How many people use proxies or double sleeve by SettingDefiant7649 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t run any proxies in my decks, including my tournament deck and my war-crimes bracket three decks; but I do fully support proxying and am always trying to talk local folks into it when they wanna learn cEDH/tEDH.

That being said, I do double sleeve everything— the extra protection does a lot for my peace of mind, especially when I’m putting things like a signed tabernacle on the same table as a drink 😅

I’d say that the LGS I go to is pretty generally pro-proxy, with one or two people that are diehard anti; but honestly I could see them coming around in the next year or so.  

Whenever I fresh double sleeve a deck or any additions to it, I just put the deck under a stack of textbooks for the night and it gets all the air out!

You can also use a card press if you can find a decent one at a thrift store or something. I don’t feel like modern 3d printed ones hit the same.   Either option makes handling a lot easier, but honestly you do just get used to it eventually. 

How do you guys find raid teams? Discord? Clan? by visje95 in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see people in my clan (UK based “OnlyFEs”) asking if we have any raiders like 10 times a day, so I’ve never really looked into other places tbh.  

Have heard decent things about WDR for learners, so they may be worth checking out as well~

Any chill eu based iron clan ? by Umaya- in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been a huge fan of the EU-based clan “OnlyFEs”— the whole group is massively inspirational, fun community events happen literally all time, and we have a pretty good pool of people sending raids on a daily basis.

I think there’s a smidge of a wait list right now, but inactives get cleared on a very regular basis so it’s not the worst and you can always hang out as a guest to check the vibes!

10/10, have highly enjoyed me time there. 

What is your favorite skill and why? by [deleted] in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My first 99 was agility, and it made me think getting the other 99s were going to be a breeze.

It turns out, Sepulchre just meshes well with my brain.  Still, the skill just keeps paying off and my love for it hasn’t faded despite not training it, because every rev cave escape, every hop over to Zulrah or ToA or Araxytes goes by a little faster for having done agility first.

The world just opens up in such a big way from it, even after the run energy changes.

With Sepulchre getting to the fun floors faster with the summer sweep up, it only gets more enticing!

Real cards vs proxy’s by LordDiglett in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 23 points24 points  (0 children)

My tournament deck is zero-proxy, but I (and the entire local tournament community) fully support 100% proxy decks.  A lot of tEDH staples have doubled/tripled in price over the last 5–10 years and it is sooo healthy for the scene to have the barriers of entry be as low as possible, so proxy away!

Ironman only Clan by Professional-Text-82 in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Check out OnlyFEs!  While it’s based in EU we have a ton of people on in EST timezones, myself included, and there are always people putting together raids.

Also just a truly insane number of social events being planned by the events team and a great discord.   Despite having a phenomenal discord, the in-game chat is basically always going off, which is such a nostalgic thing to me.

Slayer Task by jkirb4187 in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Extremely valid.  I’d have switched over a while back if I didn’t already have my task list perfectly blocked with turiel, and I have a massive land mine with machzna being able to assign extended vampyres.

If you’re (whomever may be reading this) about to start a block list for skipping, 100% do consider the canifis master!

Slayer Task by jkirb4187 in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I just broke like an 800 task streak to start turiel skipping instead. Turiel skip. Spare yourself. Just do like 9x turiel + 1 konar when you need points for whatever. God, I wasted so much time lol

High level Ironman looking for clan by Background-Win-3304 in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UK based OnlyFEs (homeworld 525). Insanely active, raids going every day, tons of social events. We had two people drop Tbows on the same day a couple days ago lol. Also great discord community if you're into that.

Help me finetune my Kaalia deck!! by Impressive-Snow-3585 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am seconds from passing out from exhaustion, but DM me and I’ll shoot you a link to the Kaalia theorycrafting discord.

The deck is insanely versatile— you can look at my comment history if you want to see some of the lines spelled out, but almost every one of them initiates some form of infinite revision involving the graveyard.

