1 every game and cheap so you turn on your deflecting swat cards but he’s only in red so he’s bad

atomic harness
#

Prolly better to just play rograkh + something right kipmud

glad peak
#

Yep, poggy roggy does the second part and you can probably make your deck consistently have turn 1 mana plays with another color

golden plover
#

There's a reason I built [[Tannuk Steadfast Second]] as a casual deck even though he's got a crazy ability

lost widgetBOT
#

Legendary Creature — Kavu Pilot
Other creatures you control have haste.
Artifact cards and red creature cards in your hand have warp mana2manar. (You may cast a card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile that permanent at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
"We're a few bones short of a skeleton crew, Sami, but we've got plenty of spine."
3/5

glad peak
#

The other tannuk is actually crazy though

golden plover
#

Yeah he is

#

This Tannuk is just way more fun

#

I got to live the dream of a t3 blightsteel the other night

#

Took a player out immediately

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T1 nox diamond, mountain, sol ring into t2 Tannuk into t3 blightsteel was funny as fuck

glad peak
#

Oh hey it’s just [[quench]]

lost widgetBOT
last glen
#

I guess the Lesson part gives you "It'll" and "Ya!" as a bonus

zinc shard
golden plover
#

[[Heartless Act]] is back. Clearly they're giving us answers to Vivi /s

lost widgetBOT
steady onyx
glad peak
#

Remember what wotc’s reasoning to not ban the one ring was icant

golden plover
#

"Guys we put heartless Act and the other one in the format. Get over it and don't worry about Vivi"

glad peak
#

Would’ve been absurd in standard 20 years ago nyaruhodo

copper pecan
#

[[jackal pup]] in shambles

lost widgetBOT
steady onyx
#

is there something I could replace the bills with for now?

#

or do u need them to get the counters rolling

golden plover
#

Bull isn't vital to the deck, but you really do want them

glad peak
#

Maybe more curiosities so you can accelerate into more gas but there’s a reason why theyre so expensive

golden plover
#

I'm not sure what you could run in the slot instead

glad peak
#

Very good bomb

steady onyx
#

hwbout 1 bill 1 more cat for now and then get the second bill later? would that be playable

glad peak
#

Sure, cat’s just good because you can get more cards this way which hopefully makes up for the loss in raw power from bill

sudden lava
sudden lava
#

Panda located

subtle sierra
#

they should have scooped earlier

#

tbf they killed the small tokens but 4 overlords

sudden lava
#

Ok so the Jasmine dragon definitely has a mono white Suki. It's her or Sokka, and all the Sokka cards so far include blue

#

Where all the Kyoshi warrior cards we've seen include white

subtle sierra
#

there's literally a mono white sokka up above

sudden lava
#

oh right shoot

#

well it's in the tutorial deck so 😅 maybe doesnt count?

#

(I just hope that isnt the only Suki Legendary we get an all)

glad peak
#

that's rough buddy

lapis viper
lapis viper
#

Also henlo Rennethy

fallow citrus
#

this is neat

glad peak
#

Nice, broodscale might be one of the only non-cantrip cards that actually saw play in every format

#

Actually don’t know for sure if it sees play in vintage but it can be very easily done

#

Compact and scales with mana and if you get it through you win the game

stark skiff
sleek ferry
#

I'm legitly just going to call anybody that thinks Vivi is the issue over cauldron bad

#

it's the only solution

golden plover
#

Cauldron without vivi won't do shit tho

#

Vivi without cauldron will continue to be a problem

#

You wanna ban Proft's too?

#

Since that's the only way to keep Vivi from being an issue without cauldron

sleek ferry
#

Go ahead and use logic as to what makes Vivi Cauldron strong

golden plover
#

I mean, obviously cauldron is the enabler

sleek ferry
#

If you think Vivi by itself is an issue, than you must have wanted Sheoldred banned also

golden plover
#

But they fucking side out cauldron in half their MUs

#

They're fine playing a slower deck with an explosive turn post-board

sleek ferry
#

you side out cauldron because your opponent's are literally forced to side in gy hate because cauldron exists lol

