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[i-am-nickelbolt]

Bronze to Mythic: Khans of Tarkir, draft #3

I kinda feel like this deck is a 3-3 deck but I'm not happy about it...

Pack 1, pick 1 Zurgo Helmsmasher over Monastery Swiftspear and Debilitating Injury. I kind of agonized over this one, and I don't think it's crazy to take any of them, but I just wanted to play Zurgo and see how it goes. I think taking good 3 color cards early is okay. Pick 2 Sandsteppe Citadel, nice. Pick 3 Blossoming Sands over Feat of Resistance. Pick 4 Sultai Soothsayer over Blossoming Sands #2. I'm not married to Zurgo, and maybe the lands will work out. If I'm base Abzan, then splashing either of these is okay. And if you end up 5 color, having multiple of the same dual is not as helpful, and I already have Sandsteppe Citadel overlapping the Blossoming sands. Pick 4 Rugged Highlands over Ainok Bond-Kin. Bond-Kin suggests I'm playing white for sure, and I'm not there yet. Pick 6 Abomination of Gudul, good to pick up one of the premium morphs. Pick 7 Wind-Scarred Crag, which is making Zurgo pretty playable right now. Pick 8 Become Immense, Pick 9 Mer-Ek Nightblade, and some filler to round out the pack. I kind of like where I am, I really need some blue lands though.

Pack 2, Pick 1 Abzan Charm over Utter End. Perfect! Pick 2... Mantis Rider over Mardu Charm. Probably a mistake, but... Mantis Rider is pretty good... Pick 3 Dismal Backwater over Sultai Charm. Perfect, getting a blue land, and Sultai Charm doesn't really kill enough things to be good enough. Pick 4 Debilitating Injury over Jungle Hollow and Mardu Hordechief. Pick 5... second Mantis Rider???? Okay, here we go! Pick 6 Snowhorn Rider. Pick 7 Efreet Weaponmaster, and I picked up a Smite the Monstrous on the wheel.

Pack 3, pick 1 Rattleclaw Mystic over Sandsteppe Citadel. This fixes my mana really well. Pick 2 Arc Lightning over Savage Punch. I'm not really a great Savage Punch deck. But I got Pick 3 Savage Punch over Master of the Way, and I'm happier with one of each than 2 Punches in this deck, I think. Pick 4 Jungle Hollow over Savage Punch, Jeskai Windscout, and Warden of the Eye. I'm kind of committed to 5 colors so I need the lands. Pick 5 Winterflame over honestly about 5 other cards that would have made my deck, so I don't think I made the right pick. Pick 6 was a total brick, pick 7 Dismal Backwater, and Snowhorn Rider and Force Away wheeled.

As it ended up base Jeskai was the right place to be, but it was really hard to see how that would be the case after pack 1. I know i made some mistakes, but I felt like I had some power here if my mana worked out.

My first loss was to Abzan. They had High Sentinels of Arashin, which I was able to Smite the Monstrous, but after that I flooded pretty badly. Definitely had the chance to win if I drew something.

My second loss was to four color non-white. They dealt with my turn 3 Mantis Rider, they had a timely Icefeather Aven, and gained a bunch of life in an attack that might have been a little aggressive. They finished me off with Ashcloud Phoenix. The 8 life made a big difference.

My third loss was a heartbreaker. They were aggressive Mardu with Goblinslide, Raider's spoils, and a strange looking Rotting Mastodon that kind of brickwalled me. I was down to 2 life, and thought I had stabilized with 4 untapped creatures to their one, trying to play around removal spell plus haste creature, and yet... they had one card left, Take up Arms, which made 4 tokens with slide, leaving me exactly dead. They also misplayed early in the game, they should have Trumpetblasted before combat to get another haste-y 3/1.

These losses were all respectable, and my deck did what my deck was supposed to do. 3-3 I feel is a little disappointing, I was more expecting like 4-5 wins.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Thirsting Axe

Sometimes the weapon wields the bearer.

Artist: Bastien L. Deharme TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[looseinthecatroom]

Wish the other character was Shart or something. u_u

Astarion got Gale AND Wyll!! (╥ ω ╥)

On the plus side:

MA'AM??? 👀

[belgrax]

all stars

[jones-friend]

NEW CAPENNA BATTLE BOX

Its got everything you need for a 4 player game of EDH! Five unedited New Capenna preconstructed decks and their tokens sleeved, four Commander Anthology 2 spindown life counters, pip d6’s, and a set of dice for everything in between in a Quiver carrying case.