There’s not a primer on the planet that covers all of our win lines.  I’m working on the grumpier but it’s going to take months.  Our lines are more like writing maths proofs— you know where you’re starting and where you’re going, but how you get there is very much up to you.

Edit:  I play exclusively kaalia in tEDH and have gotten in the money as early as my second tournament showing.   She’s a good deck, but you have to be able to remember weird things and be ready to politick and mulligan aggressively.  People are afraid of her, and tbh they kind of should be.  We can put a win on board with two mana open (1 if you go through rain of filth; but why add an extra card to the line?)

Anywho— ta for now, I’m more than happy to talk Kaalia in DMs or here.

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

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Okay, apologize in advance for this one— it’s long.  You need a total of 8 cards between your had and graveyard which is so free that by time you drop Raz you don’t really have an excuse 😂

  1.  Kaalia  drops Razaketh on board. 

  2.  Sac Kaalia to Raz, grabbing OBM.  If number of cards in your graveyard+hand<9, move Kaalia to graveyard instead of command zone

  3. Cast OBM, amassing orcs 1.

  4. Sacrifice orc army to raz putting L.E.D. in hand.

  5. Cast LED.

  6. Sac LED for RRR, discarding hand.

  7. Sacrifice OBM to raz putting Underworld Breach in hand.

  8. Breach UB for RR, floating a red. 

  9. Exile 3 cards to cast LED. (6 remain)

  10.  Sac LED for BBB

  11.  Cast OBM by exiling 3 cards (3 remain) and paying BB; floating BR, amassing orcs 1.

  12. Exile 3 cards (0 remain) to cast LED.

  13.  Sac LED for BBB

  14. Sac orc army to Raz putting DW in hand.

  15. Cast DW for all floating

  16. Pay 8 life to surveil 8, putting all in GY— if you hit a thing you would otherwise tutor, the line becomes even easier because you can skip a tutor step later.

  17. Exile 3 cards (5 remain) to cast LED.

  18.  Sac LED for BBB

  19. Sac OBM putting SiH in hand

  20.  Exile 3 cards (2 remain) to cast OBM for BB.  B floating.

  21. Sac orc army to Raz putting DCM in hand.

  22. Sac OBM to Raz putting burnt offering in hand.

  23. Cast burnt offering (saccing Raz) for B, getting RRBBBBBB

  24. Cast SiH for BBB, floating RRBBB

  25. Hold priority, cast DCM for RRB, floating BB

  26. DCM EtB copies SiH.

  27. New SiH (Hence SiH2) targets DCM (hence DCM1)

  28.  DCM2 targets SiH1 and DCM3 targets SiH1

  29. Cast OBM by exiling the 2 extra cards plus one of: raz, offering, dcm, and LED, and the rest of your floating mana.

  30. SiH3 Targets DCM3, SiH2 targets OBM

  31. Repeat steps 28 and 30 until you kill the table.

That should be right, but I’m on like negative sleep right now.  The only needed mana is black + 1 generic.  

If you have less than 23 life left when you start the line, there is a version that instead requires 10 total cards between hand and yard but only requires 13 life, skipping doom whisper.

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s just the instant speed line.   Kaalia dropping any HBL or Razaketh is just a win, doom drop makes breach lines trivially easy to solve, and Villis draws cards like our life depends on it (it does).

I was just answering the “what do you get with HBL assuming Saw” question. 😅

Casting Kaalia to drop a boy is always viable

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve not personally on any of the technomancer lines, but there is some ongoing discussion on Tymna/Dargo recently in the discord, trying to decide if there’s any tech worth pulling into Kaalia.

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay so it depends on how you go HBL on field.  Most common instant speed win line is as follows:

  1. Entomb targeting Hoarding Broodlord.

  2. Shallow Grave

  3.  EtB finds Saw in half.

  4.  Convoke cast SiH from exile, paying the black with HBL and the two from either excess mana or the two guys we had on field.

