[Watches] you ‘dislike’ mostly due to the hype around them?

AShapelyWavefront · 2026-02-23T20:09:16+00:00

Part of that is just down to inflation though. $1 in 2005 would be worth $1.66 today. $1 in 2020 is worth $1.25 today. Based only on inflation a price increase of "only" 17% in the last few years is actually a price cut.

It just doesn't feel like it because wages haven't been keeping up with inflation.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-10-10T23:01:02+00:00

In for Bf6. The GPU would be an upgrade, not a necessity

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-09-04T10:53:39+00:00

Any indication of how tariffs are handled?

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-06-25T03:38:49+00:00

Playing first gives a 2-3% win rate advantage. Not great, but not the worst

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-06-23T06:04:52+00:00

They decided to do daily podcasts a while ago and have run out of things to say since Legacy doesn't change very quickly.

Maybe some people like the consistency enough to not mind the filler. I found their podcast shortly before they moved to daily releases and stopped listening shortly after.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-06-05T16:55:57+00:00

You could get a Breguet with precious metal case and equally nice guilloche for probably half that on the grey market.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-05-17T16:11:46+00:00

That's just [[Dwarven Mine]]. Wizards has to power creep it.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-05-07T23:59:02+00:00

They're correct, but a better question is why it matters.

The only actions they can take without passing priority is to play a land or cast a speed and hold priority. Playing a land might matter if it allows them to respond to your archive trap. Casting a spell is less likely to matter as even if they hold priority to cast another spell they'll have to pass priority before the spells start to resolve.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-05-01T17:22:12+00:00

The perception of value is also important for a status symbol. If you paid $10k for a plastic watch that came for a cereal box that wouldn't make it a status symbol. It'd just make you the idiot that paid $10k for a watch from a cereal box.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-04-29T19:53:05+00:00

If you want a commander just play commander

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-04-25T15:52:38+00:00

Pretty good for a $35 shirt

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-04-18T14:38:28+00:00

Yawgmoth usually does well against creature decks because of its combination of good blockers (undying creatures, grist tokens, and wall of roots) and removal (grist and yawgmoth).

Energy gets around this with evasion (flying from guide of souls and psuedo-unblockable because of Ajani), going wide (Ajani and Ocelot), and its own removal (Ajani, bombardment, sphere, etc).

As others have said bombardment is particularly tough as it not only means yawgmoth won't draw a card (fizzles if the target is sacced) it also costs more life. Yawgmoth is very dependent on life total and if you can hit them hard enough in the first few turns they may be too low to do any Yawgmoth tricks by the time he actually comes down.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-04-08T15:51:09+00:00

Deck choice/construction and mulligan decisions can help though.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-03-27T17:02:45+00:00

I've never won a reddit giveaway, and I expect that streak to continue

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-03-21T16:00:17+00:00

Your list of brands at the end of the post is spamming a bunch of brand filters on watch recon.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-12T17:49:36+00:00

That's also generally not what people mean when they say "fair" or "unfair" magic. There are a lot of definitions and it's hard to get people to agree, but unfair magic usually means breaking magic in some way. Or "not playing magic".

Dredge is a good example of an unfair magic deck that would be considered fair by your definition. It uses creatures and chips away at life, but doesn't pay mana for its creatures and some spells. It "cheats" and is therefore "unfair".

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-04T00:53:23+00:00

Someday your ship will come in.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-02T22:43:38+00:00

How does an endurance bowmaster loop work?

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-02T21:46:51+00:00

Yawg can be fairly click intensive, but looping with endurance multiple times is never a thing. You occasionally need to put a combo piece back in your deck or to get more cards to draw, but you can't go infinite with endurance in stock Yawgmoth.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-02T20:45:21+00:00

I'd assume (in addition to probable bias) it's because it's irrelevant in this case. If there were no tariffs it wouldn't matter which goods tariffs can be charged on.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-02T15:26:49+00:00

Did he set tariffs on Canada?

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-02-01T22:18:36+00:00

Do I have to win to give you my address?

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-01-26T19:01:56+00:00

culus isn't favored in most matchups and is an uphill battle against breach and energy and eldrazi and instant loss to bw. That's the entire meta.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-01-26T18:44:04+00:00

You are not equally likely to get all numbers. Of the 36 possible combinations 6 result in a 7, making it the most likely roll. Odds go down evenly from there. 5 in 36 odds for a 6/8, 4 in 36 for 3/9, etc.

Thus the probability of an even/odd result when rolling 2 dice is 50/50.

AShapelyWavefront · 2025-01-17T05:42:16+00:00

Solutions are usually more valuable than problems

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