[knickknackgalore]

A Magic: The Gathering Card featuring Forest L-109 from the Universes Beyond: Assassin's Creed Set

[pennamepersona]

If we don't get Sorin and Nahiri perspective in MOM I'm gonna do something drastic

[mtgsmash-or-pass]

[art-the-gathering]

hushbringer

[txttletale]

thoughts on duskmourn so far

i like it :) it's not as good as bloomburrow but also i'm not sure anything is. i think duskmourn suffers from the fact that imo it is quite mechanically unclear and murky -- the problem with leaning so heavily into flavouring abilities and putting such a big focus on their fiction 'e.g. unlocking rooms' is that when something doesn't match it's really noticeable. manifest dread plays okay but the name is really clunky and awkward when 'cloak' was three sets ago, the rooms feel stretched to breaking point--some of their effects just seem so detached from their flavour and speaking of the flavour there's a lot of very dubious rooms. what the fuck is a 'weight room' or a 'mirror room'.

also and this is a comparatively minor thing but it's been driving me crazy: the 'fear of' creatures are really bad because similar to rooms i think they ran out of real fears. some of them are like 'fear of falling' 'fear of isolation' 'fear of the dark' and it's like okay. those are real fears. 'fear of missing out' makes me cringeand is also stupid, despite the word 'fear' being in FOMO it's obviously not a fear in the horror movie sense! what the fuck is a FOMO elemental going to do, go out with your friends on a night you're busy? silly. but the one that gets me the most is 'fear of burning alive'. that's not a fucking fear guys. or like it is but it's not a distinct and personal fear like 'abduction' or 'infinity' or even 'losing teeth' -- everyone's fuckling afraid of burning alive, that's normal! 'fear of fire' would have made sense but 'fear of burning alive' might as well be 'fear of being killed to death horribly'.

that said i do love the aesthetics i love the beasties and overlords especially they are all killer designs. i like introducing modern technology levels and aesthetics to mtg i think it's badass i would take a million more ostentatiously 80s themed sets over seeing one more Fucking elf on a card ever again. i am mixed on the overt references which are sometimes very fun and cute and sometimes just feel too 'rejected player one theme song' but i really love the stupid tropey stuff that plays with the tropes and aesthetics without just being a specific movie, lke 'meathook massacre 2'. i like the level of commitment and the number of cards that feel like cheesy stupid horror movie monsters. i l;ove the card art gimmick where some printings have a Scary Getter. like it just commits hard enough to the dumb genre shit to sell it to me

anyway overall it's a good set and leaps ahead of the fucking awful OTJ and MKM but it's still a step down from bloomburrow. oh bloomburrow my beloved

[pozartaa]

12.04.24 UTRZYMANIE WAG1 dzień 407 ważenie.

Limit +/-2100 kcal.

Wybrane posiłki:

Hejka dzisiejszy post tworzyłam sobie cały dzień po trochu.

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Oczywiście rano stanęłam na w@dze tak jak obiecałam (było około 4:30). Ważenie bez kupki - bo gdzież tu robić kupkę o takiej dzikiej godzinie? Jestem zadowolona z wyniku. Odnotowuję wzrost wag1 o ciężar (0.85 L) jednej butelki coca coli. BMI 18.8. Myślałam, że będzie gorzej i cieszę się, że mam to z głowy na następne dwa tygodnie 😮‍💨

Waga sprzed dwóch tygodni i dziś (177cm)

(Aktualizacja w poście przypiętym i opisie bloga) następne ważenie za dwa tygodnie.

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Ogólnie dzień był słaby. Dwie osoby na piątek to za mało i przysięgam nogi mi w dupsko wlazły.

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Sprawa wygląda tak, że wróciłam do domu, zjadłam kolację i zaraz idę spać bo jutro powtórka z rozrywki. Moje posiłki jadłam dziś z doskoku. I tak cud, że się większość udało zjeść. Jutro jeszcze przetrzymać i zacznie się trochę luzu od niedzieli.

Przepraszam, jeśli na coś nie odpowiedzia��am albo nic nie napisałam pod Waszymi postami po prostu dzień wyssał ze mnie energię.

Ale na pocieszenie w domu mamy trochę sprzedane spod lady boostery do najnowszego dodatku MTG. Zabawa na wieczór 36 boosterów po 14 całkiem nowych kart. Jaram się.

Jutro napisze czy ten wydatek nam się opłacił. Czasami 3-4 karty potrafią zwrócić cenę całego takiego pudełka... A to nie są tanie rzeczy 😬.

Dobrej nocy wam życzę.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

MTG or YGO?

Long post? Long post!

