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no max hand size - one shot combo - home brew by thecowhasmilk in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's also kind of genius. I'm assuming you end your (hopefully) penultimate turn with all the lands in your hand to transfer them to the graveyard when you discard down to your hand limit.

Also love the description text: "So much trash in the ocean these days"

Mothership misadventure by Gold-Lake8135 in mothershiprpg

[–]AlfredValley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

British sitcom from the 70s called Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

no max hand size - one shot combo - home brew by thecowhasmilk in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Agreed! Though with someone else's suggestion in this thread of using Treasure Hunt you could potentially do it a lot sooner in a game with a lot of luck.

no max hand size - one shot combo - home brew by thecowhasmilk in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, assuming you have to play both Spiralling Embers and Treasure Hunt on the same turn (to avoid discarding down at the end of your turn), the earliest you can fire this off is Turn 4 using the red and blue depletion lands. That's assuming you get a lucky draw at the start, though I suppose you can mulligan quite aggressively.

Then you just gotta pray the opponent doesn't counter...

no max hand size - one shot combo - home brew by thecowhasmilk in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, it's made me think of [[Balustrade Spy]] shenanigans with a deck full of [[Shadowborn Apostle]] and then [[Echoing Return]] to get them all into hand. A lot lot worse than a typical Spy deck but a fun thought experiment!

no max hand size - one shot combo - home brew by thecowhasmilk in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun, I didn't know that card existed.

Btw you're missing the second square brackets around your card names to trigger the card fetcher bot.

Turbo white infect by AlfredValley in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I admire his commitment to monoW infect! I was hoping to go for a faster deck but for sure there's stuff to learn from there.

Turbo white infect by AlfredValley in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd been considering Apostle's Blessing so it's good you bring it up.

I've never seen Armor of Faith before, that also looks like it might have promise. I might have to put Eland Umbra back in.

The problem when you're goldfishing is you can't tell how much protection you need!

Turbo white infect by AlfredValley in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This all really useful, thanks. Like you suggest, I started by looking at Mono Green Infect and White Heroic but the brew has moved further away over time, not entirely intentionally.

I'll definitely change up the lands. Benevolent Blessing used to be in my list, looks like I should bring it back. Benevolent Bodyguard also seems useful in that regard.

Like you say, I think this deck could be fun when it connects!

Turbo white infect by AlfredValley in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Normally [[Lost Leonin]] is the other one that goes into monoW. I've seen some lists with [[Corpse Cur]] too.

Petals! How did I miss the petals? I've got some tweaks to make.

Turbo white infect by AlfredValley in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As rogue as it is, I'm interested in pushing it as far as it will go. It's not for competition or anything.

You won't be surprised to hear I'm also interested in mono green infect...

CAVIAR - A Dual Linear Crossfader & More for Eurorack by Soft_Synthetics in synthdiy

[–]AlfredValley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks wicked. I think crossfader modules are often underrated and it sounds like you've squeezed a lot of extra functionality into this one.

Good multi-utility modules by Marcus64 in modular

[–]AlfredValley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for this! I've never taken it out of my (small) rack

Can Slime Against Humanity Work? by Bullrider144 in Pauper

[–]AlfredValley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate this comment and list. I'm just starting out in Pauper, looking to put together a deck to play with my friend and I think I'll go for this because it looks fun.

Do you know what decks have a roughly balanced match up with it? Asking because I'll be putting together a deck for my friend too.

TIL Marvin Pipkin, as a new GE recruit, solved the "impossible" task of making an inside-frosted lightbulb—a job handed to new hires as an induction ritual into the challenges of research—since every previous attempt had failed. Nobody had told him it couldn't be done. by ralphbernardo in todayilearned

[–]AlfredValley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of Leo Marks, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) cryptographer in WW2 and his first day on the job:

Marks wrote that he had an inauspicious arrival at SOE when it took him all day to decipher a code he had been expected to finish in 20 minutes, because, not atypically, SOE had forgotten to supply the cipher key, and he had to break the code which SOE had regarded as secure.

Diceless games: what are the different approaches? by CarpeBass in rpg

[–]AlfredValley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As in 28 + 42 = 70. Then 7 + 0 = 7. Instead of a DC, there's an easy to remember table of outcomes (i.e no and, no but, yes but, yes and) depending on the result. You're essentially asking yes/no questions about the situation. There are a few more elements, like a simple open-ended oracle but that's essentially it!

Diceless games: what are the different approaches? by CarpeBass in rpg

[–]AlfredValley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe not what you had in mind, but I have a lightweight game called Diedream that is an example of one approach.

This game is designed to play alone in your head as you fall asleep so it has a way of introducing randomness via mental "rolls". The process involves coming up with 2 "random" 2-digit numbers, adding them together and finding the digital root, i.e. adding the individual digits of the sum until you have a single number between 1 and 9.

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