#

or artifact hate

golden plover
#

Cauldron going would slow down the deck a lot but it wouldn't be enough

#

There's just not enough good removal in standard rn

sleek ferry
#

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Vivi being a strong card that can win the game if it sticks

golden plover
#

It shouldn't be that on t3 tho

#

You shouldn't have to answer a card or die on 3 in standard

#

That exact philosophy is what killed Hearthfire Hero

sleek ferry
#

Cauldron's existence of invalidating removal is what makes Vivi oppressive, and you just throw in Vivi's ability on an actual body that matters

golden plover
#

So if they're consistent with their own ban philosophy, Vivi has to go

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But of course they won't be and they'll ban cauldron in November

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Or even worse they'll hit us with a "keeping an eye on the format"

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Cauldron dying would make the deck not tier 0 at least

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So I'll take it

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But Vivi dying would be the better option for standard

sleek ferry
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Banning Cauldron is the correct move. The limits to which Vivi can be taken to are capped. Cauldron has infinite potential and there's a reason why cauldron is coming up as an issue in other formats also

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meanwhile vivi is literally a tier 2-3 deck in pioneer, and shit everywhere else

golden plover
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I mean, either hit helps a lot

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I just think cauldron on its own in standard is fine

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Roots doesn't need to die for the sins of vivi lol

sleek ferry
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Cauldron existing literally limits your card design lol

golden plover
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I mean, maybe there just shouldn't be 0 mana mana abilities

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Turns out that space has consistently been a problem lol

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We literally had this exact issue last year too, wild they keep forgetting that when things cost 0 they're broken

sleek ferry
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comparing nadu to vivi is the biggest rage bait ever

golden plover
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I mean, they're not on the same page but the reason they're issues is exactly the same

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Both are cards that were over designed for commander, ignoring the format they were designed for

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And both are cards that made a format have a tier 0 deck because of it

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Obviously Nadu was way worse and way stronger

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But maybe they shouldn't overtune commander cards that aren't going straight to commander

sleek ferry
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Nadu had multiple ways to go infinite, outside of shuko and he didn't need to be enabled, he was the enabler (we'll also ignore the fact that as the format went on, nadu's rep also started falling off a cliff)

golden plover
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Gavin outright said that Vivi's original design tapped and locked you into one more spell for the turn, but they thought that wasn't fun enough for commander and that's why Vivi is the way he is

sleek ferry
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Cauldron meanwhile IS the enabler in izzet, because removing Vivi is actually better for you

golden plover
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There's definitely differences in the two cards

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But both were made a problem for the same reason: a card designed for commander being too strong elsewhere

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If Vivi had prowess and tapped he'd be fine

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But that wasn't exciting enough so he's got the counters and his thing is free

sleek ferry
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Even in your commander example, Vivi is also just mid in cedh, while nadu was literally on its way to being a top 3 commander before it got banned

golden plover
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Oh nah I'm aware Vivi is much worse in commander than Nadu

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But they didn't design him to be a cedh commander

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Gavin literally says he's as pushed as he is because they wanted him to be a popular commander

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And he's the 3rd most popular one from the main set

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They don't care about cedh power level

copper pecan
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if vivi had prowess and tapped he'd be kinda awful ngl

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either one of those nerfs would be fine but both at once would make him unplayable

golden plover
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Nah, he'd still be very strong with prowess and tapping

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Honestly, the original idea was totally fine too

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Having him only let you cast one more spell

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It'd incentivize playing big X spells or something

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But again, he lost that because they felt it wasn't interesting enough in the command zone

gritty nest
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I think they should just ban standard

trail anvil
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I feel like he'd still be a popular commander nerfed, now dude's just annoying lol

trail anvil
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I feel like I saw it in a few roots piles and that's about it

tardy echo
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Speaking of nadu I wanna try getting into modern

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But it’s a little scary eggy

sleek ferry
# trail anvil what was it doing in standard before vivi

the argument isn't whether Vivi or Cauldron is the better card. Vivi is clearly a better standalone card, but as I said, Vivi has a lower ceiling than Cauldron. Cauldron is a design mistake, that will either get banned in most formats or limit card design going forward

trail anvil
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huge fuckin disagree, cauldron on its own has been fine. I think it still still be fine but vivi is a design mistake and a half

copper pecan
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i feel like transferring activated abilities is dangerous design space to explore

sudden lava
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Got given these 2 for free from one of my opponents today

gritty nest
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Eat them

sleek ferry
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Vivi's ceiling will always be tied to the craziest cantrip they can possibly print

sudden lava
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That Lightning can go brutal with Tifa 👀

tardy echo
copper pecan
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legacy decks have weird names

tardy echo
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Can I ask why it’s called that

trail anvil
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named after cheerios, which is named after all the 0 cost cards that look like Cheerios

sudden lava
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oh yeah also told this joke (phase dolphin isnt in the deck) at locals. Tifa Martial Artist do be the phase dolphin

trail anvil
tardy echo
glad peak
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My cube deck nyaruhodo

atomic harness
glad peak
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would love to