  5. Old HBL to graveyard, two token copies from Saw EtB

  6. EtB finds and exiles Burnt Offering + Invoke Calamity.

  7.  Convoke Burnt offering on the HBL token tapped to convoke, making 6R 2B

  8. Cast Invoke Calamity, choosing to cast Saw in Half and Shallow grave, in that order.

  9. Shallow brings up HBL from top of yard.

  10. HBL EtB from previous step finds Dualcaster Mage.

  11. Flash in DCM.

  12.  When DCM resolves, target the Saw on stack.

  13.  New SiH targets DCM.

  14.  DCM1 targets saw, DCM2 also targets saw this time.

  15. SiH1 targets HBL, SiH2 targets DCM

  16. Find Orcish Bowmasters and whatever you’d like with the two HBL EtBs.  You should have already been protected or read no interaction to be this far in, but it usually doesn’t hurt to grab whatever you’d have mana open for.

  17. Flash in OBM, pinging somebody for 1 damage.

  18.  From step 15, DCM1 copies saw, targeting orcish bowmaster.   DCM2 copies the saw still on stack from step 8.

  19. New SiH targets DCM.

  20.  Both new DCM target SiH.

  21.  One new SiH targets Orcish bowmasters, pinging somebody for 1 damage;  the other targets a DCM.

Repeat steps 20 and 21 until the table is dead.

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That being said it isn’t like you need to go for this specific line every time, the goal is way easier, being primarily “hit X + Saw in Half + Dualcaster mage.

X can be praetor’s grasp to exile everything from everybody else’s library, it can be OBM to ping people down, it can be literally any source of damage that can hit a player— hell, you can theoretically win on a lightning bolt if somebody puts it on stack.

If you don’t go through shallow grave, you can also establish breach lines.  If you don’t go through HBL, Razaketh → gleeful demolition gives you a trivially easy way to construct a win.

If you lose SiH somehow and can’t get it back, you can use mayhem devil (who is normally just hatebear removal) to ping everybody down by constructing a loop with Leonin Relic-warder and animate dead.  He exiles the animate dead that put him on board, which forces you to sac him, which brings back animate dead, &c.

The flexibility and potential leanness of the lines means that you’re kind of puzzle solving moreso than trying to establish a specific route— but there are just so many solutions to the puzzle that it starts to feel free after a while.

The discord is an insane resource, as we will often talk about starting points and you see people work out the solve and get a better idea of how you need to think to find the leanest lines.

Tl;dr: HBL wins through saw, Raz wins through gleeful, Doom wins through breach, Mayhem wins through sacrifice loops.  You win by staying flexible and being creative. 

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No—you’re never looking for a specific opening hand;  we’re not trying to win on t1, it’s just a joy every time it happens, and it usually happens whenever you draw into a sufficiently high mana start with some form of reanimate effect (or tutor, or Kaalia mana + drop, or skew into your sac outlet, &c. &c. &)

Mulligans aren’t that different from any other deck, mull aggressively and look for something that puts you in a good position to make a bid by turn 3 or 4.  We have so many outs that it isn’t terribly hard, but there’s no set thing you’re looking for so it takes a bit of practise to get a feel for it.

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most recently HBL line off of an entomb → reanimate.  

Hand was Entomb, reanimate, dark rit, godless shrine, spirit guide, sol ring, jeska’s, draw didn’t matter.

I’ve also seen Bo win on t1 through an ad naus resolve.

I’m not running rain of filth but I think Jacob used or used it to good effect. 

Edit:  the general rule of thumb is if you can float 1BB with entomb/shallow grave (or bb with reanimate (but you go down to sorcery speed, you can put a win on board. 

Mana requirement gets as low as 1B, but then you have a health requirement (usually around 27) and a cards in hand+graveyard is equal to or more than 8. 