Are you asking what I prefer? YGO. Are you asking what I think is better? That is wholly dependent on what a person wants out of a card game.

YGO's biggest barrier to entry is the fact that the cards are written in their own form of legalese. I mean this very literally, too. They use "Problem-solving card text" where it makes use of deliberately placed adverbs in effect descriptions to dictate moment to moment interactions. It is almost like learning a new language, and has been compared to learning how to read through legal documents. It becomes comprehensive once you wrap your head around it, and is the reason you can do some properly crazy/funny shit in the game, but wrapping your head around it and understanding what new cards do is a whole thing. Having someone who's played YGO before teach you how to play the game is basically the most reliable way to learn it. It's genuinely a problem.

MTG is, comparatively, much easier to learn. Very low floor of entry, and sequenced in such a way that you can understand basically how the entire game works in a few hours. MTG's complexity 100% exceeds YGO's at the uppermost levels, but the way game comprehension builds on itself is much cleaner, so it feels less obtuse overall.

MTG is mechanically more casual friendly. The current MTG darling format, Commander, is basically a 2ish hour social game where four people engage in a free for all that hinges partially on social politicking. It's typically chill. You also have a lot of assorted 1v1 formats and such. There is likely a "way to play" that will resonate with you, and the games tend to be slowish.

YGO doesn't really have multiple formats in a meaningful way. You can absolutely do group stuff and set informal rules, but the game ultimately hinges on 1v1s. With the frontal complexity of card text, these can and will feel very lopsided and frustrating until you understand what's going on. Once you do know, it's super cool, but getting to that point can feel like a chore. The games are also typically quite fast (maybe 3-6 long turns) and very dense with card interactions and timings. I enjoy it for the way it makes me strategise (or not), but it's definitely a preference thing.

Cost is something where YGO absolutely curb stomps. I can get a whole deck of picked out cards, plus a suite of "staple" (eternally meta relevant) cards, with lots of cool foiled versions and stuff, for like 50-70 bucks USD. You are NOT doing that with MTG. MTG is a stupidly fucking expensive game, where reprints of important cards are rare to encourage market speculation (I am not kidding) and finance bros have an ACTUAL PLACE in the community. There is a reason that casual MTG encourages proxy use. It's fucked. Also, as an aside, MTG's shiny/foil cards are dogshit. Same-y and super prone to curling. YGO foils are extremely good and pretty.

Cost feeds into another issue; set rotation. You can argue merit in both directions with this one, but for the average person with average money to spend, MTG takes another L here. MTG has set rotation. Basically, in the standard 1v1 format, cards that have been out more than 3 years will no longer be playable in that format, and you have to get the new cards. A lot of the alternate 1v1 formats in MTG actually just boil down to "1v1s but you can use cards as far back as X" because... people want to use their cards they bought. YGO doesn't have this. It instead has a banlist, updated every couple of months, that aims to curb problematic card interactions. Ultimately, though, if you buy a thing and like the thing, you can basically always use the thing. (MTG, as an aside, also has banlists for its formats, but it's in addition to the rotation stuff. The fact so many formats are there to ignore X years of rotations is also kinda telling, imo.)

Art direction and flavour are a personal thing. I like both, though I think that YGO's reputation for archetypal/thematic variation and card art quality are well-earned. That'd be wholly up to your preferences.

So yeah, I have a fondness for both games, but I ultimately prefer YGO because I like doing unhinged bullshit in it, I like the art a whole lot, and I like that all my cards are affordable and retain usability in a typical play environment.

[yourpalcthulhu]

MTG Bloomburrow Class Packs I made. Meant to bolster certain creature archetypes. Hand-selected a quote for each l. ^_^

[wellgoslowly]

I love thinking abt l&co doing semi mundane shit bc they're always gonna make it chaotic. for example:

- l&co learning how to drive

- l&co doing their shopping (they always end up w 10 different items they definitely don't need and an uneaten bag of carrots bc george likes to snack on them but only when the mood strikes him which is once every other month)

- l&co game night (lucy and lockwood make the wrong decision to choose monopoly and george absolutely fucking kills them. like there wasn't even a fighting chance. he also tries to teach them to play mtg and goes insane bc he doesn't know if lockwood is legitimately not understanding the rules or if he's just not following the rules to fuck w him)

- l&co trying to deal w a pipe bursting (george is screaming, lockwood is trying to patch it up w duct tape and sheer force of will and lucy is calling barnes- this is also happening at 3am)

etc etc. they're just so silly to me

[cultofthewyrm]

Anrakyr the Traveller, MTG X 40k by L J Koh

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Big L for MTG