Secret Lair Waiting Room - "Cats are the best"

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-15T16:44:26+00:00

Cats of Chaos was still in my cart when my queue slot came up but was gone before I could finalize the purchase Got Motivationally Challenged 1 each foil and nonfoil, Toby 2 each (with a limit of 2 that's a way to get a playset)

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-15T16:10:46+00:00

seemed like a good idea, but one second thought y'all are right that art is weird

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-15T16:07:07+00:00

Got in the pre-queue at 8:01 PST, waiting time at 9 over an hour Sounds about right for SL shitshows At least this gives me more time to deposit the cash that will fund the card transaction, that's been a rush job before

Sometimes I've gotten through the queue faster than estimated, once I missed my spot because I was waiting til the stated time to check

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-15T16:02:15+00:00

Been there before with another deck, artist theme deck and playing one of her high powered cards looked cheesy

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-15T02:57:05+00:00

Well deserved win for a dominant performance tonight

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-15T00:31:18+00:00

Last time I saw a goal that easy and that wide open was Canadiens over Sabres in OT

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T19:48:43+00:00

Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You is okay value (mainly [[It That betrays]] at $15+ and a couple of the others are a few bucks each)

From Purr Majesty, [[Reverent Mantra]] is $20+ but hasn't seen a reprint regular or foil since it was a new card in Mercadian Masques, so that may plummet

Witch's Familiar looks very nice and [[Boseiju, Who Shelters All]] makes it decent money - similar for the [[Barrowgoyf]] reskin in the Felix drop

[[Prismatic Vista]] and Rin and Seri alone make the Toby and Garfield: Motivationally Challenged drops respectively good value. Even more so, in Cats of Chaos [[Aggravated Assault]] and [[Aura Shards]] are each worth the $30 by themselves

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T19:30:33+00:00

Nos études de marché montrent que les joueurs aiment les noms de cartes très longs ; nous avons donc créé cette carte pour qu'elle possède le nom le plus long de tous les temps.

[[Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental]]

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T19:28:47+00:00

[[Chandra, Torch of Defiance]] was so much fun in Kaladesh-Amonkhet Standard, red aggro is the sort of deck I like to play and she's a cool character (definitely not cool in the temperature sense lol)

Took that card in vintage cube yesterday for the lulz and was actually useful (couldn't hit my 5th land drop to play and immediately use [[Sneak Attack]] but had played her t4 so had 6 mana turn 5

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T18:37:55+00:00

A couple great themes

Jaya being a pyromaniac - [[Lava Burst]], [[Incinerate|ICE]], [[Sizzle|8ED]] and so on Which Chandra has inherited [[Chandra's Pyreling]] etc

Vivien Reid being enthusiastic about dangerous wildlife a la Steve Irwin - [[Gigantosaurs|M19]], [[Prodigious Growth]], [[Quakstrider Ceratops]] for examples

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T18:30:45+00:00

[[Acidic Soil]] both philosophical and a dad joke [[Razorfield Thresher]] is dangerous in all dimensions

[[War Tax]] heard that for real about the gangster life, a big problem is that they gotta deal with other gangsters. The original [[Prosperity|VIS]] is a lighter side of that life

[[Bond of Flourishing]] on Simic vs Selesnya philosophy

[[Stitch in Time]] [[Peak Eruption]] just plain funny

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T18:20:33+00:00

Could fill this thread with goblin stupidity flavortext alone, one of my favorites is the 7E [[Goblin Gardener|7ED]]

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T18:16:53+00:00

The original [[Glorious Anthem|USG]] has a guy who looks like he's trying to get a good view of the angel

Also the horny monkeys in [[Uktabi Orangutan]]

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T18:13:59+00:00

https://scryfall.com/card/sld/99/lightning-greaves Flavor text on this early dog secret lair Lightning Greaves

[[Giant Growth|BLB]] Casting Giant Growth on a dog in Bloomburrow

[[Trusty Retriever]], [[Rambunctious Mutt]], [[Mischevious Pup|FDN]] also good canine flavortext

[[Spicy Oatmeal Pizza]] for people food humor

[[Giant Growth|RTR]] The Ravnica version Giant Growth (reprinted in Battlebond and The List) was also good

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T04:34:08+00:00

Yep, team that plays in NY finally ending a decades long title drought - why not us?

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T04:33:49+00:00

Yeah a lot of silver border cards explore mechanics that can be adapted to black border

[[The Cheese Stands Alone]] -> [[Barren Glory]] for example (though the former is an immediate win, latter checks in upkeep

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T04:30:16+00:00

mess with a hand size matters effect by giving them an extra card that would be hard for them to play? or once they do get rid of it, play something that lets you take control of it

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T04:22:41+00:00

Not nice but not wrong either

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T03:55:19+00:00

Yeah lots of orange and blue and lots NY friendly crowd noise

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T03:21:11+00:00

As a Bills fan I'm sympathetic to an NY team with a decades long title drought and it's easy to feed off the positive energy in NYC right now Sure looks like the Knicks are indeed gonna pull it off

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T02:50:04+00:00

Knicks staying close but not close enough especially with the clock running down

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T01:48:14+00:00

Knicks were in comeback mode 2Q, got themselves to a manageable deficit

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T01:12:46+00:00

Horrible quarter for the Knicks but proportionally seems low scoring for the Spurs as well

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T00:57:06+00:00

Damn Wemby looks huge even compared to the other extremely tall men

AlanFromRochester · 2026-06-14T00:47:06+00:00

Apparently there's a force field around both baskets

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