I'm really hoping there's no strong payoff for crimes in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, considering how apparently our whole incentive engine is criminal under multiversal law. Wouldn't want people assuming we're up to no good

This card is solid for sweeping up little goons, but trying to pick apart a decently sized boardstate with this thing will hurt pretty bad. It has its niche, but I wouldn't autoinclude it unless I had a decent idea of what I was up against consistently. It certainly kicked Raffine's ass though. 1 ca...

So,due to budget issues that would have happened with owning a car, I got a scooter/moped https://www.enworld.org/attachments/img_20240313_120853-jpg.351476/ Make sure you wear your helmet, a jacket, and some thick pants. I crashed one of those when I was 16 and the extent of the road rash was brut...

I kinda want to play an aggro deck. A true low curve smash face kind of deck. Any suggestions? I was thinking of Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon . I want to play dudes and hit face Isshin, Two Heavens as One would be my choice. Nice low cost, three solid colors, technically overstatted, and comes which...

@Dunadain this seems relevant to your recent musings.

I have been giving some serious thought to turning my Breena deck into Raffine; too much winning on the stack goes on in my meta lately, so having outs to that is becoming important :( Not being able to counter an Expropriate is just backbreaking for a slow grow deck. With that in mind I had a ques...

Friday, March 8th, 2024; Plague Engineer|h1r Plague Engineer|h1r I love having an engineered plague|ulg I can bring back with dread return tbh. But I guess I play a different style of commander than the majority on the forum though. I really like this card, but it's definitely a meta call. The floo...

What do you think of Wave Goodbye? It's a decent enough wipe that dodges your general.

Jesus Christ, I make too much money to consider quitting, but sometimes I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE my job.

Don't forget Phyrexian Plaguelord! The card is a classic and still kills little %$#% with extreme prejudice.

I think 40 is the right number of lands. With a 8 drop in the CZ, every bit of mana counts. When I was playing Maelstrom Wanderer I was playing forty lands and like 30% of the nonlands in that deck were pure ramp. Counting to 8 isn't enough, you gotta be also able to hit 10 and 12 just in case.

The lack of love for Airplane! is baffling me. While some of the jokes are of their time, that movie never fails to make me laugh. Surely I shouldn't have to defend Airplane! It's a classic! I also adore that movie, but there's no accounting for taste. Admittedly a bunch of the jokes have aged like...

DirkGently I think a major throughline on this forum has been the community learning how to interact with each other. I think at least part of the reason you're so well regarded as a debater here is that most people don't know how to properly interact with the wide frontal assault of arguments you ...

Boros_Blendo I forgot about Spellbreaker Behemoth , that card is truly sick. Hulking Raptor is also insane and I must have missed it in all the spoilers. Both worthy includes for sure. As for rocks vs lands, I have just found that the momentary tempo gain from early rocks hasn't outwieghed the valu...

TheGildedGoose wrote: ↑

3 months ago

Pretty weak condescension in that one. Imma give it a C+.

I'd grade B+, but still progress.

My god, Dunadain, you may have finally done it. Dirk can argue over speculation all day, but you went and hit him with a proof of concept. Is this the Raid Boss's true weakness? Are you the foretold hero who will unseat the Dirk Supremacy paradigm?

We shall see.

First and most importantly, mad respect for the Woolly Thoctar inclusion. That is the right level of jank. Second, I have some suggestions that might improve your consistency: I'd cut fellwar stone, commander sphere, everflowing chalice, and the three hydras. The rocks are worse than lands more ofte...

For me it's less about the jank and more about the strategy. Some strategies require some really niche-ass jank, the kind of cardboard that you buy to play in one deck and likely never again afterwards. Other strategies have little room for fluff without unbalancing the gameplan. For example, I am i...

Somebody was moaning about having to mull 4 times in a game. Here is a direct quote: "Ug, I run 34 lands, how can I only draw 2 landers?" Dude, your EV is 2.4 lands in a starting hand, the odds of you drawing a 2 lander 3 times in a row is ~10% XD run more lands folks. As I've played long...

It's like lotto tickets imho. Sometimes I have the money to blow and the desire to gamble, but other times I really don't care. I think it depends on the set for me at least. The more valuable rare-slot lands, the more likely I will be to gamble gamble. I bought a good chunk of Capenna for that reas...

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024; Fulminator Mage Fulminator Mage I like a wasteland I can get back with Sun Tits that can also pick up a blade tbh. Oh I love this card. It was a powerhouse in Standard against 5c control decks and even in EDH I don't think the rate is terrible. It is a bit niche due to...

Just to chip in, I define Voltron as "defeating your opponents with commander damage". I do believe the term comes from what DirkGently describes, that cartoon where smaller robots make a bigger robot, but to me it still comes down to eliminating opponents with commander damage. I underst...

Not really a point for debate, but I am curious in light of the recent conversation about whether or not Dirk considers his Phelddagrif list Voltron. Certainly, there's no suiting up, but it does structurally rely on the same model of attacking with your commander until everyone is dead. Controltro...

Thursday, February 8th, 2024; Cliffside Rescuer Cliffside Rescuer Build-Your-Own True-Name Nemesis wasn't something I knew I could have but here we are. And it's in the right colours, even. Huh. I used to play this in Raffine, where it served as t2 body and an out for neutralizing removal like Song...

duducrash wrote: ↑

4 months ago

but every card is playable if we look hard enough

Ah the inverted @Dunadain method of evaluating cardboard. Rare, but always nice to see