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by materpillar
3 days ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Aether Rift [scd]
Replies: 11
Views: 246

Re: Aether Rift [scd]

This card reads "At the beginning of your upkeep discard a card at random" and then a bunch more text that doesn't matter. If for some reason thats a card your deck wants than this is ok. The rest of the text is basically ignorable, it'll never put a relevant creature into play. Throwing 5...
by materpillar
4 days ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7774
Views: 497585

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I'm visiting Japan for just under two weeks. Checking it off my wife's bucket-list. I'm only a day in but it's really cool so far. Going to hang out in Tokyo until next week and then Osaka the next week. Hoping to see some Cherry Blossoms today. Magic the Gathering going to be fairly sidelined for ...
by materpillar
6 days ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7774
Views: 497585

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I'm visiting Japan for just under two weeks. Checking it off my wife's bucket-list. I'm only a day in but it's really cool so far. Going to hang out in Tokyo until next week and then Osaka the next week. Hoping to see some Cherry Blossoms today. Magic the Gathering going to be fairly sidelined for me.
by materpillar
1 week ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

I built @materpillar's Yurlok deck and will try it out tonight. I'll be doing silent politics for the sake of simplicity, and a clean test case, I think. Was missing 4 cards but I think most of them are easily replaced. Wooded Ridgeline → Commercial District Terrifying Presence → basically any fog....
by materpillar
2 weeks ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Leonin Shikari
Replies: 16689
Views: 1046283

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Plague Engineer

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. How many 1/1s do you run into? Seems like an extremely niche hate ...
by materpillar
3 weeks ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Leonin Shikari
Replies: 16689
Views: 1046283

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

It's a cool land. I wouldn't run it for no particular reason. I'm very happy with it in my group hug deck.
by materpillar
4 weeks ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

1) You haven't played in my meta. Some of Jon's decks are objectively pretty strong. We've had games that he wins by turn 5. But when we play with Dayne (luckily a rarity), some of his decks couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag, and he's an even worse player than he is deckbuilder. It's real...
by materpillar
4 weeks ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Leonin Shikari
Replies: 16689
Views: 1046283

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Capricious Efreet

3drinks wrote:
4 weeks ago
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024; Capricious Efreet

This card is so cool! But power creep be creeping. Although, it might have always been a bit slow now that I think about it.
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

materpillar has said that he's only had success in lower-powered metas. Essence of Antiquity etc and currently holds a ~70% winrate. I think the main takeaway here is that you can kill the table in a lower-powered meta with a butter knife. Unless you think I'm going to be hitting 80% I'm not sure w...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

lots of well written stuff that I read I read all the stuff, but I'm going to trim to a handful of responses that I'm most interested in. Stuff like the Ruhan of the Fomori discussion is interesting but I have finite time and that's spinning wildly away from relevant to the original thread. I think...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
Replies: 9398
Views: 638810

Re: Unreleased and New Card Discussion

Can I make a suggestion? Don't think of them as spoilers, think of them as marketing. They're irrelevant for 3-6 months so there's no real point thinking about them from a gameplay perspective, so treat them as a press release that happens to be a pretty picture and move on. I've personally found r...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Leonin Shikari
Replies: 16689
Views: 1046283

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Cloudstone Curio

Oh hey one of those cards that essentially tell the table exactly what you are planning to do and that by casting this card you have forfeited your right to complain when we kill you. This sums up my opinion perfectly. Idk, I used it pretty fairly in Kaalia, Zenith Seeker . Did what it said on the ...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
Replies: 9398
Views: 638810

Re: Unreleased and New Card Discussion

I've never been so underwhelmed by spoilers before in my life. Not because the cards are bad, but like... three sets at once? I don't have emotional energy to get excited by these cards. Spoilers from Fallout literally just ended. I didn't even have a full 24 hours to try to digest those cards.
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

Yes, typically mechanical incentives are the biggest factor in terms of how people build/play it. But not always. A good example would be Ruhan of the Fomori who we were talking about earlier. People usually play him as Giant tribal even though his support for that archetype is very low. ... What i...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Leonin Shikari
Replies: 16689
Views: 1046283

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Counterspell

Counterspell s are the best removal in the format solving usually unsolvable all problem like Expropriate , Craterhoof Behemoth , Torment of Hailfire or Thassa's Oracle . If you're running blue you should be running at least a couple. Someone else is trying to win the game, Counterspell has got you...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Decklists
Topic: 30+ Creature Type Changeling Tribal
Replies: 454
Views: 84053

Re: 30+ Creature Type Changeling Tribal

I just played a 5 turn game (admittedly there was a group hug deck powering everyone through the roof). On turn 5, I tried to lethal the table by copying Nyxbloom Ancient with Shapesharer which triggered a massive stack war where I was on the receiving end of Path to Exile , Beast Within , and Boltb...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Brainstorming: Winning with Grouphug
Replies: 7
Views: 208

Re: Brainstorming: Winning with Grouphug

I think group hug being defined as most of your actions granting your opponents resources is accurate/agreed upon. Saying that FF isn't group hug because it's mill both ignores what the card does, and how you get there. Sure, it isn't a mill card per say it just feels like a mill card to me. In pra...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Leonin Shikari
Replies: 16689
Views: 1046283

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Body Snatcher

I don't think I've ever seen this card... That's rare.

Seems like it has niche broken uses but otherwise just jam Reanimate.
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7774
Views: 497585

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

DirkGently benjameenbear Weeee Blue Eye Spoilers! I found this show to be extremely ok. There was a few high points and amongst a marsh of just a lot of kinda predictable blandness. Part of this is because I went in with very high expectations because I'd only heard great things about it and it jus...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Brainstorming: Winning with Grouphug
Replies: 7
Views: 208

Re: Brainstorming: Winning with Grouphug

@materpillar's Yurlok of Scorch Thrash deck is a little bit closer, the idea is to feed everyone cards so that everyone has a bunch of resources, and no one can run away with the game, until it casts Insurrection and "takes back" all the cards it has been giving away. The idea here seems ...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

I think we can look at what the card mechanically incentivizes as a separate question from how people tend to play it. Not to dismiss either question, they're both relevant. But I don't think Phelddagrif mechanically incentivizes group hug, even if people do often play him that way. I'm a little un...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: SCD: Humble Defector
Replies: 56
Views: 991

Re: SCD: Humble Defector

2) It incentivizes bad deals 4) Deals are done for frivolous and arbitrary reasons I think those are my main reasons for hating it. But I welcome further insight into why the card does, or doesn't, suck. Humble Defector is great and is far from sucking. Let's start off with points 2&4. Phelddag...
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: How frequently do you crack packs?
Replies: 32
Views: 498

Re: How frequently do you crack packs?

My friends bought me a fat pack for my bachelor party a couple of years ago.

If I crack packs it's for a pack war where one person keeps both packs. If I'm gambling I'm gambling. None of this wishwashy might get value garbage.
by materpillar
1 month ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7774
Views: 497585

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Not saying that singles are cheap but you know exactly what its going to cost for a project or improvement. I used to be on the singles train when I could pick up a pile of EDH goodies for $1-3 each or so. If I want to pick up 4 cards for $12 each I'll just print them out and buy an entire new boar...

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