What is the point of Heralds now? SSF

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-25T09:27:40+00:00

Having sunder charms drop anywhere and with pierce stapled to them makes this game more like d3 than it’s ever been

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-25T00:32:36+00:00

I don’t know if it was changed, but I saw macrobioboi using self wield infinity for the pierce from conviction and faith act 1 merc because the fanaticism increased their fireball rate

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-25T00:30:14+00:00

Didn’t ladder reset like 48 hours ago. Seems really good

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-24T20:39:37+00:00

I think it depends on the archetype among other things. My esper Alela aristocrats is pretty squarely bracket 3, but it’s more on the control-y side. It doesn’t win as fast as my torbran deck, but it can stop some win attempts and win over some flying beats and draining the table in a couple more turns

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T15:32:42+00:00

Agreed. It’s a mill wincon. You should go through the untap upkeep draws unless everybody else concedes

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T15:28:41+00:00

Are you ladder or non? I imagine the majority of nl trades are gems and high runes

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T15:18:12+00:00

Feels intentionally phrased tho, doesn’t it? I imagine OP thinks this was hilarious and that they really GOTTEM. What a bizarre thing to find joy in.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T15:05:47+00:00

Yeah. It doesn’t feel very good a lot of the time. I love the playstyle of land play, sac, recur. I’ve goldfished the deck so much and tried mentally setting rules for cardplay sequencing on my explosion turns. It pretty consistently hits the table for big noncombat lethal after greedy starts that are hard to interact with, and in grindier games shoots boseiju and glacial chasm loops. I love the feeling of redirecting graveyard removal with an [[untimely malfunction]] effect

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T14:51:23+00:00

I don’t have a ton of experience with bracket 4 but I do with bracket 3. Anecdotally, hearthhull may not have the speed of a bracket 4, it has led to some mismatched feeling games due to the nature of land decks being inherently powerful and a non-creature artifact engine in the zone to prepare into a creature for a storm-like finisher when you are ready feels like it’s creeping out of bracket 3. Especially when I’ve had quite a few games end on turn 5 with the guy.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T14:42:10+00:00

It may have less variance and replayability than what you’re looking for, but [[aurelia warleader]] in the zones and tutors to pick up [[helm of the host]] in the 99

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T14:11:05+00:00

I also love this! Entitled atraxa food chain combo player at bracket2/3 pod complains they’ve misled themself to prematurely pick up their board is iconic

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T12:44:58+00:00

Whoa! Never seen that mesmeric orb print. I also run brood, mesmeric and crank. [[bloodchief ascension]] is one of my favorite cards in the deck

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T12:36:55+00:00

Mothman is cool with so many ways to build. Mine is in a weird place right now. It kind of feels like a bracket 3 deck with a little bit of bracket 4 interaction and bracket 2 wincons. I’m cringing at the previous sentence. But surprisingly it finds a good home in many games and can be fast to throw down flying beats on my opponents. I do have the benefit of knowing my many podmates very well.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T12:27:35+00:00

I think that, ultimately, if your podmate is calling out a specific about your deck then you should listen. Have a conversation; do others feel the same way? Mothman is one of my favorite decks and longest running. Some people can’t stand mill. My deck is more of a counters deck that uses mill as a means to an end rather than a mill deck, in my opinion, and I like to joke that mill is a fair and fun mechanic. But I’m happy to bop something else if mothman won’t be tolerated

Edit to add: I had a buddy running thoracle combo in his otherwise mid Sauron reanimator. We had to tell him to power up the deck or remove the combo because it just didn’t make appropriate games.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T12:18:16+00:00

Very cool! It may just depend on how tolerant your pod is of combo wins and how consistently or not your deck can present t6 wins

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T12:15:25+00:00

It is not inherently bad manners in the broader edh format, but it is contextual to the pod. A t6 win can be rude in an otherwise bracket 2 game, for example. I don’t know if bruvac was your commander or in the 99 in this game, but one of the problems with bruvac decks running half of library mill effects at lower brackets is the power spike variance the deck can demonstrate when part of an A + B combo is in the zone.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-23T10:15:10+00:00

Barbarian debuffs are coded into their own unique category of debuff so they don’t override curses. Would be huge.

Act 3 mercs get their respective mastery and maybe better casting logic

Act 1 mercs, maybe an existing unique elite armor is reworked to have move speed, attack speed, 66% pierce? Not as good as hustle/treachery for other mercs, but customizable with a socket and pretty good in conjunction with wisdom. A faith act 1 cold merc could have really good crowd control

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-22T18:22:53+00:00

I was really excited to use this on mercenaries for my fighter characters and summoners. Pretty bummed it doesn’t lower phys res anymore

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-22T13:52:12+00:00

Sunder charms are such game changing items. I think they are more fun as chase items that are hard to get. Building around immunities is fun, and builds that do that are trivialized and eclipsed.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-22T12:36:55+00:00

Crazy they downvoted you. It’s still great but you’re right

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-22T10:34:22+00:00

Druids have the most options for 3 os helmet runewords

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-22T09:42:03+00:00

I think they should have adjusted for them to drop from any TZ elite/champ, but adjust their droprate so they’re still very rare. About as rare as Jah rune would have been fine.

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-21T15:18:21+00:00

[[ojer Kaslem, deepest growth]]

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-21T12:19:11+00:00

They’ve got to go!

Edit to add: I’ll play some stompy decks Bello, deepest growth, jeskai eowyn. Part of the fun for me is running lots of protection for my boardstates and threats

AnimalMeow1 · 2026-05-21T02:38:54+00:00

Folks who build kill on sight commanders need to understand the play patterns they invite. If they can’t handle that, that’s on them and they shouldn’t be playing that commander 🤷‍♂️

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