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vivi into cantrips into snap into search into gush into cruise into will into snap into search into gush into vivi activation into into cantrips into stormscale into time walk is pretty good

subtle sierra
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me when lamp

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god adagia is soooo good

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i underrated it a lot

sleek ferry
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[[adagia]]

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subtle sierra
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oh good platinum still sides authority into control

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it's like

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the 7th time

atomic harness
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Got to pull off reanimate archon of cruelty super early today OkBuddy @fallow citrus @glad peak

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kept beating the sht out of this one guy that's been spam targeting me for weeks

fallow citrus
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god bless

atomic harness
fallow citrus
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I think because my friends are wanting to get into commander

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I'll build breya nyaruhodo

atomic harness
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Nodding

fallow citrus
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I don't want to put a lot of combos in because these are super casual players but like

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I literally cannot stop myself adding them in

sleek ferry
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I’m very much of the opinion that everybody should build their commander deck to their liking (while also being cognizant of if that deck is too strong vs certain people/pods)

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But like if I’m playing with somebody I’ve never played with before and they consult thassa’s oracle me on turn 2, I got no issue with that

atomic harness
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Wouldn't hurt to keep a few combos in though

sleek ferry
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Haul from my EOE bundle

tardy echo
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Anticausal vestige my goat

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I’m actually pleasantly surprised that the card sees play

sleek ferry
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Does it see play? Because I actually have not seen it in standard

tardy echo
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The temur deck plays it

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It’s a 4 power card that can be free and lets you do some nasty stuff

sleek ferry
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I’ve been running into a lot of Kona lately if anything

subtle sierra
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the station lands are good with it

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my friend bought like 5 stations and is making kona

steady onyx
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is this deck real?

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i like artifacts so much

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and I can use my breeding pools here

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i have a hunch its not real

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but idk it looks fun

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i know theres also the synthesizer artifact deck

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but that feels more expensive to me

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idk

sudden lava
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I just realized

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these 2 together draws 4 when Aang attacks

glad peak
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Why isn’t it 2?

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Oh I see

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Separate triggers

sleek ferry
glad peak
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Yeah looks too outdated with tiny upgrades in a format that doesn’t care much for that angle anymore

sudden lava
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You also get 4 red mana to burn during combat

zinc shard
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Yo this seems nuts

steady onyx
copper pecan
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glad they're doing more cards like this

glad peak
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I don’t really like this because I genuinely don’t like doing the whole random things entering

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Must be because of hearthstone icant

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But I do see that to fully embrace the online nature of arena you’d want to do something like this

lusty trench
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Get it up to 13 and you get a guaranteed emrakul

zinc shard
tardy echo
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Crescendum summon sparklefly gg @trail anvil

trail anvil
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you say trauma like I wasn't the one doing it

tardy echo
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Holy

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Gold card gg?

last glen
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this ain't Season 2 League

sleek ferry
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Malphite/Yasuo gg

glad peak
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The classic 2 player combo in a season 2

vivid hatch
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just bought another shiny common for $100

subtle sierra
sleek ferry
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Well, back to mythic with Rakdos Speed

fallow citrus
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bo1 or bo3?

sleek ferry
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I dip back and forth between both. Early in the day I do bo1 for questing purposes, later in the day I do bo3

fallow citrus
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ah sure

sleek ferry
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This is the deck in question

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Side is literally just strategic betrayals, intimidation tactics and ruinous rampage

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You should never lose games where you get max speed

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You’ll find in a lot of games you get board wiped, but they’re usually too low for it to matter. You have too much stuff that either has haste, or ways to give it haste

glad peak
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I actually really like firebending as a design

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Being able to give someone more mana just on the combat phase is really interesting design space, especially in a cube with archetypes revolving around that sort of thing