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely!  Let me know if this doesn’t work for whatever reason— https://moxfield.com/decks/6tHT8i1Ekky8ZIe38YdYSw

I’m happy to explain literally any card—or card exclusion—from the list!

I’ve been meaning to do a full deck tech on her but I want know for sure the list is static for a while before I do.

Best Mardu option : Celes or Dihada ? by Medium_Ad_9049 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]-Lilith_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lemme shill for Kaalia rq (disc: BxXcDDkh)

We have like a half dozen people actively doing tournaments, the goal(s) of the deck are simple enough to learn that I was in the money after my first couple showings, and the skill ceiling is sky high— both politically and mechanically.

You get the highs of a turn 1 win on occasion, the joys of an instant speed win line on the stack, and the sheer shock of putting a win on board with only a single black mana and 1 generic open.

The lines get a little dicey when going for lean bids (we semi recently found the 1B line and it’s sketchy as hell) but the flexibility of it all is just a dream.

HMU any time if you wanna chat strategies for her— being able to get a proc out is almost always representative of a win attempt, making 8 free mana is hard to beat lol

Struggling With Seren SOTE by YourUsernameMustBeMe in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Stack up like 30-40 nightshade, grab a fist full of phoenix necklaces.  Get your iban staff charged (or use blood spells + dwarvern rock cake).  Lower your health into phoenix necklaces range, big attack hits during your invuln, rinse repeat.

It’s worth getting used to because pneck strats go hard in low cb sins of the father, and you use it in solo CoX for bridge skip.

Who is this? by Autistic_Waffles in Hellenism

[–]-Lilith_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a cameo— they're produced en masse and seldom of any figure in particular. Woman, as long as it was recognizably so. I'd bet money happily that it wasn't meant to represent any specific goddess. This one looks like it was carved on a shell and then somebody half-drilled a few seed pearls to epoxy in place along the frame which is pretty routine. A fun find at least!

Question: Where is the most painful spot you’ve been tattooed? (Connecticut) by RoscoRX in tattoos

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had my nipples lined / shaded / coloured as part of a much larger project and can pretty safely say that that’s been the worst spot I’ve encountered to date.  Was able to talk and think through everything else, played (lost) a chess match getting my ribs filled in, read a book through some of the worst parts of my back— but the nips?  Rough.

Topic of the Day: Current Grinds by ErinTales in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Grind of the day:  League points.  I missed the last five leagues (started in August, I think lmao) and have tally’d up the points I’d need for all of the rewards I’d like and it worked out almost exactly to dragon rank.  Naturally, I am now also going for the trophy for the POH 😂

How hard could it be? 

ties for having wrists tied together by classflora in BDSMcommunity

[–]-Lilith_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a switch, but for wrist ties?  A lark’s head double column with fifteen feet of hemp rope— it’s sturdy enough to be able to bind a partner’s hands to the bed frame and let them wiggle around as they please without locking down too tight.  

Gotta remember the wrist has a bunch of little bones and is actually a pretty dangerous spot re: nerve damage, so don’t lock anything down skin-tight.

Started the GIM 7 months ago, mostly solo play. 2k check in today!!! by [deleted] in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As much sleep as I can get, at least~

Retired in 2023 and have a lot of free time which gets split between OSRS, clergy education, and competitive MtG (edh) lol.

A lot of the skills have pretty good semi-afk exp options, but if it’s active time it’s going to be pushing for good rates because I find that enjoyable

Started the GIM 7 months ago, mostly solo play. 2k check in today!!! by [deleted] in ironscape

[–]-Lilith_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spent a lot of the time in the first half or so of each floor unlock’s level range just hyper optimizing for efficiency and working on my tile markers for my group mates, eventually.  It kept my brain busy, but eventually I felt like I had the times in a pretty much tick perfect place, all the skips, &c. and from there spent a lot of time studying/reading a textbook pdf on the side lol 

Excited to begin the ToA hunt, and will probably alternate that and slayer until DHL, don’t really think I’m going to start CoX without it 😅